22 Hidden Photoshop CC Tricks & Hacks

[Music] [Music] we had a ghetto practical tutorial for a while and there's no program that I know better than Photoshop I've been using it for about 20 years so here are 22 Photoshop tips tricks hacks and techniques that if you use Photoshop it really does help to know [Music] Oh just a couple of things before we start I'm recording this in September of 2019 so I'm using the current version of Photoshop if the Photoshop has developed further or you're still using an older version like Photoshop six or something then not everything might work in the same way or you may not have some of these features available to you at all and the second thing before we start is I would HIGHLY advise that you customize Photoshop to get it working how it suits you you can choose which windows you have opened by going to this window menu in selecting all the different options here with the checkmarks you can drag things around you can snap them into different places you can put them in sub menus once you're done you can go to window workspace and new workspace to save your layout we can go to lock workspace to make sure that nothing gets moved on the toolbar here if you click the lips s and go to edit toolbar you can then choose which tools you have in your toolbar how they work in the sub menus which ones sort of standalone and if you hold shift when you click done this icon turns into a banana I don't know why Before we jump into point number one let me just take a few seconds to tell you about the sponsor of this video Skillshare Skillshare is an online learning community for creators they have over 25,000 classes ranging from photography to software tutorials to business and marketing and lots more while I'm going to be listing some top-level photoshop features in this video skill share is great for diving in a lot deeper with your Photoshop learning take this class on compositing images in Photoshop for example it's over two hours long and you're taking through all the steps right from tips on shooting the initial images through to fine-tuning your final image and everything in between an annual subscription to skill share is less than ten dollars a month but I'll put a link just below this video that will give anyone who clicks it a two month free trial so if you want to join the seven million users already signed up and learn skills that you're curious about or maybe things that will help further your career and hop over to skill share calm by clicking the link below this video and check it out so let's jump straight in to tip number one image assets so I'm not going to take you through all the details on this one because there's so much you can do with it it's probably better if you use Google all the options and the naming systems but I'll show you a quick example of what it can do so as you can notice here I've got Photoshop open and a Finder window and the reason for this will become evident shortly but take note that there are only images at the moment in this folder I've got a Photoshop document here called dads or PSD I'm gonna open this this is a very simple layered Photoshop file and so let me show you image assets you go to file generate image assets and so far nothing's happened but if I change this layer to dad dot jpg watch as you can see this dad - assets folder has just appeared if we're going to here it has a JPEG of that layer so you can do other things so I could change this to Instagram dot PNG and as you can see an Instagram PNG has appeared in there it's even copy the transparency over and if I were to put this in a folder with this and call this group Instagram underscore full dot PNG we get the full version as well as the one without the name in it what we could also do is put a comment there and go Instagram underscore full dot gif and this will make a gift fit as well so maybe we could put everything in a group here and call the group full underscore image dot jpg and now we have a JPEG of the full image but it doesn't stop there I could maybe do 50% that half dot jpg 10% that thumbnail dot JPEG now we've got a tiny little thumbnail version as well as a 50% version as well as our full image here and there really is so much you can do with this you can create control layers that arrange things into subfolders or add suffixes to filenames you can change the bit-depth of pngs you can specify the quality of JPEGs you can specify image sizes in pixels or centimeters or inches of course everything live updates as you work on an image and as you change things this is a really helpful feature if you're designing something like a website where you might need multiple versions of layers and images of different sizes it's really worth of Google to see the extent of what this feature can do and how you can use it to speed up your own workflow so this next tip is how to quickly cut out complex things using the magic that is to refine edge brush let me show you what this can do so here we've got our image and I'm just going to take the quick selection tool and do a very very rough selection of our subjects here so that's a pretty rough selection there I'm going to click selected mask up here and as you can see that is a very poorly cut out person so this is where this brush comes in the refine edge brush and I don't know how this works some kind of witchcraft I assume but just watch was can do I'm just painting here it seems to know what is hair on what is background and it's just letting me paint in the hair and removes the background and now it's even gonna work on her arms here and down here and that's it basically that's done it's a little bit dark at the edge there so if you get to out the settings here and click decontaminate colors then we can see that that just cleans it up a little bit so if we go back to our subject here she is now cut out and I'll show you by putting a solid color layer behind kind of how well that is cut out but let's not stop there let's put her in a new background so let's open up this image here of a street and this is tip number three image reveal all it just resizes your document to include whatever is in the background so tip number four how to match colors from an image so we've got our subject here and there's a lot of issues while she doesn't look right in this street scene there's the fact that her arm is out of focus there's the fact that the light is not quite right largely though the color grading on her is completely different from the color railing on the background so this is what we do we're going to go down here and add a curves layer when you add a curves layer automatically the mask is selected here so what you need to do is click this