Download Free Tutorials: Lynda.com Photoshop CS4 For Photographers Creative Effects

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In Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Effects, Chris Orwig flexes the muscles of this powerful program to create unique and eye-catching photographic effects. A passionate photographer, Chris demonstrates how to enhance images through adding light for emphasis, adding drop and directional shadows, and using motion blur and film grain creatively. He also covers how to add a distressed look to create a vintage-style photograph, use infrared and solarization, apply creative layer blending, and much more. The course culminates with a step-by-step look at some real-world projects that utilize the techniques. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

* Adding light and drama
* Applying graffiti and reflections to surfaces
* Using lens blur and focus to enhance portraits
* Masking multiple images and adding elements
* Combining images with multiple depths of field
* Applying border and edge effects

Table Of Contents
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. Adding Light
San Francisco Bay Bridge: Illumination
Road bike pt. 1: Adding light
Road bike pt. 2: Adding drama
Creative tip 1: Being creative in your current context
Seattle: Adding light for emphasis
San Francisco sign pt. 1: Adding copy
San Francisco sign pt. 2: Adding lights
Adding light to enhance exposure
Correcting a backlit subject

2. Adding Shadows
Selecting an object and creating a drop shadow
Creating and modifying directional shadows
Adding point-of-contact shadows and creative color
Removing a subject from a white background
Adding a directional shadow
Rotating a subject and shadow
Rotating and creating a pattern

3. Adding Motion
Adding radial motion blur
Panning motion blur
Adding extreme motion blur

4. Adding Film Grain
Adding grain with the Noise filter
Adding grain with the Film Grain filter
Using the Exposure 2 plug-in
Using the Nik Color Efex plug-in
Applying infrared and grain with Exposure 2

5. Creating Vintage Effects
Creating a distressed effect
Creating aged style and color
Using texture and blending

6. Creating Photographic Effects
Creating a soft-focus effect
Simulating diffused printing with soft focus
Applying soft focus and channel blur
Applying creative color and diffusion
Creative tip 2: Taking creative risks
Introducing infrared
Applying infrared tone and glow
Applying infrared tone, infrared glow, and creative color
Introducing solarization
Applying solarization and color

7. Lens Blur and Focus
Deconstructing the Lens Blur effect
The Lens Blur effect in action
Lens blur and masking
Applying lens blur to portraits

8. Vanishing Point
Adding graffiti to a single plane
Adding reflections to multiple planes

9. Creative Layer Blending
Wisdom pt. 1: Layer blending
Wisdom pt. 2: Working with type
Memories: Applying shortcut keys for layer blending
Daydreaming: Exploring more blend modes
Infinite: Layer blending with color and texture
Flamenco: Creative workflow and layer blending
Blending layers to enhance a portrait
Blending a photo onto a vintage TV set
Blending with type layers
Combining vertical images into a horizontal layout

10. Combining Multiple Images
Combining depths of field
Adding a new sky to an image
Combining foreground and sky
Creative tip 3: Transcending your genre
Adding clouds and creative color
Applying Photomerge to create a panoramic photo
Using Auto-Blend layers to extend depth of field

11. Image Combination Project: Athlete
Combining multiple frames
Modifying color and tone
Cropping to correct edges
Using the amazing Content-Aware Scaling

12. Image Combination Project: Architecture
Combining interior and exterior exposures
Aligning multiple exposures
Increasing drama and visual interest

13. Composite Inspiration
Websites: Photoshop composite inspiration
Inspiration pt. 1: Background
Inspiration pt. 2: Airplane
Inspiration pt. 3: People and finishing touches

14. Creating a Realistic Composite
Composite project overview
Masking multiple images together
Extending the canvas and adding elements
Enhancing the main elements
Cleaning up the background
Final adjustments and image review

15. Applying Border and Edge Effects
Building custom frames with a mask
Using custom brushes to create edge effects
Using sample frames
Using the PhotoFrame plug-in
Applying a prebuilt frame

16. Working with Creative Actions
Introduction to Photoshop actions
Adding texture with actions
Finding and loading actions
Using rule-of-thirds actions
Applying the Puzzle action

17. Simplicity Project
Simplifying with selections
Masking and cloning

18. Strength Project
Enhancing muscles
Adding zoom and modifying color
Adding more zoom
Blending with a displacement map

19. Speed Project
Cleaning up the original image
Removing small details
Making subtle color and tone enhancements
Adding motion blur
Modifying motion blur
Changing color
Darkening a background
Sharpening and creating layer comps

20. Plug-In Resources
Two favorite plug-ins
Getting creative with plug-ins

Conclusion
Goodbye

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