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1. Welcome to Adobe Firefly: Welcome to this course
on Adobe Firefly, their AI tool that is going to revolutionize
all of their apps. And specifically the
website firefly.adobe.com, where you can do things
very similar and even more advanced than other tools
like Midjourney or DALL-E. Here I am on the Adobe
Firefly website. It's still in beta
and things change rapidly as I've
learned using all of these AI tools currently they have the options to turn text to Image generative Fill text
Effects in generative Recolor. In the next lessons, I will show you how to
use each of these tools. Thank you so much for being here if there's
anything I can do to make this class better if there's something
that I'm missing, please let me know. With that, let's head into
text to Image Generation
2. Text to Image Generation: So here on the text to
Image page you can see examples and you can
scroll up or down, which is kinda
interesting to see what the images and
what the result is. A hamster wearing a track
suit and lifting weights. You click on the box down
below to type in your prompt. Acute SIADH are holding
a bouquet of flowers. You click Generate or
hit the Return button. Here you're automatically
going to see something different than what you saw
using DALL-E or mid journey. If you've used
those other tools, you have a lot of
different options that can adjust this photo on
the right-hand side, now we see the four variations
that have been generated. You can click on one
of them to open it up, to see it in a bigger view. And for each of these
photos you have the option to download it. That might be the first
thing you wanna do. You can read it, which will help Firefly get better and
better at generating. You also have an option
for showing similar. So clicking on this, it will create another
version similar to the one that you liked. And there's also an option
for generative Fill. Before I go over that though, on the right-hand side, we have all of these options. On the top, you
can quickly change the aspect ratio
from a square image. Say we want a widescreen
16 by nine image for a video thumbnail
or something like that. You can quickly adjust it right here in the app
while that loads, we have different content types. So you have none which
will just refer to whatever content prompt
you put into your prompt. For example, artwork, illustration, sketch,
Photo, whatever. If you have that in your prompt, you don't necessarily need to
choose a content-type here. But up here we can quickly
change from Art to Photo, and it will regenerate this same image as a more
photo-realistic image. Depending on the subject matter,
depending on the prompt, it will look more real, more or less realistic. This is one. So gray right here. I'm going to heart that one. That's going to add
that to my favorites. And I'm also going
to give it a rating. Down below content-type,
you have styles. So let's click on the all
and you can see there's so many different styles that can change what this looks like. So for example, let's
change to hyper-realistic. It adds that tag here to
our prompt down below. And then also let's go down and Change are some of
these other settings. So color and tone we can choose, do we want it to be
black and white, warm tone, cool tone? I'm going to choose vibrant
color for lighting. Let's do backlighting. That's gonna be nice.
And composition. Let's go ahead and
do a close-up. So now we have all of
these tags that help us adjust our image and we're
going to click Generate. Now we have all four image with the styles that we applied,
the different settings. This one now beautiful
backlighting on this hyper-realistic
image of this otter. Now this image doesn't look
completely like a real photo. I'm going to go ahead
and download it. So I'm going to click,
Continue to download it. But a different prompts
might work better. Let's leave all of these
styles and I'm just going to type in a long exposure
of a waterfall. And let's actually change our
aspect ratio to vertical. Now we have an image that
looks quite realistic. You can see in the detail of this long exposure that the
Background Looks pretty good. I might change some of these
things like vibrant color. I would maybe just put none. Lighting. Let's just
do none as well. Composition, Let's
do wide angle. Let's re, generate
these options. Now this image, which is the one that we were
looking at before, a little bit more realistic
because those colors weren't so vibrant
and just not natural. And that's text to Image, play around with it. Use these other examples to
give you some inspiration. And as I expand this course, I will give you
lots more tips and advice for creating
incredible images, like the ones you see here. See you in the next lesson.
