Photoshop Tips & Tricks You (Probably) Don't Know | PTH #3

hey everybody welcome back to another episode of the photoshop training hour yes that's the new official name of the show the photoshop training hour so i know that we were coming up with names in the last few episodes and we finally decided on the poll that i posted last week thank you for all the all those of you who voted on that poll so yeah that's the name of the show the photoshop training hour let me know in the chat what you think i am your host jesus ramirez and in this episode i'm going to show you photoshop tips and tricks that you probably don't know you'll let me know in the chat if you need them or not as i show them to you i see a lot of familiar faces in the chat thank you so much bellaire as always for joining me not only in the photoshop training hour episodes but also on my adobe live streams we have cesar jimenez naveen misha falcon guru thank you so much for joining jorge garzia the imaging thank you so much let me know in the chat where you're watching from i'm streaming from the beautiful san francisco bay area in california but yeah thank you so much for joining now before we get into photoshop i quickly want to show you this page this page right here so this is the community tab on my youtube channel so if you go to my youtube channel photoshop training channel you'll see the community tab and as you can see 80 of you who voted prefer the photoshop training now or as the name of the show and i also want to give shout outs to the person who suggested that name let me scroll down and here she is i believe her name is pronounced gian if it's not i do apologize for mispronouncing your name but gnv is the person who suggested the photoshop training hour which is what we're going with and thank you for all those of you who submitted names for the show i really appreciate it so thank you so much the the name of the show is the photoshop training hour and thank you for all your wonderful suggestions so let me take a quick look at the chat and see what we have going on here we have oh wow we have people from all over the world we have people watching from bangladesh indonesia south africa dominican republic puerto rico awesome denmark mexico ukraine uk manchester bangladesh india nepal uh brazik i don't even know where that is i do apologize pakistan india thank you so much for joining me um dennis is saying it's 705 p.m for him 1905 and it's only 10 a.m for me here in california awesome thank you so much for joining me people from the us from greece awesome so great to see everybody here today so yeah why don't we jump right into photoshop actually no before we jump into for photoshop i do gotta mention our sponsors msi msi is sponsoring today's video and actually i'm surprised that i don't have my msi logo up here i must have accidentally disabled it but msi is the sponsor of this stream and i do want to thank msi for being a sponsor so msi has these laptops desktops and monitors that they make they do sponsor this youtube channel the laptop that you're looking at now is the creator 15 laptop this is a laptop that i'm currently using and it's a fantastic laptop for creators it has fantastic color representation 100 adobe rgb it there the msi laptops are all calibrated at the factory so they have great color representation you can check them out there's a link to them below in the description i'll talk more about msi a little later on in the stream but what i want to do now is move over into photoshop so that we can just take a look at some photoshop tips and tricks these are in no particular order if you have any questions please feel free to leave them in the chat i'll be looking over in the chat so that i can answer any questions that you have so again these are no particular order and i hope that these tips and trick tricks help you improve and speed up your workflow so we're going to start with like a really simple one so we have a layer and we have a layer mask right and obviously if you select the layer mask when you paint with black you hide and if you click on the layer thumbnail the focus the white outline is now in the thumbnail and if you paint then you actually paint on the pixels over the mask i think a lot of you probably know that already but you can actually switch back and forth from these two without actually clicking on the layer there's actually a keyboard shortcut to switch over the focus into the layer thumbnail if you press ctrl on windows that's command on the mac and tap on the number two you'll notice that the focus switch over from the layer mask into the layer thumbnail i'll do that again ctrl that's command on the mac and tap on the number two would switch the focus over from the layer mask to the layer thumbnail now that can be very beneficial if you're working on multiple monitors like i am now you may have your layers panel way over on this monitor and you might be working on the monitor over here and it could take a while just to scroll over and then just click on that layer thumbnail so it's very easy to just simply hold you know that keyboard shortcut control on windows command on the mac and tap on the number two to switch the focus onto the layer thumbnail what if you want to switch the focus onto the layer mask well the keyboard shortcut for that is actually control and the backslash key so i'll do that again ctrl 2 for changing the focus into the layer thumbnail and ctrl backslash that is the key right below the backspace key or the delete key on north american keyboard so right next to the bracket keys in the same row as the letter p so ctrl and the backslash key will get the focus over onto the layer layer mask thumbnail let me know in the chat if you knew that trick already we have eddie from tulsa oklahoma nice good to see you eddie we have martin from the czech republic watching nice we have uh the old school video gamer from ireland thank you so much uh kent irvin from kingsport tennessee fantastic good to see you oh my title says tricks and tricks i should edit that title uh yeah tips and tricks should have been the title but thank you for for letting me know um i wonder if i can correct that right now we're gonna test it so i'm gonna correct it um so we'll see i fixed the title let me know if it changed or not but yeah i was typing the title too quickly i guess but thank you for letting me know in the chat awesome so yeah so this is one of the shortcuts i wanted to show you another shortcut that i think is very valuable that i don't see a lot of people using is a shortcut to move layers so let me just create a bunch of layers it really doesn't matter that there's nothing in these layers but you probably know this if you click and drag on a layer you can change the layer stack order