Creative Photo Editing

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Michael. I'm a digital artist or photographer when an as-is for over eight years now. And due to the love of photography, I got a camera and start shooting portraits. With these, I was able to come by and photography into one. In this course, you are going to lend the add of transforming ordinary photos into stone in works of art. Whether you are a photographer and graphic designer or just someone who loves thinking feature. You will benefit from this course, will cover a wide range of topics, including composition and digital manipulation. We will start by removing blemishes from our photo. We will then dive into the co-principal of creative photo editing, such as cutting our subject, adding flowers and Boorstin of colors. Throughout this course, you will also learn advanced techniques such as composites in creating digital art and retouching. You will get hands-on experience, true practical assignment, where you will apply what you have learned to a real-world project. By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of principles and techniques of creative photo editing. You will have developed the skills to transform any ordinary further into a stunning masterpiece that really stand out. I'm really excited to be your instructor in this course, and I will see you guys in the next lesson. 2. Retouching: This lesson is taken away the blemishes within the skin by making use of frequency separation. Now the first thing I wanted to do, I want to brighten up. This would be a little bit that right now. And to do that, I'm just going to come down to this, but click and drag the layer that are out there to create a duplicate of that layer. And I will go over a few there. And camera view that. What is it, Camera Raw few that open up. I don't want to do much right here. I'm just going to click on the Auto button right here, arrow to adjust it for me. Now I've got a lot of light on this photo. It's time for me to go in and start adjusting this myself to give me the kind of thing that I want rest, I'm going to reduce your exposure to bring down the exposure a little bit. And I will go over to the shadow. And I will bring down the shadows a little bit. Then I'll come over to the white and I'm going to reduce the way somehow. And I think I need to bring down the exposure. But Elizabeth is somewhere around. Yeah. Okay. And contrast. The contrast is okay. So this is what I have before and this is where I have half that you can do as much as you want, but I'm really okay with you. So I'm going to click on Okay. To go back into Photoshop. Now that we're in Photoshop, it is time for us to go in and start removing all the blemishes we have on our subject. It is always advisable to duties on a new layer as a beginner. But if you are brew in retouching, you can just go ahead and do this on that same layer. So we are going to be using arrays. It's the healing brush tool. The reason for this healing brush tool, instead, we can sample from an area. I paint it over. Another area that is going to help us grid perfect skin, not a randomized skin. We can also make use of the spot healing brush tool right here. But sometimes we do that we have issues with the spot healing brush. As you can see, we have a little bit of a hole right there, but you can easily fix the issue with the Spot Healing Brush. To re-select the Spot Healing Brush tool, you want to right-click only right-click. You want to make sure that you set the hardness below 50. Something like this. You can play around with what works best for you. Now when you go in and clean up something from there, it's not going to show very well, but we still have the effect. So I wouldn't be making use of these Spot Healing Brush to all we're making use of the regular healing brush tool we have available in Photoshop entered. Make use of that too. I'll come down to my layers panel and create a new layer. This layer it's going to hold all the adjustment will be making too risky. If I make any arrow, I can drag this layer and delete that layer and start all over again. Now come down to this part and select the Healing Brush to select that hilum brush to. First, if you find out that whenever you sample on the skin and paint, if it's not working, if it's not apparent on this top layer, you create it. Make sure you take a look at this part right here, where it says sample. When you click on this drop-down menu, you are going to have chlorine, all the gear. Now we want to sample from this currently, you can see that the brush is empty. Let me increase that so that we can see that, you can see that the brush is empty. Nothing is going on. Nothing is also going on. That is because this layer is empty and we want to sample from this blue layer and paint our bot is empty layer we have right here. So in order for you to achieve that, you want to go over to your sample and set it to current and below every other asset into honorably, every other asset is the way it is. And you can go in and start painting or a day and put uncertainties or when you right-click, Make sure That's been calmed down to this part right here, the size is set to off a bridge or the harder you press on your tablet, the more thicker stroke it is going to create what you don't want to make use of that you want to keep everything precisely. And for the brush, I'm going to set the brush hardness present. I'm going to leave that at 50%. And now we are good to go. I'm going to drag and delete this layer, create another layer. And from here I can sum. Now note that for smaller areas, you want to decrease the size of a brush. For larger areas, you want to increase the size of your brush. You don't want to use one size brush around every area is because that is really going to affect you. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to reduce the size of my brush. So somewhere on these, now I can sample from here and paint over that area. Okay, so now I'm doing when you are done, you should be having something like this. If you want to take out your time and do it. Now, if you find out that some errors is not really much in with a light and shadow. You want to be on some other areas and use it to cover up areas just to fix those errors. And this is what we have before. And this is where we have that before. In our file. Now that we're done with the lesson for us to do is to merge these two layers together before we proceed over just creating the frequency separation. And to do dangerous when to hold down control and select both layers. Right-click and look at Merge Layers. Click on that and it's going to merge the layers. Or if you wanted to save all the step-by-step for you to track your progress. You can make use of this matrix. I'm going to undo that, select both layers. And I'm going to hit on Control G on my keyboard to group those two layers. Now I can double-click and rename that to spot an eight on an iPad. Now, that group is going to tell us that this is where we remove this part from our subject lit up arose to proceed on submitting the scale of our subject, we need to make the frequency separation. And before we made the frequency separation, we need duplicate of our layers into two emperors to achieve this is by making a match copy of all the whole layers we have on our Layers panel universe around control, those alternate plus Shift plus E on our keyboard, the image copy of all the whole layers we have right here. Now, these magic copper we just created goods, everything on the layers below. We still need another layer first to be able to create the frequency separation. Now we're just going to hit on congruently G on our keyboard to make another copy. Now I'm going to double-click on this one. I'm going to name it to color. Hey, don't double-click on the move on to texture and hit Enter. Now why I named this one hello and name this one picture is that the liability will be the one to hold our color and widely above. We do want to hold our texture on our photo of the above layer and select the color layer, go over to Filter blur and then Gaussian blur, click on okay. And this is too much you understand all the way from zero and start increasing. The women. You find out that the details of your Soviet I've been blown away. You can stop here and take this idea. You can take these Hello board. You just have to walk on the image you have at that particular moment. So I think we'll be okay for me on this particular image I'm going to click on, Okay, now you can see that we've lost all the whole details on our subject list. I'm going to reveal the eye close to the texture layer, select the texture layer. And I will go over to the image and then apply image inside of the Apply Image box. You just want to follow this step. I'm going to be thinking right now from the source live this way it is layer click on the drop down menu, select the color layer. The one, extract the texture from the color layer and put it on top of the texture layer. And for each, I know you want to live the channel the way it is for the blending. You want to click on that blending mode and set the blending mode to subtract. Remember you are subtracting the texture from the color layer and you understand the skill to, to end the offset to 128. There are other things attached to the skill, an offset board. I'm just going to leave it the way it is for now. Once you're done, click on OK. This is what you are going to help. Now you want to go over to your Layers panel and select the blend mode. Scroll all the way down. I'll set the blending option to linear light. Or when you click on that instead of blending option to linear light, you are going to be left with the original image. You have buffers select both layers as you don't control G to group them. Or you can again, you can rename that to see separation. Hayden enter. Now if I turn this off, you can see nothing happens between the layer. We have the Frequency Separation Group we just created. Now that we have, now that we have the frequency separation created, you want to open up the group and select the color layer. We select the color layer, make a duplicate of the color layer by hitting G. It is not necessary, but just for you to have a backup in case you make a mistake on this one, you can go back to the previous one. Now once you create the copy of the color layer h2 over to your toolbar and look at the mixer brush tool from the brush panel. Select the mixer brush to Android and make sure you follow all these settings basically to make sure you have a clean brush. This first one has to be unchecked. Needs to be said, of course, don't wait AT load than mixed. Lou hundred, every other thing roommates and you can play