Photoshop for Lightroom Classic Users: The Seven Main Techniques You Need to Know
Photoshop is an invaluable tool for all Lightroom users, and in this class Scott Kelby teaches you the most important Photoshop techniques you’ll need to know to get the most out of it. Starting off with the basics of moving between Lightroom and Photoshop, Scott moves on to covering the fundamentals of working with selections and layers, and then builds up from there using various projects to demonstrate how it all comes together. Through the class you’ll learn how to remove distractions, how to blend layers with layer masks, how to work with high contrast images, the fundamentals of portrait retouching, how to get started with compositing, and how to deal with all kinds of problems you might encounter in your photographs. By the end of the class you’ll realize that Photoshop is not that hard when you focus on just the techniques you can’t do inside of Lightroom.
Release Date: 2016-08-17
Lessons
Introduction
Join Scott as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 2 mins 22 seconds
Moving Between Lightroom and Photoshop
Starting in Lightroom, there are three different ways to go from Lightroom to Photoshop.
Duration: 9 mins 43 seconds
Removing Distractions: Part 1
Photoshop has different tools designed to help you remove distracting things from your photos. Scott takes us through the Spot Healing Brush, the Healing Brush, the Clone Stamp Tool, and Content Aware Fill.
Duration: 11 mins 59 seconds
Removing Distractions: Part 2
The last tool for removing distractions is the Patch Tool.
Duration: 7 mins 59 seconds
Basic Selection Tools
Making selections is a must-know technique every Photoshop user has to know. This lesson is for people who are new to Photoshop.
Duration: 15 mins 21 seconds
Understanding Layers
Using layers in Photoshop allows you to stack elements in an image document and work on them independently.
Duration: 16 mins 28 seconds
Layer and Selection Project
Join Scott as he walks through an entire project from start to finish to bring home the power and usefulness of selections and layers.
Duration: 15 mins 7 seconds
Layer Masking
A layer mask is a tool to help you blend elements between layers.
Duration: 11 mins 51 seconds
Applying Effects to Layers
In this project Scott shows you how you can separate a subject from the background, and then apply effects to the individual layers.
Duration: 8 mins 16 seconds
Working with High Contrast Images
When HDR doesn’t work, you can turn to Photoshop to blend multiple layers together.
Duration: 6 mins 31 seconds
Dealing with Problems
Building on many of the techniques Scott’s covered so far, he takes it to a new level in showing how you can use Photoshop to deal with problems you might encounter in your photography.
Duration: 11 mins 51 seconds
Basic Portrait Retouching
Join Scott for an introduction into retouching in Photoshop.
Duration: 12 mins 22 seconds
Simple Compositing
From replacing a bad sky to putting a subject on a new background, Photoshop can be used to composite multiple images into one.
Duration: 12 mins 52 seconds
Special Effects
Scott wraps up the class with a review of some of the most common special effects he adds using Photoshop.
Duration: 16 mins 20 seconds