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Enhancing Photos for Complete Beginners
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(967 ratings)
43,136 students

Enhancing Photos for Complete Beginners

Learn the absolute basics about enhancing your photos
Created bySimon Foster
Last updated 12/2016
English
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What you'll learn

  • learn image editing software with a firm idea of the basics of photo enhancement

Course content

2 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 20m total length

  • First things first...5:02

    Discover a practical five-step process to edit and enhance photos across Mac and PC, using tools like cropping, adjustment layers, brightness, contrast, color balance, and spot healing.

  • What is a Layer?5:00

    Whenever I post a video on the web about what a layer is, it always gets a load of hits. So, just for you here's what they are and why they are so great.

  • Step 1: Rotate and Crop Your Pictures4:59

    This is the first of five steps I always recommend people take when they want to improve their images

  • Step 2: Get Your Dark and Light Right4:58
  • Step 3: Get your Color Balance Sorted4:59

    Master color balance to correct color casts using neutral gray sampling and the eyedropper, then adjust with color balance tools.

  • Step 4: Remove Blemishes5:00

    Learn step-by-step blemish removal in Photoshop Elements: correct red-eye, use the healing brush and spot healing tool to erase acne, wrinkles, and dandruff.

  • Step 5: Tackle Noise and Sharpen Your Images4:59

    Reduce noise and sharpen photos by balancing luminance and color noise, adjusting cropping and dark and light tones, and previewing changes to keep the facial focal point crisp.

  • Layer Masks and Why You Want Them4:58

    Learn how layer masks let you control which parts of a layer show through. Use black to hide and white to reveal, enabling refined sky and shadow balance in landscapes.

  • Adding Effects4:57
  • Export Your Images4:54

    Export your images from Photoshop Elements with proper file formats, sizes, and quality. Use presets and balance between print quality and online sharing.

Requirements

  • Students don't need to know anything; they just want to know how to start improving photos
  • No software needed
  • Be prepared to spend 50 minutes learning about how to improve photos

Description

'I want to improve my photos. I've looked at one or two programs like Photoshop but all of them are just a confusing mass of buttons. Where do I even begin to understand what to do?'

If you've asked yourself anything like this question, then right here is where you start. This free course guides you through the basics of how to go about improving your photos. You will be guided by someone with 30+ years experience of using image editing software and I'll show you the steps you need to take to make your photos shine. I'll show you using programs like Photoshop Elements, Affinity Photo and Pixelmator because it's all about the processes involved, not which buttons to press. I've selected techniques that you can apply to just about any image editing program so you have the flexibility to choose which software is right for you.

Ten videos at five minutes apiece, this course is designed to be as short as possible so you can pick up knowledge quickly. It has one simple aim; to get you over that first intimidating hurdle when faced with an image editing program that seems to offer endless possibilities but no way of understanding what to do with it. This course is the first steps course and is designed to follow naturally on to other courses I offer at Udemy for all the software you see here. It's not a scattergun approach to learning - a Youtube tutorial here, a technique there. It's a solid method of where to start, what to do next, and how to make your photos better than you ever thought they could be. See you on the course!

Who this course is for:

  • Complete newbies at photo editing

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