Description
What students have to say:
"Great coverage and well presented."
"This was a useful course because of its focus on colour, rather than the broader "how to use photoshop" type course."
"Excellent and well structured..."
"I'm impressed. I'm a long time photoshop user..."
Master the Color and Black & White tools and techniques in Photoshop
that will turn your images into powerful visual statements with dramatic color or black and white tones. Go far beyond the image as it came out of your camera and gain complete control over the look and feel of your photographs. Learn with detailed video explanations and lots of hands-on practice exercises.
For
Color
photography, you will work with
multiple
techniquesincluding advanced blending, and split toning. For
Black & White
photography, Steve guides you through the most important Black & White workflows in Photoshop. You will use this foundation to apply toning and split-toning techniques using Photoshop's feature set - including the step-by-step process Steve used to create Photoshop's
Photographic Toning
presets. Throughout all the lectures Steve provides you with thorough, clear, and detailed step-by-step instructions, as well as hands-on practice activities. Any questions you have will be answered by your instructor via the course dashboard.
After learning about
color and emotion in photography
, you will dive in to the powerful photographic features available in Photoshop, including
Blending Modes and Blending Options, the Camera Raw filter, Curves as a color adjustment, Layer Masks, Calculations, Gradient Map, Color Lookup (3DLUT) exports, and hidden yet powerful features
.
As you work alongside Steve, you'll be amazed at the stunning Color and Black & White looks, styles and effects you will be able to apply to your images. And that is the best way to take the course -
work along with the instructor
. Watch a lecture and try out that lecture's techniques in Photoshop using the
hands-on practice files and PDF projects attached to the lectures
. Your instructor will answer any questions you have as you work through the course to master Color and Black-and-White in Photoshop.
Create custom color looks and
develop a unique style for your photography
Comprehensive Color and Black & White workflows and techniques to
add atmosphere and depth to your photography
.
Steve's technique for creating Black & White
Gradient Map presets
Use
hue contrast
and
saturation contrast
to draw in the eye of the viewer.
Control the
blending
of colors and tints into specific tonal regions of your photographs.
Use the color style from artworks or photographs to
create color themes and styles
in Photoshop that can be applied to your photography, or packaged to share or sell.
Stylize photography from artworks.
Create a Black-and-White look based on a vintage
Gold-toned Albumen print
and apply that to your images.
Explore the Color and Black & White tinting and toning features in Photoshop's own Camera Raw
Requrirements
Requirements
You'll want to have Photoshop to practice with.
I provide sample images to use, for each of the modules, as well as lots of PDF practice exercises. Students are always most interested when working on your own photography, and I encourage you to have your own work as you work through the practice exercises.
Because the new Photography Package that Adobe distributes via Creative Cloud also includes Lightroom, I devote a final series of video lectures to creative Black-and-White toning in Lightroom. For those that don't have or want to use Lightroom, those same techniques can be applied in Photoshop's Camera Raw module, or in recent versions by using the Camera Raw filter.
