Adobe Photoshop Basic Tutorial (1/3) : Intro to Photoshop | Adobe Creative Cloud

[Music] welcome to Adobe live my name is teri white we're gonna be talking about how to get started with Photoshop and this is my live stream this is not the official Adobe live which happens Tuesdays through Thursday on this very spot on YouTube that is so welcome everyone indulge me for just a few minutes we're going to get some basics out of the way and I'm gonna tell you kind of how this is going to go because this is gonna start a multi-part stream today we're gonna kick things off with how to get started with Photoshop some basics around just moving around inside the interface if you're a Photoshop expert you know Photoshop inside now then this probably won't be a lot of use to you but if you're on the other hand someone who has either a been struggling to learn Photoshop or be your kind of self-taught you maybe want to learn just to make sure you're doing things I won't say the right way but maybe one of the more efficient ways then this is probably a series that you're going to want to watch so I see some folks in the chat welcome everyone that's already here and welcome to for those of you they're gonna watch the replay also welcomed on Twitter as well I see some folks there watching this and you are all welcome and thank you for attending so with that said why don't I go ahead and switch over to my computer so you guys can see what I'm doing here and I'm starting where most of you will start I started with just Photoshop open with no document opened and at this point it is now time to get started so the first thing that's asking me is kind of what do you want to do do you want to work at the very top or do you want to learn so a lot of the kind of how to do things in Photoshop or built right in you can actually watch tutorials on how to do very specific things so just know that that's always there's an option and they're always adding new things to that learn tab now as far as getting started with Photoshop it's more for people I shouldn't say more as people that generally use it are people that have an image that they want to work on or multiple images that they want to work on however there are some people that use it that want to just start with a blank page and draw or paint or create art from scratch so Photoshop can be used in either way as you begin to work on documents this well this getting started screen will fill up with your most recent files however I cleared it just to make sure that we're starting from the real firm from scratch scratch meaning I don't I don't even have any recent showing here now as far as where you can get your work from this is assuming that whatever it is you want to open is already on your hard drive somewhere whether it's something you copied from a camera or an image that you downloaded that you want to work on or one that you scanned or however you got that image into your computer Photoshop is assuming that the image is on your computer somewhere ready to be opened so to get started you can of course go to open and go find that image you can also create a new limit from scratch like we mentioned before and you can also if your images are in the cloud you can go ahead and grab them from the cloud so for example if I go to my CC files I've got a bunch of images there I go to my Lightroom photos it will even show me the photos that I've synced with Lightroom in the cloud so for example I can go to travel and I can go to Detroit which I just got back from this past weekend scroll down to the very bottom which will show me my most recent ones that took pictures of the ice on the Detroit River and for example if I wanted to work on one of those photos I could go ahead and open it up right now and it will import or download that particular photo from the cloud so like I said photos can either be worked on if they're already on your hard drive just go file open go find it open it up double click on it if Photoshop is set to be your default image editing program it'll open it up that way or in my case I went and found something on the cloud I'm just gonna go ahead and open it as is not gonna make any changes there and now I've got an image open in this this way we can talk about the interface now let's let's get into what this interface is all about and how it works and how you can maximize and get around inside a Photoshop because half of knowing Photoshop is knowing not only what you can do but where certain things are so that even if you don't remember how they work you kind of know where you might go look for things so Photoshop has tools on the Left menus at the top panels on the right by default of course that can all be changed around people can move their interface around but if you're starting out watching this tutorial and you kind of want to get where I am you can go up to this little menu icon in the upper right corner it looks like a little square you can pull that down and I'm starting out on the essentials workspace now when I first went to the essentials workspace it looked a little weird so I hit reset because sometimes if you are on a workspace and you move things around that becomes the default for that workspace so if you want ever want to get back to the way it was really set up from scratch you can hit reset reset whatever the name of the workspace is and that will reset it so what I mean by that let's talk about workspaces in general what's a workspace pterri workspace is basically just organizing where things are in Photoshop so for example starting out with essentials is kind of where the basics are where people will start out but let's say you're more into photography but I switch to the photography workspace that will turn off some things turn on some things move some panels around that are going to be typically used by people doing photography if I go over to graphic and web design then it's going to for example it put up the type panel because people typically are doing typography and they're working with the colors and libraries and things like that so it will kind of show you things and even turn tools on and off now which is a fairly new feature in Photoshop based on whichever workspace you're on and you can of course create your own workspace so I've got one called Terry white retouching and Terry white so this is the workspace I use when I'm working on portraits or working on lens because it's giving me all the tools I'd like to have on the left side it's giving me all the panels I'd like to have on the right side so workspaces are very cool you'll explore them as we get further into this series but just to let you know I'm starting off with the essentials workspace alright so let's get into what where things are now so we kind of got you where I am basically on the essentials workspace and if you look on the