3. Generative Fill: Next, let's go over the
generative Fill option. This is an option
you can actually use within Adobe Photoshop, and I'll have a lesson on
how you use that later. But right here on the platform, you can also use it. Up at the top. You can click,
upload an image and then find an image that you
want to play around with. Here's an image that I shot of these little water droplets. So the first thing to do is make the selection where you
want to add something. So say I wanted to add
a little lady bug. I'm going to take my brush, which my mouse is
already my brush, and it's the plus brush
which we have here. So I'm going to make it a
little spot for the lady bug. If I went too far, I can take subtract
and I can get rid or brushed back in the photo. I'm going to take this here. You also have your
brush settings as well. And you could also quickly
use these selections to select the background or
to invert the selection, which would basically select everything outside of
what you brushed in. Then at the bottom, I'm
going to describe what a want a macro photo
of a lady bug. We're going to click Generate. And now we have
these variations of this lady bug that are now added to this crazy
macro photo that I shot. If you're not happy,
you can click more and it will create
more variations. Or we can click keep and it
will add it to my photo. Here's a long exposure
I shot in Big Sur. So let's go ahead and
add a UFO up here. Simply click UFO,
click Generate. Now we have this UFO
that has been created, blended into our existing image. Pretty crazy, right? Here's another photo I shot my front yard of
this hummingbird. Let's just remove
that hummingbirds. I'm going to take that
are removed, brush, going to paint over
our hummingbird. Click remove. And now we have a
few variations, but because the Background
is out-of-focus, it does an incredible
job at just removing objects and
you can remove People, things, cars for missing, you name it, brush over
it, and you can remove it. Crazy, right? So this is the generative
Fill option on the Firefly Platform checkout that Photoshop lesson
as well because I show you how I'm
actually using it for virtual staging to add furniture
to real estate photos, which you used to have to pay
for a service to do that. Now you can do it
using Adobe Firefly. Alright, thanks so
much for watching and we'll see you
in another lesson.
4. Text Effects: This lesson, let's go
over text Effects. This is super cool,
super interesting. So here you can
see some examples. So we've got the
gingerbread decoration P, we've got the flower lay T, we've got the pizza L. All you have to do is
type in the text you want it to use. So I'm going to type my
name in and then describe the text of eggs, ocean waves. It's going to take a
minute to generate. On the right, you can see sample prompts if
you just want to play around with different
types of prompts like flowers, driftwood, bread,
toast, etcetera. Here you can see
that it's popped up with four variations of this. I can click through
them and it will bring up the variation and you can kinda see a preview
of it down below. On the right, you also
have some texts options, so you could change the Effects so that the effect is loose on the text medium or tight
constricted to the text. The medium and Louisa will kinda like spill over the edge. If you like that look, you could change the font. So let's go ahead
and let's do Cooper. That's kinda like a
cool retro style font that might look cool
with these waves. A little bit round
edges, That's very cool. And then you have
Colors. So right now the default is no background. You can click on
any of these colors to see what it looks like,
a different background. And then there's also
a Text color that will change the text color depending
on what your prompt is. And then you can favorite, you can download it. And now I have this
incredible Graphic of my name currently. This is not available
for commercial use and it is watermarked as such, but it's a great place to play around and use for
noncommercial work. So that's pretty much it. Play around with it. I would love to see
what you come up with. The text Effects. Post it to the core is tag me
on social wherever you can. I can't wait to see it. Thanks so much and we'll
see you in the next lesson.
5. Generative Color: Now let's look at the
generative Recolor option. This is perfect for logos
and other SVG Graphic files. You will need an SVG file. You could click on one of the sample files
here to work with. Or you can upload a file. I'm going to upload a
file that I have here. And then you describe
your color palette. Knife, blue, gray, purple. So now you see an example of
what this has turned into. I can select one that I like. I can then shuffled
the colors by simply clicking this
shuffle Color button, and it will transform it into a completely different Graphic. Now let's play with
this harmony settings. So this will take the colors
that we've submitted here, and then it will adjust it. So if we want the
blue-gray purple settings plus complimentary
colors, we can do that. So green is the complimentary
color to purple, and that's why now that appears. And it has all of these
different options for different ways to
combine colors, which some of these will
create a more jarring Image, some will create a more
natural, pleasing image. And that's a great thing
to play around with for your Graphic Design. We can add colors here by
selecting these colors and it will include those
colors into our design. Then, as we saw above, we can just select one
of these for this image, like this yellow submarine look. And let's get rid of all of these other additional colors. We're going to refresh. And now we have a
few options with the yellow submarine style,
dark blue, midnight. That's pretty cool.
