Teaching again

Yours truly, teaching portrait retouching basics about month ago. Non destructive image editing with layers was new to some listeners and I heard they updated image editing workflow after my presentation. When I teach Photoshop basics, I mention the layers, masks and blending modes to be the most fundamental tools with the software.

Problem with some Photoshop books are that they list everything you can do with software but don't focus on getting the workflow basics on the right track. But we all started from the zero, and first images were edited by running tens of silly filters to them. Oh those were the days.

It is amusing how much laughter you can generate in the audience by demonstrating liquify filter to create some photoshop disasters.

Photo: Lothar Mallon