CH1 BRIDGE

Welcome

Welcome from Colin. He tells you what to expect from this training

Import from Camera
Import all your photos directly from a digital camera. Use the Photo Downloader.

Bridge Overview

Take a tour of the new Bridge CS6. Get oriented quickly.

Stacks

Learn how to use stacks to sift through large amounts of photos quickly. Learn about Auto stacking HDR and Panoramas.

Timelapse workflow in Bridge
Organize and preview time-lapse sequences within Bridge. I bet you didn’t know you could do this little trick.

Collections and Review
Use Review mode as a quick visual and fun way to sort through tons of images and store them in collections.Learn how to use smart collections.

Bridge Keywords
Adding Keywords. Setting up searches and tagging all your photos quickly.

Batch Rename

Rename your photos in one fell swoop to something that makes sense to a human. Don’t rename them one at a time!

Metadata

Understanding metadata and bending it to serve you. (XMP, IPTC, EXIF etc). This stuff is powerful and essential.

Minibridge

Most of the functionality is available in a new Mini Bridge panel. Learn what this tool is and how you can use it.

Output to PDF

Create interactive and static PDF's so you can email them to clients and keep control over the security settings.

Contact Sheets

Create thumbnails on contact sheets so that you can email them to clients or keep a visual record of your photo libraries.

CH2 CAMERA RAW

File Formats

What image format should you use? Jpg, RAW or Tiff? This lesson explains the difference and when to use which.

Camera Raw Walkthrough
Camera Raw has grown up. Take this feature by feature orientation. Learn how the pros do it.

Noise Reduction in Camera Raw
This tool is so good, it’s the only way I recommend removing noise for all your images. Remove both luminosity and color noise.

Batch Camera Raw
Want to edit multiple images in one hit in Camera Raw? You’ll learn this and how to edit jpg and tiff in Camera Raw.

Graduated filter in ACR
Make your skies pop with this Split Neutral Density effect.

Local Adjustments in ACR
Do retouching right in Camera Raw non-destructively. This super useful tool changes everything.

Creative tone treatments
Black and white, Split tone and sepia tones

Camera Raw presets
How to work with, and create your own presets. Also discover how to experiment safely.

 

CH3 ADJUSTMENTS IN PHOTOSHOP

Essential Preferences

Learn how to set all of Photoshop’s preferences so that it works the way you want and the performance is optimized for your system.

HUD and viewing tips
This video shows you a whole bunch of tips to quickly zoom, navigate, change brush settings, select colors and more. You will love the HUD settings in CS6.

Histograms

What is a histogram and how can it help your photographs look even better? Find out in this plain-English guide.

Levels

Take what you learned in histograms and apply to the interactive histogram, know as levels. Never thought of it this way before? Let’s get started.

Layers

CS6 has added some new tools to the Layers panel. You will know all about it after this lesson.

Adjustment Layer

Use non-destructive adjustment layers with built in masks. Learn the best way of adjusting images.

Shadow/Highlight Landscape
Open up shadows and restore highlights in your photos with ease. What they didn’t show you about shadow highlight.

Shadow/Highlight Portrait

Because people are different than beaches. How to approach shadow/Highlight for working with backlit people.

Eyedropper

Use the eyedropper and info palette to add luster to dull images. This is one industrial-strength technique for you to add to your arsenal.

Curves overview

Understand how Curves work. Don’t just push buttons and drag things. Understand what your doing. Explained in simple, no nonsense language.

Color Correction

A very visual and easy way of color correcting. As easy and fun as playing a game with this approach.

LAB mode

This one’s for the really stubborn images. You’ll be amazed at the difference this makes to your photos.

CH4 EDITING PHOTOS

Cropping

Quickly prepare you image to print nicely on a targeted size and resolution. Tighten up the composition of your photograph. It’s easier than you think with this trick.

Perspective Crop

Use the perspective crop tool to straighten out photos in ways you didn’t think possible.

Straighten Photos
It’s so quick and simple to straighten crooked photos.

Auto Lens correction
You can automatically straighten fisheye photos and more. Photoshop looks at the metadata and fixes common problem by you simply clicking a couple of buttons.

Lens correction

Fix barreling, keystones and other lens related problems.

Sharpening 

Learn what happens to your photo when you sharpen. Discover two techniques that help you get the best sharpening results.

 

 

CH4 EDITING PHOTOS (cont)

Smart Sharpen

Use this tool to sharpen noisy photos without adding more noise.

High Pass sharpening 
A non-destructive sharpening technique that’s used by the entertainment industry.

Dodge and Burn

A totally new and improved technique for Dodging and Burning. Welcome to the new School. Get creative and flexible results using this method.