curves icon because this needs to apply to the curves are not the mask so in the curves layer you have three eye droppers here you have darks mediums and lights if you double click this it'll bring up a color picker and I'm going to pick what I think is the darkest area in this image which is about here it's gossip if you want to save that as a default I'm gonna click yes so I'm gonna double click the medium one I can find a medium gray maybe somewhere around here and again say that as a default I'm gonna take the light one and I'm gonna click the lightest part which is around here and I'm going to click yes again and that's saves as a default now all we need to do is click the dark one find the darkest point on her which i think is here medium one and find a medium grey which i think is brought about here on her dress do it with light Pickett and click the light spot on her which I think it's for just highlight on the Interphone nose here but of course this is now applied to Gray's to the background as well so we just click this which makes the curve layer only apply to the layer immediately below it so we have now taking the colors from there to match them to the background now she's a bit light so you could you know bring her down a little bit again that's more to do with the lighting not the color grade so now let's deal with the blur this is tip number five a field blur so what we've got here is we've got sharp detail on her face and it's falling out focus on her arm there but then what happens here is the road is then InFocus behind so you wouldn't have two planes of focus that you couldn't have two points of focus like that it's not how physics works so what we need is this to be blurred but then this bit to be more blurred as we go back here so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna have the layer selected and go to filter blur gallery and then field blur and what the field blurred does is it enables us to have different points on an image with different levels of blur we've got this point here and that's gonna be the far far point so this is gonna have the maximum amount of blur so I'm gonna really rank that up quite a lot about there and then I'm gonna click another point down here and then this one I'm going to try and match the blur kind of of her arm which seems to be around about there I think and then because these buildings are also coming towards this I'm gonna click another one there and I'm gonna add less blur than the far point and then again here much the same so what we've got now is rather than just having a flat blur all applied to the layer is we've got a graduated blur like okay so as I said before there's many many issues as to why this person doesn't fit in this scene but we're getting a much better result now than when we when we started they're staying on this image for a second tip number six is the seeing the big picture and there's two ways of doing this and I'll show you what I mean basically when we're often working on something so say we've put a curves layer on something like horizon when I bring out her eyes a bit more and we're there kind of tweaking our curves thinking let's bring a bit more color and vibrancy into those eyes but then when you zoom out she has crazy zombie scary eyes and that's because we can't see the big picture when we are zoomed in so there's two really good ways of doing this the first way is to hold down the H key and then click the mouse button and you get a full version of the image and you can move this little square around to zoom back in to wherever you were previously looking or wherever you want to look now the second way is to go to window and go to arrange and go to new window for web document layers so now I've got two windows that have the same document and they are going to live update so I've got an overview and a close-up here so whatever I do will appear in both documents so I can do much subtler effects and I can see the overall effect of that on the image and it's a much more efficient way to edit so tip number seven is how to remove a watermark or a date stamp or something some piece of text on an image and I'm not advocating steering images here just sometimes you need to do it for perfectly legitimate reasons so going from this photo up and it's photo but someone's put a horrible big watermark right across the middle where I've actually got an action set up for this so just watch this there we go gone magic let me show you how that worked so what I did is I got the magic wand tool and I just selected one part of that logo and I went to select similar basically that has selected that you've just got to find a way of selecting the hole to mark and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to expand that selection by two pixels I find that it's generally good enough if it's just sharp text then very simple edit content aware fill that'll do and do you select that and what it's done there is you put a layer over the top you just flatten that down and there we have our own water marked image so this next one a lot of you will know but if you don't this is really worth knowing this is the frequency split and this is a real basic fundamental of anyone who retouches people's skin and it works on skin very well but it can work on any textured surface basically what it does is it separates out the color from the texture and it does it in a clever way so let me show you so I'm going to show you with a picture of me to avoid embarrassment of anyone else with all my horrible skin blemishes and those dark circles under my eyes which you guys love to go on about you'll have to go on about how I look tired and the Restonic tired is because I am tired because I've got two children and I don't get very much sleep and when I do get sleep those dark circles go away but here I haven't got sleep and I have dark circles so let me show you what you can do here so let me just zoom into my face there I am in all my beauty what we need to do here is create firstly a copy of the background layer we're gonna call this blur you can call it whatever you like but what you don't need to do is blur it and you need to blur it to the point at which it's all the details kind of gone so about there is good then you need to create another copy of the background layer and bring it up to the top and I'm going to call this one text you can call it again whatever you like and this is the clever part so you go to image and apply image what you need to do here is select the layer as whatever the layer was that you blurred and select the blending mode to subtract now these values need to be set like this the scale needs to be too and the offset needs to be a hundred