I've watched your videos (and those of others) for years, Anthony, and yours are the best. I'm a slow learner on technical matters (maybe that's because of my 80 years?), so your slow and thorough explanations really make things easy to learn. Thank you!
At the 9:50 mark I mention how to drag the image around and I said that you should hold the SHIFT key in. Sorry, I misspoke -- to drag the image around like I did at the 9:50 mark, hold the SPACE key in and with it held in, drag with your left mouse button. Sorry about that!
Have informed the members of my aviation photography group about your excellent Lightroom and Photoshop tutorial series. I have advanced the quality of my photography from watching these series and putting your gifts to us to work. Like me, some of the newer members are just discovering these post processing programs and are looking for help. Thank you so much. Those who view our images and well as my wild life images from here in Colorado are very impressed with the quality of pictures presented. Several of my family members have upgraded their kits and are using your tutorials to improve their images and loving photography more than ever.
Anthony, thanks so much. Having shoulder surgery in two days and will be out of the field for at least six weeks. Your tutorials are going to help me get through this, but most important finally learn how use PS. :)
Yep. That's really true. You truly are one of the best teachers on UA-cam. And I know quite some of them. It's clear, structured, at a decent speed etc. Thank you for your effort!
Hi Anthony,I've watched many of your tuts,and this is a really good one!Layers are confusing,but you explained at just the right speed to follow each step!And,yes,the explanations on how you took the shots are also very welcome! Keep going please!
Thanks so much for the effort you have put into your lessons. I learnt so much from your Lightroom lessons and now are doing the same with Photoshop. You have an amazing ability to explain concepts.
You are an excellent teacher, Anthony. Your tutorials on Photoshop and Lightroom have helped me tremendously. Big big thanks for providing this material.
You are an awesome educator Anthony and are becoming my go-to guru! Your explanations are thorough and concise and your lessons are a pleasure to watch. Thank you so much - I'm looking forward to your next video in this series!
That's really cool Anthony and great explanation. I'm a complete novice using Photoshop and don't even know where to begin so I really appreciate this series, thanks.
A really excellent tutorial. I think there is some confusion between geometric distortion (barrel distortion typically) caused by the lens, and perspective distortion caused by the camera being not exactly vertical, making walls lean inwards. Perspective distortion is easily corrected, but some lens distortions can be difficult to correct. Keep posting these excellent turorials.
Thank you Anthony. That was very helpful. By the way, I mentioned you in a comment on the Disqus page for the latest announcement of the debut of Gigapixel's face recovery improvements.
The first two episodes of Getting Started in Photoshop are excellent! You mentioned using a tablet to edit in PS. Would you consider doing a video or segment on how you set up and use your tablet? Do you use in Lightroom? Thanks for the fine videos.
Loved Episode 2 Anthony! I'm really beginning to see the great benefit of knowing how to work with layer masks! Thank you so much for "Getting Started in Photoshop" school!!
Brilliantly simple explanation. Best instructor out there. Thankyou so much. Keep up the great work. One question: instead of painting in white to correct a mistake can you just click ctrl Z to undo previous edit. Thanks again.
Good job Anthony. Just a small observation though... after darkening the windows, you probably should also have darkened the windows reflection on the marble floor as they are now correspondingly too bright.
Thank you very much. I love your videos. I learned lightroom from you! Photoshop is intimidating but so was lightroom at first, until I watched your videos. Looking forward to this series. I do have one question about the edit. What about the stained glass reflection in the floor? How would you make those look more realistic since you edited the windows?
Anthony, as usual a very good lesson, I have learned so much from your videos. You mentioned during this lesson something about a "tablet", are taking about an I-Pad or something more specific?
This is what he is talking about. There are quite a few different models to choose from. www.amazon.com/Wacom-CTL490DW-Digital-Drawing-Graphics/dp/B010LHRFM2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1490730954&sr=8-2&keywords=wacom+tablet
Excellent! Thank you, that was perfectly explained Anthony! Just a minor newbie 'what would you do' question though, fully understanding that your training video was not about finalizing the photo. If this were my work, I think I would like to darken the window floor reflections slightly, to better match the adjusted light of actual windows. Could I make that adjustment in Photoshop as well, or would you do that back in Lightroom?
