Adobe Photoshop Masterclass: From Beginner to Pro

1. Class Introduction: Hey guys, welcome to Adobe Photoshop masterclass. My name is Gabriel surely, AKA k Show. And I'll be your facilitator for this training industry and you're gonna be learning a lot. We're going to be moving together from beginner's level to advanced level. Okay, you're gonna be learning how to get started in Photoshop. How to import images into Photoshop, how to work with layers in Photoshop, how to remove backgrounds from images, how to use colors and gradients. How to use typography, meaning how to type properly in Photoshop, how to select and change colors, how to create monochrome, how to use the brush tool to create amazing effects. How to use the layer mask to be able to blend layers together and Photoshop. Designing an art cava, creating stunning designs. We're going to also be focusing on skin retouching, how to create GIFs, how to use mockups, and finally, exporting your designs. This training is for all levels, whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or an advanced user. Trust me guys, you're gonna be having a lot of fun in this training. There is no dipole moment at all. So without wasting time, let's get straight into Photoshop and I'll see you on the other side. 2. Exercise Files: Hey guys, Welcome to this video. In this video I'm going to be talking about the exercise files. The exercise files are resources that will allow you to follow along with me during the course, you should find the Exercise Files below this video. Simply click on it to download it to your device. Okay, don't forget, it's a zip file, meaning that once you're done downloading it, you have to extract it, which your PC. And to do that, we just simply double-click on it and that's it. Okay? And you can open the folder and begin to use those files to follow along with me during the course. I'll see you guys in the next video. 3. Getting Started: What's up, guys, welcome to the first session of this Photoshop Training and I'm super excited. In this first session, we're gonna be talking about how to get started in Photoshop. So let's get straight into it right now. So right now I'm in Photoshop and I'm currently using Adobe Photoshop 2021. And it doesn't matter if you're using 20 202-019-1817 or even 2015. Alright. Cs6. I mean, some of the core features of Photoshop are still found on those old versions of Photoshop. But don't worry, anytime I'm saying something new that can be found in the old version, I'm going to let you know that you know how to go about it. Alright? So let's get straight into it right now. Alright, so to get started in Photoshop, you have to do one of two things. It's either you create a new document or you open an existing document. So right now we're talking about getting started and creating a new document. So I'm going to click on Create New. And that's going to bring me right here. Alright. So right here you can see some of the recent documents you've created. And at the top here we have various tabs we have saved, which will show you any presets that you've saved in the past. We have Photo Print. If you're looking for some print sizes like A4, A5 and the likes we have out on illustration, we have web. You're looking to do something for your website who have mobile, if you're into developing a mobile app and I'm trying to create the user interface. We have film and video. So we have a lot of presets right here in Photoshop. And guess what? All these presets were created from this right hand side. Alright, all of the preset we see here were created from this right-hand side. What does that mean? It tells us that we can also create our own presets. And when we do so, it's going to show on that is saved presets. So let's talk about presets and how to create your own. So on the right here we can see that the first thing I have here is untitled one. Alright? And that's selling me to give my presets, all my documents size a name. So I'm going to come here and I'll name this Adobe master class. Alright, so let's use that as an example for this training. Okay, So the next thing I'm gonna do now is to talk about the width and height more before we start meddling with the width and height, we are going to look at the measuring units. So before you enter your width and height, it is very important that you choose the right measure in units. Right now, my measurement unit is in pixels, meaning any value I enter here is going to be in pixels. So if I change this to inches, this is telling me that whatever value I enter in my weeks or in my height is going to be in inches. Alright? So this is very simple. Make sure you choose the right measure in units before you start entering your width and height. So if a client e.g. tells you to do a design that's going to be that t centimeter by centimeter. What you're going to simply do when you get here, the first changes to centimeter and then you can change it to 30. Alright? And then you can change your height to 20. This is 30 by 20 cm. Alright, so you're measuring units is very, very important when trying to create a new document in Photoshop. Alright, so you don't come here, choose millimeter e.g. or you're entering data by Tracy. You're not going to be entering data by 20 centimeter. If you own millimeter, they're gonna be Andrew entity by 20 mm instead. Always choose the right measure in units. Alright, so that is that. And also when it comes to, so let me change this back to pixels. When it comes to your width and height. Alright. Let me show you some images that I have right here, so we can use that as an example. Where you, okay? So if I open this image, e.g. alright, you can see that this image is a landscape image. What makes IT landscape? It's simply because the weeks of this image. Is way longer than the water height. So if your weight is longer than your height, then that makes your design or your image a landscape design. So let's talk about portrait. We can see this image right here. Okay? So what makes this image a portrait image is because the height is way longer than the width. The height is way longer than the width. Alright, so that makes this a portrait design. And then if I come here and I open this up, alright, so this is quite different from what we saw. Initially. The width and the height in this case are equal. Alright? The width and height in this case are equal. So that makes this a square image, that makes this a square image. So basically when it comes to graphic design, we have three orientations. We have portraits, we have landscape, and we have squared. Alright? Portrait, landscape and square. Alright? And you have to make sure that you have an idea of what your design orientation is going to be even before you start, alright, so you can't just come into any value in your width and heights and just guess. And then thinking, oh, it's gonna give me a portrait. No, no, no, no, no, no. If he's going to be portraits, you're weeks has to be shorter than your height. And it was gonna be landscape, your wheat has to be longer than your height, alright? And it's gonna be square. Your width and height has to be equal. Alright? So those are the three orientations that we have when it comes to design in Photoshop. Alright, I'm basically any other application. Alright, so before I go ahead, I also want to say this that I'm in graphic design. We can categorize design into two paths. We can categorize designs into two parts. The first part is screen design, and then the second part is print design. Alright, so we have screened designs. We have print design. So the explanation basically isn't a name of greens on screen. Screen means that these designs are meant to be viewed on screens. And examples of designs that are meant to be viewed on screens are your designs for social media, designs, for PowerPoint, designs for your website, designs for basically anything that'll be viewed on screens, digital billboards, and the likes. Alright, so these are called, are categorized on the screen designs. Then we have the other category of design, which is the brain's designs. Alright? Prints designs are designs mains to reprinted. Example of such designs or your business card. Flyers, your billboard, your roll-up. But as you know, basically stickers, things out will be printed how it gets in it now. So don't forget that in graphic design, we have two categories of designs. We have printed designs, and we have screen designs. Alright, so write down, write that down somewhere and keep it safe. Alright? So now before you start entering all your values right here in your Photoshop, in creating a document, you have to be aware if your design is going to be screen, if he's going to be print, who's gonna be portrait? It was gonna be landscape, if he's gonna be squared. Alright, so this will inform you the values and settings that you choose right here. Okay? It's as simple as that. When it comes to my width and height, I'm going to entertain it right there. That's a 1,080. And then I'll come to my height and also entertain a T right there. And what I've entered yet is 1080 by 1080 pixels. Alright? Make sure you always choose the right measuring units. Now, this will give me a square because my width and height are equal. Yes, so I'm trying to just create a square document right here, let's say e.g. I want to use this for my social media design. Alright, because social media loves square designs. Alright, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat. Okay, oh sorry. Yeah, Snapchat, LinkedIn, all social media platforms. They love square images. Alright? And that's exactly what you want to give them. Square images, alright? Okay, so because e.g. if you try to upload a portrait image on Instagram. Instagram is going to try and crop your image and my crop out some important parts of your image. So it is always best that if you're doing a design for social media that you use a square orientation, so make your width and height equal. And the industry standard for square designs for social media is tenancy by 1080, alright? But it doesn't mean that you can choose your own size, but I mean, this is just the standard that we know. And that's what we're going to use right here. Alright. Now the next thing I want to talk about is, oh, before I go into that, we have orientation here. Now this orientation doesn't matter because the usefulness of this orientation is to help me flip these values if they were different. Now, if there were different, it means that my design is going to be either portrait or landscape. So if I had maybe 1920 here. As an example, if I have 1920 right here, this is already given me a landscape because my width is longer than my height. I can see that automatically switch to landscape. Now if I want to switch the same size to a portrait, all I need to do is to just come here. Click here, and it will switch these values for me. Alright, I, when I click that, you can see what exactly happened. It has switch the values for me. Alright, that's very, very simple and that's exactly what I want in this case. Alright, so what's going on? Like I said, we're gonna be doing our design for social media. So I'm just going to come to my heights here and change that back to 1080. Alright, really simple. Now the next one I want talk about is resolution. Resolution. Now, this resolution actually measure the size of your pixels, measure the size of your pixels. Inches. Alright, so what up pixels actually, let me show you what pixels are. Really. Let me open up this image and zooming in a lot. Zooming, zooming in, zooming all the way to the end. And right here you can see we have this tiny square root exists. Alright? So this is what is called pixels. So when you hear the word pixels, this is exactly what we're talking about. They add a tiny square with different shades of color, not come together to form an image. Pixels are tiny squares with different shades of color that come together to form an image. So if this tiny square pixels have the same color, all true, republic going to have, if it's white or true, is just gonna be a white image. Alright, so what we can see that this differentiates of color is what has allowed us to be able to create this image. Alright? Here's what has allowed us to be able to create this image. If you want to know the amount of this tiny square that we have here, that is, when you now talk about the size of the image. So you can see that the size of this image is actually 12 79 by 12, 79. That's what makes it a squared. What does that mean? It means that when I count all the number of tiny squares, how long my week, I'm going to count 1,279. I want to count all the tiny square along my height. I'm going to count 1,279. And then to know the total number of pixels I have in this image, all I need to do is to multiply chosen with tonight by Trump's own tonight. And I'll probably give me one point, something million pixels. Alright, so what determines the size of this pixel is resolution value that you enter here. Now when it comes to screen designs, alright, I usually advise that you enter 70 to Azure resolution y. That will give you a small file size when you're done exporting your design. Alright? Uh, why do you need the file size of your design should be minimum. You need that to be minimal because your design is for screen. What that simply means is that your design is going to be going from screen to screen, meaning from one device to another device. From a laptop to a phone, from a phone to a tab, TV, plugging in a USB, and so on and so forth. So it's gonna be shared amongst device is going to be also shared on social media. Alright, Now when it comes to devices, people are skeptical if your design file size is always huge. Alright? Or people don't like storing large files on their mobile devices, e.g. so if you send an image of 20-megabyte to somebody on WhatsApp, e.g. the best thing would likely not diluted because the parent feels like, oh, this image is just too big for me to save on my phone. But if you send an image that has a size of maybe 500 kb, the best thing I can easily just press and download it. And still get a good quality of that image. And the person is also able to store it on his device. Alright, the same thing applies when you're trying to do maybe a design for your website. And you finish an image designing animated, and the image is 20 mb. You don't want to place images that are 20 mb on your website. It's going to make your websites terribly slow. Alright, and that's gonna be very bad. So when it comes to screen designs, Designs meant for screen, you want to make sure that you have the list file size possible. But the best quality that you can still get. And that's value that compromises between quality and file size is 72. So that's why I use 72. But if I was going to do my design for print, I really don't care about the file size. So I'm just going to come here, enter 300 right here. And that's what I would've used for my print design. Now, it doesn't mean that if you went up 300 for your screen design, Biodesign is going to be bad or your design is going to be poor, oil design is going to spoil. Know. That simply means that you're gonna get a very big file size when you export, your design is simple as alright, so make sure that you use the right resolution. Like I recommend you 72 for screen and then you use 304. Rings. Is as easy as that. That's my personal preference. You could use any value that you want. But since I've explained to you why you need to use these and why you need to use that. You can play around with those values if you want to get a different result. Alright, so the next thing we're going to talk about now is column mood, column mode. And this is another thing that separates your prints design from your screen design. Now, if your design is going to be for print, your design is going to be for print. The recommended color mode that you should use is CMYK. Alright? So our Columbia, I'll choose CMYK. And if your design is for screen, the recommended column mode you should use is RGB. Rgb stands for, RGB stands for red, green, and blue are what does CMYK stands for? Cmyk stands for Cn. Let me change this to CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and the K stands for black. Alright, so your Axin. So why do I have to use RGB for screen? Why do I have to use CMYK for print? Why can't I just use any or just choose something that can work for both? The reason is because the technology behind screen uses the RGB color mode. So those are manufacturers screens, mobile phone screen, your laptop screen of TV screen. What is being used to the technology used to manufacture that in terms of color, RGB. And that's why we sit our screens emit light. And then when your screen is not showing anything, what you see is black. Alright, so mixing red, green, and blue, which are screen emitting light and having my having blocked by default on your screen. All of that together mixed together helps you to create all the colors you see on your screen. Alright, and to help Photoshop to also show you colors that are available to your RGB. It is best I select RGB here, so it only shows you color that are available in the RGB family. Alright? And for CMYK, the technology used for printers when it comes to color is CMYK. And that's why it's called cyan, magenta, yellow and black. If you have ever been to a printing press and you've seen and industrial printing machine, you'll notice that the colors are made up of four cartridges. And those four cartridges are CAN magenta, yellow, and black. So that's two we, printing machines are built, alright, that built based on that CMYK color technology. And you also have to help Photoshop. Photoshop, my design is for print and then choose CMYK so that it only shows you colors within the CMYK color family. And then you'll be able to use those colors for your design. Now, what is the, what is the problem with using the wrong color mode? If you use RGB, e.g. for a designer you want to Guam print. You might notice that when you're doing your design, you chose color black for a particular part of your design. And then we don't print in your design, you notice that the color black as changed to something like a light gray color. Alright? And that is the way it just happens. Alright. If you don't choose the right color mode. And it also happens the other way round. If you choose CMYK for a design that is meant for screen, because sent out designed to somebody's phone. When the person views the design on his phone or laptop, you will notice that maybe the black you saw when you increase your design also change to a lighter gray color. Alright, so that is the downside of using the wrong color mode for the, for your design. So when do your design, make sure you use the right color mode. It's very, very important. Alright, so that is that. So I'll come here. Since we're not printing anything today, I'm going to choose RGB right here. And then the next thing I want to talk about, so we're going to leave this in 8-bit. You should always be an eight bit by default. But maybe when we get to the advanced session of Photoshop, I'm going to explain more on when you might need to change it from eight bits. So maybe 16 bits or 32 bits, but for now, it is fine. Alright? So background content is the next thing. My background contents are like choosing the color white. Alright, because I believe in graphic design, the default color is white. So why not choose white? Alright, so we have other options that are available there. You can choose color black, you can choose a background color, you could choose transparent color. You could choose costume, meaning you want to choose your own color. But like I said, I like choosing color white, so I'm going to leave it at color white. Alright? The next thing you can see, it shows you that these are advanced options and you want to leave it that way. Alright? Meaning that they've chosen the right settings for you so you don't have to come here a middle with this, except you understand how color profile works. And you'd like to change that to something else. All right, so we're going to leave it right there. And the interesting thing, like I said earlier on is that I can save this preset and be able to use it later on. So if I click on this icon right here, I think on the older version, you are likely to see like a plus sign or something that says save presets or save as presets. Alright, It's the same thing. So if I click here, It's going to ask me what name do I want to give my presets. I can just call this k Show and is going to ask me to save my process when I click on Save, is automatically going to put that on that deceived option. On that is saved option. When I see that I can see right, so the next time I come into Photoshop, I want to use this same exact settings for my design. All I need to do is to switch from the recent, go straight to saved, and then I can click on it. And that will automatically fill up everything here for me. And I can click on the Create button. When I click on the Create button, you can see our square Image, sorry, r squared size right here for our document. So if yours is not looking square, then it means you've done something wrong. So make sure it looks square. Or if you have chosen a portrait size, make sure it looks portraits. If I've chosen a landscape size, makes sure that this looks landscape. Alright, and that is how to create a new document in Photoshop. Thank you so much for watching this session. See you in the next one. 4. How to Open/Import Images in Photoshop: Alright guys, Welcome to this session of this Photoshop Training. And in this session I'm gonna be talking about how you can open existing images in Photoshop. Let's get straight into it right now. So right here in Photoshop, to open an existing image, all I need to do is to go to my menu. And under my menu I'm going to say file. On the file, I'm going to see open. And that would open up my file explorer. Once this opens up, I want to browse to where I have my image on my laptop without my desktop Document Downloads wherever your images. Alright. I can go there, select my image, and then click Open. And that will open up my image in Photoshop. Alright? So he can see what I have right here. Alright, my image is fully opened up in Photoshop. Now if you remember in our last session where we talked about creating a new document, you'll notice that now as what you saw before, I open this image that was in this tab right here. So when you create new documents, are open. More images. In Photoshop. It's going to create new tabs, is going to create new tabs at the top of your screen. Alright, so be mindful of that, that way you create the new documents and new tab will open up the imports and existing image. Another tab will also be opened up. That's the way it works in Photoshop. Alright? And we are going to be talking about how we can drop images on top of an existing tab or on top of an existing document later on. Alright, so quickly, let me talk about some of the things that we have right here. So one thing that is very important is that whenever you open an existing image in Photoshop, you want to make sure that you unlock the image. You want to make sure that you unlock the image. This is very important because I don't know why Adobe hasn't corrected this. By default. You just open an image. It just automatically locks your image and sees it as the background. So if you look at the right here, you can see that we have our image here. You can see this padlock sign that is in front of it, letting us know that this particular image is locked. When an image is locked, you can move it. You can do certain things to it, is just going to be so annoying. So the first thing you always want to do when you bring in an image into Photoshop is to unlock. And how do you unlock is very simple. I can just click on this padlock icon here, and that removes it. And that unlocks my image. So I can actually lock it back by pressing this. Okay, So that's how it was locked in the first place. So I'm not going to lock it again. So to unlock, it does click on the padlock icon and that unlocks your image for you. Alright, let me undo that. Another thing you can actually do is you could actually drag the padlock and those drop it into this trash can here. Alright, and that will automatically unlock your image. Also, my favorite is I've pressed onto my favorites. These are like double-clicking on this word or text called background here. And that will show me this new layer tap. Alright, so the reason why I like unlocking this way, or the reason why this is my favorite is because in the process of unlocking, it also gives me the opportunity to rename my layer. Alright, so I like keeping things clean. I like naming my layers in Photoshop. Alright, we should also lend to do that because the times that you might have up to 30, 50 layers here. And you don't want to be seeing things like Leah zero layer one, layer two, layer 35, and everything just looks scattered. You want to see things by their names so that if you're looking for any layer, you can easily know where to go to. Alright, so we can see named layer zero, I'll just name this horse ride or something. Alright? And then I'll click, Okay. Now what do you notice? You notice that the padlock sign is gone, meaning that it has unlocked my image. And also it has also renamed it to the horse ride from background or layer zero. Alright, so this is very, very important. That's how you import an existing image into Photoshop. And that's how you unlock and rename your image. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you in the next session. 5. Photoshop Workspaces and Interface: Hey guys, welcome once again to another session. And in this session I'm going to be talking about the workspace, the interface. Save your work in Photoshop and some other things that you need to know. So let's get straight into it right now. Okay, so right here in Photoshop, we can see our image is still opened up. And let's just talk about the interface. At the top here we have a menu where we have filed a deed, image layer, and the likes and so on. Alright. And then on the left here we have our toolbar. Alright, so this is where we are going to be picking different tools to use later on in Photoshop. Alright? And then at the top here, we have different types of documents or images opened up in Photoshop. And then at the top, also right here, we have our properties are properties bar. And this is used to choose more options for the particular tool that you have selected. So if I switch my two from the Move Tool to the clone stamp tool, e.g. you can see that the options in my Properties Bar have changed. So anytime you select a new tool in Photoshop, always be mindful to check out the Properties Bar, to see the other things that are available for that too. Alright, to see all the options that are available for the tool. So you can see as I keep on changing my to the Properties Bar is also changing. Alright? And by default, you should always be on the move too. You should always be on the move tool. If you're not doing anything special in Photoshop with any other tool, you should always be on the move to is as simple as that. All right, then let's go to the left side here. Right here we have our color. Alright, so this is where we'll be able to choose our foreground color or background color, colors for our layers, brushes and so on and so forth. Alright, so we're talking about color later on. Alright. Right here. Some of you might be in libraries, but I always like being in adjustment. Alright, so why do I like adjustment? Because I usually use a lot of things here. I like being an adjustment. Now one thing you should notice is that everything in Photoshop called panels, all these things that are called annulus. Alright? So if there's any panel that you can see on mine and you don t have on yours in your own Photoshop version. All you need to do is to simply go to window in your menu and you find out everything here are the different panels that can be opened in Photoshop. E.g. if you're not seeing your own adjustments panel, you can see that mine is checked on. He also probably not be checked on. So you just want to click on it and now check it on. If I click on mine now, that will take it off. Alright? So if I click on it, go to adjustments again, that will bring it back up. So everything here are panels that can be closed and open wound on the window. Alright, so don't panic. If you're seeing something on my Photoshop and you can find it on your own Photoshop. Or you just introduce a go to Window and checkouts. So you look out for the name of the panel and then you come to Window lookout for that name also. Then you turn on or you open up that panel. Alright, is as simple as that other panel I have here, so you can see what I'm doing now. You can actually put your mouse in-between panels and readjust the space. Alright, so I can put my mouse in-between this adjustment panel and Leah panel. Click, adjust up or down depending on what I want. So I always like my layers have been enough space. Alright, so this is my Layers panel. This is where we are going to be seen. Everything in our documents stuck up as different layers. Right now, I only have one image in my document here. And that's why we can only see one layer right here. Alright? As I begin to drop more layers and layers and layers here, they're going to see all of them stack up on each other here. As differently as a mind you in Photoshop, if you want something to be on top, they put it on top. So something is on done it before I wanted to show you move it to the top. And that would begin to show. And if something is at the top and you want it to be underneath a particular layer, all you need to do is to move it down and I'll bring it to the bottom. Of your layers, arranging them, alright, so you can use that to move things above or below, or to the front or the back when working on your design. Alright, so that is that Howard. And at the bottom here we have different things that we remember our trash can. Now using deleting stuff, we have our New Layer icon here on New Group. And then right here we have adjustments. In New Adjustment Layer, layer max, we have Layer Style. And then we have link, the link icon to link our layers together. So we're going to be talking about some of these things as we progress. This is just introducing you to the Photoshop interface and how things work around here. Alright, so it's as simple as that. Now, let me talk about something else again. Just in case your Photoshop doesn't still look like mine. You want to make sure that you go to Window. And then under window you'll see workspace. Alright? So the workspace I'm currently using now is the Essentials default, although I might have made some adjustment to it. So what