Photoshop for Beginners | FREE Course #1 - For Photographers/Artists

[Music] hey my name is jean and i'm an adobe certified photoshop instructor i've been teaching college level classes in photoshop for over two decades i love photoshop and i'm eager to share everything i can with you this course is built for absolute beginners to just getting started beginners you do not need to have any previous knowledge of photoshop to enjoy and learn from this video course all you have to have is an interest in photoshop or photography or design and this course will help you i promise of course beginners can also include those who've been working with photoshop for a little while but they want to fill in any gaps in the knowledge they have pretty much all are welcome now this course is less than an hour and a half long so we're not going to cover every single tool and technique that'd be pretty boring instead we're going to work through a progression of real world image problems that every photographer and designer encounters every day we're going to get you familiar with all the core tools needed for you to get to work on your images right now with confidence the images for this course are free for you to download the download links are in the description below so you can follow along with me step by step and we'll work through these images together i'm a big believer in learning by doing there are 15 consecutive videos that build on each other in this course starting with how to open an image or create a new document using presets or custom settings i will cover all document windows and panels of the photoshop interface to clear up any confusion about which one does what i will cover zooming and panning through your image manually and with shortcuts the best ways to undo and redo anything you've done i will cover the best practices for saving versus saving as in your workflows talking about quality and output i'll show you how to resize for web or print how to straighten crooked horizon lines how to maintain aspect ratios or how does it crop to a square i even show you how to make a fake pano with a canvas extension i will show you some basic dodging and burning and then the last five videos cover layers themselves and i'm going to give you the introduction of how they function and work i'm going to have a short video on how to add a black and white adjustment layer with some spot color i'm going to show you how to fix a low contrast image with a levels adjustment layer how to switch the colors in a scene with a hue sat adjustment layer and then for the final one it'd be a more complicated layer exercise of showing you the best and worst ways to bring one photo into another photo and then how to add text how to rotate use layer styles all to make a simple ad and above all i'm going to be showing you how to do these things manually but i'm also going to cover over and over and over the best keyboard shortcuts for all these techniques that will speed up your workflows a thousand percent i do it with these flash cards that just pop up on screen this is going to be a great course and just so you know if you like this one there are going to be other courses and lots of short videos coming quickly courses on layers courses on retouching blend modes photoshop for landscapes special effects black and white conversions and my favorite thing compositing in photoshop among so many others so hit the bell if you want to be notified so you know what time it is it's photoshop time if you like this video make sure you whack it smack it and crack a like it [Music] the first thing you'll do in photoshop is either open a file or create a new file so let's go over how to do both you may see a start screen that looks something like this if you wanted to open an existing image you could go to the open button on the start screen and click it or if you wanted to create a new image from scratch you could use the create new button on the start screen there's another way to get to these same commands from anywhere in photoshop so even if your start screen isn't showing you can always go up to the file menu at the top of photoshop and choose new or open from there let's go ahead and choose open from the file menu to open some existing image files into photoshop this will launch your mac finder or your windows file explorer where you'll navigate through your file system to an image file and select it this is my least favorite way you see we are artists and we like to do things visually look how small the icons are so i would do all of this in adobe bridge which i'll show you in a later video let's stay in photoshop for right now you could select one of the practice files that come with this tutorial as i'm doing or you can select an image of your own if you want to open more than one image at a time hold the command key on mac or the control key on windows and just select another image file then click the open button both selected images open into photoshop's editing workspace which is called the document window at the top of the document window there is a tab for each open image and the tab tells you the name of the image the name is based on the file name if you want to see another open image just click its tab so that's how to open existing images let's leave those open and talk about how to create a new image from scratch you might do that when you want a blank canvas where you want to draw or paint or maybe you just want to place multiple images on it so this time go to file menu and let's choose new that opens this new document window photoshop comes with a lot of blank document presets that you can start with to find the one that works for you then select a document preset where you can customize your new document by typing in your own values like the width and the height and also resolution and color space first select a category of documents from the top of the window photo print art illustration web mobile film and video i'm going to select photo next choose one of the preset sizes in this section called blank document presets if you don't see the one you like there's an option here to view more presets titled view all presets i'm going to select this preset the landscape orientation 4x6 now over on the right all the details have now been set up for me including the width and the height if you decide that's not exactly what you want you can type a different size into the width and height fields at any time any of these other settings on the right could also be customized too but sticking with the presets kind of takes the worry out of having to figure out the technical details at the beginning and these settings can be changed later in photoshop if you need to so to finish creating a new document click the create button and your new blank document appears in photoshop ready for you to add photo text or maybe a shape so now let's go ahead and go over the photoshop interface to show you what each of the primary elements are that you need to be concerned with as a photographer artist and designer yes hi in this video i'm going to show you the major photoshop interface elements you can open any image you want the first interface element to get familiar with is the document window which is right here in the center of the screen this is where you work on your images over to the right of the document window are the panels that have a variety of image editing controls there are more panels than just those you see in this panel column some of the panels are hidden behind others for example here we have a panel group of the color panel in the swatches panel if you want to see the swatches panel you can just click its tab and that brings it forward so you can use it you can go ahead and select a red swatch here in the swatches panel and that color will be applied when you use other color features like the brush tool there are some panels that aren't open on the face of photoshop to open one of those panels go up to the window menu and choose from this list of alphabetical panels that do not have a check mark for example you can choose the histogram panel and that opens the histogram panel currently the histogram is showing all color channels separately which is great for critical color review you can close it by the double pointed arrow here another important interface element is the tools panel which is located to the left of the document window it's this long vertical bar here if you're not sure what a tool is you can just hover over its icon and in a moment you'll see the name of the tool and a brief tool tip to select a tool just click it there are more tools than you see on the face of the tools panel you can click the disclosure triangle and hold any tool like the horizontal type tool here that has a little triangle at the bottom right corner and you can see a fly out menu of related tools so if you want to add text but not in a horizontal orientation but rather in a vertical orientation you can just slide down to the vertical type tool in this fly out menu select it from there now each tool has a number of controls called options and those are found in the next major interface element the horizontal tool options bar up here across the top of the screen the important thing about the options bar is that it changes depending on what tool is selected so because you have the vertical type tool selected you see options for text like this font size menu here keep your eye on the options bar while i select another tool you can click on the brush tool for example and now the options have changed to offer brush opacity and blend modes the two most important things you'll use aside from the brush size adjustments now let's go ahead and apply an option one of the things you can often want to do when you have the brush tool selected is to change the size of the brush tip and you can do that by using the brush picker option you can click that option to open the brush picker and then you can move the size slider in the brush picker over to the right to increase the size of the brush tip or to the left to decrease it and then you can click in a blank area to close the brush picker now it can move into the image and you can apply some paint if you change your mind about that pink stroke or whatever you just did in photoshop you can undo it by pressing the common keyboard shortcut for undo which is command plus z on a mac or ctrl z on a pc the last major interface element is the menu bar at the very top of the screen and here you have multiple menus with lots of controls for example if you want to close this image you can select close from the file menu and you can go ahead and close the image without saving since we haven't made any permanent changes so that was a super quick look at the major features of the photoshop interface now you'll use these over and over and the things we covered were the photoshop document window the panels on the right side the toolbar on the left side the tool options that run across the top and then the menu bar that runs on the very top [Music] in this video i'm going to talk about zooming and panning at the very end i'm going to share an advanced tip of how to do this with keyboard shortcuts you see zooming and panning are ways to navigate around an image you will zoom and