+100 Photoshop Tips &Tricks You (Probably) Don't Know! Pt. 3 | PTH #12

hey everybody welcome back to another very exciting photoshop training hour i am your host jesus ramirez how's it going let me know in the chat where you're watching from i'm streaming from the beautiful san francisco bay area in san ramon california before we start i would like to thank our good sponsors msi for sponsoring today's video so thank you msi for sponsoring this video i want to also mention that msi is currently running a sale on the msi z16 laptop on b h you can see that there's some savings going on i'm not sure when you'll watch this stream but if you're watching it now you should be able to access this cell the link to it is below in the description and this is the laptop that i'm currently using here it is the um msi creator z16 laptop also newegg has a cell going on as well you can check that out in the description as well so thank you msi for sponsoring today's photoshop training hour we're going to continue the photoshop tips and tricks that we've been doing for the last couple weeks i decided to do a series of 100 photoshop tips and tricks that you probably didn't know and believe it or not i ran out of time on the first stream so i continued in the second stream and i also ran out of time so this is going to be the third 100 photoshop tips and tricks that you don't know i think i'll be able to get through the list today so thank you so much for those of you who have been watching the previous videos if you haven't seen those the link to those is also below in the description so you can watch them as well um why don't we jump right into photoshop and oh actually this right here is a composite that i've been working on for an adobe live stream that i'll be doing tomorrow so i'm gonna do a stream for adobe tomorrow oh i'm not sharing the screen sorry guys oh my god all right we're gonna do that again okay so this is a composite that i'm working with adobe tomorrow adobe live i'm going to make this into an actual tip if you click and drag down you can disable multiple layers see that see that there you go or or you can click and drag up to enable multiple layers but the point is is that i'm doing this on adobe live tomorrow so make sure that you tune in if you want to just see how i create this on adobe live the link is in the description this is the page here photo compositing there it is as you can see it's on behance.net the link is in the description this will be streamed tomorrow december 8 live so you can watch it live or you can watch a recording but it will be on adobe's website so it's free to watch and free to watch your replay so make sure that you check it out the link is in the description and like i said i will be recreating this poster here um it's a movie poster based on the character thor i will also provide all the files so you can follow along if you like again it will be tomorrow on adobe live we're going to talk a little bit about content aware so let's let's jump right into it so this is the image that we're going to work with and actually i didn't open that up in photoshop how silly of me man so let me just go into file and open and i have it here on my tips class please excuse my desktop i know it's a mess but we can see um this little girl jumping into the pool and there's her friend or her sister right behind her so let me show you how you can remove photobombers from a photo in photoshop and it's actually not that difficult to do there's a couple tools that you can use to create a much better photo and you can salvage a photo like this one in case you have something where there's someone in the background and what you can do is you can select the lasso tool and you can just create a very loose selection around this person here i do want to get some of the detail in the tile and i'm just going to click and drag that around like so and what you can do now is simply go into file i'm sorry edit and select content aware fill you can see the preview window here if your preview window is nested as a button like so let me try to get it back in there and it's not letting me do it for some reason there you go you can nest it in there as a button as if you like and then you can control the windows like so but anyway so this is my preview here on the left and you can see that photoshop did a fairly decent job i can zoom in to see the details you're never going to get a perfect fill and that's okay we're not looking for perfection we're just looking for something that is close enough so that we can then use other tools and techniques to finish the job but this is pretty good as you can see it did a really really good job in some cases you may want to adjust the rotation adaption and just see if that makes it any better it may it may not in this case i think it did probably a better job it looks much better i think still not perfect but that's okay again we're not looking for perfection so this is pretty good and i'm just going to output to a duplicate layer and i'll press ok you can press ctrl d on windows command d on the mac to deselect and you can see the before and the after what we would need to do now is just go and adjust some of these imperfections and again you don't need to be perfect we can get away with some imperfections and you'll see why in a moment you can select the clone stamp tool and with the clone stamp tool you can just hold alt on windows option on the mac and click an area to sample from and then you can continue painting and what i'm really doing here is just making sure that the path and the side of the pool here is as straight as it can be like so and then i can just analyze the image and see what other areas need a little bit of work in this case i think the image overall looks pretty good and i'm just you know painting away things that don't necessarily look too nice so maybe something like this obviously i'm not going to spend a lot of time in this example but we can call that good right one thing i should mention about the clone stamp tool is that you have access to the clone source the clone source panel gives you so much more control over the clone stamp tool it allows you to save five clone sources this is what this icon is so let me show you on this first one i'm gonna do a clone source of her eye see that so when i paint i have her eye and i'm also gonna click on this second clone source and maybe do the number nine back here i think it is so there you go number nine see that so i'll do one more i'll select the third clone source and i'll do the chairs back here see that's how i have the chairs so if i create a new layer i can start painting the chairs right but what if i