You'll often see classes on how to work Non-Destructively, but not why. The short answer is there are many advantages above and beyond simply being able to change your mind. We'll explore techniques that also help with efficiency, productivity, accuracy and creativity.

Learn to shift your thinking and take a creative approach so you can trick Photoshop into accomplishing things you don't think would be possible.

1) how to transform the Black & White adjustment into a convenient color adjustment.

2) build an interactive clipping indicator that is better than anything found in Lightroom or Camera Raw so you can tell exactly where you're losing detail.

3) create a saturation map that will allow you to make selections based on how colorful an area is.

4) how to quickly create a perspective grid which will help ensure elements are composited realistically

Learn the greatest hits of Photoshop from over 10 years of teaching. These go-to tools and techniques will make a huge difference in your images.

Sky Replacements is one of the biggest new features that has ever come to Photoshop. In this class, Matt will take a Deep dive in to the art of replacing the sky. You'll learn what photos work best, how to adjust them, and even how to start making your own sky replacement library.

Got a question about camera, lenses, lighting, tablets, monitors, printers and more? Join in the live Zoom call with B&H Photo.

Treat yourself to a short guided session of simple but effective stretches and gentle movement to refresh and revitalize body and mind.

Learn to make the most of the many selection tools and techniques in Photoshop: which selection tools you should always start with, the best tools for fine-tuning selections, how to ensure your selections will lead to great targeted adjustments or composite images.

Retouching is essential to finalize your work and bring it to the next level. Post-processing gives a great opportunity to adjust your photographs and fix small issues you overlooked on location and just make sure your work looks good and the way you planned it. Join fine art photographer Anya Anti and learn how to enhance your portraits and bring them to the next level with retouching. Find out about skin retouching techniques, removing imperfections, what tools are best to use and different methods of enhancing your portraits. Anya will share her tips and tricks on how to use the Healing brush, different ways of dodging and burning and how to implement frequency separation into your retouching routine. Learn how to be more efficient and keep your portraits look natural without overdoing them.

Layer masks are one of the most important components you should understand in Photoshop. In this class, RC Concepcion will go over how to create and work with layer masks. Once you have a solid understanding of the mask, you will explore how you can use these masks to control the color, exposure, and tone in your image, as well as how to set the stage for creative compositing. RC will cover:

How to create and work with layer masks efficiently.

How to control color and tone with your masks

How to group and reuse masks for even greater detail

ACR is so powerful it makes other parts of Photoshop almost obsolete. Camera RAW is very powerful and has many functions. In this session we will focus on the key tools in ACR that make your photos better, very quickly.

You'll learn:

The best sequence to use when adjusting images

How to get beautiful color

Get perfect tonality

How to use presets and profiles

The saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” has never been truer than it is today with the need to tell a story on a global scale. Whether it is a product illustration, book cover, political view or whatever type of image you need, Illustrator and Photoshop are the tools to get the job done. In this session you will learn how to create photorealistic imagery from scratch. You will also see how photographic elements can be altered using the tools in Photoshop to create images that can’t be photographed.This session will concentrate on Layers and Channels.

Don’t let the seemingly innocent crop tool fool you—it can wreak havoc on your images if you don’t know what you’re doing. If you’re confused (or, be honest, slightly intimidated) when working with image and canvas size, ratios, cropping, and resolution—get ready for a revelation! Khara will walk you through the process of resizing, reshaping, and otherwise reconfiguring your images while avoiding the most common pitfalls. No matter what genre of photography or digital imaging you’re into, having a full understanding of how to properly wrangle your pixels is crucial. Whether you’re just getting started with Photoshop or you’ve been around the block a few times, Khara’s got something for everyone.

This session will concentrate on Brush creation and modification. You will learn brush techniques for creating a myriad of special effects and more. How to modify existing brushes and how to create brushes from scratch.

Everybody loves those delicious soft blurry backgrounds from a lens with huge apertures. But not everybody has an expensive piece of glass to create them. This class will explore several techniques for crafting your own “Bokeh-licious” backgrounds for multiple images and situations. Discussion of resources to use to manipulate the lighting and texture of the entire image so the background appears natural. Then show practical projects where the backgrounds are turned from regular snapshot style backgrounds into something magical and dreamlike. This is a great technique for things like Engagement shoots, senior portraits, etc.