I'm going to do is to reset it right now. And that should take me to the default. Luke. My Photoshop should have when I just installed it. So you can see that it's actually showing my Properties. Tab here, not the adjustments, my colloids here, my layers. Here we have a line and distributes why I just reset my workspace to the default. Okay. So hold that time. I've been able to adjust my changes to adjustment and move this up. And that's what gives me what you were saying. Initial. So if you find out that your workspace is not looking like what it should be mature, you are in Essentials, and then you can also click on Reset Essential, then adjusted. We like it like I just did. Alright? So it's as simple as that. Alright, now, on another thing is that if you scatter your panels, alright? If you move them in places that you don't expect it to go, then you can also reset it to. So if I come to adjustment e.g. and I dragged that, you can see that you can actually drag out your panels. I can put my Layers panel here. Alright, I could put my adjustments maybe on the side here. Alright. You might like your Photoshop to look like this marijuana Layers panel here. You may want your toolbar here. We will see some people move there Tuba, disorder side to maybe make it easy for them alone. No. Alright. So you could do this intentionally or mistakenly. Alright, intentional means that this is the way you want it. If you find yourself to have done this mistakenly, then don't panic. Alright? The simple solution is to go to Window and then under Window, go to Workspace again. Make sure you are in Essentials. And then just click on Reset Essentials and our reset everything back. So all we have right here, so I'll just switch this back to adjustments once again and then move this up. And I'm back to where I started from. Now, you can see I have a ruler here. Alright, so in my design, I just like having rulers around it. Yours might not have this ruler because you will need to bring it up or activate it. And how do you do that? You go to your view. On that view, you can see my rulers are checked on. Okay? So if I click on ruler now it's going to remove that ruler. If I click on View and I choose rule, I'm going to bring back my ruler, so unlikely to be my ruler there. Especially when I want to align things and I want things to go straight with each other and stuff. Alright, so that is that the next thing I want to talk about now is how to, you know, save your work. How to save your work, alright? Because sometimes your system, I act funny or my actin that way you don't want and then you see things are not responding. And then after 3 h of walking in Photoshop, we find out your system hangs and it's showing you not responding. And then you're in a fixed. We're trying to save your walk, but it's not saving and then the old Windows goes boom. So to avoid that, you want to make sure that you save your work. Alright? How do you save your work? You simply go to File and you go to save. So I like using Save As for the first time rather than saved. Because sometimes in Photoshop, if you just use save, it just says you're walking towards anyone asks you, really want to save it, or what name do you want to save? It? Just saves your work. And then at the end of the day, we keep looking for it. You can find where you saved it. And then you have all of those things. So if you want to avoid that, the first time you're saving your work, make sure you use save us. Alright? And that will actually read, you want to save it? I can save mine on deck. Stop. Lived in named the way it is. And then make sure that your format is Photoshop. I'm not JPEG or something else. Because if you choose JPEG or something else, they've just told your design to an image and you'll be able to edit it again in Photoshop. To the wisdom of our 78 in the first place, is I want to be able to come back to Photoshop and be able to continue editing or working on our document. Alright, so make sure that your format is Photoshop. And I'll click on Save. When I click on Save, to ask me, do I want to maximize compatibility? Meaning, do I want this fall I'm saving to open in different versions of Photoshop properly. How say yes I want. So I'll make sure that this is ticked and I'll click Okay. And that will save my work. And as I progress and I continue working in Photoshop, I can now use the Command S or Control S on my keyboard to save my work. Alright, so it's as simple as that. So make sure that Command S or Control S on Windows is your favorite shortcuts. All right, because you're gonna be needing that a lot if we come to File and you go to Save, you can see that the shortcut is Command S. I'm using a MacBook Pro, I'm using a MacBook Pro and my control is command. Then on Windows command is control. Alright, so Command S or Control S, depending on your operating system, just make sure that you save your walk regularly so quickly. Also, let me take some shortcuts that you might need here. Alright, so we've mentioned Control S to save our work. The other shortcut I want to mention is undo and redo. So let's say I draw a rectangle here, blah-blah-blah, draw a rectangle, and I have a rectangle right there. I can use Command Z to undo that. Or Control Shift said to bring that back. So Command Z to undo. Control Shift Z is redo. Undo means go back. Redo means go forward. Alright, is as simple as that. So it's a shortcut that's very handy. They're going to be needing it a lot in working in Photoshop. So make sure that you don't forget Control Z or Command Z to undo Control Shift Z or Command Shift Z, redo. Alright, so those are the important shortcuts. Plus, if I press Control plus, that allows me to zoom into my image. When I press Control minus, that allows me to zoom out of my image. Now when I press Control Zero, that fits to my screen. Alright, so that's another handy shortcut that you want to know. If I press Control plus tub surround time, it keeps zooming in. If I tap Control minus Sarah outside, it keeps zooming out when I tap conscious zero if fits to my screen. All right, those are the shortcuts I want to talk about for now. And I think that is it for this. Thank you so much for joining me in this session and I'm gonna see you in the next one. Bye for now. 6. Working with Layers in Photoshop: What's up, guys, thank you for joining me again in this session. In this session I want to talk about moving objects, arranging objects and stuck in images as layers in Photoshop. So let's get straight into it right now. Alright, we are in Photoshop right now. And quickly, let me just go back to the, There'll be masterclass that we have opened up right here. Alright. This is the documentary created from the very beginning. Remember our tenancy by tenancy pixel document size, alright? And right here you can see that what I have here is just background and my padlock sign. So this is just a plain background actually. So this is one of those cases whereby this padlock sign, all this padlock can walk. Alright. Meaning that I don't want this background to move, to go away from where it is and stuff. So I like it locked, but you can also unlock it anyway. It still the same thing. If you need to renew, you want to use it for something in your design and you would like to move it, then you can simply unlock it. And that worked fine for you. So, but now I want to talk about bringing in images into an existing document. Alright, the previous one we did was go into File, Open and importing an image. Or when we do this, it always opens up the image in a new tab. You can see this opened in a new tab. So this time this is not what we want. What we want is we want to import an image into this existing document. And to simply do that, all I need to do is to go to my File Explorer. On Windows, your File Explorer is that yellow folder somewhere down here. You can just click on to look for an image, your music, your video, or you're looking for a document on your computer. Alright, so, but on Mac, we can see is this, find that icon with our Smiley guy. I'll click on it and that will launch my File Explorer. Now, I don't want my File Explorer to cover the entire page like this. Alright, because I want to be seeing Photoshop underneath it. Because what I wanna do here is to do a drag and drop, drag and drop. So what I'm gonna do is to reduce. So I'll come to the corner right here on my File Explorer. Click. Once I see my arrow pointing left, up and down, then I'll click and drag to reduce the size of my File Explorer. I'm sure we all know how to do this, alright? And then make sure for your exercise files, these files, there'll be a link. In this course they'd be able to use to download all the exercise file so you can follow along with me. So the same images I use, the same pictures, I used, the same things I use. You can follow exactly. So if you go to your exercise one folder, you see we have these three images right there. Alright? And you can also import them. So what I want to do is to bring in these three images. So I'll bring the first one. Click and drag. As simple as that. Okay, click and drag that into Photoshop. Now what's that? What happens immediately is that you can see that the image is being placed in that document. And if you look at your layer panel here, you can see that we don't only have background here again, we now have this horse image right here. We have this horse image showing right here. So we now have two layers. That's what this means. We have the background layer, now we have the horse image layer. Alright? So with this dropped into my document, I am seeing that auto-magically the transform option is being activated. The free transform has been activated. So anytime you see something like this on your image, thus to tell you that your free transform has been activated. So Photoshop doesn't know how big or how small you will want this image to look like on your documents. So that's why it immediately activates this free transform when you drag and drop an image into your Photoshop. Now, mind you, depending on the size of your document and the size of your image, alright, that will determine whether your image, you fill up the screen like this or does drop. Looking small in Photoshop. So if my image is way smaller than my document, it's going to just drop on those fill up maybe somewhere around this size. Alright, so what, because my image is bigger than my document size. If I go to that image, you can see that this image is in 1920 by 12 80. Alright, and remember our document size for Adobe masterclasses I will create it initially was 1080 by 1080. So this image is bigger than this. And that's why you can see it's kind of stretching from the left to the right of my document. Alright, so what can I decide to do here? I can decide to come to this corner or right click and drag to make my image bigger. If I want it bigger, or I can drag it the opposite way and do like this to make my image smaller. Now, take notes. Those of you using Photoshop versions from CS6, I think to train T 18 2019 thereabouts. When you are adjusting from this corner. Alright, you can see all I need to do is pull my mouse here to show an arrow pointing diagonally up and down. Alright? And once I see that I can click and drag. But as I do that, you can see that my image maintains proportionality. Alright? It maintains proportionality. But for those of you using the older versions of Photoshop, you might not see that as you click on dry gear, your image style looking distorted. Alright? What that simply means is that when you are clicking and dragging in an older version of Photoshop, you have to hold down the Shift key. You have to hold down the Shift key while clicking and dragging. Alright, this is very important. You have to hold down the Shift key so that you maintain proportionality. But in the newer versions starting from 2020, 2021, if I hold down the Shift key, that is actually when it's going to be distorted. So any training iterative version, they make amendments to how you scale up or scale down your image with the Shift key. So without the shift key, I can scale up, scale down proportionally. When the older version, I would need to hold down the Shift key. But on the new version, if I hold down the Shift key now, you can see that my image is now looking distorted. So probably those of you in the older version. If you are not using the Shift Key, your image might look something like this, like this, like this. Alright? So I call this slice bread. I call this aggregate bread. Alright? You don't want your image to all your, your, your design to look distorted like this. We see a lot of designs like this online. It is very wrong. Alright, this is what you use to know an armature designer. So make sure that your image is not distorted. Don't do things like this. Don't do things like this. Trying to fit your image into a place. Not it's not going to walk away. On my own version of Photoshop when I released my shift key. That is when IT to actually scale up my image proportionality. But don't forget on older version, you have to do the opposite. You have to actually hold down the Shift key while doing this so that your image maintains proportionality. Alright? That said, I'm going to leave my image into default to a cane. To meet for me to exit the Free Transform area, I have to do something. I either have to click on this checkmark button or I can press the Enter key on my keyboard. And that will remove the free transform. And then I can do whatever I want to do my image by repositioning it to where I want it to be. Alright? So I can place my image somewhere around here. Then I'm going to go and bring in the next image. I'll click my two here and then out bringing on that image. Let me bring in this image of this iguana. I'll drag that dropped out into Photoshop. And you can see that this image kinda looks smaller than this image. So what do I need to do here? I can click, make it big a little bit. Then I'll just drag that and put that somewhere around here. This looks too big because I still want to put it on, on that image. On this side, I'll reduce the size. Alright, and just place that somewhere here. Now, as I'm doing this, I would like this image to kind of stop this. The image on top end. Alright, adapt point. So I need it to snap. I need my image to snap. So I guess my snap is not turned on and that is why it's not snapping. So if I go to view, alright, oh, my snap is actually on. So I guess after just pay attention as I move close to the edge. So as I move close to the edge, I'm going to go gradually. And then boom, it snaps. Alright. So that's snaps to that instantly. Alright, snaps at that point. Alright. We can also hold down the Shift if you want to see that it actually snaps to the edge. Displays, and now I can press Enter and I'll remove my Free Transform. Now go again, bringing the next image. I'll drag this and drop into my Photoshop. You can see how this one came into. So this is a very big image. I'm going to scale it down by putting my mouse yet, don't forget, you put your mouth at the edge. Not here. Alright? You can put it here, here, here, or here at the angles. Two, I put it there. I'll wait for my mouse to show diagonally pointing up, down. I'll click and drag. Alright, I'll drag this and bring you right here. You can see the way snapping because I have my snapping turned on. Alright, I'll reduce the size a little bit to something around here. Snaps going to stop right there. And I'll move this down so that it doesn't cover that part of the image. And when I'm done, I'll press Enter. And you can see the way I've successfully added these three images into my existing document, which is Adobe masterclass. Alright. Now when I look at my layers panel, you can see we now have three layers. We have the horse, we have in Ghana, we have the cake layer. So why do we have three layers here? We have three layout, because we have three images right here in our document. And as I click on each of the image you can see it automatically gets selected in my layer panel. By clicking here, gets selected. If I click here, gets selected. Now, if you click and it's not automatically selecting it in the layer panel, you want to make sure that your auto select at the top here is turned on. Once your auto select is turned on, then as you click on different parts of your image, they get selected automatically in your Layers panel. Now, quickly before I leave, let me come back to my cake and expand the image again. Now, I want to use this, I'll press Enter. I want to use it to show you how to arrange your layers. Alright? Now you can see that the cake is currently covering, discovering some parts of this image here. That is because this k clear is our booth. The horse layer is above the horse layer. Alright, so what I can do is I can see your host layer here. I can see the cochlea. The cochlea is above. If I grab the horse layer, click and drag to move it up. He can't see those. You can see that blue line showing that blue line tells me where it's going to drop my image. If I leave it here, it's going to drop it above the iguana. If I drop it here, it's going to drop it above the cake. And that's exactly what I want to show you. So if I release my mouse there, you can see that the image is now above the cake layer. So this is how you ring things on top, beneath or below or above. That kinda stuff. In Photoshop. It is all about coming to your Layers panel and rearranging your image in the way that you want it. Exactly. So if I wanted to host layer or both, I'm moving up booth. If I want the guano layer above, I move that above. We can see it's now showing. So depending on how I arrange my layers here, will determine what exactly I can see right here. Alright. And is as simple as that. I can undo, undo, undo by pressing Control Z. Bands like combat to where I was before deciding to rearrange my kick image. So, alright guys, this is it. Thank you so much for joining me in this session, and I'll see you in the next session. Peace out. 7. How to Remove Background of Images in Photoshop: Okay guys, thank you so much for joining me once again in this session. And this session is going to be uninteresting one, we're gonna be talking about how to remove backgrounds from images. So let's get straight into it. Right now. I'm right here in Photoshop. All right. This time we're going to go to exercise two to open up our image. So we're going to be bringing in this image of this black woman, alright, into Photoshop. But to do that, we're gonna go to File, go to Open. And I'm going to look at that image and exercise two. And black woman and open. Alright, and that opens it up for me in Photoshop. Now, what did I tell you the other time about bringing in images into Photoshop? What's the first thing you should always do? Yeah, you got it. You unlock and rename your image. So I'll just come to this background, double-click and that will show me Layer zero. I'll just name this woman or let me say Dr. and I'll click. Okay. From here you can see that the padlock icon has disappeared, meaning in as unlocked this layer for me, and I've also renamed it from layer zero to Dr. alright, so this is the image we have. We want to remove the background and make her stand on a transparent layer. Alright? And to do this, we'll need some important tools in Photoshop. And that tool is called the Selection tool. The selection tool. The selection tool is all we're going to use. And selecting the subject. The subject in this case is this woman. Alright, this Dr. alright. So we want to find a way to select her so that we can isolate from the background. And that's the whole idea behind to removing backgrounds in Photoshop. Alright, another designer, you're gonna be doing this a lot. You're going to have people's image that comes with different background. Maybe someone sent you a brief to do a design for concepts. We have so many artists and those different artists are on different backgrounds, so they just send your image is somebody will send you images of them. Of the picture they took in your house or something, different backgrounds. And you want your design to look uniform. In that case, you want to find a way to remove those background. I'm probably replace each of those image with a white background or maybe a yellow background of blue background depending on maybe the design you're working on so that your design look uniform rather than seeing a picture of somebody with a background of the streets. Another one with the background of his house on a demo with the background of his car, and everything else looks messed up. So this is the whole idea of trying to remove backgrounds from images. You want to replace it with something else that would go well, which are designed. Alright, so let's go into that right now. Now, where is our selection tool in Photoshop? Our selection to who come to our toolbar. Or we can see these two right here. So let me just change all of these defaults so that we can be on the same page. Alright, so we have the rectangular marquee tool. You can see this example video of what Photoshop is showing us. A allows you to make a rectangular selection. So if I grab the rectangular marquee tool and I click and drag, I'm able to make a rectangular selection. Alright? And the good thing about this is that anytime you make a selection in Photoshop, whatever you do after your selection only applies to the selected path. So if I press delete e.g. here, you can see now what is being deleted is the selected parts. Alright? If I go to Image Adjustment and do black and white, e.g. you will notice that the selected path is the path that is only what? Black or white, if you look right here, still looks colored. But everything within the region of my rectangular selection becomes black and white. So that's basically the way your selection tool works. Once you make your selection, you are trying to tell Photoshop that, Hey, heads-up, whatever I do ask from this point on, should only affect the selected parts of my image. And this is the same process we're going to use when removing backgrounds. Photoshop. Well, let me show you something. If I go back to that image adjustment and I make it black on white, click, Okay, Let's say this is what I want and I'm done with my selection. How do I get rid of it? Because if I don't get rid of this selection, it to stay there for ever until I tell Photoshop, I'm done with my selection, whatever I do now, I wanted to apply to the entire image. Then I have to find a way to deselect my selection. And to do that is pretty simple. All I need to do is to go to my menu. And under my menu, I'll see Select. I'll click on that select. In honor, select our C deselect. And this has a shortcuts, and this is one of the things I like Photoshop or Adobe's product for. They always give it a shortcut of so many things that you might want to pick in your menu. However, come to aid. It's probably everything here. How this shortcut right in front of it. Our mind, you those you, those of you using Windows. Anytime you see this thing that looks like a ribbon or something on my own laptop is simply means control on your laptop. And this means shifts on Windows. Alright? This means shifts on Windows. And this means all windows out. Republic go to your own edit. Now, you can current spawned all of these, my own icons which your own and you see Odysseus shift. This is control, this is all, and so on and so forth. All right, So back to select on that select, I'm going to see what deselect and the shortcut is, Command D or Control D on Windows. So if I click on that, you'll see that my selection is gone. But what I have done still applies to the image. Alright? What I've done still apply to the image, so meaning that display stays black and white and I can continue doing what I wanted to do, my design. So let me press on due to undo all of that, gave me back my image. And then I'll press Control D to deselect my selection. So that's your Rectangular Marquee Tool. Now, in Photoshop, you'll always see that we have this tiny thing here, which is called a drop-down. Alright? Your tools have dropped down. And that is being used to group two's together in Photoshop. Because if these tools are not grouped together, then you're going to need a very long laptop to show all the tools are available. So the wisdom behind grouping IT tools is you only have limited space here on your laptop. And Photoshop has so many tools that he wants to give you and stuff. So what it did was to group similar tools together. Alright, so for you to see those hidden tools that are grouped inside the particle or two, all I need to do is to put my mouse on that drop-down arrow. Click. And that will show this right here. Alright. Alright. So we can see that we have other tools apart from the Rectangular Marquee Tool. And what I want to talk about here is the Elliptical Marquee Tool. This one allows you to make a circular selection. Alright, so if I click and drag, I can make a circular selection. If I want a perfect circle, I can simply hold down the Shift key and that will give me a perfect circle. Circle. Alright, so something like this, something called perfect circle. Circle, perfect circle. Anyways. So you get the idea, you hold down shift, you get a circle, you know, hold down shift you get something like it's fair, an oval shape depending on what you want to draw. This also makes, allows me to make you what the selection, now whatever I do here only affects the selected path. Let me press Delete again. I can see only that part gets deleted. Alright, so that is that for your selection. So let me just talk about the remaining ones. We have the Lasso Tool. Alright, so let me just let Photoshop do its thing here to play for you so you see how it's been used. You just click and drag. It's like a free hand tool and you have a selection made. So if I also come here and I click and drag around, you can see by the time I come back to where I started from, I already have a selection being drawn. So this is kinda like a freehand selection tool that allows you to just select something freely. Alright? Are not defined by shape. So that is your that is your lasso tool. Okay, the next one which is grouped on date is the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Alright, the way this one works is that it allows you to click and make your own selection. So if I click somewhere here, e.g. I. Can move to the next place and click, move to the next place. Click. Move, click, Move, click, moves, click, moves, click moves, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. Alright. Sorry about that guys. So move and a click. So when I come back to where I started from, case series circle showing underneath here. Alright, I want to wait for that circle and then click and they see that it gives me a selection. Alright, is as simple as that. That is how to use the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Let me press Control D to deselect, and then move to the next one, which is the Magnetic Lasso Tool. The magnetic lasso tool, like the name says, it magnets to the edges of your image. If I click somewhere here now, alright, and then move my mouse, right now, I'm not clicking, I'm just moving my mouse and then move around the edge of our body. You can see how it's trying to help me to make the selection without me worry about it. You can see kind of automatic and it's cool. It's trying to get the edge selected for me. Telling me to sit back and I'll stress myself and it's just doing the work for me. So this is your Magnetic Lasso Tool. We can see the way just magnets around the edges of the image. Once again, when I come back to where I started from Sudan, circle showing under the mouse, I'm going to click. And that will help me to make my selection so you can see how easy this was. Alright, press Delete, delete SAP. Whoops, undo to bring her back, control D to remove this selection. Alright, so I'll go to the next one. Okay, that's all for that. Let's come here. Alright, we have the object selection tool. Alright, we can see how this works. I can just draw like a box around this subject. And Photoshop will kind of helped me to like, Oh, do you mean you want to select this object now and then it selects it for me. Now, this particular tool might not be available on older versions of Photoshop. I'm not sure. It's on 2019 and below. Alright, so 2020 version of Photoshop, a lot of things were introduced. Some cool stuff when it comes to selection. And this object selection is part of those tools. Now we're introduced. So how do I use it on this my subject now, I'll just click and drag a box around her. When I release my mouse, photoshop automatically say, who do you really want to select this lady? And it's just going to make the selection of the lady for me. So you can see it kinds of uses some power on your system for a little while before you get the results so you can see what he has selected for me. Alright, so Bob can see it didn't get it quite right here on some other parts of the image. But he did its best. They could. Alright, so that's your object selection too. Alright, control D to deselect. I have my Quick Selection Tool. Alright, don't forget our goal is to remove the background. But I'm just trying to show you the different selection tools because removing background, there's really no one straight way of doing it. You're going to use your selection tool. And depending on you, the subjects or the image you're trying to remove the background from. What determine which of the selection tool you're going to use to get the results you're looking for. So that's why I'm taking my time to talk about all the different selection tools so you know what they do. And then depending on your own situation, you can now decide that, oh, I think the lasso tool would be best for me. I think the Quick Selection Tool will be best for me. I think this will be best for me. Oh, I think there'll be best for me. Alright, so back to our selection, to the next one I want to talk about is the Quick Selection Tool. This is one of my favorites. Alright, so you can see how it was used to select the ice cream head in this example. So let's try it on our image now. Alright. And click and begin to go round. You can see as I click, I'm clicking and dragging. Alright. You can see that it's automatically making a quick selection for me and automatically stopping at the edges of my image, not going beyond that. So we can see any section I move my mouse to just automatically helped me Select, go down, select. You can see how it works, alright? You can tap the closed square bracket to increase the size of your Quick Selection Tool. Or tap the open square bracket to reduce the size of your selection too. Alright, so does have that in mind. So you can see how I've been able to quickly make my selection. So like the name