want to go back to her eye well i can go back into the clone source select this first one and there's our eye see that now i'm painting her eye what if i want to go into that number nine well go into the clone source select the second one and there's that number nine so you can select from five different areas in your image and paint so you don't have to keep going back and forth you can just save them and just remember remember where you save those points or those those sources and then you can paint them any way that you like by the way let me look at the chat and see if there's any questions cool west coast vivi said creators are messy no need to apologize that's exactly i can be very messy when it comes to my desktop for sure so yeah so that's one thing that the clone source can do another thing is rotate so for example i can do a clone source here you can see this straight line and actually so that you can see what i'm doing better i'm just going to create a new layer and hide this one by the way here's the tip the reason that i can just paint on black layers is that i have all layers selected so make sure that you do that if you want to paint uh to sample and paint on all layers but anyway i did a clone source from the pool here and obviously if i paint well you know it becomes a straight line but with the clone source i can actually rotate my source so if i go into the negative rotation here to the negative angle i can now slope up see that i can slope up and not only that i can also go in here and adjust the scale so i can change the scale down to you know maybe like 50 or so so when i paint notice now that i'm just painting a much smaller version of that so this gives you complete control and total power over your over your clone tool and it just allows you to create much better clonings because you're not stuck with just what you painted you can make it smaller larger you can even flip it so you can come in here and flip it horizontally if i wanted to so with that select let me let me show you here um with this number nine selected when i paint notice now how now it's backwards see that see how i painted it backwards so that's because i clicked on this button to flip it horizontally and i can flip it vertical by clicking on this button as well so i'll flip it vertical select her eye here by holding alt on windows option on the mac and then whoops let me do that again let me flip that vertically here we go so now when i paint her face is backwards see that so it just gives you total control over the clone stamp tool i highly recommend that you use it to get better clones so that was just a quick side step um into the clone stamp to we're gonna go back into the project by the way if you're watching this make sure that you click on that like button if i show something that you like it really helps me out with the youtube algorithm it helps promote the videos so please help me out and click on that like button if you see something that you enjoy but anyway so back into this image so what we did is we removed the person jumping into the pool from the foreground and it looks okay you can tell that there's some areas where it doesn't look too good and again we can come back here and continue making adjustments or reset the clone stamp tool that way we don't accidentally paint where we don't want to paint so i'm going to just you know just fix it a little bit you know just so that it looks a little bit better that's good enough so what i can do now is just leave it as this or maybe work on it a bit more but i actually think we would get much better results if we blur the background in photoshop 2022 the latest version of photoshop that was just released a couple of months ago you can actually do this fairly easy blur background so with this layer selected you can go into filter and select neural filters and you can just go into depth blur and let me move this over to the side so that you can better see what's going on here and just give it a moment photoshop is processing the image and there you go it blurs the background in my opinion it's a bit too strong so what i'll do is i'll reduce the blur strength just a little bit and see the result that we get and yeah that's much better but still too blurry in my opinion maybe something like that so it's blurry you can't really see those imperfections and i think this looks much much better i can just place everything in the current layer that's fine and you can see the before and the after in my opinion this is a much better photo and you completely uh we were able to completely remove the photo bomber from the background and it's just a much better image overall let me know in the chat what you think about this technique talking about the chat let me see if we have any questions um fantastic it looks like some people are watching the video on delay because they're talking about the screen not being shared but we took care of that i promise you senior design have said if your desktop is clean and clear then 100 sure you're not a creator and creative that's pretty funny but yeah so let me know what you think about this tip you know what i wasn't usually when i do these i get ideas of what to show you guys because i'm talking about something so i just got an idea so let me do something that i wasn't planning on showing some of you may already seen it i've been doing youtube shorts on my youtube channel if you don't know what those are let me show you so on youtube i've been doing these shorts and my last one was from three days ago and in less than a minute i show you how to do something in photoshop and the last one that i did was on how to blur a background in photoshop and obviously in those one-minute videos you don't have a lot of time to explain things you just sort of go through the process and i think it's a good way of blurring the background on photos that utilizes an old technique that i showed plus this new filter so why don't i show you guys how to do that on this stream so let me see if i can quickly find the image that i use for that stream on here if not i have the file open i know exactly where that file is so give me one moment while i open that up i think you'll enjoy it as a good technique for blurring backgrounds and like i said it utilizes an old method and a new method so i think that you will like it cool so this is the image here and we have this um young lady working out and we want to blur the background just to make her pop a little bit more and what we can do is first of all we want to separate the background for the from the foreground because usually when we create when you create a blur on something if you don't have a perfect mask