60 Minutes of Photoshop Tips & Tricks Presentation

welcome back to another very exciting tutorial here at the photoshoptrainingchannel.com my name is soos ramirez and you can find me on twitter @jrfromptc tricks it's a collection of some of my favorite photoshop workflows tips and techniques and one thing i do want to mention is as for watching if you enjoy what you're looking at leave a comment below and let me know what your favorite tip or trick is before we get started with the recording I want to mention that I'd have a new Instagram account if you'd like to add me on Instagram my username is jr. from PTC okay here's a recording to the presentation hey we are now live so thanks everyone for attending now I have 236 or to 237 participants so I'd like to take this time to introduce today's presenter Zeus from arrows Zeus is a digital graphics expert and online educator specializing in Adobe Photoshop Zeus is also the founder of the Photoshop training channel one of the most popular Photoshop YouTube channels in the world toriel's have been featured on many of the most well-known photography and design related websites today azuz is here to give sheriff share with us some of his favorite Photoshop tips and tricks this all welcome azuz thanks again for being here hey Andrew thanks for having me and thank you everybody for being here on a Saturday or Sunday for some of you I was looking at the chat window and I know we have people from all over the world so if you guys want to just type where you're from go right ahead I'm currently in Alameda California which is in the San Francisco Bay Area and I believe Andrew you're in Beverly Hills California that's right alright and Cathy and Daymond I'm not sure where you guys are at but we got Cathy's in Bakersfield our ugly so California India nice it's extremely international group today's quite got Canada Germany India Boston Santa Rosa Florida I think we saw Sweden earlier awesome yes so a Sanger mansion what I'm going to talk about today are just a whole bunch of different Photoshop tips and tricks and they're not going to be any particular order and I got the idea for this presentation out of a video that I did maybe two months ago which turned out to be one of my most popular videos on YouTube and it went viral and it was simply called five Photoshop tricks that you probably don't know and if you look at the comments most people only knew one some people didn't know any so I decided to think about all the different Photoshop tips and tricks that I knew they were similar to that video and come up with like a one-hour presentation with similar tips and tricks so if you saw that video then I hope you enjoy this presentation because it will be along the same lines as I mentioned earlier they're in no particular order so I'm just going to start out by showing you different techniques tricks shortcuts things like that if you have any questions you can type them in the chat window I won't be able to read it as I'm working but if if it's a question that Andrew can answer he'll answer it if not Andrew will interrupt me and I will try to answer your question so feel free to type any questions you have so I'm currently working in the latest version of Photoshop but the majority of things that I'm going to show will work on older versions of Photoshop so you don't need to have the latest and greatest version if you have an older version like cs6 or anything like that you should be fine okay so the first thing I'm going to show is something very simple when you're creating a new file if for whatever reason you need to have two different units of measurement when creating the file then you can hold shift click on the unit of measurement and choose another one so notice what happens now we have inches for width and height we have pixels if we don't hold shift as we're making those changes then both units of measurement change at the same time so if you ever come across a problem in one way of solving it is to have two different units of measurements hold shift click on the drop down release the shift key and then you'll have your two different units of measurement and that's a under new window dialog box the next thing I wanna show is something called zoomify zoomify is a script in Photoshop that creates an HTML file with a zoomable image so you can display a high resolution image in your website for example and not worry about it first of all being copied you can zoom in so you can see the details in the image so I have this file here which is 4,200 pixels wide and if I go into file export zoomify it's going to bring up this window you can select where you want to save the file it's going to be an HTML file actually multiple files but the file we're going to be looking at through the browser is going to be an HTML file you can click on the folder button to select the destination of your file the quality of the file and the width height and then you can decide to open and browse or as soon as the file is created which is what I'm going to do then I'm going to press ok Photoshop is going to take a minute and it's going to open up a browser and actually I just thought about something I'm not sure if my browser is being shared Andrew can you can you tell me if you can see the browser because I don't think you can it's kind of like a once again that pattern the blue lines and white lines oh here we go I can see it now you can see an outro Firefox actually but yeah so this window as you can see it's a HTML file so you can put that on your web site Photoshop created that automatically I can click on this plus sign to zoom in and you can see the details of that high resolution image I can zoom out and I can move it around I can also click on this box here and move a box around so as you can see Photoshop created that automatically and then something you may want to do is take your HTML file and maybe put it on your server somewhere and then display it online go back in to cool I didn't I didn't even know you could do that so X I'm learning already yes oh and by the way guys um this is being recorded so if you're taking notes and I'm going a little fast don't worry you can always come back and re-watch the video alright so that was a zoomify script and once again that's in the export menu here at the bottom zoomify the next thing I'm gonna show is how to open up a flattened version of a Photoshop file with many many layers so sometimes you may be working on a file and it has a ton of layers maybe thousands of layers and it takes a while to open the files are big and it takes your computer some time to open but maybe you don't want to actually work on the file maybe you just want to show the file to a client or maybe you just want to save a flattened version so you can share it on Facebook or any other social media so one way of just opening a flattened version of a file but multiple layers is by using a keyboard shortcut but before I show you what that shortcut is I'm just gonna go to file open and I'm going to open this file called Winter Soldier oh and actually a little side note you can see the sumif live folder here in the files that were created with that zoomify script we ran earlier so it creates all these other files but anyway back to the opening up a flat version of a file with multiple layers first I'm just going to open up the file normally so you can see what the file normally looks like it's not going to take too long to open but you actually I don't know you can see it through the Kinect software but there was like a spinning icon and it took a little bit to open it's not a giant file I don't want to open up a giant file in this presentation just because that it wanders the computer to crash or have any problems with connect however this file does have a lot of layers as you can see here on the right now if this were a bigger file it may take longer to open and you may not want to wait for it and there is just no need of opening up a big file with all these layers if all you want to do is show it to somebody or just