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1. Digital Collage Class Intro: What we're going to be
doing today is a collage definition collage. A piece of art made by sticking various
pieces of materials, such as photographs and pieces of paper or
fabric onto a backing. Okay, so we're going
to do this digitally. And what actually inspired
this class was a student in my critic course asked a question about how to
cut out some photographs. And I said you can
do it in critic. But I thought that photo might be a
better way to do that. What photo is, is a free
online photo editor. It's basically a Photoshop loan. It's totally free. They pay for themselves by posting these ads, you know, on the page. I'm going to keep this very simple and I'm just going
to show you the basics because I want to
show you how you can cut out photographs, rotate them, resize them,
and that sort of thing. And I thought a collage was
the perfect way to do this. My name is Aaron. I'm a freelance graphic
artist. A painter? A digital painter,
and I also teach digital art at two
junior colleges. So hopefully you
join me on board for this and I will see
you in the next video.
2. Class TheProject: This is going to be
the class project to create a collage. And I'm going to
show you how to use different techniques in
order to create your own. I'm encouraging you to
create something original. The theme that I
chose was technology. That was around
when I was a child. And you can choose something completely different,
but at the end, I'd like you to upload
your project and share it with everyone in
the project area. And I'm going to create a
different video that will show you how you can
upload your project.
3. Creating a New Document: Here we are. I'm in
photo P. Just type in photo P.com into any browser. The nice thing about photo P is you can use it in a web browser, on any computer, you can even
use this on a Chromebook. It can sometimes be very
slow because you're working in the browser,
you know online. But you can download it
and install the software, which may make it move
just a little bit faster. So I've gone to Photo
P.com you can see is HOT and it's not photopea. Because I look for video of the creator of this software
and he calls it photo. All right. I mean,
but you can call it photo, it really doesn't matter. All right, so here
we are. And I'm just going to click on this
button, New Project. And I'm just going to click right here where it says print. Let me, I think four
is pretty close, but I'm going to
go with a letter. And then I'm going to
just hit this button right here that says Create. Okay. So print,
choose your size. Again, any of these sizes
are okay and Create. The default is 300 DPI, and that's dots per inch, and
that's relating to print.
4. Choosing a Theme: Okay, so here we go. All right, so now I need a theme for this. And when I was trying
to think about a theme, what I started
thinking, you know, I've done collages in
the past and I like to use old photographs
from magazines. You know the traditional
ways you get a pair of scissors and you cut them
out and you glue things on, and you just work with
what you can find. But the advantage of digital
is you can scale things up, rotate, and you can get them
from pretty much anywhere. So if you have an
object that you like, you can just snap
a picture of that, get that into the
computer and add that. Or you can scan something from a magazine or use your phone, snap a picture from a
magazine however you like. You can get pictures
in here and work. You don't have to there I say scavenge things
off of the Internet. All right, so what I'm
going to do here is I am, I've come up with a theme. I like to use old photographs
and things like that. And as I was going through here, I started seeing technology, old technology and
things that when I was a child were around but
are no longer around. So what I'm going to do is go through here and pick up
some things like that. All right. So here's this
45 record. Yes, of course. And I'm going to download it. Let me just show you how to do that if you don't
know how to do that. So from Pexels, don't
just drag this same. So what I'm going
to do is I'm going to click on this
button right here. And I can download it, or I can click here
and choose Emergency. I don't know this band, but I'm not going to
worry about that. Ideally, I would like this to be a record that I owned
when I was young. And you can see it's
downloading and it's asking if I want to donate. But I'm just going to
keep going right now. I'm just going to call this rec, God, I'm going to close that. I'm going to hit that little x right here to get
back out of this. I don't think I'm
going to go with this. I had a stereo the
record player, but I wasn't doing the whole
scratching things like that. But I'm going to download this anyway just in case I want it. I'm just going to call
that scratch record. I think I'm just going to go ahead and keep
going through this, but I skip ahead fast
forward so you can, you know, so you don't have to sit here and see
me download all this. But I'm going to get these
cassette tapes and this film. Yes. Film. I'm just going to click that download
button right there. I'm going to call that film. All right. Click. All right. I'll see you once I
get my collection. And try to keep in mind
when you're doing this, try to get an idea of cassette something
for dominant image. Something that you're going
to put in the middle and you really draw the
viewer's eye in. All right, I'll
see you in a bit. I guess if you're younger maybe this won't be
quite as fun for you, but I'm sure you can
come up with a theme. It doesn't have to be something like this to be interesting. When you're looking, the keywords are going
to be important. Okay. As I was searching, I ran across something
that I was typing in, antique old, and I saw
something that said retro. And I found some good stuff when I clicked on
the retro button. If you're a young person, just pick something
when you were you, maybe a theme could be
the year you were born.