like so i'm just clicking and dragging on the layer but there's actually a keyboard shortcut if you hold ctrl on windows command on the mac and tap on the bracket keys you can move mv layer up and down in the layer stack and the cool thing is that if you add the shift key to that so control command hold shift and then tap on the right bracket key the layer will jump up to the top of the layer stack or if you tap on the left bracket key the layer will jump down all the way to the bottom of the layer stack so that's a useful keyword shortcut as you're working again you may not have your layers panel in the same monitor it might be somewhere else even if it's in the same monitor it's a lot easier to just use those keyboard shortcuts to jump layers up and down the layer stack instead of clicking and dragging them it just saves you a little bit of time nice we have claudio from chile good to see you irma from holland awesome uh prasant said that he knows this tip awesome um graphic design tutorial why can't anyone respond to me i'm responding to you hello how's it going we got more these uh i'm sorry if i must pronounce your name mordizi from ghana good to see you shlomi from israel nice uh darko from serbia good to see you thank you so much um great so what i'm going to do now is just go and just show you a few more tips and tricks here's another one that i really like for both compositing and retouching so if you're somebody who's doing retouching and compositing then um and actually right now the reason that i can't delete is because the opacity is enabled so i can just press the escape key notice right now and this is actually a tip that i didn't mean to show you but i accidentally had the opacity selected you can see the opacity here on the top and you see how it's in blue right so it's active but i wanted to delete the layers so when i was tapping the backspace key to delete the layers it wasn't really working because the opacity is selected so if you're ever in any mode if you're not you know if anything is selected in blue and you can't use your keyboard shortcuts or if a window comes up that you didn't intend for it to come up anything happens in photoshop you can use what i like to call the whoopsy daisy key like whoopsie daisy i made a mistake how do i get out that key is the escape key is the key on the top left of your keyboard so no matter what in photoshop if you just want to escape or leave or cancel something just press the escape key and you and and you'll be back in in the main photoshop interface without anything selected and then you can just tap on the keyboard shortcuts to do whatever is that you needed to do in this case i tapped on the backspace key to delete those layers again the escape key will get you out of anywhere for example you might accidentally bring up the layer style window just press the escape key and it should it should uh take it away or you know any anything really if you accidentally i mean i don't know how you can you accidentally select the you know filter that you didn't intend to just press the escape key and you'll get out again if you accidentally activate um an input box that you didn't intend to hit the escape key and you'll jump right out what version is this this is photoshop 2021 i'm always using the latest version of photoshop but so far everything i talked about today should be applicable to older versions as well do i have an instagram account yes i do i have two from ptc my semi-personal account i post a lot of stuff about photoshop obviously there and then um at photoshop training channel which is an instagram account for this youtube channel um what can we do if we mess up focus in photoshop i'm not exactly what you mean by that there's a couple ways so for example you can select if you select this layer like layer zero and you want it to focus on layer one obviously you can um click on on the on the layer but you can also select layers so this is actually very similar to what i was talking about earlier earlier i was holding ctrl in the bracket keys to move a layer up and down in the layer stack but if you want to change the focus which layer you have selected instead of holding ctrl you can hold the alt key on windows and that's the option key on the mac and tap on the bracket keys and see how the focus changes from layer 0 to layer 1. so all i'm doing doing is holding the alt key and tapping on those bracket keys and then you can go up and down in the layers stack not move the layer but move the focus of the layer so i don't know if that's what you meant on that question cool um um how can you switch the shortcut of the mask thumbnail switching because it seems the shortcut looks a bit complicated so generally speaking you can go into edit and you can go into keyboard shortcuts here and this window will come up and you have all the keyboard shortcuts in photoshop here and if you don't like one you can just you know come in in the box and then change the keyboard shortcut to whatever you want so this is how you would change the keyboard shortcuts for for pretty much anything so you kind of have to look through here and then change the keyboard shortcut to whatever you want um let me see if there's any other questions in the chat awesome cool so the next thing that i want to show you like what i was already started mentioning earlier but then we got sidetracked with all these different keyboard shortcuts is that um if you're a photographer or or compositor maybe even a designer so let me know in the chat what you do are you photographer designer um compositor maybe videographer let me know in the chat what type of work you create in photoshop um but basically what i wanted to show you is a trick that will help you if you're compositing and if you're retouching and again it might be helpful for other areas as well and that is a lot of times when you're compositing or retouching you may get really really close to the image to make some edits so in this case you know let's just assume that i wanted to remove uh these drops from from the image right so i'm really close here trying to remove these drops of the spot healing brush tool but when i do that i really can't see how that's affecting my overall image and a lot of times you may want to see how those minor adjustments affect your overall composite or your overall retouch so what you can do is use this incredibly useful feature in photoshop if you go into view i'm sorry if you go into window and select arrange at the very bottom of the arrange drop down you will see new window 4 and then the name of the documents that you have open in photoshop in this case i only have one document open so i only have one option if you click on that photoshop will open a window of exactly the same document now this is