Photoshop Creative Effects Workshop

Explore how you can leverage the power of Photoshop to express your creative vision.Digital photographers using Adobe Photoshop sometimes get so caught up in working efficiently and mastering complex techniques that they can forget photography is at heart a creative endeavor. In this course photographer and author Tim Grey encourages you to explore how you can leverage the power of Photoshop to express your creative vision. Learn how to apply various creative effects related to tonality, color, artistic filters, creative borders, image montages, and much more. Along the way, see every detail of how these effects are achieved so you can adapt them to suit your own purposes. The course concludes with a series of projects that involve the use of multiple creative effects for a single image. Note: This course was recorded in Photoshop CS5, but was created with users of both Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS4 in mind. Topics include: Safely experimenting with creativity Creating a black-and-white effect Using Curves presets for creative effects Applying a vignette Using the Filter Gallery Applying a Gradient Map adjustment Creating a multiple exposure effect Hand-painting an image Creative projects