says, Quick Selection. A quick selection for me right there. Alright, so that's the quick selection tool. The next last one I want to talk about now is the magic wand to basically the way it works is that if I select any part of my image, e.g. let me select this background here. More Photoshop would do is to look for everything now, looks like this color that I selected. And it's going to select all of that. So that's why it's selected, selected all of these. And probably it was thinking, Oh, this colloid is similar to that, so it's selected, it's all this color is similar to that. We selected it all. This color is not similar to what I have here, so I'm not going to select it. And you can see we just made a mess in our selection. Alright? But the cool thing about this tool is that there are some particular image, maybe e.g. if this background came with maybe a blue background, e.g. if I click on that blue background is automatically going to select all the blue background for me. Instantly. I can just get rid of it and the background of the image is gone. Alright, so sometimes each of these, some of these tools work perfectly for this situation. Sometime it doesn't work perfectly for that situation. So it's totally, it's totally left to you to determine which of these selection tools will be best for the situation that you have on ground. Alright? E.g. if I use it on, these are whites. We can see the way it just goes all the way, scattered everywhere. And just kind of annoying. Alright? So that is your magic wand to, that is a magic wand tool. Alright. So basically what we are going to use for this example, alright, so there's still one magical selection that I'm not going to talk about now. I want to talk about a last and that's what I'm going to eventually use. And once again, it was introduced in 2020 versions. So it's in the training trend to advise you on. And I'm sure it's going to be any train, train it to and so on. Alright, So those is in 2019 and below, you might not get that. So that's why I'm showing you all of these different tools here, how to use them and make a selection around your subject. So what I'm going to eventually use here is the quick selection tool, the Quick Selection tool. So I'll go back to the Quick Selection Tool. Alright, and quickly make a selection around her or app. Boom, pom pom pom, pom, pom, pom, pom, pom, pom. Alright? And you can see the selection that we have right here. Alright? Now, the good thing about the Quick Selection Tool is that you can zoom in by tapping control plus, and carefully go around your image and see what has been selected. Alright, so we can see all of these strands of hair. Now we have right here, I'm just going to totally ignore it right now, because trying to include that into your selection is going to be a difficult tax. Alright? And there, maybe we're going to talk about that in the advanced class of Photoshop, how to select strands of hair in your background removal process. But for now, we're going to keep it simple. Alright, so I'm just going to ignore those strands of hair because selecting them will be really complicated. I can see that the Quick Selection Tool as kind of done a very good job. Alright, going around my image. And what I can do is that if I find a place that is not really what I want or isn't selecting what you want. You can hold down the Shift, shift to allow you to add to your selection. While old, who allow you to remove from your selection. Then if you look at your properties bar here, you can also see we have plus and minus here. We have plus or minus, right now by default is in plus. Well, if I want to subtract the parts of my image, I can hold down my alt key and then use my circle or my tool to click on the path I would like to subtract. I can see the way is subtracting that part of the selection. Alright? Okay, so I'll keep going, keep going, keep going. You can see it did a nice job on the edge here. We're just trying to look for paths that we might want to subtract or add to our selection. All right, keep going, keep going. Just want to add little bit more of that. Right there. Okay, So keep going. I want to subtract a little bit of this so I'll reduce my brush size by tapping the open square bracket. And how would come here all down Alt to subtract click. I can see how it's pushing into that place. Alright, so here you can see we need to add some selection here. So I'll click, click. I'm not holding down Alt, so it's helped me to add my selection, can see how I'm doing this and has gone out again. So our holdout or subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract, add, add until it just gets that. I see now. This is giving me what I want now. So I'll just subtract this little path. Whoops, undo that Control Z or Command Z. Then subtract that small parts. Subtract this small parts, subtract, subtract. And you can see we've gotten the right selection now and I'll keep going. Keep going. It looks good. It looks good. It looks good. All right, I think that is that we've successfully selected our subjects. So I'll press Control Zero to fit back to my screen. Conscious, zero to fit back to my screen. Now we might selection made. Alright, I will need to refine my selection. I'll need to refine my selection. Alright? And if I look up here, you'll see something called select MAX. Select MAX in the older version of Photoshop, CC 2015 and below can do about the other gonna see, select our max here. You're going to see you refined edges refine. So when I select a max or refined edges, alright, that's, you're going to see one of them there. I can click on Select and Mask. And I will bring me here, our chain, my feather values. So what are willing to come and do? Yes, it just changed my fader value, 0-1. So it kind of helped me to smoothen the edges of my selection, not to make it hard or sharp and all of that. So just to soften the edges of my selection, if I take it beyond one, you actually see what I'm talking about. As I increase this case was happening to the edge of my image. So I don't want to take it too much. You can see at this point is not making sense again, I just want to do between one or maybe sometimes two, depending on how sharp the edge is. I just want to soften it out. Alright, so let's do two here and you can see how the ad looks soft now, but not too soft. Alright? So I'll do two right here while I'm doing one. But because of the nature of this image, that's what I'm doing. Two, and then I'll click, okay. Alright. So when I click Okay, brings me back to my full image. Alright, it brings me back to my full image. And when I'm here, if I press Delete again, you can see that what is being deleted is the subject or the lady itself. And that's not what I want. I want the background deleted and not the image itself. So it's actually doing the opposite of what I want. So what I'm gonna do is to press undo. Alright? Yes, so mind you undo in the older version, 2019 and below, is not controlled. It is actually Control Alt Z. Alright? Control Alt Z. So like I told you, a lot of changes happened in the newer version of Photoshop from 2020. So they change on due from Control Alt Z to just control Z or Mac now be Command Option Z on the older version, and just command Z in the newer version. While redo remains the same command Shift or Control Shift Z. Alright, so it's as simple as that. So back to what we're doing. Remember, if I delete, it, deletes the image itself. So I don't want that. So I'll press on due to bring my image back on. What I want to do now is I want to go to Select. Then on that select, I'll see something called inverse. Inverse. Inverse means switch my selection to the opposite. Alright, switch my selection to the opposite. And the shortcut for Disease Control Shift I or Command Shift I. If I click on that, it will switch my selection to the opposite. And then this time when I press Delete, you can see that it deletes the background and actually leaves the subjects, right? They're pretty cool. You can see what we have right here. Alright, very, very simple. And that's how we delete. The background while leaving the subject. And you can see this is a clean background removal. And everything looks good. I'm going to undo, undo, undo, press Control D to remove my selection. What I actually want to show you guys here, the cool stuff in Photoshop, 2,020.20, 21, there is something called Select Subject. Select subjects. So this time, if I go to my select right here, I'm going to see something called subjects. Subjects. Now, this you can find in 201-920-1817 and below, we can only find in 2020 and above. This is very cool guys. This is what I use basically now, Photoshop are simplified and making selections of subjects or persons in Photoshop. What does that mean? It means that if I click on this subject now, all I need to do is to choose sit back and relax and see that he has done the job for me. Okay? It has done the job for me. We can see how it has selected exactly what I would want selected if I zoom in again. Alright, you can see what I have here, how we'd select in details, the hair and all of those things. You can see how perfect this is, guys. This is the revolution in selection. In Photoshop. You can see these guys, this is amazing. Alright? This is amazing. You can see the selection. It's like soap, perfect. I don't know what kind of AI or split into this, but this is amazing. Alright? And that's what I just use. Often nowadays have probably don't use my Quick Selection Tool again. Or, you know, what I do is I basically use Select Subject first. And then I just go around like this. And if there's any part I want to remove, subtract, add. I just use my Quick Selection Tool by using the Alt and shifts to remove or add to my selection. And that's the way I wrote. Alright, so this is what I'm going to use. So remove my background. Then once again, I'll go back to my select our max or refined edges in the older version and come to my feather, change it to one click. Okay? Alright. And I'll go to select our choose inverse, and that will invert my selection. Then I'll press deletes. And that deletes my background. Very easy. So you can see that over the time, over the period of time, photoshop keeps improving on that selection tool and making things easy for us to select easily in Photoshop. Alright, so this is super amazing. This is wonderful. I love this and it's super, super good. Alright. Thank you so much guys for joining me in this session, and I'll see you guys in the next session. 8. How to use Colors and Gradients in Photoshop: Hey guys, Welcome to this session of this Photoshop Training. In this session we're gonna be talking about Kohl's, how to use colors, talking about gradients, and a whole lot. So let's get straight into it right now. Okay, So we are right here in Photoshop and this is where we stopped the last time. Alright. We can see that after we deleted our background, we have the lady left alone, right here. Okay. In our document. Alright, so you'll notice that we can still see the selection going around the image. Like I told you in a previous video. Whenever you're done with your selection, the next thing you want to do is to deselect if you don't need your selection again. Alright? Because whatever I want to do now, I want you to apply to the entire documented, the entire image. I'm not just some selected paths. So what I'm gonna do is go to Image, I'm sorry, go to Select. And then on that select our C deselect. I'll simply use a shortcut Command D or Control D on Windows. Alright, so let's talk about color. So giving her a colored background, you know, and stuff. Alright. So the first thing I want to do is to go to the tool that will allow me to create color. And now by default, what you should be seeing here is a gradient color. Gradient color. You can see that sample video that we have right there. Gradient in graphic design simply means the ability to add two or more colors together. The ability to add two or more colors together. Fat is what gradient is all about. Okay? So by default, on our two-by-two here we have the gradient color, gradient color. The shortcut for this is G. You can see G right here. Alright, So if I was on my selection tool and I press the letter G on my keyboard, you can see that immediately it selects the Gradient Tool. Alright, so quickly I'm just change all of this to my default so that we can be saying the same thing. So when I select my gradient tool, you can see my properties bars change out some settings here. But how do I use my gradient? How do I use my gradient? Let me zoom out a little bit. Control Minus or Command Minus. And to use my gradient tool from that sample video you saw in Photoshop, we can see it click and drag. Simple as that. Alright, so I'll come here, stuff for my angle here. I'll click and drag to the next angle right there. I can see what I have. Alright? I can see black and white. Why do I have black and white? I have black and white because that is a color that I currently have selected right here. Alright, so before we go deeper into the collar, less talk about what has happened yet. I'm no longer see my lady again. If I come to my layers panel, you also notice that she's no longer there. Alright, so what has happened now is to tell me that I have done this in the wrong way. This is not the way to go about it. And this is the wrong way. Alright, so when I make mistakes, what do I press? Control Z or Command Z. So let's click that. And that takes me back to where it was before adding the gradient. Now from here, what I'm supposed to do before drawing my gradients is to create a new empty layer. For my gradient tool is to create a new empty layer for the incoming gradients. And how do I do that? I'll come down right here in Photoshop. Click on my new layer icon. Now, take notes on the older version of Photoshop. You might not be saying plus year. You'll be seeing something that looks like a page. Alright, the same thing. So that's the new layer icon. If I click here, you can see that it creates a new layer for me called layer one, and it's currently empty. You can see this is the ductile layer and this is the empty layer that I just created. Now, like my usual me, I always like renaming my layers. So I'm leaving this as layer one. I'll double-click on this layout one. And I'll name this gradient. Naomi Watts gradients. And then press Enter. Alright, so I can know that this is my gradient layer. This time. I'll do the same thing I did, but making sure that my gradient layer is the selected layer. Alright? I don't want to select my Dr. layer again, if I do that is going to give me the same result I had initially. So make sure that your gradient layer is the one selected. Then I'll click and drag diagonally again. And that gives me black and white again. Alright, and this looks exactly like what we had in the first time. So what's the difference? Why we've created a new layer? So why is this happening? It's happening because the new layer we created above the ductile layer, the gradient layer is above the Dr. layer. Alright? And that's why we're getting this result that we have right here. So like I told you in the previous video, when I was talking about layers, I said whatever you have on top curve as what you have on that, what you have on that will not show because what is on top is covering it. And if I want to put something on top, I can move that layer above and arrange my layers in that manner. Alright, so if I come right here, what I can do in this scenario, scenario is that I can click and drag the gradient layer and put that under the ductile layer. And you can see what we have. Pretty nice. Alright? So you can see how in the previous video we remove the background. And right now we are replacing her background. Would ingredients color? Alright, a nice black to white gradient. Pretty amazing. Now, don't forget that you can pause this video at any point in time. You can rewind me. You can do whatever I want to do with a video just to make sure that you understand what I am explaining to you. Alright, so you can pause this video now, make sure you try your own CA that a walks and then comeback. Resume the video, and then pause the video and then resume the video. Pause the video, resume the video, that kind of thing just to make sure that you follow along and everything looks okay. Alright, so we have our black and white here. Well, what if I don't want a black and white gradient? What if I want maybe another color I want to mix, maybe red and yellow or something. So what do I do? Then? I'll need to go to the properties, but still having my gradient tool selected go to the Properties Bar. And right here you can see that black and white here. So if I click right here, you can see that it opens up my gradient editor. He opens up my gradient editor. And for my gradient editor, I can see I have some beautiful color presets that I have here. Already that I can choose from. I can choose maybe this gold e.g. click on it. Alright, so this gold is actually not just gold is actually made up of two colors, and that is orange, yellow, and orange. So what does that tell you? That tells you that I can actually create my own color. I can actually create my own column. Go back to the black and white. That is black and white. You can see we have black, we have white here, and then we have black right here. Alright, how do I know that when I click on this house here or this box, you can see shows white at the bottom here. I want to click on this one here. It shows black at the bottom here. Alright, so that simply means that I can click on this white, click on this color, and change that to maybe red click. Okay, now I have a red and black color. I can go to the black, click on it and change that to maybe like a purple or violet. Alright. Now, Very good. Let me cancel that. Let me come back to this black. Click on the black color. Yeah. What I get here, remember we're talking about color. So let me quickly talk about how to select colors in Photoshop. How to select colors in Photoshop. So if you look here right now, I'm in the blue region. Alright? In this blue region, at the top right here we have the blue color. On the far top left here, we have color white. At the bottom left here we have color black. And at the far bottom right here, we also have color black. Alright, and this is how colors look like in Photoshop. All right, so if I'm looking for pure white, if I click somewhere here, this is not pure white. This looks white, but it's a different shade of white. It's not pure white. If I'm looking for pure white, all I need to do is to click and drag this circle all the way to the top left. Alright, and that will give me pure white. If I'm looking for pure black. Alright? If I click somewhere around the eye, this is not pure black. Might look like black boys, not pure black or pure black after drag it all the way down to that corner of the left. And that will give me pure black. And pure black is hashed zeros, zeros, zeros, zeros, zeros, zero. Pure white is harsh. F, f, f, f, f, f, f, and six zeros. Blue is hash zeros 00ff. So what does this hash? 000, FFA, blablabla, What do they mean? That's your color code. Alright, So Carlos comes in code. Whatever color you see anywhere in the world has a code. Alright? And that's, that code is what distinguish dark color from any other color. So e.g. even though this is blue, if I still click somewhere around here, this is still blue to the human eye, but this is a different shade of blue. And you can tell by the code and by what you're also seeing right here. I can choose like a sky blue or something that you can see with the color blue sky to it. So in graphic design, to get the exact color of anything, you have to do that by knowing what could that polo is. And then you can always enter that code yet. That's why some clients, when they are giving you a gig on a design, they will also give you the color code, or you can even request for your color code so that you'll be sure that you're using the right shade of their brand color and not as separate one. And at the end, you know, they tell you they don't, it's not a color. And you have to do the design again and do all of that. So to avoid all of that, you can always ask your client for their color code. Or you can even give you the even give you the color code without you asking because they believe they are going to be needing it in your design. So that's what colour put is all about. And to choose color, I've told you this is white, this is black. This is your normal color with differentiates. I can change it from blue to maybe green by clicking this slider. I'm bringing it down. Right now. I'm in the green section of my color. No matter what section you are in your colors, you will always have whites at the top left here, black on the bottom left, right here, alright? And then you have the different shapes of your color, your green, all over the place right here so I can choose whatever color I want. So back to what we were doing before. We've changed this first color to red. We're planning to change this one to a pink or something. So those communists select the pink color. Click, Okay, I can see I have a red to pink color in my gradient now. Alright, if I need more colors, all I need to do is to click any empty area here, not this guy for any empty areas. If I come here and I click this empty area, I see ads on other color stop for me right there. And I can change that color to something else. So meaning, now have three colors in my gradient. So I have read, I have this violet or purple, and then I have this pink. Alright, so three colors. I can click Okay? And successfully changed my color from black and white to this red, purple, and pink color. Now, after changing the color, I noticed that is not changing right here. So what happened? What simply happen is that when you change the color here, you have to draw that diagonal line again. So that's it. So now apply the new color to the layer. So when drawing the new diagonal line, makes sure that the layer selected is still your gradient layer. Very important. Make sure that the layer selected is still your gradients layer. So I'll come right here. Make sure my grandly I selected click and drag. And then you see that it has replaced my color with this nice red to purple to pink color. Alright, looking beautiful. Do we understand it? You can see that as we keep changing the background color of our layer, you'll notice that the image still looks clean. And this is how you know, if you have done a good job removing the background of your layer or not. So if you haven't done a good job, you'll notice as you keep changing the color, you might be seeing some particles are elements of the previous background showing. And when you see that, just know that, oh, he didn't do a good job of removing your background. So you want to come and clean it up or go back to your selection to select that part and delete it off. Alright, so that is how to walk, which are gradients. Color in Photoshop. Now let's talk about solid colors. Let's talk about solid color. So a solid color is just one color. So if e.g. all I want you guys just yellow or I want blue, I want white, I want black. Just one column. How do I go about that? And to do that, I'll come back to this, my gradient to, but this time I'm going to click and hold the drop-down arrow there to show me the group. The tools that are grouped together with this gradient. So I'm part of that too, is what is called the paint bucket to the paint bucket to the paint bucket tool allows me to fill my layer with one color. And before I do that, once again, I'm gonna come down here, create a new layer. Remember, we created a new layer for gradients, but this time we're going to create a new layer for our paint bucket or solid color. I'll double-click on this layer one again and name this solid color. Alright, creates. What do you notice? You notice that when we created this layer here, automatically created it above the gradient layer. Why? Because the gradient layer with the layer selected before I clicked on my new layer. So anytime we click on Create a New Layer icon, it always creates that new layer above the currently selected layer. Alright? And that's as simple as that. Alright? Okay, It's as simple as that. So let me come here with my paint bucket tool selected. If I click this time, you don't need to click and drag, just click once. And then you can see that it immediately fuse my layout with a solid color of white. Now why did it fill it with white? Why not any other color? Why not? Black or red? Yz white. Because your paint bucket uses your foreground color, uses your words, your foreground color. So this whites that we've been seeing here, old as well, is our foreground color. It's our foreground color. And how do I change my foreground color? To chin my foreground color. All I need to do is to select the right color that I want here. And that will change my foreground color to that color. So let's assume I want to just read, I'll just come here. Click on that and you can see that immediately, my color here changes towards red. And if you look at the bottom here, you can see that it also changes to red. So this column here, this column here are the same thing. And you control the color that appears there with your color panel right here. Now, mind you, I've been mentioning foreground color, the black, which is on that is what is called your background color. Alright, so for now, you just want to leave your background color because most of the tools in Photoshop Mix use of the foreground color palette and the background color. Alright, so it's only in some rare cases, you might stumble on it to that requires the background color and to easily change that, you don't need to make sure that the tip of your arrow is touching the background color. Alright? And then you click on there, you'll notice that the background color is now the active one. I can change that to any color you want. Can see it has changed to green. Okay. So that's how to change your background color, but let me just change it back to black because I just like living my background color is black and only mess around with the foreground color. So I'll click on the red. So always make sure that you click on your foreground color before changing colors so that you know that you're actually changing the foreground color and not the background color. And like what happened now, if you double-click on your foreground, color is going to open this color picker panel. I can see your colors in a bigger view and choose your color and entire code and do all of those things right here. Alright, let me tell you this of using the older version, maybe CS6 or something. You might not see your color showing like this. This way here to be mounted, double-click here to bring this up. And then you can choose your color the way you want it. Or entire code to somebody gives you a coat color code or you need to do is to come here typing you could, Yeah, Are those copy and paste the code yet and it'll just automatically switched dark color for you. Is that clear? Alright, so let me just click. Okay, I've changed the color to red. Make sure they are solid color layer is the one selected. And then double-click, and then you can see that it has replaced my background with a red color. All right, looking good. Now why am I not see my gradient? Again? I'm not seeing my gradient because the solid color is now above the gradient. So if I move the solid color beneath the gradient, can see my gradient comes back. And if I do that again, it switches. So don't forget how to arrange your layers in photoshop. Alright, that is how they go. If I drag the Dr. and I drag it all the way down, I won't see you again because she's now all the way below all the layers. So drug a backup. And I'll begin to see again. Alright. So I think that that is that for Carlos. That's how to change your colors, use colors in Photoshop. It's pretty simple. I want you to go right now, remove your background, change the color, get excited with it, and be creative while doing that. I'll see you guys in the next session. Bye for now. 9. Typography - How to add Text in Photoshop: Welcome back guys. I'm super excited. You're still with me in this journey. In this section we're gonna be talking about typography, how to add text to your image, some of the rules with texts, how to arrange them, and all of those stuff. So let's get straight into it right now. Alright, so I wanted to show you guys where we're going with this design regarding this lady's image. Alright, you can see the full design here. So this is where we're going to end up at the end of the day, by the time we're done with everything about this. So right now I want to talk about typography, how to type texts, how to arrange them, how to do all of those stuff. Alright, so let's go back to our own image that we're working on. So here is where we stopped last time. So let's move on from there. Now, the next thing I want to do here before I start typing is to change my background color to yellow. Alright, like we saw in the design I showed you. Once again, I'll come back to my color. Alright, I'll come here and look for the color yellow. So yellow is somewhere around here. And I want to choose this yellow right here. I'll do I already have the yellow I want to use. Go to swatches. Saved the yellow right here. I click on that, go back to color. You can see the code of my color right here is FFC a 05. That's the yellow I like to use. Okay. I'll grab my paint bucket to once again, make sure that my solid color is still selected. And I'll just click and that will fill it with a yellow color. Alright, now, the next thing I want to do is I want to type my text somewhere around here. So I want to move this image. I want to move this image so I'll select half. So you can see in Photoshop, before you do basically anything, you have to always select the right layer before making that adjustment so that it applies to the right thing that you want it applied to. So I'll select my image. Click move. You can see I'm on my move tool. Don't forget that does move us somewhere around here. Alright, looking good. Now it's time to type. How do you type in Photoshop? How do you type in Photoshop? All I need to do is to come to my toolbar here. And I'll see my text tool right here. I'll click on the texts to right there. And you can see that my mouse has changed to these type two. Alright, so to type, there are two different types of texts in Photoshop. Alright, we have your characteristics and we have paragraph texts. We have character texts, or we have paragraph texts. If I just click and start typing. What I have right here is what is called a character texts. Alright? Now if I undo this and I go back to text, and this time before I type, if I