pan around your images often in photoshop so let's go ahead and practice working with the zoom and pan controls you can open the image from the practice files that i've attached with the link in the description or in the course itself or you can open a large image of your own zooming means changing the magnification of an image zooming into it to make it bigger now you may want to zoom in for a closer view of part of an image or you may want to zoom out to see more of an image on your screen the most straightforward way to zoom is to select the zoom tool located at the bottom of the tools panel right here then go to the options bar for the zoom tool where you will find a plus icon for zooming in and a minus icon for zooming out let's start with the plus icon activated which is the default then to zoom in move into the image and click and each time you click you zoom in a little further to zoom back out to see more of the image again go back to the options bar and this time select the minus icon and then click several times in the image to zoom back out if you want to zoom in again go back to the options bar click on the plus icon and then clicking on the image to zoom in again now you may get tired of going up to the options bar every single time you want to switch between zooming in and zooming out so here's a shortcut that will help you when the zoom in the option bar is active as it is now you can switch to zooming out by holding the option key on your keyboard if you're on a mac or the alt key on windows and then click and the image will automatically switch you back to zooming out and then release your finger from the alt or option key and it automatically switches back to being ready to zoom in again so you can click in the image to zoom in again and if you are zoomed in you can use the fit screen option here in the options bar this comes in handy when you're zoomed in like this and you want to get back to a view of the entire image in your document window just click the fit screen option and the entire image itself will automatically fit itself into your document window another option is this 100 option clicking this as soon as you enter the 100 view of the image which is the best way to view an image when you're checking it for sharpness or you're doing detailed retouching for output you can't see the whole image on the screen like me with this image although you may not experience the same thing if you're working on a really large high resolution monitor like a 5k monitor but if you're on a small laptop screen then you won't see the entire image most likely so if you want to see a different part of this image with the zoom level you're going to need to move the image around in the document window that's called panning and it's done with another tool the hand tool this is different than panning with a camera where you're using a slow shutter speed and you're moving your camera at the speed of your subject going across your screen so the subject stays sharp and the background has this nice blurry linear feel to it that's panning with a camera i'm talking about panning inside of photoshop so you're going to go back to the tools panel and you're going to select the hand tool which is here it's just above the zoom tool you will then move into the image and notice that the cursor has now changed into a hand icon all you do is click drag and move the image in the document window to a place that you want to see and then you release the mouse when you're done checking the sharpness here and you want to go back to the view where the entire image is on the screen you can go up to the options bar for the hand tool and there you will see the same fit screen option that we had for the zoom tool so you can just click fit screen in the hand tool options bar and that takes you back to see the entire image in your document window now another way to zoom instead of clicking continuously go back and get the zoom tool in the tools panel okay now click and hold in the image and it will zoom continuously you can zoom all the way in to see the pixels that are the building blocks of the image in photoshop the size of these pixels can affect the image quality of a print which is why image resolution is such an important topic especially for printing something i'll talk more about this in later videos but remember we are not resizing the image right now and we're not changing its resolution we're basically just zooming in and out of the image now go up to the options bar and click fit screen so you can see the entire image on your screen now here's some advanced tips let's say you're working with another tool maybe the brush tool and you're painting in a small area and you don't want to switch out of the brush tool over to the zoom tool just to zoom in there's a shortcut you can use instead of the zoom tool and that is just hold down the command key on a mac or the control key on a pc as you press the plus key on your keyboard every time you do that you will zoom into the image if you want to zoom back out hold the command key on a mac or the control key on a pc and press the minus key on your keyboard to zoom back out another important tip is you can temporarily access the hand tool by holding down the space bar to pan around an image and then you can hit command or control 0 to fit it back in screen command control 0 is my most favorite one i use this all the time with every single image i open in photoshop it's just so much quicker alright so that's an introduction to zooming and panning showing you how to navigate your images as you're working on them in photoshop and you can close this lesson without saving we didn't do anything significant all right take care yes in this video i'm going to show you how to undo and redo any of your edits and i'm also going to show you how to use the history panel in photoshop you can change the edits that you make to an image with the undo and redo commands this video will show you how to undo how to redo and how to step back in time as you're editing you can follow along with this file for this tutorial or just use an image of your own the link for this image is in the description or you'll find it in the actual course now let's make some adjustments to this image okay so the first thing i've done is i've opened this image right and i'm going to add a levels adjustment layer and adjust the contrast by dragging in the white and black point sliders now i'm going to add a black and white adjustment layer so let's say that you want to get rid of that last adjustment you just did in photoshop in this case it was making the black and white adjustment layer so to make that disappear the quick way to do it is just to use the keyboard shortcut command plus z on the mac or ctrl z on windows which i'll do now then the black and white adjustment layer just goes away now i can bring it back by pressing shift plus command plus z again or i can use shift control plus z for windows so these two keyboard shortcuts are a toggle for undoing and redoing the last thing you did whatever it was so that way you can kind of see a quick before and after to see if you really like it now if you prefer to use a menu command rather than the shortcut you can go up to the edit menu and there you can choose undo photoshop will even remind you what action you're about to undo or redo now what if you want to undo more than just one step well in that case just keep hitting command or control plus z you can do that up to 50 times by default now in photoshop and each time you're stepping back one step in time there's one more way that you can step through time in photoshop and that's by using the history panel the history panel is located here if you don't see yours go up to window and go down and put a check by history i'm going to explain this panel by moving down to its bottom bar until i see a double pointed arrow and then dragging down so we see in this panel a separate bar for each step that i just took on this image so we see where i open the image where i adjusted the contrast with levels and where i added a black and white adjustment layer go choose the brush tool now keep your eye on the history panel as i make an x stroke on my image notice how my thing was just recorded in the history panel also now the beauty of having these states in the history panel is that you can step back through them one by one like this imagine if you had 50 in here now each time you do that everything in the image changes to the way it looked at that specific state at that point in time now you can also step forward or jump forward in time in the history panel like this the two things to keep in mind about the history panel if you do go back to a previous state like let's go back here and then you do something else like paint with a different color in this area keep your eye on the history panel and you'll see that everything after that state is now gone it's totally disappeared it's basically rewritten history the second thing to keep in mind is that when you close the image whether you save it or not your history will disappear and the next time you open the image the history panel will be cleared out and it'll be ready to start fresh now i've been using photoshop for 20 years and between the keyboard shortcuts and the specific way i use the layers panel which i'll cover in detail in another video i rarely ever use the history panel and by rarely i pretty much mean i almost never use the history panel but it may work good in your workflow so i wanted to show it to you so you have an access and a knowledge to all the tools in photoshop to make your images the way you want them to be either way you have lots of flexibility to correct any mistakes and try all kinds of creative approaches as you edit your own images i hope that helps take care [Music] in photoshop saving is such a critical component of your everyday workflow for photographers designers and artists so i want to make sure you're doing it the most efficient way possible i'm going to cover the file and dot extensions.png.jpg.p i'm going to talk about quality settings when you do save versus save as and jpeg i'm also going to cover local versus cloud saving so let's get started so the first thing we need to do is open an image in photoshop and in previous videos you've heard me say that going to file and open though convenient is probably one of the worst ways to do it if you want to to do it visually and we're artists so why wouldn't we go down to browsing bridge it's going to open up a nicer window where you can scale up the image size of the thumbnails you can click on any one you want and when you're clicking on one it loads over here in the preview panel and you can actually click with the magnifying glass and it will launch a loop so that you can check the detail and the focus of of an image before you open it there's so many reasons why i love bridge i'll get in that in a different video right now i'm just going to double click it'll open the image i'm going to click fit screen because i look down here and i see i'm only at 33 of its resolution so let me maximize my real estate here and really fill my screen with my image whatever size that is so here's the thing about saving you need to do it often and regularly