All language subtitles for 1-6. The Photoshop Workspace.mp4

Hello. My name is Richard.

And in this course, I'm going to teach you
the basics of Photoshop

that you need to know as a photographer.

So you may be asking yourself,
why does a photographer

need to know Photoshop?

Well,

Photoshop is like

it's like a cook

or a chef knowing how to decorate
and serve his food.

So you may be good at cooking,
but if you want to be a chef,

if you want to be at the top of the game

in terms of cooking, you also need to know
how to present your plate.

That's probably not the best example
or the best analogy,

but I kind of like the analogy of cooking

to creative endeavors
and graphic design specifically.

I often tell people that the best way
to learn

Photoshop and graphic design
is to do projects, right?

If you're learning to cook, you don't
sit down with the manual for the oven.

What you do is you get a recipe
and you start cooking.

So similarly, I've structured this course
in a way that we're going through

different projects
and learning tools as we go.

Now, having said that,
because this course is kind of designed

for someone who's opening Photoshop
for the first time,

I do have quite a few lessons
at the beginning that take you

through the interface of Photoshop,
the tools, the palettes,

and the whole camera raw plug
in which you're going to use

if you're a photographer
taking camera raw images,

that's how you're going
to get your photos into Photoshop.

So if you're already familiar
with all that, you can jump forward.

I would jump forward
to the lesson on panoramas because that's

where we actually start taking projects
and taking them through the workflow.

And from there you'll start to see
how the different tools are used

But if you're opening Photoshop
for the first time

or have very little familiarity
with Photoshop, I do suggest you go

through the entire course we're going
to be teaching a lot in this course.

We're covering basic adjustments to images
such as exposure,

temperature, contrast, detail, sharpness
and so forth.

We're going to be covering

retouching of landscape
images, including removing things,

replacing

skies, adding clouds, adding flares.

We're going to be covering
retouching portraits, including

how to get smooth skin using frequency
separation You may have heard of that.

If you haven't, check out the lesson.

It's a good one.

We're going to be talking about
how to enhance eyes,

getting rid of and adding tattoos
realistically.

We're going to be talking about color
grading to give your images

a certain look.

We're going to be talking about

Photoshop's
layer stack and how to use that.

So how to blend layers together
to create really cool effects,

including double exposures,
entirely new backgrounds,

adding logos or texts on to images,

combining two different images into one

And we're also kind of toward
the end, we're

also going to cover more advanced stuff,
such as a lot of the shortcuts,

a lot of the shortcuts I cover as we go,
but we're going to cover those.

We're also going to cover

how to create an action in Photoshop
to speed up your workflow.

So hopefully this is not overwhelming.

You it is 7 hours of training,

and I do try to cover everything in detail
and not cover something

or use
something that I haven't covered already.

So this is kind of designed with someone
who's never open Photoshop in mind.

So if you have open Photoshop you might
you might find some of it tedious.

In that case, just skip forward to

the Panorama lesson

that's kind of passed
all the basic basic stuff.

And from there you can start going through
different projects with me

and you'll actually learn the techniques
as opposed to the tools.

All right, let's get started.

The first thing we're going to do
is check out the Photoshop interface

and workspace

We're going to start by opening Photoshop.

I'm going to click on the Photoshop
icon here

and when we open up

Photoshop,
we are going to see the home screen

and click here.

You're going to see the recent files
the learn tab here.

We'll show you tutorials.

And if you click on all our photos,
you're going to see the Lightroom photos

that you have synched
with Photoshop, Adobe Creative Cloud.

From here, you can create a new documents
or open existing documents.

And if you click on the Photoshop icon
here,

it's going to take you to the Photoshop
interface.

Let's go ahead and go to File Open.

One thing to note here is that virtually

everything in Photoshop has a shortcut.

And as you're working in

Photoshop, you're going to see
what the shortcuts are.

And generally,

I advise that you learn those shortcuts
and use them any time you can.

All right, so let's go to file open

and we're going to open the file called

Simple Composite.

Let's go ahead and click on Open Down Here

All right.

And real quick, I want to familiarize
you with the Photoshop workspace

So on the left, here are all your tools.

And along

the top, here is your main Photoshop menu.

And down
here are the options for your active tool.

And as I click down here,

you can see that
that toolbar up here is changing

based on which tool I have selected.

And over here are your palettes.

And your palettes are basically these
they are what your layers are.

And the checkmarks here show you which

palettes are fully displayed

So you got your layers,
your learn and your color.

Those are the ones that are active
right now.

If I click on this and now go to Windows

you'll see that
my swatches has the checkmark next to it.

If I click on character, for example,
that's one

that's not active and not shown anywhere.

You'll see that
now appeared in this column

and I've got character paragraph,
but those are there.

If I click on the icon, it'll collapse.

And if I click on it,
it'll expand that window.

You can also adjust this
if you click on the name here

on this top tab, you can click and drag it

and that'll detach it from your workspace

and now it'll just hover on top
of wherever you place it.

Or you can take it and drag it

into the column and it'll become an icon.

You can also click and create

a new column here,

or you can click and create a new row
here.

So simply click and drag
and you can see kind of the blue dot.

The blue line here gives you a preview
of what it's going to do So in this case,

it's going to create a column, it's
going to create a row,

or it's going to make it
an additional tab in this existing block.

So let's go ahead and

place all of these
except for the layers palettes here.

We want to keep it that always active

So layers
is what you're going to use the most.

So generally when I set up my workspace,
I want to give that the most real estate.

So we're going to do that.

We're going to keep our layers, palettes
here.

We're going to have our column
for all of our other palettes,

and we can simply dock
those as we use them.

Or don't use them.

And we want our tools here.

And this is generally how
I have my workspace set up

when I'm working in Photoshop.

The one thing I do also want to do
is kind of customize.

One of the thing is
obviously this is your canvas

and this is the image
that you're working on.

You can see it does have a tab here
which has the name of the file.

It also has the percentage
at which it's displayed

the layer that you have active,

the color mode and the bit.

So this is an eight bit file
that's RGV butterflies.

Normal is the layer that we have selected.

It's being shown at 66.7%.

