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1. Introduction: Photoshop is a tool
that's used by most graphic design
industry experts. And it's so popular
for a good reason. There are very few
things that you can do with it when it comes
to editing photos. But of course, it's a double-edged sword because with a lot of
functionality that are tons of hidden tricks and secret keyboard
shortcuts that are invisible and hard to come across when normally using
the program and not knowing them could make
someone's workflow a lot more sluggish and slow. I've been learning and using
Photoshop to manipulate images and create
YouTube thumbnails for over five years now. And I've collected
all the tips and tricks that are
most useful to me. So in this quick and
dense Photoshop course, I'll show you more than 100
techniques, tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts to become more productive
with this software. So if you're still
open-minded about saving time when photo editing, I'll see you in
the first lesson.
2. Class project: In this lesson, I'll tell
you about the class project, and it's going to
be very simple. By the end of the class, I want you to pick and apply a single technique from this course to any
image of your choosing. It could be adding an
Instagram filter effect, creating a double exposure, a sun flare or anything you
didn't know how to do before, and then post it in the
project gallery so others can take inspiration and see the progress
that you've made. But the main thing
that I want to emphasize here is that it's very important to try out new things
that you learn yourself. You see our brains
are not designed for keeping information when
we don't put it to use. That's why I
encourage you to open Photoshop and go along with me pausing the course along
the way and trying the keyboard shortcuts
and techniques yourself. As I showcase that, that way you're going to improve
your chances of actually remembering them when you need
to use them in the future. With that said, I'll see you
in the first lesson where you'll learn about useful
Photoshop keyboard shortcuts.
3. Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts: Let's start with Photoshop
keyboard shortcuts. You can increase
brush size by holding Alt and mouse and
dragging left or right. You can do the same with
the brush hardness by dragging up or down
with the pen tool hold Alt and you can control
the anchor handles or Alt click on a point to get rid of the handle that's
coming out of it. You can also hold control
and move control points and handles that have already been placed to drag
around your canvas, hold down the spacebar. Bonus tip is to hit Control
plus K to open preferences, click Tools and turn
on Over Scroll, which will let you move
your Canvas even when you're zoomed out of it
in camera raw filter, hold, Shift to reveal auto adjustment buttons for each of the basic adjustments. You can also double-click on any slider to reset
it to default. Speaking of resetting,
you can reset zoom to fit your screen with
Control plus zero. You can also hover over
any tool on the left to see the key on your keyboard that activates it
when you press it. Learning the basic
ones like V for move, for lasso and P for the
Pen tool or a must. Now if you hold Shift while pressing any letter for a tool, it will cycle between
that set of tools, coming back to the pen tool when you create a path with it, hit Control plus Enter, and it'll turn it
into a selection. If you're not happy, control plus D will de-select. And if you forget the
control, pressing, only the d will toggle your colors back to the
default black and white. Pressing X, quickly
switch between the background and
the foreground color. You can press and hold a letter
of any tool on the left. And when you release that
key from your keyboard, you'll return back to the tool that you've
been using before. This is great for quick
switching between tools without having to use your
mouse to do so on the left, coming back to the brush tool, press any number on
your keyboard and you'll change its
opacity to that number, pressing two numbers fast, we'll set the exact
opacity amount when the tool is
active, hold Alt, and you'll be able to quickly
toggle the color picker if you're masking something and
trying to paint in a corner, instead of making your
brush smaller to try to get it hit X to select black, and then dab on the corner, hit X again and then
paint back in the corner. Next up is Control Shift Alt E, which merges all visible
layers as a new layer. This is very useful for applying a final camera raw filter at the end of your
composite Alt, backspace fills your canvas
or the selection with the background color and the Control Backspace fills
it with Foreground Color. Control R will hide or
show the rulers from which you can drag a guide which
objects will snap to control. Alt C will let you change your canvas size without resizing everything
that's on it. Control Alt, I will let you
