GIMP vs. Photoshop: 10 Photoshop CC Features Found in GIMP 2.10

[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies media design my name is Michael Davies and in today's tutorial I'll be going over ten features that can be found in both Photoshop and and the goal of this tutorial is to show you guys that although it is a free program can perform a lot of the same functions and features as Photoshop can and can do it at the same level of quality that Photoshop can in most cases but before we get into that of course I want to direct you guys over to my website at Davies media design.com we've got tons of give video and text tutorials on here as well as project translate some feature playlists and our poll of the week results you can also enroll in our 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 of course can be downloaded for free at gimp.org and you'll see the download button right here for those of you who have not downloaded yet and I'm gonna be featuring a lot of photos today from pixabay so this is a free stock website and a lot of my photos come from sistene tip shy and I'm sorry if I pronounced that wrong but this is a photographer from Thailand and I really like his work so definitely check that out if you have a moment the first feature we're going to highlight is the canvas rotation tool so imagine you're an artist and you're drawing on a piece of paper and usually when you're drawing you can fluidly just turn the paper as you draw and that just makes it easier for you to draw on your composition well you can do that in Photoshop and and in Photoshop you hit the R key on your keyboard and you'll see down here that this selects the rotate view tool and so the rotate view tool is just the terminology used for describing the canvas rotation tool so if I click on this canvas now you'll see a little compass pops up and it's pointing north with that red arrow that's just telling you where the original top of the images and now I can rotate this image and I'm not actually rotating the image so when I export this it's not going to be exported at a rotated angle like this this is just so if I'm doing something like painting with the paintbrush in here I can just rotate this and it makes it easier for me to paint on here so for instance I'll grab a paintbrush here and let's say I'm just painting on this horizon for whatever reason and I can hit R and just turn this a little bit now I can continue painting and obviously this is a sloppy paint job here but I think you guys get the point so I'll hit R again to grab my canvas rotation tool and I'll just rotate this again and something that both programs allow you to do is reset the view so let's say you've rotated this and now you want to just bring this back to the original I can just hit this reset View button and now this rotates back to the original rotation or zero degrees now if I come over here to I can perform the same function but instead of hitting the R key I'll hit the shift key on my keyboard and then click the middle button on my mouse and now I can just move my mouse around to rotate this image just like I could do in Photoshop and then I can also reset this view by going to view flip and rotate and then click on reset flip and rotate and that will bring it back to zero degrees both programs allow you to constrict the canvas rotation to 15 degree increments so in I hold shift middle mouse button and then I hold the Alt key and now I can rotate this by 15 degree increments and again I can come over here view flip and rotate and then reset this so the next feature that's found in both programs is the straight and layer feature as it's known in Photoshop so come over here to my eyedropper tool and I'll click and hold that down and right here you'll see something called the ruler tool and now with this let's say I want to straighten the horizon of our photo here so I purposely made this horizon crooked before the tutorial so now I want to just straighten out this horizon what I can do is I can click and drag my ruler parallel to this horizon line here and I can always adjust the points here if I need to raise these higher or lower and basically what I'm telling the program is that I want to straighten out this ruler I just drew so it's a straight line instead of a crooked line like it is right now so all I have to do in Photoshop is come up here to straighten layer and now that's going to straighten out my image and I can then grab the crop tool if I want and just go ahead and crop out all the transparent parts of this image and then just click to crop and so now we have a straight and horizon well if I come over here at a I can do the same thing except instead of using the ruler tool we're gonna use the measure tool right here in our toolbox and similarly to photoshop all I have to do is click on the horizon here and just drag our measure tool and I'm dragging it along the horizon the main difference between Photoshop and is that is going to show you the angle of difference between a straight line and the line you drew so here's that angle right here so that's something to me that I think is actually pretty useful because you could see how far off that horizon line is and then you can come over here and instead of being called straight and layer it's just called straighten and it's under the measure tool options here these are the tool options and I'll go ahead and click that straighten button and that'll straighten our image out and then again I can grab the crop tool and just crop out the transparencies here the parts of the image that just spill over and then just click inside there and that'll go ahead and crop our image I'll come back over to photoshop the next feature I want to highlight is the free transform tool so I'm