left left hand side you've got this series of tools and these are the tools I should say these are the basic tools that most people will use now it's not all the tools that Photoshop has but these are the essentials since we're in essential workspace now these panels can be pulled apart and moved around so I could pick up picked my tools up and I can say you know what I kind of like my tools closer to the image or I like my tools in a double column fashion that's another thing that can be done by the way this takes me back because this is the way Photoshop used to be in the 90s it was to two columns instead of one you can move the panel around you put it even on the other side you can even dock it on the other side just by moving it close enough to the other side and if you like everything on one side you can of course have everything on one side if you ever get kind of like you've messed up your interface remember you can always go back and say reset essentials and that will kind of put it all back to the way it was but it just collapsed this one because I don't need it right now all right okay so that will get you back to where you started next up we'll get into the tools in just a minute you have these panels on the right hand side the panels will basically control various aspects of the program we'll get into what they control in a few minutes but they can also be picked apart torn apart clothes things that you don't use you can put away things that you use all the time you can pull out for example I would I would probably keep the layers panel handy because I'm always working with layers maybe I'll keep the properties panel handy because I'm always working with properties so this is what I mean by you can combine these panels and all the Adobe products kind of 99% of the UW products kind of the same way and you can stack and dock them and create your own series of panels and tabs the way you want so again now I put properties and layers in the same panel I put library under it if I move the looser I move the whole thing the whole thing moves and so that's kind of just Adobe interface 101 not specific to photoshop but just kind of reminding you of what you can and can't what you can do and again will reset it put it back to the way it was and will collapse that for a minute because I'm not ready for it let's put that back okay so now over here I'm gonna let the tools and I didn't talk about the top because it kind of relates to what's going on with the tools when you're on a specific tool this control panel or options bar at the very top is actually for it's context-sensitive for whatever tool you're on so for example if I happen to be on the lasso tool it's showing me all the options for lasso if I'm on the type tool it's showing me options for for typing or put in text if I'm on the clone stamp tool it's showing me options for the clone stamp tool so this bar will always reflect the current conditions or current options for the tool you're working on and just keep that in mind that don't expect this to always look the same because it will always look different based on what you've clicked on okay what about the image itself or what if you had multiple images open or what if you want to move around an image you want to zoom in you want to get closer to it you want to zoom out all of the zooming can be controlled from the tools or the keyboard Photoshop is very keyboard friendly so a lot of what I do see me do later on in tutorials I'll just be doing instinctively from the keyboard but just to let you know you've got this great magnifying tool you can either click one one at a time to zoom in to a specific area or with the later versions of Photoshop you can actually drag and zoom in almost like in real time to zoom in or zoom out so I'm just dragging diagonally up to zoom out dragging in down to zoom in and you can even get to get to the pixal level on an image and zooming is very quick in doing that alright so with that said if you ever want to zoom the image in to a hundred percent this is kind of just a shortcut double click the magnifying glass right on the magnifying tool itself if you want to zoom out to fit in window you would double click the hand tool and while you're zoomed in beyond a hundred percent I'm sorry beyond fit in window the hand tool actually helps you move around so that will help you instead of you having to constantly scroll you can just drag and flip the image around to get to the spots where you want so that's very handy and as you can see I just kind of flick it and it kind of keeps sliding almost like it's on a glass table and moving around I'm not holding down anything it just moves with its own motion until it stops and of course you can always scroll up and down left and right to get to the exact spot in the image you want and of course remember you have zoom now I would be remiss and I got to spend a lot of time teaching you keyboard shortcuts because that's kind of one of those things that people will tend to pick up on their own but if you are into you know I'm gonna give you like over the course of this like 10 keyboard shortcuts you should absolutely be using one is by the way no matter what tool you're on if you hold down the letter Z it will let you zoom in and then when you let go of the tool you know the mouse and the Z it will take you back to the tool you wrong so I was on the move tool I wanted to quickly zoom in without getting off the move tool so I can hold down the letter Z zoom out let go of the mouse let go of the letter Z and it takes me back to the move tool or whatever tool you were on so if I was on the lasso trying to select something and I need to zoom in to see it closer I can zoom in let go of the tool let go of the mouse and I'm back to the lasso so that's kind of one of those where that's one of the top 10 you because you're going to be zooming in and out constantly and sometimes it's the painted a but to always have to remember hey mics off what's going on it's always paint about to have to remember to go to the zoom tool click it zoom then go back to the tool Iran so Z presume hold it down zoom in let go of the mouse let go of the Z and you're back to the tool you Rin same thing for when you're zoomed in holding down the spacebar will allow you to move around the image without having to necessarily click on the hand tool itself I'd never put the hand tool because I'm just always using the spacebar so I hold down the spacebar to move around let go of the spacebar and I'm back to the tool I'm on so that's two of your maybe probably no more intent but to keep worker cuts you should walk away with from this session the Z and the or Z depending on the country you're in and the spacebar for the hand tool okay so we zoomed out we got this image open and you'll notice that this image is open in a tab Photoshop