around with the mix. I'm going to set the mix to paint. And you can reduce the pain, you can reduce the mix or you can go higher. It will depends on new layer around with the settings and see what works best for you. Now I'm just going to radically, instead this as a clipping mask. It doesn't really matter that it has nothing to do and measure that you have this layer selected. Go over to your subject, at least help you understand some of the warranty you need to take load off. You don't have the stats we've seen this week. It is really going to damage your subjects. You want to do it gradually when you are spreading dark areas, you want to make sure you retain that. A has n. When you enter the lighter areas, you want to make sure you read the end the lighter areas you don't want to drag from the light into the back and also drag from the back into the light. It is really going to damage if we want a thick everything step-by-step. And this process is called the Summary low risk. Here we are using this mirror to smooth our skin. Now you can see as we smooth our skin, we can all losing any details. Now in some, I expect, you might find out that increasing the size of the brush might not work well for you. Well, I recommend increasing the size of the brush because it is going to help you create stroke less smoothing on your photo if you have a very small brush and my friend at that, you have some skipping stroke on your end. You don't want to do that. Whenever you are doing is summary love this game. You want to increase the size of the brush in areas that is larger and decrease the size of the brush in areas that are smaller. Okay. Why is your abdomen usually we have into something like a cylindrical. Take a look at them before. This is where we have before this smoothing and this is where we have this morning. They look at it, looking so good and willingness. So many things we can do after researching. But this course is all about researching. So we're going to restart video in this lesson. I am going to live in what are links that will take you through a complete process of researching. So you want to go ahead and check in the project. Section eight is going to help you understand more about retouching, like detergent bond, waiting on the eyes and so many other things you need to do while retouching. But that readers to the end of this lesson and in the next lesson we're going to start working on our subject background. 3. Background: I'm going to remove the background or subject. I'm going to drag your subject into my document. Now, this is different from the photo we use on a previous lesson. That doesn't mean that you have to retouch wonderful to work on another base. Images are provided by someone else, so I have two separate image. One already retouched, N1 on retouch. I use the one on research with the previous lesson, one already research. It's the one I'm going to be using for this lesson. The first thing we need to do is to raise the background, our subject, let me place it. I'm okay with that. I'm going to remove the background from the subject so that we can replace this with our own background. Now, if you are making use of Photoshop journeys, I need to British opportunity to see and a bull I mentioned British option is only two and a bowl because the technology then it's improved and weigh it is before the select subject. In Photoshop, it's now better than what we have in Photoshop to neutrality and Photoshop to literally one. If you make use of Photoshop 2020, it is fine. You can go ahead and do this. All you can go in manually by making use of the painter who are makers of the Quick Selection Tool. Erase the background from your subject. But since I'm making use of Photoshop to need to unit three, we'll go over to Select and then Select Subject. We have what are ways of raising barbaric, but to show, but this is really going to boost for me now that I have resolution, you want to select any selection tool or vitreous like a lasso tool, the Quick Selection to endure isolation, to have liberal in Photoshop. Once you have those two selected, when you look at it, you'll see that we'll have this button that says Select and Mask. Click on that to go into the select and mask inside of the select and mask, from here, we can refine the hair, do so many things through our leg, somebody on the edge. But before we do that, you can see that we'll have something like a red overlain on the background of our subject. This is telling notice that the place that I've been overlay with red out of place, that's going to be deleted from our photo when we erase the background, why the police that are not overly would read at areas that we are going to keep when we raise the background from our photo. Now, overdrafts, raised the background from the, we are going to be having some kind of rough ER those five ways on the hair will be I believe with that refers to get older is flavors of the hair and making the hair look nature after erasing the background, we want to make use of this real fine. It was in right here, or you can quickly click on here. Sometimes Uyghurs like Google in manually to do that myself. Once I have the Refine Edge brush selected, I can increase the size of the brush and then zoom in a little bit instead of going around the edge of my subject. Now you want to do this gradually. You might not see