5. Importing Images: All right, so here we go. I have a number of pictures right here. I've downloaded them
to my desktop and I need to find a dominant image. And again, I'm really dating myself and it's
also really hard to find pictures of old dial TV's that wasn't
quite right actually. I found one, I
think I found one, Yeah, that looks good. That kind of looks like
what I was looking at as a child either that's going to be one of the parts of
the dominant image. And I think I'm going to go with a record here, a combination. Because it's just like, yeah, growing up it was
just music records. But again, these are things
that are no longer there. Hey, and talking on
phones with my friends. Yes, this is the kind of phone that I used when I was a child. All I did is from my desktop
is I clicked on the photo dragged and dropped
it in into the file. And you can see
when it loads up, it loads up here as layers. Each time I bring it in, it comes in in a new layer.
Let me move that over. Okay, another way that I
can bring this in is I can go file import, hang on. I'm outside of photo p, so I can click in a photo
p and I can go file. So I can go file open, and then I can choose the
photograph from here. And I'm not sure which
photo I'm going to use, so I'm just going to see if I can find one of
these that I named. I'm just going to grab one randomly because I
didn't name them. But I want to show
you that that's how you can also bring these in. But you see it came in as a separate file and
it's tabbed here. So what I'm going to
do is come over here, click on that photo, and
just drag that over. And it should move it over
here. Let's see, did it go? Let me try that again.
I'm going to click, drag up, it'll switch. And then I can drag down, so don't release it until you
get over to the other side. And then I can come back
here and close that. If by some chance it's
not selecting properly, properly, make sure
you're on the move tool. That's this little
button right here with the arrow is I have too
much showing right now, so I'm going to turn
some of these off. I'm going to turn each of these off until I get to that TV, because that's going
to be my main image. If you see this
little icon right here that tells me that
this is a smart object, it means it's a
protected object. And I'm going to keep
this very simple. Okay, so in order to change this from
being a smart object, that little icon, I'm
going to right click. And I am going to
choose rasterize. Okay, this is very important. It'll throw you off
if you don't do this. Okay, so rasterize. All right. I'm going to go ahead and
do that with all of these. Just so you can see it, I'm going to right click
on this layer, rasterize. Click on that one. Right click, rasterize. Okay, so now I'm
going to turn these off and I'm on this
image right here.
