Hacking Photoshop
Join Photoshop Hall of Famer Ben Willmore as he shares some of his greatest hacks for performing color corrections, applying textures to photographs, removing backgrounds, retouching portraits and so much more!
Release Date: 2014-08-07
Lessons
Introduction
<p>Join Ben as he introduces the class and jumps right in to showing you how to hack Photoshop.</p>
Duration: 9 mins 56 seconds
Hacking Adjustments: Part 1
<p>Ben shares tips for making selections, performing color corrections, utilizing adjustment layers in unique ways.</p>
Duration: 15 mins 41 seconds
Hacking Adjustments: Part 2
<p>This lesson demonstrates a cool hack for creating natural looking colorized B&W images, how you can master the color lookup adjustment, and take advantage of Match Color.</p>
Duration: 15 mins 24 seconds
Hacking Adjustments: Part 3
<p>This last segment on hacking adjustments shows how you can convert an image for printing with only 2 colors, a neat trick for applying textures, and using layers in unconventional ways.</p>
Duration: 18 mins 36 seconds
Removing Backgrounds: Part 1
<p>Removing backgrounds is a common chore in Photoshop. Ben shows how to make selections and remove the background with a hack.</p>
Duration: 13 mins 53 seconds
Removing Backgrounds: Part 2
<p>The Background Eraser tool can be hacked to get the best results and work with a mask.</p>
Duration: 10 mins 48 seconds
Removing Backgrounds: Part 3
<p>Ben wraps up the background removing segment with more techniques for refining your results when removing backgrounds.</p>
Duration: 17 mins 48 seconds
Retouching: Part 1
<p>Here's how to separate the color and tone in an image from the detail so that you can work on them individually for better results.</p>
Duration: 13 mins 32 seconds
Retouching: Part 2
<p>Ben wraps up the class with some techniques for retouching an image where objects bump up against the edge of a photo.</p>
Duration: 12 mins 57 seconds