right now if i were to go to image adjustments and convert it to black and white and this is actually a black and white conversion not just automatic desaturate which is very different let's say i want to make her dress it looks a little gray let's make her dress a little bright that's too bright i blew out the highlight details somewhere in there let me make the sky a little darker for added contrast i click ok and then i say i love that i want to save it so i go back up to file go down to save and well i saw up here that it was saving but it didn't ask me any questions that's because it knew where to save it and the bad thing is it just overwrote my file so look at that this was an original jpeg out of my camera i don't get this back like this is gone forever as soon as i close this file i can never fix it or go back to my original that's why it's so important that you come up with a workflow for your saving now luckily in a previous video you i've already learned that i can hit command or control z and it will undo the last thing i did which likely was just that one thing so now i can go back up to file and save and i'll go back to bridge okay that was really lucky for a moment there i thought i had lost my image but i haven't so let me go back to photoshop now let's say i want to do the same thing even though i know this is destructive i know i just need to do a simple black and white conversion i don't know exactly what i want so i want to make that dress bright i want to make that background darker i'm going to click ok but this time i'm going to file and save as how do i want to save this i'm going to come up by this dot jpeg and i'm going to click to the left of that dot and hit v2 which means version two for me and the format automatically populated as jpeg because that's what was there before there are no layers so it can do it and it's going to maintain that srgb profile which is great for the web because it's a new file to be saved and i'm saving as jpeg it's going to give me some options typically just always keep it as a quality of 12 and click ok all these other things are our default and they're the most optimal click ok go back to bridge now i have a second version as v2 has the same name except for that v2 so there's keeping them in order so i can see them reopen this image and then i was like you know i want to do the opposite i want to make that dress dark let's go ahead and pull it darker and let's make the sky brighter for more contrast i really like that's a crazy look but i like it so i'll go to file now if i click save it's going to overwrite the original file again so i've always got to go to save as if i want to save a different version click to the left of the jpeg hit v3 populate it as jpeg srgb click save click ok go back to bridge now i have a third file so i have three files my original this one and this one now let me show you something if you want an editable working file use adjustment layers now remember all of these adjustments are destructive it means once you do them save your file and close it it's locked in forever it's baked in permanently but you can get access to all these same things as forever editable adjustments non-destructively by coming over to this adjustment tab if yours isn't open just just toggle it open if you don't see it go up to window and just put a check mark beside it so here i can just click on the black and white adjustment layer and it's going to add a layer with the layer mask so i get the same controls i can still make that dress dark i can still make the skylight now here's the interesting thing watch what happens when i go to save it's right now a jpeg and i'm not doing save as i'm going to just save because it's never been saved as a photoshop document it's going to automatically pull up the save as dialog box because it's never been saved and it changed it from a jpeg to a dot psd which stands for photoshop document that's the native file extension for photoshop that has layers now remember you can share jpegs with anybody you can share pngs with anybody but photoshop documents.psd files can only be shared with people that have photoshop the great thing about photoshop is it doesn't compress your file and it also maintains all editability on every layer that you save so notice it changed the format automatically to photoshop i could change it back to jpeg but it's going to flatten everything and i'm going to lose all the benefits so it auto checks layers and i'm still going to leave the srgb profile and i'm going to click save now here's the the thing i want you to see when i come back to bridge and i check out my images these two are the same so i'm going to click and just drag it over so they're visually side by side this one's the jpeg look how big it is it's three megs i could easily email this file this is a small file look at the dot psd which is essentially the same file it's 104 megabytes do you see the difference because photoshop does not compress your files you have much more editable information in there to work with dot psd is the perfect working file jpeg is the perfect export file like you're exporting it you're sharing it putting on the web on social media instagram whatever so again i i wanted to show you quickly that if i were to come to file and save as i've been saving everything locally to my computer but we now have a save to cloud documents button which means it's going to link to your adobe account so that you can save to the cloud and share between multiple devices if you're working on your ipad or your computer or a workstation at work in a workstation at home or someone else's workstation it basically you'll be able to share that document everywhere i have a whole separate video for that but it's something i want to make sure you're thinking of [Music] so in this video i want to show you how you can resize an image for either web or print and the best way to save and save as your files to protect your workflow i'm going to double click this image which you can find in the link in the description if you want to use this one or you can download it with the course itself this is coming in at thirty three point three three percent i'm gonna hit command or control zero just to fit it in the screen so i can optimize my real estate and no matter what size monitor you have whether it's a small 13 inch laptop or a big 5k 27 inch monitor you can always use command 0 to fit it in your screen so you get to see all of the image at once now i have no idea how big this file is the way you tell is well first you can look down in this left document area you can toggle this open and there's a lot of different things you can see but i always like to leave it at the default to know what size my image is this is a big file 74 megs means i can't email it i can't upload it to the web i cannot upload it to any social media sites it needs to be downsized now if i click this it'll give me a quick idea of how big it is based on the width the height and the resolution the only other place to find that is go up to the image menu and go down to image size this is going to open an image size dialog box that you can grab in the banner bar and just move it wherever is most convenient for you now if it's too big or too small you can hover your cursor on the outside right corner and just drag it to whatever format is best for you again it's reminding us how large the image file is the dimensions based on pixels is fitting into the original size which is totally perfect notice there's a chain link icon here this is basically linking the width and the height to maintain the aspect ratio if i click that chain link see these lines disappear this is what it looks like if i were to do that now watch what happens if i were to change this to 3000 which is about half the width you see how it squished the image it's because it lost its original aspect ratio so you always have to leave this chain click to maintain the aspect ratio so now if i were to change this to 3000 pixels notice it maintained the original aspect ratio now if i want to save this for web i need to make sure this is set to pixels if yours wasn't click the disclosure triangle and choose it most likely yours was that inches if you're in the west but there's a lot of other measurement output options here so if i want to upload this to a website i know that i need it to be 800 pixels wide for this particular site and that's going to resize my height automatically and it's doing that because my resample box is checked and it's going to interpolate the pixel information throwing away image data that i don't need see it reduced it from a 74 meg file to like a one meg file so if i click ok it physically resize my image if a command or control one that's a hundred percent at least on my screen which is a big screen so that's why it looks pretty small but i want to save this if i were to go up to file and save right now it would overwrite my original jpeg because this is still a jpeg i haven't changed anything else but resize it i need to remember to always choose save as going to open a dialog box and what i want to go and do is click to the left of that dot jbag and since i know this is for web i'm going to hit underscore and 800 px that's my system for letting me know that i've resized this to a certain width based dimension since it is for web i am going to leave the embed color profile srgb checked because you always want srgb for anything on the web i'm going to click save it's going to open up a jpeg option quality dialog box basically leave everything a default of maximum 12 for now and leave all the default format options for now just click ok i'm gonna go back and look at this a bridge and look what it did it added the image right beside it and they visually look the same if i had to put this underscore 800 pix i wouldn't know which one to click on but the great thing about bridges i can click on an image like this one is selected the original and i can see how large the image file is but if i click on this image i can see oh this is the one i resized 800 pixels in the width because it tells me in the metadata over here let's go back to photoshop now i want to save one for print but i don't want to open up the original and start all over the last thing i did was change the image size so i can undo that last step by hitting command or control z keyboard shortcut or i can just come up to edit and whatever the last thing i did was it doesn't count saving as a thing just so you know because you never want to undo your saving the last thing i did in photoshop was image size so i can hover over here and i can see i'm back to all my original image size so now let's go up to image image size and i want to make a print so i need to choose inches should base all your information for printing on inches again if you're in the west let's say i want to make a by six print i'm just going to type six inches here it automatically reconfigured the aspect ratio and figured out the height for me now here's the thing if i'm printing the default resolution should be 300. i'll explain that in much more detail in later videos but generally anything for the web should be at 72 but again if you're identifying the width and height in pixels that resolution doesn't