and twenty-eight scaled to offset one to eight then you click OK and you get this kind of high-pass filter look then you go to the blending mode of that layer and you select linear light and what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to group these to show you if I turn the group off and on it looks exactly the same because what we've got here is we've got just the texture and just the color as two separate layers so I'm going to put a layer in between I'm gonna get a brush and I'm gonna make you very feathered about that big I find the opacity is good to do somewhere between ten and fifteen so I'm gonna get for eleven here and first I'm going to remove these dark circles under my eyes so what I'm going to do so I'm gonna hold the alt or option button click a color and just paint in a bit do it again keep selecting different colors and you can see that that is beginning to lighten that area there I turn that off and on you can see what's happening there but it's not messing around with the texture at all and what you can actually do is you can actually do things where you can take a whole load of texture from somewhere else and apply it so I could this side of my nose here I could take the texture from down here which is a lot smoother and the color has remained C so I could take maybe do this too from down here and then we can see was making quite a bit of difference there and what's great about having this as a whole separate group here or I can just turn it off and on is I can change the opacity so if I think that's a bit much I can put it down to maybe sixty five percent or maybe any a bit maybe I should have it you know twenty-eight percent there so it's just a little bit and that means that you've got this kind of safety net where it's always easy to overdo editing delay to come back and go actually I'm just gonna pull that back a bit and this is not a comment on the ethics of retouching I've got a whole separate video on that it's called we need to stop doing this you can search up if you want you want a good ethical shorthand for this the two-week rule is good if it's something on your skin or ever if it's going to be gone in too weeks you can probably remove it I mean don't change the bone structures on people's faces but if you shot a wedding and the bride's got a spot and she wants it out on a portrait then you don't insist on keeping it in because it was there on the day you just you know call your own shots there this next one my simple one rotating the clone stamp if you want to maybe get rid of this highlight here what you can do is open the clone source window with your clone stamp and you can change the angle I'm gonna change it to maybe 180 and then whatever I do there it's going to mirror it you see how my brush and the source is being mirrored there and if I hold this and I scale it around it will give you a live preview of how that is rotating so tip number 10 is being able to rotate an image without actually affecting the image and so here I have a photograph of an ice-cream trolley that I took on a beach recently if you hold down are you can then spin the view so you can see how that looks without actually affecting the image itself there's a tool here double click that to reset it and this leads me to tip number 11 I've taken this photo of this ice-cream trolley on a beach and it's wonky so what I want to do is I want to straighten it out and you would do that probably by using the crop tool which you can also do by the way by holding down command or ctrl on the PC and just drawing a line along the horizon with your crop tool there you go there's your straight shot but uh-huh it's cut off the corner there and a big chunk of the flag so that is a problem so we undo that so when you rotate it what you can do is click this content-aware box here it expands the crop and then it's gonna work it's Photoshop witchcraft and there we go we have a straight image but with everything in the shot and it's created texture in the corners and I think that looks pretty good you wouldn't know I don't think the quick tip again for number 12 if you were to do any adjustment where you've got a dialog box say here in saturation for example say we'd been messing around loads with the hues and you decide that it's not for you you want to redo it rather than having to click cancel and going back into image and adjustments hue/saturation if you just hold the alt or option key that cancel turns to reset and it just resets your settings for whatever dialog box you've got open another quick tip for number 13 how to change your brush size a user you may have seen me doing so far in the tutorial because I'm on a Mac I'm holding ctrl + option and then I click and go left and right for size and up-and-down for hardness you can do the same thing on a PC but it's Alt + right click you can also change the size with the square brackets and if you hold shift and press the square brackets you change the feather another quick tip for number 14 it has to quickly change the color of your brush because I'm on a Mac I'm using ctrl option command but if you're on a PC you can use shift alt and right click so when you've got your brush on your document you hold those keys and click and you can quickly change the color to whatever color you want to be drawing with so tip number 15 is the power of the spacebar making selections and paths let me show you on this image going back to the eye here they say I wanted to use the elliptical marquee to cut out this bit of the eye here I might easily get it my starting position wrong you see so there I am but if I hold spacebar I can move the whole thing until it's right it's also most paths say I've drawn an anchor point here and I drew another one here but actually I want it up here I can use the spacebar to move it sit down here holding space and I can move the point around before actually commit to it so tip number 16 is being able to select colors from other places other than within photoshop so let me show you how you do this I'm just gonna click I to get to the eyedropper here and if I hold that and move around you can see it's looking at all the colors in the iris of the eye there but if I wanted to read maybe of this YouTube logo up here I click in the document and then I move the eyedropper out and over this red here and then forget back to my brush I have a red of a YouTube logo tip number 17 is how to add gloss and shine to things using blend if so I gotta open this image here of this woman and if you look at her lips she's got lipstick on but it's fairly matte so say I wanted to add a gloss to that lipstick this is what we do so firstly we I'm gonna make a feathers brush about