you're going to get ghosting so let me just quickly show you um like what i'm talking about so if i were to go into just um neural filters and then just blur it it's going to do a good job it's not going to be bad by any means but we can do better so i'm going to go into death blur and photoshop is going to analyze this image let's give it a second here there you go see photoshop did a good job right but the problem with doing it this way is that i don't really have too much control over the mask and i do have other controls like temperature tint saturation brightness and grain and all that is great but it's not really allowing me to make adjustments to her hair or the edges you can see how the edges here are just not that good in some cases you might see ghosting in some cases you might just see these weird artifacts on the edges so it's okay it's not bad you know if you're if you're going to post that on instagram something looks like that it'll be totally fine right but i think that we can take it a step further and we can actually create a really really good blurry background using this filter but we're going to do an extra step just so we can have extra control so i'm going to cancel out of that and i'm just going to double click on the hand tool to fit the image to screen and from here i'm going to duplicate the layer ctrl j on windows command j on the mac to duplicate a layer and i'm going to go into select subject and this is going to use artificial intelligence known as adobe sensei to automatically select the main subject and you don't need a perfect selection but you do need to make sure that you get the entire subject and to make sure that you do do that you're going to select modify and expand and you can do something like 5 pixels press ok and just analyze the image and just make sure you're getting everything make sure there's no weird areas you're not getting like here i'm not getting her hair so let me just get her hair there and by the way i selected the lasso tool and while holding shift you can click and drag to add to the selection so i'm just making sure that i have her entire body selected and her feet are not that important because that area will be in focus but the point is now that i have this selection active i'm going to use exactly the same tool that i just used some moments then go to content aware fill so with content aware fills selected it'll remove the background again we don't need a perfect background removal because we're only worried about the edges we're not worried about what's behind her just the edges that are close to her body and we can just click on apply to current layer press ok and there you go she is gone i'm going to take the background layer duplicate it place it above her and i'll do the same thing select subject and i'll create a layer mask so now i have my model in one layer the woman working out and the background in another layer and this is going to give us a total control over the image that i was referencing earlier so with this layer selected the background copy i'm just going to convert that into a smart object and go into filter neural filters and what i'm going to do now is do the same thing go into depth blur photoshop is going to analyze the image and apply the blur so with this image selected i'm just going to um click here where it says click to edit focal point i'm just going to click there on the on the areas where i want the um blur to not appear the areas that are going to be in focus and then i can adjust any of these settings that you know as i want then i can increase the blur strength i can decrease it whatever you think would look good for your image so something like this should work i can add a little bit of haze if i want to something that i do recommend adding is grain just because when you blur an image you remove the grain from the photo and it makes it look too digital so i like to add just a little bit of grain just so that the image has grain the blurry image see that let me zoom in see that there's a little bit of green there and to be frank with you i might want to add more maybe something something like that and i'll press ok so that that's my my image there and i can bring this layer now onto here and the reason that we went through all that work is now i have a layer mask here right so i can come in here on this layer mask and then just treat it like any other mask right so i can double click on it to bring up the selected mask workspace and i can smooth the selection you see that see how it's smoothing those areas i can increase the contrast to make those areas sharper i could also come up here and select the refine edge brush tool and i can click and drag on the top area here and see if we can get some other some of her hair we may be able to get it we may not that's okay but the point is i have total control of what is being shown or not shown on the layer mask notice how photoshop in that automatic selection it missed this area here well that's okay i can now select the subtraction button there and i can just subtract from the mask there like so and obviously in your project spend a lot more time that i am doing fine tuning the selection but i think that you get the idea you can really really come in there and modify the mask any way that you want also i have a brush here that a hairbrush i believe let me see if i can spill hair correctly [Music] i believe this is the one that i'm looking for let's see let me just paint once yep that's the one that i'm looking for so i have a hair brush here and you know i can just select her hair and click once like so maybe place this behind her and i can just move that piece of hair into position like so just to make it a little more realistic obviously again you can spend more time fine tuning those small details i think i saved another hair in my libraries panel here let me see yep this is the one that i was thinking about so let me just create a new layer reduce that brush size and i'll show you how to create those brushes in a moment too if you want so i can come in here click on that button flip my hair the other way so that you could see that the hair is on the right hand side now and i can just click once like so and i can just move it again into position so that it looks a little more realistic i'm just trying to add those little little details you know just those tiny little details that make your composites look more realistic maybe i want it a little darker you know something like that but the point is that by using this method you've separated everything into layers and once you separate everything into layers you get more control over your image i'm going to come back into