Blending Moments and Controlling Contrast // Photoshop basics 

You have a true gift for teaching, Nick. I could listen to/watch you all day. Not only do you show the how, but you also (and more importantly) show the why. And you do so in a really calm and easy going way. It's a balm for one's photographic soul.

"... a bunch of small adjustments and sneak up on a result." LOVE that.

I can never learn enough from you Nick!!! Grand Master Photographer!!! Thank you for a fantastic video again and as always !!!!!!!

This was an incredibly helpful video. Thanks so much! I can’t count how many little tips I’m walking away with!

You sir are an amazing teacher. You take the intimidating and simplify the fear away.

Excellent clarity, tempo and visuals in sharing these concepts. Thank you for sharing your mastery!🙏🏻😊

Very good, one of the better tutorials I’ve seen

Wow Nick - this was really useful. I find you to be one of the best teachers - Thanks

love this!!! Definitely will be coming back to watch a listen to this again! Thanks!

Very well done Nick! Great to see you at it again...

You’re the man, Nick!

Excellent guide to help train my unartistic eye, thanks a lot Nick.

Thanks again, Professor Page. Another great tutorial!

This is brilliant! Please please please do a moody image tutorial for us people who live north of the wall in Scotland 🙏🏻🤞🏻😁

Awesome tutorial, Nick! thank you!

Nick, thanks and trust you're back is improving!

You have a gift for teaching!

Great stuff - thanks for sharing Nick!

This is such a great video. So much value in 20 minutes. Can't believe I wasn't subscribed before today

Thanks Nick-loving all this content. 😎😎😎

Thanks! These tutorials have been excellent!

Fantastic really useful. As another person who lives in Scotland been wanting to work out how to do this for ages.

Thank you very much. A lot of helpful information in here. I really appreciate the way you teach.

Thanks, very much Nick, great for a senior newby like me. Dave

Great tutorial, thanks Nick.

Just amazing! You are a true master of your craft

Great topic and very informative. I enjoy your style and skill set, thanks.

Thanks for another informative video Nick, you explain things thoroughly and in a way that (for us that haven`t used Photoshop alot) can easily follow, thanks again.

Awesome job buddy, I purchased all your tutorials and haven’t looked back 👍🏻

Well done Nick!

This gives sense to photoshop. Please keep doing these especially giving your theory as to why you do what you do along with the commands.

Soooo helpful, thank you so much, you are a great teacher!!

Excellent tutorial for seascaping covering the reason for taking multiple images on a tripod taking into consideration the post processing. Like you, I multiburst and try different exposures of the waves and blend them together using similar techniques. The dodge and burn method of using a soft light layer is amazing. I’ve never seen that before especially using colour tints at the same time. I’m always inspired by your workflow. Thank you Nick

Great video Nick. So much valuable information was exchanged. Result resource when de-mystifying PS. Cheers, Keith

“Innocent bystander pixels”! Lol that cracked me up. Excellent tutorial! The way you explained blending made sense to me for the first time. Can’t wait to practice! Thank you and hope your doing well.

Another great tutorial; thanks 🙏!

Very helpful video, Nick! I really enjoyed seeing you use brushes to reveal and hide the effects you wanted instead of just using luminosity masks.

Thank you for this and for all your videos. You really have a great gift for teaching and this goes beyond the logical, rational and step by step approach. It’s having the learner in mind and not being afraid of dealing with simple aspects of the photography art.

Really good video! Thanks !

Really great video. Thanks a lot. I’ve learned a bunch. Hope your back is getting better.

Very well explained. I appreciate the detail you went to to point out exactly what to click on to obtain the results you were demonstrating, Too many people on RU-vid go too fast, click here, click there, assuming the viewer knows what they are talking about. Thanks for a great instructional video!

That was so amazing Nick. Since getting back into photography I have used different editing software but I think I will be switching over to the ones you use to better apply the techniques you show.

This was an awesome lesson Nick. I've watched a lot of PS tutorials and you make it make sense and a lot less intimidating. I only wished you would have fixed that dust spot upper left earlier in the video. I watched this over several hours as I had some time and I kept thinking that spot was on my MacBook screen! Great job Nick.

Excellent Nick. I am improving my photoshop skills step by step.

These are really great videos and since they're covering fundamentals, they apply beyond strictly Photoshop. I use Affinity Photo (and have used GIMP) and the same principles apply. Some of the tools are a little different, sometimes it's a slightly different path to get there, but the same logical workflow remains. As you move into more advanced topics I suspect they'll become relatively less useful for non-PS users but the basic high level principles will still apply. Now I just need to practice (well, I need to get out and shoot first!!). Well done.

I've been using photoshop since version 2 so since about 1996. In the couple years I have been getting into layer blending. This video brings me to a new level. Thanks.

Great explanation, you always do it so much better than most!

Thanks Nick as a beginner the best most helpful clearest video I have seen on seascapes!

Thank YOU Nick! I am just starting to learn to take my post processing up a notch. This was much easier for me to understand. This can be used on so many different types of scenes.

