Retouching, Compositing, and Custom Type! | Live From San Francisco on May 23rd

Each Thursday, industry experts will guide you through a LIVE interactive experience!
9am PST - Celebrating Summer with Surreal Composites: Learn how to use Photoshop to select, mask, and composite an image to celebrate Summer! Then, use Generative Fill to add additional flair and make your post stand out on social media.
10am PST - Retouching Photos with Lightroom & Photoshop: Learn how to combine the powers of Lightroom and Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop to retouch and composite your photos to be print-ready!
11am PST - Animated Custom Typography: Build custom letters in Adobe Illustrator and explore different color variations using Generative Recolor. Then, import your lettering directly into Adobe Express to add animation.
12pm PST - Creating A Reel for Summer: Use Adobe Express to create a video to prepare for summer! Include video clips, stock assets, and elements from Adobe Firefly.
Arabela Espinoza is the Co-Founder of Weekend Creative, a Photographer and Art Director team based in the San Francisco Bay Area: www.behance.net/weekend-creative
Alexus Washington is a photographer specializing in product, branding, stop-motion, and composites, based in Atlanta, GA: www.alexusroberts.com
Guest Hank Washington is an Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer based in Georgia: www.hankdesigns.com/
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00:00 Start
01:20 Who is Alexis + Project overview
03:30 Cleaning up your base elements
05:10 Using Adobe Firefly
10:00 Generating new portions of the subjects outfit
18:20 Creating surreal elements
27:00 incorporating beach elements
42:00 Adding sunglasses to a subject
01:01:20 Project overview
01:04:00 Working in Lightroom + point color and color mixing
01:09:00 Remove with Generative Ai
01:25:00 Work begins in Photoshop
01:28:00 Working with selection tools + compositing
01:42:00 Using a color card
01:43:55 Removing branding logos
2:01:41 Project overview and Hank’s intro
2:05:30 Layering font variations in different shades to add depth
2:09:36 Adding highlights and shadows with the pencil tool
2:17:42 Summer grilling and AI conversation
2:20:39 Scaling up first and last letters
2:23:36 Adding accent lines
2:28:47 Generative recolor, trying different prompts
2:35:24 Choosing a final color palette, asset export
2:39:41 New Adobe Express project, importing assets, laying them out
2:43:29 Adding animation to accent lines
2:45:58 Animating the letters
2:50:44 Chat Q&A how much time does Hank spend on a project like this
2:52:19 Adding a background using text-to-image
3:02:01 Project overview, recap from earlier session
3:04:53 Generating a new background using text to image with composition and style match
3:07:01 Extending the image in Photoshop
3:09:37 Duplicate and remove background, adding text, layering with photo
3:13:24 Text effects on text, duplicating to keep the same effect
3:24:47 Generative fill to add nail polish
3:28:41 Adding cloud videos from media library using blending mode
3:31:35 Animating static clouds in and out, adjusting timing
3:36:03 Animating the text
3:38:47 Adding a sun ray using blending mode, changing it for a sun
3:43:36 Previewing the animation, adding sparkles
3:49:06 Starting a second design, adding text, photos, using generative fill to replace tree
3:53:46 Text effects layered with outline, adding animation
3:55:18 Recap and Outro