6. Selecting Objects and Removing Background: What I want to do, since
this is very simple, I'm going to use
this lasso tool, but actually I'm going to use
the polygonal lasso tool. But I want to zoom in, so I'm going to click on this
magnifying glass. I'm going to click, and I can drag to the right to zoom in, and drag to the
left to zoom out. Okay, I'm holding my finger
on the mouse button, drag right and left. Okay, now with this TV, I'm just going to click here. You see the lasso tool. I'm going to click hold and
choose polygonal lasso tool, or polygonal lasso tool. However you say it here, I can just click and it
makes straight lines. I'm just going to go around this since these are all
nice straight lines. And click, click the lines. Right now I need to move down, I'm just pressing my
mouse down till it moves over to that next area. I'm going to not worry about getting these perfectly clean. I'm just going to
go very roughly. Again, this is a collage. It's artistic, It doesn't
need to be perfect. It's not like I'm doing
a photo manipulation that needs to be perfect. Okay, This is an artistic
expression right here. Okay? And I'm going around, and when I got to move up,
just hold it up there. And then I'll bring down
and it'll stop scrolling. And then I get to the end,
I'll click and it closes up. All right, so now what I want to do is I want to remove
the background. Normally I would
use a layer mask. But for this one, I
want to keep it simple. So I'm going to delete
the background. But you can see if I
hit delete, hang on. Actually I hit the delete, you see I'm on the wrong layer. It says Record, so I'm going
to click on the TV layer, and if I hit delete, it's
going to delete the picture. I don't want to do that, I
need to flip that selection. I'm going to come up here, let me spread that out. I'm going to go select Inverse. Now I have the
background selected. So you can see here's the
outline around the TV, and there's also
the outline here, this background area selected. And I can hit Delete. All right. I'm
going to zoom out. I'm going to click on the
magnifying glass tool, drag to the left if I
want the hand tool, which is to pan, you can see the hand tool I can choose here, but I'm just going to
hold the space bar. And I get that instantly
and I can reposition this, and then I release and I'm back to whatever tool I was on. All right, so now I'm
going to go over here to the move tool because I
want to reposition this, okay, I want to
make this larger. Okay, so I'm going to go
edit right here again, don't go up right here,
up here, it says edit. I want to stay down here
inside of photo P. So I'm going to come down here
and choose free transform. You can use transform, scale, rotate, and those things. But free transform gives me the ability to do
a number of things. So I'm going to hit
free transform, and now I can scale this up. Uh, oh, I did
something wrong here. I moved the TV without
the selection. So I'm going to hit Undo
a few times, Command Z. And I'm going to go
back to my move tool, hang on and see if I can. It's not moving because I've
deleted the background, I have the background selected. I forgot about that.
Let me change this. I'm going to go in verse again. Now the TV is selected. Now if I click on that,
I'll move the TV, but you can see it left
a little ghost image. I'll have to fix that later, but I'm not going to
worry about it for now. Hi, this is future me. And I just wanted to interject
here a couple of points. One is a new feature
that I see here in photo that if I come up here to select and then I
choose subject in the past, this hasn't been here in photo P. I'm not sure when
they introduced this, but this is something
that photo shop had over photo for quite some
time release right here. Or if I click again, it's
going to select the subject. Your results might vary, but this looks pretty good. You can see if I zoom in here, it's not perfect here. I could go in here with this
Lasso tool and fix that. If I click on the
Lasso tool right here, I get this options bar here. And I can add to selection right here and subtract
from selection. Since it's selected the subject, I am going to click here. Actually I'm going to go to the polygonal lasso tool that since these are
very sharp lines, straight lines, this
will be better. I'm going to first
add to selection. And I'm going to come in here and I'm just going to click. And you can see I can
add to that selection. And then when I close it, I'm just going to double click. You see it added
to that selection. I accidentally clicked
an extra time. So I'm just going to hit the
inter key to break that off. Now here I'm going to choose
subtract from selection. And then I can just
come up in here and click and add that. Now I'm just going
to hit the inter key this time or the return key. And you can see it closed
that up and did a nice job. I can go in here and
fix more of these, but I'm not going to do
that right now for time. That's one way to do this. But in the video, I typically,
I like to work non. Destructively. But in the With my goal being to
keep this very simple, we're just going to
delete the background. Okay, maybe in future videos I will show you how to
work non destructively, but for now we're just going
to delete the background. And since I have this back, the image selected,
if I hit delete, it's going to delete the image. So I need to invert this. So I'm going to go in verse now I can delete
the background. Now what I did wrong in
the video, I moved it. When I went to the move tool, I moved everything in the
selection is still there. Okay, so I'm going to
go do, whoops, hang on. Do now it's back here. And what I had to do was
invert the selection. A better way to do that would
be to just when you select, since this is the only
