Lynda - Photoshop for Photographers: Creative Effects

This course provides a practical guide to enhancing photos with the most popular creative effects in Photoshop. Photographer, author, and teacher Chris Orwig shows how to modify color and light to add vibrance, drama, and emphasis. He then explores blur effects, including the Photoshop Blur Gallery and motion blur, to increase depth-of-field, add a softer focus, or make your still images move. The course also introduces the techniques behind digital infrared photography, and details a variety of effects that can add the popular analog look to photos: film grain simulations, vintage monochrome and color effects, and border and edge effects. The final chapters show how to use Photoshop's custom brushes and plug-ins for creative effects.

Topics include:
Combining HDR (high dynamic range) toning with color effects
Improving color with Curves and Color Balance
Creating drama with lighting effects
Adding realistic lens flare
Creating a luminance blur
Blending and masking in motion
Performing HDR toning and black and white conversions
Combining infrared with contrast and sharpness
Crafting vintage color
Adding borders and edges to a photo
Finding and installing custom brushes and plug-ins