In this episode, Samurai Photographer Doug Sahlin presents the first installment of his new series, Fun with Filters. He also offers some thoughts on creativity.

• Fun with Filters (Part 1)
  • Introducing Filters
  • Managing 3rd Party Filters
  • Fading a filter
  • Using the Radial Blur filter
  • Drawing Attention to a Subject with the Lighting Effects filter
  • Simulating a Zoom Blur effect with the Radial Blur filter
  • Creating a Soft Focus effect wtih the Gaussian Blur Filter
• Creativity
  • Leonardo Da Vinci on creativity and art
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson on blazing a trail

 

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In this episode Samurai Photographer Doug Sahlin presents the sixth installment of his series on mastering layers in Photoshop. Grumpy Ken presents the second installment of his series on the power of selections. The episode ends with a slide show from one of Doug’s recent photo shoots.

• Mastering Layers in Photoshop CS3 (Part 6)
  • Creating a displacement map
  • Using the Vanishing Point command
  • Using the Blend If option for blending layers
  • Adding a clipping mask to a layer
• The Power of Selections (Part 2)
  • Introducing the selection tools
  • Using the Marquee Selection tools
  • Using the Lasso tools
  • Using the Magic Wand tools
• A Samurai Photographer slide show

 

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In this episode Samurai Photographer Doug Sahlin presents the 5th installment of his series showing you how to master layers in Photoshop. Grumpy Ken starts a series on the power of selections. The episode ends with one of Doug’s quick tutorials showing you how to get rid of sensor dust spots in Lightroom.

• Mastering Layers in Photoshop (Part 5)
  • Using layer masks to apply filters to specific parts of an image
  • Painting on a layer mask
  • Using Layer Effects
  • Using the Layer panel Fill option
  • Creating a “Glow” effect
• The Power of Selections (Part 1)
  • Introducing selections
  • Introducing the Magic Wand tool
  • Adding to and subtracting from a selection
  • Introducing the Lasso tool
  • Putting it all together
• Removing dust specks in Lightroom
  • Removing spots
  • Synchronizing your settings
  • Testing to see if you have dust on your sensor

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In this episode Samurai Photographer Doug Sahlin demonstrates how to use the workflow layers action. He also present the fourth installment showing how to master layers in Photoshop.

• Using an action
  • Dodging and burning an image
  • Setting levels
  • Adjusting contrast with a curves adjustment layer
  • Using a retouch layer to remove unwamted elements from an image
• Mastering Layers in Photoshop (Part 4)
  • Placing images as Smart Objects
  • Copying and pasting Layer Styles
  • Aligning objects
  • Creating a group
  • Using Smart Filters
  • Masking Smart Filters
  • Replacing the contents of a Smart Object

Bonus:
Scroll down past the first video to see Grumpy Ken’s bonus for this episode in which he shows you his technique for extracting a subject from the background.

 

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