the brush in just a moment but the other thing that i was mentioning that i wanted to show you is that with this layer selected you can hold shift and click on the bottom layer and convert everything into a smart object right so now you have the original and this image with the blurry background and what you can do is you can treat this blur image with uh treat it as a single image so you can go into filter camera raw filter and once it's the camera filter you can do whatever you want to it just like any other photo you can increase the contrast adjust the shadows you know maybe make it a bit warmer you know whatever whatever you decide to do the point is is that now you can treat it as just a regular photo really and you know maybe add a little bit of vignette to center your model add a little bit of grain to just make everything feel more cohesive and press ok and you can see that now that we have this photo that looks much more you know professional much better just by separating everything into different layers let me know what you think in the chat let's move on now so i promised that i was going to show you how to create those hair brushes that i use on this model and i know i have a photo of um of a woman here that i've used in the past and uh let me see i mean i can do it with a lot of these photos this is the one that i had in mind so that's the one that we're gonna use so basically you can take any photo that you want as long as there's a lot of separation between the hair and the background something i isolated like this is great and what you need to do is just crop the stuff that you don't need so we don't need any of that we just need her hair for this next thing then you're going to can go into the channels panel and from the channels panel you can see which channel the red green or blue gives you the most contrast between the hair contrasts between the hair and the background in this case the blue channel gives us that contrast that we want so we can duplicate it by clicking and dragging it into the new channel icon then make sure that the background is completely white and the foreground completely black as best as you can obviously you could also go into the dodge and burn tools make sure that with dodge you select highlights for range and you can just paint paint like so i'm painting i'm painting and painting painting away the background and just keep those strands of hair and obviously i'm going quickly here so do spend some time fine tuning talking about fine tuning you can always go into edit fade the edit fade command will fade your very last adjustment so in this case i painted with the dodge tool so i can fade that see this is uh at zero percent or you know at say 67 so it's not as intense and you can just keep adjusting the mask as much as you want at this point what i'm going to do is invert it because i want her on the on the channel i want her hair to be white ctrl i on windows command i on the mac because i want photoshop to select those pixels you can we talked about this in the last stream if you remember you can you see this number here ctrl alt 6 you can press ctrl alt and then the number six and photoshop will load that channel or you can hold control on windows command on the mac and click on the thumbnail the point is is that you want to select those pixels with those pixels selected i'm going to click on rgb go back into the layers panel and i'm just going to create a solid color and make that black so i'll create a new layer and i'll make that white you can fill with the background notice that my background is white you can fill with the background by pressing ctrl and backspace on windows that's command delete on the mac so that's what we have now we have this and then i can just simply go into edit define brush preset and there's my brush and i can just call it hair i'll call it hair ptc hour just so that you can see that's the one that we created there it is and photoshop will automatically select it but i am not on i wasn't in a brush so i was on this tool so it selected it there so i need to go find it here here ptc hour there it is down here so now when i'm working on an image i can always come in here and just paint with that brush see that so i can select hold alt on windows option on the mac when you're on the brush tool to temporarily enable the eyedropper tool click and paint see that see see how awesome that looks just all these flyaway hairs look so realistic because technically they are so it's much easier than painting so then you can just come in here and you know just match it to your to your image whatever areas you need you may not need the whole thing so maybe i just need a little bit here in the bottom and that's okay alt on windows option on the mac and click and then just paint in uh with a regular brush like a regular soft brush just painting with white on the areas that you need so maybe i just need the you know these little areas here whatever you need right totally up to you um but i mean obviously that's just a basic example but that right there allows you to create better uh selection so to speak sometimes you can't select everything it's just too difficult or impossible so it's much easier to paint it in you can paint it in by hand or by creating a brush like this so if you're a photographer maybe you have a library of portraits where you can take hair from if you're not a photographer what i recommend that you do is what i did which is go into stock.adobe.com and they have a free section so make sure that you select free from the drop down and you can just type in hair isolated and see what we get i'm not sure what we're going to get so okay see there you go so we can use these we can probably use her hair as well definitely her hair you sometimes need people with curly hair so we could definitely use hers and you know just just go in and see where you can steal strands of hair from that you can use in your composites that would be another really good one this is a really nice edge so it really depends on you know the type of hair that you need but you have all this for all these free resources that you can use um talking about brushes if you create a brush like i just did here you might want to save it and you can save it by let me just open up the brushes panel here and it's all the way at the bottom i believe or no where is my brush oh no my brushes panel here sorry not my brush settings my brushes panel and it's right here ptc our hair brush i can click and drag that into a library so it's always in a library and i can just search for it like i did earlier so there it is it's one of these hair ptc so it's always it's always going to be