Photoshop might be the better choice because you'd be able to mask out parts of the image so you're only darkening the floor reflections and not other things around them.
You could, but typically you like the amount of noise that might be inherent in each image to be similar so that when you mask them, they look uniform.
Again, thanks Anthony, another outstanding tutorial. i really liked the idea of using a 50mm lens and stitching a panorama. One comment on the final image is that the frames around each area of glass seemed very black and looked slightly fake versus the rest of the room. Would a brush have helped to tone them into the rest of the room? Thanks!
Actually, we could blend those better by instead of painting on the mask with a black brush with Opacity set to 100, we can bring the opacity down to say, 50 when we're painting over those frames but leave it at 100 when we're painting any where else. When the opacity is set to anything less than 100, we're actually painting in gray so we'd have part of the top layer blended with part of the bottom layer. Doing it that way might make it look more natural. Keep in mind though, that when you're doing the procedure or even watching me do the procedure, you're extra critical of it looking "fake". Most people aren't even going to notice imo.
Awesome, I like this solution. 100% agree with your "most people"' comment. Can't tell you how frustrating it is to show what i think is a poor phot and have people go "wow". I'm trying to be excellent to that makes me picky ;-)
Hi. Anthony. Nice explanation in a simple way that anybody can easily understand. Just one note. The resolution of the screen in the lasts videos (huge) makes hard to see the details of the icons and selections you do in a small 13" MBP screen like mine. Keep the good academic work :-)
Hi Anthony: I'm also not a geek and appreciate your method of teaching. I have a laptop and find it hard to see the small icons in the panels and your curser is small and sometimes i loose you when you zoom to another spot. Any advise for me to improve the view. These are tough times for the likes of me and as soon as things improve i will contribute to your great endeavors. Tks Erik
Great! Thanks for this video. I have a Q: How can I blend an image over a face but let it look natural keeping the shades, lines, contour, etc as if it was painted directly over the face? Do you have a tutorial about that?
Thanks for this video Anthony. One question though. Since Photoshop is "destructive", do you ever merge the layers before sending the image from Photoshop to Lightroom? I noticed you didn't do that. I'm so unsure as to when you merge layers, is it a done deal, meaning you can't go back to correct the original image?
Hi Anthony, presumambly the parallax effect would be corrected before cropping? Please consider a video showing how to correct for this effect. I tried transform unsuccessfully and ended up using transform in Corel Photopaint, using a large blank layer and popping the .jpg on top. It would be very helpful to know how to do it in Photoshop instead, please, where the photo cannot be repeated. I am following both sets of your Lightroom and Photoshop Tutorials now.
Great lesson. Two questions, if you make a stroke mistake while painting, could you just hit Ctrl or Com Z to get rid of that last stroke? Also if you want to save the final to a .jpg do you have to flatten the layers in some way? Thanks.
Yes, Ctrl-Z will undo your last action so if it was a missed brush stroke, it will undo it perfectly. You do not have to flatten the image to save it to JPG. Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this video, it was really informative and explained step by step. However, I have one question: you mentioned you took both photos handheld, did you mean one after another using a tripod and manually pressing a camera button? :)
One additional comment. Couldn't you do something similar with the adjustment brush in LR? Granted, it's 4 stops, so you might not be able to recover all the blown highs, but if your shot was taken 2 stops lower, maybe you could do the adjustment brush 2 stops lower for the window. I'm sure it's easier in photoshop.
Hi Anthony, good well explained tutorial... Would it not be possible to correct lens distortions with vertical and horizontal corrections in Photoshop to get them geometrically correct, instead of doing panoramas, or would that not work... Thanks very much Anthony fo taking the time and trouble with this video..
Generally speaking, you'd like to capture the scene in such a way that you'll do the least amount of post processing as possible. This is particularly true with geometric distortions introduced by the lens. What often happens to me is I'll make, say, the horizontals straight but doing so messes up something else in the image like the verticals will go crooked. So that's why I suggest the panorama method, with a lens that isn't introducing as much distortion, the better way to go.
