GIMP 2.10 Basics: Complete Overview Tutorial for Beginners

hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies media design my name is Michael Davies and in today's tutorial we'll be going over a comprehensive overview of the basics [Music] [Music] in this tutorial I'm going to be showing you all the beginner essentials to get you started in from how and where to download it to how to export your files out of plus I'll be showing you how to set preferences to get the most out of your computer and the most out of the program and I'm gonna give you a comprehensive tools overview but of course before we get into all that check out our website at Davies media design.com as always we have tons of video and text tutorials on here as well as project translate playlists you could support us on patreon and see our poll of the week results so definitely check that out you can also enroll in our give photo editing course from beginner to pro photo retoucher and I'll include a link to this as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video so for starters can always be downloaded for free from gimp.org and I'm on the website here and you'll see they always have the most up-to-date download of displayed on the home page and you'll see this red button here or orangish red button and it says download give 2.10 point four and you'll see here it'll tell you what the current stable version of is for the version or operating system that your computer is on and right here it has a message telling you what operating system it thinks you're on if you're on a different one you can shift to one of these different downloads but you could download 2.10 point four via BitTorrent or directly I recommend downloading directly just because it's going to download the executable file straight to your computer and that's the easiest thing to open up now I should mention that the team is still working on a download for Mac users that's iOS operating systems and to my knowledge they just have a beta version right now so they haven't at the time of this tutorial anyway put out a download for the latest version of for Mac users but definitely keep checking on here for the latest version of to see if they've come out with two point ten point four for Mac users so once you're ready to download this just go ahead and click download directly so that's going to go ahead and download an executable file to your computer which is the same as you know all apps that you download to your computer use and so once that download is finished go ahead and click on this to open up the executable file and your computer's going to ask you for permission to set this up just go ahead and hit yes and then select your language for the install and click OK and then gonna ask you to install 2.10 and this will install the latest version if you still have Gibbon 2.8 on your computer it'll automatically take 2.8 off of your computer and put on the latest version I've already got the latest version on my computer so I'm just gonna hit cancel but for the rest of you just go ahead and hit install and that'll go ahead and install this now once it's installed go ahead and type and you'll see the best match here is to point 10 point 4 that is the latest version of and so I've already got open on my computer and 2.10 point 4 I believe rolls out with this dark theme I'm not sure if the icons you guys have are the same as the ones I have shown here but you can always edit your icons and I like to edit this to be the legacy version and the lighter theme that's just what I prefer you guys can set it to whatever you want but to do that go to edit preferences and here you'll see you have a section called interface and right here you'll see theme I like to set mine to system which is going to be a lighter theme for me and then under icon theme you've got four different options here I like to set mine to legacy that's just the classic version so especially if you're coming from an older version of like 2.8 or even 2.6 this is a lot easier of a transition and all the icons are the same apart from the brand new tools that are now found in that weren't found in previous versions you can also customize your icons here I'm not going to really go into that I do have an entire article on my website on how to customize your theme and your icons so definitely check that out if you want more information on this subject so while we're in our preferences let's go over to system resources here and you guys can see you have the ability to control the resource consumption of this basically allows you to set how much takes up of your computer's memory and storage space and by customizing these numbers here you can kind of speed up your to a certain degree and so for instance you could set the maximum undo memory to be a lower value and that basically means that every time you create an action in that's storing those actions into your undo history but if you basically set a low maximum of how much it can store it's not going to clog up your with a gigantic undo history but you don't want to make that too small because you don't want to only have like 10 undo actions within your undo history you want to be able to go back a pretty far amount and undo up to a certain point in case you mess up you know a pretty long sequence of actions that you perform in your composition you can also set the maximum new image size if your computer can only handle images up to a certain size it's good to set this to you know a lower image size but if your computer isn't super slow or super old I just recommend keeping all these settings at the default settings and I'm not going to go through all the custom preferences you can set but I will go to default image because I think this is a pretty important concept for you guys to know and so in the default new image you can set you know every time you go to file new and create a new image basically you can have a custom image size set here so in this case I have it set to 1920 by 1080 that is HD resolution or Full HD I should say X&Y resolution I go through that a lot in my tutorials that's basically the resolution of the final image and if it sets at 300 PPI that's better for print 72 PPI is going to be better for digital displays like your computer monitor and the reason this concept is important is because there's a major difference between printing items out on a printer and displaying items on a computer screen or on a website so when you're displaying on a website you want to compress your image as much as possible without there being noticeable quality loss because you know things like site speed and the size of a web page is going to affect your overall SEO rankings on Google and that's gonna affect your overall traffic which is not good so you want to keep that as low as possible you know you don't want to slow down your website by having large images on there and so that's why we go with 72 PPI and when it comes to print on the other hand when you think of a printer it's basically printing ink using dots on a piece of paper or whatever that media is that it's being printed on and so the higher the resolution basically the more information you're putting inside each dot are the more dots you're putting on that media and so when you have 300 pixels per inch resolution basically you're just getting a better quality image that's printed on that media so that's why we set 300 for print and 72 for digital color space RGB color that is just the default in you cannot do CMYK color in you can change it to grayscale however and that will just set everything to black and white in your image I recommend keeping the set to RGB precision is going to be the precision with which your image is processed while you're using so 2.10 and above allows for 32-bit floating-point precision and that's basically the highest setting you can set this to within but it's also going to slow your computer down if you do have a slow computer so if you have a slow computer you can get away with something like a 32-bit integer which is going to work a little faster or even a 16 or an 8-bit integer 8-bit is if your computer is really slow and it really can't handle large files at all you can also change the gamma to linear light or perceptual gamma if you're using 32-bit floating-point image it's recommended that you use linear light and if you're using something real low like 8-bit integer it's recommended that you switch over to perceptual gamma so I'm just going to set this by default to 32-bit floating-point and you'll see that this actually changes automatically to linear light when I do that and then you've got the type of background that'll be created with each new image you create I'll just keep this set at background color for now you could change that within the file new dialog window and then you can add a comment to all of your images here so that's really the gist of creating a default new image so I'll go ahead and click OK for now and you'll see I've already got a few images open here within already and before we dive into any of the image adjustments or the tools overview I'm gonna quickly go over the layout overview so right now you'll see that everything in is all within one single window and for some of you that's just how you've always known because you've been using you know maybe a short period of time but back in the good old days of you could separate this and actually by default it came in a multi window mode and so for instance if I go to Windows and check single window mode here you'll see that everything including my images are now put on separate windows and so you'll see that actually all of these images here have their own separate smaller windows and then this main image here or our first image that we have open has its own large window and I think this just got confusing for users you know figuring out which windows they had open already and really how to just work within when they did have multiple compositions open how to work within all those multiple compositions without losing track of where different images were and so forth so in order to sort of mirror photoshop's layout and also just make the workflow easier for users created single window mode so if you go to Windows single window mode that puts everything all into a single window and so this just makes it way easier to basically work with in so within this window there are five main areas and that includes the tool box over here on the left then you have the tool options here and this is a doc which means you can move it so you'll see I can click and drag this tab outside and now this stock is just sort of a floating dock here so this is what's called a dockable dialog and you'll see that there's two other dockable dialogs over here in the same area if you accidentally close out the tool options window you can go to windows dockable dialogs and right here at the very top you'll see tool options and that might place it over here like it just did it could also be placed over here it could be placed floating or it could be back here where it originally was if you need to click and drag this somewhere else go ahead and just drag this like so from the tab and then go ahead and drop it right there and so there's our tool options the third main area is the image window that's the actual area where your composition or your image is displayed then you've got the layers channels paths on do section and the reason it's called that simply is because you've got your layers dock here and I do have an entirely separate tutorial on layers that I recommend you check out because layers are a very important concept in that you're gonna be using every single time you're in and then next you've got your channels so you've got your red green and blue channels as well as your alpha Channel that's basically where your transparency lies on your image and I'm not going to get too much into that but then you have your undo history which I went over a little bit in the beginning of this tutorial and so this is every time you make an action on so for instance if I grab my paint brush and paint on this image you'll see that now the paintbrush tool shows up in my undo history if I want to do undo that I can click on the base image here and that will revert back to our beginning image you can also purchase right here and that will remove everything and clear some memory which will speed up your if you're having shoes so go ahead and hit clear and then you've got your paths dialogue and whenever you use the path tool which is called the Ken Brewer tool on my channel things to our diamond supporter Ken Brewer on patreon every time you use that tool it's going to show up over here you'll see your paths in here and we're gonna get into that a little bit in this tutorial today but we're not gonna get too in-depth with that now the next section is your brushes patterns and gradients TOC and you'll see that over here so I've got my brushes patterns and I actually don't have my gradients open right now I have something called my fonts and so these are all the fonts displayed in this is something I opened up by myself if I wanted to close this out I can just click on this little triangle here and hit close tab and that'll close that out I also have a selection editor open right now I can do the same thing close that tab out and then if I wanted to open up my gradients over here I can go to windows dockable dialogs and choose gradients and then go ahead and click and drag this down here to its original placement and so that's probably what your guyses looks like right now and so basically what's within the gradients section are all of the built in gradients that come with the default gradients and you can create custom gradients and add them into this section yourself so as you guys can see I already have a bunch of images opened up in the but what happens if you don't have any images opening and you want to be able to open an image from your computer into well I'm gonna show you guys how to do that right now all you have to do is there's a few ways to do this actually so one way is to open up your file