thing on the layer, I can just click on it and move. I don't have to worry about these little stray
ghost images appearing, it just moves the image
on the entire layer. That's basically
all I want to say. So I'm going to cut this
off here and get back to the video recorded
earlier. This is the TV. Again, I want to enlarge this, so I'm going to go
edit free transform. And then I can scale it up. It constrains it. It
scales up proportionately. If I want to distort
it, I can hold the shift key and it will
change the distortion. Okay, here we go. So I'm
going to make this big. I don't want to
totally dominate. I did watch a lot
of TV when I was a kid and we didn't
have a remote control. Okay. I've scaled it up and I'm going to hit that
check mark right there. Bam. Now it has accepted, but I still have the dotted
lines, the marching ants. And I don't want
those right now. I'm going to go select. Okay. Because that's a
selection and deselect. All right. So now I've de
selected it. All right. So next I'm going to do, again, from here, this is basically
all you need to do. Actually, I didn't
show you one thing and that was how to
rotate something. So I am going to do this, the phone here, I'm going
to do a couple more things. And I believe once
I do this one, you have everything
that you need to create your own collage
and I really look forward to seeing what you
do in the project area. Okay, for this one I'm going
to try something different. You see here's the
magic wand tool and then also we have the
object selection tool. Okay, from here I'm
going to select that and I'm going to just
drag across and it's going to give me a
little plus symbol. And I need to make
sure that plus symbol is on the
object. All right? I don't know how good of a
job this is going to do, but I'm going to release
and see what happens. Once again, I'm on the wrong
layer. Let me make sure. I'm going to select de select. And I'm going to try that again. I'm going to click
on the phone layer, and I'm going to try that again. I'm still on the
object selection tool and I'm going to
click Drag across. And you can see what
a nice job that did. It didn't select all these
bits and pieces in here. But I'm happy with that. But I want to get rid of
the background. So I'm going to select
inverse and delete. Okay, so now I have
the phone if I want to go in here and I clicked
on the move tool, but if I want to go in here and remove all of these, hang on. Let me go select Intel Inverse. This will move, and
then I can move that. Another way to do it
is, let me go back. I'm going to hit Undo, and you can see the background
of Selected. Now if I just select Deselect, the only thing on this
layer is this phone. So I can just click
on it and it'll move. And I don't have to worry about leaving the marching ants left. I want to scale this down. I'm going to go select
Edit Transform. Edit free transform. You can see right here, if I click on the corner,
I can drag it in. I can also rotate it. You see If I move
that cursor outward, I get that curved handle
and I can rotate it once. I'm happy with what I have, I can rotate scale
it up and down, move it into place, and
I can hit the inter key. That's it. I have a couple more tools that I
want to show you how to use. Again, I'm going through
this very quickly. I'm going to turn on record. Okay. I'm going to bring
this up to the top. You see these are stacked,
these are the layers. If I click where it says Record, I can click on that and then drag it up above
everything else, and you'll see it
highlights right here, and I release. And there we go. Okay. Actually. It appears that I
have cut a hole in the TV at some point. So I'm going to delete
this. All right, now I'm going to bring
that layer in again. I'm going to see if I
can find that record. There we go. I'm just going
to click and drag again. I'm on a Mac, so this will work If you're on a PC
and it doesn't work, you just have to go
file open and then bring it over from
the other tab. All right, so I'm
happy with this. I'm going to hit the
check mark to accept it. But you can see it brought it
in as a smart object again, so I need to right
click rasterize. Okay, so actually I'm going to show you, I'm
going to hit Undo. You can see it's a
smart object again. Now what will happen
if I take this? I'm going to go here and that's where the
magic wand tool is, what I'm going to do
with the magic wand, since this background
is completely white and again I'm
on the record layer, I'm going to click one time. You can see it selected everything but it
picked up the shadow. Okay. I got too
much of the shadow. So what I want to do is
reduce the tolerance. You see the tolerance
right here? Or increase the tolerance. I'm going to increase
that tolerance to 20. Okay. I'm going to
select de select, and I'm going to try that again. And here we go,
Click and you can see it got it made a
much better selection. I can keep trying this, but this is a circle, so I'm going to do
something different. I'm going to click right
here on my rectangle. Select Tool, and
I'm going to choose the ellipse Select Tool. Okay, now here actually I need
to select deselect select. And I'm going to draw a
little box right here. Not a box, a circle. All right? And you
can see it's there, but it's not quite lined up. So I need to adjust this. So I'm going to select
transform selection. Okay, this is different
from transform. When I transform the image, it would enlarge or reduce,
that sort of thing. But this is
transformed selection. And now I can scale this up. I can click and reposition it. If I want to do it
disproportionately, I can hold the shift key and you can see I can
make it an ellipse, but I can tweak this till
I get it just right once. I'm happy with that.
