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1. What We're Creating and Intro: In this tutorial,
we're going to create this awesome social media post for wild jazz of the Blue Note. And we're going to use a
very simple photograph to get the saxophone. We're going to use patterns, which we're going
to go wild with. You can see that pattern is not the traditional pattern
I've shown you so far. And then we're going
to put them together with a number of layers and include things like adjustment
layers and gradient maps. Anyway, this one is fantastic. I hope you really
enjoy it. Let's start.
2. Make Your Pattern with Text: I'm going to go to a new file, and I'm going to
make a square 2000 by 2000 document for my pattern. I'm going to click
on Create in there. And what we're
going to do here is we're going to put in some text. So we're going to do this
the other way around now. We're going to go, first of all, up to view and show
the pattern preview. So we're going to
build our pattern inside the preview area.
So I've done that. Now, you could see if
I went to my layers, I can just add a brand
new layer in there. If I wanted to, I
could just paint and you can see how it actually goes into
the pattern in this. You can just paint directly into a pattern to create your
interesting design. I'm going to just get rid
of that layer like so. But I'm going to use text. So I'm going to go in
here to the I'm going to type in wild jazz. You can do any other
text that you like. Now, I can't see it because my text is white on
a white background. So I'm going to hide
the background so I can just about see the text.
There it is there. It doesn't actually
say wild jazz. Let's do a W now. Wild jazz in there, and I'm going to make
it a lot bigger. So as I'm changing the size, you can see the pattern
is changing, as well. So if I keep going, like so, I can get my bit
of text in there. Now, the next I want to do is I want quite a few of these. So I'm going to hold
down the Alt or the option key and click
and drag a copy of that. And let's offset
this one, like so. I'm going to do it again.
Hold down the Alt or the option key, click and drag. We've got another one
offset over there, maybe a few more
alter option key. Let's do that one,
say like that. We've just got room for
one more alter option key, and that's going to go
somewhere along there. Like that. And then I'm going to switch on auto select or
make sure it's switched on, so I can just move them around. And if I zoom out,
I can kind of see what the pattern is
going to look like. You can see some of them
look too close together, like those two are just a
little bit too close together. So I'm going to move
this one down just a fraction in there until
I'm happy with the result. Now that I've done that,
I'm going to go to, you know, Edit down
to define pattern. And we'll call this
WJ Wild jazz pattern. Click Okay. And that's done. My wild jazz background
text is ready to go. So if you'd like to get
to that point there, then we'll start to add more
bits and pieces to this.
3. Add the Instrument and Make a Groovy Background: I found this picture in the
free Adobe Stock library, and I'm going to
go along and get my cropping tool and just
crop this to a square. Now, I'm looking for
something like that, so I'm gonna hold
down the Shift key so I get a perfect square. The, um, saxophone is
not quite in the middle, but that's going
to be fine because we're actually going to cut it out from the background.
So I'm happy with that. I will click on the
tick to crop that down. Now I need to go and
cut the saxophone out. And we can try different tools, but I really like the
object selection tool. And I'm going to go over here to the drop down menu
and I'm going to say, do it on the Cloud
for detailed results. So the better
results over there. And then I've got a
lasso option there. I can then just lasso
the object to select it. Now, it's mostly selected. There are a few little bits and pieces that
we can deal with, but because we're actually
going to put a filter on this, which is going to knock
out a lot of details, I'm not really worried
about getting rid of these little
in between areas. If you wanted something
to look very accurate, you'd have to go in and
remove those bits as well. I'm kind of happy with the
way that it looks, though. I will just make a
little mask on that, and there is my saxophone. I'm going to actually
go over here to the move tool and just move
it roughly to the middle. Now, I want to
background on there. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to make a new layer over
here, drag that down, and I'm going to take the
rectangular marquee tool and just make a
rectangular marquee. I'm going to use edit and fill and I'm going to
fill that with a color. And I want to use
this bright sort of yellow that I've got over here of yellowy
orange. Click Okay. Make sure preserved
transparency is switched off. Click Okay. Now I want to do
the opposite side, so I'll go to select, inverse the selection, and
then do the same again. Edit, fill, go into color, choose the more orange
color that I'd like. Click Okay. Okay, that,
and then deselect. And let's bring in
the text now as well. So I'm going to go
down to the bottom. I'm going to add the
text in as a pattern. I'll find my text.
There it is over there. And then, of course, I can
just go and scale it up or down depending on
what I want from that. So I want quite a lot
of text in there. Maybe something along
that line over there. I'm going to angle
it a little bit, as well to give that interesting feel and
the first bit is done. Anyway, get yourself
up to that stage over there so make sure you
cut out the saxophone. If you want to use
another instrument, that's absolutely fine. Make a background over
there on a new layer. Also then bring in
your pattern or your text pattern as a new adjustment layer,
and then we'll move on.