click and drag, this is what is called a paragraph texts, okay, so when I type, you can see what's going on as I tapped. It wraps up my text within that box. It wraps up my text within the box. You can see what we have right there. So this is what is called a paragraph texts. And this is always useful. If you're going to be typing a very long texts, maybe something that will break into four lines or three lines. Something very much. Alright, but character text is what should be typing often because most of your time you just want to type in maybe two sentences and just two words and you're done. Um, move on. So most of your time you'll be needing this paragraph texts or even love a lot of things to type. So we're gonna be talking about both the character and the paragraph texts. So let me just go back on duties. And let's begin now. Grab my text here, and I'll click right here. And type COVID 19. Covid-19. Alright. Type COVID-19. Covid-19 is so remember, if we go back to our design, COVID-19 is real. Alright? And we have all of these sex right here. So that's what we're trying to replicate here. Alright. That was capital letter and I typed in small letter. So let's assume I'm done typing. How do I edit my text is very simple. I just click. Anywhere in-between it texts and I'm able to edit my text, I'll press Control or Command a to select all. And then change that to COVID 19 in capital letter E. Okay? Now, it's very, very important that when you're done typing in Photoshop, that you always go back to the Selection tool, the move tool in Photoshop. Okay, always go back to the move tool when you're done typing, because now that we're done typing, we want to move our text around. Alright, I can do that while you're still on your text tool. So I'll go to my move tool, select my move tool, then I can move my texts around. And then you'll also notice that in my layer panel, it automatically creates a new layer for my texts. So when it comes to type in text, you don't need to create a new layer, alright? Before you type your text, it automatically creates a new layer for you. Alright? So you can see what we have here. Covid-19 is. Now you can see my text is way smaller than what I have right here. Okay, so what do I do? How do I increase my text size? How do I do all of that? Just a chain, my fonts, do all of those stuff. Now, to do that, you need a panel in Photoshop. And the name of that panel is called Character panel is called the Character panel. And how do I activate the Character panel? All I need to do is to go to Window. Remember I told you that if you're looking for a panel and it's not available in your Photoshop, you just go to Window to activate that panel. Alright, so I'll go to Window and under window I'm going to see character. And that's exactly what I'm looking for. Click on character. And that will open up the Character panel. Then once you open up your character panel for the first time, to open it up for later on or in the future. We don't need to go to Window. Again. It has now added something here called the character icon. If I click on it, removes it, click on it, that brings it. Alright, so anytime I needed Character panel, anytime, how does go to my AAA? Click on it and it'll pop up. Alright. So right now you can see that my text, the font I'm using is called month syrups. Alright? Want Xerox and then you can see my size. This is the font size. The size of my font. Oh, my font. The size of my fonts currently a statin points. Alright. And I'm using Montserrat and I'm on board. Alright? And my color is black. My color is black. So if I want to increase my font size, I can easily come here. I can type, click here and type in any value, maybe 100. I can see how big my text looks like now. Alright? Or I can click this drop-down and choose any value here, maybe 72. Or I can put my mouse on this T icon here and click and drag to the left to reduce. Click and drag to the right to increase. Alright, so those are the three options you have to adjust your font size. But for now, let's just change this to 50, alright, and place our texts somewhere around here. Alright? Now, the next thing we're going to do is to type in the real, the real texts. So what do I do to do that? Now, I don't want to go back to editing this text by double-clicking. I don't want to press Enter and then type real, and then start adjusting, that kind of thing. I don't want to do this. What I want to do, or what I like to do in this situation is to make type them separately. To type them separately. So that when I want to make adjustment to them, I'll be able to do that also separately. So I'll grab my tea again. Make sure that I'm not anywhere close to this COVID-19 because if I'm close to it and I click out, probably be a definitive again. Instead of that, I'll grab my text again, a mixture that I am somewhere, a way from that. So click somewhere here and you can see that it creates a new text layer. And it gives me this Lorem Ipsum dummy text. I'll just change it to real. Okay? What did I say you should always do when I'm done typing. You go back to your Move tool. Then I can move my texts alright, around. I can increase my font size. Let's do maybe 170. Think that's the size I used. Alright, in the previous design, you can see COVID-19 is real. Alright, and I hope you guys are staying safe out there. All right, I love you guys. Alright, so COVID-19 is real if type that. Alright, we'll go back to our design here you can see COVID-19 is real. The color I use, TAA is what colour red. Don't forget, I'm still using MSC routes. You can go online to download these fonts for free. Just open up your browser and search for Montserrat. And you can download that for free. And if I come here, you actually see that I have so many other fonts on my system. You can see I have so many other fonts on my system. Alright? So many other fonts on my system right here. And I'm going to be showing you how to install fonts in a moment. Alright? I'm gonna be showing you how to install different fonts in a moment. So different fonts that I can use right here. But what I'm currently using now, you notice that everything is arranged alphabetically. So if I scroll to M, you will see that we have Montessori routes right there. So M, m, M, Where are you? Monstera, alright. And I can select that. Alright, and I'm using the bold version. I'm using the bold version because it will come here. You can see it's thin, it's Alec, extra light, medium, bold, extra bold. Bold, italic, black, black, metallic. Alright. So I'm currently using the bold version. Alright. I'll probably dropping the link to download the Montserrat font in the description somewhere around. Alright, so that is that. So before I move on, let me quickly show you how to install fonts. Let me show you how to install font. So I'll go to my file manager, go to where I have my fonts, alright, and look for the Montserrat font. So when you download fonts online, they come in zip files, alright, becoming zip files. And then you can unzip that. And then it'll give you a folder. Alright, you open up the folder. I can see the different fonts that we have. The reason why we could choose mantissa rats board medium, regular, thin, black and likes this because you can see that it has different variation of the same font. Alright? So all you need to do is to select all. Alright, you select all. But before I select all, let me show you how to just install one. So let's ask them to install this. Monstera black does double-click on it, and this will open up a box. Alright? And then I'll just see Install Font showing at the bottom right here. I'll click on Install Font. She's gonna give me an error. Yes, I know because I already have the font on my system. Alright, so that is how to install fonts on system to go to the website. So many websites you can download fonts from. Some are free, some are paid, alright? Where you download them, most likely they'll communist zip format. You unzip it. You open the folder to see the font there. You double-click. It, opens up this font installation page. We click on Install Fonts, and that will install the fonts on your system. Alright, so it's giving me this error because I already have it installed on my system, so we're going to put out about that. Okay, so once your font is installed, you can close your font installation page and go back to Photoshop and then come right here and search for fonts. And you're going to see right here, don't forget, this is our range of a bits callee. So what about fonts you install just always make sure you take note of the name and then you search by looking for these alphabetically. Alright, so that is about installing fonts. So let's move on. Let's go to our font. I'm just click out and I'll switch back to our Montserrat font. And you can see what we have right. Now, going back to this design, we can see that the color of my text here is red. So how do I change the color of my text? On your character panel, you can see we have color right here. So I'll click on that color, switch to my red color. And then choose color red and click, Okay. Alright, that's instantly change the color of my texts to the color red. Very simple. Alright, It's as simple as that. So let's, let's move on, Let's move on, Let's move on. I'll go to mine. The next thing we have here is a paragraph tag. So this is an example of a paragraph text. You can see that we have about five lines of text here. Alright? So instead of creating this with my character panel, how Colombia. Use my paragraph texts and how do I go about that? I'll just click. You can see what happens when I tried to click and drag. I was actually too close to this current texts. And you can see it's highlighting the texts. So I'll go back to my selection, to go back to my text tool again. And this time our mixture, I stay far away from this text. So to create a new texts for me, now, I don't just want to click, I want to click and drag because I want to draw a paragraph texts. For this Andes, we only clicked under static typing. But for this particular type of texts, which is called the paragraph texts, we want to click and drag first to draw like a box, text box before we start typing. So I'll click drag. You can see that text box. And you can see these pink lines that are always showing as I click and drag. That is my snap in function. That is my snap taking place right there. And it's helping me a lot to align things together. Alright, so if I drag right now I can see that this is stopping at that L of the real and it starting from the hour of the real. So you can see that pains me to eat really easily, align things. So I'm going to stop here, release my mouse, and then inside, yeah, I'll be able to start typing. Alright. Now as I type, I'm not seeing anything. And that is because my text size is currently 170 point. Alright, which is something as big as this. And I'm trying to fit it into this small box. So what I'm gonna do is first go back to my Move Tool, alright? And then begin to reduce the size of my text box. And as I reduce this size, can see that it is now showing sought to reduce it to something within, let's say it's zero points. I want to make it really small. Alright? I'll make it really small. But I can come back here. Double-click here to a DTD. Alright, turn off my caps lock. Start typing. This summer, this one. I didn't just want to type in anything. Let me just go and copy a dummy texts that I can use here and paste that right here. So lambdas come to this Photoshop via Copy this dummy text. Come back here, Double-click to a deeds and pastes. Alright, pasted right there. I can see that it remember the column copying from here. So previously was red and that was because the last color I used for this real sex was red. And that was like the color was typing here towards red. So, but I don't want it to happen this way. I want to show you the process of how I got there. So let me just go look for my notepad and copy some dummy text from there. So I have this dummy text, lorem ipsum here. How does control C come to my Photoshop? Double-click Control V. So you can see this is still ready. Alright, this is still red. So what I'm gonna do is out of place that again, like twice. Alright, so I can have a lot of texts. Then I'll go back to my move to right now, my text is centered, alright, is centered. And if I look at my, our graph, if I go to paragraph on that, the Character panel, you can see that it is centered. If I click here, you can see it aligns left, align, center, align, right. So what I want to do is I want to align it to the left because I'm trying to align all my text to the left-hand side here, then also justify it. So that species like this and this would automatically be filled up. So if I come to this justified to the left, click on it, it will still remain aligned left. We can see that all those extra spaces I have an outgoing, making this look like a rectangle of sorts. And this gives you a text design, a very nice feeling and a nice touch to it. Alright, so that was how I arrived here. And I went back to my Character panel and change the color to black. And that gave me that, that I have right there. Okay. So select my text, just move it up a little bit right there and just stop right there so you can see what we have. If I go back to my finished design, you can see what we have here and also what we have here. So it kind of like getting closer to what we did initially. Alright, so let me stop right here. And now you know how to type in your text. But before I end this session, let me say something very important. Now you notice the way I arrange my texts, the way things are with what I am doing and everything. And that is because I am following some lay down rules when it comes to typography. Alright? I'm following some lay down rules when it comes to what typography or my snap to it gets your snap is off, can go to View. And Austin on your snap. Alright, my snap is really helping me right here. Now how was I able to achieve this nice arrangements on my text? Number one. And it takes true. You must always align your text. You must always align your text. It is very, very important that you do so. Alright? And the alignment I have chosen here is to align all my texts to the left. So a line all my text to the left. I could also align them to the center. If I was to do that, I would have put my text here, puts my tech somewhere here. I can see everything is now looking centered. If I wanted to align to the right out of put this texts that I have here, somewhere around here. And then I would've aligned my texts to the right. I can see how this snap that pink line, how it's helping me a lot to those arranged things without having to struggle with it. Alright, so this is a line right? This is center, then this is left. So I've chosen to align left because it kind of flows with this design. She's on the right ear and my text is on the left hand, right here. Alright? The second thing you must take notes about texts is what is called texts hierarchy. Texts hierarchy. That means that you're, all your texts cannot be the same size. Your texts cannot be the same size. Alright? So if we look back to our design here, you can see that the biggest of all of this is this real. Because that is what I'm trying to let people know. That the first thing I'm trying to call people's attention to COVID-19 is real. And that's why the real text is the biggest stakes. It's called my H1 in this scenario because we have H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6. Alright, that's your heading one heading to heading three, heading for it in five, heading six. Texts hierarchy is basically the fact that all your texts size cannot be the same. And you use your texts hierarchy to lead people's eyes. Lead people's eyes. So when we put, it is designed first and I want them to see is real. Then the next and I want them to see is COVID-19, then in X. And I want them to see, is this information that I have at the bottom here. Alright, I hope you're getting this. So if you look at any popular design, any professional design, you will see that if you check out the text part of that design, it is always aligned and they always follow the texts hierarchy rule. Okay? Texts hierarchy. It is very important because you have to imagine if all my tech size was as big as this real magic is COVID-19 was also won 70. You can imagine what would have happened on my design. I see he's gonna begin to lose somehow. Then imagine if this is also 170, No, it's not going to walk down. Alright, Or if all my text is as small as this guy here and everything is 8885 changes to it. This is eight. And then this 12 is eight. You know, you're not going to like this design and I put this like this and I feel I'm doing my design. Covid-19 is real. Everybody check it out, doesn't make sense. So you must always follow your texts hierarchy in design. So let me press undo, undo, undo to bring that back. Then if I arrange, this may be like this, like this, like this, then it doesn't really make sense. I have not followed the alignment to rule. Alright? I have not followed the alignment tool if I do something like this. So the text at every point in time must be aligned. I must also follow the texts hierarchy rule. It's very, very important. Alright, so there we have it. Thank you so much for watching this session. We're going to wrap it up here. And I'll see you in the next session. Bye for now. 10. Working with Shapes, Icons, Opacity & More: What's up, guys, thank you so much for joining me once again in this session and in this particular session we're going to be completing are designed to be talking about shapes. Are we talking about opacity? We're gonna be talking about adding icons to our design and finishing it up in this session. So let's get straight into it right now. Okay, so we're back in Photoshop and right now, let's talk about shapes. How to add shape, because we go back to our design. You can see I drew a shape here, added some texts into it. I'm going to talk about bringing in this image using opacity to get this effect. And then we'll talk about bringing in icons. Also. Go back. And I'll come here. How do I add shapes? In Photoshop? It's very simple. All I need to do is come right here. You can see we have our rectangle tool right here. And if I click and hold on, that drop-down is going to show me all the available shapes that I can draw in Photoshop. So right now I just want the rectangle tool. I'll select that and I'll click and drag. Alright, so you can see our snap is also helping us to align things. Again. I'll just stop adapt point to a aligns with the L and R. Release my mouse right there. Alright, by default, it gives me a yellow color. So it looks at safe. This rectangle doesn't have a color, boy, actually does. He has the same color as this background color. So the first thing I want to do is to go and change that color. And to do that, I'll go to my move to my rectangle tool is to select it. Alright, so let me just adjust this so we can see things right there. You can see the properties of my rectangle to show in under the Properties bar. Alright, if you can see this, does go to window and look for properties, and click on properties and that will pop up your properties panel. Alright, because from there, I can now change the color of my rectangle. You can see it the same color as this background color. So it looks as if nothing is there. So click on that and change it to read or write. Great. You can see what I have right there. This is your stroke. Color. Stroke means I want an outline color around the ship. Alright? If you click on that, I can change that to maybe green so you can see, alright, and attaching it to green, It's right there. It's kind of faint. You can't see very well because it is just one pixel. So I can click on this drop-down and increase it. And now you can see that is actually there. So we're not going to be using any stroke for now. So I'll click on this remove stroke icon and that will remove it. But just wanted to show you that it's possible you add stroke to your shapes in Photoshop. Alright, so thats is that with this rectangle to the next, and I want to do now is to type on it. But let me just make sure that things are are aligned properly here. Before moving on. Think everything looks good. All right, so I want it to align properly with what I have right there. Then I can come to my texts. Me just come into my text, I'm typing again. Let me show you a shortcut of what I do. Alright, I'll just click on my real text here. Don't forget, anytime you click on any layer and it doesn't get automatically selected here, just make sure your auto select is turned on or off on it on a click. Just select the stuff right here. Alright, there might be times that you might need to turn it off. So it's not compulsory remains on. That's why it's there. You can switch it on or off. So let me select my real text here. Let me select the COVID-19 text here. I can duplicate this texts. Alright, And to do that, I can go to my menu layer, duplicate layer, and just click, Okay. And that will duplicate my text. Can see I only have one now if I click Okay and now have two copies of that, I can undo that and use the shortcut. The shortcut, the shortcut is Command J or I. Press Control J. Alright, I want to do that. You can see that Emily duplicate that text for me. So what am I duplicate this text? I want to save my hour to save myself the stress of typing all of I again, reducing the font size, color, all of those things. So when I duplicate it texts, it duplicates it directly on top of the existing one. Alright, on top of the existing one. And your control J doesn't only work with text in any way. I can duplicate this. I'm Dr. yeah, if I press Control J, we can see I have two copies of Anna. But what happens is that it duplicate it directly above what you have there before. So if I click and drag, you actually see that we have two copies of her now. Alright, so Lambdas onto, onto that map to my texts. So the second text is directly above the previous text. I'll just click and drag that a way. Come on, put it inside my rectangle. Alright. And to a ditch this text, I'll just double-click on it and type. Please. Stay safe or write. Very simple. And don't forget when you're done typing, the first thing is always go back to your Move, to go back to the move to our clinic. Put that in there. Alright. But you will notice that the text is too big for that rectangle. So I'll come to my Text tool and reduce the size to maybe 40. Alright? And I think footsie is not that bad. Let's do 45 or 43. Alright, so that's looking good. Now, another thing I want to do now is I don't want to align, dislike this because it's not going to really make sense with aligning these to the left inside this rectangle. The best thing to do with these texts and rectangle is to align it to the center, to align my text to the center. And how do I go about that? I can't select my text. Lambdas. Put this somewhere awkward so that you can see what's going on. I can select my texts. Alright. Then hold down, Shift, select my rectangle. And if you look here, can you see those two layers have been selected? Alright? Now for you to be able to do this alignment option, you have to make sure those two layers are selected. So I've selected my text, selected my rectangle. We can see them right here, the texts and rectangle. After selecting that, I can look at my Properties Bar. Alright? But anyways, make sure that you're on your Move to make sure you're on your Move tool before. So I can see this alignment options here. Now my properties, but I can see this right here. If I click on this, those align both of them to the left. I can undo that. This is what I'm looking for. This will align it to the center. Can you see that? Are aligned me to do what? To the center? And then this other one will now align it to the center horizontally. Alright, so if I click this now, it puts that in the center. So right now I know my text or my rectangle in the center position put together, alright, then I cannot move both of them and make sure they align left on this one. Alright, so very simple, That's how you align objects together in a particular form. So if I have up to three object and I want to align them, I could just use the alignment to hold down, Shift, select all of them, and then use the alignment tool or the properties. But to do that, alright, pretty simple. So our first deselect and then select my text again. And I want to change this text color to this same yellow color. Because if you look at our design here, you can see that what we have right here, how do I go about that? Now this will allow me to talk about something called the color picker or the eyedropper tool. Alright? The eyedropper up to, or some people call it the color picker. Alright? It is use, what is this tool used for? Number one? It is used to pick a particular color in your design, is used to pick a color and use that color to Guam filler on Apollo. So what do I mean by that? If I select my text e.g. I can grab my color picker or my eye drop out to see what it is. Eyedropper, look our Photoshop is doing in that preview. You can see, it can allow you to select different colors from different images or objects in Photoshop. So if I grab my eye dropper tool, I can use it to click on this yellow here. Alright. I'll click on this yellow yet click. And you can see that it immediately changes my foreground color to that yellow. Alright? Emily changed my foreground color to dial minute. Anytime I, if I draw anything now I do anything now, it automatically use that color. If I click on this red, watch my color. My foreground color changes to red. If I click on black, I see it changes to black. So I can use my eyedropper to pick a particular color from my design. So that I can use that color for something else. But because in this case, I am working with texts. I am working with text. I'm not just going to grab my color picker and use it. The color picker is in so many places when it comes to colors in Photoshop. Alright, and I want to go and use it now. So what I'm gonna do now is I'll go back to my select Move to click on my texts. Come to my Character panel which is here. Click on this color of my text, which is currently black. Alright, on when this opens up, is me trying to select yellow here, I'm trying to guess what yellow colloids are. Just move my mouse a way from the color picker. And you can see that immediately it turns to this eyedropper to now we have right here. Okay. So that's why I told you that the eyedropper can be found anywhere you see color, you always find the eyedropper di, meaning if you really want to choose a color and you count, you don't want to stretch ourselves. Looking for that colloid. You can just move away from the color panel. And then you can use it to pick any color in your design. So I can easily click on a handy, and it'll give me that Brown in handy. But that's not what I want to do now. I want to click on this yellow here. So it gives me the exact same yellow that I have right there. Alright? And you can see that very simple. So it makes this text looks as if it was true from the rectangle because this column, this column are the same. Alright, so that was how I was able to create that in the previous design. And that's how to use the color picker. So the color pick colors to pick different colors. And also e.g. if you're trying to do a design for your client and your client didn't give you any color code or anything like that. You want to make sure that you're using the exact color. You could just bring in the logo and uses color picker to pick colors from their logos, their logo. And then you can use that to do what you want to do. And it's as simple as that. Alright, so that is the way color picker works in Photoshop. All right, so now let's go talk about Icons. Icons are not asked or modify bringing the icon, Let's bring in our app. We know corona virus logo right here. And also create this nice transparency that we see here where the coronal logo or showing behind. So I'll go back to my design. And then from here, I'll go to my File Explorer. Go back to your exercise folder, open it. You're going to see this coronavirus logo there. We drag that and drop into your design and you can see how big it is. Alright, well, spoken about how to readjust scale up, scale down on stuff. Sarcomere, click here and drag it down. Don't forget if you're using the older version, you hold down Shift. It's not be distorted. And I'll drag that up and also align it to the labs to follow my alignment. Alright, and then reduce the size some more. When I'm fine with it, I'll press Enter to remove the free transform option. I can see I've just added that right here. Okay. So how did I create these effects of this yellow and then we have something showing underneath it. That is what we use opacity to do. That is what we use opacity to do. So let's talk about that. So how do I create that effect using opacity? Number one, I'll click on my background. So I had to take me to where I have my background so that when I'm dropping in my image is going to drop it above the background. Alright, so number two, I went online. So most of the icons and stuff you see here, you can actually download them online for free. May stumble on some paid sites you have to buy if you want to buy, you know, basically you can get most of these things for free. So just Google, look for royalty-free images, download them and use them for your designs. Alright? And that's why I got this image From. Alright, so we have websites that have stock images that you can download for free. And some are for some you have to pay. Okay, so let me bring in this image into my Photoshop so I'll drag and drop. And you can see how it drops the image on it. And it drops it up both my solid color, alright, above my solid color. So I'll make sure come to the edge, click and drag. To make that beak click and drag. I can do Control minus. So I can see, I can zoom out and see very well. And then I'll extend that. We don't want to do something like this design I've told you before, don't come and do this and say, Oh, I'm trying to fit it in. You've distorted the image and that doesn't make sense. Alright? So don't do that. Don't ever do that. Alright. So I'll undo, undo. Again my image back to where it was. Alright, so now what are the I'm trying to shift this, shift this, we can also move it, okay? And decide which path you want showing in your design. Alright? You might say, oh, I want this, I just want a little of it showing, or I want more of it showing. It's totally depends on you, what you want. So I like it this way, kind of creating an effect for her behind and stuff. And then I'll press Enter. We can see that this oven looks good like this. This is a design on its