do a quick save as and save it as a JPEG for social media so one thing that you can do is go to file open and you can hold the shift key in the Alt key best shift option in the Mac and then you can click on open sorry about that select the file select the file by holding shift alt selected and then click on open and Photoshop is going to ask you if you want to read the composite data instead meaning do you want to open up a flattened version of this file if you press ok Photoshop opens up this file really really quickly as you saw I didn't get any I don't get that icon telling me the file was loading and notice that it's now just a flattened version so from this point I can go in and save it save it for the web or you know save save do a save as for example or do anything like that so I can share this file with somebody or maybe I'm just showing it to a client and I wanted to open up quickly I don't want to deal with any of the layers and I'm just showing them the flat version of this file now you have to be very very careful because if I decide to actually do some work and I create a new layer and maybe paint on it and then close it and save it this will override the file so you will lose all your layers so you have to be very very careful when you do this technique because if I click on save and I try to open this file again notice that my work has been lost so be very very careful when you use this shortcut the next thing I'm going to talk about is sometimes you may want to keep a history log of the steps they have you taken while working with a file almost like a tutorial in a way almost like a written tutorial and to a certain degree and what that means is that I can actually export a file a text file that contains all the steps that I've done to a file so maybe I'm working on this image here and I apply certain filters and maybe certain adjustments and I want to know exactly what those were but I forgot because it's been maybe a day two days a week a month or whatever but if you want to keep a history of the steps that you've done to a certain file you can enable Photoshop to keep track of those steps so I'm just going to undo those changes and I'm going to go into the Preferences so I'm going to press ctrl K that's command K on the Mac to bring up the Preferences and under history log this tab here on the left side I can check this box and I can keep a text file and I can choose where this text file will be so I'll just call it Photoshop edit log and I'll add the word tips just so I know that it was for the tips presentation I'll click on save and press okay now if I do those adjustments again Photoshop is going to record them so blur Gaussian blur I think we did and then we did a curves adjustment and this time maybe we'll do another investment maybe another filter maybe I don't know pinch or something like that just so okay so I know that doesn't look too good but that's not the point the point is the father's being created I'm going to go and disable that file of that setting now I'm going to press ctrl K command key on the Mac go back into history log uncheck this press ok now I'm going to open up that file and again I may have problems sharing it on screen but I'll figure it out don't worry about that let me just go ahead and open up that file going into my folder here and I'm pretty sure you can't see it right andrew is not it's not showing on screen you have that mesh thing again okay so then you can see this right so Photoshop created of this file and it contains the adjustments that I made the Gaussian blur what the radius was curves and the pinch filter so Photoshop can keep a log of all the adjustments that you make to an image in case you ever want to go back and figure out what you did so that's what the history log can do for you and I'm actually gonna bring this down okay another thing that Photoshop can export for you that you might find very useful are keyboard shortcuts so if I press ctrl alt shift K command option shift key on the Mac you will get the keyboard shortcut menu this allows you to edit your keyboard shortcuts if you wanted to or apply keyboard shortcuts to things that don't have keyboard shortcuts applied to them but anyway the one thing that you can do here that it's really cool is click on this summarize button and it's going to create an HTML file that contains whatever keyboard shortcuts you have in this case default keyboard shortcut since I don't have any custom keyboard shortcuts applied to this installation of Photoshop so I'm just going to just call it Photoshop default keys and it's gonna come up and I'm pretty sure again that you're getting that weird screen right Andrew but I not ever back up yeah here you go so then this is the export that I just did the Photoshop people key file that I created it's an HTM file and as you can see you have the keyboard shortcuts free items that have a keyboard shortcut applied to them so you can print this out if you want to and then you'll know the keyboard shortcuts that are assigned to the different tools and menus so I'm gonna cancel this and Marie conceptions she says when you come back like stop sharing and then you would share your desktop instead of just one app and that might take care of that mesh pattern thing perfect thanks Ann Marie and actually I think that was the last time that I'm going to go out of photoshop but things out if for whatever reason I leave the Photoshop app and go somewhere else I'll do that when I come back thanks Emery okay so now we're gonna talk about a different tool that it's they might be helpful to a lot of people especially once you have friends and family that figure out that you know how to do Photoshop and they want you to work on their family photos and one of the things that this is actually a photos of my wife Michelle which is little girl here the little girl in the video and the photos and her twin brothers and we got a whole bunch of family photos when there were kids and from her dad who is Ellen standing there behind the horse and it could be a really daunting task if you're scanning one picture at a time cropping it and straining it but with Photoshop you can scan multiple images onto one file in and have Photoshop do all the cropping and straining for you so we have this scan this is an actual scan of three photographs and to automatically crop and strain those photos I'm going to go into file our mate crop and straighten photos Photoshop is going to crop straighten those photos and then create different files for each photo so this is one file here this is another layer and this one here at this point you can decide to maybe do an image rotation just so the photograph is facing the right way and then you can save these files onto your computer so that's one quick way of taking your family photos and digitizing them nice now I'm going to close all these files and I'm going to work only with one file which is this one here and I'm going to start with this folder here on top it's called color match and I'm going to be working with this image here and for those of you that follow me you might recognize this photograph I created a tutorial called cinematic color grading where I show it how to use the curves adjustment layer to apply cinematic effects to a photograph and it's a really good technique and it's really good for you to understand how curbs work but sometimes you don't have that kind of time and you just want to match a specific look right away so maybe I want to match the matrix look this is a screenshot from a YouTube video and I want to match that look onto this image and one of the quickest and fastest ways of doing it is by using the color match option in Photoshop and the way that works is you select the layer that you want to apply the color match to and go to image adjustment match color then you select the source in this case the tips presentation file dot PSD then you select the layer that you want to reference so in this case the matrix layer and right away this layer takes the colors of the matrix layer