even matter but if you're sending something for print and you're figuring up your image based on inches resolution 100 matters and 300 is a great go-to leave resample checked i can see my image still was shrunk in size and i'm gonna click okay i'm gonna go to file save as now i'm gonna click to the left of the jpeg remove the 800 pixels and again you'll come up with your own workflow but i'm just going to name this 4x6 i don't want an srgb profile i'm going to leave it at its higher adobe 1998 which is better for printing click save just click ok back to bridge so now i will have a small web one i have the original and then i have the 4x6 print now the reason i like this workflow of naming my files what i've done here's why let's say you haven't gotten used to bridge yet and you don't use lightroom let me close that if i were to come up to file and open look what happened if i hadn't given myself some indication is which one i resized like let's say i'd name like notice how these are all the same file names so we want them close together but i'd name one a b and c unless i have a format of well a is always the original b is always the web and c is always a four by six print if i haven't established a workflow i wouldn't know what this was a week from now but here i can see because i can't access any metadata quickly from right here but i can see oh here's the four by six one that's the one i want anyway i hope that helped if you like this video make sure you whack it smack it and crack a like it [Music] in this video i want to show you how you can quickly straighten a horizon line in photoshop so the first thing you're going to do is come over to the tools panel on the far left come down to the eyedropper tool group and then click that disclosure triangle to open the group you're going to see the ruler tool this tool is actually set up to actually measure things inside of an image and you can assign the distances and measurements to get accurate measurements within a scene but photographers use it just to straighten layers watch this notice how my cursor changed to a cursor with a ruler i'm just going to click on the edge of the horizon hold down my click and just drag a line following wherever i think the horizon is and i'm just it's just a visual thing so visually i think i'm pretty much on the line i'm gonna let go and notice how that line stayed from the two points just go up to the tool options bar and click straighten layer how awesome is that it automatically straightened my layer but what did it do let me command minus just to zoom it out a bit notice all these transparent areas it just created for me now i've got to fix those here's a quick way to fix this kind of situation if you go over to the magic wand tool in the toolbar it's right here click it and again if you don't see it hold down the disclosure triangle and choose it i need to select each of the transparent areas on the four edges of the print where it basically rotated the print now the first thing i need to take a quick look at is the tool options bar if i have contiguous check it means i'm gonna have to shift click on each individual area of transparent pixels but if i leave contiguous unchecked basically photoshop is going to find every transparent area if i just click one of them so watch i'll click this one and it clicked all of them do you see that now i need to zoom in so i'm going to click on the zoom tool click click click click so you can see it's selected only the transparent areas right so for this technique to work you need to go up to select modify and expand and this is totally based on how big your image is this is 68 meg file so i'm going to go five or six pixels i'm going to click ok and you see how that expanded my selection essentially you want the selection to kind of bite into whatever it is you want to use to fill this transparent area now i hit command or control 0 to fit in screen and now i'm going to go up to edit down to fill it's going to open a fill dialog box and what i want to choose is the contents hit that drop down arrow and choose content aware this tells photoshop to be aware of the content around the image use that content to fill the transparent area leave the color adaptation checked leave all the blending mode set to its default and just click ok and photoshop's going to do the work for you this is an organic image so it's going to fix it pretty straight forward click command or control d to deselect or if you haven't learned your keyboard shortcuts yet just go to select deselect and again right here it reminds you what the keyboard shortcut is there we go it did a great job i don't see any weirdness anywhere around here so you would want to save this image because we'll use this in our template if you're actually in my course and again the way to do that is go to file always go to save as so you don't overwrite your original and come up with your own system you could do final you could type after whatever system you want and again this is for web so leave the srgb profile check click save now notice what happened because i made an alteration it converted it from a background layer to just a layer and notice what it by default did it converted my format to psd and i don't want that essentially i want this to save as a jpeg so to make it save as a jpeg go back to file save as you leave everything else the same but you want to drop down in this format area and choose jpegs it says it can only be saved with a copy that's because jpegs can't handle layers just click save okay so when i go to load this into my template later i'm going to grab the jpeg one in this video i'm going to show you how to crop an image to a different aspect ratio specifically how to crop to a square i'm also going to show you how to quickly straighten a horizon line you can open this image from the link in the description or download it in the course once the image is open come and choose the crop tool always going to go to ratio original ratio it's putting a bounding box automatically around it and if i grab one of the corners with my cursor see i can drag it in and notice how it's maintaining the original ratio is indicated by the tool options bar which means no matter what i do it's going to stay at that same format of width to height as far as ratios go now if i want to do something different if i want to freehand it i can grab just ratio and then i can make it any size i want now right now it's doing a ratio of one to one so i would clear that now my ratio can be tall or maybe i want to make a a banner for a website that i have total control over how i crop my image but i'm going to go back and i'm going to choose a one-to-one which is one of the presets gives me a square and i'm just going to drag this out so i have a bigger square and i click inside to move it around i can actually use the rule of thirds guidelines here to see that my horizon isn't perfectly straight so here's another way to straighten the horizon hover outside of the crop notice your cursor will change to this left and right pointing arrow and then click you're going to get a much smaller grid pattern and you just kind of visually rotate it just visually align the horizon with one of those straight lines if you can't tell like you're having a hard time and you're having to waste a lot of time redoing it if you're having trouble seeing it just come up to view and turn on your rulers see the rulers that populate it across the top and the side if you click inside the ruler and drag down you'll drag down a guide that doesn't affect your image it just gives you something to base something on so now when i click outside my crop i see my hard horizon line with that blue line and then i can rotate it until it matches i can let go i can click inside my image to raise it up some if i want to or i can crop it a little more like i totally get to choose what part of this image i'm getting i'm looking at the diagonal here and i'm thinking i'd like to have a bit more of that diagonal i don't want my horizon in the middle the screen so i've got to use a balance something like that click ok i'll choose the move tool and i'll click on that guy and just drag it out of my way so it'll disappear so now i have a straightened horizon and this has been cropped to square and again i'm just going to go up to file save as and i'll put sq for square embed the color profile of srgb because you'll use this later in a template for the course and click save okay that one's done [Music] in this video i'm going to show you how to increase the canvas size which is different than increasing the image size you can open this image from a link in the description or download it directly from the course okay once you have this open go up to the image menu drop down to canvas size instead of image size okay now we've got some math to do what's 83 inches times 2 i'm not great at math but i think it's about 166 inches 0.666 totally kidding i had to do that on a calculator and i want this to be left justified if i don't left justify it watch what happens if i leave this in the center as opposed to over here or over here command 0 to fit in screen it basically left my image in the center and it added this canvas to each side well that's not helping me so let me command z to undo that and notice what else it did it basically kept this image flattened to my canvas i don't want to do that either so i'm going to command or ctrl j just to duplicate it while i'm resizing the canvas size which always works on the background layer but i selected the background layer just to show you go back up to image and i'm going to go to image size and i said that was 166.666 inches now what am i doing wrong because you're going to do this i'm actually on the image size so if i click this all i did is i made my file giant right from 68 meg to 274 max command z on that go back canvas size see it this canvas size dialog box enter those crazy dimensions and choose left justify wherever that circle dot is that's where the edge of your image is going to be put and the canvas extension color here is the background and here is telling us it's white which i can see it over here remember this is my background swatch in the tools panel i'm going to click ok this is a good image that will allow some stretching to happen now it looks like the horizon lines a little crooked but let's fix that in a minute first thing i'm going to do is i'm just going to go up to edit transform scale i'm going to drag this and see what it's wanting to do it's wanting to enlarge the image proportionally if i don't want it to do that a lot of times you will but if you don't want it to do that just hold down the shift key and whatever side you drag it's going to stretch keeping everything else the same so i'm going to stretch it to there and this is an insane amount of stretching just to get that up front you can't do this with most images this particular image kind of lends itself to that kind of stretching and i can command minus just to shrink it down a touch now i'm at 25 if i grab the magnification tool or i just come up and click this zoom to 100 button it'll quickly zoom me to 100 remember i can instead of clicking the hand tool if i hold down my space bar it temporarily turns to the hand tool