The Advanced Photoshop Techniques Bundle

Photography Tips  •  Photoshop Tutorials

The tutorials in this bundle cover intermediate and advanced Photoshop techniques for landscape photographers. Learn powerful, advanced methods for creating targeted selections for extremely refined adjustments and learn how to blend bracketed images with ease in every situation. Found here: Advanced Photoshop Techniques

Advanced Photoshop Techniques

Nature photography comes with unique challenges. Not just while you’re out shooting, but also when it comes time to edit your photos. Without good technique, your nature photos can look, well, unnatural. That’s where this set of post-processing courses for nature photographers comes in.

Supercharge Your Processing:

• Learn selection tools including the lasso, selection brush, and quick masks
• Add, subtract, intersect, feather (soften), and modify selections
• Replace skies and clean up jagged selection edges and fringing
• Create richly detailed, targeted selections using color channels
• Use luminosity values to create amazingly intricate, subtle selections
• Edit selections and masks non-destructively to re-use them again and again
• Improve and increase dynamic range in your photos
• Quick and easy techniques for simple blends
• How to blend specific bright elements like sunbursts
• Smart techniques for matching tone and color for perfect blends
• Advanced techniques for easy blending of complex images
• Blend highlight detail around tree branches, ridge lines, and irregular shapes
• Time-saving keyboard shortcuts
• And much more

Fine Tune Selections via Color Channels

Included in the Bundle:

Two separate in-depth Photoshop tutorials in 9 lessons covering:

• Creating and modifying basic selections.
• Creating advanced selections via color channels.
• Creating advanced selections via luminosity values.
• Basic exposure blending using layers, masks, gradients, and brushes.
• Blending in specific elements like sunbursts.
• Making complex blends easily.
• Blending in complex shadow detail effortlessly
• Blending three images together for extreme dynamic range control and highlight recovery.
• Over 180 minutes of video content for intermediate/advanced users
• Hi-res photos and raw files for you to edit along with the videos
• Instant download access to files

Creating Killer Selections Tutorials

A good understanding of basic selections in Photoshop will take you 90% of the way to creating stunning images. In part 1 of this tutorial you will learn about creating basic selections via the marquee, lasso, color range, magic wand, and selection brush tools, as well as how to modify your selections by adding, subtracting, intersecting, contracting, expanding, and feathering them in order to provide smooth, targeted masks for combining photos and doing selective adjustments.

Achieve Your Vision Through the Power of Local Adjustments

Also learn awesome techniques to refine and smooth selections to remove jagged edges, color contamination, and other unwanted artifacts in order to complete alter or replace entire sections of your image.

Edit with Incredible Precision:

• Learn selection tools including the lasso, selection brush, and quick masks
• Add, subtract, intersect, feather (soften), and modify selections
• Replace skies and clean up jagged selection edges and fringing
• Create richly detailed, targeted selections using color channels
• Use luminosity values to create amazingly intricate, subtle selections
• Edit selections and masks non-destructively to re-use them again and again
• Time-saving keyboard shortcuts
• And much more

Make targeted adjustments or replace entire sections of an image

By using these techniques (commonly called Luminosity Masks) you will gain unparalleled control over your image editing. Brighten, darken, or add contrast and saturation to any area of your image with incredible precision. Learn how to adjust skies, trees, rocks, or water completely independently of any other part of an image. This is the ultimate in advanced selections in Photoshop.

Effortless Exposure Blending Tutorials

Despite recent advances in digital camera technology it is still commonplace to encounter scenes which present more dynamic range than the camera can capture. And while graduated ND filters can help balance exposure in simple scenes they can often be problematic in complex scenes or even ineffective in scenes with extreme dynamic range.

Incredible Techniques for Blending Multiple Exposures

In these situations it becomes necessary to rely on digital techniques to combine multiple exposures for maximum control over dynamic range. In this tutorial you will learn techniques for effortless exposure blending in Photoshop to create seamless blends for virtually any scene.

Blend Multiple Photos Seamlessly:

• Improve and increase dynamic range in your photos
• Quick and easy techniques for simple blends
• How to blend specific bright elements like sunbursts
• Smart techniques for matching tone and color for perfect blends
• Advanced techniques for easy blending of complex images
• Blend highlight detail around tree branches, ridge lines, and irregular shapes
• Time-saving keyboard shortcuts
• And much more

Blend Multiple Images for Extreme Dynamic Range Control

About the Producer:
Josh Cripps is an acclaimed landscape photographer from California. His recent work can be seen in the worldwide marketing campaign for the Nikon D750. Josh has been using Photoshop for over 15 years and has a knack for clearly explaining complex topics and techniques in the program. His tutorials and workflow videos have helped thousands of photographers world-wide improve their craft.

Found here: The Advanced Photoshop Techniques Bundle