Photography Masterclass - How Do I Do That In Photoshop? PART TWO

morning everyone welcome to my friday photography master class my name is terry white worldwide designer photography evangelist here at adobe and it's my pleasure to be giving you my pre-stream that's right excuse me for that um usually around five minutes before my main class kicks off on adobe live i like to give people that are watching on my channels facebook youtube for example uh a quick tip just to kind of like thank them for joining me on my own channel so with that said without further ado since i only got like three and a half minutes left let's go ahead and pop over to my desktop i got a photoshop open here and um and what i'm gonna do is uh hello israel how are you i'm going to show you a couple quick tips so first and foremost you notice that there is a piece of the soft box in the upper left corner of this frame now we can clone it out patch it out crop it out so forth and so on but if you don't want to lose part of your image then you probably just want to get rid of it without cropping so one of the ways you can do that of course is using the patch tool and make sure you get like all the shadow for it too because there's some shadow being cast actually that's some vignetting from the lens it looks like but let's let's make sure we get all of that and there's two modes to the patch tool there's normal and there's content aware normal is fine for doing stuff inside the image but when you're on an edge of the image like we are we're on the outer edge of the image content aware usually yields better results so if i just pull that over keep it lined up um just like that it's gone okay so that's that's tip number one tip number two is when we come down here uh we have all kinds of just dirt on the floor this is just like a dirty white floor and that's that was my fault i did not did not mop the floor before this shoot so one of the ways we can uh you know you can start to try and clone and patch that stuff out but then you just you know it just takes a while to do it so for example if i use my spot healing brush and i and i do that well that gets rid of it that that'll do it for sure but then you might end up with patches of it that look off so what you can do is go to your brush tool up on i just hit the letter b to go to the brush i'm going to make my brush a lot smaller and i'm going to sample the hopefully part of the white not the dark part not the shadow part hey deb how you doing now i'm going to set my mode to lighten on my brush because what that tells it to do is only apply that white color to anything that's that's darker than that white color so i can literally paint the dirt off the floor just by using the mode lighten and it will keep the floor the exact same color now if you get into a lighter area darker areas so forth and so on you might have to resample your your your white color but you can quickly see how much i was able to just easily paint out the dirt without necessarily changing the um the color of the floor now again when i get up into the shadow i'm going to have to sample a different color of the shadow because that shadow is darker so i got to make sure i get the darker white to do that and then then i can start painting that out too it gets really tricky around shadows because you're gonna have to keep changing and shifting to get the darker color each time but that's a quick way to get rid of the uh white or the dark areas or the dirt i should say in the floor itself all right so that was a couple quick tips for the pre-stream we're gonna kick off the mainstream in less than 30 seconds so i'm going to put you guys back in the lobby for now and then join me in like 20 seconds see you then [Music] [Music] welcome everyone happy friday it is masterclass friday once again one of my favorite days of the week it's a friday first of all so it's hard to go wrong there and also because i love doing my photography masterclass so for those of you who are new my name is terry white worldwide for talk i'm going to say photography evangelist for today since that's what i'm doing but worldwide photography evangelist here at adobe um my longer title includes design but i'm just going to focus on photography today and we're gonna kick things off that's what happens when you're live we're gonna kick things off with a um sorry about this folks last week i had other audio problems this week i'm having coughing audio problems or just something in my throat anyway with that said um we're and someone said sound good today because last week uh i had a piece of equipment that just failed me last week so i swapped it out this week i tested this morning sure enough it was the equipment i swapped it out for a different mixer and and and that took away the static that i had last week so apologies for last week yep i got some water right here trust me i will i'll be drinking in just a second um i've got um so apologies for last week's start was kind of rough because i didn't know i had an audio problem until the chat started telling me and of course i didn't know what the audio problem was at the time and so i just switched microphones and and that did it all right so with that said uh we're going to kick things off with um part two of a series i've been doing to be alternating back and forth so for those of you who are who haven't been joining these last three streams i've been doing this series based on one of scott kelby's books how do i do that in and last week was lightroom this week is photoshop last week was lightroom part two this week is photoshop part two um because when i did these initially i did a you know i didn't know there were gonna be multiple parts i did uh how to do this in lightroom ran out of time didn't cover everything i wanted to cover so we did a part two um or actually we did a part two last week and then the week after the first one i did how do i do that in photoshop ran out of time had more stuff to do so we're doing that part to uh today so that's how that's what this is all about now these books are available i'll put the link in the chat um we gave one away of each in the first parts i forgot to give one away last week because i was having so many tech problems um i'll try to remember to give one away at the end of the stream uh this week or maybe even two since i didn't give one away last week uh but we'll maybe give away both books because