very important this is not a duplicate document this is not a separate instance is the same document so if i come in here and i make an adjustment that same adjustment appears on the other tab because it's the same document they're not different ones so that that's you know i need to make that very clear this is not a separate document same document two windows what i can do now is go into window arrange and select either two up horizontal or two up vertical in this case we'll do two up vertical so we can put them side by side so what i can do now is zoom in really really close on one and on the other one i can just you know fit it on screen so that i can see the the overall image and obviously this works better if i have two monitors and i have a little more real estate to work with but i think you'll get the idea so what i can come in here and do is i can start making adjustments now so let me just do an adjustment here so that you can see keep an eye out on the clip here on his backpack i'm just going to remove it and it's not going to be you know the best retouching job in the world but i think you'll get the idea i'm just going to use the clone stamp tool click on here and then just paint and notice that as i'm painting i'm removing it from the other image as well see that so that way you can really get in close work on detail and see how your adjustments affect the the overall composite and you know maybe i don't know maybe i can come in here and then just remove some of these imperfections here maybe these these stains or droplets whatever they are but as you can see all these changes that i'm making are also appearing on the other window at the same time so you might come in here and you might want to work on some of the details in his eyes for example maybe you want to increase the the highlight in his eye so you want to get in there close and you know i just add add that highlight there and you know that might be a little too much you can see it on the on the larger image so maybe just add just a little bit of you know highlight or whatever it is that you're trying to do on the image it really doesn't matter the point is is that you can see your minor adjustments in the larger view so that way that saves you the time from zooming in all the way to see the adjustment then zoom out to see how it affects the overall image i think it's a very powerful way to work and it just allows you to not zoom in and out so much also when you're working on on this view what you can do is obviously hold the space bar to pan right you see how i'm using this base part of pan but if you hold shift and you click on the spacebar you pan both images at the same time see that so i'm holding shift and i'm holding the spacebar and i'm clicking and dragging if i just hold the space bar without holding the shift key i will only move the document that i'm currently clicking on but if i hold shift and click and drag so i'm holding shift the spacebar and clicking and dragging i'm moving both documents at the same time does that make sense which are your most frequently used hotkeys and for which purpose along with a pen tablet i don't know what my most frequently used would be but if i had to give you an answer probably the left and right bracket keys to adjust my brush size the left and right right bracket keys and holding ctrl to move up a layer up and down in the layer stack like i showed you earlier this probably will be it and obviously the keyboard shortcuts for the individual tools in the toolbar um let me see if there's um cool we said we have a lot of photographers in the chat thanks so much for letting me know oh we have a map maker and designer that's super cool dennis we have a lot of we have iggp who's a photographer and graphic designer cool emmanuel and tracy are both designers fantastic we have uh shankar who's a photographer from nepal cool he uses lightroom and now is learning photoshop fantastic okay so i'm seeing a lot of questions in the chat about changing the background and color matching so i'm just going to do a quick example on that um changing the background and color matching so i don't i wasn't planning on showing that but since everybody's asking i'll show you a quick thing that you can do so i know that i have a couple images here that will work for this example so this is one image here so let me open that up and i've done this tutorial on my youtube channel so you might have seen this already but it will answer that question so if i have um this sunset image with this guy you know how can we how can we match this well there's really only i mean there's a lot of steps when it comes to compositing but you can break them down to maybe three or four you know larger steps and then fine-tune those larger steps right so the first step is your masking right so we have a background and we have our foreground how do we mask this there's a lot of ways i'm asking in photoshop one of the easiest ways in photoshop 2020 and newer is by simply clicking on the remove background button which uses artificial intelligence known as adobe sensei this analyzes the image and tries to locate the main subject and mask it out from the background using a layer mask here's a tip for the layer mask if you hold shift and click on the mask you can disable it see that so you don't delete pixels so that's the great thing about working with a layer mask you don't delete pixels you work non-destructively you can always come back and edit them right so holding shift and clicking will disable the mask holding alt that's option on the mac so alt on windows option on the mac and clicking on the layer thumbnail will show you the actual mask white reveals black conceals what's in white is what shows what's in black is was what's hidden and obviously you can paint on that mask to change what's shown and what's hidden but anyway you can always fine tune the mask when you have the layer mask active you can go into select and mask and from here you can zoom in and make sure that you don't have any jagged edges or anything like that you can increase the smoothness the contrast a little bit and you can just press okay smoothness removes the mask um the jaggedness of the mask edge and to show you what i mean by that is if you click on this view button and go to black and white what i'm really trying to do here is not to have jagged edges if i reduce the smoothing you can see the edges here are jagged see that right up here on top of his arm they're very jagged so what i'm doing here is just increasing the smoothness to straighten those edges out so that the mask looks a little bit better then i'll press ok notice that i didn't do anything to his hair i like to work with the hair separately because when you start smoothing the mask you'll also