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Photoshop CC: Adjustement Layers, Blending Modes & Masks (Udemy.com)

Understand Layers and Layer Masks in Photoshop - Use Photoshop for Everyday Work!

Created by: Marcin Mikus

Last updated June 2020

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What you will learn

  • You will know how to use Photoshop
  • You will understand Layers and Masks
  • You will know how to work with adjustement layers in Photoshop
  • You will understand how blending modes works
  • You will know how to use luminosity masks in Photoshop
  • You will have usefull Photoshop knowledge for your work
  • You will know how to edit Images in Photoshop

How it compares

Against the other 188 rated Udemy courses in Photoshop on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 52% of them
  • Reviews152#115 of 189 by number of reviews
  • Length2.9 hoursshorter than 68% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2020more recently than 52% of them

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Course Description

Have you ever wondered what are most important features in Photoshop that makes it so unique? 

Answer for this question is simple; Adjustement Layers, Masks, and Blending modes. Mastering this 3 features of photoshop allows you to achieve everything you want in photography or graphic work. 

Starting from the layers which are foundation of every work you do in Photoshop. Whether it's image, some graphic object, text - those elements of your work often lives on it's own layers and with combination of other layers it create the final image. And major part of you layers in photoshop will be the ones called ''adjustement layers''.

Curves, Levels, Selective Color, Color Balance. Sounds familiar? Those are the names of just few adjustement layers without which your work would be much more difficult. They help you with adjusting contrasts, lights, colors of the image. And they allow to do all of those things in non-destructive way.

In this course I will walk you through all adjustement layers in Photoshop as well as we will do few simple tasks using them as adjust contrasts, do color grading or fix color and exposure issues. 

To understand adjustement layers to it's fullest potential you need to understand blending modes in Photoshop, and you are in the right place because we will be explaining them in this corse. But forget about boring theory, I am just going to shop you with the layers behave with different blending modes, so next time you will be working with photoshop you know what to expect!

And finally I am going to teach you layer masks. In this course you will find out what are masks, how to use them in basic way by switching from white to black. How to correct object in non-destructive way using masks. And we will end up with more advanced things such as creating precise masks for shadows and highlights, creating masks for separated colors, or even working woth luminosity masks to change color values of the images or fix exposure issues.

Layer Masks are an essential tool for anyone who works with multiple layers in Photoshop.

In this course you don't get just theory but you will actually see reall time work with adjustement layers, blending modes and layer masks!

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Instructor Details

Marcin Mikus

    I'm open minded and creative photoshop retoucher and photoshop educator with over 7 years of experience in the field. I specialize mainly in fashion, beauty, commercial and portrait retouching. Choosing me as your teacher guarantee that you will get prefessional knowledge and practice from the real photoshop expert, who works every day with images that can be found in magazines, lookbooks and fashion campaigns and peoples social media.

    I've been teaching Photoshop for the last seven years. I spend almost every day with photoshop and in time I was able to gain more and more knowledge about right ways of teaching Photoshop. After few Years I felt it's the right time to come out with Premium Courses on udemy. Where I can share some amazing ideas and make Photoshop fun!

During my retouching career I have been internationaly published in various Fashion and Beauty magazines like Nasty, Numero, Ellegant, L'oficiel and many more!

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Reviews

4.5

152 ratings on Udemy

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By Jeremy Lee on 12/27/2024

Very thorough explanation of adjustments. I learned some useful tips that I hadn't been aware of

By Dennis Callahan on 9/17/2023

This course is targeted exactly to what I need to learn to get to the next step in my development of Photoshop skills.

By Marcelina Staniszewska on 11/12/2020

The language used in the course was not at a very professional level. Most of the functions were explained in detail, but generally it lacked the practical exercises.

By Wayne Adams on 2/10/2020

Generally very good. The accent took a bit of getting used to but was fine. I probably should have first registered for the bigger picture Photoshop course instead of the subset Adjustment Layers, Blending Modes and Masks. It felt like the instructor took for granted that the student already had a base understanding of the subject matter. Also, it would have been nice if the course would have included sample photos to work on like some of the other Udemy courses do.

By Chris Patchell on 10/10/2019

Very in-depth look at the functions and features of PS and informative insights from a true professional.

By Haidy Lidah on 8/1/2019

i liked it very simplified and clear well done i can't wait to see the rest of your videos :)

By Corrina Johnson-Lawik on 7/28/2019

Best money I have spent in a long time. I am learning so much! This is exciting! :) Thanks for a great course!

By Bac Tran on 6/17/2019

This is for the first lesson. Many Layers were created. Each layer is used to have different effect. That also means we can adjust the layer separately. All the layers appear on the right panel and start from the Background and up. Supposed with have several layers in which we adjust something. My question is what is the last outcome (picture/layer?) which we combined from all the adjusted layers?

By Richie Films on 5/5/2019

Very informative. Great course, easy to follow and understand, nice flow of lessons. It helped me extend my knowledge of Photoshop more than I initially expected. Extra points for the instructor's teaching skills. :)

By Dana Garrett on 11/3/2018

I learned a whole 'nother level of creating masks. I have been working on one particular image for more than 12 hours trying to get the masks I created manually to line up with no joy. This course just made my life so much easier. The drawback was the instructor spoke too quickly for my slow ears to follow and he assumed we knew all the key shortcuts. It will require review more than a few times to catch on to what he was saying and matching it to what he was doing but in the long run, my workflow just got easier.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100