I hit the check mark. I'm good to go from here again. This is a smart object. What's going to happen when
I hit that delete key? You can see smart object
disappeared really quickly. But it said smart object must be rasterized before
it can be edited. Let me see. A smart object
must be rasterized first. All right, I'm going
to rasterize it. I'm going to right
click rasterize. I'm going to hit the delete key. Whoops. Now I'm going
to invert that. I'm going to select inverse, and I'm going to
hit the delete key, and now we have our record. All right, I'm going to
select de select also. I'm going to scale this down. I'm going to go Edit
free transform. I have to click and
I'm going to scale this down. Yeah, I like that. I'm going to rotate this because I don't want that 99
to be so obvious. If I make this upside down, maybe it's a little
less obvious what the record is since it
doesn't really relate to me. And I'll hit the inter key. I want this to be behind the TV. So over here my layers panel. I can click on that and
drag that backwards, and you can see it's
highlighting and I can release. And there we go,
now we have the TV. All right, one thing
that I'm going to need here is a nice background. I don't have a background here.
7. Adding a Background: One thing that I'm going to need here is a nice background, and I don't have a background here. Let's see what we have. All right, I'm just going to scroll through some
of these images. This was one that I liked, it was a Pac Man symbol
on a brick wall. That was a good one
I'm looking for back. Oh, that might be a
good image. All right. It's map, I'm going
to grab that. Just drag that in again. If that doesn't work on a PC, you can go file open and
open it and bring it in. And I'm going to reposition this and I'm just
going to scale. You typically don't want to
scale things up too large, watch the grain
because how it looks, because the quality of
the image may change. And I just hit the
inter key. There we go. Now I'm going to rasterize
that right click size. Yeah, it's starting
to come together. I'm going to click, here
we go, This is, whoops. I'm still on the old tool. I select, go to my
move tool and I caps, I'm on the wrong layer. I need to click here
on background click. And I'm going to
scale this down. So I'm going to go
Edit free transform. And scale this down. There we go. All right, now for this one I'm
just going to cut this out very
roughly. All right. I'm going to click on the polygonal lasso tool and I'm just going to make this look
like it was cut out by hand. Okay. With a pair of
scissors from a magazine. So you can see I'm not
getting real precise. I'm just trying to make
it look like it was cut out so it has a bit
of a border on it. That's another style that
you could go with that. And then I need to invert this, I'm going to go invert
that selection in verse, I need to delete. And this is no longer a rasterize, this is
not a smart object. So I can hit Delete.
There we go. Okay, this is starting
to come together.
8. Selecting More Objects: Okay, here I want to show
you something you can do. It's a little
different. I'm using the polygonal lasso
tool. Hang on. I wanted to make
a new selection. While this polygonal lasso
selection is selected, I hit these dots right here. Okay? And what this means is this is going to
make a new selection. This is going to the selection, and this is going to
subtract from the selection, and this is going
to intersect. Okay? You see I've already
started this. I'm going to add to selection. I'm going to start right here and I can add
to that selection. Okay, I'm coming down here, I'm going to add that
hand you see right here. Like if I try to line this up right exactly on top of that, that's it's going
to be difficult. I'm going to try to
collect it right across there and then
I need to come up here to where I started
and close it up. I know this is covering
this area here, but I don't need to go
precisely around it, I just overlap it.