smooth the edges of his hair and they're vastly different before we work on the hair what i do want to do is make sure that my mask is looking good notice that we have some halos here and we're going to fix those in a moment and we have these corners there so with the brush tool what i can do is paint with black to hide these corners another thing that i could do is i could come in here click once hold shift and click again to draw a straight line between the two points so click once let me make a larger brush so you can see so if you click once and hold shift and click again you'll make a straight line between those two points so you can do that as well and follow the edges and i'm holding the space bar to click and drag and pan and i can just come in here zoom in really close and work on this area here that the mask miss in this case i can use the polygonal lasso tool to click once click again and just do that triangle triangular selection you can fill with the foreground color which is currently black by holding alt and backspace that's option delete on the mac if you want to fill with the background color you can hold ctrl which is command on the mac and the delete key or i said that so bad i'm so sorry control backspace on windows command delete on the mac and to deselect the selection notice that i have an active selection you can tap you can press ctrl d on windows command d on the mac but anyway so my mask is looking okay i'm gonna work in here in a moment but what i'm gonna do now is try to remove some of these halos you can see that i have a few edge halos and the way that you would do that is by going into filter other minimum and you've been seeing me use this filter so much in the past i use it on almost every tutorial for like you know the last i don't know um several years but the point is is that you can increase the make sure that you set the preserve to roundness and increase the radius and you notice that when you increase the radius you contract the mask so you don't want to contract it too much you just want to contract it enough so that you remove those edge halos so just keeping keep clicking and dragging until you remove it um notice that i did a good job now in removing the halos but i went into the shirt that's okay i can press okay and just paint with white to bring back the shirt see that the sleeve here so just bring that back and obviously you can just keep going around and making sure that everything else looks great fantastic now let's work on the hair with the layer thumbnail layer mask thumbnail selected i can go back into selected mask and i can do one of two things i can simply select the any one of these selection tools and click on refine hair and that will automatically refine the hair for you i can zoom in and you can see how photoshop tried to refine the hair it didn't do a perfect job i can still come in here and paint with white to fill in these areas that should not be hidden like so and i think that this looks pretty good and i can press ok and that's what the hair looks like so you know we're making good progress let me take a second and look at the chat and answer some questions do i know how to use illustrator premiere pro in after effects um to different levels of degrees yes um graphic tablet versus mouse i prefer the tablet i like to teach with a mouse it's just easier but when i'm really doing work i use a tablet i have my wacom tablet right here i have my stylus right here as you can see cool nice so what i'm going to do now is continue with this composite so another thing when you're compositing is you need to take it into consideration your light sources right so i have the sun here on the left and the light should be shining on his left side but in reality it's shining on his right so this wouldn't be a good composite so always think about your light sources so in this case i can press ctrl t on windows command t on the mac to transform and flip the layer horizontally so now this looks more realistic the light sources in the scene are matching and you know what i'm going to scale this layer down so that it matches better so ctrl t command t to transform scale this down and i'm going to select the crop tool and crop it down that way this looks more like an actual photo something like that and you know he's looking out into the distance into the sun he's wearing sunglasses so i hope he's not hurting his eyes but you know that's what he's doing so one of the things that you can do is create the color the curves adjustment layer and with the curves adjustment layer what you can do is use one of the auto color correction adjustments so when you hold alt on windows option on the mac and click on auto you'll get these color correction adjustments and these were designed to remove color casts and to neutralize an image but you can use them to color match so let me show you how to do that what you need to do is first make sure the curve is only affecting the layer below so you can click on the clipping mask icon so that your adjustments only affect the model here also we need the focus the white outline on the layer thumbnail this is very very important make sure that the layer thumbnail is active the focus needs to be on the layer thumbnail not the layer mask again very very important or otherwise this won't work then you can reset the layers so that we can start from scratch hold alt on windows option on the mac and click on auto and that will bring up the auto color correction options make sure that find dark and light colors is selected and uncheck snap neutral midtones then you have to tell photoshop what color the shadows are for this particular layer well the shadows should be the same color as the background because we're trying to match that that type of style so i can click on that and just click on the darkest element in the background which is this orange and you can always click and drag down to make it even darker maybe something like that and then do the same thing for the highlights what color should the highlights be well you don't want to use white or specular highlight in the scene just use you know the predominant highlight color in that scene in this case yellow and you can adjust it any way that you want as well when you have your color selected all you need to do now is press ok photoshop will ask you if you want to make these your default colors in 99.9 of the cases you don't want to do that so just say no you want to keep them black and white and notice in the properties panel you can see that the changes happen in the red channel the green channel and the blue channel and in the rgb composite you can see those color lines they're going all over the place showing you how that color effect was applied the important thing is that the rgb