Complete Guide to GIMP | Photo Editing for Beginners (With Timestamps)

hello everybody Chris here and in this video we're going to be doing a 2017 updated version of my getting started for beginners video on so this is a complete tutorial for beginners who have REI they're very new to or have never even seen this program before so before we get into all the tools and the different menus that exist within first I want to point out what actually is so if you've used any other kind of paint or photograph editing software the interface may look pretty familiar to you in the center of them we have our editing space where we normally load up an image or just create one purely from scratch and we can edit that image using all of the tools we see over here on the left and one of the advantages of and similar programs like Photoshop is that you have layers over here on the right so whenever you make changes in you can separate those changes onto different layers and if you decide that some of those changes don't belong you can delete a layer rather than deleting everything and starting over so layers are great and that's one of the powerful features of them so beyond just that we can use for editing photos we can use it for creating YouTube thumbnails which I do all the time we can see over here in this little top section that allows you to navigate between your open files that I have a few I was working on pretty simplistic ones up there but yeah if you ever want to switch between your gem files and you have multiple opened that's where you would do it so one thing I want to point out really quick before we move on to the toolbox is the indent we have a single windowed mode which is what you're seeing right now but you also have the option and I believe it defaults to this of not being in single windowed mode so when we have single windowed mode unchecked you can see that all the different files were working with or split into separate windows and the toolbars over here on the left and right are also separate so if you want it to look as one uniform program then you should definitely go to Windows and check single windowed mode I think that's probably the cleanest way to look at it for most users so let's go over to the toolbox over whenever you want to do something in camp you're going to need to select one of these tools most things anyway we're just going to go through all the tools because all these tools are often used well most of them anyway so first off rectangular select and I guess we'll use this image over here to kind of demo it a little better whenever you have an area on a layer that you want to select you use rectangle select so if I left click and drag a box somewhere over my image then I have selected that space which is indicated by the moving dotted or dashed line so with that selected I can do things like hit the Delete key to delete that section out of specifically the layer we're working on you can see up here that a giant white space appeared but there's actually still the background hovering behind that and that's due to the opacity or partial transparency of that layer you can see that if I go to 100% opacity and less it makes that specific later this photo nine one three seven six nine underscore 1920 jpg more or less visible and will touch more on the layers and opacity layer and another thing you can do of course with a selection is to move it around so if I drag this so with the rectangular box selected inside of our image we can do a few things to move both the selection around and also the contents with them so you can see over here if we kind of go to the edges of any side of it we can control specific sites or corners of the box so if we want to expand that the top line and the right line we can click on the top right hand corner and drag until we get the right size we can also click on the sides down the middle if you want to just control one side and if we click and hold in the middle of our selection we can move where the selection box actually is so as far as moving the content inside of that layer inside of that selection the method I like to use is to hit control to cut on the keyboard take control bee which you see creates a new floating selection by pasted layer and then we can go down here to the move tool where we can just move that temporary layer around until we have that information in this spot we want and now I can let's see - new layer it right click it and hit - new layer if we drag this down one layer and right-click again there's another tool called merge down so this combines layers and now that moved box as we joined the photo layer basically making it so that we move this over there and it leaves a gap in the original location you might want to fill that in or something like that so I guess we could talk about the next tool going a little bit long linearly here the bucket fill tool so bucket fill by default is going to use a foreground color fill that's the color you see over here on the top left in this color selection background color fill is the color you have in the bottom right and you can easily switch between those two colors by hitting this swap button that looks like two arrows and click it again to move back so as long as we're on the layer we want to fill in and there is a continuous color like this black space over here or this white space right here we can left-click to fill in that space so very simple but it doesn't have to be a solid color it's also possible to do it with patterns so in again you have a decent selection of default patterns and it's possible to go online to grab more but we can use these patterns to fill in spaces like that now personally I'm not really keen on most of the default patterns I don't think that they're particularly amazing but maybe you can get some use out of it or some basic image editing and a better option might be actually to use a gradient fill so a gradient fill is going to go from one or multiple colors to different colors or levels of transparency over the course of your selection or your image now if I do a gradient fill on this layer right here it's actually going to fill everything it's not going to respect the fact that this box is one solid color it's going to fill the entire layer and you can see the layer selection itself indicated by these yellow black dashed lines that's the layer selection and you can of course see that the layer can be bigger than the canvas itself oh let's try to do a gradient fill where we select part of our image so instead of doing it to the whole layer I'm gonna select this area right here and now I'm going to go to a gradient fill so that's rectangular select select the area then go to gradient fill and now I'm gonna fill that area specifically with this gradient we have over here so if you want to change a gradient you can either click on the list here and find one you like or you can go over here to the right and click the edit button where on the top right hand corner or basically over where your layers dialog box a new tab is going to appear and this is the gradient window which I believe we can find by going to windows dockable dialogs and the ingredients that's exactly what we're seeing right here oh by the way dr. Bo dialogues if I said window you want to open at any point in time you go here to do it you have all kinds of things like reopening the tools or the toolbar that's over here or layers or gradients all kinds of tools over there so for these gradients we can see quite a bit of information here we have basically indicated by a black triangle the left side of a specific gradient section so this is going from full transparency to it looks like this purple color the left black triangle represents where the transparent area starts in the right black triangle indicates where this color basically hits the full purple and then this white spot is the middle section you can see that gradients can be made of multiple sections so we have one here that goes from the deep purple to looks like a lighter purple and then we have this section here that goes from a light purple to kind of this soft red then the soft red to a deeper red and you kind of get the picture until it goes to the other side now this is a more complicated gradient than most so let's switch back to something simple it like foreground color to background color so there's only two sections here it's going to transition from this red to this white much simpler if we want to edit any aspects of that we can right click and do things like left color type or load left color from now all these default gradients are pretty much inevitable if we try to go over here and select specific colors we can't do that but instead what we can do rather than overriding the default gradients is to click down here at the bottom where it says create a new gradient and from here we have full control we can set the left point end color so let's set that to maybe something like a blue we can set the right point end color it can be like a teal and we can make that partially transparent by decreasing the alpha and we can also create more sections by right-clicking and hit split at midpoint or split segment uniformly don't we split at midpoint it splits it down the middle and we can drag that section so that parsh parts of our gradient or more emphasize or less emphasized and then we can continue adding new colors so this section the right point end color is going to be right here so right point end color and we change that to something like the purple here I'm actually going to select that color so that we can go over here and change their left point in color as well so the left point in color and I'm going to copy and paste the HTML notation okay that doesn't look exactly like what it was going for but you get the idea you can customize your gradients there now I mean we'll leave it at that for now so let's move on to some other tools we have the ellipse select tool which works exactly like the rectangular select except instead of selecting rectangles we are selecting ovals or circles so just like before we can delete sections we can expand our oval we can move it around we can cut it paste it back out and move that the actual contents of that section around and then once again read basically well okay it looks like it automatically be merged it when I left click with selection so that's another way you can do it rather than right-clicking to new layer and then right-clicking and doing a merge down kind of however you want to do it there's multiple ways to do most things with okay next up we have the lasso tool so this is actually called the free select tool it's called a lasso within Photoshop so this basically allows us to freely draw a segment of our document that's going to be selected and basically wherever we start and end up everything inside is going to be lassoed or selected and just like before um right and just like before it's a selection so we can delete that if we want or we can move it around as well so to move the lasso select or the free select tool you should hold alt down in order to move it and yeah that's basically all there is to say about that so another really useful tool is fuzzy select this allows you to select a region based on color and when you have this tool selected in tool options there's something called threshold which is how lenient you want to be with that color so here I'll click and you can see that a lot of this document got selected even though not everything as a solid black so if I turn this threshold down let's say 2-0 because it is black and white so we have to be specific um then a lot less is going to be selected a whole lot less so let's say something like 5 for the threshold and maybe we'll get something a little closer to what we were looking for a image like this isn't really ideal for use in the color select because everything is kind of black and white to begin with but if you have a document where one color is really standing out such as a red and then the background is white like let's actually just demo that so we have okay let's create a new layer over here you need a layer to work on again and I wanted that's before ground color fill so now we're going to let's use the pen tool or the brush tool sorry and we're gonna draw some red and then we're gonna select that red with the fuzzy select tool so this should get most of this area but it won't be perfect as we increase the threshold it's going to select more and more and using this kind of tool we can get a pretty reasonable selection of an area without having to do any kind of very precise pre-select or scissors selecting of course ideally you would want to have these two separate things on separate layers so let's actually go into that right now so I'm gonna create a new layer I'm gonna delete this one we're gonna make one layer just pure white and then on the new layer we're gonna have that red color so we have that selected and now if we ever want to move this stuff because it's on its own layer we just need to use something like the move tool to move that without messing with the background whatsoever so if that doesn't show you how useful layers are I don't know what will a really good idea in dem separate your changes to different layers the more layers you have the easier it's going to be to go back and make changes to things without interviewing with everything else in the scene ironically that looks kind of like the Japanese flag I think anyway so let's see what else select by color tool this is similar to fuzzy select except with the fuzzy with the color select tool we can have multiple spots the fuzzy select tool you can see by hovering over it is only contiguous regions which means only regions that continue with one color but by using the Select by color tool we can get all of the regions that have this specific color in them obviously you can change in the threshold up and down when you want to be more lenient with how you select the tools but what's important to note here is that and if your elements are on different layers then this white isn't going to stop this red from being selected so what we actually need to do is sample merged and then this will give you a much better selection of this red area sample merged takes all of the visible layers combined when it comes to your selection you're still selecting only one layer of course so let's see increase the threshold increase the threshold until you get it right and more or less you select the area's you want to change so you can edit that however you want obviously it's going to be a little better when you don't have that blur from a non 100% hardness brush this is 50% hardness on the brush and what this hardness is referring to is when that comes to the edges how solid are they're going to be a hundred percent hardness means that the entire area that you brush is going to be one solid color and there's not going to be any of that fading if you set the hardness to lower that's gonna be some fading okay next up the scissors select tool and this would be pretty useful for this kind of thing so you have like a circle here right and you want to select as much of it as possible but drawing with the freehand select tool is kind of tricky right like you can try to do it but you're not gonna get it that precise because you are not a robot but the scissors select tool is basically being a robot so with this is your select tool I'm gonna press up here and create some selection around this area until we get roughly speaking a circle now you can see that with this lack of solid hardness it's not exactly a perfect selection we can of course add more points in to kind of get it to be a little bit more accurate but the general idea is that it's [Music] that it's kind of going to automatically draw around the object and we'd be able to select it and cut out so as long as you've completed the circuit you can click on the inside to get your selection delete it whatever you need to do probably a little bit more useful when you have solid colors rather than this transparency but it's a good alternative to the free select tool we're going to skip over the foreground select tool for now I actually don't have a lot of experience with that particular one so I don't think it's going to be too necessary for most people out there maybe we can create some future advanced tutorials for that kind of thing but we'll go straight to the paths tool next so paths is kind of like a pens pencil a tool and other programs the idea is you click somewhere and then you create a path by clicking at the main points you want the path to end up with so the idea with the path is that you can get a pretty precise selection and when you get down to the end if you want to actually complete the circuit of the path you can alter control down and then click you can see a little join icon between those two spots and now we have a path selected which actually gets created not in our image but over on this paths area so if we were to do something like a print out and hopefully this will give us like a print preview yeah there we go you can see the path doesn't show up so it's invisible until you actually do something with the path and on the select menu of right-click we can choose from path selection which means that with this path it's going to create a selection inside of that we can do things with like use the paint bucket tool to draw on so you can see that for kind of blocky precise shapes maybe kind of geometric that the paths select tool may be useful for you of course since that's a selection we can do things like add in our weird gradients we created earlier of course we can stroke the selection now that we have a selection rather than the path so let's add a line there and we can always just go back and use this path because it's always going to be there until we do so if we want to stroke the path we can do that up there and the path style so if we want to stroke the path we can always do that up there and the paths window and if you don't see the paths window go to windows dockable dialog paths it should pop up there by default or if you're in a single if you're not in single windowed mode it'll pop up in its own window possibly okay let's see what else colors select the color dropper tool Co is picker tool so if you have area on your layer that you want to grab the color from like let's say we want the gray from around s lips you just use the color picker tool click where you want it and you can do a sample if you want to like grab from a big area so this is kind of like an average and that's gonna replace your colors and your color selection boxes over here with the one you have selected so if you want to grab like the background color - we can do a selection now of course if you want to sample all layers sample merged again so by doing that we can get this white text without actually selecting the text layer up here the 2.8 text layer so let's see yeah this is just a really useful tool because sometimes you want to grab a color and you want to reuse it and that's the tool to use for that so next up the zoom tool if you have this selected and you left-click it's gonna zoom in if you hold ctrl down it's going to zoom out alternatively if you want it to zoom out by left-click you change the direction and the two options and now left click is out and control left click is zoom in up to you what you want for that next up the measure tool if there's an area of your document you want to know roughly how many pixels it is like let's say this text here from here to here we can measure that kind of off angle there so you can see down here that that that line we just measured was 89 pixels and 0.64 degrees i believe that's in a positive nature we can also drag these end points up and down if we want to and there we have a perfect 90-degree line there so not a tool that I think is useful too often but if you're designing something precise like web design that may be a tool you want so the move tool we've already kind of covered that a bit if you want to move anything like let's say this text that's gonna be using the move tool or this layer in the background pretty self-explanatory so next up we have the alignment tool first I'm going to move this text opposite that it's not aligned and then with the alignment tool we can what we're going to be doing is selecting an element basically a layer or selection in our document in this case the text here and we're gonna align it to something so relative to I'm gonna say active layer and then I'm gonna select the item I want to align it to so I'm gonna make sure that it's centering over there I'm gonna or you should select it first rather and then Center it and then Center it and now this text has been aligned relative to this layer over here and to prove that I'm gonna move this way over here and we'll do that one more time so I'm going to use the active active layer relative to we're gonna select this and then I'm going to Center it relative to that and you can see it moves over its perfectly centered on the photo layer and of course there's other options in here depending on how you want to align but we'll leave it at that for right now so I'm going to ctrl Z a couple times to undo next up we're gonna use the crop tool which allows us to basically cut off the edges of an image and only have what we want to be in the final product so by default if you have this crop tool selected it's going to be cropping from the entire image so if I want this image to be let's say this space over here and cut the borders off I just drag a box select it hit Enter and we've dropped our image now that looks terrible of course because it cuts off the text on the outside so let's say we only want to crop one layer so current layer only we can make a selection here hit enter and we've dropped that so now we have like a black border around our thumbnail which is progressively becoming worse as we go through this tutorial but yeah that's that's how you would do a quick crop of course there's also other to do it such as you can go up here to image do canvas size that'll reduce the max size of the image which kind of ends up being a crop so if I do something like 1280 by 960 you can see the crop with this box over here and then the layers reposition so let's do a resize there and the outer sections of these layers just got cropped off I will talk more about those menu items up there in a bit so next up the rotate tool you have a layer or selection and you want to rotate it so you use the rotate tool we click on what we want to rotate and we rotate it around when you have it where you want it rotate and that's basically what there is to that of course you can always do it with selections so let's rotate this selection and negative 55 Engel okay there we go so similar to us are all these other transforms we have up here scale tool if you want to resize something so let's resize that section to beat make it way bigger you can also scale it down shear which is going to kind of angle it so let's do it to this entire layer and we share it to the right which gives it kind of a weird perspective rather than front facing it's now kind of a different polygonal shape but yeah basically if you want to change which sides are facing what angles these are the kind of tools you want to use for that perspective tool so this is only going to be affecting specific corners rather than all corners at once so if we want the bottom to look much closer we drag those out and now the top looks like it's in the distance and the bottom it looks like it's closer to us but you'll notice that the the layer because the Mac size that the layer wasn't big enough that the changes they get cut off here so nothing can be beyond the size of the black line layer here so in order to fix that I'm going to go up to the layer menu and we're going to do layer boundry size I'm gonna set this something way high like 2500 by tronic 500 pixels and maybe we want to move this area of the layer and position it kind of closer to this simple the center so I'm gonna cut and remove that and let's move this layer up here so I'm doing a shift-click with the move tool and now let's go back and do the perspective tool one more time so I'm gonna take these bottom corners and make them way wider okay and actually it does it's doing it to the whole layer right now so the corners are way out here we can go even further out than that and we'll try transforming that so obviously because this is dealing with a pretty big size it's going to take a little longer to process but it's not too bad I shouldn't be too bad hopefully then we can move on to some of the other tools okay there we go so hopefully you can kind of see this bottom area has been stretched out whereas the top area almost looks like it's a little bit further in the distance because we left those top corners closer together flip tool if we want to flip something horizontally we just left click if you want to flip it vertically we change the flip type or hit control and then we flip that I'm gonna skip over the cage transform tool for right now and we'll go to the text tool so if you want to create text within jump this is the tool you have to use you can select your font here either type in the name of the font or left click for drop-down menu and any fonts - and so on your computer should show up here as well the size of the text is going to be there and you can change the color of the font there now I recommend you use these two options before you start editing if you left what you can see that you have most of those same options over there though I just find that I've run into less issues if I use the tool options to set things up first so now I have chunk 5x as my font 200 pixels white color and I can start typing so or say test you can see the four corners and the sides of this text block and you'll notice that when you do do a text it creates it on its own layer and we can edit the corners basically change the boundaries of this text box you'll notice that by default its style well actually by default it would be left justified I think so that's where it's over on the left right justified moves you text to the right of the Box centered puts it down the middle and just like in something like Microsoft Word we can hit the enter button in order to add a new line and move it further down we can also type in multiple lines and it's also