The Ultimate Photography Course in Post-Processing & Editing

Welcome to The Ultimate Post Processing and Editing Course! I’m very happy and excited to have you on board. I hope you’ll learn lots, and have some fun in the process. If you would like to connect with me on social media, I always like to get to know my students better! :) Twitter: @JellisV, Instagram: @Jellisvaes, Facebook: Jellis.Vaes

In Part 1 of the Library Module, we’ll learn how to use the Histogram, The Quick Develop Mode, Keywording, and the Keyword List.

Part 2 explores in-depth the Library Filter tool and what metadata is and how to add copyright metadata in your photo files.   

In Part 3, you’ll learn more about Sync Settings, Navigator, Catalog, Folders, Collections, and Publishing Services.   

Part 4 is all about how to import and export your photos in Lightroom.   

In Part 1 of the Develop Module, learn how to use the following tools: Crop Overlay, Spot Removal, Red-Eye Correction, Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, and the Adjustment Brush.   

Part 2 explores the Basic Panel and what each slider does, what Tone Curves does, how to use the powerful HSL panel, and Split Toning.

In Part 3, learn more about the following panels: Detail, Lens Corrections, Transform, Effects, and Camera Calibration.   

Learn how to create your own presets in Part 4, and how the following panels work: Snapshots, History, Collections, Copy and Paste.

Part 1 explains file handling and how to organize your photos in Lightroom.

Here in Part 2, we will learn how to rate and label photos and how you can filter out specific images you are looking for.   

What exactly is a catalog? In Part 4, we will learn about the catalog, along with all the various options.

It is most important to know how you can move a catalog to another computer, and also how you can merge two catalogs into one. This is what you will learn here in part 4 of workflow.

In this lesson, you will learn some handy shortcuts that will make life in Lightroom so much smoother and easier.

Part 1 teaches you how to stitch multiple photos together to create a panorama photo in Lightroom.   

In Part 2, we’ll talk about some practical tips to take better panorama photos in the field.   

Learn in Part 3 how to create HDR photos in Lightroom.   

Here, we’ll talk about some field tips for taking better HDR photos. Also, in this lecture, you’ll learn how to take bracketing photos.

Part 1 shows you how to optimize your catalog, camera raw cache, and the graphics processor.   

Learn in Part 2 what Smart Previews are and how to build smart previews in Lightroom.   

In this final lecture, Part 3, you will learn how Smart Previews can help optimize the performance speed of Lightroom. You will also learn the importance of optimizing your hard drive.

Once you understand how Layers and Layer Masks work, you can truly start using Adobe Photoshop. Here in Part 1, you’ll learn how they work.   

Let us explore in Part 2 the various tools you’ll need for editing photos in Photoshop. 

In Part 3, we will continue learning about the necessary tools for editing photos in Photoshop.

Learn the most essential Adobe Photoshop shortcuts.

Learn how to create the High Pass Sharpening Filter in Part 1. Along with that, learn how to make Actions in Photoshop.   

In the last lesson, Part 2, we’ll learn how to use the Smart Sharpen technique and two other blurring techniques, the Tilt-shift and the Gaussian blur.

Learn in Part 1 how to use the Spot Healing brush, the Healing brush, and the Clone Stamp tool.   

Discover in Part 2 how to create the frequency separation, a most potent retouching technique in Photoshop.

We’ll cover in Part 3 how to use the Liquify tool, a most powerful transform tool in Photoshop.

Part 1 shows you how to load installed brush packs in photoshop. And here we will also come to learn how to create your own snowflake brush from scratch.

Let’s continue in Part 2 how to create snowflakes in Photoshop with our own customized brush.

Part 3 touches on how to create your own star brush to make realistic looking stars in your photos.   

Let’s learn about the first sunlight technique, the sunlight effect, in Part 1.  

Let us continue with the second sunlight technique, sunlight rays, in Part 2.

In Part 3, we’ll continue where we left off from Part 2 and learn how to blend your sunlight rays more realistically in your photo. 

Moving on let us learn in part 4 how to create a sunset effect in your photos.

Lastly, in Part 5, you’ll learn about the lens flare technique.   

Learn in Part 1 how to stitch photos together and the different Photo Merge options.   

By using the Healing brush and the Clone Stamp tool, learn how to fix incorrect stitching in this part. 

Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, Healing Brush, Clone Stamp Tool in Part 3, we’ll learn more about how these tools can be used to fix incorrect stitching.   

Using the Match Total Exposures tool, you can match the exposure of your photos.   

What is the difference between HDR and Digital Blending? Learn this in Part 1.   

In Part 2, learn about the powerful digital blending technique, Luminosity Masks.     

So, how do we blend exposures with Luminosity Masks? In part 3 we’ll come to discover that.

Does Photoshop run too slowly on your computer? Here in this lecture, you’ll come to learn multiple ways to improve the performance speed of Photoshop.   

Welcome to Section 3! Here, you will see how a bunch of different photos have been edited from start to finish, while learning a set of new techniques, tools, tips, and tricks for each photo we edited.   

With the first photo that we edit and post-process, you will see the complete set of editing and post-processing techniques. Along the way, we will explore what LUTs are, and finally touch upon the various adjustment layers that Photoshop has to offer.   

Let’s continue editing our photo in Lightroom using the Detail, Split Toning, and Camera Calibration panel. 

Now that our photo is in Photoshop, we’ll continue editing. Learn more about how to save your files, how to auto-align layers, cloning, and more.   

What we’ll do next is work with the Healing Brush & Clone Stamp tool to fix flaws in our photo. You’ll also learn how to customize your workspace in Photoshop.   

Dramatize the colors in your photo using the powerful Selective Color tool.

Learn to work with the Color Balance and the Dodge and Burn tool in Photoshop.   

Ever wonder how to create a vignette in Photoshop? Here, you’ll learn how to do so, and also learn about LUTs.   

LUTs work like filters, and with one click, you can instantly make your photos that much more cinematic.

Let us apply one of the sunset techniques we have learned in Section 2, Learn Adobe Photoshop: the sunset technique.   

Learn how to work with blending modes while we finish Part 10 with a lesson on sharpening your photo with the Smart Sharpen tool.   

Discover a new sunlight technique while we finish editing the photo.

Come to learn in this photo how to fix red skin, enhance eyes, remove harsh shadows under the eyes, fix skin corrections, add clouds in a picture, and a whole lot more. Let’s begin!

See how to fix hair, remove blemishes, and correct skin color in a photo.   

We’ll continue using the Dodge and Burn tool and applying some more photo corrections.   

Time to enhance our photos using the Selective Color and Color Balance functions.   

In Part 5, you’ll learn how to enhance the eyes in a photograph.   

 Find out how you can brighten the pupils of the eyes and deepen eye colors.

By using a customized brush, learn how to add clouds in a sky. In the pdf file attached to this lesson, you can download the brush for free.   

Using the powerful frequency separation technique, we can smooth the skin of a subject.   

Here in Part 9, we’ll do some finishing touches by applying a blurring technique and using the high pass filter to draw out more details in the eyes.