The Complete Guide To Smart Object Techniques

The Complete Guide To Smart Object Techniques

The Complete Guide To Smart Object Techniques

Smart Objects are a Photoshop tool that can open new possibilities in your workflow. Many of us have heard of them and used them. However, they can do sophisticated image adjustments that have gone untapped by even the most experienced Photoshop users. Existing tutorials on Smart Objects usually focus on graphic design or portrait photography. This is a complete course on Smart Object

techniques specifically for landscape photographers.

While the course focuses on smart objects, it is actually much more comprehensive. The techniques demonstrated will take you into parts of Photoshop you never knew existed and then show you how to do things you never imagined. Transformations, noise reduction, cloning, working with filters, using the Filter Gallery, exposure-blending, texture and clarity blending, printing, cloud-sculpting, split-toning, and using exaggerated Camera Raw effects are just some of the new skills you'll learn in this course.

Other topics include:

Non-destructive workflow – Avoid destructively flattening or merging Photoshop layers.
Turning destructive Photoshop filters and third-party filters (Nik, Topaz, Luminar) into non-destructive smart filters.
Making Lightroom/Camera Raw adjustments in Photoshop. Control them with Photoshop selections and masks including luminosity masks.
Simple and flawless exposure blending - Trees against the sky, forest spotlight and architectural interiors.
Access to raw image information throughout the entire Photoshop workflow.
Maximum control over split toning.
Healing and cloning that does not interfere with multiple layers and luminosity masks.
Ways to transform, scale and warp images non-destructively.
Adjusting image perspective without flattening layers or masks.
Using raw adjustments to sculpt light and color on separate layers in Photoshop.
Making LAB color adjustments in RGB image.

This course is intended for Intermediate to Advanced Photoshop users.

In this course, I use Photoshop CC and the TK7 Panel.

NOTE: The TK Panel is not included with this tutorial. You can also get the TK Panel on the Tutorials & Panels page and save using the two-item code: OEPcombo10.

"Of all the photography editing classes I’ve taken in the past few years, this is hands down the most useful and the most fun. At first, I was skeptical because some other online teachers knocked Smart Objects for their limitations, but you opened my eyes and expanded my skill set."

- Mario Lombardi

"I bought the course on smart objects (of which I know everything, right? :)). Well, it seems there is still a lot to discover. The videos are really superb, divided into short manageable chapters, clear instructions and detailed inside looks. I just want to thank you. This will take my post-photography work to a next level. Big cheers!"

- Alex Breugelmans

"I've started Sean's class and, all of a sudden, those mysterious things that have happened when I've used Smart Objects are clearer! He did a great job on this tutorial. Just realizing the various ways the different types of Smart Objects work will make them so much more useful."

- Jody Ellis

"This will help a lot of folks make cleaner prints no doubt! We all know once we leave Lightroom, Photoshop can be very destructive with regard to file degradation. Kudos!"

- Marlon Holden, Marlon Holden Fine Art Gallery

"The Complete Guide to Smart Object Techniques is outstanding study material. It is to the point, clear to follow, very explanatory and easy to reproduce. Sean is a genius in teaching and making what at first sight seems to be difficult, understandable. Already looking out for your next tutorial."

- Peter van den Broek

"This has been my favorite tutorial from you yet!"

- Ann Whitted, Four Leaf Photography

"Just finished my first pass at the new Smart Object tutorial. So informative. It will be very useful in my landscape image development. The information is clear and logically expressed. Thank you for preparing your tutorials, and at such a good price."

- François Roberge

"I wanted to let you know this is the best video on smart objects that I have ever come across. I learned new ways to use smart objects that I had never thought of. Thank you for being able to show and explain the techniques in a way that is easy to understand."

- Joe Neuman

What this course covers:

What are Smart Objects?
How to create Smart Objects.
Drawbacks of Smart Objects.
Different types of Smart Objects.
Smart Object workflow ideas.
36 chapters on specific Smart Objects techniques including:
- Powerful exposure-blending techniques
- High pass clarity
- Creative blurs
- Soft light blurs - Orton effects
- Raw color balancing
- Print sharpening
- Raw noise reduction
- Dehaze cloud sculpting
- Raw light sculpting
- Raw texture and clarity
- And much more...

Includes:

46 video chapters
Nearly 6 hours of instruction
Single topic chapters for quick and easy reference
Practice images
Supplemental resources and tutorials
MP4 video format
1920 x 1080 HD video resolution

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