there's how to do this in lightroom how to do how do i do that in lightroom classic and this one how do i do that in photoshop and basically what the premise of the book is is just all those quick tips those things that people want to know how to do so it's like one page per tip a couple hundred you know 200 plus tips in each book of what the things you know what kinds of things people want to know how to do quickly in photoshop because maybe you're a lightroom user and you never use photoshop before maybe you're a photoshop user you never use you don't really use lightroom that much and so it's really designed for those quick um i need to know how to you know adjust the color of an image i need to know how to uh clone out part of an image i need to know how to do blah blah blah so that's kind of what the books are focused on uh so i asked god if i could borrow the title i did and he said yes and he said not only can you borrow the title you can give away a copy of the book which is great and so um i'm i i'm using my own content though i'm not like reading the book and saying okay do this read the book do that so it's just i borrowed the title but i'm going to do my own spin on it and of course you can always go in and get your uh get the book and see exactly what's gotten covers way more in the book than i have time for in these uh these even part two and part three if i were to do a part three i still wouldn't even cover half the book so if you're interested in this kind of stuff i definitely recommend getting the books and let me before i forget and before i really dive into the content let's go ahead and post or paste that link for the book matter of fact i'll just put them both in there um for you guys uh so that way you know if you're interested in one or the other you'll have both links and we'll just pop those into chats help if i'm on the right keyboard there we go pop those in the chats and you guys can check them out if you want and you don't have to obviously and uh but if you're interested they're there for you all right one more chat pop it into and we're good to go lied two more chats to pop it into one more chat all right now it's in all my chats now speaking of that um i said all my chats because this is the stream is going out to multiple channels at the same time but um you know from here on out i'm only going to be able to pay attention to the one main channel that's that this is really running on and that is adobe live so if you are watching this on facebook youtube twitter or wherever you're watching this run great you can hang out there and keep watching it but if you want me to see your comment your question whatever it is head over to b.net adobe live because that's the chat i'm going to be looking at because i can't look at all of them and still do my demo okay so with that said let's uh kick things off and keep going let me bring up my list where i left off last week or two weeks ago in this case and there that's the lightroom one there's photoshop okay how do i do this in photoshop and let's uh quickly get into it all right so let's um pop over to my desktop let's go back to my desktop where i had the book open and i'm going to go ahead and close the book and i'm gonna just pick a different uh image to open up here i'm just gonna grab one randomly let's grab uh let's grab the camera i'll do the camera oh sorry hang on i forgot they they added a button to the library which means i have to click twice okay i got the camera open on a tripod and i'm just going to grab a different image too let's grab the puppy let's open up the puppy edit and let's grab one more let's grab let's grab this guy all right yeah i've used this guy before all right this will help me make my point okay so the the the how do i do that in photoshop and this is kind of really one of the things that makes photoshop different from lightroom is that in lightroom you're either making a global adjustment to the entire image or you're using like a selective adjustment like a brush or the um the radial tool or the gradient tool and that's pretty much it like you can't just outline a subject and say cut it out from the background you can't do any of that kind of stuff in in lightroom so that's why we go to photoshop so in this case i've got multiple subjects open here i've got this camera i've got um this puppy i've got uh this guy standing there he's really happy about it being friday and so we've got all these different subjects and if i need to select them uh that's really what photoshop's all about when it comes to isolating part of an image and working on part of an image you need to be able to select it now there's there's all there's dozens of ways of selecting images if not i won't say hundreds there's dozens for sure and uh every there's different methods and different tools because everything's different every photo's different every scenario is different so it depends on what you're trying to do so one of the ways that i used to used to use all the time i don't use it is nearly as much because there are other tools now but one of the ways i used to make a selection all the time was the quick select tool so the quick selection tool has been there for a long time it has it's like a brush so you can make it bigger or smaller with the bracket keys on your keyboard and you can just start dragging around the image and it will kind of like it's like um saying you drag it around the areas of the image and i will make the selections based on where you drag it so i'm not going to select the whole thing and i'm going to select a tripod because you didn't drag it down that far but notice if i zoom in that it missed the little um strap clip there because i didn't drag up high enough to get that and if i were to get that then i want to make sure that my brush is not too big because if it's too big then i'll start selecting the background so i'm just going to make my brush smaller and say yes add that in and i don't have to hold down any keys or anything it will just automatically add that in now it did get some of the background it did miss part of the edge here let's make sure we get all that same thing here with the hot shoe it did not get all of the hot shoe because i didn't go up that high and if i just click on those it will add those in and same thing here for the top of the dial it did not get that so you got to be careful we got to check to make sure it's