explorer and locate your image you know whatever it is on your computer and in this case I'll just use this image right here right click on this go to open width and you'll seek a new image manipulation program here so if I click on that that'll ask me if I want to convert this to the native RGB space found in and so here is the original profile of my image it's an Adobe RGB color space and then here is the color profile this wants to convert it to which is the built-in srgb space and so I'm going to go ahead and hit convert and that will convert this to the native colour space within and now our images opened up into I'm gonna go ahead and close this out because we're gonna open it up again using another method so I'm going to come back over here to my file explorer on my computer another way to open this up in the is to click and drag this over and just drag it right here over the Wilbur icon right here and by the white Wilbur is the name of the mascot for if I go ahead and release my mouse that I'll also do the same thing it'll ask me if I want to convert this to the native RGB space found in so I'll hit convert and there's our image again and then the last way I'll show you guys how to open this you go to file open and that'll take you to the open image dialog box and here we've already got that image it's already in my image window currently but you can always search your computer using the search feature you can go to recently used if it's an image you opened up recently on your computer or you can manually find the location using these folders right here and I'll just go to downloads because that's where this image was and here we'll see the image you can also come down here and filter out the files on your computer by a file type if you know what type of file this images that you want to open up into and can handle all these file types so keep that in mind and with version 2.10 it also does a better job of handling Photoshop document files and the layers and some of the features found in those documents so keep that in mind if you have somebody that you're working with who's sending you Photoshop document files you can open those up into with all the layers intact and a majority of the features for the most part if you're using 2.10 and above so go ahead and hit open and once again it'll ask if we want to convert this to the native color space and I'll go ahead and hit convert and now our image is opened up into you'll see here that our image is a pic gamma right now a bit gamma integer so if I wanted to change that I can go to image precision and here we have those precision modes we talked about earlier and so I'll hit 32-bit floating point right here then it's going to ask me the gamma I want to convert this to this is basically just how your computer handles the processing within the RAM on your computer and recommends setting this to linear light if you set it to the highest setting which is 32-bit floating point so I'll hit convert and now this image is converted to that 32-bit linear floating point and so that's just going to allow your image to be processed with a little bit better precision as you work within so if your computer can handle it I recommend sticking with this image precision mode so as I mentioned this is your toolbox over here on the left and all the icons that you see here come with by default and they all show up by default but you can actually customize your toolbox by going to edit preferences again and if I come over to interface and then toolbox you'll see I have a bunch of options in here and here are all the default icons that show up over here in your toolbox if there's anything you would like to hide because you don't think you're going to use it or you just don't want it over here cluttering up your toolbox you can uncheck any of these and they will be removed so for instance here's the Warped transform tool right here I can check that and you'll see that now disappears or you can come down here to the bottom and there are a couple tools you can actually add to your toolbox so you've got the brightness/contrast here you'll see that now gets added over here at the end and you've also got your threshold tool and your levels tool and these are all photo editing tools right here I'm actually gonna uncheck those you can also set a gaggle operation to show up here and gaggle operations are basically the backend of it's how performs some of the operations like using a filter for example and this is a brand new feature I have an entire tutorial dedicated to what gaggle operations are and why they're important to the future of so definitely check that out if you have time well go ahead and uncheck that and I'm gonna hit okay I'm just gonna keep this setting default where it's at but these tools are used for a combination of things including image editing drawing creating selection areas manipulating images moving and distorting objects adding text coloring areas and text and a lot of other things so just keep that in mind the tools can actually do a ton of stuff within and even though is a free program it's actually a very powerful program because of these tools and because of all the filters found within and each one of these tools if I click on them you'll see has a different tool option and it'll say the name of the tool at the top of the tool options area here so you'll see this one's called the rectangle select and we're going to go through all these tools and a little bit but just know by clicking on these you could bring up all of the different tool options for each tool within I'm going to just come over here to the move tool for now so coming back to the image window the are quite a bit of features found on this window and we'll start with the rulers here so right here you'll see you've got some tick marks and then you've got some numbers these are rollers and right now the unit is set to pixels so you could see the unit down here you could change this to any unit you want so I'll scroll down using my mouse and we've got inches here so this will change to inches now and you've also got a variety of other options here for the units I'm just going to keep the set to pixels you can also change the zoom of the image so right now this is set to a zoom of 18.2% I could set this to 25% for example to a hundred percent this is the actual size of the image and when you have a large image like this you can move around the image using this tool over here so you'll see if I click on that it allows me to sort of move around the image it's called the bird's eye view in Photoshop and I'm just going to set this back to 18.2 there's also an option up here in the top right if you click on that it'll fit the image within the image window and then over here you have access to the menus that are seen right here we're going to go through those menus briefly in a second here but just know you can also access this menu right here and then here you have another option which is called the quick mask tool so if I check that that gives me the ability to create a quick mask that is a pretty advanced concept that I go over into my intro to layers and advanced layers tutorial so again I'll link that tutorial to this video and you guys can check that out for a more in-depth look at the quick mask tool so I'll go ahead and check that quick mask option off and this will show you the title of the image that you're currently working on as well as the size of the image and whenever you perform some sort of action on here like applying a filter or some kind of effect you'll see a loading bar here and it'll show you the completion percentage of that action you're trying to perform and there will also be an X here that allows you to exit out of that action if you want to cancel it all right so before we go any further real quick I'm just going to switch over from this paths tab here over to the layers tab that's where a lot of stuff is gonna be happening and now what I'm gonna do is create a new composition so I'll go to file new and you'll see here the image size is going to be the default image size as the current image window I have open so instead of the default image settings that we set up in the beginning of this tutorial this is going to take on whatever settings are currently set up for this image right here and I can adjust the width and height of my image that I'm going to create or my composition I'm going to create and you'll see that'll automatically switch this over to landscape from portrait and then I can also set the units I want to use within my composition if I want them to be something different other than pixels and then right here I have a drop down for my Advanced Options so I can set my X&Y resolution I'm gonna keep the X&Y resolution at 72 pixels per inch since we're gonna be using this on the computer and then I'm also going to keep the precision set to the highest setting which is 32-bit floating point and then linear light and you'll see right here an option called fill width and it says background color and what that means is that the background of our image when we first create it is going to be this red color here or I can change this to something like transparency so it'll be a transparent image or white or a pattern or our foreground color which is this color here and I'm just gonna go with the background color for now and click OK so now you'll see we have a red image here and by default it'll put our composition on a new layer which will be called background and you'll see the color of that background layer is red which is our background color right here alright so now I'm gonna start going through all the tools you can find in I'm just really going to do a brief overview of each tool enough so that you guys know how to use the tool and what that tool is used for really a lot of these tools are in depth and have a ton of features but I don't want to overwhelm you with this one tutorial so I am just going to sort of briefly go over each tool so we'll start with the rectangle select tool which is in the top left of your tool box here and you'll see that at the top of your tool options you have the name of the tool which is rectangle select and I've got four different modes here so we have replaced the current selection which is the default mode then we have add to the current selection which you can also access by holding the shift key on your keyboard subtract from the current selection which you can access by holding ctrl on your keyboard and intersect with the current selection which you can access by holding shift and ctrl on your keyboard so I'm gonna start with the replace the current selection mode so you'll see that when I draw a rectangle here every time I draw a new rectangle it's just going to replace the old rectangle that was there so that old rectangle will disappear if I change the mode to add to the current selection it'll keep the last rectangle I drew and it'll add this new rectangle to it so it'll combine these two shapes and create one large shape or if I create a separate shape over here you'll see that it'll include this selection area in the overall selection area within my composition if I change the mode to subtract from current selection you'll see every time I draw a rectangle it'll subtract that rectangle out of the current selection area that I have drawn here and then if I change this to intersect with current selection basically what will happen is if I draw a rectangle like this only the areas that are intersecting or within this rectangle right now will be left when I release so you'll see everything outside this rectangle that I drew is no longer here and only these selection areas that intersect with it which are these areas right here are left now if at any time I want to get rid of the selection area I'll just say ctrl shift a on my keyboard and that's a shortcut key by the way for select none' if I hit control Z on my keyboard that's the undo key and if I go to select none that will perform the same action there so that all deselect all of these selection areas on my image by the way the importance of the selection areas in are that it basically isolates objects in a composition so that you can either only edit objects within that selection area or you can fill that selection area in with something like a color or a pattern or really whatever you want so the very versatile tools and very common so definitely familiarize yourself with them if you're gonna be using alright so back to our rectangle select tool I'm gonna change the mode back to the default replace the current selection draw a rectangle and I'm just going to grab my bucket fill tool which we'll get into a little bit later but I'll just go ahead and fill this in with a solid color so you'll see that now only the area within our selection area is filled with the color and if I go to select none now we have a rectangle that is directly on our background layer here so let's say I want a rectangle where the outer edges of the rectangle basically fade into the background color well if I come over to my rectangle select tool and check feather edges you'll see something called a radius and that essentially the rate at which your edges of your rectangle are going to fade into your background so if I turn that radius up and then draw my rectangle you'll see the edges of our rectangle are going to be feathered when we fill it in so let me grab my bucket fill tool and fill that in and you'll see here that the bucket fill paint color doesn't go all the way to the edge of this rectangle select area and that's because the edges are feathered so if I go to select none you'll see the edges here are much more blurry than they are here and so that's what feather edges does I'll come back to my rectangle select tool you also have the option to add rounded corners so let me uncheck the feather edges option here and you'll see that when I check the rounded corners option the anti-icing option will automatically check and an tile icing basically is an automatic smoothing effect that applies to curved edges just to keep it from looking too pixelated so anytime you have