Hey Cafe Crew, it’s Colin Smith here from
Photoshop Cafe and today I have got a great tutorial for you, I am going to show you how
to liquid, smoke and glass inside of Photoshop. One of the things that seem to be a mystery
to a lot of people is making semi-transparent selections inside of Photoshop. Things like glass and liquid and smoke and
steam and things like that tend to elude people. So this tutorial is designed to help you make
those perfect selections with those almost impossible seeming subjects. So what I have got here is I have got a girl
surfing under the water here, we have got a shot of that. And we are going to use this and we are going
to do and we are going to composite some things in here. So I have got a bottle here. We are going to drop this bottle in and we
have got some smoke that we are going to drop in there and we have got a cool little twist
that I am going to add as an effect and we have got some liquid just to kind of show
you that we can do that. Now grab these assets from Adobe Stock. I encourage you to follow along. Underneath there is a link where you can grab
10 free images from Adobe Stock. Also I am going to have a link to Photoshop
Cafe and on there I am going to list the exact assets that I am using so you can download
exactly the same photos from Adobe Stock directly into Photoshop and you can follow along. So let’s get started. The first thing we are going to do is we are
going to go to this bottle. Now I have got a couple of things that I am
going to show you. The first thing I want to do is I am just
going to make a selection around the bottle. Just like we normally would. And by the way just grab the quick selection
tool there and you know, just default settings, I am not changing anything. Just kind of dragging it around that bottle. Now, I am going to hit the Alt or the Option
key and go around these edges to try and get that pretty accurate. So we are just going around those edges. Now another tool that works really good with
these hard edges that we are doing here is the Pen tool. The Pen tool would work tremendously for this. Now and I have got another tutorials on that
but that is pretty close. So we have gone pretty close to good selection
right there. I kind of like that. And I am just going to tap out here because
I feel like I have missed that lip. And I am just going to go in there and tap
in there. Now to check the selection, to see if it is
good, just hit the Q key, Quick Mask and we can see we are pretty close. We are just going to grab the Brush tool pretty
quick. And I am going to make the size go small,
just grab a [Inaudible 02:23] pull the hardness all the way up and I just wanted, just kind
of paint in there. So what I am going to do is I am going to
go to the top there and I am just going to hold down the Shift key and drag down and
that will constraint my painting to a straight line and that will save me a lot of time doing
that, tap Hold Shift and drag down and that will constraint my painting. See that and that enables you to paint in
a straight line. You can also tap and then hold the Shift key
and tap in another place and that will draw a line in between for you and in this case,
I want a little more control, so just holding down the Shift and constraint to that movement. So I am just going to hit the Q key again
to bring this back to a selection. So notice right now, our selection inverted. So we can just choose to select Inverse and
it’s keyboard shortcut, Command Shift I, Ctrl Shift I on Windows and now, our bottle
is selected. Now I want to make sure this bottle is little
cleaner. So I am just going to grab any selection tool
that will enable select a mask. I am going to click on there and all I want
to do is just move to the [inaudible 03:29] and I am just going to drag that a little
bit, just to give myself some smovening. Now, what we are going to do here is we are
just going to outpost the selection to a selection. And I am just going to click OK. Because there’s a couple of things I want
to do here. So what I am going to do now is I want to
copy just the selected area of that bottle to a new layer. So I am going to hold down Ctrl and hit the
J key and that would be Command on Mac and Ctrl on Windows and J and if you noticed what
happened, now we have got that selected area. And I have still got our background. Well, why did I keep our background? Because now I am going to show you how to
do semi-transparent selection on the inside of the bottle. So with this background selected we are going
to go to Select and we are going to use the Color Range. Now, Color Range is amazing. What we can do of color range is we can choose
a color and let me just set this because this is what it looked like here, and with the
Eye Dropper tool, we can just click like maybe here and that would make a selection there. Then we grab the Plus tool and we can actually
just click and drag to select some more of those areas to add to our selection. As you can see what we are doing here but
this not how we are going to build the [Inaudible 04:48] better. Well what the fuzziness does is it increases,
it spreads it out a little bit. So this is very defined and this is very fuzzy. As you can see it is not bad. It is a pretty decent selection. Now one of the other things about the selection
, where it is White means it is going to be fully selected, notice we haven’t selected
that cork and we can click on it here or we can click on it here, it doesn’t matter. And notice we can add that to our selection. So white is fully selected, black is completely
unselected and that area of grey is where the semi-transparent selection work and we