getting all the stuff you want that makes up your your subject in this case now what do you do in the cases where it got more than you wanted like for example over here on we'll start over here where i started over here where i got more of the strap that i didn't want well i could do one of two things i can use the same tool just make my brush a lot smaller and by the way when i'm when i'm making my brush bigger or smaller on it and i have to say this i have to say on a us keyboard because they're keyboards all the way around all around the country or not country the world that don't have all the same keys and i i would say oh just use your bracket keys and people would say i don't have bracket keys like what do you mean you don't have bracket keys and there will be from some country that doesn't have bracket keys on the keyboard so on a us keyboard next to the letter p you have a left bracket and then a right bracket pressing those brackets will make any brush bigger or smaller so in this case i made my brush smaller now if i hold down my option or alt key i can click to subtract from that selection and so i can either paint or just keep clicking and it will say oh you must be trying to select deselect this white space that you don't want so that's and that works across all selection tools not just the not just the quick selection tool if you were using the lasso and you held down your option or your alt key it would subtract from the selection instead of adding to it if you were using your um rectangular marquee tool it would do the same thing now this gets really tricky here because technically you know like i don't know is that the background yeah i guess that's the background uh so you really have to judge too what do you think is part of the image is that the background or top of the camera or top of the hot shoe so i'm going to say it's the background and i'm just going to go ahead and subtract that stuff out and again this is being you know this is the kind of pickiness that some people want because they really don't want it to select things they don't want it to select or they want to select things they do want it to select so you go in and be as picky as you want or as you need to for your object all right and again i'm clicking you can also paint but i'm clicking so it will make those uh quick selections based on where i'm clicking all right and it learns so as you click it may not be that you clicked all of it but it knows that hey you probably want that whole edge so i'm going to get that whole edge for you same thing there all right so now that i got that selection made and again it's just the camera not the um not the tripod then or the ball head or the tripod or anything else then i can do whatever i want to do with just that selection so i've isolated that part of the image so if i want to brighten it if i want to darken it if i want to paint it a different color if i want to um maybe just take the camera to a different part of the image or duplicate it or whatever then that is um brackets are important yes that is um why we make selections we select parts of the image that we want to do something with so in this case i want to select that part of the image and separate it from the tripod because maybe i just want a picture of the camera i don't need the tripod so in this case what i'm going to do is duplicate what i've selected onto its own layer so i'll just go to my uh my layer menu and again i usually do this from the keyboard it is command j on mac pc control j and that will make a new layer if you look in my layers panel there it'll make a new layer with just the camera so the camera's been cut out as good as you did or as bad as you did it's up to you so if you miss pieces they're going to be missing from the selection if you've got too much it's going to be too much in the selection so i might not have gotten now that i'm looking at it all of the lens right there and so that's my bat but anyway you get the idea be careful check it make sure you got it all and then away you go all right so now that i got that part selected then i can take that layer and and maybe create a new layer in between them so let's create a new layer because i don't want it on transparency and maybe i do want it on a different uh background so i can i've got gray as my background color now i'm going to option delete and that will give me a gray background for my camera and now i can put my text or anything i want below that without the tripod so again we make new um we make selections to do things like this all day long and that's why we make selections is to isolate things to select things to move them to a new layer to move them to a different document so forth and so on um yep reverb mike there's a hundred ways to do just about everything so yep you could also drag it down to the new layer icon and i will give you a new layer too and i if i were to cover all the ways of just making a new layer that would pretty much take up the hour so forgive me if i don't cover your favorite way all right so let's go on because that means you already know how to do it and i don't need to cover your way so let's go on and let's um let's talk about um doing more so now that i've got this isolated i've got these three layers i've got the original layer at the bottom which is now turned off and you wouldn't see it anyway because underneath the gray i've got the gray and i've got the camera itself now the camera means that since it's on its own layer it can be moved around so i can move it around put it wherever i want and i'm not taking away from anything else so if i need it more centered like that i can move it make it more cinder i can also resize it so if i um hit command t on the mac pc control t that gives me free transform and then i can free transform to make it bigger smaller whatever i want and by the way just a couple quick tips um whenever you grab one of the handles you're scaling from the opposite corner it's like the corners pinned down and you're making it bigger or smaller from the opposite corner where you're dragging from but if you want to do it from the center out so let me let me escape out of that let me hit command t one more time if you want to do it from the center because maybe you want to just make it bigger right where it is or smaller right where it is without having to move it again then hold down your option or alt key and that will make