by default has got a tabbed interface so if I were to go open up another image let me go find another one to open here and let's say that won't open up this one but I'll open up another image you're like well what happened to the ice well the ice is still there it's still open it's in its tab so I can click back and forth between two it will maintain whatever zoom level that are on so if I wanted to zoom this one up to fit in window double-click the hand tool I'm zoomed in now or click back on the ice I'm back on the ice so you can work on multiple images at the same time you can work on them individually or start combining images together we'll get into more of that as this as this continues on hey sure oh what's going on and and heya and Matt and evil serese thanks for moderating and Brad and everyone else that's in the chat welcome everybody so as we continue to work on these images just know that you can have as many images open as your computer has enough RAM to hold in other words the more RAM your computer has memory that is the more images and more things in photoshop you can do it one if it's a lot of little web sized images you could probably have tens of dozens or hundreds of them open at one time if they're huge you know Multi multi megapixel files you might only be able to open three or five or ten before your computer starts to really slow down because it's all depending on how much RAM you have to have all those images open at one time with all that data open at one time but usually most systems that can run Photoshop can easily get a few images open at one time with no struggle and then from there it depends on the image your computer processor memory how big the image is so forth and so on all right so with that said we've got a couple of images open if I wanted to close one I can go in and just simply click the little X and that image is closed had I made any changes it would actually ask me to make you know save if I had made any changes I didn't make any so it just closed it without asking but if I were to go back and open up that image again it would open up in its own tab open up a third one I've got a third one open now and these images are opening their own tab I'm sorry I hit a keyboard shortcut double-click the hand and here we are you wish you you wish it would remember the documents you had open in the last session that's a good it's a good one the recent files kind of handles that for most people but it would be nice to have a open last session feature that would just simply open up all the tabs and open them all up for you I agree with that that's a good feature request all right so with that said now what if you need to see more than one image at a time like I have I know I have that item to open I know I have this image open but maybe I need to see you know these side-by-side so I can make some changes or make some adjustments so under your window menu because they move this used to be on the control panel but under the one you window menu there is now there's this arrange option and as you can see you can arrange your images to tile them vertically to tile them horizontally to have two up vertical two to up horizontal horizontal/vertical three up horizontal or three up vertical three up stacked so forth and so on so for example if I were to say tile them vertically it will do that it will put them all in a be on three different tiles now you might not be able to see the entire image but it's all there so I can move it in the image around and each one of these I can zoom in and zoom out in each one of these and I can see multiple images open at the same time because I'm working with the three up now I can also switch that arrangement and I can say you know tile horizontally maybe it works better if they're the own opinion on the way your monitors are in or the images maybe it's easier to work with them that way we can also say let's look at some of these two up horizontal now what that means is that it will basically tab I'm trying to find that other tab there it will tab it'll put two of them up and tab the other ones so in other words you're always looking at two at a time instead of all of them so if I were to say arrange and do three up horizontal then it will give me all three so you have different options for looking at and if you ever say oh my god this is too much give me back to my tabbed interface all you have to do is say consolidate all no matter how many you have open back two tabs and you're back where you were so you can always get out of it in case you like just get bombarded with a bunch of different windows and it's hard to work okay this is gonna be a little bit more an advanced feature but you were gonna learn it anyway and while we're talking about these multiple images open at the same time can you have two images open at the same time in the same window in other words I have this beautiful living area open and I want to add something another image on to it in other words I don't want a separate window I don't want a separate file open I want one that's right on on top of it yes you can you can do it a few different ways if you know that going in for you know hey I know right off the bat I want to combine something on top of this image that up with another image I already have then you can do it this way you can go to the file and instead of open you would choose place one of the two place options depending on what you want so place embed it says open up my file system let me go find a photo I want and it will find that photo and plow me to place it right on top of this one that's one option place depend on which way you want it to handle that place will be depend on which one you use so place embed it means place that image on here forget all about where that image came from in other words I don't need to keep that file on a hard drive because now I've placed it here place linked means link to wherever I got it from so that if I go back and change the original it will also update this one so linked is fairly new Photoshop in the past is always done an embed but now you have a choice so that's one way if you know you want to place an image from another spot on your drive just go file place choose the place you want bring it in and it will put it on top this having multiple images open in the same window effect process and speed any more than just having multiple files open it would be about the same because let's say you had two 10 megapixel files open side-by-side versus one 10 megapixel file open and another one on top is a layer it's about the same amount of processing it's maybe slightly different but not enough to worry about all right so yeah having two files open whether they're separate or on top will take up pretty much the same amount of processing and speed okay but having them on top of each other and