Let's select this one. I'm going to just shuffle
these colors a little bit. I like that. So I'm
gonna give it a rating. I'm going to download it. So this is the
generative Recolor tool. It's a way to Quickly change the colors of your SVG graphics
6. Remove People from a Photo: In this section, I'm
going to show you several ways to use generative Fill to spark some inspiration in what
you might want to do. I'm going to be using the
web version in this section, but the Photoshop app
that has generative fill as an option gives you so much more capability because the way you
can select parts of images is much more advanced than currently
on the website. In this first lesson, I'm going to show you how to remove things from
the Background. I'm gonna upload this
image right here. This is just a stock photo. I find. You can also use
the scroll wheel on your mouse if you have
one to zoom in or out, you can also press the
Command plus or minus button. If you're on a Mac, that would be Control
if you're on a PC. And then you can press
the spacebar to get the pan or the hand tool to
be able to click and move around because this
little bar down here is in the way
sometimes so I press the spacebar or
you can click and change to the pen tool and
then just drag around. The remove tool is
this one right here. We're just going to take this. You can change the breasts,
brush settings here. You can increase the brush size, the hardness that's like the
feathering of the edges. And then the opacity. We're going to leave
opacity up high, but I like having
the brush hardness be a little bit lower so the edges sort of fit
blend into the Background. This photos not bad, and there's going to be
people in the background. But this guy right here was
just sort of like in the way. So I'm going to select
this person right here, and then click remove. That does a pretty
incredible job. I can scroll through
the options here. Let's see how it replaced
that guy with a person. I don't want that. Even the edge where before
you saw a little bit of this lady in the
background being covered? It replaced like the edges
of her so it looks normal. So I'm gonna say keep
now this lady over here, this person with long hair has a little bit of a
distracting color, that blue. I'm going to select
her and click Remove. Again. It tries to fill it
with another person. Initially. That one looks somewhat like
a trash can or something, that one doesn't look good. So what I'm going to do, because I didn't
get any good ones. I'm just going to
click more and it's going to generate
for more options. And there you go. This third option
looks pretty good. We can keep going. Remove this lady
with the handbag. And finally, I'm just going
to do this one right here. Actually, I'm going to
push it a little further. Tried to remove all these people in the background like so. Now when I get
close to the edges, That's where you have to
be a little bit careful. You could zoom in, make sure you're getting
those edges nicely. Or you can go into Photoshop. If you use Photoshop and do a really nice clean selection without selecting
our subject here. Hen, that was a really
difficult task, but it has done it quite well. I think this one
looks pretty good. I might click More to see if
there's any more options. One thing to, to pay
attention to is we have this reflection in the
mirror of a person, so we would have to
remove that as well. And this now we have it looks like so far in the background that I
think is pretty good. And let's just go ahead and
remove this reflection. And wow, look at that. We remove that person
from the reflection. Let's keep that image. We're going to download it. Here. We have the before,
after, before, after. Pretty incredible, right? That's how to remove People. I'm going to show you one
more example really quick. So let's do one more. Here is this photo. We've got two guys in here, different contrasting
vibes going on, smiling, serious on phone. I'm going to remove this
guy here on the phone. And we got to pay attention to, we've got a shadow down here. So I'm gonna move that
and look at that. Holy cow, incredible job. If you just saw this
photo like this and you never saw that before photo, you would never think there
was a person standing there. Incredible removing people. That's one thing you can
do with Generative Fill.
7. Remove & Change the Background: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you how to change the background. We have this happy couple here. With this selection, we're
still going to choose the Insert and we're going
to choose Background. And when there's a
Photo of people, it does a decent job at
selecting the background. You can always go in, add and subtract with your
brushes if you need to. And again, if you're
using the Photoshop app, you have much more
advanced techniques for making selections, but this did a pretty good job. Now we can change what we
want the background to be. We're gonna go from look
like they're in an elevator or something to a busy techno
club with neon lights. You can be as
specific as you want. Alright, so here we
have some FUN options. The blending is not perfect. This is where you
would want to go into Photoshop and adjust
the selection, perhaps blend it in
a little bit better. The lighting is not perfect, but we can keep generating and see if we can find
something better. Let's see. They look like they're
actually northern lights. It looks like they actually
look like they're looking up. They're amazed. They can be
looking at northern lights. Maybe they're looking at fireworks or
something like that. Let's try northern lights. Now we have this image of them standing in the middle
of the Northern Lights. Again, lighting is not perfect. This is where you
would want to be in Photoshop to match the
lighting a little bit more. But that's how you can
change the background. Just pay attention. If it's a Photo with a lot of
different people or you're trying to remove the background of a photo of an object
or something else. Sometimes the selection
doesn't work as well. You're going to have
to use that brush to really improve it.