so i can pull my image around i'm not sure you can see the digital noise and artifact so i'm going to zoom in to 200 300 400 and again you typically don't need to zoom in more than a hundred percent because you won't see it with your naked eye on at its actual dimensions or in a print but i want to make sure you can see this noise and i'll show you how to fix it go up to filter go down to noise reduce noise it's going to open a dialog box it keeps it zoomed to 100 but again you too can zoom in more by clicking clicking this i'm at 400 here automatic hand tool so i'm gonna pull it down to the sky same as in the big image behind all right and watch as i i want to i don't need details in this particular scene i want to reduce the color noise and i'm going to remove this and i'm going to check remove jpeg artifacting drag these maximum because it's a blue sky they tend to be super noisy i can toggle open the advanced and go per color channel but i'm not going to do that i'm just going to click ok and again this is subtle actually i'll hit command 0 so i can fit in the screen and i'm going to click on this side over here back to 400 do you see the noise when i turn off the stretched area the part where i've gotten rid of the noise see how the noise disappears so that noise has been greatly reduced command zero and now i have a really cool pano shot that i can use i believe this particular shot needs a little bit of dodging in the foreground so make sure you watch the part two of this video which is called dodging and burning take care [Music] i'm going to show you how to do some dodging and burning to make this print more exciting i demonstrated how to stretch this image into a larger canvas size to create this pano in the previous video again you can find the original image in the link in the description or from the course download folder once you have this image open come over to your dodge and burn tools which are right here this area is from traditional film enlargers when you dodge something you prevented light from hitting the print which made it lighter if you're burning something you gave extra light to the print to make that area darker so i want to make the foreground a little lighter so i'm gonna choose dodge now the really great thing about digital is i can choose where it's affecting the shadows the mid-tones the highlights i can adjust the exposure how intense of a dodge i'm doing and i'm gonna leave it at 40 which is pretty heavy-handed and i left protect tones check because i just thought like this foreground was a touch touch muddy maybe this area now i can click on this side and hold down the shift key and click on this side and then dodge a straight line all the way across do the same up here if i want to reduce that vignetting that was there maybe i'll do that a couple clicks right here just to make that little area brighter now maybe i made this part right here a little too bright so i'd come back over to the burn tool still leave it on mid-tones and change my exposure to maybe 30 percent and i'm dragging with scrubby sliders you can actually come and just use a disclosure triangle and drag this slider or anything that has something that's adjustable in percentages you can just hover over the word and your cursor will change into this little hand and pointer which is called scrubby slider and i can just grab and drag here so i'm going to drag that down to around 30 if you need your brush bigger and choose this disclosure triangle and make the size bigger by dragging now the disadvantage here is i can't tell how big my brush is right now i have to come all the way over to the image well that's too big then i got to come back up and do this that's too small do you see the problem with this process it's an easy to use process but let me show you something a little better instead of doing that how about i just hit the right bracket key or i hold it down to make it visually as big as i want it or the left bracket key these are beside the letter p on your keyboard that really quickly gets me to the brush size that i want and notice my brush numbers are changing as i tap the left or right bracket key again right makes it bigger left makes it smaller i'm going to tap it to about right there burning mid tones 34 to make this little area a touch darker now that seems like a little heavy handed i basically recreated the same problem so i hit command or control z and then i'll come up and say you know maybe that should be more like 15 percent make my brush a little smaller and just do a nice soft pass right across there yeah i think that looks a lot better that's how you can use dodging and burning to change the appearance of an image making it look the way you want now for me i feel like the colors are they too saturated they could be so let's add a human saturation adjustment layer just to take a quick look here's zero saturation ah look at that posterization we still have noise even though this has been corrected for noise already and we don't want our eyes to bleed right so it's got to be some balance you know you figure out where your tastes lie i'm gonna leave this one i'm gonna leave this one here now do i need an image this is giant is this look how big this is 136 megs i do not i don't need to waste my this is only going to be resized to a very small thing to put on the web so i'm gonna go to image image size and i'm gonna say yeah that's ridiculous let's go to pixels i know i need nothing larger really than full hd and full hd is 1920 on the widest dimension so i can just type in 1920. my file size went from 136 megs to 3.53 megs which is perfect i'm gonna click ok now it looks super small it's at 25 if i hit command 1 it is zoomed to 100 so that's plenty for what i need for this project i need to save it go to file save as i'm going to pano small choose jpeg srgb click ok click ok now i've seen saved a nice small version of this when i click this x to close it it says wait do you want to make all these changes you made and if i click save it's going to save this smaller psd file and i don't i don't need it i'm done everything i'm going to do so i'm just going to click don't save if you like this video make sure you whack it smack it and crack a lack it in the next five videos i'm going to cover layers which are the most important feature in photoshop for photographers artists and designers it's amazing how much it allows you to do and i'm going to give you the introduction of how they function and work i'm going to have a short video on how to add a black and white adjustment layer with some spot color i'm going to show you how to fix a low contrast image with a levels adjustment layer how to switch the colors in a scene with a hue sat adjustment layer and then for the final one it'd be a more complicated layer exercise of showing you the best and worst ways to bring one photo into another photo and then how to add text how to rotate use layer styles all to make a simple ad so let's get started [Music] in this video i wanted to give you a quick introduction into layers layers are one of the most powerful features in photoshop you'll usually find it in the far right bottom area of your photoshop work screen right here if you don't see a tab that says layers just go up to window and put a check mark beside layers mine is already open layers let you control very discreet items let me come over to the text tool right here this is the horizontal type tool i'll click it and i'll just drag some text right there it automatically loads with some latin space holder [Music] and i can click the color here and change that to red click ok click this check mark to accept it so now i have a text layer see how that works and then what if for whatever reason i needed an adjustment layer to change the color maybe i wanted to make it sepia well let me choose this hue and saturation adjustment layer right here and notice it populated in the properties tab and maybe i'm going to just use colorize use a nice sepia and keep my saturation somewhere like that or maybe i want it more of a cyanotype which is kind of a bluer look that works nicer with the red text so now i have text layer and i can make it disappear and reappear by turning on and off this eyeball so i can remind myself what a layer is if i forget because i've got 20 layers or 200 layers i think you can have up to 4 000 layers in photoshop and then here's my color adjustment layer now watch this in the layers panel we have control over how the layer interacts with the layer below it let me actually make that color a little crazy let me dial the saturation up to 100 which is way too much right maybe or maybe i'm going for more of an artistic or graphic design interpretation and that strong color cast is important but let's say it is too much all i have to do is lower the opacity and that's going to let some of that background image through a scrubby slider is when you hover over a word and your cursor changes to a left or right pointing arrow and you just drag it back and forth to vary the opacity which is very similar to just lowering the saturation so i can lower the opacity the strength of any layer i can do it with this type layer i can lower the opacity so it becomes more faded out so i can see the background through it so this is your layers panel and it is again it is super powerful for allowing you to adjust very specific things in your image so i don't need this text layer so i can just click and drag it to the trash and it'll get rid of it i don't really need this adjustment layer and actually instead of clicking and dragging it to the trash i can just click delete you gotta do it twice i wanted to interrupt this regularly scheduled instructional video just to make sure i underline the point of how you can delete a layer let me actually command or control j duplicate that a couple times i'll hover between the layers panel and this properties panel so that i can make my layers panel bigger here's the thing i did cover you can click and drag a layer to the trash it will automatically delete it if you have an adjustment layer where the layer mask is automatically chosen i mean so it is possible to manually choose the adjustment itself but by default the layer mask is chosen and you can tell because it's the whole layer is selected because of the highlighted layer area here where it looks like a lighter gray but you notice there are two things on this layer the adjustment and the adjustment mask which is this white square it's most selected because it has these white corners if i select this this has the white corners when you're trying to delete an adjustment layer when you hit the delete key the first time it will delete the mask if you want to delete all of it you've got to hit the delete key a second time which is why i just said in the movie you gotta hit the delete key twice but that's just for an adjustment layer because again if i were to hit command or control j a couple of times to have two more layers up here that have no layer mask i can just hit the delete key once and that layer is automatically deleted i hope that helps and actually instead of clicking and dragging it to the trash i can just click delete you gotta do it twice and it will delete it command zero to fit in screen and