it bigger from the center or smaller from the center now we we no longer have to hold down the shift key by default unless you changed your preference if you changed your preference then you have to hold down the shift key by default all right um that's that so that's making a selection now let's go back to my other objects here what if i wanted to make a selection of this this this furry animal here well i could do the same thing but it gets into just because you found a tool to use doesn't mean it's the right tool for every job so we started with a quick select tool can i do it with the quick select tool sure it's going to take me longer and what's worse is it doesn't know what fur is so that's going to be a very hard edge selection if i were to get it all let's let's make sure we get all the limbs here make sure we get the front of the paw i'm getting some of the background there but let's let's just for the sake of argument let's go ahead and make that onto its own layer and then turn that layer off look at look at my edges my edges look very jagged they look very cut out very amateurish they look like they were cut out with a pair of scissors and so just because i can use quick select doesn't mean oh sorry wrong key doesn't mean quick select is the right tool for every job so in this case that's the wrong tool for this job whenever there's hair or fur involved i like to let photoshop do the selection and then refine that selection with its tools so for example what i could do here is i could say i could use the quick select and then refine it so i can do it that way too but let's go into select and let's do select subject because the select subject says i'll automatically select it for you but i'll do it in a better way so i'll automatically select that for you and even if i were to um let's look at this one even if i were to do it that way so far it still looks like it's hard edge so that's still not what i want because we're missing one part of it so let's go into select subject one more time that did the same thing but notice it did it quicker and it did a better job it didn't select that background in the middle and it did it with one click it got everything it got what i needed now let's go in and make it better you notice that when you have a selection there's also something called select and mask and when you go into selected mask what that is designed to do is allow you to refine the edge of your selection so that here let me zoom in so you can see it so in these areas where it looks like it was cut out by with a pair of scissors you can actually go in and refine that edge to get that nice fur hair whatever it is you're trying to select that nice edge that you want so i i'm using a brush that's too big obviously but you get the idea let me undo that last one make my brush smaller there we go and the refined edge brush is automatically selected for you when you go on to this it's the second tool over here on the left hand side so that way you can get your hairy furry people animals to look better against whatever you're about to put them on by cutting them out or doing it this way now select subject has also been the the algorithms behind it the machine learning behind it have been given more human examples so that when you do this with a person it should do a much better job without you having to even do any brushing or very little brushing compared to what we used to have to do over the past four or five years all right and so you would quickly i'm not going to go all the way around it very carefully but you'll quickly go all the way around it make sure that you got all the edges the way you want and we're gonna do a couple more edge things before we say we're done and that will give you a much better selection for your subject now you can look at this in on different ways too you can look at it on a black and white mask so you can see the mask that you just made you can actually see the hair that you're you're brushing to make sure it is um nice and furry the way you want you can also um you can also uh i usually do this decontaminate colors um especially if i'm selecting something that has a a harsh color around it like green like green screen is is very harsh and it reflects onto your subject so when you decontaminate colors what you're telling it to do is to remove that reflection from the edges as well in this case i probably don't need it because it was you know a dog kind of bouncing around on on grass and again something that was out of focus anyway so it's probably okay but if you did need it you could you could do it now you also have other tools that you know you have like a a brush more traditional brush for um removing sorry for removing any spillage that you might have done uh like over here i did some spillage that i may not want it to do so you have a regular brush to get in and do that too and i can go smaller with a brush and get into those edges and just kind of really clean that one spot up all right but anyway uh once you get it the way you want it and again there are all kinds of um all kinds of features in here like smart radius that will also assist you on keeping the hard edges hard and the soft edges soft there are all kinds of techniques to to make your selection just about as perfect as it can be but once you're done at the very bottom here you're going to choose to output this to a new layer more importantly with a mask because if you do it with a mask then you'll always be able to go back and fix anything that you missed the first time so if i click ok that'll give me my new layer with a mask and then you're probably saying well that's on transparent how do we really know what that looks like and let's let's give it something else to be on so let's go find a different background all right well we'll oh the sky would probably be okay this will probably work let's drag it in here so i'm just dragging a different image into the background and there we go so we we have our our puppy oh yeah undo hold down my option key to do it from the center there we go there we go and now we have our our puppy leaping into a forest and it's the wrong color and it's the wrong time of day and it's everything but you get the idea and again we can go in and now really check to see what that furry selection looks like and it looks pretty good from here all right um and i there's all kinds of other tonal things i would now do