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2015
Lynda
Deke McClelland
5h 59m
English

Getting a great underwater shot isn't easy. The dives are short, the fish move fast, and colors are filtered away by the water between your lens and the subject. You can bring back the full glory of sea life, though, by using the tools in Photoshop. In this course, expert Deke McClelland takes pictures from a recent dive in Honduras—where he captured jellyfish, angelfish, parrotfish, sea turtles, octopi, moray eels, fire worms, and even a passing reef shark—and makes the images even more incredible with Photoshop's photo editing and enhancement tools. Learn how to correct contrast, enhance color, sharpen moving targets, correct distortion, and develop black-and-white versions of your images, as well as movies and animated GIFs. It's an ocean of creative possibilities—as only Photoshop can offer. Watch and learn how to take your underwater photography to even greater depths.
Topics include:
Selecting the best frame of a fish in motion
Correcting contrast
Enhancing clarity
Bringing out color and beauty in Camera Raw
Sharpening a moving target with Shake Reduction
Correcting lens distortion
Developing black-and-white versions of underwater photos
Creating a looping movie or animated GIF
Framing macro shots
Simulating depth of field with Gaussian Blur

Introduction 5m 36s
Photoshop, the star of the undersea world 3m 8s
Gear that I used: The SeaLife DC1400 and the GoPro HERO4 Black 2m 28s
1. Something Basic: The Moon Jelly 30m 14s
Selecting a frame from a GoPro movie 5m 33s
Correcting contrast with the Overlay blend mode 4m 59s
Turning the ocean a true Caribbean blue 7m 44s
Enhancing clarity with the High Pass filter 6m 44s
Cropping an image that can't be harmed 5m 14s
2. A Fish Worth Remembering: The Angelfish 35m 11s
Selecting the best frame of a fish in motion 4m 17s
Permanently (and fearlessly) upsampling an image 8m 43s
Bringing out color and beauty in Camera Raw 8m 48s
Sharpening a moving target with Shake Reduction 4m 38s
Smoothing edges on a channel-by-channel basis 8m 45s
3. Something More Colorful: The Parrotfish 37m 33s
Parrotfish: The colorful keepers of the coral 1m 39s
The quick-and-dirty fix: Auto Levels and Vibrance 6m 56s
Recording the Auto Levels trick as an action 6m 57s
Correcting GoPro lens distortion in Camera Raw 6m 32s
Reining in (and rebuilding) hot highlights 7m 3s
Enhancing the fish's dramatic eye 8m 26s
4. Large and in Charge: The Grouper 49m 29s
The fish to end all fish 21s
Correcting color, tone, and distortion 6m 59s
Cropping in Photoshop, not Camera Raw 4m 48s
Selecting and enhancing a smooth detail 7m 36s
Painting away an unwanted diver 9m 50s
Opening and cropping a movie in Photoshop 3m 37s
Animating the position of a cropped movie 4m 50s
Rendering the first edit of your movie 2m 54s
Enhancing a movie with the Camera Raw filter 8m 34s
5. Everyone's Favorite: The Sea Turtle 55m 0s
The most magical reptile of all 28s
Developing a turtle in flight 7m 40s
Correcting color balance on a color-by-color basis 6m 54s
Bringing out the detail in a turtle's eye 5m 7s
Working from the last-applied settings 4m 59s
Developing a black-and-white turtle 7m 3s
The best way to sepia-tone a photograph 8m 31s
Healing away unwanted elements 7m 44s
Content-aware smoothing with Color Adaptation 6m 34s
6. The Nightlife: The Octopus and Other Invertebrates 29m 46s
Night of the invertebrates 44s
Developing multiple octopuses at a time 7m 38s
Combining High Pass with Linear Light 6m 4s
Merging two photos into one Facebook-friendly image 9m 16s
Adding black borders and white margins 6m 4s
7. Watch Your Fingers: Moray and Other Eels 32m 52s
Don't play with the eels! 33s
First, we develop a still frame 6m 20s
Editing a seamlessly looping, six-second movie 7m 35s
Color balancing and sharpening the movie 7m 55s
Exporting a seamlessly looping animated GIF 5m 33s
Preparing a movie to post on Vine 4m 56s
8. Swimming with Sharks 1h 2m
How a shark-dive works 47s
Developing a once-in-a-lifetime shark photo 8m 56s
Cropping, straightening, and centering the shark 2m 17s
Rebuilding missing details with Content-Aware 5m 35s
Zooming in and out of a movie in post 8m 23s
Panning and pivoting with Transform keyframes 7m 31s
Sweetening the shark movie in Camera Raw 7m 32s
Adding a soundtrack and a fade to black 6m 38s
Adding titles to your movie 6m 57s
Animating a title and speeding up the render 8m 8s
9. A Last Lucky Rarity: The Bearded Fireworm 19m 5s
Zooming and framing a macro shot 4m 57s
Adjusting levels one channel at a time 5m 46s
Smoothing an oversharp image with High Pass 3m 35s
Simulating depth of field with Gaussian Blur 4m 47s
Conclusion 1m 52s
Four tips for underwater photography 1m 52s

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