THIS COURSE INCLUDES
- 6 Lessonsfollow-along
- 2h 27mof captioned HD video
- Advancedfor experienced editors
- 30 Sample Images+ 3 brushes
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DESCRIPTION
In this advanced Phlearn PRO Tutorial you will learn the photography and photoshop required to create an underwater effect that transforms your images into an underwater world. These skills and techniques will allow you to create just about anything you can imagine.
What You’ll Learn
- Create a believable underwater effect with light and blur
- Composite flowing hair and motion into a still shot
- Correct color to sell the underwater mood
Create an Underwater Illusion in Photoshop.
Color Correction for an Underwater Effect
Remove the complexities from correcting colors in shadows, midtones and highlights. At times, highlights are too warm or too saturated and need to be treated separately from other areas of an image. Learn how to correct color and restrict your changes to specific areas.
Create Light Rays
Easily add your own light rays and learn the best methods for making them blend seamlessly into your image. Adding light rays with Photoshop is what sells the underwater effect and brings atmosphere and attention to your images.
Create Interaction
Unite the subject with their environment by adding interaction between them. Plan ahead to pose the model in a way that will compliment the scene. Learn how to evaluate what’s important to make this interaction more seamless.
Blur to Perfection
Add different amounts of blur to different areas of the image to achieve a perfect sense of underwater effect depth. Learn the best practices for analyzing how much is too much to nail this effect.
Underwater Fantasy
The goal of this composite is to make the subject look like they were photographed underwater.
Add Depth to the Underwater Effect
Create as much depth as possible to make the image go on forever. Learn the principles behind adding depth and how to accomplish this much more easily. See how to avoid easy-to-make mistakes to keep your images from looking fake.
Create Flowing Hair
Learn how to photograph and composite multiple images of the model’s hair together to give the impression that it is flowing underwater, the key to a believable underwater effect. Then see how to blend and color it perfectly to become one with the rest of the scene.
Blend and Composite
Learn the secrets to compositing and blending multiple photos together to create seamless, stunning effects. From start to finish, you will see how each image in the underwater effect is adjusted and combined using Photoshop.
Light Your Subject
Learn how to light and photograph images like this. Creating an underwater effect is really complex. Even more so when you want to make the composited jellyfish light the subject.
Class Instructor
Aaron Nace
PHLEARN Founder & Lead Instructor
Aaron Nace is a photographer, digital artist, and the founder of PHLEARN. He has been teaching Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography since 2011, and has taught at Adobe MAX for more than eight years.
Aaron publishes a free tutorial every week and a new in-depth PRO course every month.
- 2M+YouTube subscribers
- 160M+video views
- 1,000+tutorials published
- 15years teaching Photoshop
Reviews
Master Photoshop, Lightroom and Photography
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Totally awesome composition with a lot of good goodies, especially the one with quick mask, gradient with lens blur. So many little things in this one that I’m excited about in using in my own photo. Once again Aaron you rock
I was searching for a way to make an underwater color effect and I really loved the way you made it, basically working with curves. Really nice and easy. Thanks a lot Aaron!
This is is a great tutorial! I learned so much. Thanks Aaron!
Great! I have learned a lot!
Awesome tutorial, learnt so much as usual and cranberry sauce is now my go to bubble machine!!! 🙂
This is great, i loved every bit of it! It is hard to even say what my favorite part is, usually with Phlearn Pros i have one part which i particularly love more than the rest of a tutorial. With watching your Phlearn Pros not only did i learn new things, but my speed in Photoshop improved, what used to take 2 weeks now takes 1 or 2 days, that really is something.
And i also like Aaron’s jokes throughout this tutorial. Using your own photos to make textures is great, i also try doing that whenever possible. Really recommend this!
Wonderful tutorial! Aaron knows his stuff, and is super easy to follow. He also makes the tutorial very entertaining with his commentary! Very easy to understand if you are an advanced or beginner photoshopper. Highly recommend!
Great tutorial learned so much from Phlearn over the past year and a half.
Loved this Pro Tutorial! It answered so many questions I had with achieving an under water look as well as using textures (cranberry sauce, who’d a thunk it!? xD) and so much more. It’s very “in-depth” but super easy to understand and follow along especially for a beginner like myself. Also Aaron makes it fun with his humorous banter. Can’t wait to apply what I learned to my own under water fantasy photo, thanks Phlearn family for the tutorial!