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The Craft of Photoshop : Developing Landscapes
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The Craft of Photoshop : Developing Landscapes

Discover an effective workflow for creating beautiful photos within Photoshop!
Created bySimon Foster
Last updated 11/2020
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What you'll learn

  • How to develop great landscape photos using Adobe Photoshop
  • The best way to develop a RAW file for landscapes
  • Learn the good from the bad with High Dynamic Range photography
  • Stitch together huge panoramic views - and how to get the best results before you even open up Photoshop
  • Effectively convert a photo to black and white

Course content

1 section26 lectures5h 33m total length
  • Start Here...11:11

    Explore developing landscapes in Photoshop, using the camera raw filter and raw or JPEG files, while leveraging resources, bookmarks, transcripts, and keyboard shortcuts to accelerate learning.

  • The five step method, part 17:21

    Apply the five step process in photoshop using the camera raw filter, rotating and cropping first, then tone, white balance, noise and sharpening, and removing unwanted elements.

  • The five step method, part 29:26

    Apply the five step method to adjust exposure and tonal range in landscape photos, balancing shadows, highlights, and texture with clarity and de haze for detail.

  • The five step method, part 39:41

    Master the five-step method to develop landscapes in Photoshop: balance sharpening and noise reduction, use masking to protect smooth gradients, consider ISO effects, and employ smart objects for non-destructive edits.

  • Practice time! Sea cliffs, part 114:23

    Practice time walks you through a five-step method for sea cliffs: crop, adjust dark and light, refine color balance, reduce noise and sharpen, and remove blemishes.

  • Practice time! Sea cliffs, part 210:55

    Adjust white balance and color temperature with a graduated filter to harmonize sky and grasses, then perform targeted noise reduction, sharpening, blemish removal, and export for social media.

  • Focus on detail and tone, part 113:02

    Learn landscape editing in Photoshop by extracting detail from a seaside RAW image, shaping tone with gradients and local corrections, then crop to 16:9 or 16:10.

  • Focus on detail and tone, part 217:14

    Enhance landscape images by layering tone and contrast with blend modes, masking, and selective sharpening via high pass, then crop, color balance, and export for social media.

  • Practice time! Autumn colors, part 113:06

    Apply a five-step practice to craft autumn landscape looks by cropping, adjusting highlights, whites, and shadows, and using hue, saturation, vibrance, plus radial and gradient local edits for leaves.

  • Practice time! Autumn colors, part 215:15
  • Dealing with contrast problems, part 110:30

    Develop a dark high-contrast landscape by leveraging raw benefits, adjusting exposure, contrast, whites, blacks, shadows, and highlights, then refine color balance and localized adjustments for sunset tones.

  • Dealing with contrast problems, part 210:43

    Develop advanced landscape editing skills by selectively sharpening and reducing noise in the sky, removing chromatic aberration, and using radial and local adjustments to optimize contrast and detail.

  • Dealing with contrast problems, part 34:35

    Address contrast by compressing tones, then adjust dark and light values; use white balance, hue/saturation/luminosity, and circular gradients to enhance the sunset.

  • Snowy hall, part 110:46

    Apply a five-step workflow to a snowy scene: crop, dark/light, color balance, noise/sharpening, and blemish fixes, with local corrections like graduated filters to recover snow detail.

  • Snowy hall, part 215:17

    Explore white balance for snowy scenes, balancing blue vs yellow ochre tones, and apply selective color, gradients, and brush-based adjustments to refine exposure, color, and detail in landscapes.

  • Snowy tree, part 19:48

    Develop snow detail and mood in a snowy landscape by adjusting highlights, shadows, exposure, and clarity, using radial filters and color tweaks to invite the viewer into the scene.

  • Snowy tree, part 210:26

    Adjust color balance to cool shadows and warm midtones, enhance greens, and fine-tune highlights, then sharpen the snowy landscape with a high-pass composite using masking.

  • Creating effects with the Adobe Camera RAW filter17:17

    Explore creating dramatic landscapes with the Adobe Camera Raw filter, applying bleach bypass, color grading with curves and split toning, plus grain for a non-destructive look on a smart object.

  • Convert to black and white19:59

    Convert landscape photography to black and white by adjusting highlights, shadows, and tonal ranges. Use black and white mix sliders to fine-tune reds, blues, and greens and crop for composition.

  • Practice time! Create a black and white boat house14:36

    Learn to convert a photo to black and white, crop out distractions, and adjust texture, shadows, highlights, and grain using camera raw and selective noise techniques.

  • Photoshop 2021 update - Sky Replacement10:40

    Discover how Photoshop 2021's sky replacement uses AI to replace skies, adjust edges, and fine-tune foreground with adjustment layers and layer masks for realistic composites.

  • Working with HDR images15:41

    Learn HDR photography by bracketing three exposures, merging them in Photoshop to recover detail in shadows and highlights, then adjust with auto settings, deghosting, and color lookups.

  • Stitching panoramas together14:19

    Stitch multiple overlapping photos in Photoshop by using merge to panorama, then adjust projection, exposure, and alignment for a seamless panorama, with manual camera settings and tripod.

  • Sky replacement, part 113:05

    Master sky replacement in Photoshop by blending a new sky with a church image, using transform, layer masks, and blend modes for seamless results.

  • Sky replacement, part 217:58

    Learn sky replacement method, part 2, in Photoshop using layer masks and the selector mask tool to refine edges around trees and the church, testing skies with refined edge brushes.

  • Sky replacement, part 316:45

    Learn how to replace a dull sky in a landscape by refining edges with layer masks, choosing a background sky, and color-correcting the foreground to harmonize lighting and color.

Requirements

  • A working copy of Photoshop

Description

'I've learned some of the Photoshop tools, but how do I actually enhance an image, start to finish?'

That was the question I saw asked on a Photoshop forum and I thought: 'Good point!' So here is a course designed with just that in mind. I take you through the development of a series of landscape photos, start to finish.

We usually start by adjusting a RAW file using the Adobe Camera RAW filter. Then we enhance the photo further in the main Photoshop workspace and go through every step needed to bring it to a final, polished state. Check out the free preview introduction video and see the files we start out with, and then see just how good we can make them by the end.

I'll take you through every stage and explain why we are doing things in a particular order. I've given you all the images used on the course to follow along with. I'll show you problems that can crop up and what do about them. Landscape image development brings its own set of problems and opportunities and the various techniques I guide you through take that fact into consideration.

This course assumes you have some basic knowledge of Photoshop but I'll also help you there. I've included the notes from 'The Craft of Photoshop: Solid Foundations' which can help to familiarise yourself with the tools we use.

As well as giving you a solid grounding in how to develop a landscape photo I'll cover various problems and issues that may arise in your work. We'll also cover things like High Dynamic Range images, stitching panoramic images together (clue - it's got more to do with what you do before you go into Photoshop...), converting images to black and white and how to easily and quickly create a few special effects. Oh, and there's the practice sessions as well...

By the end of the course you will have seen and followed along with a series of effective workflows, start to finish. You will gain the confidence to tackle your own images and one day soon you may well be looking at one of your own photos which you've enhanced, and thinking 'That looks fantastic! I did that...'

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners and intermediate users of Photoshop