and you can play with the luminance values to make better adjustments the color intensity and you can fade it to zero if you wanted to or anywhere in between and I'm just going to press ok so that is one way in which you can match the colors of an image this technique is actually good as well if you have if you're making a composite and you have two different images with two different color tones and if I were to mask out the background now this character sort of seems like using the matrix movie and it looks a little bit more realistic simply because we match the colors now I do get a advise that this color matching doesn't always work try it and see how it works with your images so the luminance values of both images have to be similar in order for them to to work and actually you know what let me just undo this if you guys are interested I wasn't really planning on showing this but if you guys were really interested on figuring out how to do that with the curves adjustment layer I recommend that you learn it it's a very valuable skill to have I have a video on that on my youtube channel and I'll quickly go through the steps essentially you create a curves adjustment layer and you have to use the red green and blue channels to achieve that effect if you drag the curve up you add light in this case red light and if you drag the points down you take a weight light in the opposite color in this case I N so essentially you have to add cyan um at some green and that's blue and then play with the contrast of the image and then you can come back into the different channels until you find the right shade of blue or green that you're going for so it's a 30 minute tutorial on doing color grading using the curves adjustment layers so check it out on my website photoshoptrainingchannel.com okay so now we're going to move on to the the next Photoshop trick and that one will be one that I used in my video 5 Photoshop tricks that you probably didn't know and this is one that a lot of people like so essentially when you're working in Photoshop you can open two windows that have the same file and it makes it easier for you to make certain adjustments so let me first show you how to open up the same window and excuse me the same file in two windows so I'm going to be using this Italian castle and I'm going to go into window range new window for and this is the file that I'm working with tips presentation file dot PSD and that created a new window with the same file exactly the same then I can go into window arrange to up vertical or to a horizontal I'm going to choose to up vertical and now I have the two files or actually a two windows same file side-by-side then I can zoom in on one so maybe I'm going to do my work on this one maybe I want to remove the Taurus so I'm going to zoom in and on this side here I just want to see what the file looks at 100% so I'm just going to double click on the zoom tool oops sorry I had the wrong window select it let me up 100% here and on this one I'm just going to zoom in really really close then in a blank layer' I'm going to use the clone stamp tool and I'm going to sample from all layers and I'm just going to try to clone these people out so I'm going to want to zoom in excuse me I'm going to hold alt to find a spot to find out source and then I'm gonna start painting away those tourists notice that as I'm painting the tourists away on this window on the window on the left the changes are applied on the fly so I could see how my adjustments are going to look at a hundred percent so I don't have to zoom in and then zoom out just to get an idea of what the effect is looking like so this really helps you out when you're making fine details and also you want to know what it looks like on the entire image and you're not stuck with just two windows you can do a third window if you want it to so you can go into window arrange new window 4 and now we have it we have a tab on this window but I can go into window arrange 3 up vertical so now I can have three different zoom levels and work on this image and then I can see how this works on 3ds from zoom level so I'm going to go back and I'm going to continue cloning that out notice other changes are automatically applied on the window on the left and the window on the right also if I probably know that by holding the spacebar you can pan on the window we hold shift and spacebar you pan on all other windows at the same time so you can move around the three windows all at the same time just by holding shift as you use the spacebar let me go ahead and close through these windows and Rick on the next tip so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to show you how to use the black and white adjustment layer to control the luminance values of different colors so we have this photographs here of Florence and I'm going to create a new black and white adjustment layer this adjustment layer here and what this layer does is it turns everything black and white and then you can move these sliders around to either lighten up or darken the colors of the slider that I'm working with in this case the red slider I'm making the Reds darker or I can make them brighter you can actually use these sliders to control color if we change the blend mode if we change the blend mode from normal to luminosity the color stays but now we're only controlling the luminance values so notice what happens here I'm making the red starker or I can make the Reds brighter and I can do the same thing for the yellows greens the hands loose in magentas and we also have a layer mask so maybe if you want to work in the sky I can make a selection and actually I'll delete it now and then add my layer mask but I have the selection and if I create a new layer mask by clicking on the layer mask icon then it automatically creates a layer mask out of that based on that selection so I'm only going to affect the sky now so if I make adjustments I'm only affecting the sky and if I want to maybe adjust the water I can duplicate this layer clicking and dragging it over into the new layer icon or you can press ctrl J command J on the Mac and you can invert this layer mask the ctrl I command I to invert and now I can control the water and actually since this is a Photoshop tips presentation I'm going to show you another quick tip that I just thought about I'm going to delete this layer mask and Kazu you make yeah public people or at least one person is asking if you could repeat that tip sure sure I'll finish what I was talking about then I'll do it all over again so this layer controls the sky now I created an adjustment layer to control the water but I deleted the layer mask and what I was going to show was that I can duplicate the layer mask by holding alt option on the Mac and it duplicates the layer but we still have the same problem we have the sky selected it not the water but if you throw in a keyboard shortcut there you can duplicate the layer and make the inversion at the same time so the shortcut is alt shift option shift on the Mac notice the difference of the layer mask I'll do that again I'll delete the layer if I hold alt option on the Mac and shift click and drag that layer it duplicates it and it inverts it at the same time that's what that does so now with one layer control of water or the bottom of the image at least and then with the other layer it can control the sky or the top of the image now let me just do this all over again really quickly it seems that some people might have missed it and that's ok oh yeah if you don't want to repeat it people are making a good point in the chat saying it is being recorded so she can watch it again top you want to just move on well yeah I'm gonna move on but I'm also going to repeat it in a different way since that was still part of that presentation but yeah thanks so um yeah no worries so a lot of people like this technique but they've actually have seen it in the past they just don't remember just because the other interface is so confusing but it's really the same thing so I'm