Ben Willmore has been pushing Photoshop to its limits for over 30 years. In this session, he’ll take a look at the features you need to use every day (layers, selections/masks and retouching) and share the tips and tricks he thinks will increase your productivity and improve the quality of your results. In this session, you’ll learn:
• See how professionals isolate furry, fuzzy and hairy objects from their backgrounds.
• Scan your signature and then precisely remove the background in seconds.
• Remove the background on complex trees.
• Develop an overall mindset for using the Clone Stamp, Spot Healing and Healing Brush so you know which tool will be most effective on various retouching tasks.
• How to retouch in perspective so you can utilize areas that are closer or farther from the camera than the area you are attempting to retouch.
• Learn how to scale, rotate and flip what the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush are copying to make them more versatile.
• Quickly transplant clouds between documents.
• Separate the find detail and texture from the overall tone and color of your image, so you can manipulate each separately.
• Develop a mindset for how to structure and organize layers for the most versatility.
• Incorporate Smart Object layers to that transformations, filters and other changes do not permanently change your original image.
Biography: Ben Willmore has been using Photoshop since the late 1980’s (before Adobe had anything to do with the program). He has become a master-instructor by developing an expert’s level of proficiency while simultaneously being able to return to the mindset of a beginner. He started teaching in the early 90’s and has since taught at hundreds of conferences, photo festivals and workshops across the globe. Ben’s passion for travel and photography has brought him to all 50 states in the USA and over 90 countries on all seven continents.
Ben Willmore has been using Photoshop since the late 1980’s (before Adobe had anything to do with the program). He has become a master-instructor by developing an expert’s level of proficiency while simultaneously being able to return to the mindset of a beginner. He started teaching in the early 90’s and has since taught at hundreds of conferences, photo festivals and workshops across the globe. Ben’s passion for travel and photography has brought him to all 50 states in the USA and over 90 countries on all seven continents