gonna come over here to another picture and just get off my crop tool so I just hit the move tool here so in Photoshop you can use something called the free transform tool and that allows you to perform multiple transformations on the image using a single tool so I'm gonna come over here and unlock my main image layer and I'll go to edit free transform and you'll see this puts up a pretty plain looking tool here but basically you can come over here and click on the corner and that allows you to scale if you hold shift it'll scale it proportionately if you hold the ctrl key you can actually click on these same nodes here and that will change the perspective I called it a note it's actually called a handle so if I click on these handles you could see I could change the perspective of my image if I click just outside of the handle you can see I can rotate it and then if I hold ctrl and click on one of these middle handles here we can actually share the image so these outside handles will allow you to change the perspective and these middle handles will allow you to share the image and then when you're done you can just grab another tool it'll ask if you want to apply the transformation and you can go ahead and hit apply and so there we've performed multiple transformations with our image using a single tool coming over to now I'm going to grab the same image here and in instead of it being called the free transform tool it's just called the unified transform tool so you can click on this or go to shifty that's the shortcut key for this and I'll click on my layer here and now you'll see we have handles in here as well the difference between and Photoshop is that Photoshop just kind of has simple square handles whereas has different types of handles depending on which tool you want to use and by the way you'll notice my image became slightly transparent and that's because I have the image opacity here set to 70 I can turn that all the way up if I want to so here's all the controls for our unified transform tool in but in my opinion I actually like the handles better in because when you hover over them it shows you what tool you're about to use and the fact that they're different shapes like in this case you've got a square for the scale tool a diamond for the perspective tool and then you've got an opaque handle here for the shear tool so each handle is different and then hovering over the handle shows you the mouse pointer for the tool you're about to use the transform tool so go ahead and drag over the square and drag it down so you can see we're scaling it down if I hold shift it'll scale it down proportionately and then right here again you've got the shear tool and then if I click on the diamond shape here we could change the perspective so you can perform all the same transformations and if you click in the middle of the image it'll perform the move tool here and then you can hit transform when you're ready to transform it and there we have applied multiple transformations to our image using a single tool just like in Photoshop so I'm going to come back over to photoshop and the fourth feature I want to highlight is the quick mask tool and to do that I'm going to come over here to this picture of this girl with blue hair and so the quick mask tool in Photoshop can be accessed via the shortcut key Q or by coming over here and clicking on this icon and you'll see that our foreground and background colors will automatically change to black and white and then I can come over here and grab my paintbrush tool and if I increase the size of my brush I can go ahead and paint over this entire image and you'll see that instead of painting black it's actually painting red and that is the part of the layer mask basically that is completely transparent and then I can hit X on my keyboard to switch over to white and then decrease the size of my brush with the brackets on my keyboard and go ahead and just paint over the area that I want exposed so in this case I want it to be the hair I'm just doing kind of a sloppy job here to show you guys this feature real quick and I can always switch back over you hitting X on my keyboard to black and just paint any parts out that I don't want in here and then I can go ahead and hit Q on my keyboard and that's going to reveal a selection area so you could do a lot with this selection area you could just fill it in right away with the color or you can create a layer mask out of it and that's what we're gonna do so I'm actually going to come over here right click and duplicate our main layer now I'll just name this hair color and click OK and then I'm going to go ahead and click to apply a layer mask and if I hide our main layer you can see this is the area that has now been masked out using the quick mask tool if I hold alt and hit to create a layer mask it's going to invert the layer mask so everything we painted white is actually going to show up as black on the layer mask and so everything besides the hair is going to be revealed I'm going to keep this the same way I don't want to invert it and I am going to switch my color back over to white and still using my paintbrush tool I'm just going to kind of paint in the gaps here on my layer mask make sure you are clicked on the layer mask when you're doing this and you can see now we're revealing more parts of the hair here and this just gives us a better idea of how much of the hair we have selected in here switch back over to black and just paint out all the XS that we don't want selected so we're just trying to select the hair so I can paint out the complexion here the skin and the ears all right so that's not perfect but it's good enough for the purposes of this tutorial so I'll go ahead and unhide my main layer here and with