And the name of the file,
a sample composite.

I can click on this tab and also detach
that if I have two monitors,

I could drag this off
and put it on my other monitor.

Or if I have two files up, I could have
both files up at the same time.

And in this case, I
do want to just dock it into my workspace.

So again, just like any of these
other palettes, or windows,

by hovering and showing that blue line,
I've now put it in that workspace.

Okay.

So that is a general overview
of the workspace in Photoshop.

The next thing I want to do
is customize the toolbar

and the toolbar all the tools that you're
going to be using in Photoshop.

And as you can see as I hover
these is showing you what that tool does.

There's even a little quick
overview of it, which is kind of great.

You can turn that off and preferences
if you're familiar with Photoshop

and don't need that anymore.

But for this course,
it's probably good to have it.

All right.

Down here you'll see these three dots.

I click on that and hold down.

You can see
I have added toolbar as an option.

If I click on that,
I can customize my toolbar.

And this column here represents

what's currently showing on my toolbar.

You'll notice that this first move tool
has a tool under it, and that's

represented by that small little triangle
in the bottom right corner.

That means there is

more tools nested within that tool.

So what I want to do now is

I want to move all the tools
that I'm not going to be using.

I want to move into the extra tools
column here.

So let's take the artwork tool
and move that over.

Let's take the single row
and single column.

Let's take the lassos

Let's take everything
but the crop tool here.

Let's take the frame tool.

Let's take everything but the eyedropper

The reason why I don't want this active

is because when I use the shortcuts,
I don't want to have to toggle

through all these tools
to get to the tool that I want.

So by only having the tools that I want

in my menu,
I can access them more quickly.

For the brush tool,

I just want the primary brush tool
and the mixer brush tool

clone stamp.

I don't want to pattern tamp

this whole box.

I don't want
I don't want the history brush.

So what I can do is
you'll see if I hover over the tool,

I can also hover over the whole box
and drag that

And I just want the primary eraser tool

and the gradient

What I can also do is

I can take the eraser tool
and put that under the bus tool.

Same with the gradient

that'll just give me a little more space
here.

Not as many tools
showing at the same time.

And for the PEN tool,

I actually just want the pen tool
rather than dragging all of them.

I can just drag the whole box
and then drag the pen tool back.

Same with the type tool.

I can drag the whole box

and then just drag
the horizontal type back

So there you go.

Those are the tools that I want.

Take a look at that.

And what I want to do is I want to
at the bottom here,

I want to disable shortcuts
for hidden tools

and let's head done.

So there you go.

Now I have all the tools that I want.

I have my palettes where I want them.

What I want to do now is
I want to save this workspace.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go
to window workspace, new workspace.

We call this photo editing,

and I want to make sure menus and toolbars

are captured in this workspace.

Now, if I had customized some customized
some keyboard shortcuts,

I could select that as well.
But we didn't do that.

So we'll keep that off and hit save

So there you go.

We now have our workspace setup,
how we want it

now that we've set up our workspace.

Let's take a look at the layer stack
or the layers palette in Photoshop,

because this is really where
Photoshop derives its power

and its ability
to blend and composite images so well

is through the layer stack.

And the layer stack is essentially images

stacked on top of each other,
as you can see here.

And this little eyeball

turns the layers on or off

And up here where it says normal,

that's where you're going to change
the blending mode of the layer.

And that really determines
how that layer is going

to blend on top of the layers below it.

So if I select this fox here,
click up here, and just as I scroll down

you can see how that image is changing on
top of it.

We're going to cover in detail
quite a few of these later in the course.

But right now, just know that that's
where the blending mode is,

and that's what it does.

It determines how one layer blends
with everything below it

Next you have the opacity,

and that simply changes
how transparent that layer is.

The default is 100
if I drag this to the left,

you can see the fox
there is becoming less and less

opaque

or more and more transparent

All right.

So that's what opacity is.

Fill is similar to opacity,

but it affects the layer

independent of the layer effects.

So that's kind of
something that we'll get into

once we discuss layer effects right
now, just now

that opacity is the one
you're going to be using

at 99% of the time, not fill.

All right.

Next, let's talk
about these little icons down here.

So the first one is linking.

And what that allows you to do
is select two layers at a time link them.

And then in the future, if you just have
one of those layers selected and move it

around, it's going to move all the layers
at the same time.

Let's go ahead and undo which as controls.

And to
be honest, I don't use this anymore.

Back in the days of earlier
versions of Photoshop, you were not able

to select multiple layers
and move them at the same time.

So back in that time,
it was very important

to have a way to move multiple layers
at the same time.

And that's what you did with the linking,
really.

You don't need that anymore.

So I don't find myself
using the linking tool.

I haven't for the last,
I don't know, half a decade

since they allowed you to select and move

multiple layers at the same time.

I I've stopped having any use

for that link except for in rare cases.

All right. Next is the layer effects.

So if I select let's
go ahead and turn off the fox.

If I select the butterflies here
and click here.

This gives me the option of adding

various effects
most of which are self-explanatory.

If I click on Drop Shadow,
you can see my layer style palette show up

and you can

see the capacity of the drop shadow

and if I decrease the size,

you can see that drop shadow there.

So quite self-explanatory.

And we'll get into this quite a bit more.

And later tutorials.

Although as a photographer,
you're not going to be using layer styles

quite as much as, say, a graphic designer
or someone else might use them.

All right.

So let's go ahead and turn that off here.

Okay. All right.

Next is mass and this is something
you're going to be using a lot mask.

If I click on this,
you can see a mask has been added.

And what a mask does
is it allows you to make certain parts

of the image disappear without actually
deleting the pixel information.

So with my masks, selected,
you can see the little white

box around it if I select my paintbrush.

Right.

Mouse, click here
and just select the hard round brush

Make sure my

foreground color here is black
and then start painting.

You're going to see that
I'm actually a racing

the background behind her

and that's

allowing my other background
to show up behind her.

So that's what a mask does.

And we're going to get into
quite a bit of detail on how to use masks,

how to cut out using masks and so forth.

But also realize that a mask is
essentially just a black and white image.

So if I hold down option and click on this
mask,

this is basically
just a black and white channel.