can adjust that by sliding this fuzziness slider. Now, sometimes on a situation like this when
shot against a pure white background, I am going to change this to Highlights. And I am going to move my fuzziness all the
way down, because you know what, this gives me two ways of control now. Now I have the range and I have the fuzziness. See that, so we can get the range to select
everything and the fuzziness to determine how much of the grey area, see that? There’s going to be semi-transparent in
there and I am just going to click OK. And also notice, once again, our selection’s
inverted, so we can inverse the selection or there’s another way of doing it, if we
just create a mask, if I hold down the Alt or the Option key and click on the Layer Mask,
it will create an inverted mask. And now we have got our bottle. Notice that it’s got most of it. But some of these areas here are just a little
too well selected. And that’s why we have these one on top. So we can take that one there and we are going
to adjust the Opacity. See that and we can adjust how much transparency
is going to show through. Now, I am noticing on here though, at the
very top here, this is getting lost. So what I am going to do is, I am going to
make another copy. Ctrl J, I am going to hide the middle one
for now, and I want to create a mask where everything is hidden. So in order to do that, I am going to click
the mask, just like we did, we are going to do an inverted mask. Hold the Alt or the Option and then click
on the Mask and that wlll create a mask that’s filled with black. A mask filled with black means that everything
is there but everything is hidden. To bring it back, we are going to grab the
white Brush and we are going to carefully paint back the areas that we want to see. So let’s do that right now. So let’s grab a Brush and now I want to
change this to a soft edged brush. And I am going to make it bigger by tapping
the Bracket key and I am going to bring that opacity down just a little bit, maybe about
75%. So we are painting mostly of it but it is
going to be a little bit transparent. So let’s just paint over there and notice
what we are doing, we are bringing back in those areas now. And if you want those areas to be completely
[Inaudible 07:35] of course, you know, you can just paint in those areas again and that’s
going to do it. So let’s go down the bottom here, I definitely
want those areas to show again, nice! Alright, so now, the final step is to turn
this one back on, drag opacity all the way to bottom and just got to drag it up to show
the amount of transparency that we want to see. So you can’t really see the effects of the
transparency we put it under another photo. So what we are going to do now is we want
to move it to another photo. But even if you move a house, what do you
do? You grab a box and you put everything in there
in the box and then you just take the box over. It is a lot easier than trying to juggle everything
in your arms. So why don’t we do the equivalent here,
we are going to make it easy for us to keep everything together and as just we move it,
why don’t we put it inside a box right now? And the way to do that in Photoshop is just
click, Shift Click, we have selected everything and now we want to group it into a box, that’s
the key. So hit Command on Mac, Ctrl on Windows and
G for Group. And now we have got that and we can turn it
to, I am just typing in ‘Bot’ for bottle. Alright, now we have created a group. So when I select this now and I move it, notice
everything moves together. Now, I want to combine the two, so I want
to drag this up into the other tab, don’t let go yet, I am using a pen, if you are using
a mouse, same thing, don’t let go of the button, see that cursor is still black arrow,
it is in the middle and now release. And now, you see our bottle has travelled
through. So we are going to put our bottle here and
if I want to resize it, I am going to hit Ctrl T, that would be Command T on Mac and
our free transform comes up. Hold the Shift key, click and drag up to do
that. And now we can move it around and notice we
have got our semi-transparency that that moves the fuzz now and we can adjust that if we
want. So, if we want it more or less transparent,
we can go around here and here is our little adjustment there, notice that one, in the
middle, if we turn that down, it is more transparent. If we turn it up, it is more [Inaudible 09:45]. See that, so we can adjust that how we want
it. Pro tip – if you want to put, make it look
like its liquid in there, duplicate that layer and make a rectangular selection in the lead
part of it, adjust that Opacity independently and even you can go to hue, saturation, add
color and make it look like there’s some kind of liquid in there, if you wanted to
do that. 10:08 Okay, so we have added the glass, we have
combined the glass, now we are going to move on to the liquid and the smoke. Now one of the things you might be asking
at this point here and this is something I do get a lot from people, you know what, that’s
easy to select because that’s against a white background. What about something, you know, against and
I always here the what abouts when I do tutorials, what if it is against a tree or more complex,
a very busy background? Okay, number one, we are grabbing this from
Stock, don’t grab stock that’s against a busy background. Choose it against an easy background to work
with you know, and even if you are shooting your own bottles, it is very easy to hold
a piece of white paper behind the bottle when you photograph it. If it is a complex background, my answer to