own. Alright, having this white background and everything behind, I could even use this as my second design for this same design. Alright, so but since we're working towards this, Let's continue with that. What I want to do now is if you look at my layer panel, you can see that the image is above this solid color, yellow. Now the first thing I want to do is I want to drag my yellow color and put it up, boom. That image. And I say, Oh, what are you doing? We can see the image again. Yes, I know this is what we're gonna do now. We're not going to find a way to make this yellow solid color at the top transparent. Alright? And that is where we need opacity. That is where we need opacity. So if you look at my layer panel at the top right here, you can see opacity right here. And by default, the opacity is always at hundred, alright? All the layer opacity is always at 100. I can come to this solid color opacity and say, Hey, I want to make you transparent. I want to see what is on Danny Chu. Alright. I'll come to my opacity and reduce the opacity. So past is the transparency of an image or the visibility of an image. So if I reduce that, we can see if I do this about 50, 1% case where we have, alright, I can see what I have behind for more of my yellow. My yellow is almost gone. Now, if I haven't take it all the way to zero, then it looks at, see if there is nothing on top of this image at all. So I'll drag this up, up. One more yellow, so I'll increase it. A lot more yellow. Increase it. And I think I did 85. Alright. I did 85 right there. So let's see, am I correct? Oh, I did 90. Alright, so about 85 doesn't look bad. It's just that if you want more of the yellow showing, you can increase it more to about 90. Alright, so we just have that showing some way at the back abstractly, just giving you enough fuel and effects. Alright, and that was how I was able to create that. It's very, very simple. Let's finish up our designs now by bringing in our icons and stuff. See this position properly. Okay, good. So let's bring in our icons and stuff. So we need to bring in this guy, this guy, I'll finish up our design. Alright. So I'll come right here and I'll go to my exercise to folder. Inside there, I'll see all the different icons. And don't forget, you can always download these icons online. Alright, I'll grab my call icon and drag it into Photoshop. Can see it's very big out. Kami reduce the size, something like this. Don't worry. Who stood up on the sides? I just bringing all our icons are bringing the websites icon, reduce the size, something like that. Press Enter. Bringing our social media icons, you can bring in multiple images. I can select this one, hold down, Control. Select this, command, select this, and then drag and drop. And how does the size that? When I press Enter the next one we'll show resize that. Also. Press Enter. Next one shows an hour resize that also. How accident, but about the size now it's going to still fine tune it and stuff. Let me just drag them all out groups. Make sure you have it selected. Drag everything out. So right now, I want to make sure I zoom into this area so that I can see what I'm doing very well. So I'll press Control plus, plus, plus and move my my scroll bar somewhere around here. Then. Com click on this, reduce it some more. Go back, contrast zero to see how it looks like. That looks good. So I'll zoom in again, Control Plus, Plus, Plus. Use my scroll bar to go there. Alright, and I'll look for my website. I can drag that. Alright, let me put it on top of these, then I'll press Control C. Alright, You're free transform. The shortcut for free transform is control C. You could also go to a deed alone that a deed, you see Free Transform. I can see that the shortcut is Control T or Command T on your MacBook. So I click on that. It'll bring me this free transform again. I can reduce the need to kinda look like the same size with my Color icon. And that looks good. And I can put that underneath it so you can see on my snap is helping me to do It's kinda like helping me to snap to that so that everything looks aligned. So let me just reduce this a little bit. And then position that right on the center. So I don't want it to be too far from each other. Then let's go to our social media icons. I'll select my Instagram icon. Click reduce the size. Alright, also aligned, that's here. So we can see I'm making the size of my social media smaller than this one because I'm still maintaining my hierarchy. Alright? Everything cannot be the same size because I want to call attention to what I want them to see first and then the next thing, and then the next thing, and then the next thing. So let me just bring this closer and Control T. We do the size. Let me put this on the Instagram so to be the same size. So that does it. Drag that to decide hopes actually drag the Instagram icon. No problem. Reduce the size. Put that on the Instagram icon again, are the Twitter icon. Then reduce it. To kind of use that to know the size. Reduce it. Okay. I think we got it. I'll drag that. Comes can see I also drew the Facebook, the Twitter icon. Now can you see how this snap is also helping me with letting me know that at this point we have equal distance between the icons. And that's great. Alright, I don't need to worry myself about that. Okay. So our control minus control minus because I need some texts and I don't want to type them. I just want to copy and paste the particular texts. I'll just grab my COVID-19 Control J again. Drag that down, then double-click to edit the text. Or if double-click doesn't work, you go to T. Click on t. Then we just see icon click inside the texts and double-click now and then be able to select all. Alright, so I'll just turn this to my phone number, +23 480-351-0014. Alright, I got to say this is way too big considering our texts hierarchy. So if I zoom all the way out, you can see this is going to be too big for a phone number right here. So I'm going to come to my Character panel by clicking this a right here. Alright? And reduce my size to maybe, let's see, 16. Alright? I think sustained. Does it? 20? Alright, great. I love training. Carried out and put that right here. I'm trying to use mine. Snap To help me align it somewhere around here. And I'll Control J on this text again. Drag that down and go to my T. Click here, Control or Command a to select all an R type, www.who.org, alright, World Health Organization, sarcomere and put that right there. Alright, so you can see how it's helping me to align things and my social media icons. So our Control J, this text again, bring that down and grabbed my T, click. Control a or Command a and dust type does social media handles. I said WHO? Health or something. Who health or Alright. That's not correct. Not sure. That's the official handle of WHO. So I'll just reduce my text size to maybe let's do that. 16, 16 should work. And then those put that right there. I hope this my Facebook okay. Can see it wasn't aligning before. So I can zoom in. I can see what I'm doing very well. Click here, hold down, shift, click, and click, and that selects the three of them. We can see that in the layer panel. And then I can move the three of them together so that off to move them one by one. And once it gets there, it aligns. Now, so move my texts. Also what align? I can see these two are not aligning to File click here, hold down shift, click on my number, click on my website, click on my website. I called and I have them selected. Alright, consider in my layer panel. And then I'll just move all of them together to also align right there. Alright, don't forget, alignment is very, very important. So you can see what we have right here. Now you can see that this is my Instagram logo. Let me zoom in again. It's not really transparent because it came with this white background inside the Instagram logo and I want to get rid of that. So what can I do? I can use my paint bucket right here also. How do I use that? Number one, grab my paint bucket. Number one, select the Instagram icon. Number two, make sure your foreground color is the color you want. So in this case, I want to fill it with a yellow to make it look as if it's transparent. It's actually not transparent. So I'll grab my foreground color. I can click here, double-click on it. And don't forget anytime you see these, if you move out of it to give you a color picker or eyedropper. And I can select this and I will instantly change my foreground color to that yellow. Then I'll grab my paint bucket. Okay, zooming very well. When I tried to use it, here is showing me this cancel sine. If I tried to click to give me this notification, the smart objects must be rasterize before proceeding. Did contents will no longer be available. Rasterize these smart objects. And if I click Okay, it's going to rasterize my objects. So we'll unlock click. Okay, Let me show you how to asteroid and objects normally. So what does that mean? Anytime you see your icon here and it has this small box beside it that lets you know that your LEA is a smart objects. Smart Object and photoshop automatically converts the layer two smart objects when we drag and drop. Alright, so anytime we drag and drop any layer, it converts it to a smart object instantly. And that's why I said that most of the layers we have, we have that small box beside it because all we have been doing all this well is dragging and dropping, dragging and dropping, dragging and dropping. So if you find yourself in this situation whereby you're trying to use it too, and it's telling you to rasterize your objects or it's not allowing you to use it. Just make sure you come to that layer and rasterize it. How do you rasterize it? You right-click on the layer, layer panel. Alright? How are you right-click, you see a couple of options. One of those options is Rasterize Layer. Rasterize Layer. So don't forget these very important. Alright. So rasterize the layer. If it is smart object, I are trying to use something on it and it's not working. So I'll click on that rasterized layer and I'll rasterize layer. And this time if I come back here, you can see It's not showing me that caution sign, showing me my normal paint bucket. So I can use it to click on this white. So make sure the tip of your area of that paint bucket is touching the exact path. You want to change the color. Click on that. You can do a chain that's the yellow. Click on this link, click on that, and then it changes it to yellow. And now it looks as if it's transparent, but it's actually not transparent. I'll just fill it with the same yellow of the background to give you that effect. So if I press Control Z or Command zero, that will fit back to my screen. I can see how we've ended up right here. This is a wonderful, we've created a banner or a flyer or something we can put on social media app can even print these. But mind you ruled out how to choose CMYK if we were to print this stuff. I mean, so we can see this nice design we've just done on COVID-19 and letting people know that it is real. And we have our lovely model here acting as our Dr. to make these authentic. Alright guys, so I've come back to my design here. You see that I have some shadows here. Some shadows here. If you look at the lady, she has some shadow here. And I was able to do that with mine. I'm layer style. With Layer Style was able to add drop shadow to my image or texts with Layer Style. So how do we go about that? First? And I want to do is to go back to my move to alright, yes, let me mention this now. Now, at every point in time, this should always be in normal. Alright? This should always be in normal. Alright, so some people might feel something is happening. I don't know what's happening with my stuff is not showing very well. Anytime you have issues, number one, always make sure that directly I selected number to. Make sure that this is a normal number three, make sure that your opacity is in hundred number for your field hundred and then your in-kind. So always make sure these things that are default or default, because sometimes, you know, we are using our mouth actually facing a mouse that has a scroll view. Maybe your mouse or somewhere here and you're playing with your scroll wheel, you'd have mistakenly change the values of these things here. And then you find that something is not really working. We don't know what's going on with your Photoshop or on your like, Photoshop is bad. We want to get a new one by mu. Wow. Just want to make sure that you call me uncheck all these things. Make sure that they're in the right place. Because if your opacity was in zero, the layer is not going to show and you'd be thinking, Well, what's wrong, my layer, don't know what's wrong with it. Change your blending mode from normal to something else, the layer might just disappear. You can see what this is showing now, when I choose linear bond, even though I chose color yellow is looking kind of reddish and stuff. And may be wondering what's going on. If I choose these kinds of weight change the color. You want to make sure that this is in, is in normal and not any other thing. And this is 100 and this is 100. Alright? And then no, Leah is not locked or something. All right. So do that. It thinks you're so we check if you have issues. So back to our drop shadow. How do I add drop shadow to my texts? I'll click on my text. I'll come down here and I can see this that is called FX. Fx. Fx, right-click on that. You're going to see the different layer styles I can add to my text or my image. Alright? We can see we have drop shadow here. If I click on that drop shadow is going to help me to add a drop shadow to my text. If I move this to the side, you can see the drop shadow we add by default for me. Alright? And this is not the way I want it. So I'll need to come to this drop shadow settings here and begin to play around with this until I get my desired results. Number one, I can change my color. I can use whites. Alright, I can use red, whatever color I want. Ribo in this case, I want to use some picking this color. Yep. I want to use a darker version of that color. Alright. I'll use a darker version of that yellow. So I'm just trying to get that particular color and I get it right here. So it's not really black, boy, just a dark version of yellow. Because I don't want the shadow to really be too obvious and showing how click Okay, so that's color. We'll blend mode mixture is normal, then your opacity. If you reduce the opacity or shadowing show, if you increase it, your shadows show. Then the next thing is the angle. If I change the angle, you can see the way the shadow is moving around the text so I can decide the type of angle I want. But for now, I want somewhere around this angle. I want the shadow to show somewhere at the bottom left of the bottom-right. Alright. I can reduce my distance. You can see what's happening as I reduce my distance. You can see as I move the distance consider is going far away, are coming close to it. I can increase the spread of my shadow. I can reduce the size of my shadow. Alright? If I do this all the way to zero, you can see it looks like the text itself. I want some things similar to this, something like this. Let me just make this a little bit like that. Looking like what I want. And I will increase the size. So it's soft things it out. See that? Alright, for soft things it out. So I want something like this, not too obvious and reduce the distance a little bit, just to have this subtle shadow on it like that. And that's how I created a shadow. Now we saw there. I can click, Okay, and that applies the shadow to my texts. I also want to apply that shadow to this rectangle. So I'll just right click. No, sorry, I'll go to effects. So make sure the rectangle is selected. Can see the rectangle is selected right here. Go to Effects. We can drop shadow. Remember the last settings that I used? Alright, and apply it right there. I like that sets in, so I'm going to leave it that way. So the rectangle and the real has that shadow. I'll click. Okay. Then I'll go to the lady. Also. Go to Effects, go to drop shadow. Remember the last shadow I used? Alright, for this one, I just want to increase the distance a little bit and then increase the size to soften it out some more. Alright? So I think it looks good this way. Alright. Creates that are just leave that like that. And we have that sought to shadow going on around hot too. Alright. And that's how we're able to achieve this design in Photoshop. Alright, Very simple. So that's how we're able to do that. And we've got this result. So you can see how we've been able to achieve this. Going from removing the background of the lady to replacing it with a gradient background to a solid color. To add in text. Talks about texts hierarchy. Text alignment, shapes, adding icons, adding more images, opacity. And then we arrived at this design. Alright, so this is a very simple design, mature design, professional designer you can use for your social media, for your banner, for whatever it is you want to use. And the message will be passed across. Alright? So that is where we're going to end it right now. Okay. Thank you so much for joining me in this session. Once again, I'm super excited. Don't forget to save your walk. They go to File Save As I've done it at the very beginning, to change it from black woman with a stethoscope to my design or something. Alright? And then save that in your desktop wherever I want to save it. And then you click on Save, it's going to act to maximize compatibility. Say, Okay, and that will save your work. I'm not going to save mine because I already have it saved already. So that is that. Thank you so much and I'll see you guys in the next session. 11. Image Adjustments in Photoshop: Hey guys, Welcome once again. And in this session I'm going to be talking about the different adjustments for images in Photoshop. Let's get straight into it and I'll see you inside of Photoshop. Okay, so we're back inside of Photoshop on, we are going to be talking about image adjustments right now. Alright, so let's bring in an image are going to be using for this. I'll go to File Open. And then when I get here, go back and open up the exercise three. Exercise three. That's what we're going to open up. And we're going to see these African-American students right there. This image, you open that up and you know, this will open in Photoshop. Now, don't forget, like I used to say, when you open an image in Photoshop, you unlock and exactly you unlock and rename. So I'll double-click on my background and this will pop up. I'll just name these students and press Enter. All right, so that unlocks it because without unlocking it does some sudden things, some effects on some things I want to add or move my image is not going to allow me to do that because it's still seeing it as a background. So that's why you unlock can rename Adobe for listening to me right now, please change these settings. Let me be the one to either lock my image when I want and let me do it how I want it. Thank you for accepting my suggestion. Alright, so let's move on. So if I look at my menu, you can see we have image adjustments right here. Alright? And if you look at all of these, you can see all the adjustments that I have right here. Alright? Now, everything here allows you to make changes regarding look and feel of your image, alright? The look and feel of your image. So e.g. brightness and contrast will allow me to either make my image brighter. You can see as I increase the brightness or darker. Or if I change that back to zero, I can increase my contrast. And what contrast does is it's slightly different from brightness. Brightness just mix everything bright. Contrast will actually make the bright parts of your image brighter and the dark parts of your image to make them darker. So as I increase my contrast, you see that's exactly what's going on. We can see it stick quite different from the brightness. It's adjust the highlights and shadows and add more to it. You can see what I have when I take my contrast all the way up. Alright, so what I like doing with my images is I always like adding a little bit of contrast. So maybe for these orders do like 15. Very slight contrast to just kinda bring it out more. Alright. This is what I like adding to my image and I'll click, Okay, the way I have just done it now, it's kind of, it's kind of okay. But if I want to adjust that, my contrast, again maybe was too much or too small. And I want to adjust the Tri, go back to Image Adjustments, Brightness and Contrast accounts that everything does kind of become zero, but it's actually not zero. What I did initially has been applied to it now, right. So I don't I can't see my previous settings or something. No. So adenine, this way it's kind of destructive to your image because when you want to make adjustment is gonna be really tough. Alright? So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to cancel out and I'm going to press undo to remove that contrast. And this time I will use my adjustments panel here to do that. Alright, How is my adjustment panel here to use as I'm going to use my adjustment layer. So if I use the adjustment here, don't forget. And we can see these are just made here. Just go to Window, see adjustment and click on it. And this will pop up using the one year or the one here. They're both. The same thing. Can see solid color, gradient pattern, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If I look here, you can see we have brightness and contrast level exposure. So basically all that we have here are listed here. At least the important ones can see that right there. So it's going to displace using my Image Adjustment Brightness and Contrast. I can see the same brightness and contrast here. Alright, the next one levels curves like Columbia, brightness levels called exposure. So everything is also right here. So I'll click on this brightness and contrast and watch what happens when I click on it. Here. If I click here, we can see it adds an adjustment layer for me right here in my layers panel. So this is not destructive way. It is. It is not, it is separate from my image. Understand, it's not like the other one that was inside the image and I can't get it out again. We're looking at this. You can see create a new layer for that brightness and contrast. So that in the future if I need to adjust it or do something to it, or even remove it, it's gonna be very, very easy to do that. Alright, so you can see the same settings are popped up. The other time is also showing you can just increase my contrast to that same 20 this time to train to, to kinda just make everything pop out. Alright? Okay, so if I click on this eyeball here is going to turn off my brightness and contrast. What the email looks like without it. Contrast. Tonic on. Show me the contrast again. If I turn on the eyeball for the image you can see nothing shows. I click on it. It shows this eyeball is for visibility to make a layer visible or invisible. Alright. So boy is very useful for things like this. Contrast. This image adjustments, appendices you to see before, after to see the difference between what I've done, what was there before. Alright, so that's a brightness and contrast. When I go back to adjustment, there's a whole lot here too that we can use. You can see we have color balance. If I click on Color Balance, shows me this plenty color settings. Let's drag this to the right answer, what happens? You can see my image is getting, is adding more red to it. Politically here is adding more CAN to eat the candy, to do that kind of vintage look. You can see how cool this is, just by dragging these mid tones to the CN region. I can undo that. Drag this. You can see what this gives me. Drag this. You can see what this gives me add some more green to my video, to my image. I mean, just want to add some more blue pill will give you those kind of filters you see on Instagram. You know that instagram gives you before you upload your image. So you can also do all of that in Photoshop. Alright, can see your color balance allows you to just change the color look, kind of balancing the way you want it. Alright? I can delete these because I'm not going to use color balance for now. And just delete that and go back to my adjustments. What else do I have here? Black and whites, I can make everything black and white instantly. Can see black and white just like that. And I can even adjust my black or white farmer blacks, firewall more whites. Alright, I can adjust the yellow tube. And that will give me different blacks and black and white that I can use for my e-mail consider before, after you can see the black and white we've created from this. So everything on that is adjustment just allows you to give your image a particle of field, a particular loop, and everything. So I can delete this black and whites and just select it and press Delete on my keyboard. We have our selective color threshold gradient map. Allow you to choose this. I can change this to maybe like a collar like this. We can see what I can easily just gets right here inside of Photoshop. Or I can do the black and whites. I can do the black too transparent color and that color. Alright, so this is your gradient map. I don't want it. I'll select it and press Delete on my keyboard. And that removes. All right, let me just try one more else. Can I try here? Okay, vibrance, this is one I like. Also. Vibrance allows you to add more of a particle Apollo to your image. So if this is going to be good in his scenario by your image is kind of, the color of your image is kind of washed out. And you just want to bring that color back to life. You can use vibrance. So I can come here now, increase my five brands. And you see the challenges yellow digitally, like the dominance color yet you're going to see is going to pop out more when I increase my vibrance. You can see the blues that we have here and everything. Everything is like coming to life. So I always like adding vibrance to my stuff to kinda just bring out the colors back to life. Alright? And let me just stop somewhere here you can see the blue here. The blue, the yellow is shared. Everything is coming out and you can see what we have. So if I come here without my contrast, I get this without my vibrance. I get this over with the vibrance and contrast can see how we've improved our image lot. Alright, so that's that for the adjustments, you can add as many adjustments as you want. But also take notes when it comes to using these adjustments here and creating a new layer. If you have another image on Danny disk image, whatever we add here is also going to apply to that image. So sometimes it could be an advantage, sometime it could be a disadvantage. So let me just quickly drag an image and drop it into my stuff right here and just put it underneath it. And just put it underneath it. Put it on Donatists. Alright. Now, assuming this was a, this image was on the transverse transparent, meaning that we've removed the background and stuff, will be able to see the image on that. So let me just move this image to the top because that automatically the brightness and contrast I will add it to that one is also applying, can see this now because also applying to this image. So if I turn off contrast e.g. we can see that it actually applying to boots image. You can see that. So sometimes the image, Yoda image might have had enough contrast or enough vibrance or whatever it is. They're trying to add it to this other one. I don't want it to affect this other one. What do you do? You can drag this down and then you can see to Photoshop or let me say I want to apply to these galium since this one is already, you can come here, right-click on the brightness and contrast and say Create Clipping Masks. What will happen? You see an arrow pointing directly to this image underneath it saying that, Hey, I'm only going to affect this guy underneath me. Then if I do the same thing to vibrance and I say Create Clipping Masks is going to also show me that our scene, Hey, I'm only going to affect the image directly underneath me. So if you look at this image and if I turn on my contrast or vibrance, you can see that it's not affecting it in any way because it is underneath here and this one is the one directly below your adjustment layer. Alright, so that's just a quick tip. If you have multiple layers and you just want to add your adjustment to the layer directly below and not the other layers. Because by default, when you add an adjustment, it applies to all the layers underneath it. Alright? If you don't want the layout to be affected by the adjustment layer, you can also drag that layer or boost the adjustment layer and it's not going to affect it. Alright, so those are the ways of getting around Image adjustments inside of Photoshop. Alright, so let me just remove this guy and then you can see everything applies to my students image again. Alright. Thank you so much for joining me in this session. I'm going to see you in the next session, the next section we're gonna be talking about how to do some other cool stuff inside of Photoshop. 