saved in my library now so that's another tip for you cool um so the question is from where can you download the hairbrush oof uh brettila i'm sorry if i mispronounce your name i believe i did a tutorial on this and i believe i share the brush if i didn't i apologize let me know and now i guess i could go and find that tutorial and upload the brush but you can do it as easily i just did here just by finding a free photo on adobe stock or anywhere really and going through the steps if you like justina's saying i literally never thought about using a hairbrush to fine-tune hair this is brilliant thank you um gm that's a very complicated question that i don't know if i could answer in the stream but it it i would say just i'm going to make a general statement for anybody watching if you want to just make select and easy start with um select subject and then create your layer mask that way you may need to fine tune of course cool uh justine said or unsplash yes you can definitely use unsplash as well cool all right so let's move on actually before we move on now that we're taking a 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if you want but the point is that msi is a fantastic manufacturer for laptops especially if you're a creator their laptops are their creator laptops to be specific are designed to work with adobe products such as photoshop so i highly recommend that it's a laptop that i use so check it out link in the description and thank you msi again for sponsoring today's video also if you're just tuning in i'll be doing an adobe live stream tomorrow on photoshop compositing before we started the tutorial i showed you the or was showing you but then i realized that i was not sharing the screen so i had a restart but i was showing you the poster that i'm going to work on which is this one it's probably going to change a little bit i'll probably work on it a little more after this stream but the point is that if you want to see how i can composite this image together then make sure that you come and check out that stream the original photo is this one here so we're going to do a whole bunch of things like some of the cool things that i'm going to show is how to add you know dirt to the model how to add even some some sweat see that see how we just added just a little bit of sweat just to make it more look more realistic and other elements just to make it even better but the point is that the final product is this here by the way i just pressed the f12 key on the keyboard that's the revert key which allows you to bring back a document back to the last time it was saved so yeah i'll be doing that tomorrow actually that's not the final one that's the final one i'll be working on this tomorrow on adobe live link in the description make sure to check it out and if you can't watch it if you're busy get something to do the recording will also be on adobe's website so make sure that you check it out uh then link is in the description it'll be the same link for the stream and for the replay cool let's see what do we have next i'm trying to see how much time we have and what we have next so let me go back into the files that i have here for today's class and by the way as i'm looking for a file make sure that you click on that like button if you enjoy something again it really really helps out the channel with the youtube algorithm and if i show something that you found the value just hit that like button i would really really appreciate it so let's you know what we're talking about content-aware fail so let's keep talking about content aware so um i keep opening up the photos on my brow on my finder or whatever it's called not my photoshop uh let me open that up now in photoshop here we go so we have this photo of this dog and here's a tool that i don't see a lot of people using but if you i'll show you how i would use this tool so we have the content aware tool here nested under the spot healing brush tool and what this allows you to do by the way make sure that you're in move under mode and you can leave the structure set to seven and five for now and basically what allow this allows you to do is create a selection like so and then you can move you know the whatever you have into another area when you click on the check mark and commit the changes photoshop will oops sorry about that photoshop will move the subject fill the background and then try to blend them to wherever you move them and it looks okay it's not that bad as you can see but the problem is that there's a lot of you know space in between the dog and the background you can kind of tell us something is going on there so the way that i would use this is completely different so i wouldn't start my selection with the content aware move tool what i would do instead is going to select subject let photoshop find the main subject for me then i can select the lasso tool and hold shift and just add to the areas that i want to move so i want to move these areas too because he's his paws are interacting with the snow here so i would want to move that as well so once i do that i'm also going to expand the selection sort of like the blurring example i don't want my selection to be right on the edge i'm going to i want to move it a little more just so i can have some breathing room and things blend better so i can go into select modify expand maybe five pixels might be too much in this case i'll just do three and even three might be a little too much but that's okay we'll leave it at three and everything is looking pretty good here and what i can do now is go back into my content aware move tool and i can move oops sorry about that i press the wrong button just click and drag them you know maybe right here this time we'll see how that works and there you go that looks much much better just because the edges were so close to him that it actually created a nice fill you know if i can kind of tell that something is going on here if that's the case then you know you can use the clone stamp tool and look at that we still have that other person from earlier i think the point is is that we can just paint in from another area like so and there you go it looks like it missed a little here as well on the move but the point is that you know you can easily fix these minor details let me see if there's any questions in the chat cool let me see what else i have i have another content aware thing here for you guys so let me open that up let me close some of these files just so that i don't have so many files open but i got a lot of documents open here by the way let me know if you guys have been watching my youtube shorts i'm curious to know if you guys enjoy those because