Adobe Photoshop CC - Essentials Training

Class Project 05 - Selecting hair

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Course contents
SECTION: 1
Getting Started 10:53
SECTION: 2
Layers 18:19
SECTION: 3
Generative Ai 19:42
SECTION: 4
Color & Adjustment Layers 37:17
SECTION: 5
Shapes 22:51
SECTION: 6
Text 23:11
SECTION: 7
Layer Styles 24:46
SECTION: 8
Cropping 11:47
SECTION: 9
Selections & Masking 1:31:48
29. How to copy from one image to another in Photoshop CC
6:20
30. How to crop images inside of text FREE
9:35
31. How to remove the background in Adobe Photoshop CC FREE
10:12
32. Class Project 02 - Quick Select Tool
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33. How to put text behind a person in Adobe Photoshop CC
7:02
34. How to create a layer mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
4:47
35. Class Project 03 - Cut a person out & put them into another image in Photoshop
8:58
36. How to blend fade one image into another in Photoshop CC FREE
4:36
37. Class Project 04 - How to weave text in and out of a Photoshop image
3:18
38. How to select hair in Adobe Photoshop CC
16:24
39. Class Project 05 - Selecting hair
1:22
40. How to select things with straight edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
3:41
41. How to get text to interact with ink & plants in Photoshop CC FREE
13:15
42. Class Project 06 - Text & Image Interaction
1:41
SECTION: 10
Filters 23:02
SECTION: 11
Smart Objects 9:03
SECTION: 12
Transform & Distort 27:47
SECTION: 13
Retouching 18:23
SECTION: 14
Blending Modes 28:51
SECTION: 15
Visual Styles 35:04
SECTION: 16
Artboards 20:14
SECTION: 17
Color modes & Resolution 17:52
SECTION: 18
Brushes 37:01
SECTION: 19
Shadows 16:16
SECTION: 20
Export 10:18
SECTION: 21
What next 3:09:01

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Anh Nguyen

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Class Project 05 - Selecting hair
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DJ (Dorothy) Brezsko

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Ethan Ton

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previous lives catching up to them
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Cassidie Banish

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James Colceri

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Project 05 - Selecting Hair. Photo by Max van den Oetelaar
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Abitha Elamparuthi

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Photo by Hin Bong Yeung Unsplash

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Laura Solie

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The model image was hard to work with as far as coloring/exposure.

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Michał Pawełoszek

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Seifeldin Mohamed

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Becka Stone

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Karenza Grant

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Thanks to Samerdaboul on Pexels for the additional image. The background was tricky to choose in terms of the perspective and the light source. For the perspective, the image matched pretty well, I thought. But I can see how perspective could be tricky. The tone matched well too. But I found the light source difficult to figure out. My best guess is that something is blocking light across her face and part of her body, which makes the whole drop shadow thing difficult. In terms of Masking, Photoshop appears so good at this now, that not much was needed, but I went through the process anyway, particularly with the hair and am please with the result. The drop shadow I'm not sure about. The lightning of the figure implies that the shadow should be quite sharp and dark, but doing that with drop shadow didn't look right. So I went for a softer shadow. I wonder about doing it by hand with the brush tool. I tried to get gen fill to fill in the extra shadows, but it couldn’t do it. One thing I found with the drop shadow is that Photoshop really wanted to generate some shadow all the way around, even when in reality there wouldn’t be any. In terms of adjustments, I only adjusted the contrast in the end. After note: proceeding on with the course, I've just been reminded of burn. It totally would have been better here.
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Class Project 05

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Amarjargal Nasanbuyan

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Selecting hair project
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Logan Winn

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Jose Luis Liano

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Alexandra Godman

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Tim Mossholder
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Jamie Cook

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Yehliu Geopark, maybe. Alishan Nat'l Forest, maybe.
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Karin Luner

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Course info

93 lessons / 12 hours 20 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan Scott. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) for Photoshop. 

In this course I will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with Photoshop.  

This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge of Photoshop, photography or design. We will start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step. 

You will learn the Photoshop 'secret sauce' whereby we will magically enhance our background and when necessary completely remove people from images.

By the end of this course you'll posess super skills! 
  • Learn the skills to mask anything… including the dreaded hair. 
  • Using your amazing new masking skills, you will be able to clearcut images.
  • You will learn how to make type interactive. 
  • Together we will look at popular current visual styles and learn the tools and tricks necessary to recreate them. 
  • There is a fun section where you will learn how to distort, transform and manipulate images. 
  • We will create our own graphics using simple techniques from scratch. 
  • I will teach you to retouch photographs like a professional.. 
  • Finally - any good Photoshop user should know how to put an island inside a bottle! 

There are exercise files available to download so that you can follow along with me in the videos. There are lots of assignments I will set so that you can practice the skills you have learned. 

If you have never opened Photoshop before or you have already opened Photoshop and are struggling with the basics, follow me and together we will learn how to make beautiful images using Photoshop.

Course duration 8 hours 35 mins + your study.

Get the completed files here.


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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.

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Hi there, it is class project time. Basically it is practicing what we learned in the last video tutorial. I've picked an image for you, this one's by Timothy Paul Smith. It's an Unsplash image, but you can use your own, but this one here is, really good kind of, I guess example of something, it's not shot in a studio, the lighting is a lot more contrasting and natural. A really good image to practice on. 
So I want you to mask it out, and put it on to your own background. You can find a background on either Unsplash, or through Google Images. And here are the tasks, so I've built a class projects file. It's this Word doc, you can go check it out, if you can't remember what you need to do. It is in your 'Exercise Files', under 'Projects' and there it is, 'Class Projects'. If you open that up, you'll get to here. 
This is what I want you to do, open this image, make your initial selection with the Quick Selection Tool. Use that Select & Mask we learnt in the last video to fix the edges. Add it to another background that you find intervening on the background. You might leave it as is, but you might do some Drop Shadow or play around with the levels to get them to match, and then, like always, I'd love to see what you did. 
So share them on the site, or share them with me, on Instagram, I am bringyourownlaptop. Tag me in, I'd love to see what you do. So that's it, my Photoshop lovers. I will see you in the next video right after you do your homework. Go on, go do it, bye now.

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