This is fantastic Nick, you should consider making more of the videos for beginners, (Like me), as you explain it so clearly that now I will be able to put these techniques into practice, thank you so much
When people I know are interested in learning a little photoshop, your tutorials are usually among the first I recommend. You have a great way of explaining the tool being used while being very positive and encouraging about being patient with it all. It's important to know that learning photoshop takes time, and that can turn a lot of people off when they want a little more instant gratification, but your even handed and encouraging approach really can go a long way toward helping beginners stick with it and give it all a fair chance. Top shelf stuff.
Holy Smokes, I'm just going to unfollow every other RU-vid Photographer and just sit here and watch every one of your tutorial videos on repeat until I understand every aspect of Photoshop. No sleep until my brain explodes!
Nick, you are my find of the year! Your Photoshop Tutorials are fantastic, I have resolved to round up my Photoshop techniques to get more out of my Lightroom Catalogs. You are a great teacher and I just love your whole approach -- great, clear examples, your pace is outstanding. My head is exploding with ways to re-create/adjust the layers on my thousands of under-exploited photographs. Thanks for the inspiration.
mind melted how complicated it all looked and now my mind just melted more seeing how easy you made it . plus mind is blown away with those images. cheers Nick. Loving the photoshop coarse BTW
Nick you are a naturally gifted teacher and instructor.. You present things in a clear and concise manner that is easy to follow. I always look forward to seeing our videos.
Great advice Nick. After struggling for several months that is the approach I finally adopted. While I'm no expert I now have the confidence to do quite a few things. Love that image btw.
I've been editing in Photoshop and Lightroom for years and years and I still learn something new from you every time I watch one of your processing videos. You might show a more efficient approach, or a shortcut I was unaware of, any number of things. Your photography is incredible and educational, because I'm also looking at your composition and your use of light while you edit as well. Thanks.
Hey Nick, I use Photoshop I'd like to say thank you so much for creating this video..... I've learnt any easy way to get things done on Photoshop. Thumbs up
STYLE POINTS to you Nick for your teaching approach. No matter what topics I study from the sciences to photo processing, I always have huge respect for those instructors that make learning easy and enjoyable. Your approach is spot on.
Thank you, Nick. Learning one bit at a time is the way to go! I’m making 3 note cards for future reference (until I get it down to memory). I look forward to more bites of the elephant! I like your teaching style.
Thanks Nick. Photoshop is super daunting, but your videos are helping me get more and more comfortable with it. Everytime I watch a new video with a technique I've already learned from you, I pick up another handy trick.
Wish this was explained to me like this about 5 years ago. Lol. I started out similarly, with learning content-aware-fill, although it looked a little different then. One thing I wish Ps would do is let you see the spots in a black n white view, like Lr does. I know Lumenzia has a button for that, but most beginners don't have the luminosity panels. Great video Nick, about 99% of my Ps education came from you and your tutorials. Your easy explanations really help a lot. Thanks so much! 😊
Thank you Nick. I'd love to see a whole series of shorts like this . I try watching the extended ,start to finish editing of photos, and by the time I get all the way through I'm so lost I'm worse off than when I started. I've also noticed that my photoshop and other folks PS don't look the same and then I'm totally lost.
Thanks Nick. I never thought of making the folder and duplicating it when focus stacking. I have had several times that I had to reimport the photos to correct blends that I have messed up. I will do this in the future to hopefully save me some time from my own mess ups.
Brilliant way to approach Photoshop. I struggle with edits and this really helps my mind set. Love the channel , it's my favourite of the many good options. Thanks Nick.
Some really great tips Nick! I already follow your focus stacking process but having just gone to mirrorless those clean up tools are going straight in my tool box!
Thank you! I have been struggling with focus stacking using the older method of stacking and manually blending. However, many times moving plants and a soft edge on an eraser make the image unusable, and I have all but abandoned my efforts on this. Now I have subscribed to the online plan, I can revisit images and give them a re try. I can't thank you enough!
Dear Nick, this video and its content hits hard, especially for a person like me. Basically you somehow described me withot knowing me. I'm exactly in this situation, where the first encounters with PS are really intimidating. As many others, i use mostly LR, and after I've learned some more advance things like Range Masks, for a while I was pretty satisfied. The next natural step was to explore a bit in PS. We know that there are things that cannot be done in LR. The first thing I learned in PS was to blend the focus stacked images, and this was quite a big step for me. Then I discovered the healing tools, played a little bit with the lasso and clone stamp tools....but as you said, Nick, all those layers and layer masks are quite (or at least they look so) intimidating and I feel so lost. I really apreciate your videos, especially this one, because it is exactly my status, the way I feel right now. Mostly, I'm pretty lazy when it comes to comment, but this video really made me write a comment. I saw hundreds of videos from well know photographers like Nigel Danson, Mads Pter Iversen, Michael Schainblum, Adam Gibbs and the mighty (and funny) Gavin Hardcastle, but this one is so encouraging. And this is (especially regarding my current level and skills) exactly what I needed. Therefore, thumbs up and many thanks to you, Nick. Greetings from Romania!