change your image size, which will re-size everything that's on your canvas with it also holding Alt will let you zoom in with your
mouse, scroll wheel, Shift Control Z will step
forward in Photoshop, this is useful when
you have undone too many actions with Control
Z and one to go back, control Shift N and enter
will quickly insert a new layer and control
plus j will duplicate the current layer Control Alt G will create a clipping mask, though I prefer holding
down Alt and click on the line between layers
to do the same thing, control plus open bracket
will send a layer down and control and closed
bracket will send it up. Add shift to both
of those shortcuts. And you'll send the
layers to the very top, the very bottom of the pile, holding Control while
dragging something will stop it from snapping
to different objects. If you want to scroll through your layers without
using your mouse, hold Alt and press the
closed or open brackets. If you accidentally click
away from your selection, click Control Shift D to
re-select and bring it back. You can invert the selection
with Control Shift I, you can hold Alt and click
on a layer mask to view, a black and white mask view to better understand what
you've masked out. If you want to select
only what's on the layer hold
control and click on the layer thumbnail Shift
Control a will bring up the camera raw filter
shift and plus or minus will cycle through layer
blending modes Control Alt zero will let you view the
image in its actual size, holding Alt and clicking
on the icon next to the layer will hide all other layers and
leave this one visible. Once you're done
Photoshopping it, hold Alt again and
click on the I to reveal back the hidden
layers Control Shift period will increase the size of selected text control plus h toggle hiding
of the selection. The selection or a path
will still be there, but you won't be able to see it. Hold down Control Space and
drag with your mouse right or left to zoom in or out
in any part of your image, hitting Q will toggle
the quick mask mode, where you can paint
with black to de-select places in your image. And once you hit Q again, and the Mask icon, those areas that you
painted over will be masked out when you use
the Dodge and Burn tools, hold Alt to temporarily
switch between them.
4. Photoshop Tips & Tricks: Let's continue with
Photoshop Tips and Tricks. When adding images to Photoshop, you don't have to download them. Just copy one from Google or any stock photo website and
paste it into Photoshop. You can quickly
duplicate anything by holding Alt and
dragging it out. It also works with Layer Styles and effects
to access those effects. Double-click on the
side of any layer, since it's easier
to paint from up to down rather than side-to-side. You can click Our, then rotate your canvas 90 degrees and paint in
a comfortable direction. Once you're done,
double-click on the rotation tool
to reset the view, you can quickly select a
single colored background with the Magic Wand Tool or
go to Select Subject, to select the subject using AI, if you right-click
with any tool, you'll see a context menu appear where you
can quickly change the most important and widely used settings
for that tool. You can move the
selections that you've already started by
pressing space bar. Now you won't have to
de-select and select everything again to get
the perfect positioning. Next, you can hover
over any numbers in front of any slider
in Photoshop and drag it left or right
without having to click and actually use the
slider in Camera Raw. Click this button
at the bottom to see a before and
after of your image. When you make a path
with the pen tool, you can go to Paths, then click this path
options button at the top, choose exclude
overlapping shapes. And now you can create another path which will
punch a hole in this one, as you can see from
the layer thumbnail of popular effect with Photoshop
is double exposure to create your own mask
out your subject and alter drag these subjects
mask onto that image. Now simply set the blend
mode of the background to screen and move the
background layer below the subject layer, you'll now have created a basic double exposure effect to increase the details
for the subject. Select the color black, turned down the opacity
a bit and paint over the background mask to bring back some key features
of the subject. Now sometimes when you press Control plus T to
transform something, you won't be able to find
the transform handles. In that case, hit Control
Plus is zero and del, zoom out to where that object begins when composing
two images together, usually what happens is that
the colors don't match. To fix that, create a new curves adjustment
layer and clip it to the layer you're going to be adjusting colors off by Alt, clicking on the line
between two layers. Now select the curves
adjustment layer, thumbnail, and click on the Auto button at the top right,
whilst holding Alt, make sure that the find dark
and light colors box is selected and the snap neutral midtone Xbox