that is why waste so much time on complex background when you can set up a piece of
paper, sheet or something like that and make it easier? Reshoot the photo or grab on from stock. Don’t spend time trying to mask out or you
know, it is a waste of time. Use your time wisely so you can shoot more
and edit more. Alright, so let’s continue, let’s go to
smoke and we are going to do some cool stuff with the smoke. So here we are with the smoke right now and
we are going to do the same thing. We are just going to choose Select, Color
Range and you know we want to get this looking good. Right now, we are working on the Grey Scale,
we [Inaudible 11:28] we get that. So I want a nice, soft kind of selection here,
so let’s just play around with our range, play around with the fuzziness. See that and if you are watching this, don’t
skip ahead just yet, I have got couple of more things I really want to show you. So this is looking pretty good, let’s click
OK. And now, I am just going to click the Mask
and we have got our smoke. So this smoke is a little bit bigger, make
sure we select the layer and not the mask and click and drag this, into here. And notice this is pretty big, we can move
this over until we get something that looks kind of cool. We can scale it smaller if we wanted but I
kind of like it big like this and see how that smoke is kind of showing through really
nicely, so what I want to do is I want to give this a cool, kind of effect. So here we are now and I want to like kind
of do some things to this, I am going to hit the Adjustment layer and what I want to do
is Hue/ Saturation. So I am going to grab the Hue/Saturation Adjustment
Layer here, drag this on top and I want to just affect this layer underneath. Right now, if I do this, it is going to affect
everything, see that? If I want to just affect this layer underneath
what I would do is just tap that little tool there or go between there and that layer,
hold down the Alt or the Option key and I will now clip it and as I change it notice
it is just affecting that layer. Okay, so let’s increase the Saturation,
put some color in here. Now notice it is not having a huge affect,
so the lightness, move the lightness slightly down and now we can really apply that color,
look at that. So we are giving it the aqua color and maybe
drop the saturation just a little bit and just get it where it is blending in. now one of the things I can do with this point
here, I can select this and I can drop the Opacity down just a little bit. If I wanted to just kind of blend it in a
little bit better. Now, I have got a little bit more that I want
to show to add some more realism. So if we look at this bottle, look the hinder. You know if you would look like a real glass,
like a pair of glasses something like that and you look through these glasses like that,
it is going to displace things through there and that’s called refraction. We want to put a little bit of refraction
in here to make it look more realistic. So there’s our bottle. What we want to do is we want them to select
the bottle, so I am just going to hit the Control key and Click there and notice that
selection around the bottle there and then what I am going to do is I am going to select
the background. And I want to just copy, just that area, so
I am going to hit Ctrl J and notice that’s going to copy, just add area that’s underneath
the bottle. So if an example I show you here we can see
that’s copied. Now I am just going to Ctrl Click to select
it because I want to stay within its region, I don’t want to go outside of there and
I just want to kind of distort it. Do some Filter. And we are going to choose to distort it,
now you can play around with all these different settings, what I am going to use in this case,
I am just going to grab the Speherized, works quite well and let’s pull that up quite
big, I am about 75 right now then click OK and notice how it distorts everything behind
it and see it gives it a more realistic effect. See how the surf board is kind of distorting,
her legs are distorting and that’s kind of the effect that you would get looking through
a lens and any semi-transparent object is a lens. So now what I am going to do is I am going
to add a few design elements to finish this off. What design elements would you add to this,
drop that in the comments underneath, I would love to hear what you would do. What I am going to do is just add some types,
a little couple of adjustment like that just to finish it off. And here is a little tip, if I had the white
on the bottle, I’d add some type on there, I am going to change that to soft light mode,
so that it can kind of see through that looks semi-transparent as well and it also kind
of fits in there. So anyway guys, don’t forget, follow along,
grab your 10 free images from Adobe Stock. Now if you are a shooter and you are shooting
objects that we can use such as you know, the smoke, the glass, these different types
of things, you can become a contributor to Adobe Stock and you can sell that, make an
extra revenue and get your image in front of millions of people. I am going to put a link under there where
you can become a contributor and you can supply the images that we use for all kinds of different
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thoughts and comments on this. Let me know, I know there are other ways we
can do this, things [Inaudible 16:20] lots of different ways we can do this but I hope
you guys enjoyed this technique. I believe this is the most accurate technique
for getting really good semi-transparent selection. So anyway guys, thanks for watching and until
next time, I will see you, at the cafe.