And you can see our channels palettes
here.

You'll notice that Model Smart Object Mask

is a channel similar
to Red, Green and blue.

All right. So let's cut back on our TV

and if you want to see the layer

mask, you can go to channels
and click on the eyeball here.

That'll turn it on.

But still, leave the other layers on.

Then you can turn off the others
if you'd like.

Or on here, you can hold then option,
click on the mask or hold down

shift in option to reveal the mask

while also showing the RJ B.

All right, so option click option click

that toggles back and forth or option

shift click and option shift click

to toggle those on and off.

There is a link

that's automatically attaching
your mask to your layer.

So if I move these around
and they both move at the same time,

you control Z there.

That is important.

If you unlink these and I then move her,

you can see I've now lost the relationship

there between the image and the mask
I've created.

Let's control, see that.

And to delete the layer mask

you and simply click it
and drag it into this trash can here

and apply mask layer before removing.

You don't want to do that.

You want to hit delete

You can also let's do

control Z, right
mouse click and say delete layer mask.

All right.

So that's how you add and delete
a layer mask.

This is adjustment layers.

And one thing in Photoshop
is that if I want to apply

a color correction
to all these layers at the same time,

I can't do that
by going to image adjustments

and let's say I want to do a curve
because if I do a curve,

that curve is only going

to apply to my selected layer.

And if I try to select three layers
at the same time, you're going to see

I do not have the option there
to do a adjustment on multiple layers so

the way

we get around
that is we have a layer for a curves

that sits on top of the layer stack,
and this affects the entire image.

So that's a very important addition
to your layer stack

and something
that you'll be using a lot of

All right, let's throw that away.

And if you click here and just hold down,

you can see all the options
for different adjustments.

Our next is the group, and that allows you
to select more than one layer at a time.

So if you hold down shift

or if you hold down Apple or command

you can select multiple layers,

click on the group
and it'll put them in a group.

The advantage of this is you can set
the blending mode for the whole group.

And you can add a mask to the group.

And in other tutorials,
you're going to see the power of that.

But you can also just use it
to organize your file better

if you have a whole bunch of layers.

So let's go ahead and delete the layer
mask.

Let's go ahead and also delete the group.

And I want to delete the
group only, not the contents

Okay.

Then we have the new layer icon.

I click on that.

It's going to create a new blank layer.

You can see here the grid here represents

transparency and you can see that
this layer is simply blank.

It has nothing in it.

Let's go ahead and delete that.

And another thing
that you can do with the new layer icon is

you can take an existing layer,
drag it down there and make a copy of it.

And that's something you're going
to be doing a lot of in Photoshop.

Generally,
when you're working on something,

you always want to make a copy of it

so that if you need to,
you can delete it and go backwards.

So that's dragging it to the new layer
icon.

It's going to make a copy.

You can also go up here to layer new layer
via copy.

The shortcut for that is Command J.

That's one of those shortcuts that you're
going to be using all the time.

So write that down on a post
and put it on your screen

or just memorize it command J.

It's going to make a copy of your layer.

Let's go ahead and select all

these copies and throw them away

And lastly,

we're going to cover clipping masks.

So let's
go ahead and select the butterfly.

And I want to move those to the right now.

You'll notice when I did that,
it moved this layer.

The reason for that is
we have auto select turned on.

So let's go ahead and turn that off.

And I don't like having that turned on

because it really depends on you
clicking on the right pixel here.

I generally like to make my layer
selections here.

And then just that way
I can click anywhere in the image,

start moving and it'll move the layer
I want to move and we'll cover that a bit

later and move towards some other tricks
you can do to make that more efficient.

All right,
so let's put the butterfly there

and let's take the fox layer
and drag it on top here.

And then what I'm going to do

is I'm going to hold down the option key
between these two layers and click

and you can see our fox disappeared here.

But if I drag it up,

there is our fox.

And this is essentially acting like

a little window for my fox.

Basically, all the layers that are clipped

will use the transparency of this layer
and apply it to this layer.

And if I select this layer and move it,
you can also see

that the inverse works there

and this is a nice way

of constraining layers or adjustments
and so forth.

You're going to see us
using this quite a bit.

So just know that in order to clip a layer
like that, you're going to hold down

option and click between the two
and that'll toggle

that behavior there

All right,

so let's go to history,
go all the way to the top here.

Go back to the beginning.

This is all the commands you've done,

and you can step backwards if you'd like.

But in this case, I know
I just want to go right to the beginning.

So the next thing I want to do is quickly
take you through all the tools here

or the primary tools that you're going to
be using as a photographer in Photoshop.

Let's go ahead and select the butterflies
layer.

Let's start with the Move tool.

The move tool is your default tool.

Generally, when you're working,
you want to be on that tool

because that is

when you're using shortcuts

for opacity, shortcuts
for your blending mode and so forth.

They're all going to be
with this move tool here.

And the shortcut for the move tool is V,

and all of the tools
have a single letter shortcut.

So for example, B is the brush tool

and if I just hit B on the keyboard,
I'm going to select the brush.

If I hit E,
it's going to select the eraser.

If I hit em, it's going to select the key

so just realize that all of the tools
have a single letter shortcut.

And if you hover over the tool,
you can see there

at the end
that is the shortcut for that tool.

All right.

So back to the Move tool.

The MOVE tool allows you to move
layers around

and also allows you to scale and rotate.

Now, you may be wondering how to scale
and rotate in Photoshop.

It's a common question for beginners
and how you do

that is by turning on the show
transformed controls.

And then from here,
if I get close to one of these

edges,
you'll see that my mouse step changes

and I can click and drag,

and that is going to scale

You also notice

that I now have a whole new

set of options up here in my toolbar

the left here is for the anchor point

and in other tutorials we'll show
the importance of that anchor point.

But if you hold down option you can see
that I can scale to that anchor point.

And also while holding option anywhere
I click,

it's going to move
that anchor point to there.

All right, so if I click on this butterfly
while holding option,

continue holding option, you can see I'm
now scaling to that butterfly.

All right.

You can turn off that anchor point here

if you don't want to see it.

And this

and this tells you
the location of the image.