is de-selected. Now click on the highlights
and shadows color boxes, and select the
brightest highlight and the darkest shadow in
your background image, the one that you're
matching colors too. Now all that's left
is fine tuning the curve a little bit to
match the colors better. And here's the final results. One of the most frequent
uses of Photoshop is to remove unnecessary objects
or people in images. And here's the
best way to do it. Select the object selection tool and click on your subject. Go to Select, Modify, Expand, and enter in ten to 20 pixels. Then right-click
select Fill and okay, and the person from the image
is now gone while cropping, you can right-click
to choose from different common crop ratios, like one-to-one or 16 by nine. There's also a handy
front image option that simply crops to the exact same ratio and resolution as your
original image. So quickly enhance the look of any image and give
it some extra punch. You'll need to learn
about the S-curve, add a curves adjustment
layer in Photoshop, then drag one control
point upwards near the top right of the line, and the second downwards
near the bottom left, the more pronounced the S is, the more contrast and saturation the image will have four
quick, automatic adjustments. You can go to Image and choose Auto Tone, contrast, or color. However, be careful, this
is a destructive way of altering images and can't be undone later
in the composite. Now what's not a destructive is creating a Dodge
and Burn layer Alt. Click on the New Layer
icon in the layers panel, set the mode to overlay and check filled with
overlay neutral color. Now you can dodge and
burn on this layer to affect all the layers underneath without
being destructive. You can also add a contrast
to adult image and increase the overall look of it by making the highlights pop, add a new layer and select
a soft white brush to paint over with the brush where you think the
highlights should be. Then set the blend mode
to color dodge and double-click on the empty
space of the layer, then de-select the transparency shapes layer from here,
decrease the fill. It'll give you a
much better result. You can see the before
and after and how the highlights are now more
pronounced in the image. To place text behind
anything in Photoshop, go to select and subject, then select your text
layer and hit Group. Now press the Mask
icon and then hit Control Plus I on your
keyboard to invert, you can now freely move your
text behind the subject. Now if you ever need to adjust
the shape of any object, you can go up to Edit
and choose Puppet Warp. Now add points to where
your object will bend. Think of them as
joins for the object, than simply move those points around and you'll
transform that object. What's also useful is
the Refine Edge tool, which lets you
well refined edges of objects that are
hard to select. Mask out to find it, double-click on the
layer mask and select it on the left than simply
paint over the areas of the selection that you want
to refine the edge off now to tidy up your skin and
get rid of imperfections, use the patch tool for completely
erasing imperfections, or even better, select the
spot healing brush tool. Then in this drop-down
menu, click lightened, which will make
the darker pixels of the imperfections lighter. Photoshop will now look
at the image around the imperfection
that you selected and make it less
visible by lightning. Yet, if you have a dark wrinkle
by selecting lightened, it will simply brighten up the
ring coal and thus make it seem less obvious when
looking at the overall image, but it will still leave the
detail of the wrinkle there. So it still looks realistic. This works with lighter
imperfections to just select the dark and instead of lightened for that to work. Now you can also select the crop tool and click
Content Aware at the top. Once you crop your image
now and commit the changes photoshopped will fill in areas that are missing
from your image. If you constantly create composites with the
same resolution, like thumbnails for YouTube, you can click new file. When you open Photoshop, set up your settings, click the download arrow, name your preset,
and click Save. Next time you open Photoshop, you'll be able to choose this
canvas size as a preset. Speaking of presets, when
you're saving your PSD file, add a T at the end, and it'll turn it into a preset. You can now open
this file multiple times and start
creating from there. And the next time you open it, again, it will still
be the same preset. What's also useful is
if you've forgotten how to access a shortcut or
a feature in Photoshop, use the search to find
any kinds of stuff. Once you find the tool you're looking for and hover over it, photoshop will show you where
you can find it next time. And what if you have a very low resolution
logo or an image? Go to image, image size
and make it larger than go to Filter
Blur, Gaussian Blur, and increase it up
to a point where the harsh pixelation
is not visible anymore than a Curves