And there we go. Now I need to invert this. Select Inverse, then I can
delete everything there. Object must be rasterized first, and I was on the wrong
layer. It's here. I'm going to rasterize that right click and I
can delete. There we go. So I'm going to hit command D or control D on a
PC to deselect, or I can go deselecting, you can see it's command plus D and that we'll deselect it. I'm going to go to my move tool, move that into place. All right. I'm going to try something different here with
this telephone. Okay, I'm going to select
that telephone layer, that yellow phone.
The yellow phone. And I am, I'm going
to select Edit, Select Edit Free Transform. And I'm going to scale
this down just a little bit to make it
easier to work with. I'm going to use the magic wand. Hopefully the magic wand
will select this nicely. I'm going to go to
the magic wand tool and I'm going to select
that background. And you can see it did a
pretty good job of selecting. But let me go to my move tool. I magnifying tool, right
click, you'll see. But it didn't get this
area here, it overlapped. I'm going to try this again. I'm select or command D, I'm going to using that again. If I click on the magic wand, see the tolerances
where I left it at 20. I'm going to put that
down to ten again, and I'm going to try clicking. Didn't see, didn't change. Let me try this again. I'm
ten. Hit the inter key. Let's see, did it select? All right. Now let's
try this again. Magic one click. There we go. You can see it selected
this area here. And I don't really want it, but the good thing is I can mix and match
these selections. And here we are
with a telephone. I have it opened up, just a
single file of the telephone, and we're going to copy cut
this from the background. This time we're going to
use the magic wand tool. If I click on the background, you see what it's doing is actually selecting
the background. But before I do that here, my layers panel,
I need to toggle open these panels right here. Okay, anyway, I'm
going to toggle this open and you see I
have this image here. If this was a smart object, I would need to right click
here in that, you know, in the gray area and choose rasterize in order to
delete the background. If we're working non destructively
and using layer masks, you don't have to worry
about changing it from, you know, rasterizing it. But in this situation, we need to rasterize it if you have that
little icon there. But I don't because
of how I opened it. But anyway, back
to the magic wand. I am going to click on the magic wand and what I want to do is select this phone. Okay, well, actually what
I want to do is select the background and I'm going
to delete the background. Fortunately, the background
is this big, solid yellow. If I was selecting the phone, you can see the magic wand
doesn't do a good job because there's so many
variations in the shading here. I'm going to hit Select, de Select to get rid of that. Now I'm going to click
in the background. It should do a pretty good job. But you can see there's a
bit of shadow right here. It may have some
trouble with that. I'm a magic wand right here and I'm going to
click in the background. You can see it did
a pretty good job. I need to increase
this area here. I wanted to move
a little further, so I want to increase
the tolerance, so that means it will accept
more of these yellow values. I'm going to try
this, I'm going to go select and try that again. Boom. Okay, it did
a better job here. But you can see it moved
into this area here. It broke into it. One other thing I
want to mention is, you'll see up here, there
should be something contiguous. Contiguous just
means continuous. If I unchecked that contiguous, I'm going to hit Select. If I click on that,
it's going to get all these bits and
pieces inside because it doesn't need to travel
spill through it just all the different portions
that match the outside. I'm going to check contiguous. It only picks this area here. What I want to do is I want to select this area
in here, but again, if I uncheck contiguous, it's going to get this area plus all these
matching areas inside. I'm going to put this
tolerance spec down to ten and I'm going to
click in the background. Okay, hang on. Let
me do that again. Let me on deselect and let
me change that tolerance. Hit the inter key, make sure
it's stock, okay? All right. Now I'm going to click in the background and
you can see it, just like it did before, but it didn't catch
all this area here. Now what I can do, since I'm
on the magic wand up here, make sure you choose Add to
Selection, that's Unite. I'm going to go ahead and
click on this area here. And you can see now it's
selected inside this area here. If I hit the delete key, it gets in that area
there, actually. Now I see if I zoom in, there's an area here, so I'm just going to go ahead
and click there. Actually, I didn't zoom in, but there it is. And I'm going to
hit the delete key. You can see now I got