4. How to Warp the Text: What I like to do
now is to adjust the text a little bit and
mess around with it a bit, so it's not quite so perfect. I want it to be a little
bit more wild and jazzy. So to do that, I'm going to
be going to edit, transform, and using warp, but
it won't allow me to use warp on that
particular adjustment layer. So what we have to do is
take the adjustment layer, go to layer, Smart Object, and convert to Smart Object. And then I can go to Edit,
Transform. And warp. Now, you can choose what sort of grid you want over
there three by three, five by five, four
by four, et cetera. And then I'm going to just
pull these around so you can see I can get an
interesting look to my text. There's no right or wrong here. I'm just pulling this around
to see what I can do. Just so it's not to the
same all the way along. I'm sure there's
another word for that, but I can't think of
it at the moment. We're just looking for
something that looks really interesting in there. I think that's, uh,
that's okay, actually. Let's just pull those
bits out a little bit. Over there. Click on the tick, and it's done. Have
a go with that.
5. Using a Smart Filter to Add a Filter Gallery Effect: Let's make the saxophone
look interesting. I'm going to try
some filters on it, but I'm going to convert it
for smart filters first, and this will enable
me to sort of add the filter and then
change it later on. I'm going to go down to the
filter gallery and just experiment with a few of these bits and pieces
that we have here. You can just play
with these and see what interesting
results you get. That one is quite
interesting there, but I like the cutout and you can change the number of
levels on a cut out as well, so I can have something
which looks a lot more well, limited color because that's gone down to two
colors in there. I think I'll go three colors on that and then just play with these to see what
happens to the edges as you're affecting the filter. Remember, once
you've clicked Okay, if you don't like
it, you can just switch it off and try again. If you'd like to learn
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at all the courses I do. The next thing I want to do is I also want to change the colors of the saxophone to mirror
the orange in the background. So I'm going to do that by
adding an adjustment layer, and the adjustment
layer I'm going to use is called a gradient map. I do know, I do realize it's slightly off the screen
from what you're seeing, but it's under threshold. It's called gradient
map in there. Now, the gradient map, when you go to the properties, you'll find it's got
a gradient in here, and mine happens to have the two oranges that
I've been working with. But you'll find that if you
go to any sort of of these, it will just put that gradient map colors onto your document. Now, what I want to do
is I want one that goes from an interesting
orange or yellow. There may be quite a light
yellow like that through to a darker orange. So it's got orange over there. Maybe darken it down,
something like that. And I'll just click
Okay for the moment. Now, it is kind of
the wrong way around. I don't know whether you notice, but the saxophone looks
almost like it's a negative. Switch on reverse in
your properties to get those two colors to go
the opposite way round. That's looking a
whole lot better. I only want this to
affect the saxophone, so I'm going to hold down
the Alt or the option key, move up between the
two, and click. So now, this is only affecting
the layer below itself. You can still play with the
other settings in here. We can go into sort of
multiply color burns, screens, overlays in there. The overlay actually looks
quite nice on there. The colors are looking great. We can go down to color where
it'll just use the colors. I think I'm going to
choose overlay in there. In once again, try that out, have a bit of a
go with a filter, but make that a smart
object first and then try a adjustment layer, which is going to
be the gradient map to just effect that
layer below it.
6. More Text, Save it for Social Media & Outro: This text that I've got is well, it makes your eyes
go funny, really, so I'm going to take
the opacity right down over there and then put some
more text over the top. So I'll just take my
text tool over here, pop in some text. Like so. And I'm going to
rotate the text around. I'm using the shortcut, which is command or Control And let's just pull
that up, like so. I think I'd like it over
the top of everything, so I'll move it
right to the top. I don't know. I suppose that
kind of looks quite good. And then I'm going to
hold down the old key, make a copy of that. This one is going to go to the top because I want
to see the whole thing, and this will be where it's
going to be the wild jazz. So at the blue note. I'm going to change that text
and take the size down a bit over there and maybe just change the typeface to something a bit simpler. If you want to
give it any depth, you could always
go to your text. I'll go to the wild jazz here. Put on a subtle drop shadow, and I mean very, very
subtle in there. You can even use something like the orange or one
of these colors here to get the shadow so
it's not pure black in there. But I'm just going very,
very subtle like that. We'll switch this on an offer. You can see the difference
before and after, very, very subtle. That's it. Save it out as a PSD. If you want to post it
somewhere, you can use File, Export, and Export as and just save it out as a JPEG once
you've done your PSD. I hope you enjoyed
this tutorial. If you'd like to learn
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brilliant technique.
Tim Wilson, Adobe Certified Instructor and Expert