saving that file of course produce a bigger file because you're combining them together if you're combining them as layers now if you let's say you place that second file with you which we haven't even done yet and you decide that's it I don't ever need to ever move it or touch it again I want to combine it into this one permanently if you merge the layer now you're back down to dealing with just one file because it's no longer a separate image anymore as a separate layer or separate it is still a separate file on the hard drive but not open that would be one way to reduce the amount of processing it takes but then you lose your flexibility on ever moving it around or doing something with it later let me show you that in a way I think it'll be easier for you to understand if I just show it to you so let's say that I want to find I don't know just for the just for kicks a shark image let's drag a shark image onto this alright and that's from Adobe stock I have it license that images that's why I still has the watermark on it but as I as I bring this in it's saying okay where do you want it I can move it around still I can say that I want it down here in the lower left corner how big do you want it I can hold down my shift key to scale it proportionally and size it down or size it up I get it where I want it to be and then once I'm all set where however I brought that in either with a place or drag and drop from the library like I just did when I'm all set and then I hit either enter on my keyboard or just simply check the option or click the checkbox in the option bar here or the control panel and that will say okay now you've got that separate landshark you've got that separate image in here now if we go look at the layers panel it will show me the original background and the sandbar shark swimming image now when I meant by you still have been flexibility is that's still a separate layer a separate image I can move it around still I can delete it still I can it's I haven't made it a permanent part of the background so while I still keep that as a layer I always have the ability to do something with it separately the minute I say nose flatten it down merge it down then it becomes a permanent part yes taking up less resources but definitely making it way way way more you know that's just a way less flexible so we tend not to merge layers unless we're absolutely 100 percent sure we're never going to come back and do something with it so yes this would require more more processing power but not I don't think significantly as far as just having the two windows open it's going to be the same Photoshop has to keep both images in memory whether they're sitting on top of each other or separately all right with that said got it kind of got off on a tangent there let's get back to the interface itself so let's continue hang on for a second here let me continue okay good let's continue working with getting around in Photoshop so we've talked about the tools not what they do but we talked about the fact that you have tools another thing is that they're now the tooltips are more extensive sometimes even showing you videos with what they do so if you hover over a tool and you just don't know what it does it even shows you a little video about how that Tool Works so the tools are definitely much more rich tool tips than they were before is that layer a smart object I believe that one is Reggie yes it is and placing will tend to make it a smart object as well all right so let's move on and talk about the menu options themselves so if what you're looking for isn't a tool to do something or isn't on a panel to adjust something that's already there then most likely the only place left that that option would be is under one of the menus because the menus have functions to control or do things that aren't necessarily in the tools or aren't necessarily in the panels so typically you're really going to be working with three areas of the program the tools and the control panel the options bar kind of put those two together the panels on the right or wherever you put them and the menus and however many windows you need open at one time that's pretty much it all right Reggie I'm glad you asked and glad I was able to answer all right so with that said what are some other basics as far as the interface is concerned we talked about move sizing your windows down we talked about multiple windows we talked about tiling we talked about closing like right now if I go to close this it's going to tell they hey are you sure you want to close this because you've made changes now I added the shark so do you want to save this as a either updated file or new file and in this case would have to be an updated file we'll get into file formats later or no meaning if I say no I'm gonna lose the shark work that I'm added to this and it will go back to being separate the shark is still separate the background for this would still be separate I just wouldn't have that extra combination of those two layers anymore okay we've got some time so I'm going to get into some more basics as far as just working in Photoshop in general and we're going to start the conversation even though we're gonna have to continue it in another segment but just while you're here and while we kind of got a lot of the basics out of the way right off the bat let's get into some of the manipulation options and working destructively versus non destructively non destructively of course is always preferred but not always possible depending on what you're doing and not always necessary to be know what you're doing so people will debate me on that all day long and that's okay but you usually want to work non-destructively as possible let me give you an example of the opposite was something you don't want to do you don't want to ever permanently edit pixels if you can avoid it or if you know that you want to make it you may want to make a change to what you're doing later that's why we tend to want to work non destructively so for example let's say that my client says hey they find this maybe this one this light is a distraction they would like it removed from the photo so that could be done but right now I'm working on the original image so if I remove it and I save it and I don't make a copy or don't work just non-destructively then I hope they really like that change because it will be it will be harder to bring it back not impossible but harder so for example one of the things I could do one of the tools in Photoshop is the patch tool one of my favorites so I could make a selection I'm just gonna use it I'm not even using my stylus I'm just using a mouse which I highly recommend a stylus but anyway and then I its notice it's now giving me an option to move in the direction that is saying drag it to one side or the other or drag it somewhere to