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Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Color Training DVD

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Color

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Color training DVD is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.

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Welcome
Learning strategies
Using the exercise files

1. Introducing Color

2. Vivid Color Projects

Adjusting color and tone in a sunset portrait
Enhancing sunset colors pt. 1: Curves
Enhancing sunset colors pt. 2: Color Balance
Jellyfish pt. 1: Adjusting composition and color
Jellyfish pt. 2: Working with lighting effects and opacity
Jellyfish pt. 3: Integrating tone, color, and creativity
Night photography pt. 1: Brightening and contrast
Night photography pt. 2: Vibrance, hue, and saturation
Fisherman's rope: Color and Contrast
Fisherman's floats: Subtle color with curves
Wind tunnel: Masking using the Color Range command
Old desert sign: Quick color adjustments
Old neon sign: Creating impact
Artist's chalk: Enhancing vivid color
Strawberry ice cream: Making subtle color enhancements
Hallways: Combining images with creative color
Santa Barbara Harbor: Adding color to grayscale images

3. Changing Color

Deconstructing Hue/Saturation
Using Hue/Saturation to change color
Adding accent color
Changing color with Quick Mask mode and Hue/Saturation
Replacing color with the Replace Color tool
Replacing and modifying color
Changing the color of an old fishing boat
Enhancing and changing eye color
Changing makeup color in a fashion portrait

4. Color Saturation Strategies

Deconstructing color saturation with Levels and Curves
Adjusting vibrance and saturation
Using Hue/Saturation
Using the Selective Color command
Using Hue/Saturation and Curves to understand relative color
Increasing color saturation and variety with Lab
Getting creative with Lab

5. Cross Processing

Using Color Balance to cross process
Using Curves RGB channels to cross process
Introducing Curves presets
Using Curves presets to cross process
Cross processing black-and-white photos
Integrating cross processing into a creative workflow
Using plug-ins to create a cross process effect

6. Reducing Color for Impact

Removing color to create impact
Creative color reduction using Color Balance, Curves, and masking
Creative color reduction using Hue/Saturation, Curves, and masking
Multi-image project: Removing and adding color and creating a layout

7. Toning

Adding a sepia tone with Hue/Saturation and Soft Light
Improving tone and adding subtle sepia effects
Using Curves to create a sepia tone
Beach swing pt. 1: Creating a bleached contrast effect
Beach swing pt. 2: Adding glow
Beach swing pt. 3: Adding noise and final color and tone adjustments
Creating a sepia tone quickly with Variations
Using actions for a quick sepia conversion

8. Edgy Color and Tone Projects

Model portrait: Creating a muted color and contrast effect
Autumn leaves portrait: Muted color and tone made simple
Rock-star style: Putting it all together to create edgy color and tone
Tower Bridge: Enhancing color and tone
Concrete wall pt. 1: Adding color
Concrete wall pt. 2: Finding and installing custom fonts and brushes
Concrete wall pt. 3: Working with type
Concrete wall pt. 4: Using custom brushes

9. Resources

Introducing plug-ins by Nik, onOne, and Alien Skin
Using onOne plug-ins
Using Alien Skin plug-ins
Using Nik plug-ins
Links for the color curious

Conclusion

Goodbye

Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Color Info

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Working with color can be an amazing journey, and in Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Color, Brooks Institute of Photography professor Chris Orwig teaches a different way to create great color in photographs. Chris goes beyond the basics by showing how color can have a profound effect on a photograph's impact. He demonstrates adjusting color and tone to make images more vivid, changing colors, working with color saturation, cross-processing, and more. The course culminates with real-world projects that utilize the techniques Chris has shown for creating intriguing and beautiful color photographs. Exercise files accompany the course. . Close »

Instructor : Chris Orwig

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Duration:

4.5 hours - 74 lessons

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