anything going on right here, but that doesn't mean it's not working. Now. You can see right here There's something is going on. Now and I'm done. If you add a lizard type, you can quickly go ahead and hit on these refined habits in Photoshop, it's going to help you do it swapped, but I'm really fine with the one that I do myself here. So now it is time for us to fix the edge occurs. Sometimes the edge I'll go into a lot smoother and so on. So it helps to calm down to this part right here and grew this smoothness of the edge. Now you might not see what was really going on right here, but don't worry about that. And I'm going to increase the feather Elizabeth co-variants. How soft the one the edge to be between the background, I'm going to make the feathering about 1.51, 0.5 n for the contrast, I'm going to leave the country and the way it is, I'm going to scroll all the way down to the output. Click on this drop down menu and make sure I have layer, new layer with layer mask selected. And once I have it, I'm going to click on Okay, to go back into Russia. Now we are in Photoshop and we have the background erased from our subject. Now before we finally confirm that erase the background from our subject, we need to come down to the blue layer, select the blue layer, go all the way to the bottom of our Photoshop. Click, Create solid color layer. We can click Okay, to go in. Now you can see that we have some arrows right here. You can quickly fix this with the color of the background you are making user, if I'm making use of sampling like gray background of so you will be getting sum of all those issues right there. But you can see that we'll have the vote is. Now in order for us to fix this, we just want to lay out my scope of our subjects selected and make sure that we have our brush to regular brush tool selected. We're going to right-click and make sure that we'll have a soft round brush selected. You can make use of the brush available in Photoshop, but I'm going to be making use of a brush for my brush back when the plague. And select Run Pressure Opacity and Flow brush. And I'll come over to my color picker and make sure that my foreground color is set to black. The concept of the layer marks the black hide and wide, wide reveal. If I paint with white, white layer mask is selected, you can see that we are showing areas of the background which we just erased. And if I have black selected, and I bet you can see that we have arisen from the areas that will lift, will erase the bugger. But this time I want to go in and use it to adjust the hair. I don't want to spend so much time when adjusting this here. I just want to make sure I take away all these extras available from the hair. So I'm just going to start painting over those errors. Lead to buy, lead to. Now will have blue for us to see these very well. We need to change the color to something like black. Like black. And I'm going to right-click and select just a soft round brush and make sure I have the layer mask selected. Now, we are done with the hair. We can go over to your background will create a n. I am going to be adding simple like a lilac color background. Let's see something like yellowy background or laser, say a lighter blue here, something like these will be fine here. So now I can click on, okay. And this is literally looking good. But what I wanna do, I want ingredients bar graph, and now I'm going to double-click on this icon right here to open up my color picker. And I'm going to right-click on this color right here and copy. Click on Okay, now come down to my Adjustment Layer icon click and create a new gradient layer that is going to open up gradient. So for us, I feel like these colors really looking good, but I don't want it. So I'm going to click on that bottom part of the rectangle, will come down to the basic and select the regular blue and white. Now I have blue and white and blue and white is exactly what I wanted to make use of. Now, how do we get this blue and white by default, if you look at the bottom left, right there, you can see that we'll have the foreground color set to blue, and the background colors sets white. That is where we're getting this color. Now, I want to click on, Okay, to go back here, I will come down. So despite assist, click on the rectangle and set it to radius, that is going to give me a cycler gradient right here. Now I'm going to hit on reverse so that the weight is going to be inside and the blue it's going to be outside. Now I'm going to click on the gradient rectangle right there to open up the gradient editor window, click on this top right here, click right here, and go over to the right. I have the color code. I'm going to right-click and click on breached. And that is going to paste in the color that I have right there before. And when I click on Okay, and click on Okay, right here, mercury, then I'm going to click on this scale. On the scale to wait a little bit, and I'm going to add Alito Q. And that is going to increase the white around our subject. And now I am done. I'm going to click on, Okay. And then I have the gradient. I can now drag and delete the solid color which I already have riding. And this is how we can easily change the background of our subject. Now that we've gender bargain of our subject, it is time for us to start adding our flowers to the subject. And I'm going to see you guys in the next lesson. 