that big I'm gonna create a new layer go select white maybe smaller I'm just gonna draw in where I think glossy shine would be there we go we're not finished obviously because that looks rubbish I'm gonna double click the layer and then I'm gonna go to this blend if bit and the underlying layer here I'm gonna pull this slider up so this gloss starts to disappear and then I'm gonna hold alt or option and that's gonna split the slider that's gonna give me a graduated fade of that gloss and so there we have matte lips glossy lips you can also do this to make things that wetter this guy here is he's angry look because he's covered in water and who wouldn't be so I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to add a low white all around here where I think he would be a bit shinier double click again the same technique pull that up hold alter split split it and then we have it's much shinier man if you want to dull that down a bit you just go to the layer mode and go something like soft light it just adds a little bit of extra dimension to that image so tip number 18 is something you might be familiar with if you see my six editing tips video and that is the power of sixteen bits to get rid of artifacting so here we have a picture of a woman wearing a white shirt and what I've done is I've made a selection of her shirt and I've created a solid color there and come on to turn the shirt shirt kind of black and glossy so I'm going to add a multiply layer to that to add the black color to it but then I won't need to apply the glossy kind of look to it so I've done a white layer again with the selection I'm really the same blend if thing where I maybe come up to around here to give it a kind of kind of glossy silky look but what the issue is here is you can see that we've got this is starting to look a bit like a graphics from a 90s video game in that all the colors are separating out loads so what we do is we change the mode from 8-bits to 16-bits and that has sorted that out so once you've changed is 16-bit you need to flatten it and then turn it back to 8-bit and the image will be fine from then on so tip number 19 is if you press command option 2 on a Mac or ctrl alt 2 on a PC it will select a luminosity mask I've set a curves layer there and it should only be affecting the highlights if I were to invert this mask this is just affecting the shadows now and you can do some really creative things with that it's also just quite a powerful very useful feature if you ever want to just affect the highlights or just affect the shadows of something you can create a luminosity mask via that combination of keys the tip number 20 I'm going to use this image of a car it's kind of a quick and dirty way to change the color of something so we could spend ages masking this out or we could get a hue and saturation layer spen age is kind of tweaking that but a way that I like to do it that works well especially you've got an object that's kind of a bit glossy like this is to go to select color range and then we can just select here the color of our car then I'm going to go to a solid color and I'm gonna change this to maybe a blue something like that and then change the blend mode to color so that car now looks quite a realistic blue and we can change you know the color of this to wherever we want it's quite a nice very quick way of changing the color of something so while we're here I show you tip number 21 which is how to make more than one mask on a layer and that is to use groups so if I create a new group and I move this car layer into the group I can then drag the mask up to the group and that mask is going to affect all the layers in that group so if I wanted to create maybe a darker mask here but I still wanted to just be on the car but maybe I wanted to graduate that mask from the top to the bottom there or the other way around maybe like that then i've got my own mask on the curves layer but they're still being affected by the car layer there maybe I want tries another color on the car maybe I want to have a kind of a pinky color and I want that to be a color layer but I want that to graduate from one side of the car to the other so this layer now has its own mask as well as the curves filter and they are both affected by the the car mask there and of course you can create groups within groups so if I want to create another group I can put the whole lot in there and then make a new mask for there and have its own mask that affects that mask and all the other masks all combined so this is my last tip tip number 22 and this is how to create a brush of anything you like in Photoshop and this uses the history panel because when you use the history stage you can go backwards but you can also go forwards so let me show you what I mean here so I'm just going to go to my filter gallery and I'm just gonna apply a graphic pen filter to this image here so we've got this kind of like slightly sketchy take on me video kind of look to it so now I've got this filter I'm gonna go to my history panel and I'm gonna set the history point to this filter gallery option by clicking here but then I'm gonna go back to where I first opened it and then I'm gonna go to my history brush and now with my history brush when I draw I get that filter and you don't need to just do just one thing here so you could have a gradient map over this as well or you could do a mask here have a graduated kind of color over there go flatten that and then I'm going to go to the merge down my latest history state and said that as a state get back to open and now my history brush does that so you can set basically anything you can do in Photoshop you can set as a brush and paint in where you wanted to now before I go I'm just going to show you how to apply Lightroom presets to images in Photoshop because a few people who've bought my presets were asking so it's fairly simple if you open a raw photo you'll have the Camera Raw dialog box if it's a JPEG or something you need to get to filter and Camera Raw filter so now we've got the Camera Raw feature open and very easy to apply preset you just go up to this little icon here with the sliders and here we have my presets here just gonna apply maybe an arrow Chrome you click OK and there is your preset applied to your image this is my Kodak error prone preset by the way from my preset pack 3 if anyone wants these presets I'll put a link in the description below this video I'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Jamie Windsor

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Length: 29min 49sec (1789 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 27 2019

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