possible within one text box to change the settings on that particular well in any text characters yet there so if I want to bold that I can do that if I want to change that to different font like sans I can do that should be able to you anyway so for this particular case if we type it over here it might change it for the whole box so I'm going to select this and type sans okay there that's that's what we're looking for so okay well you can see I actually let the text get cut off there it still exists we would just have to hit backspace and make sure it's in our box but this this text over here is a different font than the one down here alternatively we could just add in a second text box so second text and drag that let's say over there now one tool I'll show you guys really quick of course this is things that we were originally going to talk about later but I think it makes sense here under filters light and shadow drop shadow if you want to make text stand out more I would recommend trying this drop shadow script so blur radius and increase the opacity and this is going to apply a drop shadow to whatever lay we have selected in this case the text so I'm going to hit OK here and you concede that it gave shadow to the text so that's a really good way to make your text stand out just that that should be relevant since we're talking about the textual right now I'm gonna hide these layers open by the way the drop shadow layer is its own thing it's not a permanent change the text but it's another layer behind it so if I was to move this text or move the drop shadow then we would probably want to reapply that drop shadow on a new layer and delete this one so next up let's talk about the pencil tool okay I'm gonna select this pixel area over here so usually the pencil tool would just be used with pixel selection and we have fifty pixels so this is gonna kind of do you a very blocky drawing we can also select other options like these brushes but that's not really using pencil it's kind of just using like a paintbrush without the without the hardness or the soft edges so you can see the difference here between a pencil brush stroke and a paint brush brush stroke also notice that the pencil pixels are very blocky on the edge whereas with the with the brush it tries to be kind of soft and smooth so if you want hard edges the pencil tool might be what you're looking for so for instance if you just want to draw a straight line kind of like underlying text which you can actually underline just by using the text tool too but let's say you wanted to do something like this you could just draw it with the pencil tool and that's one option to do it so next up the eraser let's say that we don't want that at all the exact opposite of the pencil tool we can just erase this section notice that it only edits the layer that you're currently on another really good reason to keep you things separate so we can erase this layer all day without affecting anything from the other layers next up the airbrush tool so the idea here is that you have different levels of pressure controlled by rate and flow and you can kind of draw over the same things multiple time like an airbrush wear to make something thick you just draw over it multiple times I think this is the kind of tool that's gonna be a lot more useful for people with a graphics drawing tablet but you get the idea there we can increase the flow so that each time we go over it it's a lot thicker and for stylistic purposes that could be a useful tool for you similarly the ink tool is going to allow you to do calligraphy style painting much better of course when you have a drawing tablet with some sensitivity input you're not gonna get a lot of use out of it with the mouse because a mouse left click only has one level of sensitivity but if you use a drawing tablet you can kind of get some of these lines to be thicker or lighter depending on how hard you press down next up the clone tool how you use this to copy one area to another is that you control left-click to select a area to copy from and then you left-click and kind of drag around and it's going to do an exact copy from that previous area so we get that iris again and you notice that the cursor is on both are going to track in sequence with each other so doing this we can do weird things like copy a face of eyes and oh my gosh that is pretty creepy okay we're gonna skip over the healing tool in the perspective clone tool for this video since they're kind of a bit more advanced and we'll go to blur sharpen smudge and dodge burn tools what you kind of all very similar in the purposes so blur or sharpen if we have it on blur it's going to kind of make part of our image a lot harder to see in other words blurring it out also we can hit ctrl to do the opposite which is sharpen image which in this case is going to kind of make it a lot or high in contrast a lot kinda I would say tougher to look at not really sure how to describe it but the idea is that they're polar opposites with each other that's probably not a great image to use sharpen on but yeah blur and sharpen if you want something to be kind of hard to see clearly use blur otherwise you sharpen and it's going to kind of increase the contrast and make it a lot more dramatic and how you look at it so next up we have this much tool which is kind of like as if you had a painting that we're still drying but then you accidentally pressed on it with your thumb and you smudged it that's kind of what you're looking at here it's just smear it and make it a little bit less I guess you would say easy to tell what it originally was because you're taking the original ink there kinda and you're spreading it all over the place so it's it's similar to blur in that it makes it a lot harder to see I'm sure you can find some mortise diffusers out but if that's your thing so finally for the toolbox we have the Dodge burn tool generally when you use Dodge it's gonna kind of light in an area up so you may have very specific sections you want to make a little brighter like hair or something of that nature and then burn the opposite is going to darken it so let's try darkening the lips a bit now of course you're going to want to be a lot more careful with this and if you let go you can continue burning it darkening it until you get the results you're looking for then we can dodge around the lips to make the surrounding area look brighter and yeah just demonstrating the tools here obviously some pretty terrible graphic editing there but that's the idea dodge is to lighten up an area and burn makes it dark so let's go ahead now and start talking about the menus that we have up here at the top left starting with the file menu this is where you would create new documents open up other ones and you can create a document basically getting started by loading up a screenshot or logo or anything else you kind of want to import up here alternatively you can just open a file and that works fine you can see your recent documents save and save as save as allows you to set a specific name whereas save will use the name of the previous image and override it you can save copies you can export to different formats which is actually important here so you can see in the top left this is a dot xcf file that is what uses for its basically documents where you open them up and you can still edit them but when you actually want them to show up on the web or something like that you want to export as a PNG this export option uses the last export settings but you can export to all kinds of different images here dot jpg probably the most common you also got other ones like gift PNG pretty much whatever you want to export it to Kemp can do that and then you can of course close all of your open documents and put out the program as well as if you're going to print you can set some settings up or how it's going to print out what kind of paper you're using make sure it looks good in the print preview that kind of stuff and the Edit menu we have options like undo redo and seeing the undo history so if you want to undo something basically you revert the last change hit control Z or you can go up here if you want to redo the last undo basically something that you undid but you actually didn't want it you can control Y or you can go at the Edit menu anything that you have selected basically like some pixels I'd like to use control X to do it but you can go up here and hit cut you can see the shortcut is control X and basically cut those pixels out which gets put into the buffer and when it's in the buffer you can use paste or paste into to copy that clipboard contents the clipboard contents is whatever we just cut out or copied and we can paste that in so with paste we have that information here so and we can paste it again control V control V control V you get the idea that's exactly the same thing as what you have up here in the menu and you can see what's in the buffer by going over here and pasting name so okay actually that's a new window I didn't know about so there is actually a paste buffer window so dockable dialogs let's see buffers so we can see we have this here so also in the Edit menu we have filled with foreground color background color in pattern which is the same kind of stuff you find over here with the bucket fill tool but we can use the Edit menu to do that also you can see shortcuts for it control and then the comma control period and control semicolon so we can try that here right now control comma filled with the black foreground color cool also if you want to edit any preferences within that's one of the things you can pop this up and open for we won't go through all these settings today obviously but that's probably the first place you want to check for setting up options next we have this select menu so if you have wanted to do something like select everything on a layer you want to get rid of your selection or you want to select from path you notice those are the very similar options that you have when you do a right click and then select same menu more or less then you can do that so select all is gonna grab everything in your current layer you see it doesn't select everything in the document but just the current layer and yeah that's more or less what you got going on over there you can also invert the selection if you want to like select everything that's not that you don't have selected in that layer so okay we have this box selected we invert that and now we're actually editing everything bounded and then below those tools we have options for changing how we're selecting this area so with the feather tool we can basically get the corners to kind of curve rather than being a hard rectangle so by doing that we can kind of add smooth corners to it or we can select a border which is only going to select the outer pixels so ten pixels or something like that and then now we have a border of that area selected and we can fill that in I imagine let's try doing that I'll start doing it with a color that will stand out more so like red okay and yeah somehow we got the border of the entire layer there but you get the idea and you can also increase or decrease the sizes of your selections with shrink and grow pretty self-explanatory rounded rectangle also going to get you similar results to feather of course so rounded rectangle and there we go in the View menu we mostly have a lot of tools for controlling what's going to be showing on screen and what's not so in you can have guides which are kind of these lines that go down the middle or the side of an image and allow you to kind of snap things to it or serve as a reference point we also have a grid where if we toggle that on we can see the entire document in basically a bunch of squares now these squares don't exist they're not going to print out but you can do things like snap to grid snap to guides and they're just for reference points you can also increase and decrease the zoom up here and make your program fullscreen but it's already pretty much full screen for me but okay well full screen including getting rid of the bar at the bottom so in order to set up a guide you actually go over to the image menu so image guides and I'm gonna create a new guide by percent so 50% we have this blue dotted guide and now if we want to snap anything to that because on the view menu we have snap to guides I can just do something like drag this over here and you see where that center cross gets close to the guide it's gonna snap and that's the idea of snapping to guide snapping to grids you can of course change the size of your grids by going into preferences so edit preferences yeah that's most of the kind of stuff you want Yap going on there you can also control whether or not that rulers show up so show rulers ID rulers and those are currently measured in pixels but they can measure and other things as well like inches if you want so that's so these inches are determined by the documents dpi basically density pixels per inch I think which is how many pixels Ross is one inch one setting you can set up while you're printing out before you print out anything um okay let's see and the image menu canvas size we kind of talked about that if you want to scale up your image the actual canvas all you'll use combined what the total canvas size of the total workspace for your images we can do that so by default it basically snaps the height and the width together I currently have that not enabled so if you see that link broke then click that so we can increase the size goes up to 2,000 pixels and this goes up correspondingly and we besides it it doesn't resize the contents of the document it just resizes the workspace what would actually print out or what would actually go into an exported P&G image okay likewise if you want to actually scale it but I'll actually scale all the layers as well scale image is going to be really useful there so let's do that again mm scale and this is gonna make all the layers get really big and yes they may get distorted a little bit if you're scaling upwards so be aware of that I believe that has some tools this interpolation tools for kind of scaling without losing as much of the I guess you would say detail as possible so it kind of with guest work kind of figures out how it should look if it was just taking the image and making it bigger without making things too blurry but if you turn off interpolation that's when you'll start to get simpler x' okay under image configure grid if you like I was talking about earlier if you want to change the size the grid pics also you want it to be dashed rather than solid you can do that there we're gonna just kind of quickly go through the menus here because this video is already getting really long so hopefully this is covering most of what you need to know and if you do have any questions feel free to let me know down below and maybe I can cover them in future videos as well also more information was covered in my course on udemy maybe I'll put the link to that down below too so let's see layer uh this is kind of like the layered dialog box you have a lot of the same settings of year so you can obviously create a new layer under the layers box just by adding a new layer but you can also go up here to new layer and you can duplicate layers you can merge them down which we demonstrate to be low before delete layers add alpha channels to layers so not every layer will have an alpha channel by default it like particularly if you get a background layer here by default those don't come with alpha and you can add alpha in it transforming a layer if you want to flip it across so we can demonstrate that real quick so transform flip horizontally but horizontally okay there we go and you can see it flips the information and scaling a layer particularly that that's going to be pretty useful so if you want to scale just one layer you can use this tool so let's drop it down to like 2500 pixels width and rather than scaling everything in the image it's only scaling this particular layer here next up the colors menu whenever you want to change a layer and you want to change a color on it you want to modify the colors in the foreground the mid-ground or the shadows which you can do color balance increase brightness decrease brightness increase contrast or things of that nature or even invert an entire layers colors like that you have access to all of those tools up there and I think those are mostly the ones that I've used so let's talk about color balance hue saturation and color eyes or brightness contrast rather so next with the color balance tool we can select different ranges of color within our document or our layer that we have currently selected and kind of play around with what colors are going to show up there so if I change the shadows you can see that kind of down here where it's a little bit darker on this chrome symbol that the color levels go down a bit or they change rather but if I go to highlights it's going to do very different changes because these are the areas which are brightest on the layer so that's why that's getting affected more specifically we can just kind of bring out some of the some of the colors more dramatically than others and you can see here how if you have an image is especially if you have a photographer Oh image then you can do some pretty crazy color effects there now with you saturation you're kind of more talking about the entire image all at once so if I bump the hue we've changed the color to something kind of like I don't know anti chrome logo or something like that you can increase the brightness decrease or increase the saturation pretty self-explanatory a very useful tool though and with brightness contrast and similar you're affecting the whole layer at once so do you want it to be darker brighter do you want low contrast and you want wait wow that was way too much contrast geez and yeah those are probably the three main color tools that you're going to be using also invert color similar to changing the hue/saturation so in this next menu the Tools menu you pretty much literally just have the same tools that you have over here in the toolbox but instead as a drop down menu so I think everything on this list exists over here except this thing which I have no idea what that actually is I got it who knows but usually you can just use the toolbox for that but if you want to use the drop down menu well you can do that either so filters we did touch on this a little bit earlier if you want to apply an effect over your image then filters is going to be the place to do it so we did talk about drop shadow before where we can take any layer and give it a shadow make it stand out more and that's a really cool and useful effect but you have a lot of other ones over here too so like for instance you can add border to an image just by using that tool and you can see it's kind of got these edges on it so it's almost like a picture frame you can do things like go to the autistic menu and you can cartoon if I a image and this is probably not a good one to use for it but we can try it okay that's going to be better on quick we can also go down to something like the artistic menu and try something like glass tile to kind of dramatically change how it's going to look so so let's try that there I I don't know how that's gonna be very very weird effect okay a better example probably let me see if I can find the jibon is that what I'm looking for okay well that's one example so cubism that's actually gonna cool you have a lotta different options here in the filters menu and for the most part you just have to go ahead and look through them common ones like blurs up there at the top lighting effects if you want like a lens flare you can do that set the location of the lens flare and there you go yeah and that's pretty much all there is to that it's kind of like you need to explore bit figure it out for yourself and you know see what you can create using those filters okay and then finally the windows there are a lot of windows and get them we don't really touch on but the ones we did touch on are the ones you're probably going to be using the most but if you ever need to open something else up like you need to open up the buffers you want to open a fonts dialog this is where you would do that yeah once again the two most important windows that you almost always gonna have open or the layers which is over here and the tool box which is over there tool box you go windows tools for the layers it's dockable dialogs and then layers or ctrl L on your keyboard and you can also open recently closed Docs by going here but you can see I don't have any recently closed ones so it's only if you did close one and then on the help menu you can open up the manual see what plugins and procedures are installed into and I would say if you ever want to get more information about how works a good source is going to be Doc's gimp.org slash 2.8 /en or whatever the current version is last year language and you can go through here and read up information about just about everything in as well so with that that's going to be the conclusion of this relatively complete tutorial for beginners in 2.8 version of I've been Kris thank you very much if you stuck around to the end for going through all this content I really hope it's helped you out to learn a lot of these features within and hopefully I'll see you guys in my future video content hello everybody Chris here and in this video I want to show you guys how we can start importing photos or other images into so that we can start editing them inside of the program so there's a few different ways you can do this the quickest way to bring in your first image is to have open as we do here and then if you have an image on your desktop or in the file explorer like here you can left-click and hold on one of those images and drag them into the application now this will only work if you don't have any active images open at the moment so this only works for the first image or a series of image but if we drop it in it's immediately going to load that image into again and it's going to put it on its own layer over here on the right so we'll be able to start working with that single image now if we want to bring in multiple images at once we would select all those by left-click and dragging until we get a box over the images on our desktop or the images in our folder using the File Explorer then we can drag those in the same way and it's going to load up one different document for each of the images we load into so that's how you can do with a quick math import now let's say that you already have a couple open documents and you need another way to do it well one way you can load up an additional image and I'll do it by closing that one out there is you can right click on an image anywhere on your desktop or File Explorer go down to open with and choose GNU image manipulation program or if you do not see jean.you image manipulation program or again you can come down here to choose another app where you'll be able to select again from the list of programs on the computer but if we choose open with it's going to take that image and it's going to load it in here as another photo we can edit even though we only have a few open that method still works another option we have is to actually just use the file menu so if we go open to file open and then we find the location on our computer where the images are stored we can select that image and just click open and now it's going to import that image once again so that's three ways you can load in images or photos and to to start editing them I think Chris hope this video has helped some of you guys out there getting started with them and they will see you guys to make a check of your content [Music] hello everybody Chris your n in this video I'm going to try to explain the difference between layers and images and programs like and Photoshop for you so that you get a better understanding of that so in this document I have one single image and that is what you see on screen everything you see before you and bounds basically represented by these dashed yellow lines on the side and that is the image we're talking about it's the entire document composed as one single object and that object we export as a PNG or a dot jpg or some other image format for displaying and other sources I'm now Facebook whatever you want to post your images and over here in the layers window which you should have on the right by default but you can recover by going to Windows recently closed Docs or dockable dialogs to make it pop up if you don't have it you'll notice that the image is broken up it's separated into five different sections now by default you only have one layer in your image but people who generally work with these programs a lot find that it's very very helpful to break your image up into different sections and the reason for this is that if your document is broken up into different layers different sections you can interact with part of your document in a way make changes to that without destroying the work that you did on other segments so in other words if you need to delete and then a single layer it's not going to reduce or harm the work that you did on other layers and by doing that it can save you a lot of so later on especially when you're talking about projects that may be a little bit more complicated than a 5 minute thing so currently these four layers above the invisible background are the new layer which is this blue line right here the top layer which is this black box the red layer which is this middle section or the middle section which is the red box and the bottom box which is green so these are all separate elements of the document and for the most part they don't really interact with each other with the exception really that depending on the hierarchy you have set up here one may show over the other layers so you can kind of think of it like layers of a cake and that part of the cake is going to be on top of the other cake so behind this black box there's actually extra red box but you can't see that because the black layer is higher than the middle layer it's the top section of the cake and you can see when I hide the top layer that the hidden red middle section gets revealed so that's one thing to know in terms of layer hierarchies it can play a role and more serious image documents but