Excellent one again Sean. Every so often it is helpful for us old timers to re-learn some of the more intricate or involved features which we forgot they exist.
Thanks Sean, another super informative video. There's a lot to take in there, made me realise I need to go over the TK7 Video Guides again. More practice with TK7 required - despite my best intentions to use Photoshop more, I'm still using Lightroom for the majority of my editing. Once winter sets in I'm going to purchase your PS Essentials for Outdoor Photographers package and ditch Netflix for at least 3 nights a week. A huge Thank You for making accessible what once seemed impenetrable.
Certainly nothing wrong with doing all/most work in LR if that gets you where you want. As you learn more about PS and the things the panel can do you'll start to know which things you prefer to do in LR and which things you can accomplish better in PS. As for ditching Nextflix to watch me instead...you are much stronger than I am. ;-)
One thing I enjoy using (in Photoshop) is the “auto” button on the levels adjustment because it gives a nice bit of contrast to the image. Darkening blacks and brightening whites just until they’re about to clip. On the zone system this could be thought of as taking care of zones 0 and 10. But what should I do with the other zones (1-9)? Is there a way that I can get a more optimal contrast level throughout those zones with luminosity masks?
I'm amazed you were able to get such a clean selection of those trees from the background. Some of those background areas appear to have pretty similar tones. I struggle with the refine edge tool in these situations. Maybe you used some sort of color mask?
zack stanton I made the video a couple months ago so I don’t fully remember, but I think I just made a quick selection and then used Select and Mask to refine.
Awesome in depth video Sean, loved it. Just wondering which video you made with how you make those particular selections of the trees only, sky only, etc etc.
Hello from Spain, a great tutorial !! One question: How do you make those selections so precise and then save as channels? Do you have any video explaining it? Thank you very much for all your content and for these videos about the Panel.
Hi Hugo. I cover making those kinds of selections in a variety of places. This video you YT gives the basics of the Select and Mask features in PS: ua-cam.com/video/9ouGHkBaUho/v-deo.html. I also hit on it a little in Favorite Photoshop Techniques vol 2 and Photoshop Essentials...as well as in my Complete Workflow Series.
Another class video you make learning so much easier, just a question, when bringing the image into CC do you open it as a smart object or just choose what photoshop opens it in
It depends. If I think I will benefit from being able to make further raw adjustments in PS then I definitely open as a smart object. There are quite a few techniques I use that involve going back to the raw adjustments. On the other hand, smart objects don't support healing/cloning/content aware filling so if I know I need to do a lot of that type work in PS then I'll just get the raw adjustments the best I can in LR and then open as a regular image file.
Sean - I noticed you didn't use any Blake Rudis style color grading - no gradient maps or gradients, but kept to your usual analysis and techniques (which I also use thanks to your videos). Blake has released a new updated panel for his color work. If you have tried his panel, what do you think about its usefulness?
I have not tried Blake's panel and I still consider myself a noob when it comes to using gradients and gradient maps for color grading in the way Blake does. Most of my color work tends to be making very slight shifts to the colors that are already in the image as compared to introducing entirely new ranges of color, so the PS color adjustments and masking techniques usually get me where I'm going. I do experiment with gradients and gradient maps if my creative juices are calling for it. But at this point, I don't consider myself knowledgeable or proficient enough to teach it. Better to leave that to Blake for now. :-D
Hi Sean, I purchased years ago your Developing for Extended Dynamic Range 2nd Ed. video. Do you have any other purchase suggestions to learn the V7 panel while improving my mask evaluation, creation and refining skills? (If that includes on shooting-location choice-making, even better)
Hi Lorenzo. The TK7 Video Guide shows how the panel functions and features all work and I give some workflow instruction but it isn't really meant to be a lesson in image developing. My Favorite Photoshop Techniques series also goes into some of those concepts but in the context of how to accomplish the specific techniques. Finally, the Complete Workflow series gives a range of examples of my flow and thought process while developing images. So, I don't have a single course that hits on precisely all the topics you mention...but it's all in there in various places throughout my courses.
I would appreciate if you've shown how to separate foreground sky etc because I'm not really familiar with ps or at least explain the passages to make.. thanks
Hi Tom - Check out these videos if you haven't: ua-cam.com/video/jBjJR1uNg0g/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/IgYFPqLQauU/v-deo.html Also, my Luminosity Mask Masterclass uses the Go module throughout: www.outdoorexposurephoto.com/video-tutorials/video-tutorials/ And Dave Kelly has begun a Go module series of tutorials on his channel: ua-cam.com/channels/EcP2Oec0caHz23aKGGOayw.html
Sean- what is that tool i its own panel at the top of the tools panel, the one with the cube and two other symbols? I don't see such in any of the PS Tools menu options?