a rounded object really in you're gonna have an tile icing and you can adjust the radius of the rounded corners so you'll see I turn the radius up to about 27 if I draw my rectangle instead of the edges being pointed edges they round off a little bit and if I crank that radius up more they will round off even more there so you'll see the rounding is more pronounced than it was earlier and if I decrease it of course it'll be less pronounced surrounding on the edges there so again if I fill that in with my bucket fill tool and go to select none you'll see the difference here between these two this one has pointed edges this one has rounded I'll come back to my rectangle select tool you've also got an option to expand from centre that just has to do with how you're drawing the rectangle so you'll notice that without this checked when I click and draw my rectangle it's drawing from where I click downward in the direction that I'm pointing my mouse but if I have the expand from Center option checked it's going to draw it outward from the center so that's just a different way to draw your rectangle then you have an option here called fixed so let me uncheck the expand from centre and also uncheck the rounded corners option the fixed option here allows you to fix either an aspect ratio a width a high or just an overall size of your rectangle so I'm just going to go with aspect ratio and if I set this for example to a 1 to 1 aspect ratio that essentially is what a square is so now if I click and draw this you'll see I have a perfect square as I drag it and so that's what a fixed aspect ratio is you also of course can set a fixed width so if I want this to make sure that it's a hundred pixels wide no matter how much I try to drag this out or how tall I make this it'll go ahead and constrain this rectangle tool to 100 pixels you can also set the exact position of this so let's say I want this at 500 pixels off the left side of our canvas here and then 400 pixels down I'll go ahead and just type in 500 by 400 and you'll see that I'll go ahead and place this in that exact location and now I can fill this in or do whatever I want to do with this select tool you can also set a specific size here so remember we have the fixed size set to 100 for the width so that's why this is grayed out if I uncheck that I can go ahead and make this size whatever I want so let's say I want this to be 400 pixels by 200 pixels all I gotta do is type that in so 400 hit the tab key 200 hit enter and now this is a 400 by 200 rectangle if I select the highlight option it'll highlight just the area inside the rectangle and it'll gray everything else out and I could change the opacity of that highlight area so I can make it darker so it's all black or I can make it lighter so you can't even see it or I can just make it a very light black color or a very dark color I'll keep this around 50% for now and I can set the guides that are within here so right now there's no guides and it says right here no guides but I can go ahead and create center lines so we'll have Center gridlines going through our selection area this makes it easy to align this if I want to align this to something specific and actually I'm going to uncheck the highlight because I don't want that option but I can also set something like rule of thirds so this is a photography principle and you'll see here that now our guides within our rectangle have rule of thirds and we've got some other principles rule of fifths we've got golden sections and we've got diagonal lines and these are all just different types of guys you can set within your selection area Auto shrink allows us to shrink the selection area to a specific object so let's say for instance I'm gonna hover this over this rectangle if I hit Auto shrink it'll shrink my selection down to the edge of that rectangle it didn't do it perfectly here so this area didn't actually shrink down and that could have happened because we have this object below it which might have confused but if you had this shape on a totally separate layer this Auto shrink feature would work pretty well but the object that you're trying to auto shrink this to does have to be pretty pronounced against the rest of the layer in order for this to properly work all right so moving on we've got the ellipse select tool that is essentially the same thing as the rectangle select tool only instead of it being a rectangle obviously it is an ellipse or a circle shape so you'll see as I'm drawing it's a circle looks like we have our fixed aspect ratio set right now and that's why this is staying at a particular aspect ratio while I draw it and the expand from center option is checked so if I uncheck those options there and we draw you'll see this is now more of an ellipse shape so this can draw ellipse or circles and you'll see that this option has anti lysing checked by default and that's because this is a circular object where it has rounded edges and so the anti-icing is just there to smooth those edges you'll also see that there are the same modes here as a rectangle select tool so you can also use these two compound shapes or subtract shapes from this and create your own custom shapes let's say I wanted to fill the shape in now if I did it on this layer it's only going to fill in you know a single color that I click on versus if I put this on its own new layer it's gonna fill in the entire shape so I'll just come over here and create a new layer and I'm gonna name this random circle and click OK and this is what the new create a new layer panel looks like by the way and I'll click OK so now if I grab my bucket fill tool and let's say I changed my foreground color here to like a green color and so here you have various color palettes that you could choose from or you can come over here and drag this to choose a color manually and so I'll just go ahead and go with this color actually and fill this in and so now this entire shape that we created has been filled in using our bucket fill tool and as usual I can go to control shift a to select none and now that selection area has disappeared the next tool on here is the free select tool or the lasso tool and this allows you to freehand a selection shape so right now the mode is set to subtract from current selections so let me make sure this is set to replace the current selection and now I can do something like let's come over to this layer here let's say I wanted to isolate this building for whatever reason I can click and create a node and just keep clicking and this allows me to just draw a shape that goes along with the shape of this building and so I'm creating straight lines from these nodes here are these points let's say I didn't want these to be straight lines I wanted to freehand draw a shape well I can click and hold and that I'll create a node and then I can just freehand draw this with my mouse and so you can see I'm just freehand drawing the shape versus it being a straight line and when I release it'll create another node and then I can just continue drawing straight lines if I want or clicking and holding and free-handing this and I'm just going to create straight lines around the rest of this image here and this is just going to be a pretty rough outline here and I'm kind of zoomed in a little bit too much to be able to go outside the boundary here I'll go to bat right here and then when you connect to this last point here and go ahead and hit the enter key now create a selection area around the area you drew with your free select tool and now let's say for example I wanted to copy this over to our composition over here all I'd have to do is hit ctrl C on my keyboard come over to this composition hit ctrl V and that image layer is a lot larger than this one was this composition but I can put this floating selection layer on its own new layer here and we're going to get more into the transform tools a little bit later but I'll grab my zoom tool and zoom out and you can see this is the overall size of this shape but if I wanted to I could grab the scale tool real quick and I'm holding ctrl to scale this down around the center of the image and then if I hit scale now this fits within our composition window here and I can grab my zoom tool and zoom in and now you could see the free select tool we drew allowed us to cut out this shape here from our other image and then paste it into this composition so I'm gonna go ahead and delete this layer but that's just a quick overview of the free select tool there and you'll see this also has the anti-icing option checked and that's because when your freehand drawing you are creating curves as I'm doing there and I hit enter and I'm gonna hit ctrl shift a now the next tool is the fuzzy select tool and you'll see when you hover over this it says the fuzzy select tool selects a contiguous region on the basis of color so basically what that means if I click on this tool here it's going to select anything that is the same color and is also touching so basically if I create a barrier so let me hide this random circle layer real quick let me come over here to this background layer to activate the layer so you could always tell which layer is your active layer by clicking on it and if I go ahead and click on the red here on this layer you'll see that it'll select all the red within this image right now and the reason it can do that is because there's nothing obstructing the red well if I go to select none and let's say I use my rectangle select tool and I'm gonna go ahead and draw that real quick and then grab my bucket fill tool and let's go ahead and fill this with the same sort of black color here we've been using it's a black-ish color and it didn't fill it all the way because we do have the feathering of the edges right here so let's grab our paint tool increase the size here and then go ahead and manually fill the rest of that in select none alright so now we have these random shapes here and this is obstructing basically the red on the left side from getting to the red on the right side or being contiguous in technical terms so if I grab my fuzzy select tool now and click on this red you'll see that only the left side of this image is selected because these are the contiguous red regions within this image now if I want to select just this blackish color here I'll click on that and you'll see that it's only going to select the contiguous black regions of this image so this part gets left out basically it doesn't get selected so you've got some other options year that are similar to our other select tools and threshold is the main one you need to know because that basically determines as you can see when I hover over at the maximum color difference so this is basically the tolerance of what colors it will accept as the color you clicked on so for instance you'll see this has a pretty low threshold set which means it's not going to select these fuzzier areas because it's got too much of the red in it to be considered the same color as this one but if I turn the threshold up and click on this again you'll see that now it includes the fuzzy parts here because it's basically turned up the tolerance as to which colors it'll consider the same color as this one I'll go ahead and turn that back down so now a similar tool here is the Select by color tool so instead of selecting only contiguous regions within an image it'll actually just select all of the same color within an image so for instance if I click on this area here it's not just going to select this area that has this color it's also going to select this area over here and vice versa if I click on this area it'll also select this area same with the red so let me go ahead and test this out by clicking on here and you'll see now it selects all of the black regions of my image and if I click on the red here you'll see it now selects all of the red in my image and you can always tell which area is within your selection area because you'll have something that's called marching ants going around the selection area here and if the marching ants are ever on the outside of the layer as they are here that means that everything from the first set of marching ants to the outside marching ants are the selection area now if the marching ants do not go around the outside of the layer that means everything inside the selection area which in this case is inside here and inside here is the active selection area so you'll see there's no marching ants going on right here which means none of this red right here is within the selection area so this tool will also work on photographs so if I come over here to this photograph and I click on the white you'll see that this is going to select all the white in the image so it's selecting the background here but then it's also selecting some white pixels that are found inside the jeans here and on the skin which is probably from the light source and then you've also got some white within the eyes here also on the face and that's another probably hot spot from the light source and again if we use the fuzzy select tool it's only going to select contiguous right white regions so only the white regions that are connected are being selected none of the white in the eyes or on the genes or the skin right here are being selected I'll go to select none the next selection tool is the intelligent scissors tool and this tool basically uses an algorithm to try to intelligently snap a line around an object so you could try to cut that object out in my opinion this tool is actually not very effective but hopefully they'll continue to improve this tool as they come out with new versions of but if I go ahead and click and create a node here and then I click somewhere up here further away from this first node basically what these intelligent scissors are going to do are try to snap the line that is going to be in between these nodes to the object that it thinks you're trying to cut out so in this case it'll be the girl here and so if I go ahead and click a node close to this girl you'll see the intelligent scissors follow along the curve right here and same thing if I just continue