Thanks for watching
8. Change Clothes: Alright, so this guy just
got done with his workout. We need to put some clothes on. He's getting ready for
to work at his lets see. It looks like maybe he's works
out as a valet at a hotel. So it needs to be wearing a dress shirt with a
white tie or black tie. So we're going to select here, we're going to select his arms. Make sure we get everything. This image is very easy because we don't have a background. So let's paint in
his shirt here. And I'm on the Insert. I'm not on the remove. Okay, so I'm unanswered. Now I'm going to
describe what I want. White collared shirt
with black bow tie. Click Generate. And
that's pretty good. A little, the arms
are a little skinny, but pretty dang, good. Let me cancel that. I'm actually just
going to select all of this area down here, regenerate. Maybe it was getting thrown
off by that selection. And since there's no
background which is perfect, then this should
work pretty well. Okay, so now we're
getting some hands. Couple of these, not so much, so let's go ahead
and click More. Here. We're going here. This guy looks
like he's ready to drive my car to the parking lot. So that's how you can
change someone's outfit. I had to click the More
button a few times until I got the
image that I liked. Now I've selected the Background front
driveway of hotel at night. Let's see if we could put
this guy standing front of a hotel. Alright, Not bad, not bad. In Photoshop, I would have
these separate layers. I could make the layer
in the background darker so that it
matches the lighting, potentially a little bit better. But hopefully this
inspires you and gives you some ideas for what you can
do, changing people's outfits
9. Swap Objects: Here's a FUN way to use
generative Fill to swap Objects. So there's camera lens is cool, but I think it
would be better if he was tossing up a donut. Let's do that.
Yeah. There we go. Yeah. With the buyout of it. That's looking pretty good. Maybe instead of our donut, Let's do rubber duck. The rubber ducks
are a little funny. Maybe my selection
wasn't tall enough, so let's go a little bit up. Alright, that's a
little bit better. I don't think
rubber duck 0s have little feet like that though. Not bad. What about How about
a baseball, a seashell? It's pretty good. Or a glowing magical or yeah, that is pretty good. The power of the orb. Nice. So play around with it. You can swap Objects
with Generative Fill
10. Add Jewelry: Another thing you could
do is add Jewelry. So this lady right here, great dress, but she
needs some Jewelry. I'm going to paint
over her neck right here to start still
with the Insert option. And I'm going to
say pearl necklace. Who? Double pearls, nice. There we go. Pearl necklace. That is pretty dang
good. That's awesome. Let's try that one more time. Let's put a gold necklace. I'm painting down a
little bit lower. Large gold chain necklace with diamonds were gonna go
all out with that bullying. Baby. Yeah, Look at that. That is, that is nice. Fancy. Not so, not so much. Let's click more. Again, a little bit
intense. Let's cancel that. Let's change our prompt. That's better. A little bit more natural. Not perfect. Still pretty big. Let's do one more. It looks nice. It
looks realistic. Will do simple small
gold chain that clip. Let's try simple gold necklace with Ruby pendant wearing pink. I think that would look nice. And that's just not working. Okay, maybe my
selection is too big, so let's go ahead. We're going to subtract this
and we're going to add, but we're going to make
our brush a lot smaller. So we're just going
to paint like this, something like this. There we go. Generate. Yes, that's getting better. So making a smaller
selection even still it's, it's kinda big, right? That would help. Let's click more one more time, but changing the
selection is going to affect your end
result, the size. See here. So pay attention
to that. Not bad. Let me just go a little
bit more extreme. We can zoom in on here. So let's subtract. And that's getting a
little bit better. So pay attention to your selection That's going to affect the output at
the end of the day. But now you can add some nice bling to your
photos with Generative Fill
11. Add or Change Hairstyle: This guy looks great, but he Mrs. his hair. So we're gonna give
him some hair. So let's brush over
the top of his head. Take my settings,
get a little bit smaller so we can
really get in here. There. We're going to say
flowing brown hair. These are not bad, not as much hair. I would like this
one's pretty good. Actually, it looks
looks pretty natural. Let's cancel that long
flowing brown here. This is better.
