Photoshop for iPad: Photoshop Compositing

Course details

Take your image editing on the go with Photoshop for the iPad. This course shows how to use the unique features and workflow in Photoshop for the iPad to create photo composites and retouch portraits. Artist and bestselling Photoshop author Steve Caplin introduces two projects that you can follow step by step. Discover advanced layering and masking tips to combine photos into new works of art and professional beauty retouching techniques to make your subjects shine. Learn how to load selections automatically, nondestructively edit layers, change backgrounds, and blend your changes in by adding realistic light and color adjustments.

Topics include:
Managing layers
Choosing tools
Creating a photo montage
Creating masks from selections
Distorting text
Adjusting color
Making selection-based adjustments
Retouching a portrait
Removing blemishes
Boosting contracts
Painting skin tones
Adding background and lighting effects

Concepts

Introduction

Photoshop for iPad

The Photoshop Interface

Opening and creating files
Viewing and manipulating layers
Selecting and using tools
Using menus
Using the Selection tool

Creating a Photo Montage

Opening the background image
Selecting the subject
Creating a mask from the selection
Using the Object Select tool to add a mask
Unlinking a layer mask using the Transform Selection tool
Adding a new layer and building a floor reflection
Adding a window mask
Adding a view through the window
Adding a window reflection
Patching the power strips
Adding a text banner
Distorting the text
Adjusting the color of a layer
Making adjustments based on selections

Creating a Beauty Retouch

Removing blemishes and coloring shadows
Boosting contrast with a Levels adjustment layer
Enhancing colors with a Levels adjustment layer
Painting translucent effects with an adjustment layer
Adding selective tinting effects
Painting skin tones with low opacity
Adding realistic coloring effects
Adding a background
Adding lighting effects

Conclusion

Next steps