Lynda - Enhancing Underwater Photos with Photoshop

Subject:    Photography 
Software:    Photoshop 
Author:    Deke McClelland 

5h 59m Advanced Mar 11, 2015 | Uploaded in Apr 16, 2015 by 2boweb

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