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This installment of Photoshop CC for Photographers goes beyond the basics and focuses on the features and techniques that will dramatically improve your photographs and maximize your efficiency. Photographer and teacher Chris Orwig first illustrates the strengths of Bridge, the Adobe Photoshop companion program, as an organizational tool and a device for batch processing photographs.
He then moves on to mastering Photoshop, starting with layers—targeting, moving, and merging them with greater speed and efficiency. Then learn how to make better selections, refine their edges, and paint in adjustments, as well as increase the color accuracy of your images with Levels and Curves. Plus, learn to work with blending modes, apply creative color effects, and use the Burn and Dodge tools to improve contrast—a classic photographic technique updated for the digital age.
Chris also covers correcting perspective and distortion, creating photo composites and panoramas, and working with DSLR video in Photoshop. Instructor. Chris Orwig is a celebrated photographer, author, and teacher who brings passion to everything he does. He authors courses for LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com, and was on the faculty at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. As a teacher, Chris subscribes to W. Yeats's idea that 'education isn't about filling a pail, but igniting a fire.'
As a photographer, he agrees with Marc Riboud's observation that 'taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.' For more information and inspiration, visit.
By: Chris Orwig course. 3h 52m 37s. 1,235 viewers. Course Transcript In the previous installment in this series, Photoshop for photographer's fundamentals, we introduced how to work with layers. Here, I want to build upon what we already know, and dig a bit deeper.
And in this movie in particular, I want to talk about how we can start to duplicate or copy layers. And I also want to take a look at a few shortcuts that we can use in order to duplicate or copy Layer Style effects from one layer to another. Well, here in the layers panel, you can see that we have multiple layers.
Let's go ahead and click in the top layer, which is the text layer here. Now, we've already talked about a few techniques that you can use in order to duplicate or copy a layer. Let me first review what we already know.
We can click into a layer, and click and drag it to the new layer icon, and that will give us a copy version of that layer. So, now we have two versions of this text layer. To delete a layer, press the Delete key, or the Mac Space key. Another technique that we know that we can use in order to copy or duplicate a layer, is to press a keyboard shortcut combination.
On Mac press Cmd+J, on Windows press Ctrl+J. Think of J as jump. What it will do is it will take the contents from one layer and jump or copy those to another layer. In this way again we have an exact duplicate or copy version of that underlying layer. Once again, let's delete the copy layer by pressing Delete or Backspace. Well, now what I want to do is show you another technique that you can use which will speed up your workflow even more. In order to use this technique, you need to select the Move tool, then target the layer you want to work on.
Let's go ahead and work on the Type layer. Hold down the Option key on a Mac, Alt on Windows. Notice that the cursor changes when I do that. You can see a little double cursor there. When you hold down Option on a Mac, Alt on Windows and click and drag, what it'll allow you to do is to click and drag out a duplicate or a copy of the layer.
And in this case, we now have two versions of the Sunrise Text layer. And keep in mind, this works on different layer types as well. For example, if I click into my Background layer, hold down the Option key on Mac, Alt on Windows, you can see that I can drag out a duplicate version of the Background layer as well, as you can see here. Well, here I'm going to delete the duplicate of the Background layer, because I want to focus in on this new text layer, sunrise copy. You know, rather than having this read sunrise, I want it to say Santa Barbara.
And I want it to be much smaller. Well, the quickest way to select the text is to double click the T icon in the Layers panel. Notice that, that highlights this text field. Here, we can change the font if we want. Go up to the Options bar, and just click and drag over the T right there, and drag to the left to make that a smaller size.
Then, while that field is still active, we can go ahead and type out a new name. In order to apply the text, and because I know I'm going to move it, I'll select the Move tool. That will apply the text, and then here we can click and drag in order to reposition this text field. Now, if ever you decide you want to resize the text field again, well, you can double-click the T icon. That will highlight the whole text field. Here, we can make the change this way, and then select the move tool to apply that. Or another method that you can use is to use a transform shortcut.
The transform shortcut can be found if you navigate to the Edit Pull-down menu, and here it is, Free Transform. It's Cmd+T on a Mac or Ctrl+T on Windows.