You will learn:

- Separating the image into foreground, subject, and background

- Building a clean background slate to work with

- Techniques to bring the Magic, by crafting a beautiful glowing blurry background

- Additional effects to create a cohesive final image

Got a question about camera, lenses, lighting, tablets, monitors, printers and more? Join in the live Zoom call with B&H Photo.

Learn why your images don't always look great when displayed outside of Photoshop. Why don't all programs display images correctly. Why taking most expert advice on color settings will cause more problems than it solves. Find the hidden settings that make all the difference for displaying your images accurately. Learn why colors can even look odd between different Adobe applications.

In this session you will learn how to create a beautiful double-exposure image in Photoshop using masking and blending modes. You will get tips on how to photograph a portrait to work best with this technique, and then will go into Photoshop to see how to put all the pieces together, resulting in a unique portrait.

- How to photograph a portrait to get the best results in Photoshop for a double-exposure effect

- The best types of images to use as composite photos to overlay on your portrait

- How to use blending modes to effectively combine the images

- Tips and techniques for masking your photos to get beautiful double-exposure results

“Beautiful” model photos are overrated. With Photoshop you can craft fascinating portraits that stop viewers in their tracks — by creating amazing characters who appear to have stepped right off the pages of a storybook. In this session we will deconstruct Wonderland and learn how it achieves its cleverest tricks.

How to dream up mesmerizing, unforgettable characters.

How to conduct a photo shoot in which your characters can come to life.

How to transform your images into works of delightful photo art.

Channels are one of the greatest features of Photoshop, and you use them every day even if you don't know it. In this session, we are going to take a deep dive into the world of channels. In the channels palette, we can find and see the color information about our files, see masks and selections we create, and add more plates for spot color printing options. There is so much you can do to your files when editing by using various channels. No matter if you're color correcting, masking, applying special effects, or correcting artifact issues using channels can help in a big way.

To make sure we can get the most out of our channels, we will start the session with some background on color and how it works in Photoshop's channels to better understand our images and files. From that foundation, we will apply various techniques and tips to adjust color, make selections (easy and complex), deal with sharpening and noise reduction with fewer artifacts, make better black and white conversions, and more – all using the power of channels.

Cinemagraphs are still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement occurs, forming a video clip and can give the illusion that the viewer is watching an animation. Join fine art photographer Anya Anti and learn how to easily start creating your first animations and cinemagraphs in Photoshop. Find out how to make animations from still images without actual video footage! Anya will show you how to work with Timeline in Photoshop, how to use layers and blending modes to create moving effects and how to use stock video for creating animations. She will show some tips and methods on how to export your animation and different file formats. Get inspired and learn how to bring life and magic into your photographs and make them move!

From Matching Colors to Removing Distractions, join Glyn for this packed session as he goes through a range of Photoshop Quick Fix Tips and Techniques that will leave you with the knowledge and skills to apply in your own images and ultimately leave you with more time for being creative. Whether it was something out of our control at the time, or we simply forgot, pretty much every image needs some type of fix but there's never a 'one technique fixes all'. Building up a knowledge and skill bases of many techniques means there's always one that will be right for the job.

1) Tips and Techniques for Removing Distractions

2) Content Aware Fill Best Practice

3) Clone Tool or Heal Tool? Which is best for the task?

Learn to make the most of the powerful tools in Photoshop for applying adjustments that only affect specific areas of a photo. Along the way you'll discover that advanced features in Photoshop don't have to be confusing or intimidating. You'll learn the top techniques for creating great selections, learn how to use a flexible workflow for targeted adjustments, and more.

In this brush crash course we will explore creating special effects for composite designs using custom brush effects. We will explore creating our own custom brushed from various sources and use them in interesting ways. We will also get into loading preset brushes using them to full effect! You'll learn

• How brushes work in Photoshop

• How to create and modify brushes from scratch

• How to import brushes and modify them into new creations

• How to catalog and save brush sets for sharing and repeated use

Treat yourself to a short guided session of simple but effective stretches and gentle movement to refresh and revitalize body and mind.