I found this very helpful. I would like to know how do you do this with something like this: Sky shot with the Moon. The sky shot does not have the Moon in focus (meaning, seeing the surface detail), but the second does have the Moon in focus. The situation is, that the Moon moved, so how do you align the Moon from the second shot to replace the one from the sky shot?
i liked the panarama trick explained at teh end. but didnt quite get it. perhaps i can from watching again. also interesting any differences and similarity b/t this method and HDRI
Thanks so much for your efforts. Your presentation could be vastly improved however if you would use a cursor enhancement program (trying to follow your little black cursor on a black background is like trying to follow a sand flea in heat), and be specific about what you are doing, e.g. "click on this little check box right there" obfuscates the whole command. It took me several minutes of rewinding and replaying to find the "little check box". I finally found it on my own display and only then could I see it on your display. The information is good, but difficult to follow at times. Once again however, thanks for your efforts, and I am especially thankful that I don't have to try to delineate your voice from some trick-or-treat sound track that the majority of content providers seem to think is necessary to slap on top of everything.
to change the hardness and size of the brush faster you could also hold the ctr and alt key while right clicking on the mouse. and move it up or down for size and left or right for hardness at least on pc. i think this is also possible with opt and cmd and clicking on the mouse but I*m not sure about this. this is also handy with a graphic tablet aside from this greate video
Very nice tutorial. However, please do not apologize for using a mouse. I am a senior citizen; I have never ever heard of a Wacom Tablet. I am sure there are others that watch your tutorials that do not know what a Wacom Tablet is either.
I've watched your videos (and those of others) for years, Anthony, and yours are the best. I'm a slow learner on technical matters (maybe that's because of my 80 years?), so your slow and thorough explanations really make things easy to learn. Thank you!
You are excellent.
Your speed is just right for me.
And you explained well.
More newbies should watch you.
Thank you so much.
At the 9:50 mark I mention how to drag the image around and I said that you should hold the SHIFT key in. Sorry, I misspoke -- to drag the image around like I did at the 9:50 mark, hold the SPACE key in and with it held in, drag with your left mouse button. Sorry about that!
Thank you for another clear and thorough video Anthony - I really like your style and level of detail!
Brilliant explanation, Anthony! Great tutorial! Thanks, thanks, thanks!!!
top notch again anthony. thanks for clear & concise teaching.
Thanks Anthony! This a great series on Photoshop and helped fill in some gaps in my knowledge!
Another excellent video Anthony. Clear and easy to follow as always. Looking forward to the next one in the series.
Thank you Barry!
The very best instructional video I have watched and learnt from. Brilliant Thank you,
you explain so well ! You are now my go to learning person! Thank you!
Excellent, I really appreciate the comments about the exposure techniques you used.
Have informed the members of my aviation photography group about your excellent Lightroom and Photoshop tutorial series. I have advanced the quality of my photography from watching these series and putting your gifts to us to work. Like me, some of the newer members are just discovering these post processing programs and are looking for help. Thank you so much. Those who view our images and well as my wild life images from here in Colorado are very impressed with the quality of pictures presented. Several of my family members have upgraded their kits and are using your tutorials to improve their images and loving photography more than ever.
one of the best tutors- you have the art of presenting complex concepts in a simple intelligible manner
You are a great teacher. Many people post videos just to show their skills.. but you Teach with a capital "T" . 2 Thums up.
Anthony, thanks so much. Having shoulder surgery in two days and will be out of the field for at least six weeks. Your tutorials are going to help me get through this, but most important finally learn how use PS. :)
Yep. That's really true. You truly are one of the best teachers on UA-cam. And I know quite some of them. It's clear, structured, at a decent speed etc. Thank you for your effort!
You're very kind. Thank you!
Excellent video series Anthony! best there is....
Can't thank you enough for the layers videos. Knowledge of layers will make a huge difference in my photos going forward.
Fantastic! Best presenter of them all for PS CC IMHO.
