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
Holy Smokes, I'm just going to unfollow every other RUclips 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!
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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
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
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.
This is the best video I have watched about using Photoshop. So many other have assumed far too much previous knowledge. Well done nick, one more subscription for you, I will highly recommend you to others, well done, a refreshing change.
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!
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.
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!!
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really enjoyed your method of explaining the tools and why you would use them. This is type of tutorial is just what I need as I have been struggling with Photoshop for ever! I wonder if you could explain how to make the horizon line in a seascape image merge into the sky as in some fine art photos e.g Michael Levin's Still water.
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.
One reason I really like my Nikon Z9 is the sensor shield that drops down when I turn the camera off. No worries about anything getting in when I'm swapping lenses!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Watched many of your Photoshop tutorials and this is a nice short one of why you need to transition from LR to PS. I also do film photography and you can do focus stacking in camera using a tilt shift lens using three stops down, like F8 or F11 for film or digital. For portraits sometimes it is better not to see each pore in a face but to have less sharpness. Digital peepers have a fixation with sharpness. When I want this I can also use topaz A1 sharpen and Gigapixel (as well as PS tools). Also, what you see on screen is different on what you achieve on printing depending on the paper finish, matt vs gloss. Over sharpness can get weird effects on paper. Love your videos.
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!
Hey Nick, what a great video, I use Lightroom a lot but find some of the tools really clunky & can’t get the result I want but am intimidated by Photoshop, it looks so complex. This video has inspired me to have a go. Really like your style of presentation, great work.
Awesome tutorial of essential tools. You nailed it, and you really made a just excellent selection of Photoshop tools that are way better than LR. Thank you very much indeed. Greetings from Switzerland
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.
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.
Great video. I should really start to use PS more. One point I will make though, is that my Olympus EM-1 MKII does do in camera focus stacking of up to 15 images.
Thanks Nick, your the Man..your right about everything you say about LR, becomes a crutch & I want to learn PS more, only used for focus stacking for yrs..I will be watching for more PS training..Love your channel, Ken in AZ 🌵
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.
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!
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!
Great video, great introduction for when/how to use PS for strictly LR users. Taking this one step further, love to see expansion on focus stacking; in windy conditions, how to preserve or mask leave/flower position from one layer. Big fan, keep it up!!
Hi there Nick. well it took three weeks to finally look at stacking something and the way you explained it certainly made it easy... Not the worlds most desirable image but none the less an image of an orchid in flower in my garden and I am one happy chappie... (one of those tools for my tool box) For novices like me tips I learned today and this relates to shooting macro images mostly.. Ensure there is no wind (obvious but necessary even in landscapes). Images have to be shot in auto focus (again for those experienced in all this obvious) and make use of the movable focus point to focus the different parts of the image.. Camera used a7Riii and the Sony 90mm macro 'G' lens. Thanks buddy....
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 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.
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
Holy Smokes, I'm just going to unfollow every other RUclips 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!
Awesome so helpful thanks
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.
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
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
Great tutorail
I used to use Photoshop 10 years ago and have forgotten how to use it.
There were some great tips
Thank you SO much Nick for making this easier for us who are still challenged by Photoshop!
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.
Amazing! You are spot on. Lightroom is my safe place and need handheld to move into photoshop. Great job, thank you.
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!
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
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
You have a very good way of teaching these programs, simple and intuitive. Thanks for sharing, Nick! Cheers.
Really helpful video. Thanks. It’s hard for newbies to know what tool to use when.
This is exactly how I learn PS! One bite/tool at a time. And the more tutorials I watch, the more tools I have. Thanks!!!
great video
An excellent video for the true beginner. Well done !
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.
Nick you made simple simple. Please do more along this line! Greatly appreciated!
This is the best video I have watched about using Photoshop. So many other have assumed far too much previous knowledge. Well done nick, one more subscription for you, I will highly recommend you to others, well done, a refreshing change.
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!
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.
Thank you so much, I do find Photoshop daunting. I have notes and will give this a go. Also you have me hooked on Tigerblood.
Very well explained. Perfect for me. Thank you
This is one of the best tutorials videos i’ve ever watched on youtube, we need more videos like theses, cheers man🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks Nick! Great tutorial on using some of the tools in PS. I will put these to use right away.
Great, informative video, Nick! Please, more like it.
Great capture neat and concise.
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!!
You had me hooked at "... eat an elephant"! Fabulous vid, explained in plain English. Thankyou. 👍👍👍
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 Nick, just the thing i was looking for! look forward to more in this series!
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.
Super video on making complicated processes simple. Thanks!
Could not agree more Nick! One tool at a time! Brilliant video and thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Thank you so much for the focus stacking demo. I hope your store basket never goes empty.
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.
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.
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.
Love your videos. You talk down-to-earth. You make things so easy/simple to understand. Thanks.
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.
Yet another straight forward informative upload.
Keep them coming!!
Awesome video, great to see you back with a great educational video
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.