because it's just the puppy's too bright for this background so they're there we have to start toning it down to make it look more realistic but this was mainly just to show you what the cutout would look like and what you could achieve there all right let's go into this one so so far i've shown you manual ways to make a selection the adobe sensei powered select subject and then refining that celeb set that subject with selected mask but what if i what if i don't want to do any of that i just want it to do it for me just do it don't don't don't don't make me work for it well there is a uh if you go to your properties panel and we bring out the properties panel and we're on this layer and we unlock that layer you'll notice that there is a remove background now you don't always have to unlock the layer the reason i had to unlock the layer in this case which let me undo that and show you what i did notice the layer the background has a has a lock on it so i unlocked the background just by clicking on it the only reason i had to do that you know this is not a requirement for this feature it's a requirement in this case because i grabbed this from the library so it's still linked to that library item unless i do that so now when i unlock the the um the background you'll notice that i get a remove background button and that remove background button is really doing two things it's doing a select subject and it's masking the background for you so it's like a one click you know the photoshop team thought why should you do this in two steps when we can make a button for it you just do it in one so it's on the properties panel it's called remove background because that's what people think of they just want to remove the background they click one time and there it is done all it did was do a select subject and then click mask that's all it did so this the background's still there it's hidden under this mask and if i um if i hold down the option key or alt key you can see it hold down my shift key and click you can see the original background is still there now in the case where it missed something i'm going to show you what it missed it's very subtle it looks like it got it all looks like it did a great job there's one little thing it didn't do right if we zoomed down here the strap coming off his backpack got accidentally removed now i wouldn't care like i was like the straps of distraction anyway uh but if i needed that let's say that strap was important it had a logo on it it was part of the it was part of the story then in that case i really need that strap back so what i could do is go to the mask go to my brush tool and i could go into um i'm in white paint let's make sure you're in white we hit the letter d for our default colors and we make our brush smaller i'm going to turn on that mask one more time just so i can see where it is there it is okay good i just kind of know where to start painting and we can bring that back in now again i got to be careful because i'm bringing in more and i should probably use a hard edge brush because that strap has got a hard edge to it so let's undo that let's switch my brush to a hard edge brush hardness 100 and then um start over here and again i'm using a brush that's probably too big for this but you get the idea now that i've got it all in there i was like okay now i can see the strap now i can go ahead and paint out the background that i don't need so i switch colors i go from white to black and now i could go in and just start painting out oh sorry i'm on a mode let's go to normal there we go i start painting out and i'm going to use a smaller brush and use my tablet and painting out the pieces i don't need now you could avoid all this if you just check uh if you're making your own selection check it first but in this case we didn't really have that choice because we used the uh the feature in the properties panel the sensei powered feature but it take you a few seconds to to paint that in just right and get the strap back i'm kind of rushing it here but you get the idea all right and my strap is is back and so now we zoom out and we got we have our perfect cutout that we can now put on any other background that we need so just like we did before find the background we want maybe the australian background put it underneath underneath there we go and there he is in australia and definitely make sure you check for limbs like thumbs and fingers it looks like his thumb's missing no it's there okay just make sure you're not cutting out part of the person's uh you know arm leg whatever the strap wasn't that big of a deal but missing a finger that really wasn't missing would be a big deal so now we've got that one on its own background we still have the mask we'd always come back and do more but you get the idea and also we just want to check up here make sure yeah see parts of his face are missing see i can see that now that it's on its own background so once again we go back to uh white and we just come out with a brush and we just make sure that we we we get all of his eye all of his head and just paint that all of whatever that is is that an ear yeah that's an ear and then also there's some parts here that we don't need like this from sticking up from the jacket unless he's wearing a white shirt which i don't think he was so just check your work in other words make sure you got it all make sure that it's all there at the end of the day and pieces that you don't want you go ahead and take out pieces that you do want you go ahead and bring back and that's the whole beauty of having that mask to always bring back the parts that you may it may have gotten or missed by mistake missing big chunks of his ears i don't know if that's just the way the photo look no that's his ear that's all of it this part may be off oop wrong color undo no that's that's his ear see that's all background that's just the weird way his ear looked at that angle so that's it's all there and plus a little too much background but that's that's one if you thought it was missing you should definitely go check to make sure it's not and you can check it just like i did you could either go check the mask with it off holding down the shift key to make sure you're not missing part of the ear or just paint and see if it's there or not that's it okay let's uh let's move on next thing all right uh we did that we did that we did that matt we did that we did a