It seems like cut off the top of his
head a little bit. We might have to generate
a couple of times. Let's do one more, just
see what it comes up with. Okay, but not perfect. But with some of these we can, this one's, this one's not bad. Now let's give him a
little bit of a mustache. Brown mustache. Color is not working
in Photoshop. I can take this new layer
that's created though, and adjust the settings. Let's give them a little goatee. That's, that's too much. But now he's got an alibi, he's on the run and no
one's going to recognize that nice full head of hair that he's got now,
play around with it. The changing of hair. Hair is fine. It takes a few times
for sure though. But hopefully this
gives you some ideas for FUN things you can
do with Generative Fill
12. Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop just released a Beta feature called
Generative AI. But time you're watching this, this might be available in the
regular Photoshop version. But I'm doing some cool stuff like this for real
estate photography, where I'm adding Art and
furniture to a Photo. You can even add
pretty much anything. So here's a photo I took
at the Niagara Falls, added a hot air balloon. This is a crazy photo where
this is an old photo of an ally and see own Switzerland where my great
grandfather grew up. And I was able to
take this photo. That's a vertical
portrait style photo. And with Generative AI
extended the edges crazy. Then I added a tattoo to
this portrait of myself. I'm pretty cool, huh? So how do we do this? It's actually pretty simple. If you want to play
with this right now, you'll need to go to the
Creative Cloud app and go to beta apps on the left
side of the Apps tab, and then download the
Photoshop Beta app. Then whenever you're
in Photoshop, you'll need to
create a selection with any of these marquee tools. So the rectangular marquee tool or one of the Lasso
tools as well. You want to do this
in the area you want to add or change
something in your image. For example, for this image, I took the rectangular
marquee tool. I made a little
square on this wall. And now we have this
new bar that pops up, which if you don't see it, it's up in window contextual task bar has a
lot of different options, but right now we can just click the generative Fill and then
type in whatever we want. Abstract Art, Canvas,
print, light, pink colors. Then you click Generate. And then it's going to work with the AI Adobe Sensei Firefly
system to generate an image. Here you can see
that it popped up. It pops up with three options. You can click through them here. And you also see a Properties
panel where you see your prompt that you gave
also the three variations. And if you don't like
these variations, you can click Generate
to create new ones. It adds a nice little shadow to it to truly make it
look pretty good. Then you see in the
bottom-right that it adds a layer to our layer panel. One thing you'll note though, if I take my move tool now
and I tried to move this, it's the whole marquee selection
that I created before. So it's not just
the object itself. So within this tool though, we can give it a thumbs up, thumbs down, say we like this. From here. If we wanted to just
select this object, we can use any of our other Photoshop tools to select this object and
then create a new layer, copy and paste it. And we can move this around. We might need to
add a little bit of that shadow back to this, but that's how you can work with this new generated image
within your new project. So similar to that, I did the same
thing for this one. I added a little
circular, murky. And then I typed in
hot air balloon. You can be much more
descriptive and you'll see that sometimes prompts
work, sometimes they don't. I was trying to give myself
a man bun and what it returned, which is awesome. And then with that tattoo, I typed in a black
and white tattoo, but then it gave me this option. So it gave me a few options. So what I did was I changed
the blend mode to Multiply, which I thought
looked pretty good. So sometimes you'll have
to do a little extra work. Here. What I did was I started with the image and I'll just do it here to show you what I can do. So maybe I want this to be
a sort of or wide view. I'm gonna go to my crop tool, extend the left
side of this image. Then take my rectangular marquee
tool and just select all of this area of the crop that doesn't have an area,
anything in it. Select just a little
bit of the photo so it has some context and then
choose Generative Fill. I'm not going to
choose anything. I'm just going to
click Generate. And you can see that it did
a pretty good job at that. I'm going to look
through these versions. That one I like
the clean version. Like pretty incredible. If I'm not happy with
part of an image, there's another way to
erase or add to it. So say, let's go back to this
one right here where let me just get rid
of the Background so you can kinda see
what we're working with. If I select the layer mask, there's now a subtract
or add to mass. So if I subtract a mask, I now have my brush
tool which I can make bigger or smaller with the
Control Option key on a Mac. And now I could just
simply erase part of this or I can add to it if I want to add to this
generative Fill. And these options and more pop up in our
property panels as well, including the feathering of
this entire mask that is created from what's generated with that selection
I did before. So that sometimes works if you just need to
erase a little bit, because sometimes it generates like weird objects
in the background. Like I think for this one, like here for this tattoo, it added a little bit
to the right side. That's like not the right color. So I'm just going to
take my Subtract from mask and erase that bid there. I'd have to be very careful
to get this edge just right. But that's pretty dang. Good. Again, this is available
in the Beta version. Eventually I'm sure it will
be in the full version. Let me know what you think
and if you have questions, let me know as well. Have a great day. We'll
see you next time.
