Photoshop Essentials For Photographers: Edit Like A Pro
Published 4/2025
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
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 will know how to bring images into photoshop, save as layers and export files
Use layers and layer masks with confidence
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
Description
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.