lot of the stuff in all of these operations so we masked part of a layer we scaled we um show hide layers we did all that all right let's uh let's get into some some graphic design type functions that again people want to do all the time so i'm going to close some of these up actually i might use this one i'll use this one since it's here it'd be easier than starting from scratch all right so we got this image that we kind of started we have this again three layer concept here so this is where we start it then we put that by itself then we put that behind it so we have those two layers that we want now if i want to go in and start adding some elements to this as maybe i'm making a poster maybe i'm making a photography poster probably camera poster something like that then what i might want to do is i might want to draw attention to something with a line or an arrow or shape or something like that so you have shape tools inside of photoshop down here mine are down here at the bottom yours may be in a different area because my tool panel is custom but you have a line tool you have a rectangle tool you have an ellipse tool polygon and a custom shape tool if you grab the line tool and you just drag it out it's going to draw a line but you and it's going to be in whatever whatever you made last so i made it with no fill but i made it red and i don't think i put anything on the ends of it but there's some things i want to point out so let me let me undo that let me point out some things first before we start making the lines let's zoom in over here first and foremost your type you can make it a shape a path or pixels i highly recommend if you're trying to draw it as a graphic element that you make it as a shape because that will create its own layer that'll let you always come back in and do something else to it it'll basically make it like a vector graphic uh if you make it a path that's like a tracing path it's it's it may not give you what you want if you make it with pixels then you're going to be less flexible on what you can do with it after the fact so if you want to change your mind and change some something about it a pixel layer is a whole lot less flexible than a shape layer so make it a shape when you're drawing any one of these kind of shapes here then you have the fill and the stroke well the fill is what it's filled with if it's filled with a particular color and the stroke is the outline well with a line i don't really unless i'm going to make it super thick i really probably don't need a stroke for i mean a fill for it the stroke will be enough then you have um the type of line that it's going to be and the thickness of that line you have the width and the height and again that will be more into the thickness of it and more importantly where i'm trying to get to here is you also have at the very um almost to the right of the the options here you have the option to have arrowheads at the beginning end or both and then you can control the size of those so for example if i draw a line and then i deselect it i just have a red line that's basically what i drew notice it made a new line layer and that's why i said make it a shape because then you'll always be able to control it it won't be part of the background it won't be pixels it will be a vector shape that you can always go back into it and do more with it so now that i've got this shape and by the way the way we select a shape we don't select it with the um with the move tool you can move it around with that but if you want to select it to do something with it you actually have to use the direct selection tool so the direct selection tool lets me select it and then do more with it as an individual shape so for example i can go into that i added a point sorry no um hey i'm grabbing the wrong point here oh i still keep doing that thing don't show me that again no all right um but anyway i was trying to reshape it but i'm not grabbing the right point here there we go there we go that's what i was trying to do so i just made a selection around it to reshape it and because it's a vector shape i can do that i can also go in and i should be able to control the thickness of it that may not be something i can do after the fact hang on a minute [Music] that should let me work i should let me do it let me try one more thing here rgb i want red i want that i want that and i want hold on i don't want that okay let me try one more time with a different one it's not let me change my size even though it should there we go all right i just had to change it from what whatever type it was to whatever type of what i just changed it to so now i can change the thickness of it let me go back to this one i should be able to do that now oh different layer go back to this one and now if i change the line type to this then i should be able to make it thicker now there we go so i can make it thicker and i should also be able to go in now and change it to [Music] that's the thickness i want that's the color i want i am missing my oh because it's that tight never mind let me do one more let's put the arrowheads on the end and then make it thicker and make these thicker let's try um 40 pixels i'm not getting the arrows i want that way something about adding them after the fact so set your up if you want to make sure you do it the first time not like what i was just doing set your options first and then draw the path it's a lot easier than trying to go back retroactively and fix it let me try one more time all right got rid of all those layers i got my path set here i have my arrows set i have my color set and now if i were to go in and draw it that's going to give me my arrows and then i can go in and make that path thicker if i thicker if i want to or maybe not hang on there we go make it thicker if i want so now i've got this vector shape that has got arrowheads on both ends to point out whatever it is i want to point out i probably wouldn't need an arrow or arrow that thick but i have the option if i choose to don't want to do it that way undo all right i need some remedial aero training here anyway you get the idea you can make arrows lines and other graphic shapes so let's go into some of the other shapes uh you've got your rectangle and again it's taking on the same properties of whatever you had last see that's what i was expecting it to do with the line but for whatever reason it won't let me interactively do it