actually make the patch happen so I'm just going to drag it over here which I love the patch tool because it gives me that preview of what it should look like when it's finished and then I'm gonna go ahead and say okay and it's done it did it if I deselect because I worked on the background if we got our layers panel I didn't I didn't make a copy of then duplicate it and do anything else if I now save this and close it that changes permanent meaning that when I open to back up that light is gone it is always gone it is gone for good and if they said oh we meant the one on the left not the one on the right then I would have to manually put it back somehow maybe clone this one back into that spot and try and make it look like it belong there it's much easier to work on destructively and have a way out than it is to have to put something back or change something back later and make it look like it looked like the original so I can do this a couple of ways if I'm pretty sure that that's the change that they wanted to make but you know they could always come back and say no we didn't really want that light I could just simply do what we've done for years in all programs save this as a separate name save it as a separate file go up to file menu do a save ass give it a new name so spacious apartment modern apartment - right light and save it wherever I'm saving this okay so now I basically have saved this out as a copy that means I still have the original to go back to the original one that I opened which is over here in my panel somewhere in my library there it is so I still have that one because I saved the change I made as a new file so that's one way to do it and that's press that goes back as well as far as save as as far as computing goes back you've been doing that in word processing you've been doing that in every program that can do save you always could do a save as and that way you have that one to always come back to your original now but in Photoshop we typically don't rely so much on save as because you're making so many changes in other words chances are you're not going to just do one thing and saving a bunch of copies of the file it's probably not that productive not the most efficient way to do it so instead we tend to work in these things that are called layers that way we can make changes to our layers without affecting the original we can experiment we can duplicate we do all kinds of things and turn layers on and off to always get back to the original that way if we do go too far or the client changes their mind we have a way to get home the way to get back there's also a feature called Smart Objects was someone asked about earlier there are all kinds of ways to work non-destructively in Photoshop as kind of a safety net to get back to where you were so for example instead of me doing a save as let's say the client said hey can you remove that light on the right and I'm like yeah I've worked with this client before they tend to change their mind I'm gonna protect myself this time so in the back in the layers panel which we're going to do a whole thing on layer so you'll have to learn everything about layers today and the layers panel what I can do is I can say I want to make a copy of this background layer so that that way I have the original - return - you can make a copy several different ways the keyboard from the layers panel from an involvement are from the layer menu lots of ways one of the quickest ways to do it in the layers panel itself is to just simply take whatever layer you want to make a copy of and drag it down to the new layer icon before we do that because this is basics what are layers before we make it a copy of this one turn into a layer what are layers in the first place what are they for here's here's the one of the examples I used to teach years and years and years ago about layers layers are like having your original photo and putting clear pieces of acetate on top so that whatever you do on the acetate does not affect the original photo underneath so for example if I take my paintbrush which right now has gold paint and I were to say hey I like the letter A let's make a letter A there I have permanently painted that on the background I literally spray paint at my wall and while I could clone it out and stamp it out and patch it out and get it out get it back to the original it's best just not to do that in other words - if you can avoid it don't work on the original if you can so I can get out of that I'll talk about multiple undos in a minute but instead what I would do is maybe make a new layer so I just clicked the new layer icon it always names it layer 1 layer 2 layer 3 so forth and so on and I'm gonna call this letter A on the wall so now i neva know what that layers for and so now if I were to go and paint and say hey I like the letter A on the wall and the clients like why did you do that what's that for don't ever do that again then I could just simply turn that layer off right back to the original or even better yet throw that layer away right back to the original or while I'm on that layer I could even erase to her my risk to us a weird brush right now haha I could even erase part of the a and not erase the wall because I'm only on the letter a layer so you can work with layers you can down multiple layers you can have tens of 20 or hundreds of layers to know how much RAM you have how big your file is so forth and so on so you can work with lots of layers so that way if you ever change your mind you're not permanently stuck you can always go back and change a layer or get rid of a layer or turn off a layer to get back to where you were or make changes to just what's on that layer so the example we were going to make as far as that removing that light is I want to backup copy of the background itself so what I want to do is duplicate this layer and so instead of here so here's what I did so instead of clicking giving me a new layer what I said was take the existing layer down to that same icon and just give me a copy of it and it's calling it background copy and I can call it whatever I want - right like or whatever ceiling like whatever you want to say so now I've got two layers that look exactly the same because I haven't done anything to either one yet but now on this back or this - right layer light I mean I can go to my my patch tool and I can say you know what that light needs to go but now if they come back and say no we meant the other one I just go back to the original I could even say well I don't know which one they meant they said remove one of the rear lights make another copy - left light and I can now get rid of this one on this layer there we go so depending on which one they want that one's - the right light that ones - the left light that ones turn them both off they get both lights back so that way you