This was probably the best photoshop help tutorial I have watched and I have watched a few as I really struggle to get my head round photoshop. Thank you so much, please make more
Very useful for me. Many thx from Denmark. I used to use Elements, but now I use PS and LR, but holy moly.....This is well explained, easy to understand as a foreigner.....and no annoying so called music (NOISE) to make my ears bled
Excellent tutorial. I have been doing these steps for a while now but didn't know about the patch healing tool so I guess we learn something every day. I'm excited for "The 2nd tools to learn in Photoshop". I'm sure that will open up a lot for me. Thanks, Nick!!
The best video I have watched so far on Photoshop, everyone else talked and moved so fast I was totally lost! Thank you for speaking and moving slowly, maybe I can now retain some of this info and actually start using more of Photoshop.
That was really great Nick. I can focus stack in Photoshop, but I do find PS very intimidating at times. I'm adding those tips to my out of the box PS toolbelt! Look forward to more like these!
Great video Nick. Could so relate to the "safe place" inside LR, then venture out to PS, save the file and head back to that safe place. I'll be adding your focus stacking process as one of my new tools! Thanks much. Haven't played it, but Bandon Dunes looks like a great course!
Great video. It reinforces my belief that learning Photoshop (and Bridge) is well worth the effort to the point that one doesn't need to be flip flopping to LrC in the editing phase. Photoshop with Bridge is basically all you need.
Thanks for this. I have struggled with photoshop & therefore sidelined it for a long time but watching this today helped me make some progress. Cheers.
That was a great video Nick and came at just the right time. I only have a bridge camera with a fixed lens and smallest f-stop being f8. So, I've been doing some focus stacking to make allowances for the limited f-stop. I use Lightroom for all my image editing, but I know I need to get my feet wet and step into Photoshop. So, I'm going to find a towel and take my first step. Thanks for the video, Nick.
Your timing is impeccable Nick! Although the video I need is exposure blending. It's milky way season on my island and I'm learning to get my long exposure foreground blended in with my 12 exposure stacked milky way lol. I think I know the video I'm after. As always, love ya work mate.
Excellent, Nick. You're right, a lot of us are intimidated by Photoshop. I'll try these tips and hopefully be able to save them in my memory toolbox. I'm also going to rewatch your video on Focus Stacking.
He totally speaks to me when he says "Lightroom is your safe place but there's that one thing you can't do..." Good lesson and I'll watch more from this channel! I've been using LR since I got version 3 in 2012 but I still only have a very basic understanding of what I can do in PS. I still don't understand why he's duplicated the background layer or how this might be used, when there is the history panel that can take you back to any previous point.
Man I love your videos. You just explain “down to earth” matter-of-fact style. I saw a video (there is probably more than one) with you and Mads Peter Inversen (in the Loften Islands I think)-seeing a lot of his videos as well, appears to be quite a character. Thanks for your time and effort!
Thanks for the vids,breaking down Photoshop into bitesize pieces is so obvious when it's explained in a way that's straightforward, keep up the great work.Thanks again from The U.K.
Thanks Mr. Page, this was a great video for me. I use the spot removal tools in LR and they are very, very slow so this will save me time for sure. The patch functionality was a mind blower for me, never used it before and it could have saved some great images for me. I haven’t focus stacked before but after watching your work flow will be doing that to improve my images where I use to have to sacrifice one end or the other of my capture.
Wow! Just found your videos and they are SO helpful! I have always been intimidated by Photoshop, but you have encouraged me to go back into it again and give it another try - thank you!
That was fantastic Nick. Thank you SO much for this. Was not aware of how the Content-Aware Fill tool worked, but now I know :-). As well as the focus stacking.
Hi Nick: Thank you so much for creating and sharing this video. While I have had some experience with PS, I am by no means an expert. Your 'bite-size' approach to learning will be invaluable in my journey toward proficiency in PS. I can't wait to see the future instalments of this training material. Best wishes....Keith (Barrie, Ontario)
I must credit your Photoshop courses for finally making Photoshop understandable, especially luminosity masking. I went over the past few years from simple cleanup to focus stacking, to luminosity masking via Lumenzia, to cloning, warping, Orton layers, all kinds of stuff. And I'm still just scratching the surface. It's completely changed my processing. I go back and forth between LR and PS all the time now. Most of the time, for content aware fill, I just go Shift+F5 and it almost always does the trick. I will try a bit more manual selecting of copy areas. I will also say, the upgraded masking tools in the recent LR and ACR updates are simply amazing! In future videos, please demonstrate the interaction of the various masking tools. I know LR users who have been afraid to touch them in the new ways possible. Aaaand that sounded very wrong ... LOL
Awesome video. Photoshop is definitely intimidating. I am wanting to learn how to focus stack and this video is a make starting. I will be checking out your other video as well. Thank you very much.
Damn! Now why didn't I think of using the Patch Tool?! Seriously, this was a really good video and if you make more like it, I'll be among the first to watch. Thanks, Nick!
Thanks for the tips! Just starting to transition to using PS more in combination with LR, and this video was very helpful! Always learning something in your videos!
Gotta say Nick if you ever give up your photography you could defo become a teacher/ lecturer - you have a real calm/ easy to understand method of presenting - thank you 👍
Awesome tutorials, explained very clearly and easy to follow for me as a beginner with PS. Love the drumset and guitar in the background. Your music gear setup is similar to mine, but I have my in front of me.