13. Changing the Background & Matching the Foreground: This lesson, I'm
going to show you how in Photoshop we can use our more advanced
selection tools to change the background. If you remember this photo, the end result of the
northern lights just didn't look like it went so well
together with the photo. Here, I've done
another version of it that I think
looks a lot better. And let me walk you
through those steps. In Photoshop with our
contextual task bar open, we can simply click
Select Subject and it's actually going to do a better
job selecting our subject. But from here we can do
and even better job. I'm going to take my
quick selection tool. There's a little bit of area here that isn't
looking so great. So I'm going to subtract that by taking this
tool and pressing the Option key to
subtract and go in there, releasing the option key so
that we are getting his face, his shirt, and we'll do a
little bit of the hair as well. We can even clean that up with some Objects Selection
in just a minute. Everything else is
looking pretty good. I can see that the
hair is going to be a little bit messed up up there. So let's go in to our, with our selection
tool selected. We can choose, Select, and Mask. And from here we have all of the advanced options
such as clicking the refined hair
button that's going to refine the hair
that we're seeing. It selects. I don't know if that's
his finger right there. I'm just going to
get rid of that. So we have our
selection tool on. I'm going to subtract the, the keyboard shortcut for making our brush bigger or
smaller or harder or softer is the Control
Option key on a Mac. I'm just going to make
that right there. Get rid of that little
selection right there. Everything here
looks pretty good. I'm going to zoom in here. And the edge of his face website was on the
subtract I want to be on add the edge of his
cheek is being selected. You can see that the hair there, it's selected and it's
a pretty good job, especially when we're zoomed out. Alright, so
that looks good. Now let's just click Okay, and we still have that
selection selected. So now what we're going to do is select the inverse of it, right? We have to select everything
outside of this person. So what we're going to
do is click Inverse. And now we're selecting
everything outside. So you can, if I zoom out, you can see that I'm selecting the background and now I
can choose generative Fill. Northern lights. You already see on
the right-hand side we have this generative layer that will be able to
edit and do things to, rather than it all being tied
together on the web app. So we can scroll through
these and find the one that looks best that
we want to work with. Let's just do one
generate more generate and see that one's
actually pretty good. But you can see the
lighting on their faces. It's so bright, it's so flat. Their whole face, their whole
body is lit up properly. But if this was a
flash shot at night, it just wouldn't look like this. That one looks pretty good. There's want to hit generated is arm behind that is pretty good. Okay, so we're going
to work with this. So now what do we have to
do to make this background look better? A couple of things. First, we're going to deal with the lighting,
some basic lighting. So what we're going to do is
we're going to create a new, let's do a, an
exposure adjustment. Here. What we can do, we have
this adjustment layer and we're just going to
bring down the exposure. And then we're going
to brush off part of the image so that
it's not so dark. Obviously parts of
their faces with our brush or be on the
keyboard shortcut. We can erase part of
this layer mask if you if this is confusing to you, you definitely need to check out my full Photoshop course, which goes over all
of these tools. With black selected, I have key on my
keyboard shortcut that set changes the foreground and background color
from black to white. Or if you don't have
black or white, you can click on that box
and pick white or black. We're going to erase
part of this image. So we're going to erase
part of their face. But I do like having
like the back of their face maybe even
the back of her hand. His hand rather a
little bit darker. We're trying to
make it look like the flash kinda shown
directly on them, but not so much on
the Background. So we're going to make
that a little bit darker. We can drop our opacity
as well to in this, in a little bit better. That's looking pretty good. Want to keep their
faces exposed properly. That's the first
thing that we can do. The next thing we can do is match the color of
our Foreground. So right now are Foreground, which is this lowest layer. The color balance doesn't
match the background. So we can go to new
adjustment layer and we're going to choose, let's do Color Balance. Here in our property panels, we can select shadows,
mid tones, highlights. Let's start with R. Let's do our mid tones. And we're going to
change our yellow to blue and make it a
little bit more blue. Just a tiny bit more magenta. We're going to go back down to our shadows and do the same. Now it's looking a little
bit too cool to magenta. So in our highlights,
we're actually going to do the opposite
just a little bit and make our yellows are our highlights a little bit more yellow. To balance that out. Let's go ahead and do
another adjustment, just a brightness and
contrast adjustment. And again, it's applying to
that Background layer of just our subject,
that's our selection. We're just going to make
it a touch more darker. We could have done this with
the exposure layer as well. Now, another thing that
doesn't look natural is the Background
is sharp in-focus, even though it's the
northern lights, it kinda looks like
it's in-focus. So what we can do is we can either apply a
blur to this layer. But because there's
this Foreground sort of like it looks like a wall
that they're leaning on. We're going to actually
make a copy of this layer. And then we're going
to apply our blur. So up to Filter Blur, I like using the Gaussian blur. And here we can adjust it and we can preview
what it looks like. That looks pretty good. And now what we're
going to do is erase the parts that we don't want to be a
blurred, blurred. So with that layer
mask selected, we can now with our opacity up, blur out or hot blur, sharpen back this wall and the front parts
of the edges of their hair or are also
part of this selection. So I'm going to bring that
back up, sharpen it together. And we're looking pretty good. Now this Background
is a little bit different than
this original one, but I think the
actual overall look is looking a bit better. I might have made
them and their faces a little bit too dark. So what I could do is
either brighten it up again or I can go in and brush out their faces. Their faces aren't too dark. So from our original
photo that I just placed on top to this one, you can see that the color
adjustments, the blur, the exposure
adjustments really help make this a realistic image. Thank you so much
for watching and we'll see you in another lesson.