my paintbrush tool still selected I'm just going to change the color here to a red color and I'll just do a bright red and I'm gonna make sure I'm clicked on my actual layer now and not my layer mask and I can increase the size my brush you'll see when I paint now on this layer it's only showing up on the hair because we've masked everything else out and that's going to come in handy for our next feature which I'm gonna go into a little bit more depth in a second but for now I'm going to switch back over to and I'm just going to show you guys the same thing so I'll come over here to our image of the girl with the blue hair and in the quick mask is this little icon here it almost looks like the marching ants icon that's used for the selection areas but you can see that it also gives you the shortcut key which is Shift Q to toggle this mask on and off the difference with and Photoshop is that just automatically puts the red over the entire image when the quick mask is on and if I grab my paintbrush tool and just reset my colors here to black and white I can go ahead and switch over to white and again decrease the size of my brush with the bracket keys and I can go ahead and paint over the hair here and you can see the hair becomes revealed under the quick mask so all the parts that are red are painted away just like they are in Photoshop and this isn't perfect just like before but if I hit shift Q again it'll toggle my quick mask off and you can see there's a selection area here just like in Photoshop I'm gonna go ahead and duplicate my main layer and I'm just gonna name this hair color as well and I can right click and go to add layer mask and then under initialize layer mask - I'll just choose selection and I'll go ahead and click Add and if I hide my main layer now you'll see the hair is masked out here and it's singled out and I can hit selects none now and just like in Photoshop I can paint on this layer mask to clean this up a little bit so I'll grab my black color here and using my paintbrush I'll just paint out any excess parts here like the skin or any of the background here that I don't want in here I'll go ahead and unhide that main layer and click on the layer here off of the layer mask with my paintbrush tool still selected I'll just choose a bright red like I did over in Photoshop and increase the size of my brush and if I paint directly on this image now you'll see that only the parts with the hair are being painted over and so we get pretty much the same result so leave this here for now and it's going to play into our next feature so I'll come back to Photoshop so in both Photoshop and you can have layer modes and that allows you to sort of blend layers together and create some cool effects so for example if I'm clicked here on this layer that we painted red and we've got the layer mask on here I can come up here and change the layer mode in this case I'll change it to color and now what that does is it recolors the hair of our subject to red so now it looks like she's got some red hair and of course we could always fix this up if we wanted to just for the sake of time I'm gonna leave it as is but you'll see it gives our model this cool red hair and I can also come over here if I wanted to you know decrease the intensity of this I could just decrease the opacity of this layer and that'll decrease some of the red in here and there's a ton of other layer modes in here so you've got overlays one soft lights a pretty popular one you've got exclusion and then similar to color you've got hue and so that'll also change us to red and that actually looks a little bit more realistic there and then you've got saturation and just really a variety of modes you could change this too so I'm gonna keep this set to hue because I think that gave us the best result the most realistic result but if I come over to I can do the same thing so I'll click on my layer and now we've got a variety of layer modes in here and you can see we've got a ton of layer modes just like in Photoshop in fact there might be more layer modes in here but I could change this to color and that's gonna recolor the hair of our model or I can also change this to hue like we did in Photoshop looks like this produces a bit of a darker red I think the Reds might have been slightly different that I use but it does look like the model has red hair in both and Photoshop so the sixth feature is a pretty simple one and that is the ability to drag an image from one composition to another so I'm going to come over here and let's say I've got this image of a guy throwing a chicken up in the air and I want it to be on the same image as this guy and so all I have to do is come over here to this image and with my move tool selected click and drag this image and hover over this tab up here and then I'll bring me over to the photo of the guy in his son with the bicycle and then I can just drag inside this image you'll see that the image is highlighted now with white and I've got this little plus sign on my mouse pointer so if I release my mouse now this photo has been pasted into this composition as a new layer and now we can go ahead and do whatever we want with these images we can blend them together or whatever we're actually going to do that in the next step so I'll come over to and I'm just going to click on this tab here to select the image of the guy throwing the chicken up in the air or the rooster up in the air and the difference here between Photoshop and instead of using the move tool and dragging this image which just moves the image around on the canvas I'll hit ctrl Z now I just click and drag this tab over to this one and if I hover over this tab it'll bring up my photo and then I can just hover my mouse over this photo and release