curve this white line here wasn't changed at all it's still straight it's still at default and that's great because that means that you can now control the contrast of the layer with that line so i can click and drag down a little bit to add a little bit of contrast see that so just trying to find something that matches click and drag up on the top part of the curve this is called an s-curve because it kind of looks like looks like an x and it gives contrast to the image so you you need to just click and drag and find an appropriate spot so that your composite looks realistic so something like this i would say it works and this is the before and the after and i think this is a great way of applying uh co of color matching in photoshop if your background image has a strong color cast or color grade or something like that so yeah i wasn't planning on showing this but a lot of people were asking on how to composite and color match in photoshop um awesome abdul thank you so much he's saying awesome tricks i appreciate that um oh thank you so much abdul uh not a question but your most knowledgeable youtube photoshop twitter or after 15 years of using photoshop you never fail to teach me awesome tips and tricks that i never knew about awesome i'm so glad you find this useful abdul let me know in the chat if you're also finding this tips and tricks useful um [Music] how do i remove background removal accuracy and low res images you have you're going to get your hands dirty you're going to have to go in there and paint things away disregard things that are too difficult to select it's just it's just basically what i did here but with a lot more fine tuning um let me see jd is saying thanks for your excellent tips from north carolina actually jd i'm gonna go visit north carolina for the very first time next month uh i say pronouns raleigh um that's where i'm going i have a friend there in in raleigh north carolina and i'll be there a couple days and then i'm gonna take a road trip up north uh hitting you know all the states all the way up to vermont come back around west towards chicago come down to tennessee and loop back up towards georgia and south carolina back up to raleigh and fly home so it's going to be about a three week week trip coming up in two months that's going to be my summer vacation if you want to think about it i'm still considering what i'm going to do for the show when i'm gone so i might actually stream some episodes of the photoshop training hour from the road from different states so we'll see how that goes i'm going to try to find good internet connection along the way so that i can stream you know from my laptop so that we don't miss an episode of the photoshop training hour while i'm on my trip cool um what is the difference in the mask between remove background and select subject yeah that's a good question so let me show you the answer to that um let me just delete the layer mask so in the properties panel when you have a layer selected you have remove background and select subject remove background will do what you saw earlier it will make a selection and then apply a layer mask to that selection and select subject is the same thing without applying the layer mask so you'll just get the selection around the person see that we have the selection around the person actually here's a another tip for you guys when you have a selection active you can go into the channels panel um actually that's not what i wanted to show you um when you have a selection active you can press the q key on the keyboard and that enables a quick mask mode and you can almost treat it like a layer mask you can paint with white and black to add or subtract to the selection but when you go to the channels panel you'll see that you have a quick mask channel if you wanted to save that selection you can just click and drag it over into the new layer icon a new channel icon and now you have a quick mask and i can just call this mask give it a name i can just call it man so now i have my selection saved so selections are nothing more than channels really so now i have my selection saved so if i ever need to load it i can just hold control on windows command on the mac and click and it loads as a selection that is the same thing literally the same thing as going into select and clicking on save selection down here and i can give it a name i'll call it man number two press ok and notice notice that i get exactly the same result so that's an that's another way of doing the same thing so selections are essentially channels and you can just save them if you enable the quick mask mode and then copy that quick mask into the channels panel is the same thing as saving a selection and also i mentioned earlier that you know holding control and clicking on a channel thumbnail will load it as a selection but also notice that there's a keyboard shortcut here control seven what does that mean or control six well if i press ctrl six i select that channel right ctrl seven i select it but the cool thing is that if i press ctrl alt and then that number it will load it as a selection that's command command option on the mac and then the number it will load that channel as a selection so in this case control seven if i were to hold ctrl alt and the number 7 notice that i have a selection around that channel just so that it's it's a little different i'm going to go into channel number six and i'm just going to paint with white over here just so that we have a different channel and you can see the uh difference there we go so if i press ctrl alt and number six notice that i can load the active pixels on that channel control alt seven i load the active pixels on that channel so this is a cool thing because you might be um working like composite you know like i was doing here earlier and let me make sure i come back into the rgb view so you might be working on a composite and you might want to create a layer mask that only affects the person well you know that you have a channel that you saved based on the person and that that channel is channel number seven so i can press ctrl alt seven it loads as a selection i can go into the you know hue and saturation adjustment layer and now i can desaturate him or saturate him more and you know change the hue or whatever it is that you want to do it could be any other layer adjustment layer but the point is is that once you save the selection if you just remember what slot is in you can always load that selection by pressing ctrl alt and then that number seven in this case to load him as a selection also no matter what image you're working on the first three slots so um or four rather are the rgb composite red green and blue channel the rgb composite is really interesting notice that that's number two so