This tells you the width and the height.

And this keeps those too constrained.

This shows you the rotation
and this shows you

the horizontal and the vertical

skewing, which I'll show you
how to do that with shortcut.

So first off, to rotate,
if I just go a little bit away,

you can see that
my icon changes to a rotate icon.

I can click and drag, and it's
going to rotate around my anchor point.

Again, if I hold down option and click

I'm going to change where I rotate from

and the horizontal and the vertical skew.

If I hold down the command,
you can see I can skew

like this and like this.

Also, if I select while holding down
command, select one of the individual

anchor points,
I can skew this disproportion

shortly

so as you can see,
there's a lot of options that you have

for skewing, rotating
and scaling with your transform.

And there's also even more options

here, which we won't get into here,
but we will in other tutorials All right.

So to commit your transform, you're going
to hit the checkmark or double click.

And to cancel your transform,
you're going to hit

this button here
or hit escape on your keyboard.

Go ahead and hit escape Now,

if I don't want to transform,
I can turn this off.

And there you go. I have my layer.

Now, if you'd like,
you can always keep this on.

It does show
you kind of which layer you have selected.

So it is helpful in that regard.

But I generally find it
gets in my way of seeing my whole image.

So I keep that off.

And another way to access
this is to go to edit and free transform.

And you'll notice that it's
now turned on the transformed boundary.

And you have all these options here.

So the shortcut for that

is command T,

and that's a shortcut
you're going to be using all the time.

So go ahead
and remember that when you're on a layer

and you want to rotate
or scale it to command T,

and then you'll have

the options that you need there
for rotating and scaling.

Now, if you want to rotate,

if you want to scale something
disproportionally, hold down shift.

This is a recent change in Photoshop
it used to have the opposite

where if you didn't hold down shift,

it would scale it disproportionately.

And if you held down shift, it's gathered
proportionally Personally,

I'm not a fan of the change
just because so many other programs

use shift for proportional
for keeping proportions

but for the purpose of this tutorial,

I'm going to keep it to the defaults
so it doesn't get too confusing

but let's get out

of this and I hit the button there.

But again, when you're on the move tool
and you want to rotate

or scale to command t,

you can have escaped to get out of it
to just move something.

You'll notice
that my transform does not appear here.

Moving
something does not require a transform.

So by moving something,
you will not get the free transform.

And if you just want to move something

you don't have to do it
with a free transform.

All right, so that's that.

And that is your move to the next tool
we're going to cover is the marquee

and this allows you
to select portions of your image

by clicking and dragging.

And similar to the option

doing it from the center.

This also, if you hold the option, it's
going to make a square from the center.

And in this case, holding shift is going

to keep a perfect square
letting go of shift.

This can allow you to disproportionally

disproportion, the width and the height.

So that's just one example.

Why don't like the behavior change
and transform and if you want to change

that, you can go to preferences general

and turn on legacy free transfer.

Okay.

Let's consider that.

And you might be wondering

why you need to make a selection.

And the reason for that is the way
Photoshop

works is all of these tools.

So virtually all of these tools
require a selection to work.

Now, if you have not made a selection
and only have a layer selected,

realize that the entire layer

is being treated as a selection.

So if you go Select Select all,

it's virtually identical
to not making a selection.

All right.

So if I want

to, for example, take this butterfly
and move him down.

Well, right now, if I go to the move tool,
you can see it's all one layer.

But if I go to the Mark Key
to make a cut out

there, then go to my move tool.

You can see that I've now cut out
that one butterfly and I'm moving it

independent of the others
to drop a selection go to select deselect.

The shortcut for that is command the

okay.

So the marquee allows you to do
rectangular or elliptical,

meaning circular selections

and for the circular selection,
that might come in handy.

If you want to do a vignette, you could

let's go ahead and turn these two layers
you could hold down option

kind of make a vignette shape around her

and invert that selection

with select inverse.

Now I have this kind of outside
frame selected create a new layer,

go to edit fill

and I want my contents here to be Black
Head.

Okay.

And I've now created
this kind of frame around her,

and then I could go to Filter, Blur,

Gaussian, Blur

Increase That Blur.

It's quite a bit

at. Okay.

And there you go.

I've created this nice vignette, so let's

go ahead and call this layer vignette
All right.

So there you can see
how you would use that selection tool.

Next, we have the marquee tool,
and this is for selections

that are more detailed
where you need to go around an object.

So let's go ahead and zoom in.

And the zoom is here.

But the shortcut for that there is.

So the zoom allows you to zoom in or out.

You can also click to zoom in
or then option to zoom out.

But if you have scrubby zoom turned

on, you can simply click
and drag left or right.

And once you're zoomed in,

the hand here allows you
to move your canvas around.

When you're doing this,
you're not moving a layer around.

You're not moving anything inside.

Your object.
You're not affecting your image.

You're simply moving the canvas

around your viewport.

All right.

So that's what the hand in the magnifying
glass do.

Now, fortunately, Photoshop
have built in shortcuts that work

regardless of which tool you're on.

So let's go back on the market
to what I'm going to do

is I'm going to hold down the spacebar,
and that's going to give me the hand.

And if I hold down the spacebar and
command, that's going to give me my zoom

all right.

So those are shortcuts
you're going to use all the time.

So make sure you remember them spacebar
for the hand

space and command for your zoom.

And if you're not using scrub zoom,

you can hold down option to zoom out.

No option, just command

and the spacebar to zoom in

Okay.

So let's go ahead and zoom in here.

And with the lasso tool,

I can click and draw

to make a more detailed selection

Now you'll notice
it's a little bit finicky.

And the problem that I run into with
the lesser tool is if you accidentally

move your mouse, there's
no way of coming back and fixing that.

You simply have to track through, make
your selection and then try to fix it.

Afterwards.

So as you can see
here, we've now made our selection

and this unfortunately had a feather.

So let's
go ahead and change our feather to zero.

Try to draw that again.

Let's go up here

and command in the spacebar.

Let's zoom out a little bit

and with the lasso selected,

you can see here

that this is going to make
a new selection.

I click on this.

It's going to add
to the existing selection.