doing this around the edges of the image here and the more separation you have between the foreground object and the background object the more effective this tool is so if you have a busy background this won't work very well they'll just continue clicking along here and you'll see that the intelligent scissors will try to snap to the model here and separate it from the background as you get around the hairs here you'll see it starts to become a little bit more complicated and let me just click and drag this node over here so this is not a perfect tool and you'll see there it kind of missed that spot right there and so now with the hair right here it gets a little tricky so not super accurate there but as we get back to the body here it becomes a little more accurate but still not super accurate and then I can go ahead and connect these last nodes to connect the full area so now if I hit the enter key it'll go ahead and turn that area into a selection area and just like other selection tools you've got anti-icing turn on here because there are a curved parts of this so once I've done that I can hit ctrl C to copy the area inside the selection area we just created and then let's say I come over to this photo we've been working on I'll go to select none here to deselect that selection area and I'll hit ctrl-v that'll paste our model inside here as a floating selection layer and I'll go ahead and add this to a new layer and you'll see here the edges of this are pretty jagged so it didn't do a great job and that's why I don't actually use this tool very often but there you can see what the intelligent scissors do so go ahead and delete that layer there and let me come back to that model layer and go to select none alright so the next tool is another tool that tries to intelligently separate one object from another object in this case it's called the foreground select tool so it tries to separate the foreground object from the background this is another tool that's only effective when you have something like a high contrast at foreground and background so in this case we've got a girl wearing a dark shirt wearing dark pants and then we've got this very light background here so if I go ahead and grab my foreground select tool basically how this works is your mouse pointer will look like the free select tool that we used earlier or the lasso tool and you can go ahead and basically loosely draw around your foreground object here and so you'll see them loosely drawing this and I'll connect that last node there and hit the enter key and now this will turn everything that it thinks is the background into blue and then the foreground is a lighter blue so now I'm going to further differentiate the foreground object from the background so you'll see now that my mouse pointer looks like a paintbrush tool here and so I'm going to use this to paint and basically tell that this is what my foreground object is and again I'm just loosely doing this and then I'm just going to tell that all this stuff inside here is also my foreground object and when I release my paintbrush you'll see that all of our strokes that we made here with our paintbrush have now basically turned transparent so these are no longer that light blue color and if I hit the enter key on my keyboard now what's happened here is the foreground select tool has calculated what it thinks is the foreground object and what is the background object you'll see this is pretty imperfect here there's some areas on her face in her eyes and on our hands that are still blue and we can continue painting those objects here and basically trying to refine this algorithm so you'll see every time we paint it's it's basically reproducing the algorithm here and same right here and over here and then if I hit the enter key it'll now create a selection area and again this is pretty imperfect one trick to get rid of things like this you know where there's all these spots inside the selection area that shouldn't be selected you can go to select remove holes and that will remove all of those small areas within our selection area it did also remove the white part in here but that's okay but go to ctrl C then come over here control V and put this floating selection layer on its own new layer and you'll see that this tool did a little bit of a better job than that last hole we did of cutting out this object from the background and putting it on its own layer I'm gonna go ahead and exit out of that and I'm gonna come back over to our model layer and go to select none to deselect that and now I'm actually going to switch photos to this photo over here and you can see I can move around on my image using the sliding bars right here so there is a horizontal in a vertical bar that allows you to just kind of move around the image so the next tool that we're gonna go over is the path tool or as I mentioned in the beginning of this tutorial the Ken Brewer Pass tool because again Ken Brewer is a Diamond patreon supporter of our channel and the past tool is another very versatile tool you guys might have heard of it from other programs like Photoshop or even Adobe Illustrator for that matter and basically what the path tool what you could do is you create nodes just like we did with the free select tool but these nodes basically can be created as straight lines or you can click and drag to create these handles and that allows you to create curves and so this tool then becomes a useful tool for racing backgrounds for instance or just creating polygon shapes or really just any shape in general so right now I'm just going to loosely create these nodes here and you could see that as I'm clicking it's creating a new node and whenever I drag it's creating a new handle and the handles always create curves so you can see there's curves there and by default right now I'm in design mode which means I'm drawing the original path and I'll let you know what the other design modes are in a second here I'm going to loosely outline this person here and then I'm going to come over here and then when I get to the last note if I hold the control key you'll see we have a Union symbol above that path tool and so I'll go ahead and click and that basically means that it allows us to connect these paths and now we've got some various options over here now that this path is connected we can create a selection from the path so if I hit that option this whole path area now becomes the selection or I'll hit ctrl Z to undo that I can also fill this path in so when I click that option now I can fill it with a solid color which will be our foreground color over here or I could fill it with a pattern and over here in your patterns you can see what your active pattern is so right now it's this pattern and you've got the option to select or deselect anti-aliasing which again will smooth out any areas that basically have a curvature to them so let me just hit fill with the pattern to show you guys what this looks like and so it actually looks like this is our active pattern over here and I'll hit ctrl Z to undo that or I can click the stroke path option and what this allows me to do is stroke a line along the outline of this path here and I can either do that with a solid color which is going to be our foreground color here or I can choose a pattern which will be whatever is my active pattern so I could change this to like a leopard pattern if I want and again we have the option to have the anti-aliasing turned on and we could change the width of the line or the width of the stroke that's going around this path and we can click this line style drop-down and that allows us to have even more options with this stroke so you've got the cap style so wherever there is an end to the line we're drawing with the stroke and then the joint style which is basically whenever this is turning a corner this is the style of joint we can use and then we've got some other options here you've got a dash pattern if you want to basically create a dash line so you've got a custom dash line or there are some presets in here so you've got some dotted lines in here as well or you can stroke it with the paint tool and so that'll create more of a paint brush stroke versus a solid line and you've got some other options here for the types of tools you can stroke this with so I'm going to actually just go a stroke line and I'm going to choose a solid color and I'm gonna keep this set to a dotted pattern and I'm gonna change the joint style here and go ahead and hit stroke and now you'll see here that when I've drawn with this path tool and I've stroked the line created by this path it's created a dotted line going around the shape of this path that we drew and then if you guys will remember I also mentioned that there is a past dialogue over here so if I click on that you'll see the path we drew is now over here in our past dialog and you can go ahead and name this path so let me name this model cuz it's going around the shape of our model here so you can create new paths in here you can duplicate your path you can create a selection from this path so if I click this option now this becomes a selection so I'll hit ctrl Z if you create a selection area and then hit this option right here that'll go ahead and create a path in the shape of the selection area you drew and I go over that concept in another tutorial I do on how to create melting chocolate and caramel text so definitely check that out if you want to see some of those paths features in action or of course you could stroke or paint along the path using this icon here or you can completely delete the path if you want so if I click off of this path tool to the next tool that path will now disappear or at least the nodes will disappear your path will always be over here in the past dialog unless you go ahead and delete this path layer then it'll be gone you can always show or hide this path layer when it's shown it's got a red line through it and when you hide it that red line is gone so you'll see this model now has it lying going around him that was created from the path that dotted line has been painted directly on this layer so even if you delete this path here this dotted line will still be here so I'll go ahead and delete that path you'll see that line is still there the only way to get rid of this line is to go into your undo history and go all the way back before you stroked that path since we did undo all these actions until this action that we just clicked on if I come back over here to the paths dialog you'll see our path is now back here and we have to rename it again so I'll rename it model and then if I go ahead and unhide this path you'll see it here again if I click on my path tool and then go ahead and click on this path you'll see now this path is activated again and you could see the nodes and now if I come over to layers let's say I create a new layer and I'll just name this path and let me go ahead and Stroke this path again and I'm gonna do with the solid color again and keep the dotted lines and hit stroke let me hide my path and then go ahead and click off of the path tool and so now we have that dotted line again but it's on a separate layer so I can always show or hide this or I can delete this path entirely if I don't want it there and I can do all that without affecting the actual original image so that's just one example as to why layers are important again I have an entire tutorial dedicated to layers including an inch or two layers and a little bit more of the advanced concepts so definitely check that out if you need to learn a little bit more about layers so the next tool after the path tool is the eyedropper or the color picker tool and basically what this allows you to do is pick any color on your canvas as the color for your foreground color and so you'll see that you know as I click over on the hair the color over here is the color of the hair and if I click on the lips here now it's the color of the lips if I hold ctrl you'll see that instead of the color that I'm clicking on being the foreground color it's now selected as the background color so holding ctrl will set that color as the background color and just clicking without holding anything will select the color as the foreground color next is the zoom tool which we've already used a few times and this again just allows you to zoom in on various parts of your image and I can click to zoom in and increments or I can click and drag to zoom in on a specific part like the eyes here and if I hold ctrl it'll allow me to zoom out and if you want to fit this image to the window you just hit this icon here and then I'll go ahead and fit your image into the window so the next tool is the measure tool and that allows you to measure the distance between objects in your image so let's say we want to measure you know how tall this guy is from the top of his head down to the bottom of the image well you'll see right here there'll be some units that show the distance but then there's also a second unit that'll show the angle so we'll get into the angle in a second here but let's say right now we just want to measure you know from top to bottom how long this is right there we can see it's 610 point 2 pixels let's say we've got something like a horizon like in this image and if this were let's say this bridge we thought was crooked and we wanted to straighten it out or we just wanted to see what the angle of the bridge was I can click and drag and you'll see that as I drag over here to the top of the bridge it's showing me the angle right there and so the angle is showing up as 4.88 degrees again let's say that we thought that was crooked and we wanted that straighten to 0 degrees there's a new button here in 2.10 called straighten and if I click that it'll go ahead and straighten that horizon so that this is now 0 degrees where this line is now this is obviously crooked and it was straightened before so I'll hit ctrl Z but that just shows you guys a feature that's built into that measurement tool all right next is the move tool and the move tool is really just used to move any objects on a layer whether that