then in a composite or in an image rather not just a composite the number two slot will be for luminosity so if you press ctrl alt and the number 2 it would load the bright pixels in the image ctrl alt 2 on windows command option 2 on the mac and i can use the curves panel and now adjust only the the brighter pixels in the image if i want to affect the darker pixels in the image all i need to do is with the focus on my layer mask i can press ctrl i on windows command i on the mac to invert and now i'm only targeting the darker pixels in the image and i can make my adjustments to the darker pictures in the image like so let me see if there's any other questions um how do i how do we color match if we need to color match different body parts from different persons yeah i get it basically the same process but you just have to treat each individual piece separately but it's the same process unfortunately it's just a lot more work um eddie is saying you should visit scad i don't know what that is eddie let me know in the chat um go fetch your water please yeah i'm trying to i i would need to i live in a two-story place i would have to run all the way downstairs and i don't want to take so much time to do that um cool um but thank you for for letting me know to go get some water [Music] um our our win is saying our vind is saying i improve a lot by watching your videos thank you so much uh we have uh vindat from mumbai cool how can you download photoshop 2021 adobe.com awesome cool um before we continue what i'm going to do is talk a little bit about our sponsors msi msi is sponsoring these videos actually if you look on the top right corner right here you can see we're being sponsored by msi thank you so much msi for sponsoring us um the photoshop training hour is is the uh the msi is the official sponsor for 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one has been your favorite so far and if there's one stream uh one trick or tip that i've shown you that you enjoyed do me a favor and tap on that like button now that's all i'm asking just type on that like button now and if you like let me know in the chat which tip or trick that was cool habanero is saying i love my msi awesome i'm so happy that you love your msi i like my msi laptop and desktop as well what about aussies um good to see anazi in the house um cool oh in south carolina i see what you were talking about eddie you were saying to check out and i already forgot um what place you're uh you should visit scad i'm guessing that's what you mean by uh oh the savannah college of art and design oh awesome got it got it you know what i've done a couple presentations for several art and design schools i've done the academy of art uh in here in silicon valley and i've done the art institute as well and i've done a couple other presentations for a couple schools in boston as well universities in boston so yeah that'd be awesome always always up for for doing things for schools um let me see if there's any other questions pasido domingo said you are very precise and very intelligible thank you you're welcome i appreciate that comment if i only knew about youtube in high school there was no youtube when i was in high school so i totally get that oh okay i see it you're saying it's in savannah georgia uh savannah college of art and design very cool place to visit i may just add it to the list thank you so much for that suggestion eddie and yeah like i i have been to the big cities in the east coast mainly for work related purposes you know new york chicago boston you know those type of places but i haven't really seen anything in between so on this road trip that i'm taking i really want to see all these in between places that i'm sure are beautiful that i just haven't had an opportunity to visit so if you have any suggestions let me know in the chat cool all right so we just have a few more minutes about 10 more minutes so let me show you a couple more tips and tricks here's another one this is probably not the best image so let me switch the image to show you um this next tip i'm just gonna write the word colorful here on my libraries panel to see what comes up and this one will be a good good photo for that so um let me show you something in camera raw and then i'll show you how you can do something similar in photoshop so if you go into filter camera raw filter that will of course bring up the camera raw filter the camera filter allows you to have total control of the tonality and color of your image under the color mixer you have access to the luminance sliders here and that simply means that you can darken or brighten the specific color for the slider that you're adjusting so in this case reds oranges you know aquas blues or any other color that you want obviously you can also control your saturation i can increase the saturation of the blue or change the hue of the blue you know all that stuff now what i'm really focusing on now is the luminance so again i can control the luminance of the colors that i have here so how do i do that with an adjustment layer where there's actually a trick that you can use you can go into the black and white adjustment layer and you'll get these sliders which allow you to control the luminosity of the selected colors so this is actually the best way to make a black and white image because you can totally control the luminosity of the original colors to create a better black and white image right now what if you want to do that but keep the color well you can use a blending mode if you click on this drop down and select luminosity the color comes back and you can adjust the brightness of the colors in the slider see that just like you could with camera raw now in my opinion camera raw is better it's got more sliders this has six lighters camera raw has eight so it has more separation between the colors so it gives you more control but this isn't an adjustment layer so if you wanted a similar adjustment but with an adjustment layer you can certainly use this technique and get very similar results let me see if there's any any other questions in the chat let's see and yeah actually guys in the chat like please ask the questions just just one time like if you ask them a bunch of times i probably will skip them so but i will address like if i don't answer a question is either because it doesn't relate to what i'm talking about or i just don't have time to explain it or in this case there's a question about um shadows in digital painting i'm not a digital painting painter so i wouldn't be able to articulately answer that question but thank you for for asking your question um awesome ali i'm so happy that the adjustment layer technique saves you a lot of headaches i'm really really happy to hear cool um let me move on to the