Fantastic! Thanks, Nick. These tutorials are truly helpful.

Just amazing, great video thank you.

It is absolutely awesome that you are starting to pick up on your editing videos! Your skill set within Photoshop is fantastic and you are an even better instructor / teacher. I just bought your photography essential course and the luminosity one. I simply need to relearn editing from the Lightroom global adjustment approach to a much fine grain local adjustment in photoshop. Lightroom gets one complacent. Thank you for opening our eyes to the power of photoshop! 👍

Very informative. I do this a lot with my surf photos. I will be using some of your techniques.

Terrific video! This one goes in my Reference file.

Excellent, you are a great teacher Nick!

Great stuff Nick

I really appreciate and enjoy your teaching style. I try to get photography education from a variety of sources as I feel I can differentiate between what will work for me and what won't. Your style and approach has really resonated with me and I'm looking forward to catching up and learning from all that you have created and shared. Finally, I really hope that you will continue to create these bit sized photoshop educational videos as this is the way I think I will finally be able to learn how to work PS into my post processing workflow - one step at a time! Thank you :)

Love it, love it, love it!! Learning has taken place, my evening has been worthwhile. Thanks for another awesome video 😊

Great video Nick! I've been "getting started" with Photoshop for a couple of years now. What you explain in these videos is really making connections with my current Photoshop knowledge. Thanks!

Incredible... Thanks to share.

Excellent video!

Attention to detail. Thanks, Mr. Page

Eating the Elephant is a great allegory for expanding Photoshop skills. I think dual prossing of a row file is a great thing. You also talked about tiple processing in a video, that should make sense to me. Thank you Nick !

Thanks Nick!

Wow! I thought I had a good handle on PS, but your processing techniques - and how you apply them - blows my mind. Thanks so much and keep it coming..

as always a great lesson....you are a bloody good teacher....lol

Absolutely superb tutorial Nick and delivered in a way I could easily understand. You deliver everytime 👍

Excellent tutorial. I've always wanted to know how you add atmosphere into your photos. That dodge/burn layer is amazing. Thanks much Nick. Excellent work.

Your timing is perfect! I had just returned from shooting waves on Lake Erie, (I know, not as sexy as The Pacific), and I was going to try blending some of them, but I didn’t know how to do it, or even if it would work !! But now I’m pretty sure I can do it. Thanks . Also, I enjoy your editing videos as much, if not more than your shooting videos. Keep them coming !!

Super useful video, thanks!

Fantastic and epic photos, showing true and raw beauty of Nature! I enjoyed everyone of them, thank you! Your passion and enthusiasm are really contagious👍. I feel lucky, through Greg Benz I found you recently, but wished if it could be earlier though😊.

Nicely done Nick and lovely final image

Brilliant tutorial 👍

Love this video!! Great information…please do more of these😊

Really great tutorial!! Learning a lot from this one thanks 🙏😊

Fantastic tutorial Nick. Really helpful for a photoshop newbie

Great tutorial Nick, some great tips you have shared for seascape editing. Thanks, glad to also hear you are hopefully on the mend.

Fantastic video, I'm not using Photoshop but many of this technique can be easily used in GIMP. Thank you very much.

Nick, I hope your back is treating you okay, I know that's gotta be tough, I bought some of your luminosity tutorials and am learning so much, your videos are so effective and actionable that i have to take breaks for my brain to catch up! I really appreciate your work good sir!

Thanks Nick, really useful video and made to look so easy! I guess I just need plenty more practice at it!

Good job, Nick. Very well explained. Great teacher. Additional tip: you can use the color picker as well when dodging and burning special colors into the image.

Great video! Thank you

That was super helpful Nick. You made that look so easy and I guess it was really, cheers 🥃🥃

I really appreciate this video Nick. I like the rule of thumb "you want to sneak up on results" . I am going to keep this in mind as I edit my images. You have inspired me to see the potential in my images. Thank you and have a great day.

Excellent.....Thank you!

Brilliant. Learned so much. Showing how many mistakes I make.

First class.. thank you

Awesome video, bro. You’ve mastered the art of using a subtle touch to great effect. I look forward to your next video.

Great video. Thanks 👍🍂

What a video, I learned ton's.

I've been exclusively using Lightroom for my processing. Photoshop confuses me... but not any longer after watching your video. Thanks Nick!

Brilliant 👍

Exceptional, thanks! E=np^2 could be added to the title 😂 This is very generous yet your paid content is even better...ideal🎉 Due to your relaxed presentation it’s so easy underestimate how powerful your techniques are, thank you.

Very helpful video. Thanks.

Very good instruction sir. Like your teaching style. Like you do it to help people. Others do it and it feels like they are just showing off and going far too quickly. Thank you.

Thanks for the series’s on photoshop

Masterclass.

good stuff -- thank you

Thanks for the good content nick sir. How is the back pain?i'm big fan of your photography .Love you so much sir,respect from Nepal.

Thanks for showing us some of your techniques in a way that I can understand and follow. I cannot understand why some people troll around with nothing constructive to say. It adds nothing to the conversation and must be a bit hurtful to see.