with the line unless it's that line path first same thing with the ellipse and one of the tools that was removed from this most recent version of photoshop there used to be another shape it was the rounded rectangle tool the reason that that shape was removed is because you no longer need it if you were to go in on the right layer you were to go in on the on the rectangle delete if you were to go in with a rectangle when you draw it you notice you get handles just on the inside of it those handles allow you to make it round so there's just no need for a separate rounded rectangle tool anymore because the rectangle tool will let you do it uh let you do what the rounded rectangle tool will do you also if you hold down the option or alt key it will let you change an individual corner so if you're trying to make a design where you need part of it to be rounded part of it to still be square you can achieve that with the rectangle tool with the handles and holding down your option or your alt key and again these are all shapes and shape layers so they're easy to they should be easy to go in and reshape or reselect or redo anything you want to do to all right so um that is just my quick thing of working with lines wasn't so quick with lines but also working with shapes um and also the the change in this most recent version with the rounded rectangle tool all right next up let's pop over to pop over to a different background here guess we'll use this one i didn't buy that one yet hang on let's use let's use this one okay uh actually sorry trying to find something with a little less dramatic sky something like that so you you're out on your your big vacation your big day and you're taking your photos and mother nature just didn't cooperate with you you didn't get a great sky you got a great scene but not a great sky so um one of the things that was added to photoshop is the ability to change your sky but a lot of questions come up from that like how do i add my own skies in do i have to use the ones that come with it can i use the ones that come with it so forth and so on so if you were to want to have a more flattering sky than this one you can go into your edit menu you can come down to sky replacement and the last guy you used will be what it chooses to use and what i'm always amazed by is that in most cases it does an amazing job masking that would be a pain in the you know what to do this manual think about what it just had to do just by coming up and picking the default sky that i used last it had to mask out all the railing here all the the little individual spots here it had to figure out what the sky was to make the selection and then replace it now once you bring this up you don't have to use that sky you can use whatever sky you want now the categories that come with photoshop are blue sky spectacular and sunsets notice there's a fourth category called terry those are my skies so if you just want to play around with the adobe skies you can of course just click on those and it will show you what those would look like now this bright blue middle of the day might not be the right sky for this because just looking at the tonal values of this it looks like it was later in the day so that's one of my tips right off the bat is if you're going to use a sky replacement you should probably pick a sky that is around at least around the same time of day so that it looks more realistic so if i were to pick something like that that looks more realistic because if you look at the tones in the sky and you look at the tones of the ferris wheel then you kind of look like oh yeah that was probably around that time of day and uh you can you don't of course have some very dramatic skies and if you pick something that's a little more toned down that could work too it could have been just a cloudy or foggy day maybe not as late but if you pick something that looks just super unrealistic it might look super unrealistic so just be mindful of the sky you're picking and for the scene you're about to put it on now back to the tip so i have these guys here that i've i've added in uh we we kind of saw one of the gray ones earlier let's click on one of these that looks that looks kind of cool but again it's kind of a sepia tone sky against a color image so you would really be doing that on purpose and then just a standard blue sky now you if you go down to the bottom here you can go in and create your own new folder so i created one called terry and then once you're in that folder you can add your own skies just by clicking the plus sign so now when you're out and about and you see a beautiful sky go ahead and photograph it because you never know when you might need it later so if i click the plus sign i can go and find skies i have a folder called sky somewhere tw skies there it is and i can pick from the different skies that i've added to this these are some of the ones i've added let's see what this one looks like yeah i kind of like that one let's add that one in and now if i click on that one i get that sky for this scene so it's easy to add your own skies unfortunately today it's one by one so like i have to click the plus sign again add the next one so forth and so on uh hopefully they will change that soon to where you can select multiple skies or a whole folder at one time uh and it is also the skies you're picking are from your operating system like a folder on your hard drive it's not from lightroom or from creative cloud libraries or anything like that you'd have to export them out first put them in yes my sky is a jpeg put them in a folder as jpegs and then bring them into this and then once you bring them in here they're here for for the duration so you don't ever have to bring it in again it'll just be located in whatever folder you added it to um why should you bring in your own skies because a we're going to know these after a while everyone's going to start using these we're going to know oh you use that one in the blue skies wink wink we know which one that is secondly is that these are while you you can use these royalty-free um if you're a photographer and you're taking your own images and you add an adobe sky like one from the program not yours then the question someone asked me and it was a good question well does that make the image yours and technically no because you're using part of an image from another another photographer someone else took that sky so