we'll get into that another time but with this blue line here I want to demonstrate something for you and that's concerning the layer and image menu whenever you're using the layer menu you're talking about interacting with one single layer not the whole document that's what the image menu does so if I go to a layer and I come down here to transform and flip vertically while have my new layer selected which as I mentioned is the blue line it's only going to flip the blue line and it's gonna leave the rest of my document alone so we go ahead and flip vertically and you see the position of the top middle and bottom layer didn't change at all it remained the same and that's really useful for us because what if you want to flip part of your document but you don't want to flip everything that would be a real pain if you didn't set it up with layers properly ahead of time now if we go over to the image minion image menu as I mentioned and we do something like a scale image then this is going to be affecting it everything in the document it's gonna be affecting the image itself so scale image 125 and we have this link together so its width and height it's going to increase the size of the width and the height simultaneously and it's going to affect all of the layers and our document as well so when you want to change things at a basically a macro level or a layer the level that affects everything that's when you go into the image menu so here we'll scale it up it should take the image and move it over here and down here but it'll bring the content in these layers along with it so we'll go ahead and scale and as you can see the document did get bigger but the layers got bigger as well all the content in the layer was scaled up so once again to reiterate whenever you want to affect everything in the document go into the image menu whenever you want to effect just part of your document or one of your layers go into the layer menu and make sure that you have the right layer selected for what you want to do so that's a rough rundown of layers versus images inside of Photoshop and any other tool that plays out similar to this I hope you found this educational I've been Chris thank you for watching if you found this video helpful consider donating to the channel and I'll see you in my future videos in this scam tutorial we're going to be talking about transparency and how it's useful to you when you're creating different images so transparency is when part of your image is invisible now this can be an entire layer it can also be part of a layer and it can also be elements within that layer it really depends on how you're doing things for instance you could tone down the opacity on a brush and then whatever brushstrokes you make are partially see-through or we can take a layer with the layers window knock it down to 0% opacity and then it would be completely invisible which is effectively the same as clicking on the eyeball and making it invisible altogether now normally if you want to add in a layer that's transparent so that you can start drawing on it you can click on the new layers button and you'll notice that layer fill type defaults to transparency so we just said ok here and we're good to go now let's say and this would be a common case you actually want your background to be completely transparent just get rid of the default white background you can disable its visibility by clicking on the eyeball or you can right click and delete the layer up to you how you want to do it now with our currently transparent layer everything in it is transparent there's really no data here but if I start drawing with the brush stroke or the pencil tool then we can have an image where part of it is visible because it actually has content there and then the rest of it is just transparent nothingness now this becomes really useful when you want an image to not look like a square all images are actually square when they're on the computer but if you save it as a PNG image the only thing you're going to see are these lines so it gives the illusion that the image is in a square when in reality it is in fact a square there's just only data showing for these white lines so let's go ahead and export this and I'll show you what I mean so pairen see I'll just save this on the desktop defaults are fine and I'll open this up in the photos tool for Windows 10 now here there is a transparent background inside of itself and you can also see it's transparent inside of at the icon preview window but the background of the photos tool defaults to black so what happens with transparency is yes this image is showing 100% of it even the fact that it's a square but because everything is transparent surrounding these white lines that means that whatever is behind it is actually going to show basically covering up the transparent areas so you want to get a checkerboard background you get the background of whatever happens to be behind your image and the areas that are transparent now one more thing I should point out is that it doesn't have to be fully transparent you can take one of your layers oh it doesn't have to be fully transparent or not transparent at all you can take your layers and actually tone down the opacity so if I set this to say 50% then only 50% of this white line is really going to show the other half get to a place by whatever's in the background so it kind of gives the illusion that there's glass or something similar to that there let's go ahead and export it again and you'll be able to see more of what I mean so export it reopen the tool and even though these lines are technically white because they have transparent half of the black color behind it shows up in these white lines instead so that's one thing that you can do with transparency you can have part of the background showing in the areas you want to show or you can have a hundred percent of whatever's behind it show this becomes really useful in web design and that kind of thing but that's going to be it for this tutorial so tune in for the next one and we'll be going into other tricks and tips you can do with Ingham hello everyone Chris here and in this video we're going to be careful the alignment tool with in-depth now alignment as a concept is usually pretty self-explanatory but within there's a bit of a trick to actually getting it to work so for demonstration purposes I'm going to start off by creating a few different circles on separate layers within at different locations within our image and then we're going to use the alignment tool to Center them so now for the second layer as always you can create new layers with the layers dialog box which I have located on the right side of the screen all I'm using is the circle tool in conjunction with the bucket fill tool to make these different circles on the separate layers note that it's very important that these circles are not on the background layer because when you're aligning items inside of you're doing it at the layer level each circle or object on the screen does not necessarily have its own borders or box that the program is going to be aligning around it only works if each of your individual items are on their own separate layer because it created the layers with the max size of the image I need to now auto crop the layers basically reducing the size of their box that borders to fit around the actual content of the layer in other words move the layer boxes so that they only go around the circles and nothing else now with the align tool it defaults relative to the first item selected so I will select circle one and now by holding shift I'm going to select circle two and circle three now by hitting a line middle of target it's going to take the other two circles and align them vertically so that they are positioned in the same spot as the first circle you can see that by hitting the other alignment options it works the same way everything is in reference to the first selected item so remember this only works properly if your layers are cropped correctly so if a layer is much larger than the content of the layer such as the circle then you're going to get some strange results another setting for the relative to drop-down menu is active layer in this case whatever layer I have selected in the layer window is going to be the reference point for the different items I'm aligning to so I don't even need to select the first item just everything in the stack is going to align to the currently selected layer as you can see because the circle layer is the one in the middle that's where the other two objects are aligning to so that's all for this brief tutorial of alignment inside of till the next one see you then hello everybody chris here and in this video I'd like to give you guys a quick rundown of what kind of image format you should be exporting to when you're done with your project inside of so the three formats I'm going to be talking about today probably the most popular ones they're PNG a portable Network graphic jpg and a gif file so they use a three different image formats that can be used for different purposes so kind of the most universal one is a PNG otherwise known as portable Network graphic and the idea behind a PNG is that generally it's going to take up more file space but it contains extra data for transparency so in this image I have a transparent background we know that because we can see the checkered stuff that appears in the background when we do not have a solid colored black round and the reason we would want to export as a PNG is that when we export as PNG it maintains that data so we can take this transparent image and the only part that would actually show up if we put something else I mean if we put this as the front image to something else the only thing that will show up is this black line here so we would go to file export and then make sure it's exporting as a PNG image of course once again the downside there is that it takes out more file space now when you don't need transparency because you have a solid colored image generally a photograph or anything that just has a background color that's a hundred percent not transparent then you can use JPEG and JPEG files are going to reduce the file size when you need images but you don't want them to take up a lot of file size it's a good option for you so if you ever wanted to do that in you would just export but you would change it from PNG to J PG or jpg gif is similar to a JPEG I do not believe that gifts can have alpha transparency in the background well what a gif can do and that a JPEG can't do is basically become a sequence of images as a animation so one thing you'll see on the internet if you haven't already is animated gif files this is where basically there's two three five something like that images and a sequence and the gif animation will play just by quickly going between them so when you export as a gif file you have the option of taking multiple layers in and having them export as completely separate images but mounted together in one animation file so if we've ever wanted to do that we could do file export make sure it is a I mean a gif file and then you would choose as animation you can choose whether you want it to loop and you can specify how long it takes between before you go between layers do all that you export it and you're gonna get an animated gif file that you can watch or that you can post online to various social media sites so yeah that's the three main formats that I would use there's other ones that exist out there by BM like B and P but really for 99% of purposes these three P and J PNG sorry JPEG and gif files are going to be all you need for most image content so I've been Chris thanks for watching this video and I guess I will see you guys in my future video content hello everybody Chris here and in this video I'm going to be showing you how you can use the perspective tool in in order to make a image that you import onto a scene look like it belongs in the scene is an actual object so in this case I'm going to be taking this desktop background image that you can see is just a basic rectangle and making it shape basically conform more so to this top monitor in the background because if you look at the laptop screen here you can see that it's a little bit larger on top and a little bit smaller on bottom and that's all because of perspective so what we need to do is we need to take the four corners of this image and shape it so that it's much more in line with the laptop monitor to make it look like it's the true desktop on that screen so in order to do this you can find the perspective tool in the toolbox and once you have it selected just go ahead and click on the image you want to modify now here it a little bit of a weird thing is whenever you have the image you're modifying in the top layer it's going to kind of leave behind the shadow of what's there previously and how I can get around that is while i have the perspective tool on that layer i'm just gonna move that layer down so that when we adjust these four corners it's not going to leave behind basically the previous image or the current image unmodified and so that we can see in the background where the laptop monitor is and that helps us out a lot because we want to get these four corners as accurate as possible so just dragging and dropping these corners of course you want to spend a little bit of time and get this as perfect as possible yep just eyeballing it here okay and that looks pretty good so I'm going to go ahead and hit transform and now we can move that image back up to the top layer and see how it went obviously there's a little bit of a graphical issue in the bottom left hand corner there so I'm going to use the perspective tool one more time to change that and we'll transform again okay still a little bit so one more time very much trial and error you can also hit ctrl Z to undo if you think this might be stretching it in some weird ways okay so now we can see it with the image on top of it and let's show before and after it's not perfect of course but it is pretty darn close to looking like that desktop is actually in the computer or on the computer screen there in the background so this is one use you can use for the perspective tool - Chris thank you for watching I hope you found this video useful if you did consider donating down below and I'll see you in my future videos hello everybody Chris here and in this video I'm gonna be showing you how we can blur out a background very efficiently inside of Photoshop CC 2018 so in order to separate the parts that we want to blur from the parts we don't want to blur we should use the lasso tool that's available up here on the top left if you needed a much less precise tool for selection you could use rectangular marquee or elliptical marquee but the lasso tool just gives you way more control so let's say in this instance we wanted to take this guy and make sure he is the item that's not blurred out all we need to do is use the lasso tool and draw roughly around him taking as much or as little time as we need to get a decent shape here and just go all the way around until we can complete a circuit and once you've done that we've isolated that guy from the rest of the document now if we use the blur tool or blur filter at this point it would only be applying to this person so we want to invert that so you can go up to the Select menu and choose inverse or shift ctrl I on your keyboard and now if we go down here to the blur tool and image this size I would recommend that you do increase the size quite a bit here so that it's going to blur very heavily in a lot of area all at once we can just kind of start blurring by left clicking and holding it down without any fear of accidentally blowing out the person that we don't want to blur out so basically we've just made that person immune to blur and we can go crazy with the rest of our image now that might take a while though so an even quicker way would be to use a blur filter so if we go up to filter blur typically you do a Gaussian blur as the most basic type you'd come in here you can see the preview and note that in this preview you can see the person still being completely unblurred and depending on how much or how little or you want you increase the pixels to get it more blurred out and once you're done you hit OK so we easily were able to blur out the background in just a few short minutes if you wanted to say keep all these people around you could just use the lasso tool and try to come around the people and stab also a less effective way but if you have less colors going on in your photo it also do select Halle range to target specific color areas and your document but lasso tool is what I would normally recommend so that's gonna be it for this video I think Ursus thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in my future Photoshop Captain okay guys so in this one we're going to be covering X&Y resolution with an now take a look at these scales we have going across these two different images I have pulled up here they're both in inches as we can see down here in the bottom left zoomed in to 100% but you can see that the scale from one an inch is considered a lot less on this one than it is on this one basically more space on the actual document itself is being quantified as one inch and the reason for this is that I have the X&Y resolution set higher on this document than the other one now what does all this mean well what it means is that when you go to print one of your documents one of the graphics that you've been making if you have your X or Y resolution set higher as the pixels per inch or pixels per whatever then that document is going to print out a little bit nicer it's going to have more data or more points per inch on your printed document so how you would actually do this is when you're creating a new image as you can see right here you can click on Advanced Options it defaults to 72 as the pixels per inch same with Photoshop but you'll notice or you may notice if you watched other graphic design tutorials from other people that a lot of them will actually set the X resolution higher so it might or X&Y resolution so it might be a hundred it might be 150 which I would say is probably plenty good enough for most purposes and in some cases even goes up to 200 or 300 now this is really only relevant if you're going to be printing documents but if you plan to design anything high-quality like let's say a poster for instance that may be going up on a storefront then you probably want it to print and as high a quality as possible so when you start your new documents to work for that you probably want to be working out of a high resolution per inch so that your finished document will not only look nice on your computer but it will actually look nice when you go ahead and print so this is just a quick tip for you if you have any quality issues try boosting up the X and a wide resolution now one more thing I'll point out is that if you've already started your document you can change the resolution in the print version by going to scale image and you'll see the X&Y resolution here just the same you can change it the problem is if you change it after you've already worked with the document then you might have to scale certain elements of your document if you've say incorporated any images in it might mess everything up because you have to account for that higher resolution which might mean also increasing the actual number of pixels in your overall document or it's something along those lines so it's always best if you have the pixel resolution decided before you start working on your image so that's all for this video see you in the next one hello everybody in this video I'll be showing you to waste in order to combine any object of person with any background of your choosing first we'll be starting things off with the easy way which is to use the magic wand tool now this is really only viable when you actually have a background that is very different or solid-color as compared to the object you on ISIL the reason for this is because the magic wand tool selects like colors based on the threshold now if I am to lower the threshold here which is what we would want to do to only select the black then it will select less colors that are different than the one I selected in other words if we have a threshold of zero it's only going to select black colors and as we increase the threshold it's going to target a few other codes that are very similar to that black now as interesting as it is to select and remove part of the woman in this picture as well it's not really what we're shooting for so in order to have this work we're going to need to drop the threshold down dramatically so now by lowering the threshold I'm able to select more or less just the black you can see a couple defects somewhere in the image because the the background isn't perfectly black this is the same kind of issue you'd run into if you had a green screen and it wasn't perfect for live video production however here since it's literally a few dots and it's a static image we can just manually remove the rest now a minute ago you will have noticed that the black background was replaced with a white background and that's because the layer doesn't have a layer channel yet so in order to have this work you have to right-click on the layer and hit add alpha Channel now this time when we remove the background using the magic wand it just replaces it with transparency from here as I mentioned we just need to use the eraser tool to get rid of these view defects and then we can drag any background image we want into this document and we'd be able to have this woman basically transplanted into that background almost as if she was there now those of this will look pretty good and it does accomplish our fact to make this truly convincing you would have to spend a lot more time on this to really manipulate the images and possibly mess with the perspectives make it so that it really seems like the woman is there you'd probably want to make her smaller too obviously but for our purposes this does demonstrate how you can basically take any image and as long as the background is easily selectable with the magic wand tool all you would need to do is magic wand out the background and then put the object or a character a person over any image you need but now we're gonna go ahead and do a harder example where the magic wand tool doesn't precisely work as you can see in the background of this image though although it is dark there's a lot of extra little details to it like poles and objects in the background itself instead of just a solid black background although the magic wand tool would work to an extent here it'll be very difficult for everything to be selected in the background or enough to where we wouldn't really need to use eraser or other tools like the lasso now that's not to say I wouldn't recommend starting with the magic wand tool if you can isolate a good portion of your document and as long as it's very distinct from the object you're trying to isolate like the white shirt here you should be able to get some good progress and with the magic wand tool with other images it might just be too similar in order to get any progress with the magic wand tool however so with the magic wand tool I'm going to continue removing the background however once again by just adding the image into a new layer it doesn't have an alpha Channel so in order for this to work properly you're going to have to right-click the layer and add an alpha Channel so that the background can show through now going through the same steps as before as we start using the magic wand we can see that the background comes into focus however as I mentioned with this image and other images like this it's not going to be a perfect transition so we need to show the other way of actually handling this and that's going to be through diligent hard work using the eraser tool and similar tools like the lasso to get rid of the rest of this extra background from the original image now here you'll notice I'm getting rid of the purple that's bordering on the skin of this person and what happens when you use the magic wand tool if it's not a perfect transition from one color into the other is that on those borders sometimes the colors will stay so by using the eraser tool we can get it to look much more accurate tied the fact that there was ever an original background that was separate from this new landscape background this is where you need to zoom in really far into your document and just take your time with it in many ways this is very similar to the process of removing acne or other defects from a photo the more time you spend with it the better results are gonna get but there isn't always necessarily a easy free quick to use answer like the magic wand tool however for any of the areas that isn't bordering the important part of this girl on the image you can just use a enlarged and eraser tool to slam out a lot of chunks at once so make sure you don't make your work harder than it needs to be only get really focused when it's in an area that is actually going to show in the final image in other words those border areas where it needs to look good and you don't want to accidentally remove information that should be in the final image to demonstrate the lasso tool when you use the lasso tool and you choose a point and then you choose a second point it's going to draw a selection line between those two points and you can keep going with as many lines based on the points as you want until you reconnect it back to the original point and then you have a selection which could look something like a polygon but what's nice about the tool is that it gives you quite a fine level of control over what your selection is going to be so selecting for this elbow here is not actually that hard I just need to choose a bunch of different points going along the surface of the elbow and the woman's torso the more points you select the more precise the selection is going to be get as far up there as I can and then when I have more or less the pattern of the outside drawn using the lasso tool I can just reconnect it finally to the initial point and delete everything that was inside there so just a few more points to select here and then we can drive back to the original point and delete this whole