have the ability to always get back to where you started some people like to get back to where they started just by keeping it a copy of the original file yes that's great but working with layers which we're gonna do a whole segment on let you really work in the same file with having options and Justin I'm glad you're finding this to be awesome this is we're putting I put this series together to get people kind of up to speed on their Photoshop or their critical aversion to Photoshop so they really you know can take advantage of what you're what you paid for or what you're paying for okay so let me let me go over some common pitfalls in the last few minutes of this and this this is kind of like alleviating some of that frustration that I I hear people especially people that are beginners that they run into so let's go back to the background for a minute already know what now let's turn on these layers let's turn this layer on let's go back to this this top layer now all right let's say that I want to see if I can find a good example here I want to work with the clock it's right there in front of me I want to make the clock and a brighter I'm gonna change the exposure of it well okay I know that there are adjustments in Photoshop so let me see if I can find the adjustments here there they are and if I go to my exposure whoo there it is and click on exposure and I could say who make the clock brighter it didn't really just make the clock brighter it made everything brighter so what I used to teach my students back in the day is one simple thing to remember in Photoshop you select to effect in other words if you just want to affect part of the photo then you need to select that part of the photo you even selected or separated onto its own layer either one and that way whenever you make a change you're only making that change to that specific area all right so with that said I just want to affect the clock so therefore I need to select the clock first or separate the clock from where we are now so that whatever I do to the clock only affects the clock so how would I do that Photoshop has a variety of selection tools which again we're going to spend the whole section on just making selections but this is kind of just giving you around an interface so one of the things I glad I did this because it's reminding me to bring up this part of the interface is that whatever tools you see if you see a little arrow in the bottom right hand corner of that tool that these little triangles that means that there are more tools underneath so when I click down on that little arrow it's showing me that this isn't just the patch tool it's the Spot Healing tool the Healing Brush the patch tool the content-aware and red eye tool so otherwise the the Photoshop tool menu would literally be a mile long if they didn't combine multiple tools together because there's so many so if you see those little arrows that means that that whatever tool you're on there are more tools underneath it so that's another interface or another getting around in Photoshop thing so with that said I want to make a selection but I know that there are more selection tools for example the magic wands been around for years but I know there's a newer tool called the quick selection tool so I just held down on the magic wand tool to get to the quick selection tool and I'm going to first of all hold down the letter Z and zoom in so I can just get the clock area and now here's another interface thing the selection that it's trying to make is it's too big it's gonna get more than the clock so I need a smaller quick select tool or a smaller or bigger pane brush or a smaller or bigger clone stamp tool in other words what I'm about to tell you works across the board on the tools that have an actual size so in this case that tool is just too big to even select the clock unless I keep zooming in so what I want to do is simply make that tool smaller so I can do that by adjusting I'll show to the the organic way of doing it first I can just adjust the size from this menu but when I do it that way then I'm kind of guessing because I don't know how big I needed to be until I see it so that's that's a way to do it it's a way that's been there for a while didn't they're pretty much from day one but it's not the way I do it anymore because I like to do it from the keyboard so I can visually see how big that brush is going to be or how big that tool is going to be so for example if I hit my right bracket tool and I'm sorry if your keyboard and the country you were in doesn't have bracket keys because I ran into that I would say hit the right bracket key and people are like my keyboard doesn't have a bracket key so on a u.s. keyboard the bracket keys are next to the letter P is in Paul so there's a left bracket which makes the brush smaller there's a right bracket which makes the brush bigger if your keyboard doesn't have bracket keys I don't know what the keyboard equivalent would be so you could either go find it in the keyboard shortcuts or just simply use the brush size all right so I'm going to make my brush a little smaller and the way this tool works is you just basically either click to make a selection and it kind of did a great job there it missed the spot there and I can just keep clicking to add the spots that it missed so it missed the 12 and what it's trying to do is it's using a little bit of artificial intelligence an algorithm to try and figure out you clicked on this thing these pick because all photoshop is its just pixels black white brown green orange whatever so it's saying hey I kind of know these these pixels kind of look the same maybe you're trying to select all of these oh but that twelve looks different maybe you don't want to select that so it's guessing but it keeps getting smarter at the more you use it on a particular selection all right so now it's selected the clock and the shadow that's great so here's my choice I can go ahead and adjust the exposure right now I'm sorry sorry sorry I have that layer of mass still there get rid of that one first okay I can still make that adjustment that we just made back to the adjustment sir go to exposure and now it will do it just on the clock that's great 8th o'clock darker make the clock lighter but keep in mind we're making a permanent change get back to that do you want to do it on this layer do you want to do it on this background do you want to do it right now because once you make that chain 2 click OK you've made that change so always think let me get back to the selection always think do I really want to make it on the layer I'm on or on the background I'm on and when you make a selection you are isolating that area to only be affected so for example even if I grab the paintbrush this is pretty cool to illustrate my point about making selections I got this this