Adjustment Layer and move both sliders
towards the middle, which will get rid
of the blurry edges if you feel like your
image is too yellow, go to Filter, camera Raw Filter than in
the basic adjustments. Pick the color picker
and click on a color that should be a natural
gray in your picture, like a great road
or a white wall. This will fix the color
casts in your picture. Next up, when you cut and paste a selection
to a new layer, photoshop will place
it in the middle of the screen if you want to
paste it to a new layer. But keep the position the same. Use Control X to cut
and Control Shift V to paste in place and to quickly add an arrow for a
YouTube thumbnail, e.g. select the Line Tool, go up to the gear icon and
select End and increase the width and the length to make your arrow bigger than
just draw a line. Now that you have
a terrible arrow, you can make it look fabulous with Layer
Blending Options, adding stroke and the
drop shadow will make your arrow a lot more noticeable on smaller images
like thumbnails. You can also achieve some cool
effects on random images. If you add an adjustment layer and just change
its blending mode, moving over to textures. And you can create a
fake rain texture in Photoshop by adding a new
layer filled with black, adding some noise than
a slanted motion blur. And finally, setting
the layer to screen, now add some contrast and
you'll have a rain texture. What's also cool is if
you want to quickly change a color of
any simple object, you can make a selection of it. Choose the color
replacement tool to paint over that
object with a new color. Now if you want to
clear recent files in Photoshop when you're
on this home screen, go to Files, hover over, Open Recent, and choose
clear recent file lists. You can also easily make an
Instagram filter effect, add a mustard yellow
color fill layer and then set its blend
mode to multiply, decrease the opacity, and
then paint with a red color on a separate layer set to screen for an added
faded effect. Another really useful
tool is Blend. If you can find it in the
layer blending options, once you double-click
on the side of a layer, blend if blends one
layer into another based on the content of
either of the two layers. Moving over to something
a bit more simple, which is light leaks. If you select Create
New and then gradient, add two more colors to the left, make the first one white, second one bright yellow, and the third one to read. And then make sure that the other end of the
gradient is transparent. Now set the blend mode of the gradient layer to screen
and you can double-click on the gradient layer and
position the light leak in different places of your image to make it look **** a cool, to make your selections
a lot smoother and sharper when you
mask something out, double-click on the
mask icon and increase the smoothness to the point that the harsh edges disappear. Then increase the feather until everything smooths
out, and finally, increase the contrast
and your selection will become a lot better if you
selected a little too much. You can also shifted the edge to the left to contract the mask.
5. Fixes For Common Photoshop Issues: Now, here are a few fixes for the most common issues when
it comes to Photoshop that I wish I knew earlier and
didn't have to spend time googling if the sidebar
tools have disappeared, go to Window and select tools, then simply drag them to the left until they
snap back there. If your camera Raw Filter is
grayed out and not working, Come up to Image Mode and select RGB color instead of CMYK color. If the smoothing slider
is grayed out or not even available when you
bring up the brush tool, then go to brush settings on the right and check
the smoothing slider. Now smoothing will
appear in your menu bar the next time you
select that brush, if liquid phi is grayed-out, go to Edit Preferences
performance, and make sure the graphics
processor is selected. Then click Advanced Settings
and check use OpenCL. Once you restart Photoshop, the liquefy should work. If it doesn't try unchecking all the check marks in
the advanced settings.
6. Final Thoughts: You've reached the
end of this class. Big congratulations for me. And I hope there's at least
one keyboard shortcut or trick that you'll take away from it and use in your own
creative project. Of course, the best
thing when trying to learn new things is
to put them in you. Because if you know
a trick exists, there's a very high
chance you'll forget it if you don't use
it to over time. That's why I encourage
you to share at least one technique or
effect from this course that you've applied any image or object of your choosing
in the project gallery. And just one more thing. Could you do me a favor
and helped me improve by leaving a review for this
course just out of curiosity, I want to know what
you thought about it. I hope that you enjoyed and
gain some knowledge from it. Thank you once again, good luck and I'll see
you in a future course.
Thaomaoh, Learn Creatorpreneur Skills
