Photoshop Essentials For Photographers: Edit Like A Pro

Photoshop: From How to Open a File and Adjust Light and Colour to Pro Retouching and A Four Image Multiple Exposure

What you'll learn
You’ll be able to start earning money from your Photoshop Skills.
You will know how to bring images into photoshop, save as layers and export files
Use layers and layer masks with confidence
Understand non destructive and destructive techniques using smart objects, tools and adjustment layers.
Recolour images from scratch including black and white images on blank layers.
Paint light where none existed.
Change the colour of anything
Use camera raw including multiple masks within camera raw
Manage adjustment layers and masks for fine detail control of your images..
Dodge and burn on new layers for non destructive editing
Understand the theory behind the blend modes and how things blend together in layers to take the guesswork out of blending
Transform perspectives (where buildings are converging at the top)
Retouch skin using the pro technique known as Frequency Separation
Cut things out from their background
Make a brush from what you’ve cut out – creating useable and sellable assets
Know how to create painterly finish using brushes – no need to buy textures you know how to create your own.
Reduce noise with filters and know how to fix noise and pixelation with brushes
Create believable background blur.
Know how to sharpen like a pro.
Create a sharpen effect that only sharpens the edges of subject matter within the image for a pro edited effect.
Straighten the horizon.
Crop to reduce the image and crop to EXPAND the image.
Use Generative AI to expand your image into empty pixels
How to change body shape and make hair fuller
Learn how to use other images (daffodils) to create painterly effects on (Tower Bridge in this case).
Replace the sky.
Create an HDR effect blend.
Add lens flare.
Add a vignette.
Add a gradient map to your image
Use colour balance to adjust your image in the highlights, midtones and shadows separately.
Finish with a project to apply what you’ve learned by creating a multiple exposure image to consolidate your learning.
Use the Puppet Warp and Liquify Tools
Have completed a 4 exposure multiple exposure project

Requirements
The course is for complete beginners and anyone who wants to expand their knowledge and gain some pro editing skills. I take you right from the start when you open Photoshop showing you where everything is and how to use it right through to our end project - creating a multiple exposure.
The only thing you need is a subscription to Adobe Photoshop - available as part of the Creative Cloud photography package.

Description
Welcome to Photoshop Essentials For Photographers: Edit Like A Pro! This course is designed specifically for beginners who want to unlock the power of Adobe Photoshop and elevate their photography editing skills to the next level.In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn from the ground up. We start with the basics of Photoshop; setting up and importing files and work our way through essential tools and techniques. Whether you're completely new to Photoshop or have little editing experience, this course will take you step-by-step through the software focussing specifically on the needs on photographers like you and me… From simple camera raw edits through to stacking layers of adjustment layers and using blend modes, specialist functions like puppet warp and the liquify tool, painting light (even when none existed in the original image), replacing skies, adding lens flare, painting pixels, changing colours, learn how to paint a black and white image into colour, explore filters, masking, artistic brushes. Even learn to create your own brushes from subject matter in your own photographs for utterly unique artwork if you decide to build your skills in that direction. This is also a useful tool for repairing images where subjects or pixels are absent or missing. In the final section we will pull all the skills you've learned together to create a final four image multiple exposure with me, a skill used by professional photographers to create striking visual narratives.This course has over five hours of video with images included for you to practice including my .psd's so you can look at how I've worked through the layers in Photoshop. It comes with a comprehensive (now over 10,000 word) course manual for those of you who like written as well as audio visual resources to work with… With these skills you'll elevate your editing capability to a whole new level and open doors to creating your own conceptual art, artistic photography and creative edits setting you apart from the competition.

Who this course is for
This course is focussed on Photoshop Essential Skills for Photographers so I keep the attention firmly on the skills you want to elevate your photography to pro edits…
We also cover painterly edits and stacking images in our final project so if you love the idea of compositing and want to get started learning the skills - this is also the course for you!