just going to go through a better way of doing this it may be a little more confusing but at the end I think you get better results so what I just showed is using the black and white adjustment layer setting it to luminosity in controlling the colors controlling the luminance values of the colors using this adjustment layer that's what we just saw now there's another way of doing it that I personally like best it's a little more confusing for some people but I think you get better results so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to click on the Florence layer so it's active then I'm going to convert it to a smart object converting things to a smart object allows you to apply different filters and effects and makes them editable so they're non-destructive then I'm going to go into filter Camera Raw filter in the camera raw filter I have this icon right here that I'm going to click on HSL grayscale notice the three tabs hue saturation and luminance so from this window I can make the same adjustments as I was doing before without the adjustment layer the added value of doing this is now that and now I also have control of the exposure contrast highlights shadows all kinds of things just from this one window and I know it can be a little bit more confusing because there's a whole bunch more sliders and tabs that you can click on but if you're familiar with Camera Raw just know that that last tip I showed you with the black and white adjustment layer is essentially using the luminance tab on the HSL grayscale tab and let's just say that I'm happy with the changes I made and I know the image doesn't look great and that's not really I'm not really concerned about the workflow I'm more concerned about the actual tips here so I'm just going to press ok now notice what happens here I get a layer mask so I can still do what I was doing before I can paint out the areas with black that I don't want the filter affecting I can also double click on the Camera Raw filter label here which brings up camera Roggin and I can continue making adjustments if I'm not happy with them and I can also click on this icon here which brings up the blending options and I can bring down the opacity or I can even change the blend mode to something else if I choose to so this is just the more advanced version of using the black and white adjustment layer to control the luminance values of different colors now I'm going to talk about using the blend if sliders and a lot of people either don't know about the blend if sliders and if they do they only use the RGB blend if sliders they don't necessarily use one channel at a time and using one channel at a time can have a lot of benefits so in this section I'm going to show you how to replace the sky and add these clouds onto this image here so what I'm going to do is I'm going to double click on the side of the layer tube to bring up the layer style window here and I can use the blend if sliders to reveal the things in the back so I'm going to go into the blue Channel and I'm telling Photoshop to use the underlying layer as the layer to hide pixels from so notice that if I'm clicking and dragging on this slider hiding everything that's not blue or better yet any anything that let me just cancel this if you go into the channels panel here let me show this layer I go into the channels panel you can see what the blue channel looks like so essentially anything that's white up here I'm sort of keeping and if I come back here I'm using the blend of slider blue channel underlying layer so I'm hiding out everything that doesn't really have blue in it which of course is straight doesn't have it and the buildings but the sky though so that's stained and when to when I get to a certain point things are going to get to Jagan I'm going to start erasing part of the sky here so what I can do is I can hold alt option on the Mac to split these two points in half and now I can have a smoother transition notice a transition up here and maybe I can keep pulling this one further to the right as far as I can and maybe somewhere there now I can also use the red Channel and do the opposite I want these buildings to come through and hide the sky so there's some orange here so I know there are some red so I can click and drag this over to the left and the same thing starts happening us or getting rid of the sky up here so I can hold alt option on the Mac split those in half and create a smoother transition so that sky replacement became really easy to do by using the blend if sliders with the different channels you just have to remember how colors are created there are some red in the orange there's obviously some blue in the sky there's also cyan of course it all depends on the image so using the blend if sliders can allow you to create very complex selections really quickly another thing that you can do is maybe when you're done you still see some of the sky for example here on the sign then you create what I like to call a garbage mask so I can click on the lasso tool and then just make a very rough selection here at the bottom it doesn't have to be perfect with that selection I can hold alt option on the Mac click on the layer mask icon and everything that I selected is black I'm going to hold alt option on the Mac and click on the layer mask icon so you can see what that layer mask looks like and I miss the spot here so I'm going to fill it with black bolt backspace to fill with foreground color option backspace on the Mac and the foreground color is currently black so that's the color that's going to fill with if I hold alt option again click on the layer mask icon it brings the image back so at this point the one thing that I probably would do is click on this chain icon here to remove the link between the layer and the layer mask now I can move the layer independently and just maybe adjust the clouds accordingly usually when you're making any sort of composition you want to make sure that the ground plane in the sky are aligned and where the ground plane and the sky meet is a horizon line we can see the horizon line here and on the image in the bottom is somewhere here so if those are sort of matching then you can create a better composite usually when you see images don't match is because the two images have very different perspectives so if I had two clouds down here somewhere they wouldn't look right just because the perspective is off so you have to remember that even when working with skies you have to keep the perspective in mind so but the easiest way of knowing whether it takes are in perspective is by having two horizon lines that are pretty close to each other and at least when it comes to compositing photographs what I mean by horizon line is where the ground plane in the sky meet and in images that contain water and the sky is very easy to see it's right about there so this is more or less I would place these two images together any questions before I move on Andrew well just a lot of compliments people love it it awesome okay cool so now I'm going to talk about density and feather and mask so I have this solid here and it's black but it could be whatever color it really doesn't matter I'm just going to be mostly talking about the layer mask so I'm going to click on the layer mask and I'm just going to create a selection it's just circle and I'm going to fill it with black so that's going to create hole and we see white because that's our background color down here if I disable that you will see the checkerboard indicating that it's transparent pixels anyway I'm going to click back on the mask and in the properties panel right up here I have some sliders that I'm going to be talking about but before I do that if you don't have the properties panel you can click on window properties and then you should see this panel here say I mentioned before you have to have the layer mask selected and these two sliders are two sliders that I don't see a lot of people working with you can create non-destructive adjustments to your layer mask for example