The Lost Castle-Photoshop advanced manipulation course

Master advanced photo manipulation by storytelling through images, applying composition, lightness, saturation, and color, painting light and shadow, atmospheric effects, and final color grading with a PSD file.

Explore creating a peaceful, epic medieval palace scene in Photoshop by assembling images, refining compositions, and embracing rough drafts while a knight discovers the distant palace.

Master advanced photo compositing by building a layered background in Photoshop, aligning a moody sky and distant mountains, refining selections, masks, and color with smart objects and overlays.

Learn advanced Photoshop techniques for putting images together in the midground, including precise selection with the pen tool, masking, smart objects, and blending to create a larger, epic palace scene.

Learn how to build depth in a Photoshop composite by layering background, mid-ground, foreground, and near elements, using the rule of thirds to place the focal points.

Adjust lightness values across the scene, with foreground higher contrast and background brighter, then refine saturation and color tones using curves, masking, and subtle vfx to shape highlights and shadows.

this lecture teaches how to correct image saturation across sky, mountains, trees, and foreground elements using hue/saturation layers, clipping masks, and selective color shifts to achieve a cohesive look.

Identify ambient and direct light, apply blue tones, and paint orange sun light with rim lights to enhance mood. Use color balance, curves, and masks to harmonize elements.

Apply sun lighting and glow effects in Photoshop by composing sun, sky, and lens flare, masking edges, and using solid color layers, blend modes, and painting light with soft brushes.

Practice creating an atmospheric light effect in Photoshop by using fog and beam brushes, layering, masks, and color adjustments to add depth, reflections, and subtle lighting.

Master advanced castle lighting by sculpting light and shadow on the ballast using curves and luminosity blend mode, masking, and layer techniques to paint highlights and realistic edges.

Paint orange rim lights on the subject using a solid color, linear dodge, and inverted mask with textured brushes. Refine edges, rocks, and trees with blending, shadows, and subtle atmosphere.

Master final light effects by crafting bright palace reflections, lens flares, and rim lights with color grading, masking, and blending techniques to emphasize the castle as the focal point.

Apply color grading using the camera raw filter to adjust contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, texture, grain, and vignetting, then refine with curves, color mixer, and calibration for color shifts.

Practice daily to master photo manipulation and turn the provided tools into your own beautiful visuals. Remember, manipulation is a skill honed by practice and learning from mistakes.