and now that image has been dropped in here as a new and then I could change the name of this two guy throwing rooster and now this image is in this composition the next feature found in both Photoshop and is the ability to add layer group masks so you guys know about layer masks for individual layers but what if you want to apply the same layer mask to multiple layers simultaneously well let me just demonstrate with this photo here so we've gone ahead and dragged and dropped this photo in here but let's say we want to blend this photo with the photo below so with my move tool selected I'm just going to move this photo over to the right a little bit and then I'm going to unlock this main layer here and I'm going to drag this layer one below the layer zero and now I'm going to select the layer zero and move this over to the left a little bit and I want this image to blend into this image so that I can see the action going on in both photos so what I'll do is I'll add a layer mask to this layer zero so here we have our layer mask now I can grab my gradient tool and I'm going to just choose black as the color and black is going to make our layer mask transparent wherever we paint it and so I've got the color over here set to foreground to transparent and then I'm going to go ahead and change the shape to linear and then I'm gonna make sure that my reverse is checked here and that's just reversing the direction of this gradient and I'm going to click and drag this and hold shift while I drag to put this in straight-line mode and I'll hit control Z I actually want to draw it in the opposite direction here and I'm just going to draw that again and so now you can see we've got a layer mask here and it's allowing this image to fade into the image on the right but this is just a single layer mask on a single layer so let's say there's something below these layers that we want to reveal and so we want to basically create a layer mask that will apply to both of these so let's say for example I create a new layer and let me just grab sort of a lighter gray color and let's say I'm gonna change my gradient to foreground a background here and just go ahead and draw this gradient so now we've got this sort of gray to black gradient and I'm gonna drag this below our two layers let's say we want this gradient to be revealed behind these layers so what I can do is create a layer group and move this to the top and then drag both of these layers into this layer group here and just make sure that this layer is below the layer 0 layer and so I'll click on this layer group and go ahead and add a layer mask to this so this is a white layer mask and now with my gradient tool selected I'm just gonna change this back to foreground and transparent and then switch this over to black go ahead and check the reverse option again and draw my gradient and now that's applied that gradient to this layer mask which is applying the layer mask to the entire group so it's applying it to both of these layers and it's revealing that gradient below both of these layers in the background well if I come over to I can do the same thing so grab my move tool and move this guy over to the right and then click and drag this photo of the guy with the bicycle up top and then use my move tool to drag it over to the left now I'll right-click and go to add layer mask and set this to white full opacity and click Add and then I'm going to grab my gradient tool change the color here to black and then change this to foreground to transparent and then I'm going to hold the ctrl key and drag this which is going to drag it in straight line mode so actually the cool thing about is you can live at at this gradient so I can actually make changes to this in real time so I'll change the shape to linear and I can also reverse the colors if I want to and I can even change the starting and ending endpoints here so I could change the location of the gradient and then just go ahead and hit enter to apply that so now these photos are blending into one another and I'll go ahead and create a new layer and we'll name this gradient and I'll change this color to that gray color we used in the other image make sure this is black and then I'll change this to foreground to background RGB and then change this to radial and go ahead and draw this gradient and we can also adjust the way the gradient fades in real time on here so I can adjust this right here and hit enter I'll drag this below the two layers here so now again I want to apply a layer mask to both of these layers so I'll go ahead and create a layer group move it to the top and move both of these layers into that layer group and then drag this below and now I can come over here right-click and go to add layer mask and under initialize layer mask to select white and click Add and with my gradient tool selected I'll change this back to foreground to transparent and go ahead and draw this gradient and again I can live at it this gradient and just hit enter when I'm done so there we go you've got the same effect in and Photoshop so for the next feature I'm going to come back over here to this chicken image and I'll grab my zoom tool and just zoom in here so the eighth feature found in both of these programs is the healing tool so in Photoshop it's called the healing brush and I can click on it here or hit J and I'm just gonna loosely try to get rid of this chicken here so what this tool is doing is it's using an algorithm to grab an area of pixels and use those pixels to paint over an object in an image so if I hold alt I can choose the area I want the algorithm to choose from so I want something similar to the background behind this chicken or what I assume is behind this chicken so I'll hold all and just click right here