you can feather the layer mask feathering means that the edges are blurs learn in a longer sharp and what I mean by non-destructive is that I can bring this back and it's sharp again density you can think of density sort of like fading the layer mask at 100% you have your layer mask showing according to the luminance values using the layer mask in this case I use 100% black therefore I have a hole and there's no transparency I can see straight through but if I bring the density down notice what happens it starts turning gray so I'm bringing the opacity of that white down so it's now gray look at the layer mask icon if I hold alt option on the Mac notice what the mask actually looks like now it's now gray it's no longer black therefore there's some transparency and you can see straight through the layer below if I bring the density down to zero the layer mask is gone therefore you can see the entire layer if I hold alt option on the Mac click on the layer mask you'll see that it's the layer is now black as it was originally if I start bringing the density back up you'll notice the circle star appearing again and at 100% we have layer masks as we had it for and you can use a combination you can use feather and some density so this really brings a lot of power to your layer mask since you don't really have to go in there and maybe use other techniques I've seen people do things like for example if this was their layer mask people go into filter blur Gaussian blur to try to blur that mask and then maybe if it's too strong they might do something like adjustments levels and then just bring bring the levels levels down to sort of get that effect the problem with doing this is that it's destructive so you can you can make those same adjustments by using the density slider and the feather slider on all layers okay so I'm talk about layer masks and now I'm going to talk about what you do when you're applying different layer masks to a layer to achieve a certain effect now I'm not saying that this is the best effect in the world but it just sort of makes it obvious that I'm trying to apply effects to the girl here and I have three different adjustment layers that are applying this effect again don't worry about the effect worry more about the technique with layer mask so if I want it to make an adjustment to the layer mask because maybe I notice that I missed her jeans for example the effect is not applied under jeans and if I look at the layer mask I'll see that yeah the the jeans are missing from from that selection I will need to paint with white to apply that effect onto her jeans err the problem is that I have three different adjustment layers using three different layer masks so I want to go in there and paint all three adjustment layers just to get that effect a better way of working is by using one layer mask in what you could do is just put all those adjustments into a group and let me make sure she's not in the group so I have a group it contains all the adjustments and just apply one layer mask to that group and just delete all the others so now one layer mask controls all the adjustments so if you need to make any changes let me just decrease the hardness there so now I'm using one layer mask when um applying these three different effects so that's a little quick tip there you don't have to worry about adjusting be multiple layer mask when using adjustment layers just put all the adjustment layers into a group and you use one layer mask or all those adjustments now what if you're trying to do something similar but you have multiple layers and you want to have the flexibility of moving those layers around if you have one layer mask then that won't work because layer mask is static if you move one of the layers the layer mask won't move with it and if it does it will destroy the effect so one thing you can do is take advantage of blend modes and groups if you notice when I click on a particular group any group the default blend mode is passed through but let me just enable this adjustment layers here if notice that when I enable the adjustment layers they also affect the background I don't want the adjustment layers to affect the background I only want them to affect the two girls here but if I create a layer mask then I'm stuck in the position of where those girls are at and if I want to move them I will have to essentially paint a whole new layer mask so one of the things that you can do is click on the group that contains all the adjustments and the layers that you want those adjustments to affect and then just change the blend mode from pass through to normal notice what happens to the background the background does not get affected by the adjustment layers so this is essentially the same thing as we did before but this time we have that we're not using a layer mask we're using the blend mode and we have the flexibility that we can move our layers around and these adjustments are still being applied only to the items within this group if I drag one of these girls out of the group notice that the adjustments are no longer applied so setting the blend mode of a group to normal makes it so that the adjustments in that group are only applied to the layers in that group bring it back to pass through which is a default you will see that are applied to everything below including layers not inside of that group so normal any questions Andrew before I keep going a lot of people are commenting that the take in that they're going to have to watch recording okay so this is a trick that I like using a lot of people have trouble creating shadows and I think that one of the easiest ways to create a shadow is by using the exposure adjustment layer so we have this bowl here that I'm compositing into this scene and I want to create a shadow well like I said one of the easiest ways is to use the exposure adjustment layer but before I do that I'm going to just simply create the shape with a selection of Bollier there's the shape that my shadow will take and then I'm going to go into the exposure adjustment layer then I'm going to bring the exposure down and then I may need to play with the offset to sort of match the color of the shadow above there and actually the exposure adjustment layer needs to be below the ball there it is and I can move these sliders around until I match the shadows above and remember the technique we learned earlier if we click on the double click on the mask here we get the density and feather so maybe we can feather it just slightly so it's not so sharp and that's one way in which you can easily create shadows in Photoshop and compositing just simply use the exposure adjustment layer and what's controlling the shape is a layer mask you can come in there and paint things in or paint them away by using black and white to paint them in so that's just one little quick tip there on creating shadows with the exposure adjustment layer talk about to blend modes that you probably haven't seen the behind blend mode in the clear and they're not found on this drop-down here for the layers are only found on tools they use painting for example the brush tool we have behind and clear and the behind blend mode allows you to paint on transparent pixels only so if the pixels are opaque you will not be able to paint on them so let me just disable the background here as you can see notice that this layer only contains the girl no background that's why you see the checkerboard and with the behind blend mode when it choose a different color now you can only paint on transparent pixels so you can actually you cannot actually paint on her if you wanted to if you add this blend mode this is sort of the opposite I'm going to go back to normal this is the opposite of locking the transparent pixels if I click on this icon here it locks the transparent pixels so I can only paint on opaque pixels the opposite so like on transparent ones only on opaque so you can think of the behind blend mode and notice I can select it right now so I have this lock you can think of the behind