Whites/Blacks vs. Highlights/Shadows

I would like to see a lesson that helps me understand when and whether you would adjust Whites or Blacks to change the light or dark parts of an image, compared to when and whether you would adjust Highlights or Shadows.

Luminosity Masks in Photoshop

Hi Ben, you had a lesson titled CREATING LUMINOSITY MASKS. In the lesson you indicated you would create another video to apply the masks. I did not find it. Did I miss it? If I didn’t, could you create one? – Bill

pinup style process

I was wondering if you can do a lesson in how to process illustrated pinup style in Photoshop. Please see attachment for reference, workflow did involve using the Lucis plugin, which is no more. What’s the alternative to achieve illustrated skin?

Multiple-frequency separations

Hi Ben, a topic I am struggling with is multiple-frequency separations. I have come across this concept on the web, but not been able to get it to work. It is like a normal frequency separation with a blur and subtract layer setup, but instead of one blur radius to separate low and high frequencies […]

Action to replace contents of Smart Filter

I know you can replace the contents of a Smart Filter, but I am looking for away to replace the contents with a subset of the layers. Take this example, a photo with several layers e.g. retouching of blemishes on a healing layer or other pixel edits. Then create a Smart filter layer and apply […]

Neat tricks

Heah Ben, I thought your lessons on detail visualizations, clipping visualization etc were cool. Would you have any other tricks that would be useful? I’m thinking likes of saturation checks, and luminosity checks if compositing multiple images to ensure all look like they’re the one image. I’m thinking from a compositing point of view as […]

Update Old Lessons Using LR/PS Current Versions

Some of the lessons from the early days use old versions of PS and LR. These don’t use the latest set of features. The are not wrong but there are now better ways to do things (ex. Masking). Much of what I used to do in PS is now done in LR. It would be […]

Start each new year with a crash course

Advice from an old teacher: Practicing and repeating is the way to knowledge. I want a crash course that starts every January and lasts 4-5 Mondays. A lesson on How to remove distractions (content aware fill, healing, cloning, etc.), from basic to advanced using the latest version of Photoshop. Next Monday with Selections as the […]