Hi Anthony,I've watched many of your tuts,and this is a really good one!Layers are confusing,but you explained at just the right speed to follow each step!And,yes,the explanations on how you took the shots are also very welcome!
Keep going please!
Brilliantly explained it's so good of you to take time to do this thanks very much Anthony
Thank you for watching!
Thanks so much for the effort you have put into your lessons. I learnt so much from your Lightroom lessons and now are doing the same with Photoshop. You have an amazing ability to explain concepts.
Another great video. Super Photoshop lesson, but you take it to a new level by also going over how to take the shot. Once again... Thanks.
Thank you Robert!
You are an excellent teacher, Anthony. Your tutorials on Photoshop and Lightroom have helped me tremendously. Big big thanks for providing this material.
You are an awesome educator Anthony and are becoming my go-to guru! Your explanations are thorough and concise and your lessons are a pleasure to watch. Thank you so much - I'm looking forward to your next video in this series!
You bringing hard-processing/made Eazy, to the masses!..
I can't thank you enough!!!!
NEVER STOP!.....
Absolutely brilliant explanation, nothing to add, just tons of Kudos !
That's really cool Anthony and great explanation. I'm a complete novice using Photoshop and don't even know where to begin so I really appreciate this series, thanks.
Very useful. Thank you for being so thorough.
Well explained, many thanks.
A very clear illustration of a frequently encountered, practical issue with interior shots and windows. Thanks!
A really excellent tutorial. I think there is some confusion between geometric distortion (barrel distortion typically) caused by the lens, and perspective distortion caused by the camera being not exactly vertical, making walls lean inwards. Perspective distortion is easily corrected, but some lens distortions can be difficult to correct. Keep posting these excellent turorials.
Now that was great, a lesson well learned. Thank you.
Your videos are so good that I learned a lot more for editing photos in photoshop, not just in lightroom. Thank-you!
An excellent presentation. Clear and concise instructions that can be replicated without any hassles. Keep up the great work.
I'm just learning PS, this has been a real stress reliever on where to begin. Thank you.
Thank you Anthony! Excellent introduction to PS!
Thank you Anthony. That was very helpful. By the way, I mentioned you in a comment on the Disqus page for the latest announcement of the debut of Gigapixel's face recovery improvements.
Great tutorial very clear explanation. Really appreciate the practical real life example.
Really liking & learning Photoshop with your second episode. Thanks ever so much!!!!
Thank you for watching!
The first two episodes of Getting Started in Photoshop are excellent! You mentioned using a tablet to edit in PS. Would you consider doing a video or segment on how you set up and use your tablet? Do you use in Lightroom? Thanks for the fine videos.
As Usual, another great informative video for us beginners. You make things seem easy that would otherwise be really tricky. Thank you.
Great video. I always learn a lot from your videos.
great video,your one of the best lightroom/photoshop tutors on YT
Thank you very much!
Very well explained. Also thanks for 50mm lens tips at the end.
Loved Episode 2 Anthony! I'm really beginning to see the great benefit of knowing how to work with layer masks! Thank you so much for "Getting Started in Photoshop" school!!
As always, thank you for watching TC!
Brilliantly simple explanation. Best instructor out there. Thankyou so much. Keep up the great work. One question: instead of painting in white to correct a mistake can you just click ctrl Z to undo previous edit. Thanks again.
Thanks Anthony I've been waiting for these tutorials, your style suits me.
Thanks! I appreciate you watching!
This is exactly what I was looking for - thank you so much. I love all your tutorials
Excellent lesson today! Thank you for explaining the part about distortion in the end as well. This was very useful. :)
Good job Anthony. Just a small observation though... after darkening the windows, you probably should also have darkened the windows reflection on the marble floor as they are now correspondingly too bright.
Another really helpful video; thank you so much!
Awesome!
Thanks, Anthony!
Really informative and good tip about using a 50mm..
good show. always good to learn some new tricks
Before I start watching your every new video.. first I ensure that I clicked the "Like" button.. and then start watching it :-)
Me too!
what a gift! thank you!
Hi Anthony very informative ,thank you
Enjoyed this video.