be the main image layer so you'll see here that when I move this around it's going to move this to where I want it and you'll see behind here there's a checkerboard that actually represents transparency so anytime you see a checkerboard and gift that's transparency I'll hit ctrl Z but let's say I had an object on another layer so let's actually go back over here to this layer with all of our shapes on it and I'll hit ctrl shift a to deselect that selection area and if I unhide this random circle layer if I click on that layer it's going to allow me to move this layer so you'll see here that I can move this layer around using the move tool and it doesn't matter what layer I'm on by default if I click on this layer and I still click over this random circle layer this random shape we created it'll still move that shape it won't move anything that's on this layer so that's a little different from photoshop and photoshop whatever active layer you're on is the only layer that you can move with that move tool but in it's going to move whatever object you're hovered over whether that be a shape or a piece of text or whatever but you can actually toggle this so that you're only allowed to move the active layer so now if I hover over this shape here and click it's only gonna move the shape below or the layer below I should say I'll hit control Z I'm actually used to this method but if you're used to the other method you can go ahead and set that on your so I'll hit control Z the next tool is pretty similar and that's the alignment tool so that's another sort of form of the move tool and that allows you to basically align an object to an image so let's say we want to align this shape here so that it is in the exact center of our composition well first I'll start by clicking on that random circle layer that this is on and something real quick I'll show you guys if I go to layer crop to content that'll crop my layer size down to just the size of my shape so that's something to keep in mind that a layer can be smaller than the total composition size the background layer always has to be the size of the overall composition just because there has to be one layer that's the size of the overall composition otherwise that shrinks the entire composition but if you have a layer on top of the background layer that can be a smaller size so in this case the layer has been shrunk down it's been cropped to the size of this shape so now we can click on this with the alignment tool and you could tell the alignment tool has activated a layer because it's got these little boxes here and now I can align this relative to the image so this is going to align it relative to our entire composition and if I click for example align center of target that'll go ahead and center that object up and it's going to Center it vertically here and if I click this object here a line middle of target or click this button here it's going to go ahead and horizontally align this so that was our vertical the first one and then we horizontally aligned it and now it's in the dead center of the image you can also align the layer to the left or right edges of the image using these options here so you'll see when I click these it'll move to the left or right side and the same applies to the top or bottom of the image and let's say you had another random circle layer so let me come over here to my layers panel and duplicate this layer so now we have two of these layers and I'll grab my move tool and move the top layer over to the left a little bit so I've got two of these layers if I grab my alignment tool I can click on one layer and then I can shift click on another layer and now I've got two different layers selected by the alignment tool again you could tell by the little squares in the corner of the layers and now I can distribute these objects together so I can distribute them based on the center or I can distribute them based on the top edges or I can distribute these based on the horizontal center of my image so you'll see these now spaced out based on going from right to left on my image and I can also click this middle line button that'll go ahead and middle align both of these and then something else you can do with the distribute option is you can offset this so right now this is set to a 350 pixel offset let's say I wanted these objects to be 10 pixels from the left side of this image here I'll set this to 10 and then if I go ahead and hit the Left distribute you'll see that both of these objects will move towards the left side and they're actually spaced apart 10 pixels from each other as well as 10 pixels from the edge so that leftmost object is 10 pixels from the left edge and then the object to the right of it is now 10 pixels from the first object and I can grab my zoom tool and zoom in here to see so you'll see that if these were aligned these two points right here would be aligned with one another but because they're offset by 10 pixels you could see there's a 10 pixel gap right there so hold ctrl and zoom out and I'll go ahead and delete one of these layers here and just go back to having the one layer and I'm also going to just align this so it is in the center of the image and of course you can offset the Y value as well so the x value will offset it from the left or right edge and you can also set this to be a negative value but if I offset the Y value that'll be either the top or the bottom of the image so if I set this to 50 and then I distribute this to the bottom you'll see that this goes 50 pixels beyond the bottom of the image if I align it to the top you'll see it's 50 pixels from the top of the image if I set this to negative and distribute to the bottom you'll see it's 50 pixels up from the bottom now versus 50 pixels below it and then same with if I align it to the top now it goes 50 pixels past the top so the alignment tool is a pretty cool tool and let me go ahead and center line this again the next tool is the crop tool and so let me switch over to another image for this tool so if I grab my crop tool this allows me to crop an image and you guys are probably familiar with this tool it's used a lot in image editing and so let me uncheck the fixed aspect ratio button and right now I can freehand crop this and it's got the guides on here as well so right now this has rule of thirds guides I can change this to say no guides or I could change this to just centerline guides but this allows me to just crop out part of my image so let's say you know I wanted to crop out the top and right parts of this image well I can go ahead and move this to where I want it and then click inside the crop and now this will go ahead and crop our image so everything that was outside that crop area has now been cut from the image and if I hit control Z there's actually an option checked right now called allow growing and what that does is it means that if I drag my crop area outside the original layer it'll actually crop outside the layer and just add transparency to that but I'll hit ctrl Z if I uncheck that it won't allow me to crop outside the layer so you'll see it'll kind of stopped me from cropping outside of that there's also an option here to only crop the current layer so if I had multiple layers on here this crop would only apply to the active layer I was on expand from centre again that just allows you to draw the crop so it expands from the center versus going from the top corner and dragging in whatever direction you drag your mouse and of course you could set a fixed aspect ratio so let's say you want this to be a 16 by 9 aspect ratio you can go ahead and type 16 colon 9 and now when I draw my crop area it's going to draw the crop area constrained by this fixed aspect ratio of 16 by 9 and I can move this crop area wherever I want it and so let's go ahead and put this right here and then I'll go ahead and click to crop and that'll go ahead and crop everything outside of our crop area you can also of course set an exact position or an exact size for the crop area and you can adjust the highlight opacity here in the lines within the crop so next we start getting into the transform tools and it starts with the unified transform tool but I'm actually going to skip that because it does incorporate a lot of the other transform tools so I'm going to go through those transform tools first and then we'll come back to the unified transform tool so we'll start with the rotate tool and basically what that does is it just allows you to rotate the image or the active layer you're on and so all I have to do to use this tool is click on this layer and drag it and you'll see that this will go ahead and rotate my image now one thing that's found in all the transformation tools is the interpolation option and that essentially is going to determine the quality of your image or your layer after you've performed a transformation on it so if you have a slower computer then you're probably gonna want to set it to something like nonlinear or cubic because those will produce lower quality results but it's also going to not take as much power from your computer to perform those results or to produce those results I should say and then we have the no halo and low halo options those will produce the highest quality results so if I click on the no halo for example my computer can handle pretty large images and it could process the high quality images the high quality transformations so I'll just go ahead and set that to no halo and then you've got the clipping option here and this determines how basically your image is cropped after you apply the transformation so if I have this set to adjust that will enlarge the canvas after the transformation is applied to fit the entire transform image and that will include says transparency areas so go ahead and set this to adjust and hit rotate so you'll see that our layer now goes outside of the original canvas here and that's because the layer is basically fitting to the outer areas of this rotated image but now if I go to image fit canvas two layers it'll now expand our overall canvas size to the size of that new layer that was created there from that rotate let me hit control Z and bring that back to normal so now with my rotate tool still selected if I click on this active layer here and rotate it if I come over here to clipping and change this to clip what that will do is cut off all parts of the image that go outside the original canvas layer so you'll see these corners kind of go above the original canvas size and so those corners will now get clipped off so if I hit rotate you'll see now the layer has been clipped it hasn't grown at all and now this image is just basically cut off there where everything went outside of the original canvas so I'll hit control Z again now if I click on this again and I change the clipping now to crop to result what will happen is will automatically crop the image to fit within the canvas area after the transformation is applied without any transparent or excess parts of the image showing so this is going to completely crop out any of these excess transparencies created here and only keep the stuff that's inside those areas so if I hit rotate you'll see all of those excess transparencies got cropped out and now I can go to image crop to content and now our image will shrink down to the size of our cropped area well hit ctrl Z to undo that so next I'm gonna change the clipping to crop with aspect and that's going to apply the same exact effect only it's going to basically crop out all the excess parts while still maintaining the aspect ratio of the original canvas so if I hit rotate here you'll see that the canvas is now shrunken down a little bit to crop out the excess areas but it maintains the same aspect ratio of our original canvas so I'll go to image crop to content and that will crop our image size down to our final rotated image size so hit control Z to back that up so next I'm just gonna come over here to the scale image tool and basically if I click on this and drag it down you'll see that our image is going to scale up or down depending on which way we drag it and you'll see over here there's an option that says show image preview if you don't have this checked it's just going to be like a wireframe like this showing what the final image size is going to be but if I do have this checked I can now see it'll basically remove the original image and just go ahead and show a preview of what the final transformation will look like over here and you could change the opacity of this so you could put it all the way up to 100% or all the way down to something really low but I'm just going to keep this at a higher opacity here and you can set guides within the transformation area so I could set this to rule of thirds and that'll create some guidelines here so go ahead and hit scale and so now our layer has scaled down a little bit there and as always I can go to image crop to content and that'll crop our overall canvas size to the size of our scaled-down layer and I'll hit control Z next is the shear tool so if I click this it'll basically cause the top parts or the top edges of my image to move over to the left and the bottom part to move over to the right and that creates this sort of rhombus effect here and you can also do it the other way so you could do it up and down if you want and then you go ahead and hit shear and then I'll go ahead and apply that and this again has the same clipping options you could choose from I'll hit control Z the next tool is interesting it is the handle transform tool and in order to demonstrate this I want to put this image into another image so what I'm gonna do is actually come back to my move tool and click on this tab here and I'm gonna go ahead and drag it over to this image because I know this is a larger image and so now what I'm gonna do so I have my drop to buffer layer here which is just this layer that we dropped in here I'm gonna change this to female model so now what this handle transform tool does right here is it allows me to click on this layer and create handles and basically what I can do is transform the perspective