section which will take care of a large portion of what we actually need to do so you can see that the lasso tool is quite effective and easy to use not only that but it does also allow us to take care of removing some of the purple border that was showing in the original image now here it's mostly a process of psycho and repeat look at all the parts of your original image can make sure that you take care of removing them if you want sure something's in the foreground or the background you can toggle the background layer so that only the original image is showing and that should make it a lot easier to see you visibly with the checkered transparent background if you have trouble using the lasso on the border of the overall canvas you can try using the eraser tool there and for everywhere else you can use the lasso tool to make it pretty precise clean up with the eraser as needed and if you put enough time into it you should get it to the point where the background is completely removed and all you're left with is the original object that you wanted to transplant into an other image so remember start with the magic wand tool and see how much you can remove there if you can't remove everything you can start breaking out the lasso tool and the eraser for fine-tuning depending on how much time you put into it you'll get different variations of results you may need to mess around with the perspective tool a little bit to make it look like it really belongs in the image but for the most part that's all you need to do to combine any object with any background so hope you enjoyed this tutorial and until my next one I'll see you then hello everyone in this video I'm gonna be showing you how you can take any person or object within and turn it into a black silhouette of itself so with this initial cartoon image of a person I'm gonna start by scaling it down here because I want him to fit into the background Mountains at least somewhat in order for that to work he needs to be a lot smaller and for the silhouette to work properly we need to remove the white space so I'm using the fuzzy select tool for that for this tutorial I want this guy to kind of appear like he belongs in the background image so I'm going to reposition them a little bit more and scale him further later on to make them smaller and fit into the mountainside but once you have your image prepped you can go to the colors menu find brightness and contrast and set contrast to negative 127 to make the guy or object one unified color this does give you a silhouette but usually you would want a black silhouette so you can use the paint bucket tool in order to change this grade to a black or change it to whichever color you prefer once you've done that you've created a silhouette congratulations I'm gonna go a little bit further in this tutorial I'm going to scale this guy down so that he fits in the background using the scale tool and then I'm gonna create some duplicates out of them so let's position him over the mountain sites that it kind of looks like he's standing there and then we're going to put more of this cartoony guy across the landscape so I'm gonna duplicate the layer using the layers window so I'm going to move this copy of him to a different location on a different mountain scaled appropriately so that it accounts for the distance and even I'll throw in the flip tool I think to change his orientation there we go now remember it's of course up to you whatever you want to do with the silhouettes you can use it like this or you can use it for other purposes but I'm gonna continue by duplicating the layer and creating a couple more of these guys to finish off this image so I hope you enjoy taking a look at how to create a silhouette inside of jump until my next tutorial see you then hello everybody in this tutorial we're gonna be talking about how you can use the flip tool in order to reorient or change the direction of a person or object with angam however in order for the flip tool to work in to change a character's perspective within a scene we first need to isolate the character from the background in the original image so here I'm going to start by using the fuzzy select tool in order to grab some of this background and get rid of it you'll notice however that there's a lot of these little specks that aren't being picked up by the fuzzy select tool and that's actually a problem as soon as we applied this character to a new background image you're going to see how with the fuzzy select tool and the removal of those pixels that a lot still gets left over that just goes to show you the importance of having a solid color background whenever you want to remove it with the fuzzy select tool however you can of course always use the eraser and other tools to clean it up a bit although at this point the background looks pretty clean as soon as I apply the new image and put the character as the foreground you can see that there is still a lot that needs to be removed so I'm going to spend a few more seconds to go ahead and clean this up it's important that you do this because whenever you reverse the direction a character using the flip tool it's gonna reverse the entire layer all at once ideally you want none of the original background to be shown here so clean it up as good as you can and go from there now that we've cleaned it up we can go ahead and use the move in the flip tool to get the character looking in the direction that we want kind of over towards where those other characters are and that should be it for this first brief example essentially the flip tool does exactly what it says whatever is facing left is going to be facing right it literally takes the layer and reverses it now let's go ahead and put it into practice I have an image of a juggler courtesy of pixabay and I'm going to start by scaling this up so that the original background image is covering the entire document here just for convenience's sake and then we're going to take another character off of my desktop which I'll just drag and drop in here and make it so that he's not only facing towards the juggler but he's also silhouetted and shrunk down so that it looks like he belongs in the scene and that's where the flip tool really belongs if you want to make a character look like he belongs in a scene then he should be looking towards where the action in the scene happens to be so here I'm gonna get things started off by flipping his direction so that he's facing the juggler using the fuzzy select tool in order to remove some of the white background it's important that by the time we finished here that we remove all of that white space because it doesn't really belong in the final image after shrinking him down to match the scenery it looks a lot more like he actually belongs in this scene so we just need to do a little bit of cleanup work before we apply the silhouette and that's just going to involve using the fuzzy select tool and getting rid of the last little bit of white space here and under the character to where it kind of looks like he has a platform that shouldn't really be there as well great that should just about do it for right here you can still see that there's a couple minor defects but for our purposes of demonstrating it I should do just fine so we have the character and he scaled down to be about the right size for the scene and now for him to kind of match the juggler silhouette I'm going to use the brightness and contrast tool to drop the contrast to negative 127 thus removing all color from it and making it just one solid gray blob now naturally for this scene and for most silhouettes in general you want it to be black so it using the paint bucket tool to accomplish that it's just fine a couple final touches cleaning up the shoe so that it doesn't look quite as messy and then we essentially good to go but I'm gonna do one more thing here to make the scene a little bit more interesting for my own amusement and I'm going to duplicate the layer and make clones of this guy why only have one guy with his arms crossed and wearing sunglasses watching a juggler when you can have three simultaneously now a little bit of a bonus here the guy who is closer to the bottom should be in front so I'm actually going to scale him up a little bit using the scale tool just to make it so that with is position and perspective in the scene that it looks a little bit more realistic now you could spend all day treating around with the scene but I think just for the tutorial purposes we've accomplished what we wanted to do demonstrate how you can use flip in a scene so that's all for this game tutorial till the next one see you then [Music] hello everybody Chris here and in this short video I'm going to show you the color balance tool inside of so you can find the tool in colors and then color balance right there at the top and how this works is that whenever you apply basically color balance to one of these three ranges it's going to change the colors and part of your document to basically correct for something else and I would imagine in this particular image when it was originally shot the artist or the photograph otago fur actually used color balance to get it how it originally was so the three ranges shadows are mostly going to refer to things that or areas that tend to show up on the ground these darker areas or in other words where there might be a shadow and the mid-tones is kind of referring to more the meat of the image itself so possibly these trees kind of everything that's in the middle and I would expect this guy as well would count as mid-tones for the color agents and then highlights at what you see in the background all this extra stuff that's just kind of there that is mostly what's going to change with highlights so let's go ahead and demonstrate each of them as I mentioned before shadows on the ground if we adjust the colors of the shadows more towards a red as you would expect it's going to get more and more red up to and including a very very red level and that doesn't look too bad but you do need to be careful about this tool because it can drastically change other image looks to the point where it looks unrealistic so for instance if I bump green up to 100 that looks completely unnatural because it's rocky it's not a ground where there's a lot of grass to begin with so with mid-tones let's go ahead and demonstrate that the 32 actually doesn't really include the guy that much it is affecting part of the guy and it's not a precision tool because I mean obviously there are many sub areas in your image that could be affected but it's kind of doing its best to calculate and I think overall it does a pretty cell but yeah the rat mostly targeting these trees that are in the middle ground of our image if we bump green that kind of looks ridiculous so once again be careful with it and then the background the highlights going up there but you'll notice it also kind of targets this net that he has to be happens to be carrying a little bit as well so we could bump the green up but if we want it to actually look reasonable then we do need to of course kind of have a plan for so if we want to make the whole image more red for instance and kind of keeping it simple here we can bump the levels of that up to maybe 11 drop the green down back to zero or negative 2 and the bad up to 13 again for instance that might make the scene look a bit more aggressive because red is the color of aggro or aggression so making the image look more sinister or dark or dangerous red will kind of do that to your image but how you want to use the code balance tool is really up to you that's just the basics of it choosing your ranges and then choosing which colors you want to focus on in your image know again that you can go the other direction entirely so it's not is there red or no red it's is it really bad or is it much more towards a blueish bluish green or cyan in other words so I hope you found this video useful in understanding the color balance tool I've been Chris thank you for watching and I'll see you on my future videos hello everybody Chris here and in this tutorial I'm going to be showing you how you can take text and basically convert it into a text ARCA or another shape inside of and the way we get this started is by using the pen tool in order to select a few points to basically draw the path in which the text is going to appear on but because I want it to be symmetrical on both sides what I'm going to do is start by going to image guides new guides and sometimes the box pops up behind so be careful about that and then I'm going to put a guide at about 35% so you can see this guy drawing across and that gives us a good reference to use when we're selecting points so here I'm going to select the start point of our curve the end point of our curve and by holding down shift I'm gonna make sure that as I drag this up it's going to make a symmetrical path now I should try to get closer to the middle if I want it to look even on both sides okay and that's gonna approximately do it maybe we make it a little bit more subtle than that okay so now that we have our curve drawn and it doesn't need to show on screen it just needs to be there and you can always check your paths by going to dockable layers and paths to confirm that the path is actually there I go back into the text layer and with this text selected or just the box selected you can right click it and hit text a long path now what that's going to do is it's going to take this text and draw as accurately as possible along the path that we created so if I show the path you can see that this text outline now matches the curve that I drew now in some cases like this one you may get some distortion of your text and that can be probably because the line is just curving too far up so you may have to play around with it you can also have multiple path points it doesn't need to just be two it could be four however you want to do it it's just a pen tool to draw the initial path but this is just an outline right here it's actually a path itself so what do we need to do to take this and make it a real lair well we can basically delete the original text if we want but I'm just gonna disable that for right now maybe add a new layer in and this layer is going to be the text path layer for lack of a more creative name and in order to fill this we can select the fill bucket make sure that we have that path selected go up to select choose from path and now it's selecting all the space inside of these outlines so the last thing we need to do is click with our color of choice inside of the text and it's going to apply to every area of that space so now we can deselect everything hide the path and there we go we have curved text inside of so pretty cool tutorial for you guys I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in my future Contin hello everybody chris here and in this tutorial I want to show you how you can snap too with a grid in order to make it so that when you're trying to select a certain area of your document or in this case a square of your document that you will always have it basically hit the right lines so that you get it pixel perfect so the two tools are going to need up here are show grid and snap to grid I think you can actually a snap to grid without having the grid visible but having show grid enabled will allow you to see it so right here I have my grid set to a barely visible dashed line probably would be better if it was more like a black color and it's up to 32 pixels by 32 pixels because in this bright sheet that is the format I'm going for now how did I get the grid like that well if we go up to edit preferences and then we look for a default grid you'll see the spacing the height the foreground color and the background color now I believe that these preferences apply to all of your documents so if you don't actually want to change it for everything you can back out it there and instead you can go to image configure grid well you'll get more or less the same tools but specific to this document so before ground color if we want to change that we can make it something like that foreground and background color now most of these line styles actually only use the foreground color so take note of that I think double dashed is the only one that uses the background color but in any case set the the spacing of your width and height to what you want the grid to be at hit OK and now if you have show grid and snap to grid enabled we can zoom out a little bit and you see it's pretty easy to actually select that select the document based on their squares so this is 32 pixel 2 by 2 so that's 64 pixels by 64 pixels and I can do the same thing at 96 by 96 pixels just by dragging and dropping and yeah that's basically I'll snap to grid works and how to set it up so just remember as soon as you don't need the good anymore you can uncheck show grid and if you want snap to grid to be disabled just go back into the View menu and turn off snap Raqqah so that's gonna be it for this tutorial on how to use snap to grid in order to get pixel perfect selection inside of I've been Chris if you want to support the channel down below our patreon links thank you very much for watching and I will see you in my future videos hello everybody Chris here and in this video I'd like to show you how in we can select a region of the photograph and to change the color within by modifying the hue so in this video we're going to be using the scissor select tool and I'm going to go around each of these X and change the color by modifying the hue so with this is a select tool you can have paths in a way be automatically determined by setting a few anchor points so I left click to set one there and notice I have anti-aliasing and interactive bounce reset so I'm going to click a few more areas around the egg and you'll see it automatically kind of create these little paths and ideally we want to get as much of the color that's important to us as possible so in our case that would be the red and we go around the egg until we get it roughly correct so let's add those all together and then at the final point you click on this starts to finish that loop but we can add in new points here and we can drag the old points until we get it right so I'm going modify this a little bit so that we get some better results okay and that's looking pretty decent there so finally to select this area we left click inside if our scissors cut and then we go up to colors hue/saturation and we can adjust the hue of that red to a different color so let's let's go with that blue there now of course you can see that on the edges it's not quite a hundred percent perfect that's okay we can change that a little bit so one option to do some cleanup here is to modify the hue so I'm gonna let's see color select this area and we'll just go down here and draw with you selected as the mode to kind of correct these orange areas a little bit until we get it right okay now that looks a little better obviously you probably want to spend a little bit more time you're trying to do this for a professional image and for now we'll leave that there because we also need to select this blue guy over here so once again this is our select tool note that it's very easy because you don't have to get a perfect circle the scissors tool just kind of automatically determines most of this for you and look a few more times to wrap it up try to get as much as possible here and then we're going to change this over to a new color whoops tried to select yeah make sure you click inside the scissors when you're ready to select so we'll do this one more time okay just kind of quickly here and let's adjust these points to get more of the area that looks good okay looks pretty good all of the way around so finally click inside and now we have the dotted selection so we go to colors hue/saturation and we can change that a bit so let's make it something radically different like orange okay so you can it okay there and for the most part we've changed the color on most of it and then we can just do the color saturation trick one more time so selecting kind of that orange and then we draw over these areas well yep probably need to invest a little more time over there and we can Builders select one more time and hey let's see if we can get a decent with that and that looks a little better and finally I'll do one more you change over here okay and that looks decent so I've gone ahead and changed two of these X and for the thumbnail I'll go ahead and change the color for the remaining three but for this tutorial if that's the basics of how you change the color or the hue more specifically of any object within your photos so thanks for watching a knife and Chris and I'll see you guys in my future tutorials hello everybody Chris here and in this video I want to give you guys a complete of an explanation is possible two gradients inside of game so we're going to be covering the basic gradients where you can find how you can use them creating your own custom grainy yes modifying existing gradients to change things up a bit and also how you can apply ingredients to different elements of your image such as if you want the gradient to only apply as an overlay or texture so basically you have text that is integrating a very common application craniums actually so to get started you have the blend tool in the tool box if you have signal window mode selected inside again which you can do by going into Windows and then single window mode and in the main tool box which you can open up over here on the left if you need to open it still you can go to window is stoppable dialogs and tool options but anyway you're gonna find a tool called the blend tool which actually looks like a gradient a very simple gradient where you transition from one color into another if we click on that tool it's going to pop up with a set of options inside of tool options right below and the main one we need to focus on here is this little selecting tool where you can click on it you can choose from all the different default available greetings now there's nothing stopping you from going online grabbing more gradients if you don't have the one you want here you can also create your own custom one as I mentioned before but let's just demonstrate some of the basic readings so first I'm going to open up a new document and I'll just leave that might be both switches 1920 by 1080 pixels usually what I use for thumbnails by the way so now that we've come in here we can actually apply some of these gratings the first few gradients that you'll see in the list but only some of the most commonly used ones as well our foreground to background now that's referring to the two poles you have selected here and these this blue color selecting tools the one that is on the top left is always the foreground on the one that's on the bottom right is always the background color you can toggle between these if you hit this little switch icon so you see how when you switch these two colors it's actually switching the colors available here and the gradient selection and be more detailed gradient panel over here in the bottom right you might not have so when you have the first option selected a hard edge gradient that means that whenever one color stops showing the other color is going to start showing with no blur in between this actually no transition so by default as you saw before I had the spiral shape selected if you do that with a hard edge it's going to look something like this so I'm clicking and kind of dragging in the direction they want the gradient to appear in so the main thing here the important thing is actually the center point you see that wherever I put the same point that's where everything else appears around but if I do something like change the direction it's kind of changing the starting point a little bit and I don't want to make you guys go crazy got that spiral but aside from having a spiral to color shape here the main thing to note once again is to notice that there's no where between the lines it is a hard edge as in it's all either one color or it's the other color this absolutely nothing in between now if we go a little bit lower here to foreground to background color RGB that means using RGB colors and you can see it's got a soft edge here and all three of these selections are actually quite similar so I'll just go to RGB because that's red green blue color that's what most people know so when we apply a FG foreground to background color or GPA gradient so with this variety of gradient you do still get the hard black line here and there should theoretically be a spot in there where it is completely white and I think in that case it's actually right to the right of this line gradient actually is transitioning from one color to the other in a standard repeating fashion because the spiral is always going to go around in a circle there's not going to be an endpoint or that so you can see how it starts at this little white area where it's 100% white and then it transitions until it gets to a hundred percent black and you have this hard edge at the end creating the spiral that goes around in a circle now to show you that in a way that might be a little bit easier to understand let's use the shape drop-down here that's right below the gradient selector and we can change that back to the default gradient which is linear there's also other shapes in here as you can see really looking at the icon is the best way to explain how the shapes gonna work so we have radial basically it's gonna have a center area and it's going to work to the outer edges so in this case it's going from the program color which is black at the center and going all the way outward kind of creating an eyeball like effect but the easiest one is linear where we pick a starting point we pick a direction and it's going to just transition from the foreground color to the background color in the direction that we chose so you can see the certain point was found here the transitions until we get about there then after that I think the Radian actually ends because we don't have repeats at so for some of these shapes you can optionally choose to repeating so if we choose sawtooth wave and we do the same thing it's going to look lovely like this so you see transitions from the black to the white but when the gradient ends it repeats itself so that's using