Not all Black and White conversions are created equal. Some will leave your image dull and lifeless, while others will inspire your viewer with dramatic emphasis. You will learn why certain conversions are poor and why others are more successful. Here's the key, it all boils down to your colors... yep, your monochrome images rely heavily on the color information they were created from.

Conversion Basics

Best Conversions for Dramatic Emphasis

How to Modify Tonal Value with Color

Shooting practical effects to use in digital projects is some of the most fun you can have with digital effects. In this class we get to play with water splashes! We will dig into the best setups for capturing the splashes in camera, then explore how to turn those photos into a library of digital assets and finally a real-life project where we use those assets to create a beautiful piece of digital art! You will learn: 

• Ideal setups to photograph the cleanest possible water splashes 
• Practical techniques for generating splash shapes that are the most usable 
• Isolating the water splashes and creating a library of water assets 
• How to use the splash assets in a digital art piece to create something magical!

How to maximize MOBILE photography/retouching/Desktop.

Take advantage of Adobe’s powerful cloud platform to maximize the power of your photography/retouching work over your mobile devices and your desktop. No more limits. 

Work where you want, when you want.

Lisa will show you new ways to create a seamless workflow combining Lightroom Mobile, Photoshop Mobile and Desktop Photoshop and 3rd party apps.  

Expand the possibilities.

Composites are more than just merging images together. To make a great composite, you need to consider light sources, shadows, color, and perspective. In this information-packed session you will learn how to make your composites look more realistic by taking advantage of little-known, yet powerful Photoshop masking and compositing techniques. We'll focus on:

How Match Perspective.

How To Create the Illusion of Depth.

How to Color Match.

All the fun with none of the mess? Yes, please! A timeless trend that’s always on point, watercolor elevates the style of any project. Whether you’ve got mad painting skills or don’t know a brush from a brayer, digital watercolor is an easy win for everyone. Even the most novice beginners can successfully use digital watercolor to enhance photos, create striking portraits, and design stylish cards, invitations, and more. Looking for a fun way to level-up your creations? Don’t miss this class.

Learn how to take advantage of the many pressure sensitive tools in Photoshop to make your image editing go faster and more accurate. There is a lot you can do with a Wacom Pen tablet and Colin will show you how to set up and work with a pen tablet. See how to:

Set up express keys and touch rings

How to make the pen work the way you want

How to use the Brushes panel (control center for pen pressure)

How to make your images look better using a tablet.

You have heard of Luminosity Masking, right?  How about Masking in general?  If you answered yes to those you know how powerful both are, but have you experienced Blend If yet?

Blend If is, in my opinion, the most powerful tool in Photoshop, but it could be up there with the most hidden as well.  In this class, I will teach you what Blend If is, how to use it in various ways in your workflow and I will demonstrate how it is so powerful.  Once you experience Blend If your life in Photoshop will be FOREVER changed!  I promise.

Everyone knows that Photoshop is full of amazing features — but where are they hidden?! And which ones are worth using when you really need to be efficient and productive. In this information-packed session you will learn little-known features, tricks, and better ways to work with the tools that you already use. This session will leave you saying, “I wish I knew that years ago!”

Have you ever wished there was a faster way to perform routine tasks in Adobe Photoshop? Recover time for more creative work by using actions and batch processing to automate and speed up your workflow. Rich Harrington covers everyday batch processing tasks, such as cropping and straightening a catalog of images to predefined dimensions, batch renaming files, and exporting creative assets like contact sheets.  You’ll also learn how to create custom action for creative image results.

In this class you'll learn the difference between masking techniques, and knowing which method to use based on your subject.

You'll gain a better understanding of Select Subject and channels (don't be afraid) as well as using Blend if sliders as a masking alternative.

There are numerous reasons to add text and shape elements into your photos especially when you are designing for commercial reasons, but what if you wanted to add these elements for more artistic pursuits than commercial. In this session, we will explore various ways to integrate stylized text elements and abstract shapes into photos to create something with a more personal touch. Think of them as digital props we can manipulate and composite into our image and even make them part of the scene. 