of this image now based on these handles and you'll see that it only allowed me to create four handles here but when I click on one handle and drag it it changes the perspective based on how I'm dragging this handle around and then once I release it'll keep those settings there but it'll compound those settings with this second handle that I now work with so you'll see that the perspective is now being adjusted based on this handle as well and then same thing if I add another handle to it if I click and drag this around it'll continue to adjust the perspective and then if I drag this last one around you can see we could create some weird effects here and then go ahead and hit transform and now this image has been transformed so that's the handle transform tool in the nutshell and I'm gonna go ahead and delete that layer the next transformation tool is the perspective tool so what I'm gonna do is click over here on this image of a beach and go to edit copy and then I'll come over here to this image of a MacBook and go to edit paste and then what that will do is it'll add this to a floating selection layer I'll just go ahead and click to create a new layer to put this on and so if I use my move tool to move this up to where the MacBook is the MacBook as you'll see has a different perspective than my actual layer it has on here and so in order to match the perspectives I can use my perspective tool click on this layer and go ahead and drag the corners in here and so you'll see that that allows me and let me go ahead and shrink that and just get this out of the way here and if I click on that handle I can align this right here and now if I hit transform that image layer has been transformed to the same perspective of the MacBook Pro here and now that allows this image to fit and make it look like it's within the screen here so the next transformation tool is the flip tool and so if I click on this basically what that allows me to do is flip this either horizontally or vertically and so if I click on this once right now this is set to horizontal so it went ahead and flipped my image around based on that horizontal axis and if I switch it over to vertical by clicking on it or holding the control key while I'm on the vertical option and click on this again it'll go ahead and flip that based on the vertical axis it'll make it upside down and so that's what the flip tool does so the unified transform tool as I mentioned earlier combines a lot of the transform tools into one this was a brand new transform tool that was introduced in the 2.10 and so I can access it by clicking this icon right here and I'll start by deleting this image layer because we're going to go ahead and make those transformations again and I'm gonna come back here to our original pure layer and I'm going to just click on this tab here and drag it over here and then drop it on this canvas so now let's say you wanted to perform multiple transformations on this you wanted to scale it down change the perspective maybe rotate it a little bit well now you can go ahead and just on this layer and you'll see you've got multiple handles on here and each of these handles represents a transform tool that you can use with this so right now when I'm hovered over this it is the perspective tool if I move it a little bit over you've got the scale tool if I move it down here you've got the shear tool if I move it a little bit outside the image you'll see that turns into the rotate tool and then if I hover over here you've got the scale tool again and it just kind of repeats itself as you go around the image so let's say I want to scale this down I'll just click and drag with the scale tool if I hover over the center it turns into the move tool so I can move this up and then let's say I want to rotate it a little bit I can use that rotate tool and then grab the perspective handle right here and go ahead and fit this into our Mac window here or just a laptop computer window and let's say we wanted to rotate this to fix it a little bit there now we can rotate it and then go ahead and hit transform and that will transform our image to fit into this laptop screen now because this is a transparent laptop screen I can also just click and drag this below and that will go ahead and crop any part of this image layer here that maybe was overlapping with the black part of the laptop so the next transform tool is the cage transform tool and I actually go over this tool and the next tool which is the warp transform tool in my how to transform the body tutorial that I recently put out for game two-point ten point four so I definitely recommend checking that out for more details on these two tools but what the cage transform tool allows me to do for example if I come over here to this photo of a female model again I'll grab my zoom tool and zoom in on er the cage transform tool essentially allows me to isolate an area within the image so let's say I want to isolate her legs so I can click to create these handles and surround basically our subjects legs here and then connect this so now everything within this cage will be affected based on whatever transformation I want to do so I can click and drag a single node and you'll see that this will drag this part of the cage outward in that direction or I can drag that back to where I had it you can tell that a note is active because it'll have a square around it instead of a circle so this is the only active node right now but let's say I wanted to elongate the feet or just move the feet somewhere else I can click and hold shift and click on several nodes here so you can see now that all the active nodes have squares around them or boxes around them and so this is going to allow me to perform a transformation using these as anchors so anything that is not active is essentially acting as an anchor and so now I can move her foot over here and this is allowing me to you know bring this foot out and I can then go in here with another tool we're gonna go over later called the heel tool and maybe get rid of the foot here and so basically this cage transform tool just allows me to transform an object within this area using these handles and nodes so another cool thing is I can click and drag my mouse to select multiple nodes instead of holding the shift-click so if I click and hold over these two nodes now these two are active and I can move these around I recommend checking out our how to transform the body and tutorial that I recently put out for a more in-depth look at this tool but I'll go ahead and hit the enter key and that will apply the cage transform and the next tool the warp tool again I go over this in the how to transform a body tutorial but basically let me come over here to our photo of a male model what this does is it basically allows me to warp pixels and let me come over here to my path tool and hide this path because that path is visible right now and then I'll come back to my layers panel and over here in the warp transform options you've got several ways you can warp pixels so you can move the pixels you can grow an area you could shrink an area you can swirl it either clockwise or counterclockwise and if you make a mistake while you're drawing with the warp tool you can erase it or you could try to smooth it and I'll just show you guys real quick since I have another tutorial dedicated to this but let's say I want to move the hair inward a little bit you can see that with this warp tool I can go ahead and move it in and let's say I want to smooth that line out I can come over here and change this to smooth warping and go ahead and just draw over that and you'll see it kind of smooth that out a little bit and if I hit enter it'll apply that warp so let me hit control Z that's before I warped it control Y that's after so I move that hair in a little bit let's say I wanted to enlarge the eyes I can go ahead and decrease the size of my tool and you could see the tool is the size of my brush head here and now I'll come over here to grow area and if I click on the eyes here and move it around you'll see his eyes start to grow so now his eyes look a lot bigger and let's say I wanted to undo that I can come over here to erase warping before I apply my warp changes and if I draw on that eye it'll go ahead and shrink that eye back down if I hit the enter key I'll go ahead and apply that and then let's say I want to shrink some pixels so I'll go ahead and change this to shrink area and if I click on his nose here let me go ahead and increase the size of my brush using the brackets on my keyboard now you can see his nose has shrunken down he's got he knows saying with the lips and so now we've gone ahead and warped our model here and given him a pretty weird-looking face now hit enter so that is the warp tool in a nutshell alright so let me go ahead and undo all that warping and now what I'll do is I'll move on to my text tool so this is a pretty important tool and as the name suggests what this does is allows you to type text on your composition so for instance I'll just type hello and I can click on this text if I double click it'll highlight the text and you can tell it's highlighted because it'll have the yellow boxes around it and I'll go ahead and change the color of this to black here and I can increase the size of the font or I could change the font entirely let's say I want to change it to Arial I can type Arial in here and you can also bold the font which this is already a bold font so it won't do anything or you can italicize the text you can underline it and you can strike it through so you have all your different text options there you can also create a text box by clicking and dragging this out and you could choose how the text is aligned within the text box using this justify option here so I can go ahead and hit enter and type my paragraph text and let me go ahead and highlight this text and shrink down the text size here and let's say we don't want the text to overlap with his face we can go ahead and move this text box in and the text will adjust with the size of the text box and of course we can move the text over to the other side or we can do sort of the newspaper style here fill it in or we can Center it so you can justify the text you can go ahead and add spacing so here's spacing between the lines of your text you can indent the text or you can separate the space between the letters so you've got all sorts of options here and the box option is basically just what we just did so if it's fixed basically the text will automatically wrap around otherwise you could change it to dynamic and that will go ahead and fit the box to the size of the text and the box will just move as you continue typing text but I'll go ahead and hit fixed and you can change the language of your text down here so the next tool here is the bucket fill tool and you guys are already kind of saw that in action but I'll go ahead and demonstrate this again so let me go ahead and create a new layer and I'm just going to name this box behind text and by the way you can add a color tag to your layers and this just helps you kind of stay organized and I'm going to fill this with transparency for now and click OK so now you'll see my color tags over here and I'm going to go ahead and create a selection area using my rectangle select tool is I'm going to create this around my text and I'm going to click over here and let's say I choose a foreground color of maybe light blue and I'll click okay and so your bucket fill tool by default is going to use that foreground color to fill this area in so if I click on this it's going to go ahead and fill that entire area in unless of course you set it to something like a pattern fill so in this case it will fill it in with a leopard pattern which is our selected pattern over here and now if I move this below our text there and I go ahead and decrease the opacity of this which is something you could do with layers you can increase or decrease how transparent or opaque the layer is and go to select none so now the bucket fill tool has allowed us to fill in this area with the pattern and I can undo all that and instead perform those same actions here with the solid color I can just turn that down there and now we fill that in with the solid color so I'll hit control shift a to deselect that and by the way you can switch the foreground and background colors by hitting the X key on your keyboard and if you want to revert it back to black and white you could hit D on your keyboard and now it's switched back to black and white so the next tool is the gradient tool and I actually have an entire tutorial dedicated to the gradient tool so definitely check that out for a more in-depth look at this tool but I'll do the same thing here I'll create a new layer and I'll just name this gradient and let me give this a green color tag and click OK if I click and drag this below that box layer I can now create a gradient based on whatever setting I have right here for my color so right now this is set actually to foreground to transparent I'm gonna change this to foreground and background RGB and we go ahead and hit this arrow because this is actually switched around so right now the foreground is on the left and the background is on the right which is the default setting if I click this one more time it'll switch it again so you guys can just see hitting this arrow will switch your gradient so now I can draw my gradient tool from let's say for example the top left to the bottom right and because this is giving 2.10 this is an active gradient it's a live gradient I can edit it before I apply it so I can experiment with the colors I can shift the colors and I could change the foreground or background color so let's say I want to do this pink instead and I can even change the layer mode here so I could set this to normal or something like dissolve so I can play with these layer modes which that's an entirely different topic that I go over in my layers tutorial I could also change the opacity of this gradient so I could turn it up or down and I could change the shape of this gradient so right now