the most basic foreground to background color gradient and honestly a lot of the gradients are going to be using or just gonna be those because a lot of the other extras down here are a little bit more on the kind of wild side so abstract tune for instance if we do a standard linear abstract - gradient and I drag from the starting point to the end point it's gonna look something like this doesn't really seem like the kind of thing that has so many practical applications right you can show off a couple more just remember every time you want to change when you just put down here let's see if we can find something a little bit more useful so a wood gradient it kind of gives us colors which would simulate having actual wood on a hard service and you might be able to find some applications for that for instance if you have an area in your image that you actually want to apply a gradient to what you can do is you can use these tools in the top left rectangular select Eclipse select tool and we can specify the specific area that we want the gradient to apply to so now that I have a square box selected here anything we apply is only going to happen in that box so if we apply a wood gradient across this area no matter how I draw the only area which is going to get any of that gradient effect is the box we have selected you can also of course add that on to new layers a good option honestly so that up any changes you make if you decide you don't like the ones you make on one specifically here you can just delete that layer and not have to start from scratch so let's see let's everyone into apply a different gradient over here they will go down a list Australian tropical colors and maybe it will do a different shape so how about conical symmetric now just kind of pull this from the center up gives this kind of a wild effect maybe you would take that and you would actually apply let's say a border around it or something like that so you could right-click this because it's already selected go to edit of my click and edit main stroke selection and we could apply I don't know like a 15 pixel stroke around the edges there and now in a sense you have like a framed portrait no yes you may have noticed over on the right we do have this gradient box popped up over there if you want that to appear whenever you do click on this gradient selection tool that's an option in the bottom right-hand corner which is to open the gradient selection dialog if you do that that is actually going to pop open this window over here which because it gives you the names of them straight up there might actually be a easier way to select the gradients from your list if you are working in gradients along so that's one good option there so one of the things you can do pretty easily in that panel is to create new ratings you may notice in the very bottom right-hand corner or at the bottom of this section here there is a new gradient button if we click on that we can create a new gradient another option is to right-click anywhere on this list and choose new gradient also note you can duplicate gradients if you want to have a starting point based on one of these other options there so I'm going to get new gradient here you can see it gives us basically the standard foreground to background color gradient we can change the name in the top right hand corner so I'm going to call this custom two because this is land the second wanted to create it on this instance okay so in this gradient editor we can see that our custom two gradient we have currently selected has a middle point indicated by the white arrow start points and end points indicated by the black legs now we can move these start points and end points because this only one middle point in this current gradient cell it always has to be a start point on the far left and the end point on the far right but we can move this middle point so if I drag this middle point O you'll notice that this kind of this line here where the middle actually happens up and by dragging the left middle point handle over to the left it's kind of condensing everything that happens between the left end point and the middle point and spreading now everything that happens between the middle point and the right hand end point basically because there's more room for this effect to happen this transition from the middle color to the end color it spread out across there larger distance so if we apply these changes as a gradient inside of the main document you will notice those changes immediately so here's that middle point I was talking about showing up you may actually not want it to be such a hard line there which is a little bit of a problem we can work through that by improving the gradient but you'll notice that this transition from this black over here which starts about right there to this middle point it's very very fast in terms of pixels across our document within the second section everything from the middle point to the end takes much larger amounts of space in terms of pixels for that to occur so the volition of the middle point to the left imprint in the right endpoint is going to matter in that regard now let's say that you wanted more endpoints inside of your gradient you are more complex gradient than just a transition from one color to a second color we can right click and that's going to give us a drop-down menu with a series of options one of which is split segment at midpoint if we click that what's going to happen is that our old midpoint becomes a endpoint now for this middle point in this middle point which have just been added and we have more detailed control over out grading so because we have more points to drag-and-drop here we get more control over how our greeting actually looks now let's say you want to actually set some very specific colors for it that's grading you don't want it just to be black over here white over there in some shades in between whenever you want to change colors basically endpoint colors is where you change it so there's color world cue here and the color will appear here or if I click over here on this section the color here and the color here we left click on the section indicated by these blue bars that we want to edit then we right-click and we can choose right endpoint scollay left endpoint scholar which is going to mean that if we have a right endpoint color it's going to be transitioning up to the color we select until it gets to right here but if the left endpoint color is set to something different here it's going to have a sharp drop-off when it switches over to this section you'll see what I mean right as soon as I change it so I'm gonna change this just to your bad and you see now how it transitions from black to red with this part of the gradient but then immediately afterwards not even a pixel sooner it starts at the gray because that's what this left endpoint is set to so if you want a smooth transition from this section into this section of the gradient the right endpoint will be here in the left endpoint over here should be set to the same value so I'm going to grab this code in HTML and okay and I'm going to go into the left end point color editor I'm going to paste that color okay and now it's transitioning from this red color on both sides into whatever the end point color is over there and whatever the end point color is over there so let's try applying the gradient one more time in our document okay now you can see that we still have some pretty hard lines when it reaches this end point on both the left and the right although they have the same color set we saw have this very strong very visible line inside the grading and we might not actually want that so what we can do is if we right click on this we go to blending function for segments you can set it to spherical which is going to have a much more smooth out transition we can also go over to the right hand side and change the blending function here so that segments to a blue spherical decreasing now because we're decreasing from that point where he were increasing to that point nothing play that same gradient it shouldn't look or a lot smoother we could also add on the repeat again if that's something we're looking for so obviously if we were going to repeat and we wanted a smooth transition we would also want the right endpoint over here and the left endpoint over there to be matching colors with a more smooth transition so that ingredient repeats in a way that it doesn't happen is hard edges so we can do that right click over here and let's change it to maybe something like a blue and I'll copy that HTML notation I play it over here as the left endpoint color and now if we do the gradient it's going to repeat in a fashion where it's more seamless obviously that's still kind of tough on the eyes because if there's very extreme colors so that might not be what you're looking for but hopefully you have a general idea how you can actually edit and create your own gradients here inside of again that's kind of thing where you're going to want to play around with maybe lighten up some of the colors that you see here we could actually do that really quick so lighter color might mean a lot more towards kind of a grayish blue rather than a very deep blue so you can try that right here and apply it that's actually a lot easier on - red might be too intense as well so that's where we can edit power gradients inside again and of course you can go change any of the default ones as well but what I would recommend is whenever you want to change a default gradient duplicate it first and then edit the duplicated one instead so abstract free copy he'll name it custom three or just a bit abstract you can change the name to abstract for whatever works about and then make your changes as you need to here now the last thing I want to show you guys is how we can apply gradients to text I've already shown you how we can apply gradients to a selected area by basically using our selection tools and then applying the gradient over their selected areas but to do that with text we first need to actually type some stuff out so I'm gonna put this at let's say font size 200 big noodle titling one of my favorite ones here and we're gonna say test ingredients application so now we have some decent default color text but it's not a grading if we go into the right-click menu and edit you might notice we have tools to throw with color go with background color and fill with that now that will fill whatever selection you have currently for instance if either you fill with pattern it's gonna take the entire text box not the actual shape of the text so in order to select just the shapes of the text itself we actually need to right click on the text element in the layers box go to alpha to selection now we have a perfect selection of the outers edges of every single one of these font characters that's what we're looking for now we could go back to the menu you can do your fills you can be built with pattern if you want patterns being similar to gradients but more like a shape you pull and repeats which I also want to do I mean obviously there's a lot of cool patterns you can apply so here are just applying on the pattern you can see that's pretty cool as well but to do it with the gradient it's very similar we have to have this section selected and if I control see a couple times you'll notice that while we have that layer selected it actually removes the text element we might actually want to do this on a new layer so we still have this selection actually chosen of another one a new layer it won't permanently override the text so now we go to the gradient blend tool we select our gradient so we could say foreground to background RGB none for the repeat and with the colors you want selected and now with the colors for our gradient selected we just simply choose the start point for the gradient the end point for the gradient let go and let it do its thing so now we have a gradient applying on our layer only over the areas we have selected through that alpha to selection so if I disable this layer now and you can see that the text is still justice in the same way it was before we can still edit that but we have this layer on top of it where the actual gradient is hovering above the text giving us the image where we have text based grading so this just about everything you need to know about gradients and I've even shown you a little bit about patterns again very similar kind of fashion I hope this tutorial helped some of you guys out there who are getting started again I will see you guys in my future video hello everybody Chris here and in this video I wanted to show you how we can measure precise distances and angles inside of so the tool for measuring distances and angles inside of is called the measure tool you'll find it on the top right hand corner of the tool window so we can left-click it there but alternatively you can hit shift M on your keyboard to switch to the tool so how the measure tool works is that we left click and then we drag to a second point in order to create a line and that line will measure a distance by default in pixels as that's what we generally work and it will also measure an angle between the starting and ending points so first off for measuring distances if we want to measure a height or a width then it's a good idea to hold ctrl down while we click the lines because that'll make it really easy to snap to a 0 or 90 degree interval so in order to measure precise horizontal or vertical distances it's a good idea to hold ctrl down when you're creating your line because when you hold ctrl down will automatically snap the angle to 15 degree increments which will make it really easy to get 0 90 or 180 degrees and so on just show up so that will mean if I want to create a perfectly vertical line it's going to be very easy so I'm going to left-click here so while we're dragging this line out to the second point I'm holding ctrl down so that it can snap very easily to zero degrees here so now we know that this line is perfectly straight up so all we're going to need to do now to measure the diameter of this circle is to zoom in and make sure that this first point is placed directly on the top pixel so you can see there's a lot of areas with a top pixel so I can just left-click on this point drag it down one pixel and that's going to give us a perfect height starting point and now we go down here to the bottom and we want to move this one point down because you can see that on the edges there there's still one more pixel that needs to be accounted for so by doing that we can measure a perfect height of 370 pixels now if we needed to adjust these two points because they weren't quite at the high point or the low point we could simply zoom in here drag this over here to the right which you can see will create an angle which is what we don't want but then we go up to the top point and while holding ctrl down we can just move it again and you'll see that it will once again snap to 0 degrees you can see that at the very bottom where we'll say 370 pixels 0 degree angle that's how we know that it's a perfectly straight line so to do the same thing with a horizontal measurement I can come over here find the leftmost point left click and then zoom out with middle mouse wheel scroll all the way over to the right hand side and while holding control we just let go over here at the final pixel over here and you can see your measurement of 370 pixels which shows us that this is a perfect circle because they're horizontal measurement and the vertical measurement or exactly the same at 370 pixels but you could probably tell that just by looking at it okay so let's talk about measuring an angle now so the trick to getting a good angle measurement with the measurement tool is going to be to zoom in and to make sure that you're following along the edges so for instance if i zoom in here on the green part of this chrome logo then I'll be able to really easily pick out one of these top pixels so left clicking and then I can just drag it down here to another point which is on the edge of this green space and that should give us a good measurement for the angle between the starting point and over here so you can see it's measuring it at a twenty nine point nine eight degree angle so we can tell that that was probably meant to be a thirty degree angle but just because of measuring so few pixels it's off by a small fraction if we wanted to double check we could measure again by left-clicking up there at that top right pixel maybe we go a little bit further here so I'll drag it down to here we can see depending on the pixel that it may be off by a little bit but yeah that approximately gives us a thirty degree angle so let's take one more angle measurement here I'll measure between about here and over here keep in mind the slope so depending on where you stopped your measurement it's going to give you slightly different results but I'm going to try to only do this long part where there is no curving so let's see here a measurement from this pixel seems a little bit more accurate and we'll go up here and we get a angle measurement of about twenty eight point six one degrees so one thing I want to point out about these angles though is that they are Direction independent so you can see here creates the angle the starting point being here going to the bite and it measures up here but if I measure from this pixel down to that starting point we get exactly the same angle measurement even though the directions are reversed on these angles one was looking to the bite and the other was looking to the left so you will never really see it measured in terms of a full 360 degree circle where the direction actually matters so that's the basics of how you can do measuring of angles and distances inside of using the measure tool long story short use ctrl to snap to certain angle degrees 15 degree increments by default and zoom in a lot so that when you click to select your starting and end points that you get a pixel precise answer so that's gonna be it for the skimp video thanks for watching up and Chris and I'll see you guys in my future video contem hello everyone in this video we're gonna be covering how you can create a YouTube thumbnail from scratch the booth looks pretty good and attracts viewers to your video so in order for this to get started you need to know that you're working with a 16 by 9 resolution when you're making thumbnails for YouTube and that's because video is normally widescreen HD 16 by 9 however in this case I'm going to subtract 60 pixels from both the width and the height of our initial image because when we use the border tool it actually adds extra pixels onto the image so I'm gonna have a border of 30 pixels on each side so that's 30 plus 30 for the width and then 30 plus 30 for the height in addition to our base resolution so the first thing I'm going to do is take the notepad plus plus icon from my desktop and put it into this image we're going to be making a thumbnail for a notepad plus plus tutorial great app if you want to go ahead and check it out for free by the way and the reason we're using an icon here is the icons are very recognizable so they do pretty well in your thumbnails for telling the viewer oh so this is about notepad plus plus or a Photoshop or whatever you happen to be talking about increasing the size to 300 pixels by 300 pixels makes it stand out a little bit more remember that everything's going to scale down when viewers are actually seeing the thumbnail and YouTube status next we're going to add in the title text for this thumbnail I would recommend that you find a large bowl font for your text it needs to be as visible and standout as possible and then we're going to bump the actual text size up to a very high level instead of having a tremendous amount of elements on your thumbnail you should strive to draw attention to the ones that matter like the icon about what your video is about or the title text itself here I'm gonna leave the text black for right now because it looks good on white but remember we're changing the background so most likely the title text is going to change to white as we add in a dark background it's up to you whether you want to use black or white but usually try both see which one actually looks better for whichever colors you're using as the background for you video so right now I'm working on the subtitle text which is going to naturally be a little bit smaller but may have more information it could be the same as the title to your video it could also just have some keywords that viewers are going to pick up on things that people are gonna see and be like whoa okay now I want to watch the video for a tutorial it might just be telling them what they hope to learn but other types of videos entertainment types might be something like more juicy like oh it's going to be a violent video or the top 10 secrets to insert random celebrities wardrobe here once you've figured that out or at any point while you're creating the thumbnail you can go ahead and figure out what background color or background image you want to use for your video more than likely you'll have to cycle through a few and figure out what works best for you as you can see here the black text does not do very well with a dark background it's a little less bad with the kind of light of blue so for now I'm going to grab a darker color than that light blue so that we can put that into the border and see how it looks the border tool is going to take that color make four variations of it and then each side of the border will have one of those variation colors so the border looks pretty nice ba on its own however the blue background doesn't quite match so I'm going to make it a little bit darker here it's something you need to play around with and when you are going to work with a darker background make sure you change the color of your text to something light like white will make it look a lot better as you can immediately see it stands out more it contrasts more and you can actually read it easier now at any point while you're creating the thumbnail you can take a second to kind of reorganize out everything on your thumbnail make sure that the rough image of it looks good that things fit together well that you have your elements positioned where you want them in some cases you may not want the icon in the center sometimes it might work better off to the side to get the alignment perfect though we'll need to use the alignment tool later on for now I'm going to create a new layer that we can put a box around the subtitle text just to make it stand out a little bit more give a little bit more oomph to our thumbnail so here I'm using the material tool a rectangle select tool to draw a box around the subtitle and I'm going to fill that with a darker blue color to emphasize the fact that it is the subtitle so use the paint fill bucket click on the box that you just created and there you have a background for the subtitle I think that box is fine for now but you could add drop shadow if you wanted to it to make the box itself stand out but for now we're gonna go with switch head to the align tool and in order for this to work smoothly I would recommend you disable the visibility on the background and the border layers so that we can easily select the other layers in our document without the border and the background getting in the way with first item selected as the methodology for the align tool select the element you want to use as your center point then select the other elements you want to Center hit Center horizontally and you should be good to go alternatively in the drop down menu you can select image as the anchor point which would be another good option this looks pretty good to me so the last thing I'm going to do is add drop shadow to the text so use the text tool select the text you want to add drop shadow to go to filters light and shadow and then finally drop shadow the defaults are okay so go ahead and hit OK unless you want to mess around with it a little bit select the subtitle texts do exactly the same thing to it and this gives you a text an element of depth helping it to stand out when people were seeing your thumbnail inside of the YouTube search because of that I frequently use drop shadow when I'm making thumbnails but aside from that if we export this to our desktop we essentially have a pretty good thumbnail going for us that's very similar to the one we had originally referenced to create from so thanks for watching this video and I'll see you in my next tutorial hello everybody in this video we're gonna be talking about how you can create your own custom book cover using as you can see from the amazon ebook page you need a ratio of eight to five recommended is 2500 pixels for the tall side and then 5/8 of that size for the other side one great resource you can use for finding photos as the basis for your covers is pixabay and what's so great about this site is that all the images on the site have been released into public domain so even if your work is to be monetized you can use the images freely in whatever ways you want so here I'm going to be running a few standard searches on the site to find some images we can use and the idea behind this book cover is going to be five years in Asia a travel bloggers guide to enjoying the continent so here I'm going to be speeding up the rest of this search process what I would recommend is that you find some images that have plenty of extra space so that you can add text to it because all book covers generally have text in other words try to find images that make a good background but don't have too much going on in the image itself so after going through a few of the different options I've decided to use this image of a Japanese Shinto shrine as the basis for this cover as you can see the size of the original image is actually larger than the 2500 pixels height of the book cover so I'm going to scale this down so that the height of the image is equal to the height of my canvas here so changing the height to 2500 pixels and having the width scale appropriately with this we have the makings of a good book or ebook cover and for the most part we have to add text on to it and make sure that the text stands out and then we'll have a good basic cover the very next thing I'm going to do is use the text type tool to