blend mode as the opposite of clicking on this transparency lock here the other blend mode that you get with a brush tool is the clear blend mode which allows you to delete pixels it works pretty much the same way as the eraser tool but that's what it does clear I don't use clear very much but behind can be useful in certain situations that you only want to paint on transparent pixels okay so now I'm going to talk about eight special blend modes all the blend modes are the same when it comes into bringing down the opacity infill you get the same result except for eight and those eight are highlighted here in yellow color burn linear burn color dodge linear dodge add vivid light linear light hard mix and difference these blend modes will give you a different result if you bring down the fill let me show you how that works I'm gonna save all that I have a blank layer I have a picture of this red cone on this blank layer I'm going to paint with black this area here when I paint with white on this area here and by the way I'm pressing the X key on the keyboard to swap between foreground and background color you can see that here on the left and I'm going to paint with 50% gray here in the middle and if I go into being or dodge ad that's a result that I get if I go into if the percent and see that isn't actually um let me go into the into the history window and I'm going to create a snapshot essentially a picture of what's going on now so we could remember it'll help us remember so we have snapshot one that's what pass to get fifty percent I'm going to change the opacity back to 100 percent and now I'm going to change the fill to 50 percent create a snapshot one snapshot - you can see the difference between use and fill and opacity now this is not the greatest example I'm going to show you one in a little bit but you can see the difference of using fill and opacity again this is fill at 50% and opacity at 50% so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to talk about another technique but I'm going to come back into that fill and opacity slider in a moment I'm going to talk about the advanced blending options and before I do that I want to show you this shape here this is just these pixels here nothing special and I've applied a layer style I'm going to open up the layer style window here and I have some bevel I have a bevel and emboss reading overlay drop shadow and a few other layer styles that are creating this effect now we have the advanced blending options here and we have this checkbox here transparency shapes layer I click that the layer styles are going to be applied to the entire layer check box is telling Photoshop to only apply the effects to the opaque pixels and to ignore the transparent pixels now the reason I'm showing you this is just so I could show you this effect if you follow my tutorials and you probably have seen this I created a tutorial on how to create a coin using Photoshop in I went through the steps of how to create this from scratch and one of the steps that I've shown that tutorials what I'm about to show you now which is how to add a specular highlight onto the coin and if I paint with white and create a highlight obviously doesn't that doesn't look too realistic if I double-click on the side of the layer to bring up the layer style window I'm going to click on that same checkbox transparency shapes layers for some reason with those eight special blend modes that I spoke earlier as I spoke about earlier if I uncheck this the pixels blend differently when using any one of those blend modes nothing happened right now because I am in the normal blend mode but if I go into linear dodge add you'll see the difference I'm gonna check it back so let's default it looks just the same as normal but if I go into linear dodge add and then uncheck this checkbox here transparency shapes layers notice how the pixels blend it looks hotter it looks more like the specular highlight that we're going for again with those eight blend modes that I spoke about earlier unchecking this box will make the pixels blend differently I'm not really sure why I read up about it and I haven't gotten a response and the reason I showed you that Sun shape earlier which is to show you what that checkbox actually should do excuse me but for whatever reason it allows you to blend pixels differently which is good because now we have control of that specular highlight and we talked about opacity and fill earlier and if I bring down the opacity then it no longer looks like a specular highlight it just looks like a washed out white but if we start bringing the fill down notice that we still have that hot effect so it still looks like a highlight still looks like a specular highlight on the coin but now we can control the intensity by using the fill so this is one of those situations in where you can use fill as opposed to opacity to make an adjustment so in case you didn't know pasady and Phil here are the same thing as if I were sliding the sliders here notice what happens when I slide this bill opacity slider 79 percent 79 is here if I slide this back down 18 percent 18 percent here so it's the same thing if you use the fill slider here or here but anyway so this is how you can control this is one way in which you can create lights on metals using just a white brushstroke you okay so now we're going to move into the puppet warp a lot of people know the puppet work if you're an After Effects user then you've known about puppet work forever but I'll quickly show you what the puppet warp can do so we have the puppet warp and it creates this mesh and I can set these pins on the mesh to make adjustments so now I can move her arm happy for the pins that I said I can delete them so I can click on the pin right click and click on delete pin I can continue moving her arm and her arm current in her hand is strongly behind her head so what how would you get her hand in front of her face well you can use the pin depth right up here click click on this icon here it brings a hand in front of her face which is in front of the mesh if I click on this icon here it moves it backward behind the mesh so maybe this hand we want behind her head and this hand we want in front of her face like so and maybe make a little better adjustments view with these pins maybe something like that and actually you know what maybe closer to her face I'm like that I'm going to click on this check mark here now this hand is behind our head and this one is in front of her face just by using the pin death with the puppet work also in case you're wondering if this this arm there's a little too realistic how would you go about fixing that you can use the liquify tool to continue making adjustments to to the shape of our arm and try to make it a little bit more more realistic obviously I'm not going to take the time to do that but you sort of get the idea of how this would work and when you're done that's yeah the effect that you get using the puppet warp liquify and pin depth to get the appropriate appropriate distortions on your image now I'm going to talk about reconstruct using liquify and reconstruct is a lot like using the fade command but in this case using liquify which is pretty cool I think so I have this photograph here of this man here and I'm going to filter liquify and I'm going to zoom in a little bit just so you guys can see what I'm doing here maybe zoom out actually has to close if you right about there and what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the bloat tool to make us back beggars maybe this guy works out a lot so and then use it's got a few shoulders at the gym and he only does his back and maybe you know he always skips like leg day so he's got skinny legs there you go so maybe this is it maybe this is the effect that I was that I had in my head but you know what it's a little too much I kind of want to bring it down just a little bit a way of deconstructing the effect is by clicking on the reconstruct tool right here and it's just simply as a slider and I can slide