and now if I come over to our chicken basically the algorithm is going to use a combination of what's over here in the background and what's on this chicken right here or basically the pixels from the chicken to create a new area so I'm just going to go ahead and paint over this and this isn't gonna be perfect and just for the sake of time I'm not going to again spend too much time trying to blend this but you can see the heal tool has done a pretty good job here in Photoshop of erasing the chicken here and I could hold alt and choose another area and just sort of paint over this again and I can just continue to choose new areas but for the most part our chicken has been erased using the heal tool well if I come over to now and come over to this chicken image grab my zoom tool zoom in on the chicken I'm going to grab what's called the heal tool in you can also hit H on your keyboard and I'll just decrease the size of my brush here and this is essentially the same as the healing brush in Photoshop it uses an area of pixels that you select to then paint over another area and try to basically pull pixels from that area you're painting on to create a nice blended result and the goal of this is essentially to be able to erase objects and images so in I hold control instead of alt and I click on an area and then I can go ahead and click on this chicken here and just like in Photoshop this is using the surrounding pixels to go ahead and erase this chicken here and now that chicken is pretty much erased I'll grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out and I didn't really spend too much time in either program trying to blend this and make it look more realistic but here's the version and then here's the Photoshop version so we have pretty comparable results there the next Photoshop feature that's also found in is what's called the bird's eye view feature in Photoshop so if I hold H it's gonna bring up my hand tool in Photoshop and then if I click and move around you'll see there's a little box here and I can choose what part of the image I want to be zoomed in on so if I release my mouse over this guy it'll come over here to this guy and I'm now assumed in on him if I hold H again and drag my mouse around I can do the same thing I can come back to that chicken or I can come over here but basically I can come to any part of my image using this bird's eye view if I come over to I have the same thing it's set up a little bit differently so if I come down here there's like a move tool icon in the bottom corner well if I click and hold that you'll see we have a little bird's-eye view thumbnail that shows up right here and you can see our whole image on here and then it's got a highlighted square or rectangle shape and I can move that rectangle around and just allows me to really focus on any part of the image here and when I release I'll then be zoomed in on that part and I can zoom in a little bit closer if I want grab this again and same thing I can just move around my image and basically do the same thing I can do with the bird's eye view tool in Photoshop and just navigate around my image and determine what part of my image I want to be zoomed in on so the tenth and final feature that I'm going to highlight in this tutorial that can be found in both Photoshop and is the search feature now I think this is a very useful tool for both programs in Photoshop it can be accessed by holding ctrl F and that'll bring up the search feature here and then if you click on the search bar you can now type in whatever you want so let's say you want to find a tool like the eraser tool all you got to do is type in the name of the tool and it'll give you basically a list of tools that apply here and you can do the same with filters so let's say I want to find the Gaussian blur I can just go ahead and type in Gaussian and you'll see it'll pop up here in the results and when I go ahead and click on it it'll bring up my Gaussian blur or my Gaussian blur filter and now I can do whatever effects that I want to on my active layer here go ahead and click OK and now that Gaussian blur is applied so I hit control Z so go ahead and hit control F to bring up that search again I can also use this to find images that are open in Photoshop so let's say I want to open up that photo we used at the beginning of the tutorial of the guy paddling near the horizon so I'll go ahead and type in paddle and now I can see I have an image called paddle here and I'll click on that and that'll bring us to that image right there so if I switch back over to I can also use a search feature on here instead of holding ctrl F I actually just hit the forward slash key on my keyboard and let's say again I want to search for a tool maybe the unified transform tool I can just type unified and it'll bring it up here I don't have to finish typing the name just like in Photoshop I can also search for features so let's say I want to find the Gaussian blur feature I can just type that in and that'll show up here it also show other filters or features that also contain the word Gaussian and also if I want to search for an image I can type in the name of the image and just like in Photoshop it'll show the image in here and if I double click on it it'll go ahead and take me to that image alright so that's it for this tutorial hopefully you guys enjoyed it and hopefully I also opened up your eyes to a lot of the similarities between and Photoshop if you liked this tutorial please subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash Davey's media design you can also visit our website at Davey's media design.com and you 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Length: 27min 43sec (1663 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 11 2018