Serge Ramelli - Photoshop for Photographers: Complete Photoshop training for Photographers

Contents

Lesson 1:
Adobe Camera Raw Basics Part 1

Lesson 2:
Adobe Camera Raw Basics: Lens Corrections Panel

Lesson 3:
Adobe Camera Raw Basics: Adding Vignettes and Removing Spots

Lesson 5:
Adobe Camera Raw Basics: Straightening your images!

Lesson 6:
Photoshop: Blending Modes, Layers and Masks Part 1

Lesson 7:
Photoshop: Blending Modes, Layers and Masks Part 2

Lesson 8:
Photoshop: Digital Blending to Increase Dynamic Range

Lesson 9:
HDR: Creating High Dynamic Range Images - Part 1

Lesson 10:
HDR: Creating High Dynamic Range Images - Part 2

Lesson 11:
HDR: Creating a High Dynamic Range Image with an Illustrated Look

Lesson 12:
Black and White: Part 1

Lesson 13:
Black and White: Part 2

Lesson 14:
Cropping: Part 1

Lesson 15:
Cropping: Part 2

Lesson 16:
Panoramas: My Photoshop Panorama Workflow

Lesson 17:
Removing Elements from a photo: Part 1

Lesson 18:
Removing Elements from a photo: Part 2

Lesson 19:
Special Effects: Achieving Cool Looks Quickly in Camera Raw

Lesson 20:
Special Effects: Creating Shallow Depth of Field with Iris Blur

Lesson 21:
Special Effects: Using the Field Blur Filter

Lesson 22:
Special Effects: Using Photoshop Actions to Create Freaking Amazing Details

Lesson 23:
Special Effects: Using Photoshops Tilt/Shift Effect

Lesson 24:
Special Effects: Simulating an Oil Painting

Lesson 25:
Printing From Photoshop: Printing with and without Color Profiles

Lesson 26:
Printing From Photoshop: Printing using on-line services.

Lesson 27:
Printing From Photoshop: Exporting for the Web

Lesson 28:
Bringing it all together: A Final Lesson

Acknowledgements

Every photographers journey to success is a different one. Yours will not be the same as mine just as mine was not the same as many photographers that I look up to and who inspire me. But one thing all our journeys have in common is that there are always people who help us, who inspire us and who never let us give up, rather they insist we do better and stick to it. I am grateful to the many friends, associates, editors and fellow photographers who have helped me become the photographer I am today.

First and foremost I want to thank you, the reader and the many, many, aspiring photographers who watch my lessons on the internet and use my courses. It is my greatest hope that I can help you achieve your goals as a photographer and I thank you so much for your support and your interaction which not only makes me a better photographer, but a better teacher. Thank you to my many friends and supporters, without whom, none of this would be possible.

I must especially thank my friends and staff who work tirelessly to help me in my mission to teach photographers the skills for success everywhere. Kelvin, Christian, Bowie, Jim and Amelie, I am extremely grateful for your hard work and friendship. I also want to thank Dare for helping me write and edit this book, merci mon ami!

To my editors and publishers at Yellow Korner, I thank you for all that you do in seeing to it that my photographs are reproduced at the highest quality and reach the broadest possible audience. Your assistance, partnership and friendship are always a blessing in my life.

To my mentor Scott Kelby, I would not be who I am today without you. Thank you for your guidance, kindness and sharing so freely the techniques which have enabled me to become the photographer I am today.

And to my wife and children who always have been and always be the inspiration of my life. I love you and thank you for being there every step of the way with me. Through the rough times you stood by my side and urged me to pursue my dream despite all odds, and through the good times you never let me become complacent and pushed me to do better. I love you now and always.

Serge Ramelli

Paris, February 2016

How and Why to Read this Book

Bonjour friends , fellow photographers and photo enthusiasts! Many of you may be familiar with me from my YouTube show on photography, Lightroom and Photoshop and many of you may have never heard of me before. Either way I want you to know why I wrote this book and my suggested method of reading it.

To start, lets be blunt: There are dozens of books out there on Photoshop including some truly fantastic ones by my good friend and mentor Scott Kelby. Scotts books are a must read. And despite many requests to write a book that accompanied my video courses, Ive often balked thinking what can I add? I didnt want to just be a me too! I wanted to provide something unique and of value.

So after pondering this for quite a while I remembered many years ago how I finally started to breakthrough and get somewhere as a photographer: by learning and imitating the methods of photographers whose work I admired until I found my own voice. So if you like my photography and want to learn how to get the style of photographs that I do, this book is definitely for you.

Whenever I am teaching someone, the first thing I ask them is: Why do you want to learn this? Is it to take better photos for your family? To become a top-selling pro photographer? To be able to create museum quality fine art prints? Whatever it is, ensure that you have thought about it, that way when you are learning you can focus on the things that help you reach your goals and disregard the rest. It makes for faster learning. W hatever is fueling your passion to learn, I want to help you achieve that.

This book is focused on a step-by-step path. If I tried to teach you everything Photoshop could do, it would take an encyclopedia, and frankly, you would long give up in frustration before you reached the end. Photography is about being out there in the real world taking photos! We dont like to be stuck reading books of theory all day! I have found the best way to learn is on the job like the old apprentice system where you do the actions you need to learn instead of just being told about them.

Ive included many photos with this book for you to follow along on. I will lay out steps for you to follow and in the course of doing them you will learn how I use Photoshop daily in my work retouching photos for magazines, fine art galleries, book publishers and yes, friends and family. This book could be considered a crucial primer on Photoshop, focusing on the most key tools I have found vital to my success as a photography. As a caveat: I do not take up beauty retouching in this book as I consider that a more advanced discipline and it will be the subject of a later book. So if you are looking for a Photoshop book focused on beauty retouching: this isnt that book, but if you dont know what this book covers your beauty retouching wont look good anyways. So start here!

No matter how uncertain or unskilled you are now, I know you can be a great photographer. And dont let anyone tell you otherwise, there has never been a better time to be a photographer, the demand for professional photos is at an all time high. But heres the catch: there are more photographers and cameras out there than ever before, so being just good isnt good enough. You need to be really good, even great to stand out above the rest and have a line of people knocking at your door for you to take photographs for them!

So waste no time! Run, dont walk, to the next page an lets get going! Possible to include: And one last thing, I not only wanted this to be a great reference book for photographers of any skill level, I also wanted it to be a book that could be given as a valuable gift to help even the most novice photographer start on their path to mastery.