Thanks so much. Great information and help.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you very much. I love your videos. I learned lightroom from you! Photoshop is intimidating but so was lightroom at first, until I watched your videos. Looking forward to this series.
I do have one question about the edit. What about the stained glass reflection in the floor? How would you make those look more realistic since you edited the windows?
Thank you so much Anthony!
Thank you for watching!
Another great vid!
Great! This makes so much sense. I wish the ads didn't pop up every few minutes to interrupt.
Thank you for watching!
Anthony, as usual a very good lesson, I have learned so much from your videos. You mentioned during this lesson something about a "tablet", are taking about an I-Pad or something more specific?
This is what he is talking about. There are quite a few different models to choose from.
www.amazon.com/Wacom-CTL490DW-Digital-Drawing-Graphics/dp/B010LHRFM2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1490730954&sr=8-2&keywords=wacom+tablet
Perfect tutorial. I was wondering how to take that dark and bright shots(as i am a beginner). Finally u explained in the end :-) thank u
Even though I consider my self an experienced user of Photoshop and Lightroom I really enjoy your videos :)
Thank you for watching!
Excellent! Thank you, that was perfectly explained Anthony! Just a minor newbie 'what would you do' question though, fully understanding that your training video was not about finalizing the photo. If this were my work, I think I would like to darken the window floor reflections slightly, to better match the adjusted light of actual windows. Could I make that adjustment in Photoshop as well, or would you do that back in Lightroom?
Photoshop might be the better choice because you'd be able to mask out parts of the image so you're only darkening the floor reflections and not other things around them.
Great lesson. Thanks Anthony. One question. Why not shoot the windows at the same shutter speed but at a lower ISO? I'm sure there's a good reason!
You could, but typically you like the amount of noise that might be inherent in each image to be similar so that when you mask them, they look uniform.
Again, thanks Anthony, another outstanding tutorial. i really liked the idea of using a 50mm lens and stitching a panorama. One comment on the final image is that the frames around each area of glass seemed very black and looked slightly fake versus the rest of the room. Would a brush have helped to tone them into the rest of the room? Thanks!
Actually, we could blend those better by instead of painting on the mask with a black brush with Opacity set to 100, we can bring the opacity down to say, 50 when we're painting over those frames but leave it at 100 when we're painting any where else. When the opacity is set to anything less than 100, we're actually painting in gray so we'd have part of the top layer blended with part of the bottom layer. Doing it that way might make it look more natural. Keep in mind though, that when you're doing the procedure or even watching me do the procedure, you're extra critical of it looking "fake". Most people aren't even going to notice imo.
Awesome, I like this solution. 100% agree with your "most people"' comment. Can't tell you how frustrating it is to show what i think is a poor phot and have people go "wow". I'm trying to be excellent to that makes me picky ;-)
Hi. Anthony.
Nice explanation in a simple way that anybody can easily understand.
Just one note. The resolution of the screen in the lasts videos (huge) makes hard to see the details of the icons and selections you do in a small 13" MBP screen like mine.
Keep the good academic work :-)
Hi Anthony: I'm also not a geek and appreciate your method of teaching. I have a laptop and find it hard to see the small icons in the panels and your curser is small and sometimes i loose you when you zoom to another spot. Any advise for me to improve the view. These are tough times for the likes of me and as soon as things improve i will contribute to your great endeavors. Tks Erik
I havent answered you, but I do want to keep subscribed to this site. Have been very busy these last 2 mos, and will be for the next 2 mos.
Keith K
Great! Thanks for this video. I have a Q: How can I blend an image over a face but let it look natural keeping the shades, lines, contour, etc as if it was painted directly over the face? Do you have a tutorial about that?
It is very nice! I learn another technique from photoshop. thank you - tony.
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for this video Anthony. One question though. Since Photoshop is "destructive", do you ever merge the layers before sending the image from Photoshop to Lightroom? I noticed you didn't do that. I'm so unsure as to when you merge layers, is it a done deal, meaning you can't go back to correct the original image?