that empty space there. I'm going to just hit undo, just so we're on the
same wave length. Now what I need to do is select the rest of
this area here. But again, remember we're
selecting the background. That's how you can see out here. This is the
background. And we're going to delete the background. I'm going to go, that's
not the magnifying glass. I'm going to go
to the zoom tool, the magnifying glass here. And I'm going to click a
couple times to zoom in. All right, now what
I'm going to do here is go back to the
polygonal lasso tool. What we want to do is this area, remember the background
is selected. We want to add to
that selection. I'm going to click here. I'm going to start again. This area here. Let me
see. Just a quick demo. If I select this area
and do a little box, nothing changes because
it's already selected. And if I'm adding to the
selection, nothing changes. What I'm going to
do is start out here in an area that's already selected and I'm going to
do just that paper cut out. Look, I'm just going
to cut in here. I'm not going to worry
about being precise. This is a collage. It doesn't, it's not like I'm doing something
that's super realistic, that needs perfect selection. I'm just going to do this
stylized version and I know I'm mixing the styles where it's nicely trimmed at the
top and then the bottom, it's not so much, but we'll
see what it looks like. If I need to go in here
and fix that more, I will. Then when I get to
the end, I can just click here and that'll close it. And you can see it
trimmed off all that. I'm going to do the same
thing in here because again, remember we selected
this and then we held the add to selection and
we selected this area here. Again, I want to add to this
selection inside of here. Once I am happy with that, I'm going to close it and
I can hit that return key, and you can see it closes. Just make sure I'm
going to hit undo here, Select Edit, Undo, just to show you
something that can happen. Like as I was, I was clicking to subtract
to this selection, and I said I just
hit the return key. I click here, I need to make sure this is
in the right spot. Because if I hit the return key, and it's down here, it makes
this really bad selection. Okay, sure it's in
the right spot. When you do that,
I'm going to go do do that one more
time. Here we go. I'm going to come here. What I tend to do is move it close. And when I get it close, I know that it's pretty much
going to close up properly. And I hit that return key. All right, so this
is the selection. So I'm going to hit
Delete or Edit Clear, and we're going to clear
out that background. Okay, now I want to
select this this time, rather than go select, I'm just going to
make a new selection. You see right here. I'm going to put that
on new selection and I'm just going to
click around this, I'm not sure. Okay, hang on. It wasn't, there
was a bit of lag. I was clicking in and
nothing was happening, and I believe computer lag.
And then I get to the end. I'm just going to click, and now it's selected this phone, and I'm going to go Edit, Cut. It takes it away. And
then I'm going to go over to the document that
I'm working on, and I'm going to go edit, Paste. And it should paste
it right in place.
9. Removing Color and Wrapping Up: And this is working pretty good. I think the TV, I want it to be the
dominant image. So I'm going to click
on the phone and I'm going to go
Edit free transform and reduce the size of that. Let me see. Edit free
Transform and scale that down. I can rotate that again, if I want to distort it. I can hold the shift key when
I scale it and distort it. Okay, so I'm going to get
rid of this other phone. The problem I'm having
with this phone and the TV is the phone
is brightly colored. Even though the TV is larger, it's losing out to
the phone because the phone is so
brightly colored. I'm going to go edit, hang on. Edit, transform,
Edit, free transform. Scale it down a little bit
more. Hit the inner key. I'm going to move this
here. Actually I want to go back to edit free transform. And I'm going to rotate it a little or hit that checkmark, hit the inky, I'm going to
remove the color from this. Okay, now we're going to do
something a little different. I'm going to go up to here where it says image adjustments. You can see brightness
and contrast. I can tweak that hang
on. Image adjustments. Exposure and hue,
and saturation. Hue is another word for color. There's black and white as well. I usually just go to hue. But maybe I'll go with black and white right here,
black and white. I click on that
and you can see it automatically changes
this to black and white. I know you say it's
black and white. What does it have
these color dials here is this phone is yellow. If I crank up the yellow, you can see it brightens the yellow or
darkens the yellow. Now it gives the look
of a different color. If there wasn't any red in here. Well, actually I guess there
is a little red in there. Let's try cyan blue. See, it's changing on the dial, so I'm just going to leave that where it is. And I'm