4. Cutout: I'll go into the subject. We need to cut out some areas of your subject, the older, slower. But firstly, we need to do is to make a backup or subject. It gives him it's in Google. We can roll back to the backup duties. Welcome for yourself to eat on Jay Leno by keywords and make a duplicate of our subject. You didn't do quick to make sure that you have your subsequently isolated. Now you want to click on this one and hit G to group that li, close the group and hide a layer. You can just double-click on the group and rename that to backup, adhered on that. Now you have that idea. We can just drag it below our background layer so that we are going to know that everything below is just backup. Right? Now, you want to right-click on your subject and convert that into a smart objects so that we are going to have a single layer not I will convert our subject into a smart object. Now, we are going to start making the lower reservoir out of lava on this back up the chain. So what I'm going to do, I'll pick up the pen to write here. I'll hit the P key on my keyboard or some negative venture. And after selecting the pen tool, I'm going to come in and make a random shoe on the chin lock my subject. Now, notice you can make any shape of your choice, anything that you can make that shift on your own subject. Okay. Furniture would I want to make? Now, once you're done with the shape, just one click and click on Make Selection, release dialog box, smoke ball, just hit on okay, or you put in 0.5. Okay? Now that is going to make a selection around a subject. You want to come over to your layer and add a layer mask. We're utterly at MySQL go into that, but you selected available on your pelvis they want to eat on entrepreneurs I, on your keyboard to invert the layer mask, you want to create a new layer below your subject, Leah. We create a new layer below your subject Leah. We do paint to still selected goods. So your survey and create a rough around the edges. You just got out of your subject. Now once you've done that, make sure you have a newly actually want to right-click and it'll deal. But when you click on, you buy, this window is going to pop up right here, where you want to click on the drop down menu and select color. Now the color picker is going to open up. You want to click and select a color from your subject and make this color a little bit lighter. Once you're done with that, click on Okay, and click on Okay, ready, it is going to feel that in that area of your subject now you want to directly and eat on Delete button at byte, it's going to disappear. Right now. We are going to make a gate. Now. Pick up your paint to already. If you've already selected an honor to be open to what you've picked up your paint to your own resume in that Lisa. And now you are going to make a lot of part inside of the equator they had before the root click and create another part. Now why creating this? But make sure that you have exact shape of the previous one you created before. You have to do this gradually so that you are going to get the exact kind of shape you want. And you don't want to completely, yours will go out or subject believes. And Janey about right. Now the concept about this but embracing, it's that a spot right here. It's severe. We have the other side of the code. We can see it is despite these added above and we have the camera on top of the camera facing our subject. We wouldn't be able to see the older age of this code right here. What only age? Radio will be able to see the code once you, despite create another layer above the reversely, I'm going to right-click again. Go over to IUPAC awareness window opened up when you click on this drop-down menu again and click on color. Notice them when we look about what you want to click on this one you have right here will make it deletes Lisa, we re dish What I said is some lists to rig. This is orange, so we'll head over to the red. Something like this. It darker red. And click on Okay, and Okay, you need to feel that bad. Now, that will have this byte field of you want to work week and eat all the lead. But now you are going to lift this right here. What if you find that I have sharp edge like this? You will all do these and try to adjust this area by holding down Control and click on the area and try to adjust it. You'll find that you no longer have that sharp edge. Now you want to right-click again and go over to feel bad. And then click Okay. Because you'd have the color selected already, but directly and delete by Elizabeth I, right? Yeah. But we'll have the sharp edge writing. Well, we'll put in the flower AT screen of power that now we are going to create another layer. Above this layer. We're going to right-click and it's clipping mask with this new layer, with it. Now you want to hit the B key on your keyboard to select the brush to vote on the planet. Peak on this color vision, your squeaked anyway, now, we want to make it a little bit darker. If you don't have the colors, color panel, you want to make use of your regular Penelope, get unbelievable. Patricia. You want to make this ILL needs to be darker, just like this. And with soft brush in Photoshop, you can make use of the original round brush. I really would show the solvent radio opacity, and so on. But if you don't have what the blade, you can do it with Jersey