it back if I go to zero it's what I had originally and I can increase the amount to be appropriate scale that I want so if I wanted him that big I'll just leave it at 100 but maybe I can go halfway 50% or maybe just a little bit maybe like 10% make it a little more realistic and then when you're done you can simply press ok and then press ok again and then that makes your distortion on your image and by the way I didn't convert this into a smart object I would recommend with that when you're working with the liquify tool to convert things into smart objects so I'm going to right click on it convert to smart object then go into filter liquify and make whatever adjustments you're going to make because this is a non-destructive effect so you get the layer mask you get to come back into liquify by double clicking on the label making further adjustments you can also click on this icon here to bring in the blending options so you can do the opacity opacity works a little bit different than deconstruct the construct actually pulls back on your effect opacity simply shows you what you had there before so you can you get this ghosting effect so opacity may not be the best option but you can use a blend mode or something else and again with the blend mode you go get that ghosting effect but you have that option if you need it I think that the most useful thing about using a smart object with liquify is the layer masks that you get and also the ability to come back into liquify if you need to and even reconstruct the effect something that you don't get by applying the filter just on a regular layer this is another technique that I like using when I'm creating selections which is warping selections so maybe I want to select this Apple here so I'm going to start simple by clicking on the ellipse selection tool and I'm going to make a selection it's very rough something like that but obviously the Apple is not a perfect circle well I can right click on the selection and click on transform selection then I can right click on it again and click on warp now I can click and drag on these handles to adjust the shape of the selection and try to match that Apple a little bit better something like that so it's a it's not a perfect circle now it's an irregular shape and I'm happy with that result I'm going to press ENTER and then I can click on the layer mask icon now I have my Apple select that it's no longer a perfect circle so you can use actually um let me go back you can use not only can you warp the selection you can use scale rotate skew the store perspective and free transform to transform your selections so they can be very useful for irregular shapes is what I'm going to talk about now say it yeah one o'clock yeah so this seems to be like one question really but I just wanted to kind of pace you so you know should be done by 1:30 so it's not much for you quite the intensive intensive motive I thought we were only going to one o'clock but yeah I can do it if you got to go - that's cool - so far there's just one question really be Sparkle asked how do we put something onto a transparent layer let's show how to do that how to put something on transparent layer I'm not exactly sure what they mean I mean I create a new fu layer let your strike something onto it I guess let me quickly just show that and then we'll move on so then we have this guy here and I'm just gonna make a quick selection out of him and let's just say that I want to drag that out I have the move tool selected I can click and drag that hover over on the tab and then release it on the window that I'm working with and and there it is and that's or I mean another way of doing it would be to create a blank layer have the selection edit copy come back into file I'm working with edit paste so that's that's two ways okay so what I'm going to do now is just look for a file that we good to work on we can use this one here and I'm actually going to rasterize the layer actually I don't need to do that I can create a new layer and you know what I will rasterize it just because this is probably the more likely workflow so I'm going to talk about using the blur sharpen and it's much tool non-destructively so a lot of times you have an image and you want to come and maybe you want to smudge it and maybe you want to sharpen it in some areas and maybe you want to blur it in other areas now the problem with doing that is that you destroy the file that you're working with but what you can do is actually create a blank layer and when you're working with these tools make sure that sample all layers is checked here in the options panel so I'm going to go ahead and blur this part and then like the sharpen tool sample the layers make sure that's checked then paint on that area and then I'm going to smudge the face again and obviously this really it's not a thing you probably would do but again it's going to show the the tip that I'm trying to explain if I disabled the woman layer you'll see what Photoshop did Photoshop created those adjustments in a new layer so you're not destroying the original layer and also as a side tip whenever you click on a tool make sure that you look at the options panel because there's so many valuable options that you have up here with all the different tools notice that when I click on on the tool all these tools have different options so keep that in mind also as a side note um if you've been working on Photoshop for a while in a tool is no longer working the way you thought it should work or there's a problem you can always go back into the default settings so you can click on this icon here on the drop down arrow here and then go into the flyout menu and choose reset tool which will reset the tool that you're working on or you can click on reset all tools and it's going to reset all the tools to their default settings and you can press ok so now all the tools have the default settings so again if if you're working with the tool is just giving you problems try to resetting it to the default settings and maybe that'll bring it back but again usually any problems that you have with a tool is because you don't have the right option set in the options bar so they'll always look up here for for clues if something is not working the way it should and another trick that I'm going to show is how to use the curves adjustment layer or how to redo a curves adjustment that you apply to an image so maybe you're working with it they made you go into image adjustment curves and you apply an adjustment there it is and I know you can save it but maybe you forget to save it and you apply it and you want to go back and use that same adjustment well you can't if you go into image adjustment curves that adjustment is no longer there but if you hold alt as you go into image adjustment curves and that's option on the Mac for the curves then you bring the last adjustment that you made so remember using that Alt key for a lot of different things but one of those things is helping Photoshop remember what the last curves that you use was unfortunately that doesn't work if you're using an adjustment layer it only works if you go into the adjustments menu curbs right up here as if there's a not sure what they talk about density but there's a question from JJ how does density and opacity both different from each other I wonder if we're talking about opacity and fill what do you like they're probably talking about the masks so let me find a flower with a mask and it'll help me illustrate this point okay so I think the persons use the word opacity opacity controls the the layer opacity meaning how transparent layer is notice that I'm bringing the opacity down that's the layer density only talks about the mask see how I have this mask here that means the mask is not as strong it's going to bring the original background so density in so density controls how how much of the mask is visible at 100% whatever we have in the mask is going to show at zero the mask is not going to show it pretend that zero is removing the mask 100% is