You will learn:

• How to create and import custom shapes

• Compositing shapes with images using lights and shadow effects

• Layer and masking effects for text and shapes

• Formatting and reshaping custom text

The real world is overrated. With Photoshop you are able to create the most extraordinary worlds, unfettered from the laws of physics and bounded only by your imagination . . . The exhilarating journey ahead of you will involve tapping into your deepest sense of mystery and wonder . . . and then learning to bring your creative visions to life through creative photography and photo artistry. There is a whole other world out there, just the other side of this one. And it is waiting for you to find it. You will learn:

How to sidestep reality and dream up truly fascinating surreal architecture.

How to capture the photos you’ll need in order to make your fanciful structures look real.

How to push your compositions over the top and make them compelling works of art.

If you are a photographer, you'll be asked to take someone's portrait. But do you know the integral tools you will need in order to retouch your subject the right way? Don't get caught in a situation where you have taken the shots but you don't know how to retouch them. In this class, Kristina will take you through her most important tools you need to know how to use when retouching faces, including:

The right way to remove blemishes and fine lines,

How to combat under-eye shadows,

How to effortlessly clean up stray hairs in your shots.

Learn the tips and tricks for making advanced composite images come to life and look realistic: Cut out your subject, place them on a new background, fix lighting and color.

Learn how to fix the most common mistakes photographers make! In this class, Kristina discusses the top mistakes beginner photographers make when creating images and how to fix them in Photoshop, as well as how to correct them in-camera next time and avoid unnecessary extra hours fixing problems in post-production. This two-pronged approach ensures that you’ll leave this course with new skills that will make you a better photographer and retoucher.

This session focuses on some of the critical concepts around producing the best print possible. Building on the basics of having made a print, we start by looking at various prints hanging on the viewing wall and focusing on key considerations when evaluating the print. Diving into areas such as print size, cropping, the impact of artifacts from sharpening, masking, or printer settings, and how we process color and tone, we will develop a foundation of consistent language to talk about prints and an editing plan for the images. We will then return to Photoshop and Camera RAW (along with a little about the Lightroom Print Module) and learn some techniques for testing and applying the lessons learned while looking at the prints. We will also cover when and how to make custom ICC printing profiles, advanced paper and printer considerations, and outsource printing, including alternative substrates (metal, wood, acrylic). No matter your skill level in printing, there is something in this course for everyone. Learning how to evaluate prints, correcting an image, applying customization to maximize results, or just getting that last little refinement to a print, we've got you covered.

If you are a creative, it is important that you share your work on social media. This class will go over what considerations you need to take into account when sharing your images on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. You will also learn how to use Photoshop tools to effectively create social media posts, leveraging design styles and photographic work. From adding your custom signature, to creative type and image effects, this class will get you images that will translate to better engagement online. You'll learn:

How to use Photoshop Actions

How to use Photoshop Styles

How to format images for social media.

Treat yourself to a short guided session of simple but effective stretches and gentle movement to refresh and revitalize body and mind.

Learn how to use Photoshop to remove distractions and improve light and composition for your wildlife photos.

When it comes to making selections, without doubt, it's selections of hair and fur that can be the most challenging. Join Glyn in this session as he shows you how to effectively use tools in Photoshop dedicated to the task, but for those times when they just don't cut it, learn step by step techniques that will guaranteee to produce the best possible results.

1) Which Tool is Best for the Task

2) How to Effectively Combine Tools and Techniques

3) How the Pros Fake a Selection and Save a Ton of Time

In this session, you will discover creative ways to add textures and borders to your images to give your image an artistic effect. You will also learn how to use masking and advanced blending to creatively style your photo composite. You'll see

- How to create or photograph your own textures to use in your images

- Some of the best blending modes to use on your images when blending textures

- How to mask your image with textures and borders to make the effect blend seamlessly with your photos

There's nothing quite as rewarding as restoring old family photos. In this class we'll cover a variety of techniques for restoring photographs, including information on capturing the image, and dealing with common problems such as scratches, spots, tearing, faded color, missing pieces and more.