14. Replacing Sky with Generative Fill: Here's why working
in Photoshop to change the Sky with Generative
Fill is much better. We already have a Sky swap
tool, the Sky Replacement. So if I go edit Sky Replacement, this is great because
you can actually take a photo of a Sky or you can
choose a picture of a Sky, upload one and it
will change the Sky, which is pretty dang cool. But if you don't have a photo
of a sky that you want, we can use generative Fill. But making the
selection of the sky on the web app wasn't so great. Because here we can
actually just choose, Select Sky and there's an option for making
that Sky selection. I can see here for this
photo it was a little bit confused with the mountain
top, this Mount Fuji. So I can take my quick
selection tool and with the option key held down or by clicking the minus
button up here, I can go ahead and subtract
that part of the image. We can even go in and use
our Select and Mask feature. Let's turn up our transparency so we can really see
what we're selecting. We're going to do
I Smart Radius, edge detection on a little bit
of smoothing and contrast. And we're also
going to feather it out a little bit because
we want the sky, the adjustments we're
making to blend in with the mountain to something
like that looks pretty good. And now with this selection, we can choose generative Fill. And we're going
to change this to dramatic, dramatic cloudy skies. That red, orange. That does a pretty good
job following our prompt. Now this was a pretty
simple example and the selection was not so different than what
I could have achieved on the web platform. But if we have a more
complicated image like this one, the skyline of Kuala Lumpur, it would be really hard to use
that brush feature to just select the sky on the web app
so we can go to Select Sky. And here it does a
really incredible job selecting the Sky. There's just tiny bit here
that wasn't selected. So let me take my
brush in there. And now we can generate
rainy storm clouds. You can see that it's editing
the buildings and the Foreground a little bit
so we can adjust that. So let's go ahead and
pick the clouds we want. Let's go. That last
one looks good. So what I would
do is now I would go to our Background layer. I would go back to that
selection, so select Sky. But now I can
actually invert that. And with these new
contextual task bar, I can just click this
button, select the inverse, copy and paste that layer, and then move that layer on top of my new generative Fill Layer. So we have our original
buildings here. Alright, so this is
looking pretty good, but we have one
glaring issue and that's with the reflection. We don't have the storm clouds
down in the water below. The quickest, dirtiest,
easiest way to do this is I would simply just
take all these layers. I'm actually going to copy them, right-click and
choose Merge Layers, and then simply flip this layer. So I'm going to go up to edit,
transform, flip vertical. Now what I'm going to do is erase the top
part of the image. So I'm going to add a
layer mask and then just erase that top
part of the image. Get enough those clouds in there that it looks pretty good. Now the clouds at the bottom, it doesn't look so much like a reflection because
it's not blurred. So I'm going to
select this layer, go up to Filter
Blur, Gaussian Blur. And now we can
increase this until it kinda looks like what
a reflection would be, which is sort of like
a long exposure, sort of blurred out water. So something want to see a little bit of detail,
something like that. I want to make sure
I'm not selecting anything up here
in my layer mask. That looks pretty good. Maybe even dropping the
opacity just a little bit. Maybe even adjusting the colors. So with this layer selected
or it doesn't really matter. But just adding a, Let's do a, let's just do a
hue saturation adjustment. Click this button so it only applies to the layer
underneath it. And we're going to make
this a little bit dark, like more of a purple, darker saturation, something like that.
Looks pretty good. Just like subtle adjustments
like that can help. Alright, so here we
have the before and after parts of the buildings
got a little bit funky. So I could have gone in and perfected that
selection a little bit. But pretty dang, good. Alright, that's how you replaced
the sky and some advice for making the adjustments
look even better. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in
the next lessons.
