Fully faking believable eyes in Adobe Photoshop

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107 lessons / 16 hours 21 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Photoshop  - this is the Advanced Photoshop course.

This course is not for people new to Photoshop. This is for people who already know the fundamentals. It is for people who have their own ways of doing things but believe there really is a better, faster way to work. 

We will start by learning the best selection techniques available. I promise, by the end of the first section what took you 30mins to mask will now take you 30 seconds. 

What am I going to get from this course?
  • 13+ Hours of content!
  • 10+ Interactive exercises
  • 68 downloadable resources
  • You'll learn the best selection and masking techniques
  • You'll know how to fix images that look 'hard to fix'
  • You'll master advanced levels and curves tricks, specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colors
  • You'll learn how to enlarge images without distortion and what to do when things go wrong
  • You'll know how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images
  • My favourite: You'll master the ability to distort, bend and reshape images
  • Lets look at how current trending styles are super easy to duplicate
  • You will become a type nerd. We'll use font pairing in Typekit. We'll also use Photoshop's ability to guess fonts
  • Your Artboards skill will be mastered
  • A master of retouching, you will become!
  • You'll learn to edit videos in Photoshop, who'd have thought?
  • We'll also create awesome cinemagraphs, AKA: Moving pictures!
  • You'll learn to master 3D in Photoshop!
  • You'll learn lots about professional, reusable mockups, techniques and shortcuts!

Here's some of the things we'll be doing in this course:
We will correct 'hard to fix' images and learn what to do with blurry images. We will master Advanced Levels & Curves tricks and will work specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colours. 

You will learn how to enlarge images without distorting them and also, what to do when things go wrong. 

We will learn how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images. My personal favourite section will show you how to distort, bend & reshape images.

We will look at how current trending visual styles are easily created, duotones, glitches and orange/teal colour grading.

We get 'type nerdy' and use font pairing in Typekit. We will use Photoshop to identify the fonts used in an image and learn how to work with hidden glyphs & ligatures as well as variable & open type fonts.

You will master artboards while you are learning how to make easily updatable multiple sized social media & ad banner graphics. 

There is a big section on advanced retouching techniques, advanced healing, advanced cloning & patching. 

You will learn how to edit videos in Photoshop. We will also animate static images creating parallax videos plus the very cool cinemagraphs sometimes called 'living pictures' - great for social media. 

You will learn to master 3D in photoshop. We will finish off the course with professional, reusable mockup techniques & shortcuts. 

This course has a strong focus on workflow. We use real world, practical projects and show you the professional techniques and shortcuts which will save you hours using Photoshop. Throughout the course I have many class exercises for you to use in order to practice your skills. 

Who am I? 
As well as being an Officially Certified Expert by Adobe, I’m photoshop guru and user with 18 years Photoshop experience. I make tutorial videos directly for Adobe and will again this year be presenting a seminar on  Photoshop at Adobe’s 20 thousand attendee strong Max Conference.  

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down and went through the updates in Photoshop, let this course be your one stop professional development and upgrade path.   

Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your Photoshop mind. Sign up now!

Course duration 13 hours 45 mins + your study.



Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi there, this video is all about fully freaking an eye. We take the original image here, we fill out all the detail in the eye by doing something a little bit creepy with this one. All right, time to get creepy. From your 10 Retouching folder open up Eyes 1 and 2 again. You might have to save and close the previous exercise. So 1 and Creepy Eye 2, and yes, it is what you imagined. So I found this eye mainly because it has a full kind of pupil in here. So I can use it for all sorts of situations. What sorts of situations? One eye is blinking, one eye is closed, one eye is a little bit lower than the rest of them. They're just really out of focus. 


So the previous two videos are just not going to work. I am going to grab my 'Quick Selection Tool'. I'm going to select all of this. There's some bits up here that I don't want. Do not worry too much about it, this is quite a forgiving tutorial; believe it or not. Holding down the 'Alt' key or the 'Option' key, just to kind of tidy it up a little bit. Let's see what it looks like as a mask. Let's go to 'Select & Mask' and just tidy it up a little bit. Probably some feathering, it's going to be nice. Too much, I'm going to shift the edge in a bit. Smooth it out a little bit. Yes, it's going to work for me. See what the radius does. Nothing. All right, let's click 'OK'. 