You can see there's a little plus
now next to my lasso

and if there is some section
like let's say

I went like this on accident,
you can click here.

And what that will do is it'll subtract

and then this will intersect.

So you can see
now there's a little X next to it.

If I go here

that's going to make an intersection
of my two selections.

So let's go ahead and undo that.

Now, when you're on the standard
lasso tool,

if you hold down option,
you can see that it becomes a subtract.

If you hold down an

option, and shift, it becomes intersect

and if you hold down

shift by itself, it becomes the add.

So just realize
you really don't need to go up here.

You can simply hold down
option or shift or both,

and it'll temporarily change the tool.

And that's pretty common

for a lot of the Photoshop tools.

So just realize that shift and option
are usually going

to change the behavior of your tool
in some way.

All right.

So there you go.

With our Fox now selected,
we can click on the mask here

and that'll apply our selection
to the mask.

So that's one example of where
you would want to use the lasso tool.

And then other tutorials we'll get into
a lot more detail on tricks and

how to use that tool better.

All right.

Next is the quick selection tool

so the quick selection tool
or smart selection

essentially uses Photoshop's

AI to try to help you figure out
what you might want to be selecting.

All right.

So in this case, I'm
going to select the model smart object.

I want to make sure that sample
all layers is not turned on.

And let's go ahead and select.

And this by default is on the plus
rather than the new selection.

So let's start making a selection here

and now I want to minus some seminar
hold down option.

You can see here, when I hold down option,
it goes to my minus

and with this tool, kind of the slower
you do it

and the smaller
it is, the better the tool works.

And to change the size,
I can use my left and right brackets

or I can go up here

and change the size
and the hardness of the brush

there.

You can see
I've done a relatively good job and now

but in this case, you can see that
my selection is what I want to get rid of.

Whereas in the Fox,
the selection was what I wanted to show.

So this case, when I go to my mask,
I'm going to hold down option.

There you go.

You can see it's now deleted that.

All right. So that's the smart object.

And you're probably thinking,
wow, these cut look terrible.

And that's totally true.

I am going to show you some tricks
on how to do those really well

in other tutorials.

Right now, I just want to get you familiar
with all the tools in Photoshop

or at least
the tools that we're going to be using.

A lot of One thing

actually I missed on the Move tool,
and that's this order select.

I know I mentioned it earlier, but

I always keep that off and the reason for
that is I like the ability.

So like let's turn on these butterflies

to just click anywhere
and start moving a layer.

But if you have a lot of layers,
sometimes it is

helpful to be able to click on it
and select it in the layer stack.

So one way to get around
that is when you have it off

hold down command and it's
going to temporarily turn that on,

you can select the layer
and then let go of command.

And again, you're back to being able
to click anywhere

in the canvas to move that object.

Okay.

I was just a quick recap on that.

All right.

Next we have the crop tool.

When I turn that on

and see my options change here.

And I also have my crop selectors here

to crop, I'm simply going to start click
and start dragging.

You can see as I do
that it's now showing me

the size of all my layers and everything
that's not showing within my canvas.

So that's kind of important
when you're doing a photo

you can see what else is in the image
and that'll help you with your crop.

You can also see here that we've
got our rule of thirds, if you'd like.

There's quite a few other overlays

that Photoshop provides

and if you want to cycle through those,
you can click oh on your keyboard.

And those are just various

when you're doing your cropping

in Photoshop, which will cover
another tutorials as well.

But it's handy to have those here.

You can delete the crop pixels.

So here
it's showing you there's butterflies.

There's more to this image back here.

Generally, I keep that turned off that way

when I'm done cropping,
if I want to crop again

and use some of this information,
it's not deleted.

All right.

And similar to Free Transform,
you can hit a scape,

you can revert it, escape or commit.

So in this case,
we're just going to add escape.

All right.

Next we have the eyedropper
and I want to cover the eyedropper

and our foreground and background
color here.

I know I touched upon these earlier,

but these are

very important
and you're going to use them quite a lot.

So let's cover those with the eyedropper.

So first off, the eyedropper simply
allows you to select a color in the image,

and that's going to change the foreground
color here.

If you hold down option

and click on a color, it's
going to change your background image.

So just clicking changes your foreground
color

option, clicking
changes your background color.

Here you can see the sample size
that's being used.

So if I wanted to select
this little red here and I zoom

in, you can see that
that's really only a few pixels there.

And if I do 11 by 11 average,

I'll never really get that bright pink
color in there.

So in that case,
someone might want to go to just

a single point
sample and select that bright red

but on the other hand, if I want to get

this kind of general color in here,

I may want to increase to this to 31.

And what it's doing is it's taking 31
pixel

square
and averaging the color inside that.

So that's one thing important to know.

And also when you set it in the eyedropper
here, it's going to use that

any and other
and in any other tool where you can

select the color,
such as when you're using the brush, which

I'll show you later on, it's
going to use this sample size information.

So best to set it how you want it.

I generally keep it to either
five by five or three by three

unless I have a situation like this

where I need to pick a specific point

Okay, so

let's go to our foreground color
and a background color.

So foreground color is the color

that you're going to be using when you

paint or fill.

It's kind of the color
that's in your paint bucket right now.

And the background color

is kind of your reserve color,
but it's also

if you're deleting to no background,
that's the color it's going to put there.

So I would say your foreground color

is the most important,
but also having two buckets

allows you to sample two colors
which is also helpful.

All right.

So to change a color here,

you can open your color palettes here

Let's go ahead and bring this out here.

I can change the color.

And you can see as I drag around
here, it's changing that foreground color

also have a whole bunch of options here.

I really like color. Will

that allows me to

see all the colors in the color wheel here
and kind of adjust them all.

And also, if I set let's say

I sets my foreground to this,
I can then pick my background here

and set it
and make it opposite to my foreground.

So that's a nice little feature
there, having that color.

Well,

I believe the default is the Hue Cube,

but that's how you can select your color.

Also, if you double click on the color,
you're going to get your color

picker here.

And this allows you to put in,
you know, a web hex value

for the color, allows you to pick it here
or also put in an exact value.

