Enhancing Your Backgrounds Using Photoshop’s New Neural Filters

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Enhancing Your Backgrounds Using Photoshop's New Neural Filters

with Kirk Nelson

lessons: 11 Course Lessons

duration: 56min

published: 2022

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Enhancing Your Backgrounds Using Photoshop's New Neural Filters

with Kirk Nelson

Learn how to take a so-so photo to a stunner using Photoshop’s neural filters! Join Kirk Nelson as he takes you step-by-step through a project using one of his photos that leverages the power of multiple neural filters and other Photoshop tools to transform it into a masterpiece. In this class you’ll learn all about what neural filters are, where they are found, how to apply them to your photos, and then how to take them to a whole new level using smart objects, depth maps, and other Photoshop tools. BUY COURSE

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lesson 1: Introduction (free course preview)

Join Kirk as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.

1min, 50sec

lesson 2: Preparing the Image

Before you start using neural filters there may be some important prep work to do on the photo first.

7min, 19sec

lesson 3: Applying Raw Neural Filters

To begin getting familiar with neural filters you can apply them as they are and see the results before learning how to get even better results.

6min, 0sec

lesson 4: Isolate the Subject

If you isolate the subject from the background it can give you more flexibility to apply the filters.

5min, 51sec

lesson 5: Changing the Season

The next step in this process is to change the season to look even more like fall.

3min, 37sec

lesson 6: Depth Map

Building on the previous lesson, Kirk continues to edit the background to give it a depth based blur.

4min, 1sec

lesson 7: Blurring the Background with the Depth Map

With the depth map created previously you gain the ability to apply advanced techniques for blurring the background.

8min, 7sec

lesson 8: Blending the Subject into the Background

With the background looking better it is time to begin blending the subject back into the background.

6min, 24sec

lesson 9: Extra Magic

To improve even more on the results so far Kirk shares a few tips for unifying the subject with the background and really taking it to a new level.

6min, 42sec

lesson 10: Final Effects

To finish the image Kirk makes a few final tweaks to remove remaining distractions.

3min, 46sec

lesson 11: Conclusion

Kirk wraps up the class with a look back at the original image and traces the journey to the final image.

3min, 0sec

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meet Kirk Nelson

Photographer & Graphic Designer

Kirk Nelson is a professional graphic designer and photographer in the DC area. With 25 years of experience that has touched on a broad range of visual subjects he refers to himself as ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Graphics Geek’.

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