Advanced Techniques in Photoshop and Lightroom
1h 57mIntermediate2021-08-25
Authors

Nigel French
Graphic Designer, Author, Artist, Trainer
Course details
You may be a master of editing single photos, but multi-shot photo techniques like panos, HDR, and focus stacks present some unique challenges. In this course, graphic designer Nigel French shows you all the basics of using Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge to achieve great results with techniques that use multiple shots. Beginning with panoramas. Nigel walks you through shooting panoramas, then explains how to create them in Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). He discusses different projections, common problems that can occur, and some unexpected uses of panoramas, including making an Instagram carousel. Then Nigel moves on to creating HDR images in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and ACR. After covering several practical techniques to stack, blend, and combine layers, Nigel concludes with additional effects that you can achieve by stacking layers.
Skills covered
BridgePhoto CompositingLightroomImage EditingPhotoshopPhotographyAdobeOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Techniques using multiple shots
- 02 - Who this course is for
1. Panoramas
- 03 - Shooting panoramas
- 04 - Create a panorama in Adobe Photoshop
- 05 - Create a panorama in Lightroom Classic
- 06 - Create a panorama in Adobe Camera RAW
- 07 - Create a vertical panorama
- 08 - Fix or embrace distortion
- 09 - Adding additional frames to a panorama
- 10 - Use Photomerge as a wide angle lens
- 11 - Using Photomerge to fix composition
- 12 - Create an Instagram panorama
- 13 - Create a collage
2. HDR
- 14 - Create an HDR image in Lightroom Classic
- 15 - Create an HDR image in Photoshop
- 16 - Create an HDR image in ACR
- 17 - Create an HDR panorama in Lightroom Classic
- 18 - Do you need HDR
3. Stacking, Blending, and Combining Layers
- 19 - Intro to focus stacking
- 20 - Focus-stacked images
- 21 - A simple two-frame focus stack and mask
- 22 - Simple focus stack and exposure blend
- 23 - Manual focus stack
- 24 - Semi-automatic focus stack
- 25 - Fixing focus stack problems
4. More Reasons to Stack Layers
- 26 - Blending layers to create a group shot
- 27 - New life for old images
- 28 - Using statistics to remove unwanted elements from a scene
- 29 - Creating a double exposure effect
- 30 - Multiple exposure effect
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