i'm back to the original image now what i want you to do for this particular image is add a blank layer which is down here in the bottom of your layers panel it's going to add a transparent layer you can tell by how small this actually that was a freudian slip i was just noticing my icons are small i can change the appearance of my icons by clicking on these dialog lines over here in the layers panel going down to panel options and i'm just going to choose large thumbnail size click ok make these a lot bigger so you can see them better you see how this is a transparent layer transparent layers are indicated by this white and gray checkerboard pattern all throughout photoshop essentially i want to get rid of this trash that's down here remember you can hit that magnifying tool right here the zoom tool and click just to zoom in then i can hold the space bar down to temporarily turn my cursor into a hand to kind of move it around so what i want to do is i want to retouch out this paper bag i'm going to choose the spot healing brush which is right here and all you do is you paint over the subject and photoshop will automatically get rid of it you remember our technique you can come up here drop down arrow and change the size of this tool or you can just use the left and right bracket key left makes your brush smaller right makes it bigger so i'm gonna paint that out now if yours didn't work like this it's probably because up here in the tool options bar sample all layers wasn't checked whenever a tool isn't working just look across the tool options bar and see what's going on because with sample all layers checked it's going to look at that bottom background layer but what it's doing see remember i'll turn that background layer off see it put the retouching in its own layer so i can mask it or do some other things to it if i need to so now i can paint out like well maybe i don't like any of these dots maybe this little white thing's a little distracting i'm hit command or control one to zoom to a hundred percent because you really don't need to be more than a hundred percent when you're retouching maybe i don't like that is there anything else i don't like no everything else looks looks good i'm gonna hit command or control zero okay so i've retouched it now and i can lay i can name my layer the way you name it is double click on the word in the layer you'll get this blue field and i'll type retouch this way i can keep it orderly this reminds me that if i turn this off i can see what i've retouched notice the difference how how powerful that is basically anything that you wouldn't put in the image yourself consider removing it to tell a clearer story now looking at this image photographically i think this is too bright up here i love the graphic elements i love the strong visual of the diagonal line i love that the face is in deep shadow in this era of digital photography where a lot of people teach you've got to maintain maximum highlight detail and maximum shadow detail in every single image i think it's good to try and make sure you have that detail recorded in your image file if you know the look you're going for and you know you don't need shadow detail i don't need to see his eyes i want this to be more anonymous i love the graphic elements in this image then let those shadow details just fall away to black that's perfectly okay but i think these highlight areas a little bright what i'm going to do is i'm going to come up to the adjustment layer it looks like i don't have my full range of white tone so i'll pull that in but i'll pull my mid-tones down i guess it'd be somewhere in there it's always a balance because because everything is getting adjusted so now i have this layer i can turn it on and off and after i've done this if i don't if i still don't think i've pulled down those lighter tones come to the output slider instead and just pull down those lighter tones a touch so now i can turn that on and off by toggling this eyeball on and off to see the effect yeah that retouching is a necessity here so if i want to save this with all the work i've done i will go up to file and save as it's going to automatically make it a dot psd even though this image was originally a jpeg because it has layers you can only save a file with layers as a photoshop document side note you can actually save it as a tiff but don't do that i say don't do that because stiff is primarily used for output to cmyk printing like on giant printing presses in today's market you're either printing with an online lab and you can still print great prints with a jpeg extension and the dot psd is just your best overall working extension because it allows you to open and save and rework and open and save and rework your images over and over and you never lose image quality if you were to keep opening a jpeg doing stuff to it saving that jpeg and opening that same jpeg up and re-manipulating it and re-saving it you're actually losing image quality every time you do that because it's it's a lossy compression extension which is great for making a big file small but it is not great for a file that you're going to be editing on and off over a long period of time so that's why psd is so great because you do not lose any image quality at all no matter how many times you open it work on it and save it i want to save all the layers leave that checked and this is totally fine i know this image is never going to print and i'll click save i already have a version of this so it's saying hey you already have this file as a psd are you sure you want to save this and i'll say yeah sure go ahead so i just saved this as a dot psd with these revisions which you should too you'll need it for the project take yes in this video i'm going to show you how to add a black and white adjustment layer to this image and then use the layer mask to do this you can find this image in the link in the description or download it in the actual course so once you have your image open this is really straightforward just come over to the adjustment area because remember these are non-destructive adjustments they allow future editing should you change your mind about something so i'm going to add the black and white adjustment layer which is this icon here and remember i can toggle my eyeballs on and off to see the effect of an adjustment right or any layer now essentially i want the color from beneath to come through the eyes in this black and white conversion this right here is a mask it's a layer mask and if it's a white mask that means it's revealing everything on this layer so this whole layer is about converting whatever's underneath to black and white what's revealing all of that black and white stuff if i choose the brush tool right here come over i need to make this brush a lot smaller and remember that left bracket key will make it a lot smaller visually now what if i also want to zoom in a bit cause i'm only at 31 if i look down the bottom left corner so i'll grab that zoom tool and actually let's try a keyboard shortcut if you hold the command and space bar for a mac or control and space bar for a windows user it temporarily changes to a zoom tool allowing me to zoom in i can let go of just the command or the control key holding down the space bar still my cursor quickly goes to the hand tool then i let go and it goes right back to the brush tool essentially i need to cut a hole in this layer to see the layer beneath so black is in my foreground if it's not you can just click this foreground background reset swatch and then you can change your color of what's in the foreground by clicking these double arrows i need black in the foreground i need black to paint on a white mask i'm gonna make my brush a little smaller by using the left bracket key and then we'll click and paint now i want to double check because watch what happens if my hardness is at a hundred percent yours may be at any variable here and i'll do this side now i'm lucky that i have a like a hard edge of this dark circle around the eye but if i didn't this this edge here would be pretty distracting typically i like to paint most of the times with a hardness of zero it really fades it out so in case there's a problem it makes it more subtle now if i over paint like right here all i have to do is come over to this left and right angle click it and it will swap the foreground and background colors i have trouble coming all the way over here and all the way back so i just keep my fingers over the keyboard because i know if i type the letter x look at my foreground and background swatches they change they just switch back and forth constantly so whenever i'm editing a mask i'll quickly like type my x to you know fix that and then if i came out to here i'll type x to get the white back and i'll just quickly paint it out it allows for very quick editing and then if i take off too much i'll type the x again and just put back what i messed up using that x key while you're painting on a layer mask is really quick i'm going to type command or control 0 to fit in screen now i have this image with some spot color what i always have the freedom to do if i want to change the color of these eyes because i can add a hue and saturation layer above and just drag the hue and i can change the actual color of the eyes to whatever i want feel free to choose whatever crazy eye color you would like for this particular image i need to save it so i can save my working file go to save save as so you already know this part you want to save it as a photoshop file which is dot psd this will be your working file it will preserve all your layers so you can come back and change or fix mistakes or make corrections or additions or alterations whenever you want after you've saved it as a dot psd come back and also save it as a jpeg with that embedded color profile of srgb because that's perfect for the web that's perfect for these project templates that you'll be submitting and you know how to do all that by now based on the other videos you've watched up to this point now here's another thing to think about this is a really large file right 68 megs that's pretty large so remember your image size you can always go up to image image size and say yeah there's nothing i'm working on that needs to be bigger than 1920 in the width which is full hd resolution so now i need to save as i could hit command shift or control shift s or just save as choose jpeg and i would name this one underscore small or underscore 1920. again you choose your favorite way your favorite workflow that works for you and use it consistently hope that helps [Music] in this video i'm going to show you how to fix a low contrast image with a levels adjustment layer i'm going to take this image and make it look like this by adjusting the contrast range you can open this image and link in the description or from the course or use your own okay once you have your image open wait there's a bonus tip again just a cover layer functionality even more if you have a background layer you can convert it to a regular layer i can't do much to this background layer like i can't click and move it let me click see it's going to say you can't do that you've got to convert it to a normal layer i could have clicked that blue convert to normal