Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: First contact

Let’s launch Photoshop for the first time and explore briefly Adobe Bridge

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Basic Exposure Setting

We are going to look at doing the first retouch on the exposure of the photo

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: White Balance

What is and how to set white balance

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Vibrance and saturation

What are they and how they influence your photo

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Second Panel Curves

Curves are very good to fine tune your exposure even further

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Details Sharpening and Noise reduction

How to make your photo sharper and reduce the noise, I give you my favorite recipe

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: HSL

Let’s dive into the definition of hue, luminance and saturation

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Convert to grey scale

A very good starting point to make a nice black and white

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Split Toning

How to add colors in the highlights or shadows

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Lens Correction

How to activate automatic lens correction and what it does to your photo

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Effects

The effect panel is good especially for the post crop vignetting

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Camera Calibration

A final way to alter your colors as a last touch

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Spot removal

How to remove spots on your photo

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Graduated filter

How to locally change the exposure, one of the most powerful tool in camera raw

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Radial filter

One of my most used tools - the local adjustment tool, a great way to break the tones!

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Brushes

The brush is also a very key tool to dodge and burn your photo (make areas brighter or darker)

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Workflow options

Before we enter Photoshop we have to decide whether we keep all we had done so far as a smart object or not

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Long Exposure Part 1

This is a full retouch A to Z of a long exposure in Venice, we do this in Camera raw

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Long Exposure Part 2

In this video we will erase some distracting element to finish our project

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Sunrise Part 1

In this video we will retouch a different type of color and explore the transform tool

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Sunrise Part 2

Let’s finish this sunrise photo with our local tools

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Tuscany

We go into a different feeling and look closely at the haze tool

Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Fashion Shoot

A different workflow for this type of retouching involving human beings!

Chapter 2 Panoramas: Grand Canyon

In this first video we are going to look at the amazing recent feature of being able to make a panorama and staying in the raw file format!

Chapter 2 Panoramas: Grand Canyon

We are going to use local tools to give it even a stronger feel, more drama!

Chapter 2 Panoramas: Astrophotography Vertorama

Let’s looks at the different projection methods for these 2 photos and do some basic retouching

Chapter 2 Panoramas: Astrophotography Vertorama

I’m going to use local tools to make the milky way pop and the rock less bright

Chapter 2 Panoramas: Astrophotography Vertorama

Lets finish this image up in Photoshop

Chapter 3 HDR: Zion Overlook

Having the ability to create a raw file that is HDR is one of the coolest newest features of camera raw

Chapter 3 HDR: Zio Overlook Part 2

Let’s use our magic tool to bring back the exact amount of drama on this HDR photo

Chapter 3 HDR: HDR Tuscany

This is a pretty washed out photo that we are trying to save with HDR and dodge and burn

Chapter 3 HDR: HDR Tuscany Part 2

Let’s use local tools to give it a final touch and give volume to the photos

Chapter 4 Black and White: Basic conversion for drama

We are going to take a look at the convert to grayscale option

Chapter 4 Black and White: Local tools

Off course to make drama we have to do some serious local retouching

Chapter 4 Black and White: Selective color

A nice effect to make something pop is to have one item in color and the rest in black and white

Chapter 4 Black and White: Selective Color Part 2

We are going to give it a final touch in our raw development before going into photoshop

Chapter 4 Black and White: Selective Color Part 3

We are going to remove all the distracting elements of the photo

Chapter 4 Black and White: Removing elements

Playing with 2 raw files that are slightly different one from the other is a good way to erase some elements, let’s first retouch the basic file

Chapter 4 Black and White: Erasing complex element

To finish that nice black and white from Venice we are going to spend a bit of time erasing an annoying metal bar ruining the shot and then we do some magic camera filter work to finish off the photo

Chapter 4 Black and White: Focus stacking

A cool focus stacking example when you want everything to be sharp to make a dramatic black and white

Chapter 4 Black and White: Focus Stacking part 2

In this video we are going to finish our black and white and see if we need to add a second element like a Gondola!

Chapter 5 Remove elements: Erasing plants

Let’s remove annoying plants on a beautiful tome photo

Chapter 5 Remove elements: Replacing ad

We are going to replace some car ad with our own photo

Chapter 5 Remove elements: Removing tourist

By taking similar shots of the same scene I will show you a cool photoshop trick to erase all the tourists

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Library panel

Let’s put all our skies in the library panel for later use

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Sky Replacement Florence

We are going to replace the sky using selections for the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Sky replacement Florence Part 2

We are going to use our camera to bring drama to the photo

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Rome

We are going to use a much more simple technique to replace the sky using the famous multiply blend mode

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Dunes

I will show the difference between the multiply and the normal mode on this one 

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Milky way

One of the coolest sky replacements is to add the milky way in the sky!

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Milky Part 2

In this video we will try different milky ways from our collection until we have the one that fits perfectly – it’s a trial and error process

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Milky way in Venice

A little fun and fantasy exercise, let’s add the milky way in Venice using the lighten & blend mode

Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Lower antelope

This is one of my favorite photos of last year from the lower antelope canyon, we have a little bit of a tricky sky to replace

Chapter 7 special Effects: Day to night

In this video we are going to mix a day and night photo for a spectacular result

Chapter 7 special Effects: Sunrise in Rome

When the sun doesn’t show up where you want it to, we can add it later! I will show you the new content aware fill and the wide adaptive angle filter to create a sky around the photo

Chapter 7 special Effects: Sunrise in Rome Part 2

We are going to add the missing sun! Using the blend mode screen.

Chapter 7 special Effects: Mixing two exposures

Let’s first retouch a day photo to get the best out of that camera raw file of a sunset in Italy (Mediterranean Sea)

Chapter 7 special Effects: Cool trick

This is a really cool trick that I have been doing lately to mix different times of exposure of the same scene using the lighten mode

Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Action

Preparing the raw file and installing actions. I’m going to show you how to prepare your photo so that you can use the power of frequency separation to retouch your portrait. We are going to install a special action

Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Frequency Separation

Let’s retouch the skin using our frequency separation set up

Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Liquify

Face remodeling with liquify

Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Color Mode

Let’s make the tones more even with a cool trick

Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Hairs

Let's apply the same strategy on the skin then onto the hairs

Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Lips and Eyes

As a final touch lets retouch the eyes and the lips to make it pop even more

Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Final project on a regular guy

Let’s retouch one of my portrait with all what we learn so far, some regular with lots of skin issues…