Saoud Karmastaji we sent update information out to all panel users from TK5 forward back on July 1. Check your spam folder in all your email accounts. We can also look you up in our records if you know whose site you purchased from.
Sean Bagshaw just checked and unfortunately didn't get any .. I purchased it from Outdoor Exposure Photography trhoifh the following email bu7amad84@hotmail.com appreciate if the team can resend me please
A lot of times i'll watch tutorials of people doing a ton of work on a photo using all sorts of masks and advanced techniques, only to see it at the end and think, hmm.. i could have just done that while playing with some levels or curves and manually playing with the basic in program functions and had it come out looking almost exactly the same in a couple of minutes. I think with so many functions, plugins etc.. we overthink stuff sometimes and just want to play with tools because they are there, even though the same effect can be achieved quicker and easier lol.
I completely agree with that. Sometimes, after I have spent a lot of time working on an image and then evaluate how I did it, I think that same thing. Most often I start with the simplest way I can think of first and if that works then great. If not, then I move on to more complex methods as needed until I can finally get what I'm looking for...but that entire process would be confusing and tedious to watch. I think one thing to remember about video tutorials (at least mine anyway) is that they provide instruction on a concept. They are designed to show a particular method as clearly and concisely as possible to make it understandable...but not necessarily compare it to all the other ways a similar adjustment might be accomplished or advocate that it is the best or only way to do it. Once someone understands the process then it is up to them to decide when or if to use it or not. My goal is always to provide information and ideas and show how I might do something...but make no claims that anything I teach is the only option or how it should be done.
Hi Gary. In your TK7 Video Guide download, there is a second folder called "TK7 Updated Features". In that folder, chapters 8 and 9 cover the go module. Other updated features are also covered in this 9 chapter addendum.
@@GBB70 Yes. It was added in the update Tony released last July. I also show extensive use of the Go module in my course called Luminosity Mask Masterclass. www.outdoorexposurephoto.com/video-tutorials/video-tutorials/
@@SeanBagshaw Thanks Sean. Kinda glad I put this purchase off so I can dive in immediately to the Go Module. Appreciate all you do for landscape photograhers.
Hi Joseph. Those are the main three modules. The Cx and Combo modules are the same just different shapes. Since you are using the Cx you probably chose not to use the Combo because that would just be redundant.
@@SeanBagshaw , Thanks Sean, I’ve never used any “add ones” before, it kind of reminds me of Lightroom. The first time I opened it, I was clueless. But the more I used it, the easier it gets. I’ll figure it out. It will just take time. Your videos are helpful. Thanks..
You do start to scratch your head and ask, if tools like TK7 are so powerful and efficient, then why isn't Adobe designing a version (panel) of their own ?
I wouldn't say complicated, but maybe more in-depth or involved, If you start the course at the beginning and go through it slowly, at every point working alongside in one of your images, with the video's ability to pause and rewind (keys J-K-L are handy), I get to comprehend, and remember what every little button and choice does. Then it is practice, practice, practice, just like the way to Carnegie Hall.
HI Sean, thank you for replying I have had TK panels since 2017 and I have your videos associated with the panels I bought then I have now got the TK 7 panels and videos and they are nearly apart from the updated stuff identical a second payment of $29. 00 angered me. I have never been able to follow the videos because they move to fast in fact I have never ever used a panel for that reason. I am determined to learn this and it was yourself that got me interested in the first place all those years ago and seeing the video with the sunflowers recently made me even more determined than ever. Infinity color masking I think. The speed problem is the worst because you cannot slow the playback speed on the Quicktime player good enough as you can with You-Tube. I watched some of your You-Tube videos and like them but to practice them and using your own words you have to practice and practice the panels because they are complicated. Now to do that images must come with the videos if you do not want to use your own good ones then use the ones you do not rate as keepers or when you are out on a shoot take specific ones for the videos you do. Or there is always upsplash and there like. It is so easy to do a video with an accompanying image it would help us so much. I have recently come across The joy of editing with Dave Kelly and it is fantastic. You are the main man for Tony Kuyper imagine if your You-Tube chanel gave an image as well what a resource that would be for us plus I think your subscriptions would benefit as well. Thanks for listening Barry
@@barry10ish Thanks for the feedback. I was a little confused about your first comment, so thanks for clarifying. The best way to reach me reliably is by email or my website contact page. I try to keep up with comment threads as much as I can, but there are only so many hours in the day. Honestly, in 10 years of sharing Photoshop videos on UA-cam, this is the first time anyone has asked for the image so I guess I never really thought about it in this context. I agree about the importance of practice images which is why include them with all of my courses. I really just do UA-cam videos as an extra for fun when I have time. I like to provide some free education when I can fit it in and hope that people appreciate whatever effort I'm able to muster.