next thing um there's a couple things that i should show you so let me i mean i guess we can do it with this with this layer here um so you probably know that with the clone stamp tool you can hold alt on windows option on the mac and click to sample a source and then just paint that in a new layer let me do that again and i can just paint you know the watch on a new layer right i think i think most of you probably knew this right so there we go she's got two watches now um what i don't think that a lot of people know is that there's actually a panel for this particular tool so if you go into window and select clone source you can you have the clone source here on the top when i click on that you know i can continue painting oops that went away let me bring it back window clone source here we are so notice that i have the clone source of the watch still there see that but i can click on this icon and then add another clone source so maybe i can do a clone source of like her fingernail or something right so then when i go back into my clone source i can just you know paint her finger you know in here for whatever reason and if i want to i can also select the clone source for the watch this button here and now i will paint the watch back in and obviously that where's the watch where i know it's going to come out at some point but anyway the point is that the oh here it is the point is that you can select multiple clone source here so i can come back into this one and continue painting the hand and i can come back into this one and continue painting the other part see oh here's a watch finally there it is see that so you can save your clone sources using these boxes and you have up to five clone sources that you can save also when you have [Music] something selected you can obviously see the preview there right and um something that you can do is you can rotate the clone source so with the clone source selected here you can click and drag on this and rotate it so when i paint notice that the watch is now is now rotated see that so i can come in here and keep rotating the source i'll rotate it even more so that you can see how that works and i know this is like probably the worst example but as you can see i'm rotating the clone source and i can scale the clone source i can offset it and i can do all sorts of things let me just create a new layer and just do it with one single area so i can click on the watch but notice that since i rotated the clone source now i've rotated the watch right so maybe i can come into her hand here and you know make it seem like she's also wearing a watch see that see how i did that just by rotating the clone source so all you need to do is go into the clone source panel under window and then you have more controls over the uh tools here and if you need to reset these values just click on this icon and it resets them you can see that there so yeah so this is how you would um you would control the clone source here in uh in photoshop and actually let me make that larger again and oops i think i clicked on the wrong button here there we go so clone source is a fantastic fantastic way of of [Music] taking complete control of your clone stamp tool let me see if there's any other questions in the chat um oh thank you so much eddie i appreciate that um i'm so glad that you bookmarked the channel yeah if you haven't been to the photoshop training channel before feel free to subscribe i appreciate that thank you so much eddie um versus levels what is my thought on this debate um i don't even know if there's a debate going on on that um but i've been hearing people talking about that lady i'm not re lately i'm not sure why um so curves and levels they're two different tools right we have levels and we have curves and they both help you control the luminosity of the image right so curves does it by using a curve right and one of the arguments that i've heard is that curves is better than levels and i mean the short answer is yes and no what i mean by that is can curves do everything that levels can and the answer is yes but does that make it better or worse that you shouldn't use one over the other the answer is no because they each have their purposes right so if i wanted to just quickly just super quickly make the darkest pixel in the image not black and just make it this shade of gray right here i would rather do that in curves because it's much easier and much faster and i have more control over it if i wanted to control the gamma i can just use this slider because that's what that slider does it controls the gamma now could i do this in curves definitely of course but you know it would it would require just a little more more work right so make my you know blacks off white i have to click and drag this point up and it just doesn't feel as fast or as efficient it's still doing the same thing what about controlling my gamma well now i have to control like these points and make these these adjustments and you know it's much easier to make a mistake with curves right notice how how much more trouble i'm having controlling that that midpoint contrast so um curves can do everything that levels can but it doesn't make it better or worse they're just different tools for different things let me give you an example curves can do literally what most of these adjustment layers can do for example the invert adjustment layer right invert there you go curves can do that how can curves do that you just drag this point down and drag this point up and there you go that's the invert adjustment does that mean that you shouldn't use the invert adjustment of course not you know everything has its purpose um and if you're in the belief that just because a particular adjustment layer like curves is better than all the others and it can do everything the others can do and you shouldn't use the others then i just find that silly because the everything has its purpose and if that's your belief then you shouldn't use the curves adjustment layer because let me show you why if you believe that the curves adjustment layer is better than everything else and you shouldn't use anything else then with that same logic you shouldn't use the curves adjustment layer because the camera raw filter actually can do everything that the curves adjustment layer can do in more so don't use the curves adjustment layer use the camera raw filter because it gives you all the control of your tonal and color adjustments in this filter so that's where i stand on on that quote-unquote debate debate that you know i i don't think there's a debate is they're just two different tools and you should use the tool that best works for the particular job that you're having you know just because a tool is better or more powerful doesn't mean you should