12. How to Select and Change Colors in Photoshop: Hey guys, Welcome again. I'm super excited to have you write here with me. Alright, so in this session we're gonna be talking about how to change colors in Photoshop selectively. Meaning how you can pick a particular color in Photoshop and change that color to something else. And people will never know that that color was not the original color. So you want to find out, Let's get straight into it. See you in Photoshop, okay, so we're right here in Photoshop and we want to talk about how you can pick a particular color in your image and change it to something else, so another color, alright? And to do this is very, very simple. Alright? If I come over here, again, if I come over here, so this is where we stopped last time. If I come to my adjustment and I do this hue and saturation, alright, on that, this hue and saturation. If I drag this slider to the right, we can see what's happening to our image. It's changing the color. Alright? It's changing the color, but this is not what I want to do. My goal here is I want to change the color of his jacket from yellow to, let's say, read. Alright, I want to change it to red because I like read a lot. So what do we do? How do I change the color of his jackets to read without changing the color of the other ones. So if we look here, you see that, oh, we have something here called master. Let's click on that master 0, we have different colour, red, yellow, green. Oh, I could do select yellow here. What that means is that just going to affect the yellow color. Then as I start dragging it, then that's when I realized that, oh, they actually so many yellow in the image. Also, I can see that they are also changing. Alright, so assuming his jacket was the only yellow color in this image, you would have been perfect. Or we get any out, I've just grabbed it, changed to yellow, change the color. And you can see it has changed to red box. I mean, we don't have red leaves. Read these red dots. When his face is looking more reddish because his face is kind of a yellow region. Alright. So I'll undo that. What I'm supposed to do or what I'm gonna do right now is I'm going to make a selection. So I'll press undo to remove my hue and saturation at first, made sure that my student layer is selected. And I will make a selection. Alright? I'm going to make, I'm gonna make a selection, so I'll grab my quick selection to Hawaii. It's going to be perfect in this scenario. Our top the close brackets to expand my size. And then click. And you can see how quickly helping me to make selection on a jacket. Or right. Now, mind you this hue and saturation only effect applied to things that are colored. Alright, so if you're trying to select a black color, and I tried to change that black color to another color. It's not going to walk. Alright? So the hue and saturation needs you to have an existing color. They can select that color and change it to another color. Right now, as I am using my selection to remember, I told you when we're talking about the selection to that, when you have something selected, I do anything in Photoshop. It's only applied to what you have selected. And that's exactly what I'm doing now. I'm trying to select only his jacket without trying to select any other thing. So you can see I'm avoiding his hand. I'm avoiding his neck, his head, his trouser. I'm just trying to select is jackets alone. So let me zoom in so I can see this very well. Alright, so can see, looks good, looks good. This hand not selected. I'm miss this small parts, yes, and reduce my brush size. Select, select that. Select. Just gone too far. Again. So I'll just stop right there. Doesn't matter. It's not going to show. Now this part, I need to subtract this part so I'll increase my brush size, hold down Alt to subtract, and then click and you see how it's subtract that part. Alright, can reduce my brush size so more as to subtract more. Alright, I think everything looks good. Okay, I need to add this part here. Great. Our dispatch here. Create our eye. It looks good, looks good. Maybe just small parts here. Undo that. That was too much to me. Reduce my brush size fits all good so far. Exactly. So you can see you have a perfect selection right here. And that's the essence of your Quick Selection Tool. So I love the quick selection tool a lot because it just helps me to get things done faster when it comes to selection. Alright, so boy, if I was to select the entire body, are dove, just use the new select subjects that was added to Photoshop. Alright. Alright, great. So I'll just zoom out conscious zero. I have him selected now. And then I can now come back to my Adjustments, go to my hue and saturation. Click on that. And this time when I drag, you can see that it is only applying to the what? To the jackets because it's looking at my selection and saying, Hey, you only want to affect this part. I can see how I'm changing the color of the jacket. You can choose any color, blue sky blue, green, back to yellow, giving you this red color, which is what I want, purple. I think I like the pauper more. So let us do the purple, red papule. Okay, Let's do pink. Or should we do, oh, I love this purple color. So let's do the purple color. You can see what we have right here is as simple as that. Selecting your color and changing it using the hue and saturation without affecting the other colors in the image. So you can see this remains yellow, yellow, green on my cup. Yellow yet still remains on just the jacket has been changed. So anyone seen this will think, oh, this is the original color that came with this jacket. You can even adjust your writing. I want it darker or lighter, you know, that kind of thing. Cheney back to zero. You could add more of the purple or fade it out if you want to make it look like a faded purple color. I think I'm just going to fade it out a little bit so it doesn't shine too much. Alright? Something like that looks good and just make it look darker little bit. I think I like it this way. And that's it. So the saturation, the amount of the color, the lightness, darkness and lightness of the color. Alright? And you can see the results that we have here. Really, really cool. Alright? So that is how to go about changing colors. Picking a particular color, using the selection tool and using the hue and saturation to change the color to something else. Right now, go ahead, grab images. Grab pictures of yourself, change your color. Even tell people that you have ten colors of this same shed. And then people start saying, you are the boss. Alright guys, so remove that. Alright guys, so go out there, grab your image. You can use the same one to try. Grab your own image, also, change the color, see how it looks like Sara walks and everything. And I'll see you in the next session. Pizza. 13. Creating a Monochrome in Photoshop: What's up, guys? Welcome once again. And in this session we're gonna be talking about how to make every other thing black and whites, except that guy's jacket that we've just changed the color right now. Alright, so let's just walk more need before we go into the next day. I'll see you guys in Photoshop. Hurry up. Okay. So we are right here in Photoshop just so where we left off in the previous video. What I wanna do now is I want him leave his jacket colored and make everything other thing, black and white. So basically it's the same process of what we did the other time. We'll go to Quick Selection to quickly select his jacket again. Oops. What did that? Oh, sorry. Alright, so you can see what's happening. It's not like helping me, the weight was helping me before. It's just selecting and PHP. I'm wondering what's going on. And that's because I have my Hue and Saturation selected rather than the student itself. So let me just undo that, select the students. And then this time try again. I can see everything is looking nice. Alright? And then we've got our selected before. Or maybe the trend, trend one is smarter. Alright, you can see that he just said Alexa everything for me the way it's supposed to be. And that's fantastic. Alright. You can see, assuming a confirm that. You can see everything. Looks nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. Alright, selected properly. Alright, so the goal now is if I come to adjustments and I click on the black and white, you can see that instead of making every other thing black and white except the jacket, jacket that becomes black and white. And that's not what I want to happen. So I'll undo that. And this time I remember our inverse. I'll go to select and then choose invest or I use the shortcut Control Shift I or Command Shift, I. Click on that and that will select the opposite. Alright, that selects the opposite. Then I can go to Adjustments, go to my black and white book. Every other thing becomes black and whites except the guy she jackets. And I love it. I love it, I love it, I love it. So this is how to do this. It's very simple. It's not hard at all. You can see what we have just 1 min. We add Done. Alright, thank you so much for watching this session. This is how you do this. I mean, what we've been doing now for the past, in the past three videos is basically for photograph files. After taking your nice short, just want to add some effects to it. Then you can practice this, go out there and remember to stay creative. See you in the next video. 14. Using the Brush Tool in Photoshop: What's up, guys, Welcome to this session. And in this session, we're gonna be talking about the Brush tool. The brush tool is one of the powerful tools in Photoshop that allows you to do a lot of amazing stuff. And we're gonna be showing you right now in Photoshop how to get started with the brush tool. So let's see inside Photoshop how to do that. So we are here in Photoshop and we're going to go to File open and look for exercise four. So let me just go back. So you look for exercise for you open that, you see an image there, you click open and they emit opens inside your Photoshop. So with the brush tool, the brush tool is actually these two right here. You can see you can do a whole lot to the brush tool. You can see what it's been shown by default in Photoshop. Alright? You can use it to do different things, draw different things inside of Photoshop. So if I select my brush, so now I can use the square brackets and closed square brackets to adjust the size of my brush. Alright. I can just keep tapping the open brackets to reduce it. The close square brackets. And that will increase its, alright. So and the color it uses by default is your foreground color. So when I paint, you can see it just adds white, white, white, and I'm using a soft round brush. Alright, I can see what I'm trying to create, really just trying to like create like a spotlight around the image. Alright. We can see that fully cool just with my brush tool, without any other thing. Alright, I'm using a soft round brush, but this is not the way to use a brush because right now, number one, I have not unlocked my image and renamed it. Number two, I'm supposed to create a new layer for my brush before using it. Because right now this brush and this layer are now together. So meaning that if I want to separate my brush from the image, I won't be able to do that. Let me undo what I've done. So I'll press Control Z or Command Z a couple of times. I double-click on my background layer and then I'll name this raining man. Alright, click Okay. And you can see we have reigning Monday. Now this time before I use my brush, I'll click on the create a new layer icon. Double-click and name this brush. Alright. Now, with my brush, I can grab my brush. I can do this. I can reduce the size, maybe put on an hour on here, and then just keep interchanging the size like that just to create light, this light glowing effects on the wall, which is, which was never there. Alright, and then do that, do that, do that, do that, do that. Alright. So you can see the amazing effects I'm already creating my brush to just create something like this around my subject. Alright, so I'm going to delete this just trying to see what we can do with this. Okay? So you can see what we have right here. Alright. We have a running man with this lights glowing around the wall or eyeball. Anybody watching this will probably not know that we use the Brush tool to achieve that in Photoshop. Okay, So this is just one thing you can do with the brush tool. Let me undo again. And I'll be using a soft round brush. Alright? If I want the hard round brush, all I need to do is to go to my Properties Bar out, see right there, the tip of my brush and the current size I'm using. If I click on this drop-down, is going to show me the size and the hardness of my brush. I can increase the hardness all the way to 100, still maintaining these 250 size. And that will give me a hard brush. Look at what the brush looks like. Looks like a regular circle because it's a hard brush, so you just paint on your image. Alright, so this is a hard brush. It looks as if we have some stickers on the wall right here, all these white balls around, making it look like a wallpaper or something. Alright? So this is what we have right here, creating with our hard round brush. So we can see with your brush, if you click and drag, this is going to create something very terrible. You don't want that. Alright? But when you click ones, you can see the effects you could quickly create inside of Photoshop just by using the brush tool. Alright, just by using the brush tool. So basically what we are going to eventually do with our brush tool is to create a rain effects, is to create a rain effects. And that tells us that when it comes to using our brush tool, it is not only it is not only soft round brush or hard round brush that we have in Photoshop. It's not just roundness like this that we have. If I come here, you actually is now we have different types of brushes. Alright, you got this. This will give me like, you know, like a stripe. Hey, see that? When I click and drag my brush nicely, what this one is doing. So with the brush tool has a lot of different options yet. Now if you're using the older version of Photoshop, your brush, my look in a little bit different from mine. It might not look like this, alright, me to just be showing in a different way, but basically it's still the same thing we have this query on. If I do this, cancels painting crayon around my image. So we have different brush types that we can use. And it's not just the soft round or hard round brush that are available. Alright, have this grass here. Click, whoops, sorry, let me select that again. Have this grass here. I can just click and drag. You can see how it's creating that. I could change the color to maybe a green and now like give me grass underneath there. Okay, So these are the different brush types that we have in Photoshop. Now the interesting thing about the Brush tool is that we can actually go online and download more brushes. We can go online and download more brushes. Alright. Go online and download more brushes. How do we go about that? Okay, I can close this. Now for those using the old version. If I want. I'm using the new version. If I want to see my brush the way I see it in the old version. Or if there's some brushes in the old version, I don't have any new version. Some of the things I can do is I can come to this settings icon here. So this is for those who are newer version of Photoshop. Alright, if I click here, and then underneath here you're going to see Legacy Brushes, Legacy Brushes. I can click on that legacy brushes and say, yes, we still Legacy Brushes to the list. Alright, and after doing that, I can minimize this and then click on this guy here. And you can see the way it's now showing here, the lava using the old version, you'll notice that this is the way your own brush was looking like. Alright? So you can see that even though I'm using a new version, I can easily just switch my brush to the old way by activating the legacy brushes. And I can see all those firmer brushes that I have on my old version of Photoshop right here. In the new version. This new version even has more, has a lot more than the old Russia. And you can see we have this Sutton like brush here and just click once I can see the way that it does create more of our PayPal does a really nice wallpaper, different shades. And what do we know that this is what the war, they would think this is a wallpaper that this picture was shot on. Alright. Thus greatly randomly around like that. I think is looking cool. Alright? So this is like a wallpaper. Nobody we will know that, oh, we created this inside of Photoshop. Alright, so it is very, very simple. So these are the different brush types, like I click here again to load up these and I can move around, choose the one I want. So how do I download more brushes? How do I get more brushes to be installed yet? You can go to Google, search for Photoshop brush presets. And it's going to show you a lot of websites where you can download brushes from. One of my favorite that it brings up is russia z.com. Alright? So if you don't want to search on Google, you could just go straight to brushy.com. And that's going to load up different. It's going to load up the website and you're going to see different brushes that you can download from there. One of those is the ring. Renounced. Download the rain brush so that I can make it look as if it was raining inside this place. Alright, And how do I go about that? Number one, I can turn off this, our wallpaper brush layer. So this is the advantage of creating a new layer for your brush. You can say, Do I just remove it entirely? If I had printed directly on this Running Man image, I won't be able to do that because they are now because they are now together in one layer. Okay? So make sure that you always create a new layer for your brush. So that in case you want to do something like this, you'll be able to separate your brush from the image itself. Alright, so let me create a new layer and name that a rain. Let's just name that ring around and move it up both. Ring. Then I've gone to Google, downloaded my rain brush. Okay, I'm going to add that to this exercise for so you can see free reign Photoshop brush. Alright, Freireian Photoshop brush. Alright, I opened that. I unzipped it and it brought out this. So how do I now add it to my brush presets here? So to do that is very simple. I'll click on this drop-down here. Come to the Settings icon here, click on it. Alright, and then scroll down. And I'm going to import brushes. Import brushes. If you're using the older version of Photoshop, you're going to see load brushes, load brushes. So the newer version, they changed the name from input from Load brushes to import brushes. Alright, so I'm gonna click on that. And that will load up my default brush folder. I'm just going to neglect that and go to where I have it. So in this case it would be exercised for, I can see right there, click on the free reign, click Open, and that will add it to my list of brushes here. So if I were to see my list of brushes, I can click here, come back here. And when I scroll all the way, I'm down on really all the way down somewhere in-between. Just have to be careful when you're scrolling. I think this is right here. Alright, we have so many different types of rain here, so it's hard to see, but you already get the gist. So let me just select this first one here, alright? And then minimize this. We can see, it's really clear now we can see what's going on. I want my color to be white because I want to bring to look white. I can reduce my brush size. Okay, guys see that? Okay. I can zoom out, increase my brush size and just make sure it covers the entire screen. Something like this. Then just click once and it is raining. As simple as that. So you can see the power of the brush tool. You can use it to just quickly create simulations in your designs and get your results instantly. Alright, so you can see how we just made it rain with our brush tool. Alright, I think I have a lightening brush presets, so let me just go back to brush. Let me check out that lightning. Let me see if I sell that lightning. So I have a lightning here. I have one right here. Let me just select it. I can use it to add like me to my, to my design. But let me undo that. I want to rotate it. I want to make a look at see if the lighting is coming from this angle down to this angle. So I'll go to my brush. I have my lighting selected already. Selected already. I can rotate by using this arrow pointing forward. So you can rotate. Your brush looks like can see the weights rotating. You can see what is showing here. So I just want to rotate it, something like this. So I can just put it across the screen like that. So if I come here and I just click, we can see it looks as if you liking those k-mean. It jumped up. And then we snapped it with the lightning right there. Alright. So this is how to use the Brush tool. It is pretty simple. It is not hard. Just go online because such for moon, because such for texts, brushes, you could start for rain drops. What's our four floral different things that can allow you to create beautiful designs in Photoshop. Alright, thank you so much guys for joining me in this session. I'm super excited you're still with me in this journey. I'll see you in the next video. 15. How to use Layer Mask in Photoshop: What's up, everybody, Welcome to this video. In this session, I'll be showing you how to use layer masks in Photoshop. And as an example, we're going to be blending two images together right inside of Photoshop. So let's get started. So we're right here inside of Photoshop. And let me show you guys an image that we're gonna be working on. You can see this background that we have here, comprise of this cloud and this city here. So most of you didn't know. This was just two images. I blend it together using layer masks. Alright, so the first thing is to create a new document for the mixed backgrounds. So does name this mixed background, which is 1080, height is 1080 pixels, 72 RGB color. Everything looks great. And I'll click, Okay. Alright, I'm bringing the images, so I'll go to exercise five, open up the folder and I'll say images right there. I'll bring in a city background first and drop that into my document. So you can see what we have here. It looks as if this image is very small, but it's actually bigger than my document size. Let me show you the size of the image. If we come back here, you can see that this is actually 1920 by 1080. Alright? And my document size is just ten by 10 ". So this is way bigger than I need. So sometimes Photoshop does something like this, and then you feel like all the image is small. But always done the size of the image and the size of the document. And that will give you an idea which one is actually B or smoke through. And I know that this image is bigger than my document size, so I can easily expand it, alright? And know that my quality will still remain. Alright, can see is still very sharp and clear. So does want to expand it to something of this size. And I want this part of my image to show. Alright, I want this part of my image to show. And then when I'm done with my adjustment, aldose press Enter to release the free transform. Alright, Very good. So go, I'm bringing the next image, which is this one. Drag and drop. Alright, let's try that again. Drop into Photoshop. And you can see that this image is also way bigger than the document size. Alright, so let's just adjust this. So I want to make these cover the entire page. I wanted to cover the entire page right there. Alright, so something like this. Alright. You can see it has covered the entire page. Now why am I making it? To cover the interpolant? Press Enter to release the free transform. Now the essences, we need only this part of the cloud. Alright? We need only this part of the cloud and this water area is low. Want to get rid of using the Layer Mask. Alright, so by the time I get rid of this water area in this image, I'll just be seeing the image I have underneath it, which is exactly what I want. Alright? So that's why I'm making sure that this one covers like the entire document so that by the time I usually am asked to remove this water area, the image underneath, which is the city background, will begin to show. So how does the umax work? How does Leah max walk? Basically, when I create a layer, max is going to show me a white box beside my image. And what that white box means is that as long as everything within that box is white, my entire image will be visible. Okay? Once I get like a brush and I use the color black. So I use a black brush to paint the white box beside my image. Any area of the image that I paint with black will make that part of the image invisible. Alright, and that's the concept behind layer mask. So let's just practice, realize that now and see exactly what I mean by that. Alright, so I'll come back to Photoshop. And critically I'm at, so how do I create a layer mask? If you look down here, you can see this icon that looks like a camera. That is how you add layer masks to your image in Photoshop. If I click on that, it's going to create a white box I was telling you about. And as long as everything is white, I can still see all of my image. Alright? But once I grab a brush and the color of that brush is black, okay? And in this case, I want to use a soft brush. Alright, so let me click here so you can see where I want to use a soft brush. This is a hard brush, does the soft brush. And like I said, we have so many other types of brush, but right now we just want to use this soft round brush. I'll select soft round brush. Tap the closed square bracket to increase the size of my brush. And if I click any part of my image, snippet, Dispatch can see that that part of the image is now invisible. And if I go on, go on, go on, go on. I can totally remove the entire image. Why? Because everything here is now what black? Meaning my image is now totally invincible. But the good thing about layer masks is if I come right here and I switch my foreground and background color, you can see my background color is white, so we chain in this color black. To call a wife. I can just switch it to, I click on this switch icon here. Quick. You can see that it has switched my background color to my foreground color. So my foreground color is white instead of black. So if I grab the white color with my brush and I click and paint again, you can see that it's bringing back our image. Alright? It's bringing back our image because we look here now you can see that everything here now is white. Alright, so that's the concept behind the layer mask. So I'll come straight down here again, click the switch button, and then this time I just want to erase the bottom part of this cloud image of this cloud can blend with the cloud of the city background underneath it. So I'll just click. Because I'm using a soft brush. You can see how soft it's removing that part of the image can see how soft it is. And that's why we are using a soft brush and not a hard brush. I can see how everything seems to be blending together now. I'm just tapping little by little to just kind of give that blend effects on both image. And you can see the nice thing that we've created from this array can see the bottom part is black. That's why we're not seeing the bottom part of this image. And then because this image is underneath this one, as I remove it, I can see that the image is now showing, alright, and that's how to use your layer masks to blend images together in Photoshop. Alright, so, but one more thing I want to do here is I want to kind of blend these two colors of these two image to make it look as if they are together. Alright, so what I can do is I can create a photo filter adjustments. To do that, I'll go to my Adjustments tab. Okay. Remember our adjustments I spoke about in previous video. Talking about the brightness and contrast level, right, brands, hue and saturation, all of that. So the one I want to use right now is the photo filter. I'll add a photo filter allows me to create a color filter on my image. And what I want to do now is to apply that color filter to both the city and the sky background image so that it looks as if they both have the same color on them. That will help me blend them together perfectly. Alright, so I'll just click on my photo. Feuds are now, by default, it will add like an orange color around it and sees this image already have that kind of orange color between them already. Adding the photo few tau be the best option for me right here. So I'll just click on the photo few tab. You can see ads that'll lead to warming. Color, which is orange on boots image. If I want more of that, after adding it, you can see the settings of the photo filter here. I can increase the density. Alright? I can increase the density, so I can click and drag these. And as I do that, I can see the orange color or the one color is coming up more on the image. And I want to stop somewhere around here. And you can see how that orange color kind of helps me to blend both images together to make it look and see if they were actually together from day one. That's how to use the photo filter and I'm using an adjustment. And that's why this photo filter is affecting this image and this image. Remember I told you when I was talking about adjustment that if you right-click on the adjustment and choose Create Clipping Masks is only going to affect the image directly on day two. If I do that now, you can see that it's no longer affecting this CT image. It's now affecting just the sky background alone. Alright, but that's not what we want to do in this case. So I'll just press Command Z or Control Z to undo. And now would that will bring me back here. Okay, so that's how to use a photo filter. You could actually change the settings from warming. If what I wanted was a cool effect, I could, I could do cooling filter. And that will give me like a blue hue effect on my image and stuff. Since this scenario is kinda warm, orange already, I'm going to leave it in the woman filter those changes back to warming filter, that will give me back my orange effect on it. Alright? And that's how I was able to match these two images together using layer masks in Photoshop. I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you in the next class. Bye for now. 16. Designing an Album Art Cover in Photoshop: What's up, guys, Welcome to another session in this Photoshop Training. And in this session we're going to be designing an app Kovach. And it's going to be an amazing time. So let's go straight into Photoshop without wasting time. Alright guys, so we are in Photoshop right now. And let me show you what we are going to be doing. You can see the design that we have here. Really looking nice. Alright. It's an art cava, and we're gonna be doing this in Photoshop. So let's exit that. And the first thing we're gonna do is to bring in the image. We're gonna go to File Open. And then we'll go to where we have image. So we'll go to exercise six. Alright? And then on the exercise six, we can see a couple of images right there. The one we want to bring in now is the car background. Alright, I'm going to click Open and that will import the car background into Photoshop. All right, what's the first thing I said you should always do when you bring in an image into Photoshop. Yeah, you got it. Your own lock and rename. So I'll double-click on my background. Now allow me to unlock. It doesn't name this car background and I'll just be right there. Okay? So the next thing I want to do now is I want to add some contrasts to my image right here. So I'll go to Adjustments, go to brightness and contrast, and just increase my contrast a little bit. You can see that when you come to our adjustment to add, you know, any of these adjustments settings, what it does is that he also helps you to create a layer mask. So besides that stuff, so if there are some parts of your image that you don't want the adjustment to affect. You could actually grab a black brush and just paint on that area, e.g. if I paint here. So let me take the, let me take the adjustment to really high so you can see what's going on and let me just blow this up as an example. So if I come back here and I grab a black brush, anyway, I paint won't be affected by that adjustment that I just made. Now you can see. So layer max is really powerful in Photoshop and it's always added automatically to any adjustments that you add in Photoshop. So let me just undo this and do this. Undo that, undo