add text to a new layer and we'll start with the title with 99% of book covers you're going to want the text to appear somewhere near the top said the de tighly visible and the any potential viewer will see it immediately the three things that are going to need to be changed here are the font size for obvious reasons the font color which I'm going to make white since we have a dark background and the font choice itself I tend to start off by changing the font size so that I can see the other changes made to the font itself and the font color and see how it actually interacts with the background image with that I can go ahead and start typing out the title for this book don't worry too much about centering yet we'll use the align tool later to take care of that by changing the font color to white it immediately makes a drastic difference on our image document next I'm going to do a little bit of aligning for the title and add in the subtitle for this ebook cover but don't worry too much about making it perfect once again this is just estimates you'll never get a pixel perfect by hand now in this video I'm just kind of making the book titles and the subtitle up on the spot what I would recommend is that when you do go out and make your book make sure that you spend a lot of time on the title because that's going to determine quite a bit whether you make sales or not in this case I've gotten to the point where I might actually have too many words in the title five years in Asia a travel bloggers guide to understanding or something like that is kind of a long title to swallow so I'm actually going to knock this down a couple words here so I've spent a little bit more time and kinda came up with my mock book title here a travel bloggers guide to enjoying the East may not be perfect but it'll do for right now but what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the enjoying the East part and separate it from a travel travel bloggers guide to and put them on entirely different text layers this is just a simple matter of cutting the text out that I want to move to a new layer readjusting the old text layer creating a new one and pasting it in by doing this I did get some strange spacing issue and one easy way to fix this as you'll see later on would just be to retype it and rather than cutting and pasting but you could alternatively mess with some of the settings on the font dialog box the font options to actually make this right in any case I've got it roughly the way I want it for now so I'm going to go ahead and add in the author for this book which I'm going to put towards the bottom rather standard practice as well so by as a song feeder once again make sure you're using the text tool if you want to modify the text layer so you don't accidentally move the background instead just a little bit of repositioning now to get it to the right spot of course remember the alignment tool so you can just Center it in the box rather than having to do it completely manually and now I think we can go ahead and start changing the fonts for this book now whenever you choosing the font for a book title it should stand out quite a bit so here I'm using a bold and italic version of Rockwell's which I think works pretty well it's cleanly readable and it's not standard fare it's a bit different than your average font of course if this extra room after you've changed your font you can always increase the size of the font after you've got the font for the main title itself down you can go ahead and start working on the font changes for the subtext and the author description as well the way that the text is displaying in the enjoying the easte text box is a little bit annoying here so just to fix this as I mentioned before I'm gonna go ahead remove the text and just retype it in then make it the same size and change the font color again and we should be good to go and then a little bit more of me positioning adjust so that I can get it to look roughly how it's going to look in the end but remember the align tool will let you have it pixel perfect before you actually export your image this is merely to get a general feel of the appearance before I actually commit to anything and before I go ahead and change the new font here for the subtext speaking of that I think it's about time to go ahead and change these font the original font the sans font is a bit bland to be honest so I'm gonna go through the list cycling through here with the scroll wheel and try to find a font that sends out a little bit more but still meshes pretty decently with the title this is another thing you should probably take your time with when you're doing the real thing simply because font choices do May a real big difference when it comes to drawing in the eyes of people who may want to read your book now it may not be the most perfect not here but papyrus looks pretty good for demonstration purposes so that's what I'm gonna change both of the sub text text boxes to providers now you will know I do have the font sizes of the line above it at a different size than enjoying the east increasing the font size is one way to emphasize your text but it's up to you whether you want to make this stylistic change or to just keep it all the same size however I would definitely recommend that you keep the title text as the largest part of your text on the document so now just to kind of wrap this base of the text up I'm going to start centering the text increasing the font sizes more or less as much as I can without going overboard because we want all the text to be visible from a distance if possible if we were actually going to print this under a physical book cover all right regardless of if this is necessarily just gonna be going on an e-book or not it's good to have the book cover in a form that can be applied to other areas as well now two more things I'm going to do to this book cover before we wrap things up is to Center all the text obviously and to do that we want to hide the background and the image layers and then after we're done with the centering I'm gonna add in some drop text but to do this you want to use the align tool I would suggest using relative to the image itself and then all you need to do is select all of the layers that need centering in other words these four text boxes and then hit the center horizontally option very very simple now we reenable all the layers so that they're visible and then we can go ahead and start adding some drop shadow on mainly to the title text I don't actually think that these author text needs it in this case because the background is already pretty much black down there drop shadow just helps it stand out a bit more now with the drop shadow too I'm just sticking to the default since that's usually fine in most cases and I'm gonna apply it to the subtitle as well both of the text boxes if you feel the need to exaggerate the drop shadow at all feel free to there's no hard requirement on how much drop shadow there should be or if there should be drop shadow at all I just think it helps make the text look a lot more standout and with that we have a pretty reasonable book cover here so I'm just going to export it as a PNG to the desktop and I would also recommend that you do save the file itself so that if you ever need to make any changes you can go ahead and go back into and do it as you need so with that this concludes this tutorial on how to create your own book cover using I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in my next video hello everybody in this tutorial we're going to be talking about the grid and I'll be showing you how using the grid we can actually create our own graph paper although the grid is usually invisible and unprintable so inside of I've gone ahead and created a new document that's of size 8.5 inches by 11 inches which I believe is the standard paper size whatever paper you want to print on to make sure that you start a new document with those sizes so inches 8.5 by 11 if that's a paper size you can of course increase the resolution if you want there to be more pixels in the document on the printout and for it to be a little bit more detailed but in this case it doesn't matter too much because we're really just drawing lines using a grid so I'm gonna get okay for this or actually I'll just hit cancel for this because I already have the document created right here and now if I want to go ahead and use this to create graph paper I can go to view show grid and this kinda gives us what it looks like graph paper but it's far too small for the size of the squares in order to increase the size of squares you go to image configure grid and I like to make it about 50 actually you could do it in inches as well so we could just say 1 inch 1 inch it might make more sense depending on your paper itself and in this case that's probably a bit too big so I'm going to knock that down to 0.5 and yeah that's a bit more reasonable so we'll hit OK there and now you think okay we have graph paper here great we can go ahead and export it but remember the grid is invisible so if we actually want to be able to create a visible graph paper we need to create a new layer first off and then go to I believe it's view snap to grid so when you ready go ahead and select the tool of your choice generally I would say pencil is a good choice here because we're trying to get a hard edge something that's very solid change the brush to be basically a pixel based so that it's completely solid 20 pixels looks like that's going to be too much there so I'm actually going to knock that down to something more like five and now we can go back to the main document click up there and now we can create our gridlines by clicking at the top of one holding shift and bringing it all the way down to the bottom click a bit outside the grid do the same thing up here and as long as you're holding shift and I've snapped it ready Mabel it's going to create perfect lines so let's go ahead and do that again in order for this to work you do actually need to click within the document so make sure you're not say left clicking outside of the bounds and then holding shift cuz that would get a bit weird so click on the line and it'll automatically go to snap to the grid itself as long as you're careful here you should be able to get a perfectly straight grid line every single time so one more time if it helps you can also zoom in a bit so I'm going to do that here clicking on the very bottom and now holding shift going up to the top doing it again snapping to the grid holding shift click down so on and so forth and then when you better just do the same thing diagonally for every good line it's a little bit tedious but the advantage is that it'll always work and you can do it with any brush and want any size brushes you want you really shouldn't run into any issues here and after a couple minutes of a careful manipulation and snapping to the grid you should be able to get basically a fully functional graph paper here which you can export as a PNG you can print out to a document and as long as you were watching the image sizes when you were creating a new document remember measure it in the front out it should be good for print as well whether or not you show the background is up to you you probably actually want to leave it off because a white background is going to be standard anyway when you're printing onto white paper so you generally won't need that so thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next tutorial hello everybody Chris here and in this video I hope to answer many of your questions with ten things beginners want to know how to do inside of them so the first topic we're going to be talking about is how to remove a background from an image so there are many selection tools available for you to use inside of but the one that I prefer to use for a topic such as this is the scissors select tool because when you take this as a select tool and you zoom in such as control middle mouse wheel and then when you start clicking around the body trying to get a rough shape to isolate this person from the background you're going to notice that in between two points it's going to automatically determine what the size and shape of a it's going to try to automatically determine the outline of the shape you're trying to separate so it doesn't need to be a person it could be a box really any shape even complicated ones it's just that the more complicated the shape is the more points you're gonna have to set up so that can figure out roughly where the edges are now any place that you have an issue such as where let's say you need to add another point you can simply left-click on the line using the source line tool and if you already have a point you can drag it around and whenever we let go of a point it's going to automatically be calculate the adjacent points so we get a really good outline of the person's body in this case so I'm going to keep going around here rather quickly and you'll see just how powerful this is our select tool really is so here's another point where I need to add in an extra because it's kind of going off of the person skin so I'm gonna left click in here add another point bring that close to the skin and maybe we need to do it a couple more times so you just kind of keep adjusting maybe we drag some of the other points as well now in order to complete the circuit we simply need to click on the initial point and now with that we have a full selection of this person if we click inside the boundaries now what's going to happen is it's cannon convert this scissor selection into a regular old selection now with the image layer selected I'm going to hit control X to cut that person out and I'm gonna paste it onto a new layer so hitting new layer and now I just a control V to put the person back in and now with the original background layer I can simply disable that you'll notice of course that inside the person's arms and between his leg and his arm over here that a part of the background still remain so in order to cut out the background from the areas inside of the person we're gonna go ahead and use the same process so scissors here and I'm gonna go around this area now when you have very thin things here like his ear buds going through this is ur stool might not be the ideal tool to actually select this area so you can either choose to just kind of cut that out and not worry about it or you can get more precise with some other tools so let's just go ahead and work here and try to get a rough cut out of this so for the sake of showing you guys I will try to get this area as well so that the ear buds still show in the final image and we'll get this section to and then we'll worry about the earbuds just try to make sure that if you have an item that you do one in the final image that the scissors doesn't accidentally cut it out you can do that by just adjusting these points until you get it with the right selection roughly speaking so let's just keep working around here and then we'll try to finalize it by using some simple brush stroke tools okay so I'm going to make this selection here cut that out so now I'm going to go back in here with the eraser I will lower the size down to let's say four pixels or so and then I'll just zoom in really close here and I'll try to take care of it so for single pixel edits like this I recommend you would have hard-edged turned on so that when you actually remove some of these light pixels they're gone completely just by clicking on them once [Music] okay and that's not too bad for there so you can obviously spend a little bit more time if you want I'm gonna just wrap up this part over here and then we'll move on to the next part now if you accidentally over select an area like this you can actually adjust that using let's say the Vechten Euler select tool if you hold ctrl down while you draw these rectangles it will remove pixels wherever the rectangle has from the current selection so doing this we can kind of fine tune what we got with the scissors tool okay so that's not too bad you can you know come over here customize it a little bit more but in general that's gonna be not too bad so when you're ready with your selection just go ahead and hit delete and you get rid of it by doing that you've basically isolated a person from the background which would allow you to either add in a new background or move the person to a different image so next up number two how to create guides inside of so guides are these little lines that go across your document they don't actually show up when you would print an image out but they allow you to do things like snap objects or images to certain areas of your document so for instance if you wanted to Center things horizontally and vertically you would want a vertical and a horizontal guide both at 50% you can do that by going up to the image menu you go down to guides and you can do new guide either by pixels or by percent so if you do percent by default 50% means it's going to take the number of pixels all the way across and it's going to put a guide halfway now when it's horizontal that means it's going to go left to right so it'll appear like this but if you make it vertical it'll go top to bottom so whichever you want you choose the direction the percentage across so percentage would be left to right if it's vertical and percentage horizontal would be top to bottom if it's going across so 50 % vertical would be like that and then you can come in here and do 50 percent horizontal and it'll look like that now if you turn on snapping by going to view and then snap to guides you can take any object such as this person we cut out and you can have it perfectly snap to the center of your document just like that now it doesn't have to be the center of your document it can also just be centered vertically using the horizontal guide or a certain centered horizontally by using the vertical guide but you can also do something like put them let's say horizontal and 200 pixels down if you want something 200 pixels down from the Hatter so you can snap it to there or you could use these guides if you're doing something like web design to make sure that oh only had herself should be about there and everything else should be the rest of the web page whatever you need the guides for that's how you can find them that's how you can use them and that's how you can snap to the guides okay number three is going to be how can you change the color across an entire image and still have it look reasonably good still keep the overall look of the image intact it's just you want to do something like say change day to night or sunset to morning well you can do that by going up to the colors menu and there's something called hue/saturation if you go to this menu it's gonna be defaulting to master which means as we adjust the selected color down here that it's going to be affecting all the different color ranges red magenta blue cyan green and yellow simultaneously so we're basically shifting the color of the entire image all in one you can of course do it individually as well but if you do that if you kind of get wacky results so just taking master color and shifting the hue you can see how immediately we can change the color of the image and not only that but we could also reduce the lightness to say make it a lot more darker we can decrease the saturation as well and keep adjusting the color until you get something like you want so just by doing that we can already kinda turn that dusk into something more of a night so just by doing that we can radically change how an image looks overall but it's still the same image we still have all the objects the lighthouse that boat etc and when you satisfied you can hit okay now obviously it's not perfect it's not gonna all end one for the say changing day tonight so if you wanted to take this a step further you can of course try out some of the other color effects that are available in the colors menu which are going to be really useful for obviously changing the color of images inside of denim so number four is going to be creating a path and then making a selection from that path so the paths tool over here is similar to the scissors tool and that it allows you to click around on your screen and create points which by default are going to be connected to each other with a linear line if you left-click and hold it's actually going to create a Bezier curve between your points and as you go around you can basically create a path which later you can create a selection from so when you're finished with your path you simply take the last point and the first point and you hit control to connect those two but this does not give you a selection in order to actually convert your path to a selection go over to the paths window if you don't see that inside of you can open it by going to Windows dr. Boll dialogs and then paths up towards the top and we take this path we right-click it and we go path to selection so now with this selection we can cut part of any image or any part of a layer out and then we'll be able to say paste it and manipulate it whatever we want to do so you just create the path you go over to paths you might click it and you do path to selection so number 5 is going to be how to remove acne inside of gem so the best tool for doing this especially with small problems like this is called the healing tool how the healing tool works is we hit ctrl and click on a good skin area and then we hover over a bad skin area and we start drawing by left clicking and holding down the brush stroke but of course we need the size way higher than that so make it something like 24 and what's it's going to do is going to automatically figure out based on this area how should the skin look if it was going to be flawless so by taking that close to perfect skin we go over this slightly less perfect skin and we left-click we hold down and we just kind of draw over it and what notice is that that acne spot that was there before is basically gone but it's not in a way that it's less obvious to tell how it was before I mean if it's still okay not pink like that you can go over to a second time just the more you use it the slightly more obvious it'll become so Flav and with it a little bit and you should be able to get pretty decent results there so let's just go ahead and keep working on the face here and improving it you just control a left click set a source and then you left click to draw over a spot where you think it's not as good as it could be by the way it does also work with things like wrinkles so if I go here I can start removing some of these wrinkles I can also work on the one over here now of course if you have any areas where it looks like it kind of copied from the original source here you probably want to try to make sure that anything that was there once doesn't get pitted so you can basically healing brush over that one more time and get it how you want to look so let's work on the neck a little bit too by the way if you can get a similar colored area like this that's gonna work pretty well so you do want to have your source somewhere close to the actual spot in question and we'll go here to here over this a bit too and we zoom out and we've cleaned up the face a lot in just a minute or two so that's basically how you do acne inside camp so number six is going to be how do we crop an image inside of Kempe so this one is actually really easy because in they give you a crop tool right over here it looks a lot like a knife's edge so what this is going to allow you to do is select a square area of your image you can also go over to the tools options if you want to make it a very specific ratio or a very specific size aka if you want to do YouTube thumbnails for instance so what we can do here if you want to manually set the area it's the left click drag a box and let's actually make it one that we might want so I'm going to left click over here and we'll drag over here to the bottom right just kind of focusing on the face here and once you have that if you have it perfect you can hit enter if you want to adjust a little more it'll give you these different indicators on these sides and the corner so you can drag and adjust it a little bit more until you have it perfect but once the area that is lit conforms to your expectations for what you want the cropped image to look like you simply go ahead and hit enter it's going to crop away the rest of the image and you now have a decreased English size in order for you to work with okay number seven is going to be how can you lighten up or darken part of your image so there's a great tool for this called dodge burn it's the bottom right inside of the tools options so using the Dodge tool you can selectively lighten part of your image and by using the darken I mean the burn tool you can darken part of your image so in order to do this I would recommend that you actually write collect your layer and you duplicate it so that any changes you make on the layer can be reverted by going back to the previous later you can just hide or delete this one if you're unsatisfied so by clicking on the Dodge tool we can go down here select either Dodge or burn burn for dark dodge for light I would recommend you turn the opacity down a lot lower than 100% I was working with something like 33 here because when you have 100% opacity it is a very very obvious effect and then you could just kind of select the area that you want to lighten up so let's just say we kind of wanted to smooth out these eyes a bit you may also want to decrease the brush hardness so that it's less obvious where the edges are on your dodging okay so let's go ahead and lighten up these eye areas here and obviously the larger your size is the less precise this is gonna be so I'm gonna actually lower this down to about 50 even though I'm not gonna stress too hard I'm just gonna take these eye socket areas and lighten them up a bit as long as you don't let go it's going to be applying one layer of dodging so it won't reapply itself multiple times the same effect unless you actually let go of the left mouse button so by doing that you can just take that eye and make it quite a bit brighter and we can come over here as well and do the same thing with the second eye notice it also affects things like the brightness of the eye color and so now if we want we can just do something like and however