gold paintbrush I'm painting out here nothing's happening but as soon as I cross the clock or the selected area it gets painted because you can only affect the area that's selected so when you have something selected only whatever you're doing is going to affect that area or did you're doing something outside that area and nothing's going to happen alright so with that said what I might want to do is take this selection and make its own way or make a clock layer basically so I can do that for my layers panel I can go up to my new layer via copy in other words make a copy of what I have selected onto a new layer so there's a new layer it doesn't look like it has anything on it but it does and if I were to turn off all the other layers the only thing on that layer is the clock because that we copied that selection onto its own layer so now I can make all the adjustments to that layer all day long and not affect the originals now because we have multiple originals underneath I would just be affecting that one layer that one o'clock layer so if I were to paint now okay here's a trivia question if I paint right now will it paint the wall will it should say will paint appear on the wall that's a better way to ask it yes or no so I'll give you guys a second to answer that see if you see if you starting to understand how layers work will paint appear on the wall if I paint right now or will it only be isolated to the clock Miguel hello alright M South says no it will not appear on the wall everyone agree with them I'll give you tube a chance to catch up only on the clock okay sam says yes it will appear on the wall Reggie says yes loft says yes everyone on YouTube saying yes everyone on Twitter saying no that's so weird YouTube you're correct because if I paint right now yes of course it appears on the wall it's not actually on the wall it's on that layer but that layer is above everything else which appears on the wall so I did that's why I suppose that's why I changed the way I said it will it appear on the wall not be on the wall cuz you're right it is not on the wall it's on the empty part of the clock layer but because that's above everything else it appears to be on the wall so bingo off you're right so undo so while I can make adjustments to just that layer in that layer alone and that's all that will appear if I add new pixels to the blank part of that layer it's above everything else so there we are alright so for example if I were to a just exposure this way or the lighting this way using the levels controls I'm only affecting the clock because I'm on the clock layer you'll get used to it after a while and that's why we're going to spend more time on layers just a whole thing on layers but that's kind of how layers work so they like those clear pieces of acetate which right now the clocks on a clear piece of acetate by itself but if you paint on that acetate you're going to put paint all over the acetate not just the clock so it will appear as if it's on the rest of the photo even though it isn't which is a good thing all right so that's leading me up to my frustration thing that I was supposed to do alright the part that I was supposed to do and the reason we did this in the first place is because sometimes I'll go down to this layer here sometimes you'll make a selection of an area this tile just use the regular marquee selection because that's kind of rectangular and you may either have made that selection by accident you forgot you made the selection and forgot to deselect you just have something selected that another tool left selector or some other functions left selected and worse you don't even see it because it's over there now it's off to the side so now you're trying to paint on that on Greenleaf and you're trying to make the leaves look yellow and you're like how come no paint is coming onto my leaves and the minute I start doing something and I know something should be appearing there I immediately think you've got something else elected I may not even I don't even go look for what the selection is I'll see you we know where it is now but I'll show you a quick way to get out of it but let me show it to you visually first if we go back over it's like oh yeah I can't paint over here in the leaves because this is still selected and it will not let me do anything outside of the select area how do we deselect back into old days and if you're self-taught you made s elect the way you deselecting all the other programs by clicking somewhere else that is much more work than you need to do inside a Photoshop so instead of take going back to selection tool and just clicking somewhere else so you can deselect there's actually a command for it if you go to select menu there's a deselect command so let me give you hang on let me give the scenario again I've made that selection over there and I scrolled over and I said hey I want to be painting on my on my leaves there and I go to start painting and nothing happens because oh yeah that's right that other thing's still selected I forgot to deselect it I don't even scroll over I don't go click somewhere else and I'll switch tools I don't do any of that I don't even go to the menu because it's a keyboard shortcut command D on Mac PC ctrl D when you deselect you don't even have to see it happen I just hit command D now I can paint over here because I know wherever I had a selection wherever I left one somewhere command D deselected it and now I can keep working so one of the easiest frustrations to do or get rid of is command D or control D on Windows to remember that deselect that way you won't have to go back and find where your selection is or switch to another tool and deselect this command e you know you've deselected anything that's still selected and that will let you continue to work and work outside the selected area because it's no longer selected all right another interface thing and this is kind of one of those things where the Photoshop team is well aware that this is 2018 and this needs to change but it hasn't changed yet so let me let me indicate what it is I can undo just like I can and have been doing since 1984 however Photoshop has always only had one undo being very specific here so for example if I do this and then I do this and I'm by no means howdy mrs. good Photoshop work I'm just showing you paint strokes here now I've done this four times if I undo great so this is 2018 right I should be able to keep undoing and I undo again oh wait it brought it back command-z or control-z on Windows the same undo you do everywhere else where you would just keep hitting command Z or control Z doesn't work that way in Photoshop at least not today so when you do an undo in Photoshop is literally just toggling between undo and redo your whatever your last thing was but that doesn't mean Photoshop can't multiple undo