always use it sometimes simplifying things is a bit better so yeah that's where i where i stand on on that quote-unquote debate um let me let me see um [Music] do you have any tutorials on how to get video manipulation yes uh if you go into my youtube channel if you go into my youtube channel you can go into playlists and in here i have um [Music] you know the playlist where i have my compositing tutorials and there's somewhere in here i'm just looking for them i know i have it here here we go um let me just type in compositing here oh here we go compositing photoshop tutorials right here when you click on that you'll get to see a list of all my compositing videos and there's one in particular that addresses that how to match a subject into any background will be one of those and also the photoshop compositing secrets live stream that one should help you answer that question so yeah just come in here and check out those compositing videos if you're interested um [Music] prasant is saying curves is a little more difficult for me yeah it could be a little more difficult a pen tool versus select subject well again two two very different things right like one of them uses pixels to make a selection the other one uses vessier curves mathematical equations to make a you know cut out or selection it depends on what you're doing right i probably wouldn't use the pen tool to mask hair but i would use the pen tool to mask say a car or something with straight or curved edges it requires that nice sharper edge nothing will give you a sharper edge more than a vector mask so then in that case i would select the vector mask but if i was masking fur then i would use the you know pixel-based selection like select subject or something like that cool gabriel said there should be a churn levels into curves option to end this debate for once again i don't think there's a debate they're just two different tools that that give use you know control over tonal adjustment in different ways so one just works one way and the other works another way but yeah i mean that would be a cool a cool technique a cool like feature to you know maybe you started in curves and you want to go into levels or vice versa that would definitely be a cool feature um what's the difference between the spot healing brush tool and the clone stamp tool clone stamp tool simply copies pixels from one area to another think about it as copy and paste and the spot healing brush merges the texture and luminosity of one area into another so that one is more like a blend and one is just copy and paste um cool um yeah camera raw filter is not an adjustment layer well it's not an adjustment layer but you can treat it as an adjustment layer right so if you convert it into a a smart object you can go into the camera raw filter right and let me what happened to my camera revealed here it is i'm just going to make an adjustment right it doesn't matter what it is there it is so see i have a mask just like an adjustment layer i have a mask so i can paint with black and you know treat it like a mask also in some ways it's even more powerful than than an adjustment layer because i have this little icon here and i can double click on it and now i have opacity on that specific adjustment and blend mode which is separate then the opacity and blend mode of the layer so you have that same control just like you do with an adjustment layer i know it's not an adjustment layer but you know we're going to get super technical about curves and levels and we can get super technical about this as well but anyway is it use whatever works for you um so it looks like we're out of time in just a couple minutes so let me see if i can answer just a few more questions um cool what color remote options is very very important oh man there's so many um shanna shinage i believe your name is pronounced and i'm sorry if i mispronounce it um color mode options that are very important in photoshop there's so many i mean i wouldn't be able to give you just one i mean if i had to say something um i would say you know camera probably just because you have total control of color and tonality but you know i don't know there's so many other tools that i would use you know for for that so um anurag i don't remember liking your instagram post but maybe if you share a link to it and i look at it i'll remember your what your composite was or your piece was cool um i could give you any pointers on how to have creative ideas to make digital pictures um this is this is a hard question to answer because i feel that different people have different ways to get motivated or inspired um for me i get inspired and motivated by stories whether it's books movies you know even podcasts like whatever i'm a big fan of storytelling so stories inspire me to create work but that may not be true for you so it's a hard question for me to answer i would say that you can get inspired by looking at other people's work by trying new things you know museums all these different things that that just that you look and take into and then hopefully maybe something in your head sparks for you to create something so i hope that answer was beneficial i don't know if it was um cool well thank you so much everybody it's already 1102 here in california and it's time to end the stream i really appreciate you being with me on this third uh photoshop training hour the photoshop training now where i almost forgot the name of the show just because this is the first time we're naming it so i'm using the the name that you guys selected so thank you so much for that also thank you to msi for sponsoring today's video again the links to the msi products that are used that i use are below in the description and do me a big huge favor if you enjoyed any one of the tips that i showed today just click on that like button now and let me know in the comments what that was i look forward to being back with you again next week i'm thinking of changing the show to um wednesday so let me know if that will work better for you wednesday or friday i figure friday is the end of the week so it'll be nice to have a one hour photoshop break where you and i could talk and hang out and just talk about photoshop or maybe you can do it middle of the week i don't know so i may try a wednesday to see how that goes but again uh thank you so much i love everybody in the chat thank you so much for uh sharing all the love and saying hello and everything else um i'm gonna be publishing a tutorial in the next couple days so we're gonna have a regular tutorial pretty soon anyway everybody thank you so much for joining me i really appreciate you being here with me have a wonderful day and i'll talk to you soon thank you everybody bye

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