you want to see how it looks with and without the dodge effect we can simply disable this new layer which by the way we should probably be named so I'm gonna double click the name of this layer and rename it dodge adjustment ok misspelled there's no either so okay and now we can disable that and we enable it and you can see the difference before and after the Dodge adjustments so whatever you want to light and darken once again pretty much the same idea you just be darkening part of your image so if I wanted the forehead to be darker you can kind of see the effect before and after right okay so number eight is going to be how do you add symbols to again document so if you've ever worked on Photoshop you know that in Photoshop they give you plenty of preset symbols what you can basically stretch around like vector graphics in order to make the right size of an arrow or heart shape or a music note of whatever that you want inside of Photoshop so in there's a few easy ways to create simple shapes like hearts circles obviously that would be doing something like using the ellipse select tool creating as an ellipse or an oval and then going to edit fill with foreground or background color you of course would change your foreground and background color to the color you want before you do this but you can fill that in really easily same thing with doing a rectangular shape so in order to get more complicated shapes what I would recommend doing is using ASCII symbols so ASCII symbols are things like arrows and music notes which exist as text stored in your computer so basically a bunch of symbols which you can technically type out if you use these codes so what we can do with any of these symbols that exist inside of ASCII is copy the symbol itself rather than the text code go back into create a text box and then paste the symbol n so this will work with pretty much any symbol that exists within ASCII codes and there are a lot of them you could also look up Unicode it will basically give you the same things if I want something like an arrow pointing both directions with two lines going through and across through it well I can just copy this code paste it in as text and there you go and not only can we just paste it in we can also adjust it to any size we want we can change the color of it so you can see how these text-based ASCII symbols can be very very useful inside of an image editing program now a third option you can try out is literally just to go into google search for some clip art so like you want a house flip art just type in house clip art and what you can do is you can just take these images and you can use them inside if you camp documents now for commercial purposes you may actually need to find ones that have the right usage rights so for instance you come here for usage rights you can do labeled for reuse with modification and then that'll give you some clip art that you can actually use in commercial projects so for instance let's just go ahead and grab this image so I'm going to right click and open this link in the new tab I'm gonna copy this image and we can post it into a new layer inside of jump now because I copied it straight from the web and it's a PNG the background color is sometimes gets a little funky so if you have a PNG with a transparent background I'd recommend actually downloading it to your computer before you bring it in to them but aside from that you can get really easy clipart symbols you can get ASCII symbols and you can even make some basic shapes inside of them so number nine is going to be how to add in drop shadow which is an incredibly common thing you're gonna need to do with text so for instance I grabbed this image and let's say I wanted to add some text on it so usually text is going to be either white or black in this case I want to make it white okay so you take the font color we make it white we type in let's say tutorial and that doesn't actually look too bad on this image but if I put it somewhere like where it's really bright like right about here you can see that the text becomes hard to read because white and very bright lights don't really go all that well together they kind of overlap so what we want to do is actually add and drop shadow so if we right click on the text layer we've just created and do alpha to selection we can go up to the filters menu go to light and shadow and choose drop shadow from the list now usually I like to bump up the opacity for the drop shadow to make it very visible and also increase the blur radius especially with large text like this so I've just made it 25 weird okay and it will automatically calculate some drop shadow for us so you can see how just by doing that the text became way more visible against this kind of bright yellow background simply because the attacks now has some dark black shadow behind it now of course you can do this with any layer any image it doesn't need to be text so I'll go grab that person we created in the first part of this tutorial and I'll paste them on to a new layer here so right there maybe I put them behind the text layer by well first I have to make that a new layer so to take a floating selection you might click it and you make it a new layer drag that put it below the text and now what we can do is go up to filters oh well repeat drop shadow but usually I will I'll for two selection just to make sure that it actually gets the right area so repeat drop shadow and now if we look at it this person has a drop shadow too if I had control Z you can see it without the drop shadow with the drop shadow without the drop shadow with the drop shadow okay so number 10 is going to be how can we take an image like for instance the sea scene and put it on a computer screen or cereal box or anything else using the perspective tool so to get started we would of course go to our image put inside a separate layer and then we use the perspective tool we click on our object and then at a very basic level we have to put the four corners to correspond with the scene behind it so it's kind of hard to see at the moment so what I'm gonna do is actually lower the opacity on the sea layer and what that more mean is when we're working here we'll be able to see kind of a ghost of the previous image and we'll be able to get those four corners much easier so get a rough estimate of the four corners to begin with and then we can zoom in and kind of finalize it so that goes roughly up there and that was you min here to be about there and the bottom left-hand choir moving that to there and over here get that to that corner and finally at the top right we want that to be roughly there so now we can go ahead and hit transform and at a very basic level the image is now on the screen though if we hide it and enable it and hide it and enable it you'll notice that there's actually some lighting differences so this image is still lit exactly how it was originally like flat lighting all the way across it's not lighter here like it should be so if we actually want this image to correspond with the original lighting of the computer screen what we can do is we can change the mode of the see image from normal to light and only so now with that simple change the lighting on the outside of the monitor can corresponds with the inside and it looks a lot more realistic so that's how you would take an image and plaster it onto some other surface like a computer screen a television set or a cereal box inside of them and that brings us to our conclusion so that was ten things beginners want to know how to do inside of I hope you found this video to be fascinating and helpful - Chris thanks for watching and I will see you guys in my future video content hello everybody Chris here and in this short video I'd like to show you how when you're working within if you happen to close one of your windows how you can bring them back so I'm gonna close these out right now by hitting the X button which is probably the typical way someone accidentally closes their windows for the layers at the toolbox and all you really need to do in order to bring them back is go up to the windows section of the menu and look for recently closed dialogues or Docs and it will have the ones that you just closed basically so toolbox will bring it up in the same location it was before and if we go recently close Docs and then layers it'll bring up that window as well now if you want to bring up additional window so you can always do that by going to windows dockable dialogs and choose any from the list to appear on the screen for instance histogram and there you go you can put it anywhere and use it as a window like the standard ones so that's really all there is to it I've been Chris thank you for watching this video and I'll see you in my next one hello everybody in this brief tutorial I'm gonna be showing you how you can take a finished work inside of and export it as an actual image type which could include PNG files JPEG GIF or most other image types that you're used to seeing online so when you go up to the file menu you'd think that normally you would just save or save as and that would give you a ability to export it as an image but that's actually not true because when you save it using save or save as it's saving a dot xcf file and the dot xcf is basically just what uses to edit this image save it for further use and stores all the layer information so what you actually have to do is go to file and export export as or if you've already exported at once it'll say export to the last known location with the same image type basically exporting again so down here look for export or export as we'll do export as right here targeting the image to be saved on the desktop it may default to an image type right here but if you want to save it to a specific type instead of just PNG then you can go down here where it says all export images click and choose the image type of your choice so for instance you could be looking for dot jpg right here that's a very common image type dot gif gif and that's another image type PNG is also standard and you can see that there's also a lot of other export types here but you should be able to find pretty much all of the standard image types here TIFF the BMPs that pretty much covers all the common ones so yeah that's what you find it so once you have the location set and the name with a bye image format just save it to the location go ahead with the settings here usually you can just leave them as defaults and then on the location it's going to be available exported properly as a real image and not as a dot xcf file so you can go ahead turn it off just to confirm that the image is in fact exported and from there do what you want with it so that's all for this tutorial thank you very much for watching and until my next video I'll see you then [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hello everybody Chris here and in this short video I'd like to show you how you can change the look of by installing new themes so in order to find a theme I'll have a link to some down in the description below but you can search online for themes or gtk to themes something along those lines and you should turn a few up but here I'm going to be installing this better gtk two themes for 2.8 pack so we're we have to install this to on a Windows machine is going to be program file slash 2 / share / slash 2.0 slash themes and in this directory by default you're gonna have the default theme and the small theme but what we can do is a double click to open up this zip file containing all these other themes with our tool of choice of course I'm using 7-zip and we can drag these all outside of that zip file into the themes directory so not too complicated there you should after extracting them all go ahead and close out so we're gonna want to reopen that while it's extracting in the background so hey let's go ahead and boot that back up and now in order to finish this process and actually load up the other thing you need to go to edit preferences and then the theme tab and now we have a whole lot new themes we can go ahead and play around with so let's go ahead and try one here now you're going to notice that once we go ahead and hit OK it's not actually going to load up the theme immediately in order for the after hours or whichever theme we chose to load up we actually have to restart one more time so let's go ahead and quit out load and once it goes ahead and gets taken care of you should notice that it has a different theme on top of it let's go ahead and test this with one more theme just to read demonstrate so choose the theme quit out and you should have the theme loaded up and this one's pretty cool I might actually just use this one for myself so I've been Chris thank you for watching and I'll see you in my future videos hello everybody Chris tear and in this video I want to show you guys how we can install a theme pack from the latest beta version of ported back to the current version of so that you can use it in the current version which i think is two point two point eight point 22 or so this these themes are actually from two point nine point two but most people aren't using that version yet so this theme pack you can get on github.com and i'm gonna include a direct link in the description below so it's github.com slash draco with two K's slash tip - CC dash themes and once you go ahead and download that which you can do by hitting Kohner download either open and desktop which will use the github desktop application or if you want to do a direct download which probably most people do just click download zip download it in the browser or a download manager of your choice and then where you need to extract the theme files is - on windows c drive slash users slash the name of your user account which in this case is chris for me slash period camp - two point eight slash themes also it's available on the web page if you need the full written description of that and what you do is you open up the zip file which initially will give you a folder that says CC themes master well what we actually need is everything inside of that so rather than extracting the top-level folder directly you need to get these individual scenes so CC e theme darker darkest grade light lighter drag-and-drop all those into c drive users name of you user 2.8 slash themes and then once that's done you should restart go into edit preferences and then theme is the third option and the Preferences menu if you restart again you should see all the new themes loaded up here so you can select one of them probably gray is gray Dockers what most people are gonna want if you've all trained get a dog or theme so select that and then you're gonna need to restart one more time so let's go ahead and do that now you can see on this loading bar nobody loaded up and then we get into the new theme for which in this case is much closer to what you would have in something like Photoshop where you have dark black background and white text for the menus and now once again as I mentioned at the start these themes are basically being back ported from version two point nine point two of em so so an alternative of actually doing this process is just to download the latest testing version of but that's sad if you do that you may run into bugs or crashes all the time so this is a more stable way to do it so once again link in the description to this github location where you can download the themes it's got the written instructions there which you're pretty basic just have to basically replace your username here on Windows and make sure there's the proper back slashes but aside from that I think wrist hope this helps you getting set up with some extra themes in and I will see you guys in my future video content hello everybody Chris here and in this video I'd like to show you five techniques to help text stand out against bright backgrounds within and we're skipping the obvious one of just changing the text color here from white to black so the first technique I'm going to show here is text shadow this is probably the easiest method within so when you have text created you can go up to filters light and shadow drop shadow and specify offsets blue radius in most cases you can just set a radius and increase the opacity if you want it to really stand out I think of defaults to 60 or so and leave allowed resizing checked only if you actually want the document to resize so in this case I'm making a YouTube thumbnail so I specifically want it to be 180 P resolution so let's go ahead and do that and you can see it's added some nice shadow behind the text and it makes it stand out a lot better especially for having white text on a white background having drop shadow is invaluable so a similar technique we can use is to actually go to the layers right click it and click alpha to selection and then we're going to create a new layer and then this new layer will basically create a mirror copy of that text but we're going to use the color black to go behind it so it's kind of like creating drop shadow but a little different and now that we have that I'm going to drag the layer down below and I'm going to move that particular layer anywhere we want so you can have it basically be on any side of the text that you want and it's like a really thick shadow that you can have behind your text so that looks pretty good for instance okay so those are two ways I'm going to disable that layer for right now and the next is to create a background box so what I mean by this is rather than creating a full background that's darker we will instead select the portion of our image or thumbnail whatever you're creating that has tax and we're gonna create basically a black box behind there you can use a pattern you can create basically anything you want to go in there the point is to leave the main image intact while making it very visible for our text and if you want to go a step beyond that maybe you want part of the image to show behind this black box we can lower the opacity on the black box to something like 50% and it still makes the text a lot more visible but it also keeps the image and text in the background so that's a cool way to do it so let's see transparency plus a dark background okay the idea here is we have this background layer you may need to create one but on that background layer first I'll hide the visibility of our image we set it to a dark color like black or whatever you think works best black and white worked well together obviously and then we want it part of this to stand out while actually having this image show so you put a dark background color behind your image and then we lowered the opacity of the image until the text stands out enough so I think something like 65 ish maybe 70 here works fine obviously it kind of de-emphasizes the image in the background but it does let your text stand out clearly you could even combine this with text shadow or the Alpha selection method I showed you earlier and next one let's set the opacity back to 100 this is option number five is to change the hue the contrast and the brightness of your background image until it works for you so in the colors menu we have basically options for setting that hue saturation brightness and con's there's probably the two you're gonna want to play around with so brightness/contrast is the most obvious one we can lower the brightness a lot and you'll notice that this kind of gives you a very similar look to the idea of making it partially transparent and putting a background behind it but we can also play around with the contrast maybe we want lower contrast or higher contrast we can cancel that and play around with the heal bit so if you want the background to be a certain color maybe you have red text and you want that to go with blue text so let's try changing the hue over to boo boo and then maybe we can make the text read or something like that this is a little bit of a weird way to do it but um it's definitely an option now that that's probably too vibrant so let's make it a little darker well it's not perfect but it is a technique you can use so probably I would say stick with contrast and brightness first and then maybe you combine that with some hue so it's actually try adding in some brightness reduction in addition to that and maybe we can take this text we can make it brighter to contrast okay more vivid okay and that's not too bad if I was gonna go with this particular image I would probably also throw in some text shadow to go along with that so for instance repeat the drop shadow and that makes us stand out pretty well so that's five ways to help your text stand out against a bright background and I hope this video has been useful for you I have definitely tried all of these five options and many of the thumbnails I created on my channel so I know they work and I guess I will see you guys in my future video content so until then thanks for watching hello everybody Chris here and in this video I wanted to show you how when you are erasing pixels inside of you can make it so that it has an a hard edge rather than basically having a blur where fades off as you erase the pixels or draw the pixels like you would get with a standard brush you will instead get this kind of hard edge that you would expect from the pencil pixel tool so if we go to the eraser tool and you just erase normally you can see exactly what I am talking about the problem we're trying to avoid where although it will erase the pixels some may be left behind with a different shade and we don't want it to have the shade so to get rid of that partial shading we need to click hard edge in the tool selector down here at the bottom left of our tool box now when we try to erase those pixels it's going to raise them completely all in one stroke and I think if you're going to be doing a pixel art style game that's going to be a very handy tool so yeah that's basically how you do it use the hard edge to make it so that when you erase it erases it completely inside of I hope this helped you out I've been Chris thanks for watching and I'll see you in my future videos hello everybody Chris here and in this video I want to show you guys how you can create an animated gif relatively simply inside of so in this document I have five layers over here on the right for every frame of an animation you're going to want one additional layer and they animate from bottom to top so this cyberghost logo is actually the first frame that's going to play in the animation going up until it reaches chrome dot PNG and by default it will loop around you can turn off looping if that's something you want so if you have screenshots or whatever you want to put in each of these layers basically any each of these animation friends make sure you go ahead copy them and edit it in order to get each frame looking how you want and then we go up to file export as choose a name and location for your file and make sure that it exports as a dot gif so we'll hit export here replace the one that already exists if in your layers the content of the layer is outside the bounds of the document you may get this message just to be the option to crop the images out so that it fits inside of the animation and you're going to want to make sure we're in this export image ask if dialog box that as animation is checked loop forever is set by default and if you want to increase the time per frame you can do that here bumping that up to 200 milliseconds but for the most part as long as you check as animation you'll be good to go just make sure each of your layers are in the right order export it and now we can open it up on my desktop so you can see starts with the cyberghost and loops through the frames and when it gets to the end it loops through so that's how you create a gif and inside of I hope this tutorial has been useful for you guys and I will see you guys in my future video content hello everybody Chris your end in this video I want to show you a very easy way you can use in order to create a motivational quote background or just an image that you can share around on your social media platforms so the first step I would say for doing this is going to probably be to go over to pixabay.com because here you can find plenty of very high-quality images that are actually completely free even for commercial uses one of the reasons I will use the site so much and you can just find one of these images that seems like it would be good for motivational quote something like a long road going off into the sunset or a pasture filled with a lot of nice colors in the sky so when you find an image you like of which they're going to be many here and the ones that are on the front page by the way or some of the ones that are voted out the highest so you're gonna get a lot of high quality ones over here you just click n you download the image and then we bring that in together so here I downloaded this desert image I'm going to drag that into a image so this document i sat at 1280 by 720 p resolution which is basically 720p resolution you can make it larger than that if you want and we're going to want to add some text to this obviously because this is talking so what I would say is start by setting your font color to either white or black those are usually the starting places you want if you want it to look good and I don't know if we actually have to create a new layer there but I'll do that anyway go over to the text tool over here and you're going to want to choose a font you like if none of the default fonts on Windows interest you you can go online to sites like that font and grab one that you like I'm very fond if this font chunk 5 except my thumbnail so I'm going to stick with that change the font size over here to G pixels is probably a little too big for this but whatever size you think is good and make sure that the color is the one you want it over here you may also want to Center the attack in the books but it may not be necessary also so from there just choose a spot inside of your document and we're gonna want to post a quote and so here we can grab someone at 1:04 quotes not net or basically any that you've thought of or that you actually want to put in so here just a min from the movie dune which apparently is ancient now spice extends life to the spice expands consciousness no idea what that means but a motivational enough right so we can see here after I copy and paste that