Hi Anthony, presumambly the parallax effect would be corrected before cropping? Please consider a video showing how to correct for this effect. I tried transform unsuccessfully and ended up using transform in Corel Photopaint, using a large blank layer and popping the .jpg on top. It would be very helpful to know how to do it in Photoshop instead, please, where the photo cannot be repeated. I am following both sets of your Lightroom and Photoshop Tutorials now.
Great lesson. Two questions, if you make a stroke mistake while painting, could you just hit Ctrl or Com Z to get rid of that last stroke? Also if you want to save the final to a .jpg do you have to flatten the layers in some way? Thanks.
Yes, Ctrl-Z will undo your last action so if it was a missed brush stroke, it will undo it perfectly. You do not have to flatten the image to save it to JPG. Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this video, it was really informative and explained step by step. However, I have one question: you mentioned you took both photos handheld, did you mean one after another using a tripod and manually pressing a camera button? :)
One additional comment. Couldn't you do something similar with the adjustment brush in LR? Granted, it's 4 stops, so you might not be able to recover all the blown highs, but if your shot was taken 2 stops lower, maybe you could do the adjustment brush 2 stops lower for the window. I'm sure it's easier in photoshop.
thanks Anthony!
Hi Anthony, good well explained tutorial... Would it not be possible to correct lens distortions with vertical and horizontal corrections in Photoshop to get them geometrically correct, instead of doing panoramas, or would that not work... Thanks very much Anthony fo taking the time and trouble with this video..
Generally speaking, you'd like to capture the scene in such a way that you'll do the least amount of post processing as possible. This is particularly true with geometric distortions introduced by the lens. What often happens to me is I'll make, say, the horizontals straight but doing so messes up something else in the image like the verticals will go crooked. So that's why I suggest the panorama method, with a lens that isn't introducing as much distortion, the better way to go.
Thanks for that Anthony - Good point, in retrospect I should have considered that... You are a good teacher...
Brilliant...
I found this very helpful. I would like to know how do you do this with something like this: Sky shot with the Moon. The sky shot does not have the Moon in focus (meaning, seeing the surface detail), but the second does have the Moon in focus. The situation is, that the Moon moved, so how do you align the Moon from the second shot to replace the one from the sky shot?
i liked the panarama trick explained at teh end. but didnt quite get it. perhaps i can from watching again. also interesting any differences and similarity b/t this method and HDRI
Thanks so much for your efforts. Your presentation could be vastly improved however if you would use a cursor enhancement program (trying to follow your little black cursor on a black background is like trying to follow a sand flea in heat), and be specific about what you are doing, e.g. "click on this little check box right there" obfuscates the whole command. It took me several minutes of rewinding and replaying to find the "little check box". I finally found it on my own display and only then could I see it on your display. The information is good, but difficult to follow at times. Once again however, thanks for your efforts, and I am especially thankful that I don't have to try to delineate your voice from some trick-or-treat sound track that the majority of content providers seem to think is necessary to slap on top of everything.
to change the hardness and size of the brush faster you could also hold the ctr and alt key while right clicking on the mouse. and move it up or down for size and left or right for hardness at least on pc. i think this is also possible with opt and cmd and clicking on the mouse but I*m not sure about this. this is also handy with a graphic tablet
aside from this greate video
Thank you for mentioning it and thank you for watching!
Thank you Anthony. Great tutorial. Command + S = Save in PS? :)
What do you mean when you say that you use a mouse instead of a tablet? Do you mean an iPad?
is this only for photographers ?
liked the video and liked the final comments
Thanks!
To prevent mistakes can't we just pen tool in this case the windows?
GO BILLLS!!!
which screen recorder is this
When you saying and doing things in ps or lr they all seem so easy..... :-) maybe they are not as difficult as I think....
Very nice tutorial. However, please do not apologize for using a mouse. I am a senior citizen; I have never ever heard of a Wacom Tablet. I am sure there are others that watch your tutorials that do not know what a Wacom Tablet is either.
i would like to see the edit of a single image; a portraiture
Genius
Thanks!
Yes thank you! not Lr user and work on Mac Thank you!
how to insert an image to become a layeR?