So if someone tells you I've got a red
that's magenta,

100 yellow, 100 and see in case zero,
you could put that in here.

100, 100.

And that would give you that same
dark red.

All right.

So that's how you pick your colors.

Now you'll notice this little icon here.

Let's go ahead and put this away
that defaults here colors

to black for the foreground
and white for the background.

So you can see the shortcut for that is D

I click on that that's going
to change my colors to black and white.

And this here switches
the background and foreground color.

And the shortcut for that is X.

So those are two important shortcuts
to now

D to default these colors
and X to switch the two colors.

All right.

So that covers the eyedropper next
we have the correction tools

and these I'm going to cover
in the next few tutorials.

So I don't really want to cover them here,
but just realize

that these are all tools
they uses Photoshop's

AI technology to get rid of things
in your image that you don't want.

That's kind of the simple way to put it.

And as a photographer, you're going to be
using all these quite a bit,

which is why I don't really want to brush
brush them off here.

Next we have the eraser tool,

and the aggressor tool
allows you to erase things.

And I realize when you're
using the eraser tool to

undo there, you're actually getting rid
of those pixels

in and 99% of situations,
you're going to be better off

going to the brush tool
adding a mask here,

making sure your foreground color is black

and then painting away the object

rather than erasing it.

So that's the paint brush.

The paint brush lets
you paint with your foreground color.

Here, you can adjust the size
and the hardness of your brush.

You can also select

through a whole bunch of presets.

Here you can load more brushes.

We're going to get into this in
quite a bit more detail.

Also, with your brush,

you can change the blending mode
of your brush, you can change the opacity.

It's quite a light.

You can do with your brush,
and that is your brush tool.

We're also going to cover the mix or brush, but definitely not in this tutorial.

Let's go ahead

and delete that layer mask there

and one thing I want to do

with these butterflies,
let's go to our Move tool

just so that we have this kind of image

coming together as we as
I show you the tools here.

Let's go ahead
and do a Command T for Transform.

Hopefully you remember that what I wanted
to do is I want to change this to 50%

and I want to change the angle to 45.

Then I want to put the butterflies here

so that they're kind of around her
like that.

Let's
go ahead and hit the checkmark there.

And with our brush selected,
I actually want to add some shadow here

between her and this background.

So let's go ahead and add a layer here

and call this shadow.

I want
to make sure my color here is black.

I want to go to my brush selector
and select the soft round brush here.

You can see here,
this is the feather on the brush.

Soon as I selected that,
the feather went to zero

and I want to make the brush quite a bit
bigger.

Now, to change your brush while you're

brushing, you can use the right
and left the brackets.

But another really handy shortcut

is hold down control and option.

And by

scrubbing left and right, I'm

going to change the diameter of my brush
and scrubbing up and down.

I'm going to change the feather
of my brush

okay.

So control option, you can interactively
change the size of your brush

and also the feather of your brush
by going up and down.

So let's make this

about 400 pixels at zero hardness

and I'm going to take the opacity
of the brush down

to 20% and you'll notice

that my cursor is just an X.

That's because I have my caps locked down.

If I take my caps off, you can now see,

I can see the size of my brush it's
going to paint a little bit here

just so that there's some shadow
from this fox

and I'm going to change this to overlay

Okay.

So there you go.

That is the brush tool.

Next we have the stamp tool
and the stamp tool

allows you to make a copy of something

by clicking on it

with option
and then painting somewhere else.

And again,
my brush shortcuts still work here

where you can see

it's an easy way to make copy of things

and you can also use this
quite extensively

when you're doing something
like skin corrections and so forth.

But I'm not going to cover that here.

Just know that
that's how you use that stamp tool.

Next, we have the Blur tool,
sharpen tool and Smudge told.

Those are pretty self-explanatory.

I'm not going to cover those right now.

Same with the Dodge Burn and sponge tool.

Sponge tool you can use for saturating
and then Dodge and burn.

Obviously makes things lighter or darker.

All right.

Next we have the Pen Tool.

Now, the pen tool allows you to create
vector paths in Photoshop.

If you don't know what a vector path is,

it is a resolution independent line.

So, for example, if I zoom in here

and let's find a shape.

All right. Let's see her jawline here.

So to use the pencil,
I want to make sure it's up here on path

and I'm going to click.

And then that creates an anchor point.

When I click again, you can see
a line has been created

between those two anchor points.

Let's
go ahead and undo my new anchor point.

Now I'm going to click and rather than
letting go of the mouse, I'm going to drag

and this is the power of paths
is that you get these really nice

smooth curves

and if I zoom in here,

you can see that the curve of her

chin in the image is made with pixels.

And so the more I zoom
in, the more they look like steps.

Whereas the curve

made by the vector
path is a mathematical line

and is independent of resolution.

So no matter how much I zoom
in, it's always got that beautiful smooth

curve to it.

So that is the power of curves prefer

I usually make my selections with curves
rather than with the lasso.

And the reason for that is

I have that ability to make nice curves.

And also I can go in here
and after the fact

make changes to that path.

So to do that, I'm going to go

to the path selection tool

and here I can select the whole path
to move it around.

I can also even do a free transform on
the path command t with the path selected,

and I can transform that
path, rotate it and so forth

to escape.

And with the direct selection tool,

I can select individual anchor points

and just affect those

or an individual curve.

I can also select one of these handles
and adjust the curve

and we'll get a lot more into paths
and another tutorial.

But just know that that's
kind of the power of paths and the reason

why I use them.

Now, let's go ahead and delete this.

You'll see here in the path palette
that I already have two paths.

Got the model

and you can see that

that's selection that was made of her.

And we've got the fox.

You can see
that was a selection made of the Fox.

Now if we go here
go back to our simple composite

right to the beginning, and if I go here

and hold down command,

that's going to select that path
and turn it into a selection.

I can go here and add that mask again.

You can see now we have a cut out of her

one problem you see here

is that this is missing
all the background.

So if I hold down shift

what I may want to do
is go with my lasso here,

just kind of make a rough selection,

less background

because

now you'll notice when I let go,

it doesn't drop the selection
and that's because I'm holding option.

Option will turn your regular

lasso into a polygon also.