So this eye now is going to be moved to this layer here. You can copy and paste it. Just drag it in like this, it's far too big. I'm going to scale it down. I'm going to get it close to where I need it to go. Now the trick is to be in, just seeing one eye, can you see two of them? One of them blue, one of them not, starts off creepy. This gets less and less creepy as we move along, I promise. I've got it roughly in position. Maybe a little bit bigger. Here we go. Hit 'Return'. Working on the mask, I'm going to grab my 'Brush Tool'. I'm going to be working with white. Weird black. And I'm going to have about this sort of size, hardness at 0, but I'm going to lower the opacity of it by just tapping the numbers key on my keyboard. You can see opacity, 30, 40, 20, or 42. It's about 20%. I'm just going to work this bit at the top here where the eyelid is, and same with this bit here, maybe just a bit bigger to get these in. 


I'm going to do the same thing for this edge here, it's just too sharp. The lights are hitting it the right way. So this light's cast this way, you might have to flip the eyeball over, if your light's hitting it the wrong way, because it might just look a little stranger than it does at the moment. And what I really came for is, I really want all this kind of detail in here. So instead of drawing it out by hand, like we did in the last video, I'm now going to click on my actual, not the mask, I'm going to click on the actual layer, and I'm going to work my way through, and try and find a Blending Mode that works. I'm going to use our shortcut. 'Move Tool', 'Shift +'. Plus '+' goes forward, minus '-' goes back through the options. That's kind of cool, which one, the Color Dodge. 


You can see there, less creepy, but we've got a lot of that kind of detail in there, that's maybe a bit more natural, but it's not necessarily this person's eye. I'm happy with that. We'll come back to Color Dodge. Let's have a look what else we got. Will this work? Probably not. Way too bright, so let's go through. Exclusion's kind of cool. I keep this in here because there is a lot of just kind of, going through these, and going, "Oh it kind of works, but that one doesn't." In this case Color Dodge works for me, so I'm going to just duplicate that eye. Over here, add the detail into it. It's blending nicely with the background. What I might do is duplicate this background again. 


This one's going to be a Retouch Layer because I want Dodge Burn, so 'Dodge'. Clickety click. Clickety click. You can run it around the edge here, because these Blending mode Color Dodge responds to it, it's going to kind of brighten them up, it's probably not what I want to do. Undo, now you can. I'm going to switch to the Burn Tool by holding down the 'Option' or 'Alt' key. Just kind of darken up these centers here. I'm going to zoom out. Let's check what we've done. Let's hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC. I really like it. 


Now in this case there is already a strong kind of light cast. See the reflection there. If yours doesn't, you can add another one, so just add another layer. This is going to be my highlight. Grab the 'Brush Tool', and drop down the brushes. And in here there's a bunch of-- it depends on what version of Photoshop you're using. Go through and find-- like you can get away with murder in terms of reflection. Sometimes there's the strong kind of light that's coming from a window pane, or in this case, it's a bit of a kind of a mixture, coming through the trees in this case. 


So I'm going to go to 'Dry Media Brushes', and I'm going to pick one of these, I'm going to use this one here; Kyle's Ultimate Charcoal Pencil. I'm going to have white as my foreground color. I'm working on this layer here, zoom in. I'm going to just add my own, so what size brush? This one here, I might lower the opacity a little bit as well. It's actually the flow in this case. I'm just adding these, I'm trying to kind of pick it a little bit. Do the same to this side. It's not quite ready yet because what I want to do is, once I've got it here, play with the Layer Mode again. I rely on Layer Modes a lot in Photoshop, just because they're so useful for blending things in. You see there, enhanced it up. They're different from normal, let's have a look. A little bit less, let's have a look at anything else in there. 


Layer Modes. I think it's off light, that is the one for me. Giving me a different consistency on this lighter eye and this darker eye. You might lower the opacity of it down a little bit. Maybe a little bit more. We're actually done now, hold down 'Option', Hold down 'Option' or 'Alt', give that last one a click. Some pretty cool eyes, they're not hers, not all of it anyway. So that is going to be us. There's three ways of doing eyes; enhancing it, a little bit of faking, and then using creepy eye. They all have their place, I hope you found them useful. I'll see you in the next video.

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