layer but you can just click this lock icon and it disappears and it converts the word background to layer 0. sometimes that's beneficial you may need that at times this looks flat to me visually flat if i were to go up to window and choose histogram so what does that tell me got plenty of blacks i'm clipping on the blacks and that's okay where it's clipping nothing problem with that got some mid-tones i've got no whites or highlights and i've got just the tiniest bit of all of these light tones so obviously this is very flat okay so let's talk photography terms real quick when i'm talking about a flat image i'm referring to contrast you either have normal contrast you have low contrast which is considered a flat image or you have high contrast high contrast is lots of blacks and whites and very few mid grays and it looks like it has a lot of contrast a low contrast or a flat image typically is missing white tones or black tones or most usually they're missing both white and black tones there are a lot of fixes for this and i'm going to cover that in future videos in the following weeks and the techniques are simply amazing so stay tuned remember flat photographically means you're either missing black you're missing white most often you're missing both but here i'm only missing one of them so you're thinking oh i need to adjust the image so your instinct is to come over here to image adjustments it's like well what do i do to make it brighter well i could use brightness and contrast and just say brighter and just drag that over and that will work i can like like well that's too much contrast maybe i need to pull the contrast back down well and you keep dragging like well some parts look good but then some parts look bad here's the thing with the brightness and contrast it's a universal thing it's like killing a fly with a hammer the hammer is a one size fits all it's going to work for some projects in some projects it doesn't work well at all so i'm going to cancel out of that and i'm going to suggest use either levels of curves levels are the easiest ones to use in the beginning so start off with that and you think okay i need to adjust the image i'm gonna go back to image adjustments and now i'll choose levels so you come over to image adjustments and you think well i was told levels was the thing to use but look at this exposure maybe i should just use that so you click on exposure you think it just needs to be a little brighter but this is this can work but you see how i was starting to blow out some of the highlight areas now it's like well maybe i just need to change the gamma make it the midtones darker or make them lighter it's like okay now that's everything's way too flat and bright okay that's too much contrast i don't think i like that either so i'm going to go back and do the levels adjustment image adjustment levels ah now i have a histogram so i don't have to bother opening up this histogram because i get one built in with levels here's the simple thing to do whatever you're missing just grab that slider and drag it to the base of the mountain i don't need to grab my black point right because it's already at the base of the mountain call this the mountain wherever this data lives is the mount now if i hold down the alt or option key and click on the black point slider it's going to show me where the black is do you see that see that's that means that is all 100 0 black 0 0 0 in the rgb channels which is perfect for this image but let me click on this white slider and hold down the alt or option key okay now it's got to should be the inverse so this is where i have my first pure white and these little specs that don't really matter so i have to come all the way here before i start getting a range of tones look how much better that looks if i hold down my alt or option key notice how the cancel button goes to reset that way i can just reset it and i can do it while i look at it just drag that down until the base of the mountain and that quickly adjusts your contrast now this middle slider is for your mid-tone contrast so you can kind of drag that backwards and forwards per the scene and to your taste so i think i like that the very white whites right here click ok now if i were to save this and then i were to come back and open it in five minutes or in five days and i'd say oh maybe i messed this up well this adjustment has been permanently baked into the file i can't change it without degrading the image quality i can hit command or control z or remember you can go up to edit and it will undo the last thing you did which is undo levels because remember everything here in this image adjustments they're all destructive which means if you save them you can never undo them or alter them but you get these same controls over here in this adjustment panel and this is the icon for levels if you just hover over an icon it tells you what it is but it doesn't take very long to remember this looks like a mini histogram so now it opened up my levels dialog box in the properties panel and i get the exact same histogram i saw before so i'm just going to drag that over to the base of the mountain adjust this to taste pull down on the whites to touch i can turn my eyeball on and off to see if i like it so now i'm going to save this for the project and click file save as and again if i want to save my working file which i can i can save it as a dot psd right i've already done that if i'm ready for output well i need to save this as a jpeg and it's way too big look at that 51 megs why don't i just go ahead and go to image image size and choose the width enter 1920 in the width field it automatically changed the height made my file size a ton smaller i'll click ok now i'll go up to file and save as and i'll choose jpeg i'll highlight to the left of jpeg and put 1920. leave it as srgb click save okay at 12. now when i click this one it's saying oh do you want to close this before saving no because i've already done all my saving i need to do [Music] i wanted to show you how to take this image and make it look like this using the hue saturation adjustment layer you can find this image in the link in the description or from the course itself or you can use your own okay once you have an image open that you want to shift the color of for me this orange it just looks a little too washed out it looks i want it to be more dynamic this image is for my website it's not for a national geographic article where color accuracy is important so all i'm going to do is go up to the adjustment layer and choose the hue saturation adjustment layer notice what happens in my layer panel automatically adds the hue saturation adjustment layer with the layer mask that i can edit and then the hue saturation adjustments opened up in the properties panel now remember saturation slider that saturates the colors that exist you can take it all the way until your eyes bleed the photo colors are so garish sometimes that's appropriate for design and art but you have to decide where you want it if you totally desaturate it it becomes a black and white side note this is the worst way to make a black and white in photoshop just throws away all your information and gives you no localized color control i'm gonna take it back to about the middle which is a zero approximately zero instead i want to shift the hue so i just grab the hue slider and i want to make everything more green i want it to be almost uniformly green although all these other colors are kind of cool so i just didn't get it that direction so let me go back the opposite direction ooh there's the green if i go all the way over to see what i get okay come up with some kind of a real rich green and you don't need to make our eyes bleed right the normal color saturation is fine i just wanted everything to have more of a green kind of a green cast for the lizard and toggle that eyeball on and off that's a very quick way to shift the queue of an entire image for some visual purpose make sure you save this as a smaller size jpeg remember the way to resize a file is go to image image size i'm going to type 1920 because that's all i need for full hd click ok [Music] ok now that you've learned all these interesting things about layers i'm going to show you how to create tennis advertisement that looks like this [Music] so in bridge you have some options i can select this image double click it it's going to open in photoshop i can come back down to bridge double click this image because it too is going to open in photoshop and then i've got to get this image over to the other one a lot of ways to do it for those of you that think okay i would just select all by hitting command a and then i would go over to edit copy or command or control c and then i would go back to this image by clicking on the tab because remember you can toggle between open images by clicking on the tabs come over here and hit command or control v or go down to edit and paste okay now i need to resize it so now i've got to go up to edit and resize but i don't know exactly how big to make it so and then i think well actually i put the wrong one in the wrong image so let me delete that i really wanted to select all of this command or control a i wanted command or control c down to edit copy come back to this image and i really wanted to paste that image into this one because this is the background image so i go up to edit and paste okay now it's too big so now i've got to go up to edit and transform which you've already learned how to do and leave it on scale and i need to drag it move it drag it move it drag it move it lock it down and i can now manipulate it do you see how many steps that took i mean you can get there one thing when you copy and paste from one image into the other this is a big file how big is that file that's a 71 meg file photoshop saves the last 50 things you did so that means a 71 meg file has been copied into my ram onto my clipboard and it's wasting my my ram if you do this a lot like you work on 10 images and you copy 10 things and 10 images so now you have your ram clogged down with all this copied stuff that doesn't need to be there right wait there's a bonus tip yes if you ever do notice your photoshop acting slow or or something just go up to edit and go down to purge and choose all basically that's gonna throw away all your clipboard stuff nothing permanent just all the stuff you've been copying and it'll make it work a little bit faster now i'm going to hit delete for that so i'm going to show you a quicker way command d to deselect remember you can find that here select deselect what i can also do is with the move tool is just click on that layer whether it's a background layer or another layer drag it i'm holding my click i'm dragging it over the tab of where i want it to go and once that image opens i've got to drag it down into that image and now look what i i have the ability to do now i still have to go to edit and transform and resize this but that's saved on clogging up your ram let me show you a better way i'm going to shut this down don't save don't save i'm going to go back to bridge what i'm going to do is hold the command or control key and select both of the images that i want go up to tools go down to photoshop and let photoshop