All right. So let's select this.

Go to edit

fill.

I want to fill with my background color,
which is white.

And there you go.

All right.

So we now have a better selection

and we have the fox.

So if I turn on the Fox layer,
go to my path

and go to my direct selection tool.

I can select that path and I can right
mouse

click and I can go make selection.

I can also click here to make a selection
or hold down command.

Click here to make a selection.

So the beauty of paths is once
you have them, you can use those paths

to make detailed selections
and you can save those paths for later use

Okay.

Next, we have our shapes

and shapes are basically

vector shapes
that have a solid fill color.

So with this,
if I have shape turned on rather than path

and I make a shape,
you'll see it's created a new layer

and it's got that little vector
icon down there

it's going to fill color.

I can add a stroke to it.

It's got a wet and a height.

So it's basically this box.

And there's other shapes that I can use
here.

Honestly, for photographers,
you're not going to use this feature much.

This is more for a graphic design

but you should know
that it's there and available.

All right,
let's go ahead and throw that away.

And that kind of sums up all the tools

now, all the other tools are accessible
here.

But really, these are tools
you're not going to use.

Much of the one other tool we skipped over
was the type tool.

Let's go ahead and show you that tool

so with the type tool

you're going to click

and start typing.

So let's say Fox.

And here you can see
our options have changed up here.

As soon as we went on to the title,
we have got the name of the font here.

It's changed that two times

Make sure font you have time is bold.

And I want to make sure

I have all the text selected
before I change the font.

So to do that

just go select like that

and let's go times bold

There you go.

Here I can change the point size

I can also click here and scrub

This changes the anti-aliasing.

I would leave that alone here.

You can right?

Adjust center or left or.

Sorry. Right.

So let's go ahead and center that here.

You can change the color of the text.

This has some work tools for Texas
we're not going to get into.

And this here opens your text palettes
where you have more options

such as the letting the kerning.

You can even

change the height and width of characters.

This, you can send it to all caps or not
all caps and so forth.

So these are all options that you have.

And you'll notice in your layer stack

here, it's created a

type, a text layer.

Okay.

The text layer,

aside from being text
pretty much works just as any other layer.

I can do command to make that layer
bigger,

hold down option to keep it
and let's just put it there.

I can change the capacity of that layer.

So aside from being text,
it behaves very much like our other layer.

So let's put that under her

Okay.

So that's
kind of all of our different layers

that covers layers, tools, paths,

which we'll get into a lot more Finally,
I do want to quickly cover our channels

for another

GB documents, which this is you're going
to have your red, green and blue channels

but you can also create channels
for selections.

And that's a handy way
to save a selection.

If you make a selection, that's
really detailed, you don't have a place

to say that you can always come
to your channels, create a new one,

call it my new selection

or whatever you want to call it
and put your selection in there.

Okay, we'll cover that a bit later,
but just realized that's a way to do that.

In fact, what we can do is delete these

layer masks

and if I go to channels,

hold down command and click,

it's going to select that,

and then I can put a mask here

it's going to do a really nice
cut out there with this is one

where a lot more detail went into it

than even the path and same with the fox.

We're going to go in here,
hold down command,

select that,
and then add a mass to the fox.

You can see now
the Fox is nicely put away there.

And then

in the end, the last thing I want to do,
because we went back in the history,

let's quickly put these butterflies
back to how we want them.

We're going to do command to

put them on 50%.

45 degrees

and then just move them into place here

and let's

go ahead
and give this a bit of a color curve.

And again,
because I'm putting this at the top,

it's going to adjust my whole image.

I can give this a little bit of an S-curve
curve by clicking there.

That's going to create an anchor point
clicking down here

that's going to give the whole thing
quite a bit, a lot of contrast.

And this is applying to our GB.

If I go down here and go to the blue,
I can affect just the blue.

What I'm doing here is I'm dragging
the very bottom of the blue up

and the very top of the blue down

and then we can go to red

and just punch the middle
of the red up at just about.

All right.

So if I turn that on and off
and we can actually take

the opacity down on the Fox

and let's go to our text tool
and you'll notice

that my cursor as I get away from the text
has that square around it.

That means it's

going to create a new layer
as I get closer to my text that disappears

and that means it's going to select
that existing type.

All right.

So now I can select that F
and maybe make it

a couple left

and then select all of this type

up in my character
palette here and just turn it in a bit

and there you go.

All right.

So that is a bit of an overview
on all the tools.

And with it, you can see
kind of the effects that we can make

if we go here to our history palette, go
to the top, you can see that's a before.

And if we come down here to the bottom,
that's after

all right.

So that is a broad overview
of all the tools in Photoshop

and also a bit of familiarity
with channels

and paths

So now we can go to file

and save or save as in this case,
we'll just hit save.

Actually, I'm going to save as

and we can just change this name
to finished

seven on the same place.

And maximize compatibility.

This will allow the document to be opened
in earlier versions of Photoshop.

So let's keep that on hit. Okay.

And then we can hit the little X there.

I'll now brings back to the Homescreen

Okay.

So now we have a bit of a grasp
on the Photoshop workspace.

Hopefully you can also see
with that composite of the lady in the fox

some of the things that you can do
with the layer stack and how different

layers stacked on top of each other
gives Photoshop a lot of power.

And the next thing we're going to do

is I want you to do your first composite.

So in this lesson, we're
going to take two photos, combine them,

and then use layer blending to create
a really cool double exposure effect.

So let's get started

So let's go to file open

and go to the O
to your first composite folder.

You're going to see two images in there.

Let's go ahead and select both of them.

I'm going to do that by holding shift
and then click down here on open.

And you can see we

now have two tabs, one image
and the other image.

And what I'm going to do
is I'm going to take this one drag it out

and then take this
and just drag and drop it in here.

Now, if I just drop it, it'll place it
where I've dropped it

Let's go ahead and undo that.

And if you go to window,

you can see your open documents
so we can select this one here.

If I hold shift while doing this, it's

going to center it in this document.

All right.

So there you go.

I have it centered and what I want to do
now is transform this.

So let's do a command see for transform

and let's hold down options.

So we're doing it toward the center.