15. Generative Recolor in Illustrator: In this lesson, I'm going
to show you how easy is to change colors with the new
generative Color tool, right, within Adobe Illustrator. So if you have any vector
graphic that you've created or that
you've downloaded. You can select it over
in your Layers panel, go up to Edit, edit Colors. And now we have this generative
Recolor Beta option. This pops up the generative
Recolor beta window, similar to what you
might have seen in the web app. If you use that. Here we can describe the
color palette we want. We could add Colors. We could use the sample prompts. For example, here we have this
Graphic, nice blues deals, greens of this mountain, but maybe we want it
to be a autumn mood. So we can type in autumn
and click Generate. And then it will pop up with variations down here
that we can choose from. We can add more detail to this. We can say autumn, fall, colors, reds, yellows, browns. Type. Click Generate again. Now we have these
additional variations that have popped up down here. And I think this
looks really good. I think the Background maybe if we weren't looking
at the Background or if the Background was
a different color than perhaps that might be something that would look better for this
particular graphic. Let's just select this
background layer, go to Properties and change it just for now so we
can see something a better using the combination of generative Recolor plus
your own design skills, you can really come up with
something quickly, unique. Maybe even something like that. Brown, light brown
would work really well for this right there. That's how to quickly use it. Remember you have to, within your layer panel, select the past, select the layers that you
want to change. If you can select
the whole group or you can select
individual layers, multiple layers. Here we go. Let's go back in. Again, Edit, edit Colors,
generative, Recolor. So let's go in here and try some of these sample
prompts just for Fun. We've got the dark, cool, blue moody look going on. That's pretty cool. You got summer by the sea. These are some FUN
Colors to so say we like some of the
colors that are applied. Maybe let's just type
in Easter, pastels. Click Generate. We have four options. If you don't like these options, you can click Generate again or say you like some
of these colors, but you want to make some
others minute adjustments. We can do that with
the advanced options. So say we like how
this is going so far. But we can click
Advanced Options, open up the re-color
artwork panel. And here we can see that the
current colors swap from these reds to the new color over here on the
right-hand side. And we can adjust these things. So this new color
here is this pink. So maybe we like that, but we don't like this dark, dark bronze blue right here. We can double-click
this and we can pick a completely new color up
here, something like that. That's going to change
that mountain color. We can also adjust
the colors down here. So maybe we want to Brian in these little bumps on the
hill up just a little bit. Maybe this yellow right
here is a little bit too dark, too color saturated. So maybe we want to make it
a little bit desaturated. Same with this
yellow right here. So you can go in and adjust
these colors automatically. And this is a great
panel to be able to do. So. Same here. So you can see, I can just kinda tweak all of these things here. And another cool button here
is you can randomly change the color order so that
we can swap everything. So it's changing. It's using the same colors
from that original palette, but it's creating a
different order of colors. I really liked this
one right here. And when you're done you
can click, Okay, awesome. So that is the
generative Recolor tool. In the next lesson, I'm
going to show you how to use Your Brand Colors to automatically apply them
to Any Graphic Design, including ones that you
might download from online, like these ones. See you there.
16. Quickly Apply Your Brand Colors to Any Graphic: Here's how to Apply Your
Brand Colors quickly to any vector Art using
generative Recolor. The first thing you'll need
is to have your Colors as a set in your libraries
or your swatches. Here under libraries,
you can see that I have my Video School Colors. And if you need to do
this from scratch, you can click the Plus button, add a fill color, and then from there you
can double-click and start adding Your Brand
Colors one-by-one. And then you can select
all of Your Brand Colors, right-click and choose to create a new group
from this selection. Why do you want this? Because now we can add this
quickly to our swatches. So if I go up to
Window swatches, if you don't have your swatches setup on
your computer or machine, you can right-click and add this theme to your
swatches super quickly. Why do I want this? Because now if I
go into my vector, go to Edit, edit Colors, generative Recolor, then
click Advanced Options. I have my color group added here in our Color Group
is in our swatches here. It appears here.
And now I can click my Brand Colors and automatically apply
them to these icon, to this graphic, to this
logo, to whatever it is. If you're not happy with
the combination of colors, you can click the randomly
change order of colors and get variations of these icons
using Your Brand Colors. Pretty cool, right? That's
how you can quickly Apply Your Brand
Colors to Any Graphic using generative Recolor. Remember, you got to add your
colors to your swatches. So if you have them
in your libraries, you can easily do that
by right-clicking and adding to swatches are adding
a group to the swatches. You could also just
open up your swatches and create new swatches
one at a time. Like so. But might
as well set it up in your library to
use across platforms. Thanks so much for watching, and we'll see you
in another lesson.
Phil Ebiner, Video | Photo | Design