I just did it what's the secret if you make multiple steps these are bad we wouldn't want these undo we'll only undo the last one but there is a step backward and step forward so step backward on the Mac is command option Z PC ctrl alt Z so if I do command option Z command option Z command option Z that will step back in time to do my multiple undos so command Z is still there control Z is still there to undo the last thing you just did but when you want to step back add the Alt key or option key to the to the mix and that will let you step back in time I'll just do it from the menu and it only has a limit of so many undos and let me show you where that is from an inner interface perspective it's under I believe it's under perfect no performance history states Photoshop defaults to 50 you got plenty of memory you can increase it you can increase it up to a thousand if you got enough memory for it I don't recommend you go to a thousand if you need to undo your last thousand steps time to find a new program to work in Photoshop snot your thing just kidding but if you need to undo more than 75 or hundred things it's your workload needs to change because you should need to go back that far alright so fifty is the default it used to be 20 so now it's 50 and you can change it if you got more RAM you can change it to a higher number and that means I can hit command options the 50 times to go back and do undo my last 50 things if I need to go back 51 and it's still on 50 oh well that's when you should have used other things like layers or other things to get back to where you were all right so that's another interface thing is just how undo works because it is different in Photoshop than it is in any other application you use all right let me think we had like five minutes left in this let me make sure any questions about getting started or what you would like to see in the next upcoming segment which is next Friday we're gonna do these on Mondays but next Monday is taken on our YouTube channel so I'm going to do it this this one time next Friday and then it'll be Monday's from here on out because hey it's Monday why not so anything you guys like to see does save file saving the file save the undos no history is not saved with that's a good question history is not saved with the file so if I did 20 things and I save and I close and I come back oh I didn't mean to do those last five no there's no undo it's in memory so that's why you need so much memory to have so many undos if you close the file saved or not you've lost those 20 50 75 how many of em dues or history states you've had you had selected very good question thanks for bringing that up any other questions for our last few minutes anything you'd like to see or anything I you know like in the interface that still got you questioning what's going on how do I do this now's the time to ask [Music] now I'm also using keyboard shortcuts to zoom in zoom out even though I showed you the zoom tool why does the adjustment panel not part of the tool panel okay so asking me questions about the design of the program I won't be able to answer that I why isn't it I don't know because they felt it should be separate okay there's your answer so that doesn't really help so ask me things that I can actually answer if you have specific features or what would the way you think it should work then that's when you go give the feedback on the adobe.com feedback page to give actual feedback of what you would like to see change okay so what time on monday is 1:00 p.m. Pacific time please could you detail the tools of course layers yep those are gonna be separate segments rather how is it different ah okay that's that's a better question so the better question is you have the options bar up here at the top and now the properties panel over here on the history panel properties panel over here on the right how is it different well the options bar usually is going to give you more I would say that probably what we will see over time is more things transitioning to the properties panel that used to be separate in other words like if I wanted to go to the I want to add some type but I also wanted to resize my type right now I'd have to be in two different tools to do that and therefore my options bar would be reflected differently I could see both of those options being in one properties panel segment so think of the properties panel as the options bar control panel 2.0 on steroids more options for the kinds of things that you're going to want to do in the future combined together so that you don't have to keep switching tools to do them that's where the property panel is headed and that's a better question then why is it there all right cool I'm glad to make the whole picture black and white all right you want to make the whole picture black and white that's a quick one and easy we go to our adjustments panels and we click the black and white done that was easy so where I'll talk about this when we talk about layers but what that just did is it did make it permanent and it put in the wrong spot by the way it made an adjustment layer that's black and white that I could turn back off and get right back to color or turn back on and get right back to black and white layers matte layer masks like soften gonna do that when we talk about layers in another segment good one good one good one great all right last 15 seconds so with that said sort of that thanks everyone for watching we will catch you on the next one I'll be back on this channel next Friday at 1 p.m. doing part 2 part 2 might be layers I can't remember what part 2 is going to be but we'll be doing part two of this ongoing series until we get you all to be Photoshop masters and you know Photoshop inside now so this was this was kind of like in multiple places and deep diving deep into some of the other areas that we didn't really want to get into today or that we're going to talk about separate but I think it will help you just kind of explaining how some of these things work when saving and closing window options need to save the version not over the file I would suggest that I do we usually if you're saving over oh you mean if you hit save that is replacing you the one you're on because you're updating if you want to not replace the one you have do a save as so that is kind of built in if you do a save as with the same name to the same location it's going to ask you do you want to replace the original so that's kind of already there but if you're saying you want an option where you hit command s to always iterate then that's something different all right cheers everybody take care of thanks for watching we'll catch you on the next one bye [Music] you

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Length: 61min 9sec (3669 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 22 2018