opacity to something that is ruins and benefits. You. Win. I'm going to come down to this part and I am going to paint just like a shadow. We can see the edge of this part right here. So we are going to paint in as soon as the light is coming from. This part right here, is going to be asked and shadow on the other area of the pipe out over soviet. Now we need to illustrate that by adding shadow. Now, that is what we are doing right now. Added shadow, ignored as you keep going. What are the shadow is going to lead when you go into shadow needs to be darker. So we are going to add more right here and tries to decrease it when we get the edge right here. Now, we'll come back to our color picker again and reduce the liners or the color to make it a little bit darker. And this time we are going to pay over risk-based to make a more that I'm going to make it darker, Elizabeth. And I am going to move via app displays. A good. Now, if our equilibrium is colour pea guy is very easy for you to select between those colors, seizures by now. So I'm going to click here, go bucks at the red color and add that shadow, right? It to blend in. Very well. Now this is where we have. I can zoom out. You can see it's looking more like a boat out on our subject. That is fair. We are going to leave that. So we're going to go. But similarly S cornea, like everything right here, rec league, all your seatbelt worked with G on my keyboard. And double-click on that name, that SU, one. And we're going to leave it that way. I'm going to right-click again and decrease global average of all we don't have a real color at this moment. So now I'm gonna kind of studies who over to record one group and divide both top layer and hide. Hopefully I haven't darker color and I will make sleep in a few bad color. And I am going to select this color. Click on Okay, and click on Okay. Now I can right-click and delete. But now you can see what we have. It is really looking good, but we need to add the same shadow right here. How my previous color. So it will be advisable for you to just have the hex code of your color so that you can use easily visit them all if you don't have lawyers color because so I have them right here. How the best one now, the orders. Now at this point I'm going to create a new layer, right-click and add a clipping mask with the same brush to select it. I'm going to paint over this area. Note how they should let you know, despite the light is going to be aspects in this subject and the shadow would be this part, right? And we're going to bend in shadow. Just like that. I'm just getting away with Lisa me. Yeah, that is now I can come over to my colors. You can pick up this color right here. And I am going to pay. We just decided Nova brush is tomorrow. I mistakenly pick other colors, bouba and insight. Yeah. I think I want to go a little bit darker with the sort and increase the size of the brush. And Ben, Elisa, I want to blend a variety here, so I'm going to select that dark color again. And I'm just going to paint today. I don't have with me my condition while this is fine. Now we have our subject code that hopefully in the next lesson we're going to start adding the flowers, our subject. But before we do that, we wanted to select obviously Ag, she and click to select it all. We're going to hit OK, Control G to group that. Leah, I'm going to click, double-click on that and in that SU two and hit on Enter. Now, we can preceded in this lesson, we are going to be adding flowers. 5. Adding Flowers: In this lesson, we are going to add flowers to our subject. We checked your project food that you are going to get about them, flowers, which you can use for your practice. And now I'm going to zoom in just a screen like this. Now I'm going to start dragging my flowers into Photoshop. What is that with this one? Click and drag it into Photoshop. Does the lives of it is molar N at the back of your subject. I'm just going to raise up. Now, click on Okay. And now it is below. Our subjects are going to click and drag that up. Now I'm going to move this raised area. You don't control C. And I'm going to bring it scaled down, leads away from like this is fine. I'm going to put it right here. Click on Okay. I'm going to zoom out a little bit. Or I can select the flower layer hold down control and select all the 0 called Lee as in every layer SRE culture would see NAM going to bring this down a little bit so that I'm going to have enough space at it though. I think somewhere around ELB, going to click on, Okay. And how undo that. Click off and click on the flower. And I'm going to drag it up. But Lisa, and I think I'm still going to rotate, this will lead to leave it right there. Okay, Now you can see that it is above our subject and also a bull. The code we just created, that one needs to feel like it is inside the code, but calling the other areas of your subject. Now we will go inside, go to Florida or down Control. Click on the second layer which we created. The code. We are going to head over to our flower, click on the Layer Mask icon to add a layer mask. So these, but we have it issues. Now, it is inside of our subject. We can see what that one does say to be inside of a subject and will want the old essay to be on the outer part of our soviet. Well, we have a layer mask. Now we can eat the big key on our keyboard to select the brush to