it back, and then go back to adjustment, brightness contrast and just increase my contrast a little bit. About 20 does it? For me. I just want that lead to the dark areas coming out more, the light areas coming out more. And does give me this. So I like adding contrast to basically most of the image. I bring it into Photoshop. Alright, so let's move on. Let's move on. Alright. So the next thing I'm going to do is to bring in frank Edward image. Alright, so I'll go to my exercise. I can find it right there. Now if you look here, this is the original image, alright? And this is a transparent image. So this one, you have to know, I brought it into Photoshop, remove the background, and then I was able to Export as PNG to have no background. Alright, so when we get to export scene and all, you're going to learn more about how to export as PNG or JPEG and the likes football for now, let's just bring in this transparent one. So I'll just drag that and drop it into Photoshop. Try that again. Yeah. So right now it's in Photoshop. You can see it's totally transparent because I've removed the background. And then I can just drag that and drop that somewhere around here. Okay. Now, I don't want to scale this up or down because the exact size that came with this image is the exact size I want. Because if you look at this in real life, if it was metal bending in front of the car with his ball and everything like this. This is kind of what is height is going to be in that perspective. So that's why I'm going to leave this size of Frank Edward. And then I'm just using my arrow up and down keys to nudge it up and down to get that perfect position. Alright, we have fracking in design right now, and I'm going to also add that brightness and contrast to him. So it does go to brightness and contrast. Add a little bit contrast to Frank to just make those areas pop up too. I'm going to stop somewhere around here. You can see before, after, before, after. Right there. Okay. So that is that. Then the next thing I'm going to do now is if you look at this image, you can see that the color of the car is red. And you already know how to do that. Alright? So it's very simple. So what do I do? I just simply select my car, right? Grab my quick selection tool right there. Reduce my brush size a little bit, and just select the car alone. Because if I add my hue and saturation to my image here is going to affect the entire tonight. I just wanted to affect just the cost. So that's why we have to make a selection of the car. Just like I explained to you in the previous video of how to change, select out to change colors selectively. Alright, so looking good. On a subtract this area right here, just want to select, subtract and minimize. And just select this portion right here. Subtract that, add, subtract. And I think I have what I need. Okay? So I've made my selection right there. We subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract. Alright, so I have my selection made now, and I can now add my hue and saturation to just remove Z, to just change the color, I mean, of my image. Alright, that's trying to just to get it perfect. You know why I just like getting things perfect. But I could have just moved on without doing all of this. But I just like getting the perfect. Alright, so I have my selection right now. Okay? Then I'll go to Image Adjustment. I'll go to my adjustments and then picked look for my hue and saturation. And I can now change my color to whatever color I want. And you can see it's only affecting the car. So I think the red color was somewhere around here. It gives me that color. And you can see how I was able to just change that color easily using my Selection tool and the hue and saturation. Alright, so that was how I was able to change the color of my car. And nicely done, things are going well. And then we'll move on from here. Alright, so the next thing I'm going to do here is I think I created some smoke right in front of him here using the brush tool. So if we come back here, you can see some smoke zero and they're right there. So we'll do that right now inside Photoshop. So I'll go to my Brush Tool. Alright, so in this design, we're just trying to practice all that we've learned in the previous videos and implementing it in the design and seeing how it works. So I'll grab my brush tool and oh sorry, I'm on my quick selection brush tool. And each of these two, they have ShotSpotter. You could just use a shortcut instead of going to grab them. That's the shortcut of my brush to here is letter D. Alright? So grab my brush to click here to show me all my brushes. And then I can scroll down and just look for something that looks like a smoker. Alright, so if I scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down the brush out to use. I'm just going around trying to look for something. Scroll down, scroll down. If you look right here, you can see this particular brush. I have one that says four to five is actually the size anyway, not like the name of the brush. Alright, you can see it looks kind of Smokey. He has us look like a cloud or something. So I can use this to quickly create that smoke I'm looking for. Alright, Okay, so I'll just click on that. And it gives me this. And I can just increase my brush size. Alright, creates a new layer for that. Okay. Create a new layer for your brush. Nimitz. Smoke. Name that smoke. Press Enter, and then I can use that. So once again, back click here where it isn't this 45, that looks like a cloud, kinda looking smoky. Then we've created a new layer. And then the color of my brushes, white because that's the color I want. And I'll just click here. You can see how it added that they're click here and I want to make it as random as possible. So if you look here, you can see that I'm kind of putting like some of the parts of the brush out of my document. And that's because I just want the half false. This one now to just be painted inside. I don't want the entire thing to be painted inside, so that was too big. I can reduce my size and then just click again and that will give me a smaller one. Could somewhere here. Come over here, click here, just to add that around my image click. So just to make it as random as possible, you can increase your brush size, reduce it until you get that perfect smoke you're looking for. So lots in a strict smoke before. So your smoke can be like a straight line. Alright, and that's why I'm not clicking and dragging further. We click and drag to get something like this. And you don't want that. So that's why we're just clicking little by little to just kind of give you that smoke effects here and there. Alright. And we're just creating that around. So I think I like what I've done so far up to this point. So I'm just going to stop right there. Alright, so we can see how we've created this smoke around the front part. Why did I add this smoke here? Because if you look at the image, you can see the smoke all around the back of the car, around the area. So I just feel like I didn't smoke in front here. We'll just make this more interesting, more believable, and more realistic. Alright, so that's why I added this smokes right here. Okay, so you can do that and you can get the same results. So that's our smoke. Alright, I'm not done with the brush. There's something else I want to do with the brush. I'm going to create a new layer. And then our named dislikes. I'll name this light. And I want to add some light to my car to make it look as if the lights were really on. I'm not dull, like what we have right now. So I'll go back to my brush, click here and choose my normal soft round brush. Color white. Now I want to increase the size of the brush to be bigger than the lights. Alright? I want it to be bigger than the light. And I want to make sure that the light is kind of at the center of my brush. So something around this area, and I'll just click once. And you can see now I come here, click out, what do you notice? It looks as if the lights of the car and now on I like it how it's been created. And because I'm using a soft brush, it just blends with everything and it just makes everything looks at safe. You know, we we didn't just add something to it now. So that's why I like this soft round brush a lot because I can use it to do so many things and just blend easily with what I have in my design. So what I'm just going to do here is I'm just gonna come to opacity of this light and reduce it a little bit. So it doesn't look too fake. Alright? So it doesn't look to fix. So we're going to just do like 85. Yep. Alright, so at it five, you can see we can still see the glass of the headlights. And then we see that soft round brush giving it that bright Luke to make it look as if the lights were on. If I turn it off, you can see what we have. So let's see if we turn on the lights of the car. Alright, so that is that. Then the next thing we're gonna do now is we're going to bring any tires. So I looked at the whole surrounding and I felt like the all surrounding looks like a scrap yard has this GAN style loop and I felt like having some tires here. We just enhance it and make it look better. Alright, so I've added some tires to this. So open it up right here. Back to my exercise six. I'm folder. I'll see the tires right there. And I'll just drag that and drop into my design. Okay, so grab this and put this somewhere around here. And then press Enter. And then I can Control J. Remember your Control J or Command J is for duplicating. So I'll duplicate my tires and can see right here we have tires copy. Okay. And then I'll move that duplicated version to the other side right here. And that just gives you the effect of some tires hanging around in the environment and doesn't mix. It looks more like a scrap yard, like a gangsta environment and stuff. Okay. So but this time has been above, the smoke, doesn't really look good. So we need this smoke to be above the tires. So what will I do? I'll just simply grabbed my smoke layer. Click and drag it and move it up, move those layers and you can see that my smoke is now above the tires. Alright, and this looks good. Alright, so let's move on. Let's move on. Let's move on. What else do we have here? Okay, so I added the, um, I added the photo filter effects to my design. I do photo filter. Remember the photo filter we used four dots to background to blend them together. So we're going to use that same photo filter right now. Okay, so I'll go to my adjustments. Look for the photo filter. It's right here. Click on data. I remember by default, it gives you that warm loop, that orange loop. Alright, so if I click on it now, can see gizzard that orange look when it's been added to our design. But because this thing looks like a night scene and up nine, things don't look warm. Things look cool. Alright? And the color for warm is orange. The color for cool is blue. Alright, so we're going to change the settings from a woman. I don't change that to cooling. Alright, cooling filter AT, when I click on that watch here, click I can see it gives it that cool bluish effect. And it also helps me to blend everything together. So you can see my smoke here and here now has the same color, even the lights here. And you can see just kinds of blend everything together. And this is exactly what I am looking for. Alright, so that is how to use the photo filter in this scenario. Alright, so let's move on without design. The next thing is to type in some texts right here. Alright, type in a name and everything. So I would owe before that, before that I created a moon right here. So let me create a moon right here using the brush to go back to the brush. Now for this moon, if you come back here, you can see that I have a folder called brushes here in the exercise six folder. If you open it up, you can see we have three brushes right there. Alright? And one of those brushes I want to use now is the moon brushes. Remember how I told you to install brushes? Yes. Remember I just can't check out the previous videos of brushes when we're talking about brushes, you can install these three brushes. And once you install them in the list of your brushes, you'll be able to see moon right there. So if I click here and I come here, if I scroll down, you can see I already have my moon brushes installed. When you install a brush, most of the time, it's not always one brush that you will see. It always comes in multiple. So after a installed just this smooth brush alone, he gave me about nine different moon that I can use in my Photoshop. Alright, we have the half moon, you know, the eclipse moon, the full moon and so many other type of moon here. So, but what I want to use is this one right here. Also. Let me use this one right here. So I'll select this, alright, click here to minimize. And then you can see how big my moon is. South top the open square brackets to reduce the size of my moon. And then before I click to do anything, I'll create a new layer for my moon. And our name that moon. Okay. Now, I'm sure my color is white except maybe what they read, moon or something, they can change your color. Alright, so my moon is ready. So I'll go to where I want to place it. And then just click once right there. And you can see they added a moon for us. Alright? And this kind of goes with the same. This is the ninth scene and everywhere looks dark and everything. So adenine moon here will just be perfect and to just make everything normal. If you look at the color of ammonia and every other thing, the area that didn't has this bluish, coolish look here, except the moon. And that's because the moon layer is above the photo filter. Remember I told you that when you add a photo filter, it affects everything on adapt. Another adjustment layer. Alright? And in this case you add a photo filter adjustment layer. So for this to affect the moon, I would need to grab this photo fields. I click and drag it up. And you can see that our moon is now looking bluish because the photo filter, which is about cooling filter is also now affecting. It, is as simple as that. Alright, so we're getting there, added our moon. The next thing is to type our texts now. So I'll go to T. Click on tea. And that will load up my text tool. And then I can click here. Remember I told you that your texts will automatically create a new layer when it starts typing. So once I click here, now click immediately gives me this demo text. I can see that I can see layer one right here for my tips. So I'll just type Frank head watts. That's the name of the artist. And you can see my color is currently Black and I'm typing in a black area or a dark area of the image so I can see my text is actually there if I move it down. So what's an x and I need to do, I need to go to my character panel. Forget it. We can find the top panel here. You can go to Window and then you see character and you just click on it to activate it. Okay, So how good their chin, my color to white. So I can see what I'm working on and I can reduce the size of my image of my text. I mean, alright, and just reduce that, reduce that. And for my fonts, you can see currently, I'm still using Montserrat. I can click here, choose any other type of font. And I want us to use a particular font. And that's why if you go back to your exercise six folder, you will see a folder called Fonts. Alright, I have this back to black demo font right here, and that's what I want to use. I've also explained to you how to install fonts in previous videos. So you can go ahead and install this font in your exercise six folder. And then we can come back to Photoshop and then scroll down alphabetically back to black. I can see it right here. I can select that. And then you can see that the font of my texts has now changed to this script font, which is called back to black demo. All right, so we're going to use this font right here. Okay, and I'll place that over there. Then I'll minimize this. Go back to my text tool. Now, don't forget if I put my text tool on this existing texts to stop blinking inside its x. And then that is telling me that I want to edit my text. But that's not what I want to do now. I want to create a new text file. Grabbed my T again, and this time I'll make sure that I'm not anywhere close to this existing texts. Alright, and then I'll just come here. Click at the bottom right here, and then type or not that text. So the title of this song is called believers. When I'm typing that in capital letter. And I did that purposely because I want to change the font and the size. Alright, Remember what it takes to hierarchy. All your texts cannot be the same size. And then you also have to align your text when we talked about text alignment. So I'll go back to my move tool and then I'll be able to come to my Character panel and first, reduce the size of this font of my texts. Can change the font to something else. So calm and choosing Monte Sarah, alright, we use bold or medium. Let's see. I think I like both. So I'll reduce the size some more. And then I'll grab my text and just put it somewhere along the center right there. Okay. And let me bring this down a little bit. Alright, so you can see what we have right there. Don't forget your text. Alignment is very, very key. So you could choose to align this to the right, to the left, or you center your texts right there. Okay. All right. I think I'm going to align this to the right, like that and reduce size some more. I think I like it this way. Great. So we can see right there. So sex alignments. And then your texts hierarchy. We can see this is bigger than this. So basically what I'm doing designs. What I do is for my main texts, it's always the biggest. And I always like using some very artistic fonts for that. And then for the remaining of my texts, I just like using simple plain sans serif fonts for the remaining want. Alright, so That's basically how I do my design. Anytime I'm working in Photoshop or Illustrator, and I'm working with texts. Alright. So that's just my own personal preference. Okay? And that's how I go about my design. So let's come back here and complete this. Now the next thing I want to do is I want to change this to a gold color. You can see this is a good color right here. I want to change this to a gold color. Alright, and then if I select my text and I go here to where I have my gradient tool right here. You will notice that I won't be able to use it on my texts. Because if you remember when we are talking about gradients, this was, this was where we came to add ingredients to our design. Well, I can't add it to text is because it doesn't work with text. You can see could not use the gradient tool because the pixel in a type layer cannot be edited without faceless horizon the layer, alright, so it's telling me to rasterize my texts. But if I rasterize my texts, I would not be able to edit my text again. So I don't want to rasterize my texts. I still want to add a gradient color to my texts. That gold color is a gradient color. It's made up of orange, yellow, and orange. For me to still add a gradient color to my text. Then I need the Layer Style. I'll need the Layer Style. And how do I get my layer style? Remember your FX, where we came to add drop shadow in our previous designs, in our previous video. Okay, so, but this time we're not adding drop shadow, we're going to gradient overlay. Alright, so this Gradient Overlay would give you the same results you would get using this Gradient tool right here. Alright, The difference is that this gradient overlay here walks with texts, alright? And I don't have to rasterize my text to use this Gradient Overlay right here. So I'll click on this gradient overlay. And by default you should see black and white. Okay? If I look at my text and I can see that we have black and white. But I can click on this color right here. And I'll see dots go to presets right here. And I can select it. And you can see that instantly it changes the color of my text to that gold color. I can see that it is made up of orange, yellow and orange. I'll click Okay, alright, and then alchemy and click. Okay. That's how to add gradients to your texts without rasterizing your texts. Alright, so everything's looking good. The next thing I want to add now is my lens flare. I want to add the lens flare to the lights right here and also to my text here. So I'll come back to my exercise six folder. You can see right here how the blue lens flare here. I'll drag that and drop into my design. Okay? And then I'll just reduce decides the way it is. I'll just press Enter and you can see what we have. Now what we need from this image is this blue lens flare, but it has this black background that came with it. Alright, I know what's going through your head now is 0. We can easily remove it, does grab our quick selection tool, and then we'll just select the black parts. And you can see it's not working. Or even if I press minus, minus, minus, minus, minus and try to remove it. It's not working. Even if I'm able to successfully select this and removes that. The black background was to be around my image. So selection tool is not going to work for us in this case. Alright? What is going to work for us in this case is our blend mode, is our blend mode. So photoshop has something called blend mode. First of all, let me just move. These are both my texts so that it's above everything. Yeah. So blend mode, where do I get blend mode? Remember when I was talking about things here and I said that you should always make sure that this is normal. This is hundred and this is 100. Okay, so what I do know what opacities, and then I was talking about this, make sure that we are always in normal. This is your blend mode. And the reason why I said you should always being normal is because if your blend mode is not in normal, your image not look like the way it's supposed to look like. Alright? So both in this case, we need to change the blend mode. Changing the blend mode will help us to eradicate this black background here. And then all we have left to just be this lens flare that we have right here. So if I click here to open up my different blend mode, you can see that we have various blend modes here. Alright? Now, if I come to discuss it as a line here, separating each category of blend mode. If I choose any of these blend modes here you can see what's happening to my image. This category of blend mode actually removes everything that is light from your image. So anything that looks like white or that is delighting your image, he removes it. I can see that as I'm scrolling through each of them, It's removing the lens flare, so instead of the black. Alright? And then if I go to the next category, this is exactly what I'm looking for, because that is next category of blend mode. Removes everything black or dark. And that's exactly what I'm looking for right here. I want something that will help me remove the black. So what we're going to eventually use is going to be this screen here, because it adds one that gives us a perfect results. If I choose that, let me talk about overlay. Overlay removes everything gray. Alright, so this is kind of whites, this is black, and then this is great. So in-between black and white is Grid Overlay. And every other thing here in this category helps you to remove everything that looks grayish on your image. Alright? Yeah, absolutely. You move everything grayish on your image. So this is black. This is, I'm sorry, this is whites. This is black. And this is great. So I'm looking for the one that will remove black. Alright? I'm going to come to this region here and then I can check each of them and CD1, that will give me the best results. And I can see you on giving me the best results. Right here is screen. Alright, So the popular guy here on that, this one that removes white or light is this multiply the popular one year that removes dark or black is screened. And then the purple on here that removes gray overlay. So you can just keep that in your mind in case you are using any of these option. So I'll click on screen. And that's immediately removes all the black around my lens flare. Unduly thing I have left is just the lens flip. So I can grab this and come around, place it somewhere around here in my texts. Alright, I can see what that gives me right there. And then I'll press Control J to duplicate that and then grab another one. Now I need my Free Transform on this because I want to reduce the size. I can go to a deed on that edit, I'll see free transform and that will give me that box around it. And then I can reduce the size of this. Press Enter and then grab that and just put it right here on the light. Then I'll press Control J again. Grab that one and put it on the second light right there. And you can see what we have. So you can see this lens flare. Lens flare happens in real life. Okay? So bought over the, over time we design us now loved just adding lens flare. They wouldn't do it in acquiring real life because when light is shining across while you are trying to take a picture, it always creates a flip. So if the lights of these guys on, it really makes sense for me to have to put this lens flare here and then to have this kind of effect. Alright, so you can see what we have done so far in our design. So the next thing to do is to just add the last thing I want to add here. And I'll just go to my exercise six folder. Grab my Kristen wrap advisory, extreme or sheep image dragged out and just drop that somewhere around here. Okay. I think I like it right there and I'll press enter. Then you can see that we add dawn. Weights are at cava design for these artists. So you can see that this has allowed us to talk a lot about all that we've learned so far, ranging from brushes to texts to blend mode, to removing backgrounds, to select an unchanging colors. Adding more images, adding different layers and stuff were able to arrive at this design. So you can pause this video, start all over again. Tried to create this design onto you understand it. And it gets into, and you're able to do your own design without watching this video. Alright, that's this stage I want you to get to. That's what I want you to be able to do. So get started right now and start creating amazing designs. And I'll see you in the next video. 17. Skin Retouching in Photoshop: What's up, guys, Welcome to this video. In this video, I'm gonna be showing you how you can do some skin retouching on your photo inside of Photoshop. Let's get straight into it without wasting time. Okay, so I'm inside of Photoshop right now and let's get straight into it. So let's bring in the image to go to File Open. And this time we're going to go to Exercise seven folder. And I have this image of a guy here called on mobile, don't. Alright guys, so how do I to get started with my skin retouching? I want to know at this image, make it look better, do a whole lot of things on it. Just get the best results out of it. So the first thing I'm gonna do is unlock and renamed Solids name. These are more a bad dog. Okay? And then next thing I'm gonna do is let me duplicate this. And the reason why I'm duplicating this is because I want to see what my before and after it looks like. So I'll just drag that down. And then I still have my image right here. So it's not compulsory duplicate, but it's always good to duplicate so that at the end of it, or you can check out what your image looked like before and what your image looks like now. Okay, so let's move on. The first thing I'm going to talk about here is to talk about removing blemishes on the face. So things like sports pimples on some other things right here. So let's get started with that. How do I get rid of blemishes on my image? Okay, to do that, we needed to code the Spot Healing Brush. The spot healing brush. Alright, and where can I find the spot healing brush? It's right here. Alright. The shortcut for it is what, Jay. Alright, we can see what's happening at it's being used on those things. So what really happens with our spot healing brush that when you click on any part of your image, it looks what is surrounding that image. And it feels what is surrounding that image. With watch I've clicked on. So this is going to be the perfect tool to get rid of blemishes and pimples and other stuff inside of our photo. So I'll select my spot healing brush, Control plus or Command plus to zoom in so I can see very well. Okay, I'm going to just reduce my size. You can see this pimple right here. If I click once on it, just like we saw in the example video, click and you can see what happens. It's gone. As simple as that. I'll click, click and you just keep disappearing as I click, click, click, click, and so on and so forth. So I want to keep clicking on this until I remove all the blemishes from his face. So I'll just keep spotting them and removing it. Now, you don't want to do this in a real life situation, but I'm just gonna do this here because I can do it. Alright? And that's to remove this tribal map. So I'll click and drag and then release my mouse and you see the tribal mark is gone. I'll click and drag. I can see the tribal mark is also gone. That is how we roll. Okay, so let me just, let me zoom in some more and remove as many sports and blemishes that I can find and then just remove them. Okay. So just continue with that. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. Okay. So you can see I'm done with removing the blemishes and all right here in Photoshop and everything looks good. The next thing I want to also do with my Spot Healing Brushes. If you look at his mouth, He's not really smiling and he is CT scans of open a little bit, so I want to cover that up. And I can still use my spot healing brush to do that. I'll just click and drag on that path and then release my mouse. And that covers up the mouth. Alright, so that's the magic of spots, ylim brush. I can press Control Zero to fit back to my screen. And you can see that our model is now looking clean. Alright, so let's do some more to him to enhance his skin and everything. So the next thing I want to talk about now is the mixer brush. I want to talk about the mixer brush. So the mixer brush is going to help us make his face smooth. And it looks smoother than it is right now. So how do I use the mixer brush? I'll go to my Brush Tool. Alright, and click on the drop-down there and hold. And then right there, I'm going to find the mixer brush. Alright, so the mixer brush is grouped with the brush tool. Click on the mixer brush. And I want to mention this. Anytime you change your two to another tool that I've grouped together with kids. You want to make sure that the next time you want to use that to always remember that you can always do get e.g. if I'm looking for my brush to a lot of people say, Oh, I can't find my brush tool again, it's not in Photoshop. Again, I've checked every way. I'm not seeing my brush to. Meanwhile, the forgot to change the approach to, to the mixer brush and then start panicking and everything. So make sure that when you change your brush to something else, always remember that if we're looking for that same tool, we can go back and change it back to what was there before, and then you can use your brush. Let me change this to the mixer brush. Alright. Then I need to zoom in again so I can see his face very well. Alright, now the thing about using this mixup brushes that when using the mixer brush, you can just, if I just grabbed the mixer brush and just start painting every way you can see what it's doing to the image. It's not looking good. We don't want something like this to happen to your image. Alright, so that is why when he's in the mixer brush mode, uses carefully, alright? What you want to do while using the mixer brush is that when you are painting the areas of your highlights, you only paint highlights region and we are painting your shadow areas. You only paint the shadow area so we are shadows and where I like on my face now, you can see probably right here, here, maybe here. It's kinda shining more than any other part of my face. That part of my face is what is called the highlights. Alright? And then the areas of my faith, maybe around here, the dark areas of my face. Those parts are the parts that we'll call the shadows. Alright, so if I'm painting this area now that you can see this area is on highlights area. I don't want to go from this area and go to a dark area, which is the shadow area. Alright, it's going to give me that line that we saw. And then it might make you feel like, oh, the mixer brush is not working the way it's supposed to work. Alright, so when using the mixer brush paints only the highlights with Johnny Loon. Before you go to the shadow region, you release your mouse and then go to the shadow region. And then you can also paint on that part. Okay, I hope you get that. So now let's plot to catalyze it. So I'll come to my highlights regions, click and just paint around that path. I can see what it's doing to my image. It's kinda smoothening that part out. Oh, before we continue, again, let me talk about these settings. We have other properties, but yours might be different. All right, Some people's mixer brush, displays always has a color there to display is supposed to be transparent. And how do you make it transparent? And just make sure that this guy right here is not active. So if I click on it now I can see mine is white, reveals his wife. Just make sure you click on this and I'll make it transparent. Then the next thing you must ensure you do is that your wet should be in 1%. You're wet should be in 1%, load should be in 75, your mix should be 90, your flow should be hundred, and this should be ten, and this should be zero. Alright? So if you have the same settings I have on mine, on yours, then we're gonna get the same results. So I'll just continue with what I'm doing. I'll just click, release my mouse. If I go to the shadow area and then click on the shadow area and then release my mouse again, go to the highlights we adjourn. And then I'll just keep doing this. Until I go round this face mouth. We don't want to use the mixer, brush on his eyebrow or inside his eyes, are inside these nodes or on his lips. Because these areas of the body are not meant to be smooth. Alright? So because we do to make the eyebrow smooth and everything is smooth, it's not going to look really good. Alright? That's why you must be careful where you use your mixer brush on. So I'll just keep painting on his skin around this face until I go round his face, apart from his eyebrow, his eyes, lips, and inside these notes. So I'll just keep doing that. We can paint this region, alright. Skin. It can go like that, like that. Then. Keep doing that. Until we go round. Can see I only focus on the highlights when I'm on the highlights. When I'm on the shadow areas, I'm focused on the shadows. A loan. Alright. So you can get great results. Okay guys, so you can see, I'm done with mine right here. You can see the result that we have, making his face smooth and all. And that is how we do that. The next thing I want to talk about now is the dodge and bond to the Dodge and Burn Tool. Now, the Dodge and Burn Tool can be located in my toolbar right here you can see we have the dog too. And if you look at this sample video for the shop is playing force. You can see that as the Dodge tool is being used on the dog, you can see that it's making it lighter. So in this case, what I want to use the Dodge tool for, his eyes can see his eyes is kind of bloodshot and stuff. And I can just easily use my dodge tool to kind of brighten his eyes the more too bring out that I'm just kind of removed up reddish look he has on his eyes. While the bond to the bone tool allows you to make things darker. Okay? The bone tool allows you to make things darker. If you look at this sample video, you can see how those areas being painted on looks darker in the sample video. Okay. So the bone to run, I'm going to use the bone to here, but I just felt like talking about it because you can easily bond to form things like pupils, gray hair. You can make them dark, or you can use it for different reasons. You want to just make it part of the skin or the body. Docker image darker. Always use the bond tool for that. All right, so back to the Dodge Tool. One easy for the eyes now you can also use it for the teats to make it brighter. And any part of your image that you want to use it for to make it brighter. So I'll just tap Control Plus, Plus, Plus, Plus, Plus, zooming all the way to the eyes. So I can see just the island. And I want to reduce my brush size by tapping the open square bracket. And then I want to paint on this is, I saw paint the first time. Click and drag one. Okay, I can see it's becoming lighter. Now no matter how I keep dragging and dragging on this, It's not get brighter. Alright, until I release my mouse, I'm painting again, click and drag again, then it will become brighter the second time. So this is the second time I'm doing it now. Can I release my mouse and click the thought time to make it even brighter? Alright, I'm going to stop at the third one because I still want this to be natural as much as possible. I'll go to the other part of the I click, drag the first time. Okay? Then release my mouse click, drag the second time. Okay? Then release my mouse click and drag the thoughts and some counting it so that it's going to be uniform. So I want to make sure I do it 333 for each of them. Now come to this click and drag the first time. Alright, to do that. Then click and drag the second time. Alright? And then click and drag the sword time. Okay? Then I'll go to the other parts. Click and drag a first-time. Click and drag the second time. Click and drag to start time. Alright. And I can press Control zero. Now, zoom back out. And now you can see that the eyes look brighter than it was before. Okay. With that, I think I'm going to stop or ended right here. Okay. You can see what we have right here. Alright. And it's time to show you the before and the after. Are you guys ready for the before and after? Let's see what we had before and let's see how much work that we have done so far. So I'll come back here. I'll come right here, grabbed my before image and move that up. And then boom. You can see what the image looks like before. And if I turn off this eyeball, the sewer will have right now. Okay. Before, after, before, after, before, after, before. After. You can see what we've done to improve the skin, to make it better, make it look nice and everything. And that's what gives us this result that we currently see. Alright, so that is that with skin, with soap chain in Photoshop, how you can make your skin look better. You know, especially, I'm sure the ladies will be happy to have watched this video because they can just skin with thoughts. Their pictures before posting on Instagram and looking fly like those models we see out there. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video. 18. How to Create GIFs in Photoshop: What's up, guys, welcome to another video in this Photoshop Training. In this video we're gonna be talking about creating GIFs. Alright, so if you've seen those images that go up, those images are called GIFs. Those ones are sent to you on WhatsApp, those ones you see on Facebook comments and stuff. Those images are called GIF. He looked like videos, but they are not really videos. So there are actually images, but are called GIF, rough cow interchangeable format. That's what makes you look like a video, but it's not really a video. So let's talk about how to create that inside of Photoshop right now. Okay, so let me show you an example of a GIF. You can see this image right here. You only designed in Photoshop. We can see what I was able to create with it, having that lights blink around the car. So let's do this example right now in Photoshop. So I'll go to Photoshop, go to File, click Open, and then I'll go to Exercise eight. Okay? And right there I'll see an already made design, an image of that design. Click Open, and that will open this up. Then I'll unlock and rename named Frank designer something. Click Enter. And that unlocks and renames it. Alright, then the next thing I want to do is to bring in that lens flare. So I'll go to my folder. Alright, I'll go to my folder where I have my image. Okay. Go back to exercise Seven. Exercise six. Yep, I'll grab my blue lens flare from dead drop. Press Enter, then chin my blending mode from normal to screen. Okay, I'm grab that, put that on the lights here. Okay. Control J. Put that on the other lights right here. Alright, so I have this to flare, flare showing on this slide right now. And what I want to do my GIF is I wanted to look at see if someone is turning on the lights and turning off the lights off, on, off, on, off, on, off, console on. So how do I create that? In Photoshop? The first thing I need to do is to bring up my timeline. Alright, so some of you are like, Oh, Photoshop as a timeline. Yes, it does. So how do I bring up my timeline? I go to Window. Timeline is a panel. So I can just bring it up by clicking timeline right here. Alright? And you can see the timeline is showing at the base right here. Okay? And what can I do right here? The first thing to do is to click on this Create Video Timeline and thus telling Photoshop that you want. All this layer here are arranged at the bottom here differently as in the timeline. So I'll click on Create Video Timeline. And that will bring on my layer right here so you can see the first lens flare, the second one, and the image itself. Alright? So basically, what I want to do is to arrange these in such a way that at the beginning of the animation the light is off or the lens flakes off. And then halfway it comes on. Alright? And that's basically what I want to do. And by default, it gives you a timeline that is 5 s long. So you can see this is 1 s, 2 s, 3 s, 4 s, and then 5 s. Alright, well, I don't need 5 s from animation. Manumission is just for my image to calm the like to come pump and go off. So it doesn't about 1 s for that. Alright, because when I'm exporting my GIF, there is an option in Photoshop that allows me to lose my animation forever, meaning that 1 s animation. We'll just repeat forever and ever onto somebody closes the upper image. So I'll come here and trim to 1 s. How do I trim? If I take my mouse towards the edge of n, Each of the layer, going to turn to this black arrow with an arrow pointing left and right. And once I see that arrow pointing left and right, I can click and drag to the left to trim it to 1 s. Alright? So you can see, I've successfully trained this to 1 s. Alright? And I want to do the same to this second image. Now, be careful when you are doing it. Make sure you see that arrow pointing left or right. If you don't see that arrow and you just click and drag anywhere, you are actually moving the image instead of trimming it. And you don't want to do that. Alright, so let me undo that. Trim it. So wait for the arrow pointing front and back or left and right. Shrimp. I'll come to this last layer to undo the same thing. So what have I done? I've successfully trimmed all the three layers to 1 s. Now what I want to do is that at the beginning, when I press Play, delight shouldn't be showing, all the flesh shouldn't be showing. So what do I do? I'll come to this light again, come to the edge. I can see that same arrow pointing left and right. I can click and trim this halfway, alright, to 15 frames. And then come to this, what I want to click on trim halfway to 15 frames. Alright, don't worry, when we get to the video paths or if you go through the video section of the training, we're going to understand what friends also means. Alright? So you can see, basically just see this as trimming this to half a second and trimming these two also have a second. That's what 15 frames is. Alright, so what does that mean? It means that you can see here that the light is not showing. Why, Because where the play head is right now, there is no layer of the lens flare. But as the player gets to this point, you will see that it shows. And that's because at this point of the timeline, we have the two lens flare showing right there. It means maybe pull view my GIF at the beginning when they open the image is not going to show delight than half a second, Lisa, delight just comes up. Alright, and then it keeps repeating that over and over and over and over again. Alright, if I press Play, you can see the light comes up. And I'm done with my animation. All I need to do now is to export it, to export this. And how do I export my GIF? I'll go to file. On the file, I'll see spots on the Export save for Web Legacy. Now if you're using CS6, you're Save for Web will actually be somewhere around here. So you don't need to go to Export. Alright, That's if you're using CS6, but for the rest of us will find our Save for Web on dark spots. And then I can click Save for Web. And that will open up the Save for Web settings. And then when I'm here, all I want to do now is number one. Makes sure that this is GIF. Alright, make sure that this is GIF. And then come down here are my looping option. Yours might be in once you want to change your looping options from wants towards forever, meaning It's going to repeat the animation forever until somebody closes the image, and that's it. The next thing I need to do now is to click on Save. Alright? And it's gonna ask me where do I want to save my image or my GIF? I can choose my desktop. Frank Edwards, AMC is fine. I'm going to click Save. And that will save it on my desktop. If I go to my desktop on my computer looking for the image. Alright, Where are you? Where are you? Deck? Stop. Everything, sorted out the way it's supposed to. I'm looking for my image, looking for my image, looking for my image. Whereas my GIF, whereas my GIF, where's my GIF? Right here. Okay? So if I open it, you can see what we have, okay? Now, GIF is a web image, is a web image. So if you try to use this as your wallpaper, it's not going to be blinking. Or if you tried to use this as your uploaded on Instagram, it's not gonna be blinking like this. Are we getting it now? A web image, meaning it's meant for the web, is meant for website, is meant for comments. Sections in your chat, is meant for WhatsApp, is meant for things like that. You understand. So that's what your J IF is where you put it on a platform and it's not blinking or playing, just understand that. Oh, it doesn't work for that platform or it doesn't work for that application, you can just try another one and you see that your GIF play. So it's kinda like an Internet. Image data is called other. We use C for web when trying to save our GIF. Alright, so there you have it. Created our GIF. Quickly. Let me show you another example. Let me go to File Open. Let's go to our exercise z4. Has good to exercise three. Yes. So I, where I have this guy click Open and then that will open up my image. Alright, what I can do is I can just unlock I renamed this, doesn't emit student again. Alright. And then I can just duplicate this and create a black and white version of this and go to Adjustments. Creates black and whites. Alright, well you can see it's making it two of them, black and white. So even if I turn off this one, this one is black and whites or do I do? I right-click on the black and white and say, Create Clipping Masks. It's just you can see this arrow pointing to this image telling me that I'm only going to affect this image. If I turn off this one, you can see that we have a colored image. Alright? So it's as simple as that. So click on Create Video Timeline, alright, and reduce everything to 1 s again. Hello, 1 s, 1 s, everybody shut. And then I will just put my adjustment layer and this copy here to half of the second. Alright, so meaning that when I press Play it goes from color to black and whites. Alright, you can see that right there. Okay. And I can just go to my file, export save for web. And then when it opens up, I'll go to my looping option so I can see my GIF right here. Looping option forever. Click Save, alright, and then choose my desktop, choose student's name, and then save it on my desktop. Alright. So the image is a very big image. That's why it's taking time to load up and save and do all of that. So if I go to my desktop right now and I go look for an image called students and I press Play. You can see how it's going to go from color to black and white. So this is another way of going about it. Okay? So you can be creative with your GIF and see how you can make them work. I also have this boxing or something right here. Can see this right hand is on that GIF we can create. So I'm actually mandating this as a class work for you. I want you to create something like this in Photoshop using the GIF I just taught you. Okay. So that is that. Thank you so much for watching this video. And I'll see you in the next video. 19. How to use Mockups in Photoshop: What's up, guys, welcome to another video. And in this session, we're gonna be focusing on how to use mockups. Mockups are used for presentations and I'm gonna be explaining all of that and how to use them inside of Photoshop. So let's get started right now. And blowing right here inside of Photoshop, I don't need this timeline again and stop. So let me just go to Window and click on timeline and that will get rid of my timeline. Alright, but before we get started, let me show you what mockups are. Okay. So e.g. this is a business card design for one of my clients. And then instead of sending these designs for my client, this way, I put it on a mock-up and that gave me this. So you can see this is more presentable to other than trying to send this to my client. And then even though the design looks great, he's not really seeing it the way it's going to look like in real life when it's printed. So it's always good. You place your designs on mock-up when presenting your design to your clients. Alright, so we have a couple of other ones here. You can see this one is for the letter head. And then we have this one right here for logo. We have this one too. We have this one. Alright, so these are different mock-ups for different purposes. So we have mock-ups for T-Shirts, mock-up for mugs, mock-up for umbrellas, for caps, for billboard, for logos, for business cards, mockups for t-shirts, and a whole lot mock-up for bugs and stuff. It could go online, search on Google. It's going to show you some website where you can download some free mockups and where you also be able to download some paid mock-ups, alright, so you choose the one you want. Bring it into Photoshop and I'll show you now how to use those mockups. Alright, so back right here we're going to come to our exercise nine folder, exercise nine folder. And inside that, we're going to see two items. The first one is the mockup that we are going to be using. You can see it's a dot PSD file. Alright. This is a logo mock-up, so it's used are meant for logos. Alright, so open this up, I can just simply double-click on it. And it will open in Photoshop because it's a PSD file. Alright, we can see that opened up in Photoshop and I can begin editing this mock-up. So our goal with this mock-up, since the logo mock-up, is to find a way to remove their own logo and putting our own logo right here. Alright, that's the essence of this mock-up. Alright, so how do I go about that is very simple. You can see right here is showing your logo. Your logo. Meaning this layer has to do with where I'll put my logo. Alright? And this layout, we can see where this small box we're seeing here. Smart Objects. Alright? Anytime you see this small box around anything in Photoshop, it tells you that that thing is a smart object, meaning that there is actually a mini layer embedded inside this layer. Alright? And to reveal that layer, all I need to do is to double-click on this box right here. And I will open a new tab. If I double-click that, it opens a new tab, which is called your logo dot PSB. So I was initially on this tab. So if I click on this tab, you can see it takes us back to where we were before. When we double-clicked here, they opened this new tab that we have right here, which is called your logo dot ESP. I'm going to remove their own logo and put in my own logo. The first thing I want to do is to get rid of their own logo. South does select the logo and press Delete. Alright, then I'll go to my own logo. So if we go back to your exercise nine folder, you'll see we have a logo right there. I'll click and drag that into Photoshop. Okay, I can see jobs, my logo right here. I can expand this to make my logo big, alright? And center it on the screen. So I'll just center it using my snap, right? You can see how my snap is also helping me there. Let me just increase this some more. Alright, and then center it again. I tube right there, and then I press Enter. Alright. Now, if I go back to this tab right here, you can see nothing has happened. I'm still seeing logo mock-up. And that's because I have not saved what I've done right here. So to save this, you simply go to File and New hit the save button. Alright, the Save button, not save us, just saved because this tab is embedded in this tab. So I'll click on Save, and that will save my logo now. And now this other tab will now recognize that, hey, there is a new logo in town and that would immediately replace the old logo with this new ones. If I go back to this tab, you can see that it has now replaced it with my own logo. And that's how to use mockups inside of Photoshop. All right, guys, so simple as that. Don't forget whatever mockup your download and you're trying to use, you're going to see something like your logo or your design or your business card, you or something. So whatever I have that in front of it, just know that that's where you go to replace your own designed with, to replace their own design, which your own design. Alright, it's very simple to use mockups. And I'm glad that you now know how to use that. So thank you so much guys. We're going to see in the next video. 20. How to Export your Projects in Photoshop: What's up, guys? In this video we're gonna be talking about how to export your images or designs in Photoshop. So let's go straight into Photoshop right now and get started. Alright, so we're back here right here in Photoshop and we still have our logo mock-up right here. So how do I export this to be able to send to my clients or to put on social media, or to use for whatever I want to use it for. I'll just go to my menu and I'm going to click on File. And then under File, I'm going to click on Export. And then from export, I'm going to choose Export us. Now, those of you using CS6, alright, you're not gonna see anything like export us on that Export. So basically you just come somewhere around here and choose save us so you don't need to go to export. You just say save as, save as save for web. I mean, alright, save for web through Columbia. Look for something called Save for Web. For those using 2015 and above are going to come to export. And under Export, Export, As I'm going to click on that. And it's going to bring the export panel. Alright, loading up my image. And you can see it's loaded up here. I can see everything looks nice and good. My format is one thing. Alright. Here we have the popular formats with images, PNG, JPEG, GIF, and SVG. Alright, well, I've told you how to export a GIF on that, Save for Web and not save us. Alright, so body too important. Extensions that we need here is PNG and JPEG. Jpeg is our general picture or image type. While PNG JPEG Boats has the capacity to save transparency. Alright? It's J peg body has the capacity to save transparency. Alright? So that is the essence of the PNG. So since there's no transparency in my design here or something, I'm going to use JPEG. I'm going to show you an example of PNG, so you see how that works. I can see my width and height. Everything looks good. It looks fine. I'll just come down here and then click on exports. Alright. Click on Export. Don't know why the exports is not showing right now, is just right here. You can see this blue button here. Click on exports. And that will let spots might design. For me. It's going to ask me where do I want to save my design? I can choose that stop. And then what do I want to name my design? I can see logo and then click Save. And that will save my design. Then once it's done saving, I can go to my desktop and say, Hey, where are you? And then on my desktop, I can see right there as a JPEG, I can send this to somebody I can use as my wallpaper, can use it to do whatever I want to do. So back to the example of PNG. So let me bring in that Frank Edward transparent image into Photoshop. All right, so let me go to exercise. I'm just go back to the main folder. Thank exercise six. Alright, yeah, so I have this Frank Edward transparency. If I open this, alright, you can see opens this Frank Edward image, transparent. Alright, and that's because when I was saving it, after removing the background, I saved it as PNG. And that's why we can see that whenever we open it, it remains transparent. Let's add Zoom. Now that we just removed the background for my image, I want to save our image. The way we've removed the background. We don't want any background to be on it so that the next time I want to use the image, it remains without a background. Then I will need to save the image in PNG. So if I go to File Export, Export As he's going to bring me back to my export as panel. And then right here, you can see that if my format is left as JPEG, can you see that it automatically filled it with a white background and see that there are muscular fusing with a white background. But if I come back to my former TA and I choose PNG, Photoshop is going to look at my design and say, Oh, is there anything transparent there? And you can see that, yes, I can see some transparency, so it's going to make whatever that is transparent, remain transparent. So jpeg doesn't have the ability to save transparency, but that's why it has to put a white background there. You can save it as JPEG, where if you choose, PNG is going to save it. The weight is in that transparent manner. And anytime you use this image on any design, it will always be transparent and you don't have to remove the background any longer. Alright? So that is how to export as a JPEG and PNG. Don't forget JPEG for your normal pictures and PNG, if you have transparency in your design and you want to maintain that transparency. Alright guys, thank you so much for watching this video. I am super excited and I'll see you in the next video. Peace out. 21. Conclusion: What's up, guys, I'm super excited. You made it all the way to this point. Thank you so much for participating in this Photoshop Training. I'm so sure that you've gained so much value all the way from getting started to exporting your designs in Photoshop to GIF skin retouching, creating flyers, creating designs, brushes, and so much more. I'm so excited that you got to this point. Alright, so right now, I just have three advice for you. Alright? Number one, practice. Number two. Practice. Number three, practice. Yes. Those are the three advice I have for you because that's the only way to really understand everything about Photoshop. You have to keep practicing, practicing, practicing to the point whereby, you know, someone could wake you up in the middle of the night and you can still wicked design even at that point. Alright, so it is very important that you practice, practice, practice. Alright, everything we've been learning, all this well, I'll suggest that you go over them again. You can rewatch the video. That's the advantage of this online training. Alright, you can do watch the video over and over and over and over again until it links into your head. Alright, and also on this platform, we have the Photoshop advanced course. So if you feel like you're comfortable already with what you've learned so far in this beginner slash intermediate costs. Then you can move on to the advanced session of this training, alright, and lend more and more and guess what? The advanced section contains a whole lot of tutorials on trainings in Photoshop. And I'm going to keep adding to it every single month. Alright, we'll keep adding to it, adding to it, adding to it because no one ever graduates from the advanced class. So my advice for you is, get yourself familiar with the interface with this beginners course. You get so used to Photoshop that someone can wake you up in the night. I can situate design even at that point, then you can move to the advanced section of this class. Don't forget, you can ask your questions on the platform. You can reach out to us on WhatsApp also, you can do all of that just to give it a mentorship and help you to grow more on this platform. Also, we have other trainings in Illustrator, we have trainings in Premier Pro, we have trainings in After Effects, which you can use for videos. So this place is a learning center. Once you feel like you're comfortable with Photoshop and you're very vast in it right now, you can move on to learning other softwares on the platform. You can learn illustrator, and that will show you how to work with vectors, drawings, creating logos, and doing all of those stuff. You can move to Premier Pro where you talk about video editing, editing your videos. Moved to after effects, where we'll talk about motion graphics and visual effects for your videos. It's gonna be an amazing time, guaranteed. We have other courses. I can also check out in digital marketing, web design. I mean, this is the platform where you can spark of your digital creativity. Alright, so, thank you so much. Once again guys. It's your boy case show and I'm signing out.