I like the extra explanations. Like why turn an image into a smart image.
I really enjoyed your method of explaining the tools and why you would use them. This is type of tutorial is just what I need as I have been struggling with Photoshop for ever! I wonder if you could explain how to make the horizon line in a seascape image merge into the sky as in some fine art photos e.g Michael Levin's Still water.
Sooo clear, thank you. Been looking for this clarity, you have two new followers, brilliant.
Excellent video Nick, totally agree Photoshop is intimidating but this short bitesize lesson is going to help me, thanks
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.
One reason I really like my Nikon Z9 is the sensor shield that drops down when I turn the camera off. No worries about anything getting in when I'm swapping lenses!
Smooth teaching techniques, really cool video Nick.
Thank you Nick !!!! I use Lightroom 90% of the time because I am afraid of Photoshop :) This helped tremendously !!! Thank you. Keep them coming.
Excellent video Nick! Thankyou so much for explaining that so clearly.
Another great vid, Nick. I knew most of this, but I learned another trick or two - which I always do when watching your tutorials. Thanks!
Fantastic Nick well explained thanks for the video
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.
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.
Thanks for these introduction to photoshop trainings. Great stuff.
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.
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.
Watched many of your Photoshop tutorials and this is a nice short one of why you need to transition from LR to PS. I also do film photography and you can do focus stacking in camera using a tilt shift lens using three stops down, like F8 or F11 for film or digital. For portraits sometimes it is better not to see each pore in a face but to have less sharpness. Digital peepers have a fixation with sharpness. When I want this I can also use topaz A1 sharpen and Gigapixel (as well as PS tools). Also, what you see on screen is different on what you achieve on printing depending on the paper finish, matt vs gloss. Over sharpness can get weird effects on paper. Love your videos.
Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing. 🙂👍
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!
Hey Nick, what a great video, I use Lightroom a lot but find some of the tools really clunky & can’t get the result I want but am intimidated by Photoshop, it looks so complex. This video has inspired me to have a go. Really like your style of presentation, great work.
Great stuff Nick, your teaching style is excellent. Really appreciate these little nuggets
Awesome tutorial of essential tools. You nailed it, and you really made a just excellent selection of Photoshop tools that are way better than LR. Thank you very much indeed. Greetings from Switzerland
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.
Thank You Thank You Thank You ! This is so helpful and easy to understand. More please 😊🇦🇺
Superb video, very helpful. Thanks.
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.
Great video. I should really start to use PS more. One point I will make though, is that my Olympus EM-1 MKII does do in camera focus stacking of up to 15 images.
You explain this complicated program so well. Thanks!
Great, looking forward to the next bite
Thanks Nick, your the Man..your right about everything you say about LR, becomes a crutch & I want to learn PS more, only used for focus stacking for yrs..I will be watching for more PS training..Love your channel, Ken in AZ 🌵
Great Vid, mega helpful. Hopefully more of these little steps episodes. Thank you.
Great teaching video Nick. I use Photoshop all the time for line art. Not as demanding I know, but you really break it down and make it easy.
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.
Great demonstration and explanation. Thank you so much!
Thanks for posting. So well explained . Baby steps ;-) Bookmarked your video.
Nick you are such a bag full of knowledge.. a legend and a humble pro ! Thank you 🙏🏻
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!
So nice and helpful video Nick!
Please please make more videos like this
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!
Outstanding video. Please keep generating these tutorials, Nick.
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!
Love this. Sometimes just need a refresher on basics. Nice hat Nick.
Outstanding tutorial! Your explantions are excellent!
Great video, great introduction for when/how to use PS for strictly LR users.
Taking this one step further, love to see expansion on focus stacking; in windy conditions, how to preserve or mask leave/flower position from one layer.
Big fan, keep it up!!
Fantastic, love the one step at a time approach 👏
Great vid Nick shout out to one of my favs Bandon, Oregon
Hi there Nick. well it took three weeks to finally look at stacking something and the way you explained it certainly made it easy... Not the worlds most desirable image but none the less an image of an orchid in flower in my garden and I am one happy chappie... (one of those tools for my tool box) For novices like me tips I learned today and this relates to shooting macro images mostly.. Ensure there is no wind (obvious but necessary even in landscapes). Images have to be shot in auto focus (again for those experienced in all this obvious) and make use of the movable focus point to focus the different parts of the image.. Camera used a7Riii and the Sony 90mm macro 'G' lens. Thanks buddy....
wonderful and very systematic way of processing.i wish you post some more videos on basic processing.thanks a lot sir.
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!
Thanks Nick! This is very helpful. I would like to start using a bit of photoshop for editing and this is a good start.
fantastic Nick, so easy to follow. Thank you .
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.
Very instructive - thanks!
Great video Nick!! More of these would be awesome
Great video Nick. I’ve been using Photoshop since version 4, and I learn something new every time I use it. Thanks!!
By the way, someone is using your acct to spam people!!