they're easier to make than an actual you know full length tutorial so i can definitely make more of those if you like so let me know in the chat if you've been watching the youtube shorts and if you enjoy them um let's see so the one i was going to show you is this one and i should have closed this file as well so another feature with content aware is the content aware move which is found under the i'm sorry not constantly remove content aware scale so what i'll do is i'll unlock the layer and if i go into edit content aware scale you'll see it here alt shift ctrl c or option shift command c you i'll never remember that shortcut so if you want to use it go right ahead but the point is is that content over scale is this one and it allows you to scale an image without distorting it so watch what happens i'm going to click and drag to the left see that see how i'm just reducing the space in between the buildings but not really distorting the buildings see that that is very different than if i were to let me just duplicate the layer and do it the other way ctrl t command t to transform there you go and then i'll try the same one i'll go into edit content aware scale and i can move this over like so so see the difference see that see how i just made the building skinnier on one and then the other one i just sort of remove the space in between the buildings so photoshop tries to figure out what's important what's not and it just collapses pixels that it doesn't think are important so then maybe if i wanted to fit this like on a you know maybe like a facebook banner or something like that and it was too wide this would be a great way of getting it in there and for those of you that are doing things like you know instructional videos or anything with with screenshots really this is really beneficial for fitting a screenshot into a specific space so when i started writing tutorials and things like that for magazines and and that kind of stuff for blogs i needed to sometimes fit a screenshot into a specific space so that it would work on the layout that the you know publisher had so a lot of times what i used to do in the past is you know just cut out all this empty space and then drag this up like so you know something like that and then try to see if if if that will fit on the space that i was allowed to have but what i found out eventually is that i could just um use what i just showed you i could use content aware fill so i can go into edit not fill content over scale content aware scale and then drag up like so and there you go my image fits perfectly in the space that they gave me like so so it could be used for so many things you just have to think about your projects and if you can fit in that tool for anything that you need cool um west coast baby said i absolutely enjoy the short tutorials thank you so much um addictos al baile i'm sorry if i again if i mispronounce your name i really really apologize but you're asking if i am on tick tock yes i am on tick tock and um let me show you um now that you mention it tik tok i was actually on the adobe tick tock recently but uh we don't need to see that um i'm trying to find my tick tock so my tick tock is uh tic tac jr from ptc there i am and you can see basically what we were just uh where we were just talking about you know like one minute uh video so you can check me out on tic tac uh as well if you like so at jrfromptc is my tick tock and also you know what i'm so silly i just found out that i've been getting uh i think you guys call them tips is that what they're called um and i'm gonna go into full screen for this so i've been getting i believe they're called tips the point is that some of you have been sending me money through the chat and i didn't know so i would like to apologize for everyone who sent me like a tip or something i noticed that mario got a bajalino and i'm sorry if i mispronounced your name mario just sent in five dollars and i really really appreciate that i didn't know that was a thing so i just found out this week so if you sent me something in the past and i didn't say thank you on the stream i really really apologize because i didn't know that was a thing but i see that mario just sent in something so thank you so much mario and if you send something in the past just let me know in the chat and i'll i'll give you shout outs and and just you know 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every day i get messages emails all kinds of things like just from you guys saying you know i hope you get better and wishing me well so thank you so much it really really means a lot to me so i wanted to say thank you and i know i talk about this a lot but i feel bad that i don't say thank you to everyone who sends me messages i literally gotten over 4 000 messages all over social media just you know saying get well you know so thank you so much everybody i really really appreciate it but anyway back to the photoshop tips and tricks i just needed to say thank you um but yeah cool let's see what do we have next i have so many things to show you i don't want to have to i don't want to do just 100 chips every every i mean i really don't do 100 ships every stream but i really have so much stuff but i'll i'll switch it up next week and maybe we'll come back to random tips next week let me know what you think in the chat uh the week after that i mean um so we don't have a lot a lot of time but i do want to show you stuff that maybe you guys don't see anywhere else too often um i've shown this one on my youtube channel but again it's not something that's very known so maybe you haven't seen it before so let me just get rid of these and i have this leaf and what you can do with this leaf is create a pattern so maybe you need to create a pattern like a seamless pattern using the same image but how would you do that well very easy all you need to do is go into select subject and this again we'll use artificial intelligence known as adobe sensei to create a selection around the leaf and you can click on the button there to hide it and just so that we can see i'm just going to create like another layer and put it below that so there's my leaf it looks great here's the tip notice that there's a little bit of fringing that white halo around it to remove it you can click on the layer mask go into filter other minimum and then you can just adjust the slider make sure you have roundness enabled roundness gives you the ability to use decimal points as opposed to squareness with whole numbers so select roundness and just drag it into you don't see that fringing anymore so in this case about 1.8 or so and that looks much much better and that's my leaf so what i