do the work for me load files into photoshop layers the way i've wasted no ram and it's going to load everything into the files for me now i can instead of going up to edit and transform and choosing scale i can just hit command or control t for free transform right command minus to fit in screen if i couldn't see my bounding box and it's going to automatically hold my aspect ratio if i hold my shift key i can make it skinny or stretched but typically you want it to stay the way you want it to stay so i'll put it something like this this is similar to the ad that we were trying to make and try to match it to that ad in the sample let me take a look at that sample there we go right here next i'll go ahead and open that so i can oh actually it's not gonna let me do anything to accept this let me accept that all right so there is the rough ad so i've got a stroke a drop shadow let me go ahead and do that part so i'm going to click this to make sure that inset photograph that i just loaded into this file any of the ways i showed you to do it i showed you three different different ways i'm going to go down to fx and i'm going to choose stroke it's going to open up a layer style dialog box with the stroke automatically selected now if i drag the size up notice it's putting the stroke on the outside noted by the rounded corners i don't want that i want straight corners like a old photograph so i'm going to choose inside it's going to crop into my photograph so i don't want that size to be too large just large enough i don't want to be too skinny because that's too skinny and this is too large right so do something that has a nice aesthetic balance i'd say something like this looks appropriate now i want this fill color i think that white is just too white so i'm going to click the color here it's going to give me a color picker but i don't have to choose a color in here i mean i can choose red i can click on blue i can click on green i can drag this slider to wherever i want it but i can also hover outside of the color picker and notice my mouse automatically turned into an eyedropper and it's like yeah i want to stay with the color harmony of this tennis ball perfect click ok click ok now i have a stroked image like wait i forgot to put a drop shadow oh yeah all you have to do is come back to this effects which you can turn those effects on and off to look at them but that's okay if i want to reopen that layer style dialog box i just click on the word effects can't click once gotta double click i'll choose drop shadow let's adjust the distance the size the opacity i need to change the angle so i can see it do you see it right here remember we can click over here in the image and just pull that shadow wherever you want let me look okay the shadows are going this way i mean obviously this has nothing to do with that real life sun but i'll try to mimic that a little bit maybe make the spread and the size a little more but maybe the opacity should be a little more transparent kind of like the sample i'll call that okay so what did the other one look like well it looks like i'm about this close right and it's rotated so let's rotate it how do we rotate an individual layer that's a great thing remember i've already changed the individual size of this individual layer oh is this transparent background bothering you it's bothering me but we know how to fix it right just hit c for the crop tool sound right here remember to make ratio as chosen to free transform a crop and just grab on the bottom and drag up until you've cropped out all those transparent pixels click enter command 0 to fit in the screen we're good to go now while that inset photograph has been selected you know that you can go to edit and free transform or you can just hit command or control t which is a keyboard shortcut you see the bounding box that automatically activated i can hover outside and you see how my cursor changes when you're outside that corner and you get it to change just click and drag to the side it needs to be a little smaller just to kind of align with the other ad let me take a look at the other ad it was at this moment that jonathan knew he you see if you click away from one image into another with the free transform not activated or entered you lose it so you've got to start all over again yeah that looks about right command t make a little smaller hover outside the corner rotate it okay i'm going to lock it in by hitting enter this time so when i go back and look at this okay i see i have a lot of stuff on the outside here now what else do i need i need to add text tennis lessons with an outside stroke it looks like so let's go back to the layer we're working on you can just come over to the horizontal type tool click it click and drag a box set your text type size to 60 chances are your colors probably either white or black so i'll just set it to black and i'll type tennis lessons okay that's too small i'm not gonna be able to read that dark text against that dark background so let's go ahead and hover over the text size button because right now it only goes up to 72 and i don't know what number is going to work so this is where i like to just hover over the word and drag left or right to make it bigger and i'll click the move tool to lock it in i'll click on that text just to move it around it's too dark right so if i double click on that text icon in the layers panel over here and i come back to the tool options bar at the top click on that color swatch and i don't need to do it in the color picker i'm just going to hover with my eyedropper over that stroked image to make sure i get that exact color click ok and this time i'm going to choose the check mark to lock it in okay that's looking good but i want a stroke on it so i'm going to come back to this fx choice at the bottom of my layers panel and i'm going to choose stroke but i don't want to stroke with that color here i actually do want it to stroke with white so i'll click on that color icon choose the white in the upper corner click ok i don't want it to be inside because that hides all of my color so for this instance i will choose outside okay that looks a little cartoonish so let's make the size a little lower something like that so still legible click ok man 0 to fit in screen and what was the other thing ah it's a square this ad is a square so let's go crop to a square we've already learned how to do that choose the crop tool which is right here and go up to ratio and choose one to one square that way it automatically gets it ready for you and click inside the image and just drag it to where appropriate i command minus just to get more of my image in the screen and click ok i don't think i'm doing too good this corner is touching here which is visually distracting let me go look at the one i'm supposed to be matching ah that does have a nicer negative balance feel i think my inset image is is bigger too in proportion like count your strings one two three four basically i cropped it to the fifth string where'd i crop it here i cropped it in to the fourth string here so basically i just cropped it too much so i can't command or control z to undo that click inside the image now where's that fifth string right there so that's where it's saying i should crop based on counting the strings i'll click enter so that was the problem basically this image was too big can i now resize this image by selecting it hitting command or control t and making it small i can't because when i cropped it i cut off the edge of that image which i don't want to do i've got a command z or control z to undo that i've got a command z or ctrl z to undo this and actually i just need to get out of this crop tool make sure i'm on that image hit command or control t and make this image just a little smaller now i'll hit the crop tool these are the things that you're going to face select inside the image drag it to that fifth line because i want you to match as much as you can and now you can crop in from the bottom i'm going to say yes i'm going to go back to the move tool i'm going to click on that image because i can move it and we'll move it to about where i think it fits nicest and looks closest to this image that looks pretty good it doesn't have to be perfect but that looks good got a little negative space over here now i need to save it so i can go to file save as i can save my working files a dot psd after you've done that you can come back and save it as a jpeg naming it whatever you want but remember you don't have to save these giant files if you're done working go to image image size change the width to 1920 which is full hd which is all you'll need for this project click ok now i'll go save it as a psd then save it as a jpeg the reason you're saving is a psc is in case you notice a problem later like let's say you've you saved this how about we just do it i'll just come up and click save as now notice it didn't pre-populate with one of the file names because we this is the one where we went to bridge and told bridge to load them both together when it does that it just it comes up with its own untitled name i will come up with some sophisticated name here like that so i know exactly what i'm doing i would save it as a dot psd to maintain all my work now the reason i did that remember you can always come back to your most recent image it'll save it right here if you ever want to get rid of these like they're distracting all you have to do is go to file open recent and come down to clear recent file list but now i do need to go find it there you go there's that sophisticated title i'll double click it because now i can say oh you know i think this should really be moved a little over and i think that drop shadow's too far over so i'm going to double click on the drop shadow part and maybe change the distance and the spread and maybe the opacity should be a little more and click ok and click command s and that's going to save that working psd but i still need to edit it for project template so it still need to go back and re-save it as a jpeg you see how that worked boom okay all done hope that helps hey thanks for spending an hour and a half with me learning photoshop i love it this basic photoshop for photographers and artists course has really helped you develop some core skill sets to be able to make some of the images that you want to make this course is just the first in a long series of longer form based courses that you'll find in the particular playlist here and as always i have very small modular topic based videos on my channel as well please like and subscribe if this helped you in any way i want to share my enthusiasm for photoshop with as many people that want to learn it for free as possible and that only happens if you like comment share subscribe you know do all the stuff that you have to do to get the youtube algorithms to share this with other like-minded people i have links in the description of how you can share your work on instagram or flickr or create an adobe spark page that you can link back inside the youtube comments this is really just starting off now so at the time i'm recording this there's hardly anything being shared but i really 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Published: Thu Dec 03 2020