what's on the mask and anything in between will be different levels of opacity between the areas that are hidden and the visible areas so you can sort of see the original background as we bring down density so that's the difference density controls the mask and opacity controls the entire layer including the mask so if I bring it down to zero you'll see that I'm still removing that background so opacity controls layer and mask and density only mask any okay so um I have just a few more things that I want to show and um you see look at the time okay I think we have an oh yes so contest to us again right yeah yeah we are now that since you brought it up I guess I'll mention it now I have a Photoshop for beginners training course it's called Photoshop fundamentals you can check it out on my website if you like and I'm going to be giving away one free copy for somebody here today the things that I'm going to talk about now are regarding the text tool so some people may not know that you can create a text box and you can type whatever you like in that text box a lot of times you may be working on projects this is probably more likely for designers and you have to design something but you don't have to copy from your client yet but you've got to get something on on screen you can use dummy text you can use lorem ipsum so if you go into the type tool with the text box selected there you can click on paste lorem ipsum and you get this dummy text it really doesn't mean anything but it's designed to be sort of like a paragraph and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to work with this text I have here to show you a couple other tricks for example I can make a selection with the text and if I hold ctrl shift and the greater than or less than keys on the keyboard which is the comma or period keys then you increase or decrease the size of the text so ctrl shift greater than less then increase decrease the size of the text another thing that you can do is turn all the characters into capital letters by holding ctrl shift K command shift key on the Mac roll capital or case capital lowercase once again that's control shift K command shift key on the Mac also you can set the kerning or the space between two words or actually rather characters to be more specific so for example let me just delete these all the other text here and then I'm going to increase the size of that font by using the keyboard shortcut control shift greater than Griffin and Mac and there we go so I can place my person between two characters so for example between the are in the E and if I want to adjust a space in between those two characters I can hold alt and the right arrow key to separate them Mack by the way option right arrow key or the Alt left arrow key to get the get those two characters closer to each other so this could help you out of your designing logos and things like that I'm gonna do now so I'm just going to delete this text and I'm gonna paste more lorem ipsum and I'm going to press ctrl a command in the Mac to select all and then I'm going to decrease the size of the text by using that keyboard shortcut I just showed you guys and there it is and what I'm gonna do now is show you how you can check spelling and Photoshop now you shouldn't really be checking spelling in Photoshop Photoshop is not great for that if you're using Microsoft Word or something like that it's better if you do all your spelling and anything like that on another application but if you just want to triple check and make sure that everything spelled correctly you can check spelling in Photoshop you can go into edit actually let me make a selection edit edit check spelling right here and Photoshop is going to bring up this check spelling window and you can decide if you want to ignore it or change it or do whatever you want obviously everything in this text box is misspelled this is dummy text and it really doesn't mean anything but you can check spelling in the language I'm using it's English USA and you can check to check on layers but I'm not going to do that I'm just going to close this for now and I have just two more things and these are more of Easter eggs things that you can show around the office you go back on Monday or after the holidays um just a couple little cool tricks that really don't do anything that they just look cool so the first one is with the edit toolbar this is something new in Photoshop CC 2015 so we have an older version in that you won't have this this option and by the way I guess I should have talked about this I'm gonna go on a little side tangent here but in case you didn't know the newest version of Photoshop has toolbar that you can customize so for example maybe I don't use the artboard tool and not only use any of these tools I can remove them notice how the toolbar gets adjusted automatically and then when you're and you can also place tools in out by themselves so maybe I want to I want to have the let me think about maybe the eyedropper tool by itself like and draggin that drag that out so notice that the eyedropper tool is here now and maybe I want to do the same thing with the patch tool drag that out leave it by itself there it is patch tool um but anyway you can create you can customize your toolbar however you want and then when you click on done your you can now start using your new toolbar but anyway if you go into edit you can also find that toolbar editor there brings that back up I'm going to click on restore to defaults and click on done so that's the default now the little Easter Egg that I was going to show you is when you go to edit toolbar if hit shift and then click on done notice what happens to the icon turns into a little banana so now the toolbar icon is a banana by holding shift while you're clicking on done so you can show your friends at the office another thing you can do is if you go into the Photoshop preferences you can go into edit preferences or just press ctrl K command key on the Mac and you go into the interface these are different color themes that Photoshop has this is you can actually do another little trick there if you hold alt shift option shift you get little toast breads you can again show your friends that you have toast and bananas in Photoshop and those are that two little Easter eggs I wanted to show you guys and that's what pretty much all I had or what I think everyone loves it or we move over to the say yeah lot of good compliments in the chat though loved it great learned a lot excellent presentation so thank you so much and by the way I know I mentioned it before we started but a lot of people weren't probably here I just started an Instagram account so I would appreciate it if people followed me on instagram is j.r from PTC I have one question let me let me ask people if you guys don't mind typing in the group chat which one was your favorite tip like the one that you really really enjoyed that way yeah no I just want to know what we will chat transcript as well range blended big one talking about the matrix if that one's good but remember it won't really work on every single image so go to my youtube channel look for the tutorial titled on cinematic color grading and that would really really teach you how to do that by hand so you don't have to depend auto feature I so let me let me stop the recording so yeah you can stop recording I'm just going to reply some of these questions somebody said what's the name of the YouTube channel is photoshoptrainingchannel.com and I'll paste the link there in a moment and that's it for this tutorial I hope that you enjoyed it and that you learn something new if you have any comments or questions leave them down below if you enjoy the tutorial don't forget to click that like button and share this video with a friend if you haven't already subscribe to the Photoshop training channel now thank you for watching and I'll talk to you again soon

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Length: 71min 56sec (4316 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 21 2015