can do now is take my leaf and go into edit and select um define pattern the reason it wasn't showing is because i had the layer mask selected so i'm actually selecting the layer edit define pattern there it is and i can call it ptc our leaf wine capital capital letters i don't know so i'll press ok and there you go so now i have a pattern that i can go into my patterns panel and there it is i have leaves right but that's not really what i want i just want a pattern of leaves but i want them all over the place i want them scattered randomly so it looks like i just have a whole bunch of leaves on my pattern but that's not the you know that's not what this does see that see like i can rotate it maybe and but still it doesn't really give me what i want but if you're going to edit and fill which is right here and the reason it's not showing is because i don't have a new layer so edit and fill or better yet just do shift and backspace shift delete on the mac you'll get the fill window and then you can go into patterns so we can fill with a pattern and there it is you see my leaf there it is it's the one the last one that i did is right there it's here at the bottom too if i wanted to select it there it is but it's the last one and i can do i can go into script and select random fill and press okay this is going to bring up a new window unfortunately this window is very deceiving there's going gonna be a lot of trial and error but that's okay it just it is what it is it this is not gonna look like that if i press okay um let me briefly explain what some of these means density just means like how many of these leaves there are right minimum scale factor and maximum scale factor means how big and how small the leaves will be a value of 1 will be 100 of whatever the pattern was so in this case i have maximum scale factor of 0.5 this means that the largest leaf will be 50 the size of the original minimum scale factor 0.3 means that the smallest leaf will be 30 the size of the original and that's pretty good i guess and i can also add color randomness to this so notice as i increase this i get that randomness so i can you know move this around also adjust the brightness randomness you know something like that looks pretty good and i'll press okay we'll see what that does but see what i mean see how the preview is very deceiving it doesn't look like the preview so if you're happy with that you know that's fine you can then create a new layer and do it again so shift and backspace and press ok and that window will come up in this case maybe i'll increase the density a little bit and press okay and there you go the reason that i'm doing them in separate layers is because i think that they look better when you are on separate layers because you can because you can create a drop shadow like so and obviously feel free to play around with your drop shadow as much as you want i'll just press ok for now and then you can hold alt on windows option on the mac click and drag on the fx icon and drop it on to the other layer just so you can see it on the other layer as well so again create a new layer shift backspace press ok press ok one more time and we have a new layer and then alt on windows option on the mac and drag the fx icon onto that layer so on and so forth and you can see that after you do this several times you'll have a pattern that fills the entire screen but i'm going to cheat a little bit just so we can go faster i'm going to select them all and then press ctrl j on windows command j on the mac to select them all and then i'm just going to rotate them like so and maybe even scale them so you know i'm cheating but that's okay and then what i'll do now is just duplicate this bottom layer and i'll just move it around just to like block some of these holes i'm holding all time windows option on the mac to duplicate as i drag so when you have the move tool selected if you hold alt on windows option on the mac you can click and drag and instead of moving the layer that you're on you'll just duplicate it and you'll be moving the duplicate but you know there you go more or less that's good you can turn this on and maybe make this like a dark red and there you go so that's how you would create a pattern um using that technique what i would do in that in this case on the top layer i might you know just get a little creative on the top layer and with the top layer maybe add like a bevel and emboss or something like that just to you know separate it from the from the bottom ones a little bit and you know just give it a little extra detail completely up to you maybe like the bottom half here maybe i will darken those up a little bit so they're a little darker you know completely up to you the point is is that this is how you would create a random fill in photoshop let me know in the chat if this was new to you and if you liked it please click on that like button great question video tt so the question is how can you get back the original uh shapes so let me i think this is what you're acting asking so in photoshop with this will work with patterns layer styles shapes and brushes so on those panels since you asked about shapes video ttl show shapes you can go into window and select shapes and on the flyout menu there's something called legacy shapes and more when you enable that at the very bottom you'll see it here legacy shapes and more and this is all the shapes that were in photoshop before see that all these shapes so i don't know why adobe hides these shapes and like i said do the same thing with brushes and patterns and layer styles but the stuff that was there in previous versions of photoshop are now hidden so if you're watching a tutorial online like a lot of my tutorials and i use any one of those things i'll say oh this is free in photoshop it comes built in photoshop but then in the new versions of photoshop people can't find them because for whatever reason you have to go in there and load the legacy brushes patterns layer styles and all that so if you can't find something it's because they're hidden and that's how you bring them back and you do the same thing just click on the flyout menu of all those other um items and then bring on the legacy whatever it might be so for example if i go into the layers into the styles i should say into the styles tab click on the flap menu and select legacy styles and more see that so they all have them so they're hidden for some reason i'm not sure why you know what we ran out of time but since i was planning on doing one more tip why don't we do one more tip let me see what do i have here for you guys let's do this one because nobody really talks about the knockout filter so if i