this is set to radial which means it's going to create a circular shape starting from the center here and moving outwards towards this point over here so if I go ahead and set this opacity back to 100 you could see here is the radial shape it's a circle and it moves outward and if I move it over here you can see that the circle starts in the corner here so I could change the shape here to linear so now it's a line and it goes from black the black color starts here and all of this before to the left is going to be all black until it hits this starting endpoint here and moving towards what's called the ending endpoint which is over here that's when it starts to fade over into the pink and you could change how this fades by moving this point right here and this is the midpoint so right now this is set to linear I'm going to change this back to radial and there's a variety of other different shapes in here by the way which you guys can feel free to play around with but I'm gonna go ahead and turn the opacity of this down and go ahead and grab a different tool to apply that gradient and the cool thing about this gradient layer and really just layers in general is I could change the layer mode and so I could change this to something like soft light and that'll go ahead and blend that gradient in with our original image and it thus changes the color of that image and again that's more of an advanced concept that I won't get into today but it is a really cool concept that you guys should check out so now you can see by changing the mode to hue the gradient has blended in with the photo of our model here and it's caused him to change into sort of a pink color the next tool in our toolbox is the first of the brush tools and this is the pencil tool and so the pencil tool is exactly what it sounds like it behaves like a pencil it draws freehand lines with a hard edge so it's very similar to the paintbrush tool which we're gonna go over in a second although it does not produce a fuzzy edge like the paintbrush tool does and this tool also does not have an tile icing because there's nothing about this tool that has any sort of curvature to it so there's very few real-life examples for how this pencil tool can be useful although there are a few and I think the main one is if you're trying to create pixel art so let's go to file new and I'm gonna create a new image and it's going to be a small image so I'll do 8 by 8 pixels so yes this will be a very small composition and under the Advanced Settings I'm going to change the resolution to 72 pixels per inch and I'll keep the precision set to 8-bit integer for this so you can click on here and just click 8-bit integer and that will automatically set the gamma to perceptual gamma which is the best setting for 8-bit integer and I'll just fill this with the background color by default and click OK so you'll see this composition is so small you can't even really see it right now but it's right here so let me go ahead and grab my zoom tool and I'll click over here to zoom all the way in here so you'll see this is at 9 thousand percent zoom so this is a very zoomed in version of this actual composition size this canvas size and so now we'll come back over to the pencil tool which I can also hit n on my keyboard that's the shortcut key for that and you'll see here when we're really zoomed in this is actually a plus sign even though the brush here is a circle and if I click on here you can see all the brushes that come with and some of these might be custom brushes I'm not sure if I've added any of these in here after the fact after I downloaded but you do have a bunch of different brush types in here and the same is going to apply for all the brush tools in here and you'll see I've got my brush size turned way down for the pencil tool here it's about 1.66 and if I turn it up it's going to be too big to even fit inside of our composition so I'll just turn it way back down again and this one now is set to around 3 so this time it's a square instead of a plus sign but you can see that when you're drawing pixels in such a small area if you need precision if you don't want any sort of fuzzy fuzzy edges or anything like that the pencil tool is effective here because it does create really straight lines really hard edges here and let me go ahead and turn this back down this time it's again around 1 and if I change this all the way to 1 let's see what happens so you can see we've got a nice square here and now when I'm drawing with the pencil tool we can really creating you know a an 8-bit sort of drawing or something you could see that this is very accurate in doing that and it almost looks like minecraft or something when we're doing this so we can draw some pixelated images here so that's just a random shape that I drew but if I hit ctrl Z and go ahead and choose my pencil tool you'll see that when I do this because the edges of a pencil tool are fuzzy edges it's not actually really drawing the pixels that I wanted to draw it's sort of drawing these semi transparent pixels and it becomes hard to sort of control what it's doing here so you can see why at a micro level that the pencil tool is pretty effective because it does draw every single pixel individually so I think ctrl Z to undo that and then I'll grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out so now we're going to switch over to the paintbrush tool and to do that we're going to come over here back to this image so as I said the basic definition of the paintbrush tool is that it paints fuzzy strokes as opposed to the hard edges that the pencil tool paints so if I come over here to my paintbrush tool and I'm gonna turn the size of this paintbrush up a little bit so we can see it a little better again we can come over here and we could change the brush head that we're using so we can go with a harder edged brush which has a hardness of 100 as you can see here or if we want to go with the softer brush you'll see this hardness number is now a lower number and the settings and a lot of the paint tools are the same so we could change the size of the brush head we could change the aspect ratio of it so instead of it being a perfect circle you could see it's more of an ellipse shape and you can also change the angle so this will cause the shape of the brush head to tilt a little bit and you could space out the strokes I'm not going to touch that setting but you can space out the stroke so instead of drawing like this where it's all continuous actually I will just play with this a little bit if I space it out more you'll see that every time I move my mouse around it's just more spaced out the different strokes so it's not as continuous there and let me just go ahead and bring that back down to 5 the hardness just controls the fuzziness of the edge so right now this is set to 25% hardness and then you've got the force slider here and that's basically emulating as if you are applying more force to a brush so you can see here it looks like we're just kind of pressing down harder on the paintbrush I'll hit ctrl Z and I'm just gonna bring this back down to about 50 and then right here you have brush dynamics this is when you are using a pen tablet I don't have my pen tablet set up right now but basically brush dynamics allow you to incorporate pressure sensitivity and so that's a very useful feature especially for illustrators or people who you know like to sketch digitally within and I'm gonna set this aspect ratio back to zero and then I'll bring this back to a circle shape and then I'm just going to decrease the size one other thing with the paint tools is that you could change the mode so basically you can apply a blend mode directly to your paintbrush so if I change this to soft light and then let's say I want to and let me hit control Z I just clicked on my canvas there if I hold ctrl and click I could choose a color in here and I can go ahead and brush and now you can see that this is painting a soft light brush on our canvas I'll hit control Z that's about the same as creating a new layer here and I'll just name this brush strokes and I'm going to add a color tag to this so I'll just add a purplish color tag to this or I believe that's a blue and go ahead and click OK and when I paint my brushstrokes on here now on this layer I could change the layer mode of this and so let's go ahead and put that on soft light so these create the same effect the only difference is that you can have the soft light mode already set on your paint brush versus setting it on your layer I actually prefer to have this set to normal as the mode while I paint and then setting the layer mode afterwards it's just more of a non-destructive way of adding effects to your brush because you can always go back and delete this layer or make changes to it or whatever and I'm not gonna go too much into layer modes because I do go into that in my layers tutorial so again definitely check that out and something else I do want to mention is that brushes can be customized by adding new brushes into you can add Photoshop brushes those are supported there's plenty of articles on how to do that and just for the sake of time I won't get into it here but just know that you can add new paint brushes into and of course you guessed it I have a tutorial on how to do that but again for the sake of time I'm just going to skip over that right now but the next tool I'm going to go over is the eraser tool and the eraser tool is going to erase what's ever on your canvas it's going to erase the colors on your canvas so right now I'm my brushstrokes layer and the eraser tool does still use the brush head the same brush head as you have selected for your paintbrush tool but you can select a different brush head for it if you want and for example I can have a star brush head just like I can do with my paintbrush but instead of painting colors on it removes colors from the canvas and let me just change this back to a softer brush head so this is about 50% hardness there and you'll see here I can just go through and just erase any of those brush strokes I made now a cool feature about this eraser tool is that if I hold the Alt key it will actually on erase so anything that I just erased it'll bring back and you'll see here it's not super effective because it doesn't work very well with alpha which is basically transparency it doesn't work very well with that soft paintbrush I just had but just know that the under a stone is an option if you ever want to bring back something that you accidentally erased and one other feature these brush tools have in common is if I click over here and then I hold the shift key you'll see this will enter it in straight line mode and this will draw your brushstrokes in a straight line and if I click you'll see that in this case it'll erase everything in the straight line so that's really useful when you're trying to just either paint or erase straight lines so again if I have my brush tool here my paintbrush it's it does the same thing it'll draw this in straight line mode when I hold the shift key I'll hit control Z something important about the eraser tool if I come over here to this image and I have my eraser tool and I go ahead and erase the image if this image does not have an alpha channel which basically means it doesn't have a layer of transparency below it it's going to erase by default to the background color here but if I hit control Z right click on this image layer and go to add alpha channel that now adds a layer of transparency below this image so now when i erase you'll see that behind this image instead of there being a background color it will actually be transparency and then if I hold the Alt key you can see I can use the under a stool and bring back whenever I just erased so you can see it works a little bit better here with this image because it doesn't have any sort of fuzzy borders or anything all right so the next brush tool is the airbrush tool and this tool works better when you're painting with soft colors so in other words when you're painting with flesh tones so let me come over here to my model layer and I'll grab my zoom tool and zoom in on her complexion here and she has a pretty immaculate complexion already but what I'm gonna do is just and I'll zoom in a little bit more I'll grab my airbrush tool I'll hold the ctrl key to grab the color picker tool and I'll click on here and now you can see that when I paint it's going to lightly paint my airbrush on here and you can control the opacity of the airbrush and so I have this set a little bit lower than a hundred percent you can also control the rate in the flow which basically controls how much digital paint is coming out of this airbrush that we're using and so I'll hold ctrl and just select areas of the skin here and just move around and paint and so you'll see that as I'm doing this her complexion is starting to clear up and this was a tool that was made popular by Photoshop it could be somewhat controversial because some people overdo it and get a little too crazy with it and makes people look you know a little bit too dolled up but you could see as I'm painting with this airbrush tool it's really starting to smooth out her complexion there and if I grab my undo history and I come back all the way to the base image you could see the difference there's before and if I go back all the way to the last airbrush there's what our airbrushing looks like after and if you want it to contour what you could do is basically click on here and let me go back to my layers panel so you can click on here choose a color with the color picker tool and then come over to your background color and then just go ahead and adjust the lightness slider here for example until this is a little darker and now you've basically got let me hit control Z I should probably paint this around right here and now you've got like a slightly darker color right here and that just kind of allows you to contour I'm obviously doing a terrible job right now let me decrease the opacity so you've got a little bit of contouring there maybe over here as well and so you guys get the point with