When you select this menu item or use that shortcut, you can then hold down the Shift key and click on one of the corner points and drag. In that way it will constrain the proportions, so that you can then change the text size. After you've re-sized that with Free Transform, press Enter or Return. Well, so far, we've learned a few really helpful shortcuts there.
If you feel like I'm going to fast, feel free to pause this movie and go back and re-watch those. Because I think you'll want to learn how to use those techniques, because they'll speed up your workflow. And also before you got this movie up, let's talk a little bit about Layer Style effects. Here, I want to target the Sunrise layer. You can add a layer style effect by clicking on the Effects icon and choosing the effect that you want to apply.
Or, you can also double click the layer, and you want to double click half of the layer names, just double click that and it will open up the Layers Style Effect dialog. Now, we already talked about how we can do that in the fundamentals course, yet here what I want to do is apply some Layer Style effects, and then copy and paste those onto a separate layer. So, first though, lets work on the Sunrise layer. Here, we'll add a brush stroke around the outer edge of the text, click into the brush stroke field, change the color to let's say white. We'll go ahead and add a little white brush stroke there and then go ahead and click OK.
Next, I'll add a drop shadow by clicking on the Drop Shadow right here. Click into the Drop Shadow in order to be able to dial in these controls. And in this way, I'll just change the look of this drop shadow a little bit.
And here you can see how we can customize this. And I'll just customize it a bit so, I have that drop shadow following behind my letters there.
Actually, let me push that off a little bit more, let's see if I can't get that out there so, you can see it a little bit better, because I know it's difficult to see. Next, click OK. Well, here we have the Layer Style effects before, and then now here's after. Well, if ever you want to re-use Layer Style effects, all that you need to do is to use that shortcut which we learned before, which allowed us to copy or duplicate a layer. And here it is, hold down Option on Mac, Alt on Windows, and then click and drag on the Layer Style effects. When you do that, you'll notice that your cursor changes. You have the double arrow cursor once again.
When you Option or Alt click and drag, it allows you to copy and paste the Layer Style effect from one layer to another. And in this way, you can really speed up your work flow especially when you need to have Layer Style effects on multiple layers as I wanted to have here with this image. What we've already covered, quite a bit of ground here with this file, yet I want to continue to work with this image. So, go ahead and leave this one open, because we'll continue to work on it in the next movie. Practice while you learn with exercise files. Watch this course anytime, anywhere. Course Contents.
Introduction Introduction. 1. Filtering and Finding Your Photos with Bridge 1. Filtering and Finding Your Photos with Bridge. 2. Organizing Your Photos with Bridge 2.
Organizing Your Photos with Bridge. 3. Working Faster with Bridge 3. Working Faster with Bridge.
4. Increasing Color Accuracy 4. Increasing Color Accuracy. 5. Becoming an Expert with Layers 5. Becoming an Expert with Layers. 6.
Making Better Selections and Masks 6. Making Better Selections and Masks. 7. Creating Hand-Painted Masks 7. Creating Hand-Painted Masks. 8.
Discovering the Power of Blending Modes 8. Discovering the Power of Blending Modes.
9. Color Creativity 9. Color Creativity. 10. Master the Art of Burning and Dodging 10. Master the Art of Burning and Dodging.
11. Creating an HDR Image 11. Creating an HDR Image. 12.
Applying a Creative Look with HDR Toning 12. Applying a Creative Look with HDR Toning.
13. Increased Flexibility with Smart Filters 13. Increased Flexibility with Smart Filters. 14. Using Camera Raw as a Smart Filter 14. Using Camera Raw as a Smart Filter.
15. Applying Creative Effects with the Blur Gallery 15. Applying Creative Effects with the Blur Gallery. 16.
Making Perspective Corrections 16. Making Perspective Corrections. 17. Combining Multiple Images Together 17. Combining Multiple Images Together. 18. Saving Your Photographs 18.
Saving Your Photographs. 19. Working with Your DSLR Video Files in Photoshop 19. Working with Your DSLR Video Files in Photoshop. Conclusion Conclusion.
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