I use the panel religiously but probably at 25% of its capacity. Thanks as always for these tutorials!
Thank you Sean. As always, great learning tool. I love TK7 and you are the great source for learning new tools.
Beautiful image! Thanks for sharing, I’ll be watching this repeatedly as I learn to use the TK Panels more effectively.
Love this panel, soooooo much of it I fail to utilise, your vids always open up my eyes to new uses.. thank you so much, keep em coming.
Excellent one again Sean. Every so often it is helpful for us old timers to re-learn some of the more intricate or involved features which we forgot they exist.
Right on. And I include myself in that old timer list. Every time I make a video I learn or re-learn all kinds of stuff.
Super helpful, to the point and informative Sean. Thank you for sharing!
Sean, great video. I love these full workflow vids you do. Extremely helpful. Thank you!
Your videos on UA-cam are always helpful but this one is top of the class.
Thanks for your amazing video.
Thanks Sean, another super informative video. There's a lot to take in there, made me realise I need to go over the TK7 Video Guides again. More practice with TK7 required - despite my best intentions to use Photoshop more, I'm still using Lightroom for the majority of my editing. Once winter sets in I'm going to purchase your PS Essentials for Outdoor Photographers package and ditch Netflix for at least 3 nights a week.
A huge Thank You for making accessible what once seemed impenetrable.
Certainly nothing wrong with doing all/most work in LR if that gets you where you want. As you learn more about PS and the things the panel can do you'll start to know which things you prefer to do in LR and which things you can accomplish better in PS. As for ditching Nextflix to watch me instead...you are much stronger than I am. ;-)
Looking forward to the new master class!
Powerful stuff Sean nice tutorial 🤙🏻
I'm just starting to learn this tool and your channel looks like a great resource! New subscriber!
really perfect enhancement with new go penal, thanx
Sean you are always the top........very very good........
Stunning
Very nice video. Thanks a lot.
One thing I enjoy using (in Photoshop) is the “auto” button on the levels adjustment because it gives a nice bit of contrast to the image. Darkening blacks and brightening whites just until they’re about to clip. On the zone system this could be thought of as taking care of zones 0 and 10. But what should I do with the other zones (1-9)? Is there a way that I can get a more optimal contrast level throughout those zones with luminosity masks?
Hello Sean,
Thanks for great video
How can I change the sky in my picture with working with TK7 panel ?
I'm amazed you were able to get such a clean selection of those trees from the background. Some of those background areas appear to have pretty similar tones. I struggle with the refine edge tool in these situations. Maybe you used some sort of color mask?
zack stanton I made the video a couple months ago so I don’t fully remember, but I think I just made a quick selection and then used Select and Mask to refine.
Awesome in depth video Sean, loved it. Just wondering which video you made with how you make those particular selections of the trees only, sky only, etc etc.
Chrystal Hutchinson Thanks! I think I made those selections with the quick select tool and then Select and Mask to refine.
Sean Bagshaw Thank you so much! Found the video on how to make those selections. Could watch your videos all day, keep it up :)
Hello from Spain, a great tutorial !!
One question: How do you make those selections so precise and then save as channels?
Do you have any video explaining it?
Thank you very much for all your content and for these videos about the Panel.
Hi Hugo. I cover making those kinds of selections in a variety of places. This video you YT gives the basics of the Select and Mask features in PS: ua-cam.com/video/9ouGHkBaUho/v-deo.html. I also hit on it a little in Favorite Photoshop Techniques vol 2 and Photoshop Essentials...as well as in my Complete Workflow Series.
@@SeanBagshaw
Thank you very much for your answer, very kind, I am very grateful ... Greetings from Spain.
Excellent video. Do you have a tutorial that explains how you made the mask selections at 3:39 for the various parts of the image that you adjusted?