in it's still a little big so I'm gonna select all the text here and we're gonna shrink it probably down to one hundred so let's make it two lines here and that's probably still too big so I'm gonna make that centered over here on the left and drop it down to 75 maybe even in seventy to make sure it fits and under an image we can add a new guide so I'm gonna go to guides new percent and add a vertical guide to make sure that this text gets centered and that's a start there but we're also going to need to add in what this quotes from so in this case it's the movie doom 1984 can copy that text and let's actually let's increase the font size for this next box and I'll put it over here copy and paste that in it looks like this font actually doesn't support the square brackets so instead I'll replace that with a couple of hyphens put that over here and now we have a problem which is that the background image is basically too vibrant in color so certain parts of the hell attacks don't stand out so well it looks fine over here when it has a new background but when it's kind of cloudy white that that's not going to cut it so a couple ways we can get around this one would be to create a background square so if we added a layer here and then drew a box filled it in that would be one and of course we can lower the pass just said that it's dark enough so that we can actually read the problem but I think the way most people are going to want to do this is to right-click in alpha to selection then we're going to go up to filters shadow drop shadow and boy radius I and Pasi like 80 90 percent in opacity and this is going to give drop shadow to the text so just by doing that you can see the text is immediately a lot more readable and we will repeat the drop shadow on this text as well and you may want to play around with this a little bit more to get it to be maybe a little bit more standout but I think this will actually do pretty decent so through just a few minutes and we've created a motivational background and we can export this and then save it as our background on our desktop let's actually go I didn't do that for fun so desktop background I'll save it as a JPEG since there's no need for transparency minimize everything right click and set as desktop background so the text may be a little bit big here and maybe we would have wanted to make it with resolution 1920 by 1080 but that's not too bad for a few minutes of work so every Chris thanks for watching this video on how to create a motivational post background and I will see you guys in my future video content hello everybody Chris here and in this video I'd like to show you how to install the latest development builds of onto your and boom to system and it's going to be using a pretty brief tutorial up here on this webpage I'll have a link in the description if you want to follow along and there's a few commands we're basically going to need adding a PPA repository that was set up by Thurston Staton and we're just gonna go ahead and put in these commands because that's basically what you got to do here so first there's the add apt repository PPA ohto castle goulash edge all of the commands in the description yeah I'm getting them from this page so add in the PPA and then you got a update um boom to system then finally do an app get install which is now going to use the latest cutting-edge version of rather than ones that may have been installed on a default on Beauty system so I'm gonna let this go ahead and install should take a minute or two here okay and now that that's been taking care if I have 2.95 installed over the original camp two point eight point eighteen or something like that so loading the new you can see that we've got it there and that's basically all there is to setting up the development version of and on boon to Linux or Linux Mint so I think Chris thanks for watching and I hope this helped you out I'll see you in my future videos hello everybody Chris here and in this video I'm going to be showing you guys how to install both brushes and patterns inside of for both versions temp 2.8 and 2.9 which is currently in development version so here for this tutorial I have a bunch of patterns on my desktop and a zip file and then a bunch of brushes also in a zip file that's how they would usually come if you need a source for finding brushes and patterns I would recommend sites like deviant art or a bunch of artists will give you basically brushes you can use for free so from there if you're on Windows you need to go to your user profile which is by default and C Drive users and then the name of your user account and then inside of here is going to be a hidden folder called - 2.8 and you know it's a period in front of it if you can't currently see your head in folders then go over to the View tab in Windows and check hidden items over here and then it should show up if you are on Linux or Mac you're going to need to go to the user group which you can get to just by putting in your site which is above the tab key and from there it should be dot temp - 2.8 as well now if you are using 2.9 then where you need to go is type in app data and windows and that will bring you to your User Profile app data roaming and here you should be able to find again specifically for version 2.9 if you open that up you'll see M 2.9 and then in brushes up here and patterns are here but most people are going to currently be using 2.8 so I'm going to go back to my user profile and do the 2.8 version so you basically notice that inside the actual folders it looks the same versions 2.8 and 2.9 once we care about our brushes here and patterns down here so let's see brushes first brushes in or general even Vivi's dot GDR files again files so if I open up the zip file for my crush pack and I come in here there's some preview images but what we actually care about I did that ger piles so and get brushes we would drag these eighteen into the vacuum two point eight slash brushes folder let them be in sight here and then the next time we start Kemp they should be there now for patterns we just come down here to the patterns folder and it's a very similar process you'll notice that dot PNG images are actually supported inside of empty point eight but in this case it gave me the PNG images and the top hat file which I guess in this case it needs both of those in order to actually show up but here we have the hack Brigitte got off deviantART so we have like twenty some PNG images and the dot hat file so for me I would need to drag the dot pattern file and all these PNG images I don't know if the dot jpg is necessary but I would grab them all anyway and then we would just copy those into this patterns folder so once you have your brushes and or patterns loaded up what you need to do is restart your dem program so I've already done that I'm gonna go ahead and create a new image just so we can see what we're working with here so new brushes that use the paintbrush tool will show up and this brush selector you can see all these different shapes so if we try using the straight brush you can kinda see it pop up there if increase the size though it should be a lot more obvious so this packet grabbed is pretty cool because normally getting unique shapes inside of campus a little bit trickier it doesn't have the same built-in tools that Photoshop does so useful pack you would give to grab now for patterns one place we can see that is bucket fill if you go down here to pattern fill and you click on it you'll notice that the 20 or so new pattern images have popped up so I'm going to select one of those maybe we will create a new layer so with this pattern created I can fill in this object here and it is like pattern same idea pretty cool so that's how you would install brushes and patterns for both 2.8 and 2.9 so I hope this tutorial has helped some you guys out there who may have been trying to install some bushes and patterns hey Chris thanks for watching and I will see you guys in the future video cop hello everybody Chris here and in this video I'm gonna be showing you guys a little bit about blend modes inside of 2.10 so blend modes are where you take a layer and you go up here and you set one of these different effects which for the most part interact with the color of that layer but can also affect things like brightness and luminosity and to the eye at least if you choose some of the further down ones you can actually have it get an interesting interaction with the background layer where certain elements of the background will show through more than the less noticeable elements in the background because how the layer modes work is that they interact with the layer behind it so it's not just putting a color effect on one layer like you might see in a filter but rather it absolutely depends on the layer behind the blend mode in order to determine how it's going to look in the final effect so when we go to the drop down for blend modes which is in the top right hand corner we get a lot of different effects I believe they had like 21 before but now in the latest version that's quite a few more than that and you can just kind of go down through these honestly the best way to get an idea of exactly what each one does is to see it but generally what happens is it'll take the colors of everything in the layer you're adjusting for and measure it against the background and create an effect for those areas so for instance a reasonably simple mode we can take a look at is lighten only right down here sixth and the lists currently and when we take a look at the effect it almost gives the appearance of the character being at the real in nature you can kind of see behind him similar to if we had set opacity but it gives you a different look because instead of merely applying like opacity all across the board it's taking some of these lighter less noticeable areas and those become more see-through whereas these areas that have really solid colors like this white on the arm and the checker squares for this leather armor are still pretty visible so if we compare that to just doing 50% opacity by converting it to mode normal and putting the opacity to 50 you can see it does look a little bit different than the light tuna only mode but if you're looking for something a little more dramatic we could try subtract here so how this subtract mode would work is it'll take the color values in all of the pixel areas for the layer behind it and it'll subtract those color values from the top layer so the most part what you get left with are just some very dark shaded areas so this face which would have normally been white loses a lot of its color and you know that when you shift white away from actually having color it goes towards black black being where it would not have any color you can see that it's obviously not a pure black here the exact results are going to depend on whatever is actually behind it so if you swap in a different background image it's going to look a bit different so another one that I'm a pretty big fan of is divide over here because divide gives you a really cool ghostly look so just guessing of how this works mathematically dividing the first color by the second color and if you're talking about color on a scale from zero to one you multiply those values together it's actually going to increase its value or shift it more towards white so that's why you see so much white inside of here I could be wrong on that but the important thing for you is the look that you actually get when you apply these kind of effects if you want to see the math itself I would go check out the website because they actually have some of that listed there let's just quickly go through some of the effects the luminance over here taking the colors of the background image and applying it to the visibility or the brightness of the top image so you see exactly the same shape but with the colors of the background image let's just kind of scroll up here using the middle mouse wheel and you can see there's a lot of really interesting looks you can get here just by really going and playing around with it so there's grain extract kind of similar to divide exclusion difference so on and so forth and then up here at the top one that you can actually use for more practical purposes erase rather than having to create a layer mask you can just have a layer serve as a mask so basically wherever this layer has color matching with the bottom layer it's just going to erase that from the final image so basically you just take this image and it becomes a completely transparent paste over on top of the second image so if you needed to do anything like that that is the useful tool just remember that when you want to try these blend modes out you absolutely need two layers you need the layer behind it which is going to have color values that the first layer the mode layer actually interacts with so whatever layer you want to add a blend mode or layer mode to just put that on top and go on this drop-down list and you should be able to get some cool effects going on there hopefully I gave you a decent idea here of what blend modes are how they work how to use them so on and so forth inside of 2.10 I've been Chris thanks for watching and I will see you guys in my future video content hello everybody Chris here and in this video I want to show you guys how we can do a spiral text inside of by using the text to path command and the end result we're going to be shooting for is going to be something like this where we have text on a record and it's going around and around in a very subtle spiral until it gets to the center area there and the text basically just writes along that path so in order to get a relatively accurate spiral we are going to need to use a special effect inside of but the first thing we need to do is set up the requirements for that what you're going to want to do with your sphere or wherever you want the spiral is to hit plus and create a new layer so in order to create the spiral effect I'm going to need to first create a box that is split into two different colors so to vecten goals making a full square and guides are a good way to set this up so I already have the guide set up at the center and the edges of this record we're going to be creating the spiral on but I don't have any at the top so it would be a good idea now for me to go to image guides new guide we can do it without percent and we'll set its initial position at fifty pixels which is actually remarkably close to where we want it actually it's right on the dots so let's go down here to the bottom we can of course use these pixel measurements to get an idea of where it should be it looks like 1800 there so I'm gonna go to guides new guide and try 1800 it's very easy to adjust if we need to so using the move tool over here on the left I'm going to drag this down a little bit more and now we have guides that we can use to set up even rectangles on both sides so I'm going to be using snap to guide which is view and then snap to guides so that when I click over here with these guides meet it will give me exact precision on creating this box so with the box selected I want to fill that with a color so I'm going to fill it with this blue and fill it in with the paint bucket tool and go over here to the right side and do exactly the same thing so we're going to fill this in with red now and that's the starting point for where we can apply the world effect so before we apply the effect we're going to want to make sure that only this area is selected and a really good way to do that is to right-click on our layer and do alpha to selection so now this entire box is selected and we can go up to filters distorts whirl and pinch in order to create an effect it's starting to kind of spin the colors around but we have to crank the whirl way up in order to actually have the spiral that is similar to what we're looking for on this record over here so at 6000 this is roughly what we get if we lower the opacity down on the spiral layer will be able to see kind of how it overlaps everything that's off of the overlap is pretty much irrelevant it's only this Center area that matters and I think I also had the radio set to two before it might give you a better result I really just look at these lines and figure out if the Spiro is following roughly the pattern that you are looking for to me this is actually looking pretty good at 6002 here I can select either of these colors to use as my path going around in circle and putting the text on the record so I'm gonna go ahead and hit OK here now with this spiral we really only want to use the inner area the spiral that is covering the record as anything we're going to write on so in order to make it so that everything else is masked out I'm going to left-click on our record or the circle you need to put the spiral on and right-click and do you alpha to selection so that gives us this circular selection and if we go over to our new layer we can right-click it and do add layer mask and selection will already be chosen here so that's going to refer to the selection we have on the screen will serve as our initial layer mask and by hitting OK everything else just gets cut away so it looks now like the spiral is perfectly overlaid with our record so now that we have the spiral it's possible to start creating text and having it follow along one of these spiral paths now it is possible to select by color and select one of these blues and Brad's and then make it so that your path goes around the color selection though that usually takes a really long time and your results are gonna be kind of skewed if you do it that way so how I prefer to do it is to use the paths tool and with the paths tool what we're gonna do is trace along one of these borders so you can pick a space you want to start somewhere in here and by the way if you want the spiral to spin and start at a different area altogether what you can do is use the rotate tool on the spiral kind of like this and then hit rotate but assuming everything looks good to you what we can do here is just to go and find a good starting spot for the text note I believe that the text is going to appear below this line so you do make some space between the edge of your sphere and where your text is actually going to be so I'm gonna click here and then manually I'm going to keep clicking around as we basically copy our spiral butt into a single lined path so obviously this is where it can get a little bit tedious and you don't have to do every step at once you could just put your spiral up to about here and then add a line of text and then after you've decided that that's good then you can continue around and around so let's take this path we just created and actually type some text here so what we can type in up here is green smoothies are the best so I pasted that in a couple times just to make extra text characters to write along that path and this path we created might not actually be long enough yet and that's why it's a good idea to test early so with this path selected left click in the paths window if you don't have the paths window you can open it in Windows dockable dialogs and paths now we go over to the layers where we have our text and all we need to do is right click and do text along path which will create a new text path that we can create our final text from so if we go in here you can see that it's pretty accurate but we do have a problem which is that when it gets here the path is finished so these last few characters are kind of trailing and that means that there wasn't enough path for it to continue writing so we can undo that and let's edit this path so paths tool at it and I'll double click this path to open it back up for editing and just add a few more points in obviously you can go as far around as you need to and with the text I'm just going to reassign it there so text along path and now it comes up to here with the text so we want to go over to paths once again and you'll notice that this is actually a path here it's not its own layer so in order to turn this path into something that's actually visible on a layer we want to create a new layer here we want to make sure that this path is selected and we want to right-click it and do path to selection so what you should see is the dotted animated selection lines going around all of these areas and now we can go over to layers and actually just build these in with the paint bucket so paint bucket color of your choice left click to fill it in and we've created text all the way around from the left side to the bottom right side if we hide the path we can see that this text is now appearing there so if we hide our spiral we can see how it looks on the actual disk so if you run into any issues like this doesn't look quite how you want it then I would suggest you go back to the spiral creation thing and try playing around with different settings maybe you need to bump the numbers up a little bit more so that it spirals more times before it gets to the center but that's generally how you would do it inside of so let's finish this up by adding in more text and creating a longer path that spirals a couple four times I'm going to delete this layer here and I'm going to double click on the path making sure I'm in edit mode here oh wait that's the wrong path it's the unnamed one we can actually delete that text created path because we don't need that right now and in order to finish this of course we also need the spiral to be visible so we have a tracing line and let's just keep going around here okay so I think that makes a pretty good spiral path obviously it's a little tedious clicking all the way around but that's probably about the best way to get a good result so let's go ahead and paste some text in here and with this text we will try to apply it along that path now the longer you path is and the longer you text is the longer the effect may take to apply as long as you see the little processing thing though it should be working still so with the unnamed path selected that's the one I was creating I'm going to right-click our new text and do text a long path so as you can see I applied a little bit too much text there and it also took a very long time for it to process so what am I is that instead of doing one spiral for the entire thing try breaking it down into individual pieces so you might have one spiral there and then you create a new path and then go around once more do your new path go around once more so let me see if I can fix this up a little bit okay so now that we have this path generated I'm going to fill it in the same way we did before so I'm gonna right click path to selection go over to layers and create a new layer and we would just fill this in with white so now we can hide that path and we can continue working on everything else that we want to show up here so this next path that I'll create will only go around once and that's so that when we apply the text and chunks it can process a lot faster so let's start from here and pretty much exactly the same manner we were doing before you can always adjust or undo the points you can adjust by clicking on a point moving it or you can hit control Z to undo the last created point if you need to but as long as we follow along the border between the thread and blue here we should get a pretty good result and roast up there with one full spin so let's get some more text we can add into this path though I will create a temporary text layer here and paste in my text I will select the path right click my text and do text along path in this case it took me about 8 seconds as opposed to 2 or 3 minutes so you can see how fast it goes when you have less text that you're trying to apply all at once so now with this path let's filled in once more by right clicking doing path to selection paint bucket tool and we'll need to go to a new layer here and we can left-click and filled in with the white color now as long as you have a new layer created you could also just right click on the path and do you fill path with solid color which should use the foreground color so exactly like using the paint bucket tool we're just filling in the path in a different way and that's generally the idea we just keep going until it's all the way around enough times we disable all of our extra layers and when we're done with the spiral we can disable that too I had the path so that we can see how the text appears on the disk so now we have our text spiraling but it might not be in the exact shape and size we want we could go back and manipulate the spiral a little bit so that when the text is initially being put on it's a little bit closer to what we want another option though would be to manipulate the text directly when we have it all on here and we can do that across all of these different layers by going down here and adding in a new layer group so I'm going to call this the text layer group and when we add these text layers on to this we can actually manipulate them all at the same time by selecting the text layer group and with the text layer group selected we can old shift down so it's moving the active layer and we can move all of this text I'll at once so I'm going to position it to about where it's even on all sides because I think that looks a little better and looking at it this scale is a little off too maybe that's because we started with a non-perfect square I believe that the original circle image here for the disk is actually not even on all sides so we can scale that up so I'm going to use the scale tool here and scale things up a bit also scale from the bottom as well just drag things around until it looks generally right and then hit scale so now our text is still spiraling but maybe the positioning on everything looks a little bit better obviously if you wanted to finish this whole desk you would just add in more text before you make these final moving and scaling adjustments but hopefully this is giving you guys a pretty accurate idea on how you can recreate an effect like this well you have text going around in a spiral clearly it's a little bit tedious and there's a little bit of trial and error but I hope this tutorial has helped you guys to get a good grasp on the basics so I've been Chris thanks for watching and I wish you guys in my future camp Contin

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Published: Mon Feb 04 2019