erase, I'm going to right-click and select a regular soft, round brush in Photoshop. Now, I'll make sure my foreground color is set to white. However, the layer mask selected, just click on the Layer Mask to have Leah my selected. We'll click on the layer mask, provides the it's going to change to layer mask. Now since I have the foreground color set to white, I will come over to this area, increase the size of the brush. Ben, over. Review. All right. Lower that outward. Okay, so now we'll have the face, but we're rightly, you want to put in random flower, you don't want to put in one flowers, you just want to put in random flower. Okay, This is really looking so good. I'm going to erase the excess air, which right here. Okay. This is really looking good. Boy, we have some extra things which we need to do to make this look. We now look at Israel through these flowers, is inside of a cold or a jar or whatever it is. This flower it's inside. It should be shadow reflected on the flowers right here to show that, yes, this is really inside of a flower or we're not having that right now. What we're going to do, we're going to click, we're going to create a new layer above, over the whole day. You're going to scroll down. Click on this layer right here, hold Uncle Drew and click on this layer to create a selection around that layer. In the new layer we created, we are going to have that layer selected. It says your foreground color to black. Lego brush through. I'm going to select this soft round brush with Bridger opacity and Lou. And we are going to bend a little bit of shadow, right? Yeah, Joe's by selecting the black and painting over the flower. Now, if you don't have what they bless, you just want to reduce the opacity and flow of your brush to suit the way you want the shadow to be. But I'm just going to be over. Right. Inclusively spine. I'm going with that can lead to v. I'm going to select the razor tool. Just to select it resides, we've just erase some area like this n number rarely I'm going to hide a selection by hitting Control plus H on my keyboard so that I can really see exactly what is going on. This is really looking so good. Okay? Now I can raise this Control D to deselect. Now, this is really looking at my less fix this little area we have right here. So I'm going to head over. So my subjects let our layer mask we have right here. I'm going to right-click and select a regular hard round brush Photoshop, which is this. And I am going to paint with black over this area to erase this part. Now, these are a and we have a loader right here. And I'm going to repeat the same process exactly what this is really looking so good. Now, it is time for us to place the flowers on this part of our subject. Now I'm going to drag in paste flower, which is this. They will drag and drop V. And I will bring it down to this area, will go into a little bit. I want this to overlay on the chain. So we're going to leave this, this way. We'll leave it like this for a moment. I think I'm going to scale it down a little bit. This is fine. Click on Okay. And I am going to look for another week and drag this into, I think this is a little bit faded out, but I am going to use it directly. Leave this reason there was a rag or something like this and I am going through it. Click on OK. think Huawei is not as nice as I expected it to be. I'm going to click, I'm just going to leave that right there and I am going to drag another. Then we quickly find one. I'm going to drag, I think this is going to work well for me right here. And I'm going to DC. And I am going to bring it down somewhere around here and E Now, very, very well. Right? This is fine when you click on, Okay, hey that a little bit. Go into the code. One group, which is right here, hold down control and click on this layer to make this lecture. And I will hold and control. Just activate my move tool for a moment. Click on this layer to select it, add a layer mask, select the brush to right-click and select regular soft, round brush in photoshop and paint over the areas with white. Want to review, reveal this error right here. One really spread out of it. And also k, This is really looking good. And finally, I'm going to repeat the same process reviewed or a flower layer, which is this one right here. And I'm going to hit control, click and select on that layer. And I am going to add a layer mask to that layer. Click the brush to polar and close sets wide and layer mask selected paint over and review these paint over. This area. I'm going to switch to black and erase this part of the flower. I don't need that, but it's not really looking nice. Now I'm going to create a new layer above this layer. Click on that. And I'm going to select the regular soft round brush or an opacity brushing British show and am going to hold down control and click on this layer. And I'm just going to add little bit of shadow below loose flowers, but I am going to raise it above this layer. So I'm going to hit on, I'm going to delete this layer. Delete this layer. We can create another layer. But before I do that, I'm going to hold on Control. Shift on my keyboard and click on the second flower layer, and it's going to add that selection. Now I am going to paint over, but I'm going to hold on heat on E on my keyboard. Select the eraser to NAM, I'm going to erase the areas that are affecting these lower hank. I'll select the layer mask again with a brush. So I'm going to paint over this area and this is supposed to be coming out of control D to deselect and am going to pay for this ears. Now, the shadow is a little bit harder. I'm going to select the shadow layer. In the E key on my keywords will select the Paint, the razor to. I am just going to lead to these area. Okay. This is fine. Now I'm going to zoom out, Lisa. This is what we have really looking good at, nice. Now we are done with adding all the flowers. In the next lesson, we're going to do a final adjustment to our subject and make sure we balance everything, will see you guys in the next lesson. 