Wednesday, 13 June 2007

Introduction

Hello everyone. This blog is dedicated to helping people on my Photoshop courses understand Photoshop CS2/CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom. I'll be starting a new course on Lightroom in the near future.

You can post questions and I'll answer within a reasonable period of time.

So if you need help with anything Photoshop or Lightroom, ask it here and I'll get back to you.

This blog is aimed at all users from Beginner to Intermediate to Advanced.
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Bret
Could you please advise when your next photoshop course is.
Thanks Tracey

13 June 2007 at 21:16
Bret Lucas said...

Hi Tracey. I am delivering an Introduction to my next Photoshop and Lightroom courses to the Henderson Photographic Society on 27th June. I will be making a date for the new courses shortly after.

13 June 2007 at 21:22
Anonymous said...

Kathy B and I have been spending a few hours each week going over what we have learnt. Today we worked on our smart object notes - we got a result in the end - after a while that is. Would love more info on this subject as it was said that if one understands smart objects and layers you are way ahead!!! The end result looked great on the tulips - is it used mostly for highlighting. Cheers Margaret

13 June 2007 at 21:28
Bret Lucas said...

Hi Margaret. Glad you are getting on to Smart Objects. No it's not limited to dealing with highlights. You have control over any part of the image, you may wish to increase saturation, darken the image, go black and white. The only limit is your imagination. Mission Two will help cement the idea of Smart Objects.

15 June 2007 at 07:32
Anonymous said...

Hi - Kathy and I are working on Colin's change to black and white portrait - week 10 - and we are stuck on sharpening the edgesof glasses, eye etc - we know we need the foreground colour black but he was a bit speedy for us - so we missed out on this. We both have some notes but not enough to complete the picture. Can you help us with this. Cheers Margaret and Kathy

4 July 2007 at 16:02
Bret Lucas said...

Hello Margaret. Here is one way of doing it! But before I go into it, the concept first. Here you want to apply sharpening to part of the image. We understand how to sharpen an image and we understand how masking works, armed with these tools we can arrive at sharpening just part of the image. Step 1. Duplicate the background layer. Step 2. Apply either an unsharp mask or smart sharpen to the WHOLE image. (You should have the top layer selected.) Step 3. Apply a mask to the top layer. You will end up with a white box linked to the top layer. Step 4. Now make sure you have the white box selected by clicking on it then, click ctrl + I (pc) or cmd + I (mac)... that's between U and O on the keyboard. You have now masked the sharpening effect by turning the white mask to black, remember black conceals and white reveals. Step 5. To reveal the sharp part of the image, make sure the black mask is selected, now select the paint brush tool and make the foreground colour white, make it small and medium hard, maybe 50%, also check that you have the opacity selected the way you want it, maybe 100% but for more control you could lower it and paint over the area a couple of times, that's it, you have selectively sharpened part of the image!

4 July 2007 at 18:21

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