Hey, Thanks! I don't have a video specific to this image, but this video covers the tool and basic approach. ua-cam.com/video/9ouGHkBaUho/v-deo.html
Another class video you make learning so much easier, just a question, when bringing the image into CC do you open it as a smart object or just choose what photoshop opens it in
It depends. If I think I will benefit from being able to make further raw adjustments in PS then I definitely open as a smart object. There are quite a few techniques I use that involve going back to the raw adjustments. On the other hand, smart objects don't support healing/cloning/content aware filling so if I know I need to do a lot of that type work in PS then I'll just get the raw adjustments the best I can in LR and then open as a regular image file.
@@SeanBagshaw Thanks Sean greatly appreciated keep up the good work and stay safe thanks
Sean - I noticed you didn't use any Blake Rudis style color grading - no gradient maps or gradients, but kept to your usual analysis and techniques (which I also use thanks to your videos). Blake has released a new updated panel for his color work. If you have tried his panel, what do you think about its usefulness?
I have not tried Blake's panel and I still consider myself a noob when it comes to using gradients and gradient maps for color grading in the way Blake does. Most of my color work tends to be making very slight shifts to the colors that are already in the image as compared to introducing entirely new ranges of color, so the PS color adjustments and masking techniques usually get me where I'm going. I do experiment with gradients and gradient maps if my creative juices are calling for it. But at this point, I don't consider myself knowledgeable or proficient enough to teach it. Better to leave that to Blake for now. :-D
Just finished looking at a video of the old TKActions panel and damn--what a difference. It used to be so cluttered and incomprehensible.
Evolution! :-D
Evolution!
Hi Sean, I purchased years ago your Developing for Extended Dynamic Range 2nd Ed. video. Do you have any other purchase suggestions to learn the V7 panel while improving my mask evaluation, creation and refining skills? (If that includes on shooting-location choice-making, even better)
Hi Lorenzo. The TK7 Video Guide shows how the panel functions and features all work and I give some workflow instruction but it isn't really meant to be a lesson in image developing. My Favorite Photoshop Techniques series also goes into some of those concepts but in the context of how to accomplish the specific techniques. Finally, the Complete Workflow series gives a range of examples of my flow and thought process while developing images. So, I don't have a single course that hits on precisely all the topics you mention...but it's all in there in various places throughout my courses.
I would appreciate if you've shown how to separate foreground sky etc because I'm not really familiar with ps or at least explain the passages to make.. thanks
Do a search for that on UA-cam. There are many videos covering that topic. The short answer in Ps is Select>Sky. :-)
Sean is there a being tutorial or basic use of the Go panel that shows how to save masks too and further explanation of it
Hi Tom - Check out these videos if you haven't:
ua-cam.com/video/jBjJR1uNg0g/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/IgYFPqLQauU/v-deo.html
Also, my Luminosity Mask Masterclass uses the Go module throughout: www.outdoorexposurephoto.com/video-tutorials/video-tutorials/
And Dave Kelly has begun a Go module series of tutorials on his channel: ua-cam.com/channels/EcP2Oec0caHz23aKGGOayw.html
@@SeanBagshaw Many thanks Sean!
Sean- what is that tool i its own panel at the top of the tools panel, the one with the cube and two other symbols? I don't see such in any of the PS Tools menu options?
That is the Photoshop Properties panel. I just stick it up there above the tools panel in my workspace. You can find it under the Windows menu.
Hi Sean, is this a free update for those who already bought the TK7 panel? Or we should purchase it?
Saoud Karmastaji we sent update information out to all panel users from TK5 forward back on July 1. Check your spam folder in all your email accounts. We can also look you up in our records if you know whose site you purchased from.
Sean Bagshaw just checked and unfortunately didn't get any .. I purchased it from Outdoor Exposure Photography trhoifh the following email bu7amad84@hotmail.com appreciate if the team can resend me please
If you want to help then give the image a download link.
A lot of times i'll watch tutorials of people doing a ton of work on a photo using all sorts of masks and advanced techniques, only to see it at the end and think, hmm.. i could have just done that while playing with some levels or curves and manually playing with the basic in program functions and had it come out looking almost exactly the same in a couple of minutes. I think with so many functions, plugins etc.. we overthink stuff sometimes and just want to play with tools because they are there, even though the same effect can be achieved quicker and easier lol.