6. Adjustments (final): In this lesson, we are going to add I just made to our as well to really make it look good and well. But I think I want to add more flowers to this. We'll go over my flowers folder and I'm just going to randomly pick some flowers in GOP over subject. And this time I'm going to pull these above every orally at the bottom. So I'm going to click and drag this up and drop it right here. Don't call T to transform. I'm going to zoom out a little bit. I'm just going to add flowers randomly. We called okay. The leg to move to by hitting V key on my keyboard. Okay, this week working, let's keep working on is, I'm going to select every layer right here. Look like this for holding Shift and click on this wire here, G, group that. And I'm going to leave that to one. And here an anther. And I am going to select these layers right here. You don't control G in Nim that too. Flour two and hit Enter. Now I'm going to close this group. Select my subject, Leah, you don't control G to group that collusive group, double-click and name that, Sue subjects and enter. Okay, So now this is really looking good. And I'm going to close my colors Color panel because for the moment I don't need it anymore. Now, I'm going to select, I'm going to select my subject. I'm going to come down to the Adjustment Layer icon, click and add a color lookup. I just want to click on this white right here, select the first one. Now we did down arrow key on my keyboard, I can switch between colors. This is a little bit by brands ANF think is really nice and amazing. And I'm going to work with these. Now. I'm just going to reduce the opacity will need to be somewhere around 80 is fine. Now we have a little bit of shine on our subject. I'm going to keep it that way. And I'm going to come down again, read another color. I'm going to click Select the first one. I'm just going to browse through any other. Have read it, which I think might work well for me. Okay, I'm just going to delete these. Now. I want this to affect only my subject. I'm going to right-click and say that it is a clipping mask. I'm going to clip it to the group. Right here. It is going to affect only the subject. Now you can see the before. Now you can see the before and the after that affecting only the subject or the subject. Now everybody is in red here is really looking at is before we head over to readjustment, I want to play with the gradient and see what I can get degraded. The previous layouts really want to click on Okay, click on Okay, to go back. Now, I'm going to make a match copy of all the layers have right here by holding down Control and Shift E on my keyboard, I'm going to make a copy of everything. Now I'm going to right-click and convert this into a smart object. I want to go into the camera arrow you with that. I convert it into a smart object. We'll head over to deal with that. Click on View tab and select Camera Raw Filter. From here, I'm going to do, I just meant to my artwork. I think I want to reduce the exposure a little bit, add a little bit of contrast and increase highlight. Elisa. Wait, I'm going to bring down the shadows, add a little bit of contrast. And I am going to freeze. The weights, add a little bit of shine on my subject, increase the black and I'm going to leave the texture that we add little bit of vibrance. So my subject in our head over to the color mix up, up, up, up. Our query is a list of all the blues to make the blues look more saturated. And I'm going to pop up the yellows elite to be above the orange logo problem or a moist skin off my subject. And add elites would be to the right. This is fine right here. And I'm not going to add in the predicate to the color grading. It. This is what we have before, and this is where we have AFDA for the app that we're going to click. Okay, to go back into, this is really looking so good. Wow, I think I need a one-color background. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to come down to this spot grid or solid color adjustment layer. And I am going to play around with sre, something like meat gray, wishes, lose you, but not as good as these blue. We're going to click on okay. And see, this is really looking good and what we have. So I'm going to make a match copy of this. I'm going to scroll up leg in big image coffee of these. Now I'm going to right-click and convert this into a Smart Object. Converting that into a smart object, am going to copy and paste these smartphones now. And then to do that, I'm going to hold down on my keyboard, click, drag and place it on top of this layer. And it is going to automatically apply that if X be applied in Camera Raw Filter. And I think this is really look in more depth.