Paint with Light

Use Layer Masks to paint in your image adjustments exactly where you want them.

Split ND

Make all your skies look great. How about nice detailed clouds and well lit landscapes instead of blown out skies and dark muddy landscapes?

CH5 RETOUCHING

Masks Primer

Learn about layer masks and how you can use them to work smarter and faster than ever before.

Advanced Masking
Learn about the Masks panel. This tool gives you unprecedented control over your masks. You’ll be masking like a pro in no time.

Redeye

Get rid of red eye. No more demonic red gazes, just beautiful pupils.

Cloning

Use the clone source palette. Photoshop allows you to do more things with cloning than you can imagine. Demystify it here.

Healing Retouch

Retouch a face using the healing brush and spot healing brush. The best tool for a blemish and spot removal retouching job.

Content Aware Fill
This amazing tool removes shapes from your photographs automatically. You have to see it to believe it.

Content Aware Patch
Use the content aware patch to fill in large areas of a photo seamlessly, as if by magic.

Content Aware Scale
Resize your photography without resizing everything in it.

Content Aware Move
This tool allows you to do some amazing things to your photos. Move portions of an image and even extend an objects size. It’s kind of crazy.

Body Sculpting

Using the puppet tool and warp you can reshape bodies and even alter poses.

Replace Color

If you want to change the color of a skirt, or completely recolor hair, or anything, there are a few methods taught in this mini-colorizing workshop.

CH6 WORKING WITH MULTIPLE IMAGES

Smart Objects

Understand how to use Smart Objects and Smart Filters. Non-destructive filters are here in Photoshop. Learn all the insider secrets of this new feature.

Panorama

Create a seamless panorama. You’ll create a sweeping panorama of a volcanic crater in Hawaii. Yep, it’s safe for you to do this at home.

Fixing Panorama Distortions

Use the Adaptive Wide angle tool for de-warping photos in an amazing and interactive way.

Vanishing Point

Use Vanishing point to clone and paint your photos at different angles. Work in a virtual 3D space.

Remove Backgrounds
Use the truer edge technology to extract while preserving soft edges. Use Quick select and the new refine edge options for crisp and easy cutouts.

Advanced Cutouts
Mask impossible images with color range. This workflow will show you the most accurate way to remove an object from its background. This is advanced masking and it really works.

Collaging

Use masks, advanced blending and other tools to create pro looking collages and composites.

HDR

Learn about HDR (High Dynamic Range). Produce images with a huge dynamic range where detail is clear in both shadows and highlights. Use the HDR Pro tool in Photoshop.

HDR DeGhosting

When things move between shots they create ghosting and ruin HDR images, until now.

 

CH7 CREATIVE LOOKS

Colin on Creativity

Take a break and listen to a few inspiring words from Colin

HDR Toning

Use this adjustment to recreate a HDR tone mapped look on a single image.

Pseudo HDR

Try this combination of Adjustments to get that coveted look that everyone is going nuts about.

Black and White Noir
Tired of the same old Black and white techniques? Check out this method for quickly creating different looks you can actually use.

Black and White

Turn color images into stunning Black and White beauties. The correct way! Check out the bonus masking and colorizing.

Depth of Field

This technique will add believable depth of field to your images. Create dreamy backgrounds while keeping your main subject crisply in focus.

Soft Glow

Colin has totally revamped this technique; selectively add to soft romantic glow to portraits without any selections. You won’t find this amazing technique anywhere else.

Tilt Shift

Create a miniaturized look by emulating a tilt-shift lens.

Iris Blur

Concentrate your photograph into a small area of focus, while everything else blends off to a bokeh-rich blur. A perfect way of leading the viewers eye to a focal point of a photograph.

Merge Focus

Take a series of photographs with narrow Depth of field and merge them into a single photo that is all in focus.

Photos into paintings
Take a photo and make it look like a painting using the amazing Mixer Brush and bristle tips in Photoshop.

Oil Painting

Yes, you can turn your photograph into an oil painting in a few clicks of the mouse. The results are pretty convincing too.

CH8 VIDEO

Video Basic Editing

Import footage into Photoshop. Trim and edit the clips together. Rearrange their order and more.

Video: Advanced Editing

Add smooth transitions between clips. Add layered effects, styles, slow motion and more.

Video: Motion Graphics and text

Create TV style lower thirds, add text and credit rolls and make them all move. Sound hard? It's really not

Video: Exporting and sharing

Get video out of Photoshop and prepare it for uploading to the web or viewing on different devices

Good Bye

Parting comments and recommendations for further learning.

Uploading to iPad
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