I completely agree with that. Sometimes, after I have spent a lot of time working on an image and then evaluate how I did it, I think that same thing. Most often I start with the simplest way I can think of first and if that works then great. If not, then I move on to more complex methods as needed until I can finally get what I'm looking for...but that entire process would be confusing and tedious to watch. I think one thing to remember about video tutorials (at least mine anyway) is that they provide instruction on a concept. They are designed to show a particular method as clearly and concisely as possible to make it understandable...but not necessarily compare it to all the other ways a similar adjustment might be accomplished or advocate that it is the best or only way to do it. Once someone understands the process then it is up to them to decide when or if to use it or not. My goal is always to provide information and ideas and show how I might do something...but make no claims that anything I teach is the only option or how it should be done.
My tk7 video guide did not mention the tk7 Go module. Is this new and when I purchase the actual panel will it be included with instructions?
Hi Gary. In your TK7 Video Guide download, there is a second folder called "TK7 Updated Features". In that folder, chapters 8 and 9 cover the go module. Other updated features are also covered in this 9 chapter addendum.
@@SeanBagshaw Thanks
@@SeanBagshaw is the go panel included in the TK7 panel purchase?
@@GBB70 Yes. It was added in the update Tony released last July. I also show extensive use of the Go module in my course called Luminosity Mask Masterclass. www.outdoorexposurephoto.com/video-tutorials/video-tutorials/
@@SeanBagshaw Thanks Sean. Kinda glad I put this purchase off so I can dive in immediately to the Go Module. Appreciate all you do for landscape photograhers.
Why do I have only 3 modules ? I only have Batch, Go, and Cx...
Hi Joseph. Those are the main three modules. The Cx and Combo modules are the same just different shapes. Since you are using the Cx you probably chose not to use the Combo because that would just be redundant.
@@SeanBagshaw , Thanks Sean, I’ve never used any “add ones” before, it kind of reminds me of Lightroom. The first time I opened it, I was clueless. But the more I used it, the easier it gets. I’ll figure it out. It will just take time. Your videos are helpful. Thanks..
You do start to scratch your head and ask, if tools like TK7 are so powerful and efficient, then why isn't Adobe designing a version (panel) of their own ?
It has crossed my mind. :-)
looks really complicated
I wouldn't say complicated, but maybe more in-depth or involved, If you start the course at the beginning and go through it slowly, at every point working alongside in one of your images, with the video's ability to pause and rewind (keys J-K-L are handy), I get to comprehend, and remember what every little button and choice does. Then it is practice, practice, practice, just like the way to Carnegie Hall.
@@AlexFeldstein totally agree with you its how i learn most things re photo shop
I have spent $58.00 with you and you cannot even bring yourself to answer comments.
How can I help you, Barry?
HI Sean, thank you for replying I have had TK panels since 2017 and I have your videos associated with the panels I bought then I have now got the TK 7 panels and videos and they are nearly apart from the updated stuff identical a second payment of $29. 00 angered me. I have never been able to follow the videos because they move to fast in fact I have never ever used a panel for that reason. I am determined to learn this and it was yourself that got me interested in the first place all those years ago and seeing the video with the sunflowers recently made me even more determined than ever. Infinity color masking I think. The speed problem is the worst because you cannot slow the playback speed on the Quicktime player good enough as you can with You-Tube. I watched some of your You-Tube videos and like them but to practice them and using your own words you have to practice and practice the panels because they are complicated. Now to do that images must come with the videos if you do not want to use your own good ones then use the ones you do not rate as keepers or when you are out on a shoot take specific ones for the videos you do. Or there is always upsplash and there like. It is so easy to do a video with an accompanying image it would help us so much. I have recently come across The joy of editing with Dave Kelly and it is fantastic. You are the main man for Tony Kuyper imagine if your You-Tube chanel gave an image as well what a resource that would be for us plus I think your subscriptions would benefit as well. Thanks for listening Barry
@@barry10ish Thanks for the feedback. I was a little confused about your first comment, so thanks for clarifying. The best way to reach me reliably is by email or my website contact page. I try to keep up with comment threads as much as I can, but there are only so many hours in the day. Honestly, in 10 years of sharing Photoshop videos on UA-cam, this is the first time anyone has asked for the image so I guess I never really thought about it in this context. I agree about the importance of practice images which is why include them with all of my courses. I really just do UA-cam videos as an extra for fun when I have time. I like to provide some free education when I can fit it in and hope that people appreciate whatever effort I'm able to muster.
So thanks for the reply Sean but there is nothing in there that answers my comment are you going to add the images ?