wanted to create an effect where i have my background layer and then i applied a gradient map using the gradient map is right here by the way in case you're wondering granite map there it is and then whatever you apply you can select one of the different you know gradients to colorize your image and i think i use one of the legacies for that but the point is is that you know if you have a grading map and the one that i chose is that one and you want to create sort of an effect where you have a white square or it could be anything the graphic could be anything but in this case a white square and then apply you know um text over it we'll just say this is los angeles so we just say los angeles if it fits it doesn't fit oh just make it a little smaller and we'll center it here's the centering technique control on windows command on the mac and click on your layer photoshop will load it as a selection with the move tool on that thing that you want to center just click on these icons here and it will center it but anyway so but i want the effect to show in the back right so i want the city in that same effect to show on the brand and the back well how do i do that well most people would select the text layer by holding ctrl on windows command the mac and click and then on this rectangle you can hold alt on windows option on the mac and click and that works and that certainly works that's exactly what i want but what if i tell you you know what instead of los angeles i really wanted to say city of angels well or you know just angels or something like maybe i don't maybe i just want la like l dot a right but then a mask is not editable or maybe you're working on a campaign with different cities you know you have la new york san francisco a bunch of cities and you need to recreate this process in all of them well that can become very tedious if you're having to recreate layer masks for everything so is there a way that we can have a mask that is also editable text well and the answer is yes there is and that is with the knockout feature so let me just delete this layer mask and let me just double click to the side of the layer here and you probably have seen it before it's right here in the center and it's called knockout and it's got two options or really three none shallow and deep and if you hit beep nothing happens if you hit shallow nothing happens what you need to do is bring down the fill opacity see that i see i brought down the fill opacity and now i have a hole you know but that's it well the thing is you need to create a layer group so with the layer group selected i'm going to select these two layers and press ctrl g on windows command g on the mac and notice what happened this layer this knockout layer created a hole on the layer below it and any other layer that i put in there it doesn't have to be just one layer i can put a thousand layers in there it'll cut a hole to everything in between and it will stop when it gets to the end of the group so now i can come in here and i can type l dot a like so so now now it's la oh you know what um never mind just call it city of angels it's not going to fit city of angels but you know you get the idea city uh we'll just do city up so you know you get you get the point the point is that the knockout layer becomes um a mask so to speak it becomes a layer that cuts a hole to everything underneath it up until it gets to the end of the group let me double click on the side of the layer again and that is because we selected the shallow feature shallow deep cuts a hole through everything and it doesn't stop it just makes everything transparent unless we have a background layer so let me press ok notice how this layer here is just a regular layer it's not a background layer let me make it into a background layer if you go into layer new background from layer notice what happens we have the original image see that we have that and it's now a background layer the layer with the lock you've seen this before and then we have the gradient overlay we have the box and now we have this that becomes a mask that cuts a hole to everything up until it gets to that background layer so maybe instead of text maybe we can use this layer to like draw something right so we can we can delete this knockout layer right i can create a new layer and with black i'm just going to create a horrible drawing here actually it doesn't look that good let me let me just create a larger brush bring the hardness down up i mean like so and i'm just going to create these squiggly lines right so now with this layer here i can double click to the side of the layer select the knockout to deep and bring down the fill opacity see that see what happened there and i can keep adding layers here right i can add a new layer and just so that you can see i'm going to paint with red i'm going to paint with red and i'm painting with red but this layer will always cut a hole all the way down until we hit the background layer because we selected deep but if i select shallow it will only cut a hole to the end of the group where that layer is so that is the knockout feature it allows you to create some very interesting masks so i highly recommend that you check it out and think of how you can use this technique for your projects again i would like to thank everybody for watching hit on that click on that like button if you saw something that you learned also big shout out to msi the sponsor for the photoshop training hour again the msi creator z16 is on sale both on b h and the new egg websites link below in the description if you want to check those out make sure to follow me on linkedin link below in the description and also don't forget i'm going to be on adobe live tomorrow i'm going to do another stream tomorrow not on this channel on adobe's behance channel so the link to it is below in the description and if you can't watch it live then you can see the recording but i'll be live tomorrow december 8th and also december 9th as well but tomorrow is the eighth and you'll be able to see me work on this composite so this is the composite that i'll be working on tomorrow on adobe live i look forward to seeing you there and as always thank you so much for being here i really appreciate all the time that you guys have given the photoshop training hour it really means a lot to me thank you for your kind messages and i hope to see you tomorrow on the adobe hence live or if not see you on one of the tutorials or back again in the photoshop training hour next week thank you so much for watching

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Length: 58min 37sec (3517 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 07 2021