And I just want to make it
the same height here.

And then I'm going to right mouse click
and do a flip

horizontal Now,
I could also theoretically hold down shift

and do this

and that's going to give the same result.

But doing the command to

a faster way to do that is right
mouse click and do flip horizontal.

So there you go.

I have that how I want it.

Let's go ahead and commit that transform.

And now we're going to take
the blending mode

here from normal to screen.

And right away you can see
we have a pretty cool looking image.

Do you think it's a little bit too light
here?

And I also don't like it
the trees showing in the background here.

So let's go ahead and take our background.

I'm going to do command.

So I have a copy of it
generally when I work,

I always make a copy of a layer
before I start making adjustments to it.

That way, I can always go
back to the original if I want to.

All right. So let's

on this layer,

I'm going to go to Image
Adjustments Curves,

and I move this out of the way here.

And I'm going to select this little white.

I drop her here
and just select this color down here,

and that's going to force everything
that's lighter

or everything that's that color.

It's going to force it to white.

And you can see what that's done up here.

Another way to do that, let's
go ahead and hold down option

that will change your cancel button
here to a reset.

So let's reset.

I can simply drag this here up
and that's going to do the same thing.

So there you go.

I've now made that area white.

And let's go ahead

and make this a little more contrasted
by making the darks a little darker.

You can kind of see in the

histogram here
where the actual black level is.

And if we just match that black level,

that's going to do
most of our work for us.

Let's hit. Okay.

And let's take the screen image here.

The trees, and let's do image adjustments
and curves on that as well.

And in this case, I want to make this area
a little bit darker

so I can select this little hand here,

go to that area, and you can see that
little ball hovering in my curve.

That's showing me
which part of the curve I need to adjust.

I can also click
and just drag that down to make

that a little darker.

And that looks pretty nice right there.

Let's hit. Okay.

And lastly,
I want to give a color grade to this.

So because I want my color grade to affect

everything,
I'm going to use an adjustment layer here.

And again,
we're going to use a curves layer.

And in this case,

I'm going to go to my blue channel

and just bring up the bottom

that's going to make all of our dark
areas blue

and then the top am around,
bring that down.

And the opposite of blue is yellow.

So by bringing this down
in the highlights,

I'm going to pull in some yellow
into the image there

and now it looks pretty good.

And what I may want to do is just add
a little red across the whole image

just to get a little bit more warmth
into that yellow.

There you go.

And this is the Properties tab.

We can close that after we've done.

There is not
you don't have to commit a curve as you do

when you do it on a layer because this is
something you can always go and change.

If you just double click
that, it'll open the properties tab

or if you have the layer selected,
you can open the properties tab there.

All right.

So there you go.

That image is pretty much how I want it.

And there you can see the simplicity
of just a few layers there

and creating a composite

by just having two layers
and layering them up.

All right. Now we want to save this.

And to save this,

we can go here and save now
because this is layered.

It will not save the original JPEG.

What it will do is it'll prompt you

to save a layered TSD file
that's a Photoshop zip file.

And generally
when you're doing compositing,

you always want to save a layered file
so that if you want to come back

and do changes,
you have your layers still So let's call

this my first composite.

And it's save

All right.

So you can see the name has changed here.

And now what I want to do is
I want to save a jpeg of this

so I could go here and do save as.

And here I have the option of saving it

in all sorts of different formats.

But when I save a JPEG, I actually

go here and use

the export command here

and save for web.

Now, this is legacy,
the export as is the new feature

where it allows you to,

you know, set your setting here.

You can change the format.

Let's say you want it as a JPEG
you can adjust the quality here.

You can also adjust the scale. So

if you want to save this

and all of these changes by the way,
do not affect your layered file.

They only affect the file
that you're exporting.

So, you know,
if you want to save this for Instagram,

for example,
you may want to change this to 1200.

And you can see it's scaling that down

you can change the

profile here if you'd like

most of these settings
you're not going to do much with

and if you'd like,
you can also have multiple exports.

But personally, I'm,

I really like the original,
the legacy save.

So I'm going to show you how to use
that as well.

One nice feature of this is it
also tells you the file size

that it's going to be right here.

So if you're doing this for web,

you can make sure that that file size
is something that works for you.

But let's go ahead and cancel out of this
and what I want to show you

now is the save for Web.

And this interface here is pretty similar,

but it has some nice
advantages in my opinion.

So what

I'm going to do is go up here
and let's pick the JPEG.

Hi, and let's go down here and fit in view

and you can see

this is a preview
of what it's going to export

and as you make changes here.

So if I change this to low

you really can't see it here
because it's so large.

But let's go ahead
and make this significantly smaller.

Let's go ahead and make this 500 pixels
and now let's fit

that in view

and let's zoom in a little more.

So here you can see that's the output.

If I change the quality to medium,
you can see that change in real time.

High, very high.

Maximum. So

this is a great way of seeing

what your final JPEG
is going to look like.

You can also see the effect here of what
the converting to as RGV is going to do.

If you change this, you can see

how this

image is going to appear
when you actually upload it.

I have seen issues
where you upload something

to the Internet and it looks different
than what you expect.

But this is a great way,

in my opinion, to preview
what it's actually going to look like.

So in this case,
I want to save this for Instagram

so I'm going to make a 24, 100

and let's go ahead and fit in view.

And I mentioned earlier that the shortcut
for Fit and View is Command Zero.

That works here as well.

Okay, so 24,

I'm going to use maximum, but very high.

Honestly, you can't see
much of a difference between those two

and it does help on your file size.

So here you can see 1.15 megabytes.

If I go to a maximum,
that almost doubles it to 2.5.

So just keeping it on very high
will save you quite a lot

in terms of file size
without degrading your image.

All right.

And then I'm going to hit
save and let's go to our folder

and change this here.

All right.

And we can call this my first composite.

Also, notice that it adds dashes

and it does that because Web files

don't really support
having spaces in the file name.

So it just helps you out there
by adding those spaces.

So let's head save

and then we can actually close to file
here.

And let's say save

and we can close this

by clicking
this little X or going to file close.

And there you go.

You now have a JPEG
and a file of your first composite.