at least if you added your own skies in at least the whole image is yours it's not partly yours the foreground's yours but the sky belongs to somebody else even if they let you use it uh so that's another reason why you should resolution um hi like because again think about your camera if you're shooting 48 megapixel images and you want to replace the sky well you should probably be using 48 megapixel skies too you can use a lower resolution it will still work i'm sure that this particular resolution which i remember from a much older shoot years ago it's probably not the same resolution as my newer camera it will still work but you might see a quality difference between the sky and your foreground so resolution should be at least as high as what you're shooting if you're shooting a 24 megapixel image then you should probably be using 24 megapixel skies um can you add multiple skies at once and place them into a group you can't add multiple skies at once you can add multiple skies so uh or wait let me make sure i understand the question in sky replacement can you add multiple skies at once and place them into a group no you can so let me show you what happens once i click ok it places that whole thing that it just did the mask the sky everything it just did as a new group called sky replacement group now i can turn that group off and i go back to my original image because it's all non-destructive and i could do another sky replacement with a different sky so let's do that so let's go sky replacement one more time let's uh again it always remembers the last one you just used let's pick a different one so i'll pick the grace guy this time all right so now we click okay and now we'll make another new group now if you wanted to consolidate those groups together that's on you after that after that it doesn't do it automatically so you can merge those two groups together in some creative way to kind of get a mixture of skies but um you're doing it manually so you can do as many sky replacements as you want you can turn them on and off you can go in and then from there combine them um by dragging or let's say i turn them both on so now they're both on and maybe i use a blending mode on the one on the top to kind of like do something crazy like that yeah you can you can put it together yourself but it's not gonna do it for you so there's an overlay between the two skies vivid light kind of looks interesting i'd probably put another adjustment on top of that to tone it down a bit so it's not so bright but sure you can experiment with multiple skies it just doesn't do it all at once sky replacement is fun i agree christine there's a sky replacement tool can you you can okay so let me see what you're saying here in sky replacement sorry not in the background oh you're saying that gear you know i have not noticed that gear oh okay i see what you're saying so uh wait wait hold on let's do it one more time okay so what you're referring to is this gear is that if you were to export out multiple skies and import them in yes you can import them in as multiple skies that way but you can't just say here's a folder of my skies bring them all in at once is what i was referring to but yeah if someone shared their skies with you as a sky preset then yes you can import the whole preset in of multiple sky so uh just a difference in what we're talking about but yes you absolutely can do it that way all right um let's close this and move on and a couple minutes left oh let's go into let's go actually you know what that sky is a perfect actually now let's use a different one let's use this one so first and foremost um and i really want to show the original to that hold on let's go to lightroom let's go in and develop demo let's see if i have the original to that one i don't know that i'm going to find it fast enough but let's go ahead and actually could do oh [Music] i will bring one of these okay um i i brought this this particular one up in on purpose i wanted to bring up the one that had not been touched had not been edited at all this is the way it came out of the camera back around 2009. so if i go in i can obviously i can quickly go in and do a sky replacement like we did before but i'm not sure that i would do it just yet because i haven't really toned the rest of the image yet so let's go in and tone the rest of the image and you can do this a couple different ways i'm just gonna you can i would advise converting the smart filters first because that way you can always go back in and undo it or redo it if you want to now that we've converted for smart filters that made it into a smart object we can go into our filter menu one more time and come down to the camera raw filter and what this how-to is is how to quickly adjust an image non-destructively just like we would in lightroom but i'm in photoshop so you have the camera raw filter that you can use on any layer so for example i can go into i can go into my basic panel and i can choose auto and that will quickly auto adjust the image based on what it thinks but it's still got a long way to go so for example maybe i want to increase my texture maybe i want to increase my vibrance maybe i want to [Music] bring down my shadows a bit bring down my exposure a bit maybe i want to increase the clarity while i'm at it to kind of also adjust those mid tones add a little dehaze to it and it's really starting to bring that image out i can even go in with my adjustment brush and i can start painting in uh like for example i could paint in not exposure but let's paint in vibrance or saturation even let's paint in some saturation there we go and i could just kind of like really uh adjust this image to my heart's content and make it look the way i want it to look really quickly okay so now when i click okay that's been applied as a smart object that i or a smart filter and i can always go in turn it off or double click on it to get right back to those settings so now that i've toned it this would make for a better sky replacement because i'd be able to to go in and quickly adjust it that way but i'm out of time you saw sky replacement i will uh come back maybe another day and we'll do a part three of this and we'll continue on so with that said everybody i want to thank you for joining me i'm out of time cheers everyone we'll catch you on the next one bye everybody [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Fri Mar 26 2021