that airbrush tool so let me grab the zoom tool and zoom out so the next brush tool is the ink tool so if I click on that you'll see this is a slightly simpler tool but basically what this does is it emulates an ink pen and so you can adjust the size here of your ink brush and there's only three shapes here to the brush head so you've got a circle you've got a diamond or a square and then this one's a square or diamond I'm not sure which is which actually but you can adjust the aspect ratio of this so by dragging this little white square in the middle here you can see it changes the aspect ratio and you'll see that when you draw with this it just kind of looks like you're drawing with an ink pen like an old school ink pen and if I change the size increase the speed now you'll see that this is a thinner ink pen so I'm just drawing some random squiggles here so it looks kind of cool especially if you have like a particular signature you want to do on an image or just kind of make some squigglies and make it look fancy so that is the ink brush tool the next tool is actually a brand new tool in 2.10 and that is the my paint brush tool so if I click on that you'll see I actually have a variety of art brushes I could choose from here and I think if you're an illustrator or any kind of artist this should excite you just because you've got some cool options here like right here you've got a digital knife so you can create some smudging effects just like you could with some real life smudge knifes that you would do with your paints and then you've got like some pencils here so you've got a 2b pencil and so they have different types of specific art pencils and then you've got a basic digital brush here so you basically got all sorts of various art brushes and you can create some really lifelike looking digital paintings or digital drawings and so I think if you're an illustrator you'll really love the my paint brush tool next up is the clone tool so I'll come over here and click on the clone tool now this is a really cool tool that I use pretty often and what this allows you to do is clone pixels from an area of an image and paint over defects in an image or really just cover up any part of an image that you want to cover up and so to use this tool basically you have a brush head so I can increase the size of my brush and let me actually zoom in here what I'm gonna do is erase the rips in her jeans and this is just a test purely a demonstration of this tool and let me actually decrease the size of my brush head using the brackets on my key and now if I hold the control key I can select an area to clone so let's say I want to clone this area right above the rip here now with that area selected if I paint on this rip it's going to clone from that area I originally selected or the source area and it'll paint right here on this destination area and now it looks like that rip is gone and there's a few cool things you can do with the clone tool for instance you could change the source so instead of this being from an image you can make it from a pattern and then here's the pattern right here and let me say you know this construction pattern here now if I paint on here it's just going to paint over those rips with the construction pattern I'll hit control Z I'm just going to switch this back to the image you can also change the alignment and that has to do with your source being aligned to how you're painting so right now this is set to none which means by default it's just going to you know every time I lift up my mouse it's going to go back to the original spot where I selected for my source but if I change this to something like aligned now it's going to move along so my source area is going to move along so that is spaced exactly the same amount as it was when I originally set it and so that can be useful if you want to like come over to a different area of the image and clone that area sometimes you have to choose a new source to keep from painting stuff back in here that you don't want in here so next under alignment I have an option called registered and this has to do when you bring in another photo into the mix so let's say I come over here to this photo and I'm gonna make sure I'm on this face layer here at the bottom I'm going to hit ctrl and choose this guy's eyebrow as my source now if I come over here to my original layer if I paint you'll see nothing shows up and that's because this is registering the exact pixels of this image to the exact pixels of this image and this image is a little longer which means nothing's going to show up down here but if I come up here and start drawing you'll see that that other image will start to show up here so it's going to draw exactly where the pixels are located on here relative to this image and the last option here is fixed and what that does is basically let's say you hold ctrl and you select this eyeball now when I try to clone anything it's just going to clone this circle of the eyeball over and over again so you'll see right here when I clone it it's just the eyeball and because this does have a soft edge that's why it kind of has a fuzzy edge here over here the hardness is set to 50 but if I drag my clone you know and try to paint with it it's just going to paint that eyeball over and over again wherever I click and drag my mouse so hold ctrl Z to undo all that so the next tool is another great tool and that is the heal tool and this is something that you will use very often and let me come back over here to the image that we did the caged transform on and so you'll remember that when we move the leg it basically created this weird artifact on the image here well let me go ahead and grab my zoom tool and zoom in and now if I go back to my heal tool it's the same as the clone tool except it also uses an algorithm and so basically you hold ctrl like you do in the clone tool and grab a source area and then as you paint instead of it just copying exactly what's in the source area it combines what's in the source area with what's in the destination to try to blend it all together and make it look a little bit more realistic and I'm actually gonna hold ctrl and grab this as the source area because this is a little bit more similar to what we want here so you'll see that as I paint here it is trying to use an algorithm to heal this area and I can use the brackets on my keyboard to decrease the size of our source area and hold ctrl and just change the source area around so I'm just painting around my image here and I'm just changing up the source as I go and usually it's good to keep the source nearby or nearby something that has a similar composition in terms of the pixels and it's not going to be a perfect result and in some places it looks a little bit better than others so usually you use a combination of tools here especially in this case when you're trying to heal an area that you completely moved using something like the cage transform tool but you guys can see there's a ton of value in this tool it does help to sort of patch and repair places and images where you've manipulated it and you've moved some of the original pixels here so I'll grab the zoom tool and zoom out so again I didn't spend a ton of time on this and so it doesn't look perfect but you guys get the idea as to how that heel Tool Works next up we've got the perspective clone tool and I'm gonna come back over here to our sunrise image or our sunset image and this is the same as the clone tool accepted factors in using a perspective as you clone and this image is actually a great example because we've got a light right here and let's say we want to duplicate this light and bring it over here the perspective is not the same for the light here as it is up here or even over here so the perspective clone tool just allows you to bring this up over here while trying to also mimic the perspective as you do it now this is not a tool I use very often so I'm not going to be great at it but I'll just show you guys how it works anyway so I've got three steps here so real quick I'm actually gonna grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out just so I can see this entire image let me zoom in a little bit there now I'm going to grab my perspective clone tool and I'm gonna make sure this is set to modify perspective first and so I'm gonna click on my image once and this is going to bring up the unified transform tool and what I'm gonna do now is change the perspective by hovering over that corner there and then I'll hover over this corner and I'm just trying to mimic the perspective of the bridge so we know the bridge is larger because it's closer the camera here and then it gets smaller as it heads towards the horizon so once we've set that go ahead and come over here to perspective clone and hold the ctrl key and click and that'll allow you to set the source here and now if you come up here closer to the front of the pier or the front of the bridge here and you draw this you'll see that the light post is actually slightly larger and that's because it's using this perspective here to get closer to the viewer or the camera here and that's causing this to be a larger object and usually you want to do this on a separate layer you want to paint the perspective on a separate layer which if I hope ctrl Z and create a new layer and we'll just name this clone tool and clicked on this layer you can go ahead and draw that lamppost and actually let me undo it and start a little higher and a little lower so now there's our lamppost they're using the perspective clone if I grab another tool that'll go ahead and apply that and if I grab my zoom tool and zoom in here now that this is on a new layer I can go ahead and grab my eraser tool and clean this up a little bit and I'm not going to do this perfectly just for the sake of time but you guys can see there we've got our lamp and if i zoom out the lamp has been cloned based on the perspectives of this lamp is slightly larger than this lamp all right so we only have a few tools left here so I'm going to come back over to this picture for the remainder of the tools and I'll go ahead and zoom in here on our model so the first tool is the blur sharpen tool and this does exactly what it sounds like so if I come over here you can change the convolve type and you've got blur or sharpen as the settings and this tool is a brush tool so as per usual we can change the size of the brush head we can change the aspect ratio we've got all the same settings as we had for our other brush tools but when I have the sets of blur you'll see that whenever I paint on something it'll start to blur those pixels so pretty self-explanatory there and I'll hit control Z to undo that and the opposite is you can change the convolve type to sharpen and now that is going to sharpen the pixels that I paint instead of blur them so I'll hit control Z then we've got the smudge tool and that will basically smudge nearby pixels all together so you'll see when I use the smudge tool it'll just smudge all those pixels so it becomes a nice blurry mess there I'll hit control Z again and our last tool here is the Dodge burn tool and this will basically lighten or darken pixels that I paint on so right now I have the type set to Dodge which is going to lighten pixels this is kind of another way to contour and if I switch over to burn this is basically going to darken those pixels and so I can kind of enhance you know things like the cheekbones on here and you can also change the range that you're affecting so right now I'm on the shadows I can switch over to my mid-tones in my image or I could switch over to the highlights of my image and only have it affect the brightest pixels of my image and you could change the exposure of the pixel so if there's less exposure and you're on the burn tool it's just gonna make those pixels less dark if there's more exposure it's just gonna make them darker and then the opposite with the Dodge if it's set to dodge the more exposure you have the lighter those pixels will be and the less exposure the less light it'll create there now believe it or not there are tons of other features we did not cover in this tutorial today including the colors tools which are very important in photo editing and I cover those in my photo editing course as well is it my photo editing basics tutorial and then there's also tons of filters in here which I cover throughout all my tutorials on YouTube but before I let you guys go today I'm going to show you how to export an image so let's say we wanted to export this image here we can go to file save and that's going to allow us to save this image as the native xcf file type and I'm just going to name this model leaning against window and you could choose in here in the save image window where on your computer you would like to save this image and so for instance I just went to my D Drive here and then I clicked on my photos folder and then my photos folder and if I go ahead and hit save this will now save this in the native xcf format and if I had multiple layers on here those layers would be saved within that xcf format or if I wanted to save this as something like a JPEG or a PNG image I could go to file export as and now under select file type by extension I can scroll through and there are a ton of different file types I can save this as there's the gif image there's a JPEG option you can even save this as a Photoshop document a PSD or a PNG image so there's plenty of options in here and again same thing you can search through to find where you want to save this on your computer you can rename your file and the file type will be right here the file extension it'll automatically populate based on the file type you select down here and then go ahead and hit export there'll be some exporting options here I always just go with the default unless it's the jpg I turn the quality either up or down and now your image file has been exported out of so that's it for this tutorial hopefully you 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Length: 106min 25sec (6385 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 04 2018