happy with that. And I'm going to hit, okay, I have this old phone
here which I don't like, so I'm just going to trash that. This is starting
to come together. I got just a couple more
pieces that I want to add. I'm going to hold the space bar. Let's see if I can find that. Guitar cassette. Cassette recording. Let's see if I can find that. Had I added a phone booth yet? Maybe I won't add the
phone booth cassette. All right, let's go
at the cassette. Drag that in. Oh,
I lost my record. All right, so I was going to
put this in the same spot. All right, so here I'm going to just quickly go to the
polygonal lasso tool. And I'm just going to select
that using that cut out style like I'm
cutting paper again. I need to invert it, actually I need to
rasterize the layer. So I'm going to write
click Rasterize the Layer. And I am going to select
invert that selection. Again, there is a way you
can work non destructively, where when you're making
these selections, you don't have to invert it. That's why it's set this way. But here we go. All right, I'm going to go Command D. Control D to select, I'm going to move
that in the place. I'm going to go Edit
free transform. Have to click it
always stirs me off. I'm going to scale it down, Move that into place
and hit the inter key. All right, now I am
going to find my record. Bring that above that layer. There we go. Now you're talking. I got my record back and that's my finished
piece and that's
10. Saving Your File: Once your image is complete, you'll want to save
it out. All right. I added in this extra, this guitar off camera, and I think I'm
happy with this now. I need to save this out. There are different file
formats that we can save it in. The first way that
we're going to save it is as a Photoshop file. Believe it or not,
if we come up here, we're going to go file. You can see here it
says save as a PSD, and that stands for
a Photoshop file. And you're going
to click again and make sure you know
where you're saving it. And I'm just going to
hit that save button. Actually, I'm going to change the name because
I'm replacing this. But normally this would
still be up on the web. You would not have saved
it to your computer, and I probably
should have already suggested save your piece a lot sooner than
when you're done, because if your
computer crashes, you're going to be in trouble. So hopefully, no one had
any troubles with that. But I'm just going
to put a two here and this is going to
be my file right here. So again, it says D. You don't have to
change anything or add anything, But
don't erase this. Because if you erase
that file extension, these numbers, sorry,
these letters at the end, the PSD, the computer might not understand what the file is
and it might not open it. But if you do
accidentally delete these and the computer
is having trouble, just type in the Dod
and it may figure out, oh yeah, this is a PSD file, this is a Photoshop file. So anyway, we're going to
hit the save button and this is going to be a
larger file size, okay? And the reason it's going to be a larger file size is because it has all these layers
over here, okay? And this is what you want
to keep for your files. I mean, if you think
you want to come back in here and rework it, I highly recommend saving
the Photoshop file because then you can come
back in here and you know who not on the move tool, but you can come back in here. I'm going to select the
move tool and click on these images and move them around and resize them
and things like that. But once you flatten this or you change it into
a different file type, like a Jpeg or P and G, it's not going to be the same. So we're going to save
this as a PNG as well. So I'm going to go File, and then I'm going
to choose Exports. And you can see you can
choose PNG or Jpeg. Typically, you will
use PNG if something, you're going to post it
on the web and you would use a Jpeg for print. I typically use them
interchangeably, so we already have a
Photoshop file and now we're, and I'm just going
to save this one as a PNG and I'm actually, I'm going to go with
a J peg because we can control easily, make it a lot less a
smaller file size. So I'm going to hit JPG, Okay? And then we get this
dialogue box like this. And it's telling me this is
the file size in pixels, the measurements in pixels
2,500 And this is the quality. Be careful with Jpeg, because a Jpeg is
a lossy file size. Every time you save a
particular file size as a Jpeg, it loses just a little
bit of quality. In the beginning, you
don't really see it, it's not so noticeable. But if you repeatedly do it, it just loses a little bit
of quality every time. But anyway, you can
choose the quality here, you can keep it up to 100% but I'm just going to
drop it a little bit, maybe down to 85. Just make that file size
a little bit smaller. And I'm going to hit Save again, make sure you know
where it's going. And I'm going to hit
that Save button. You can see it's going in
this folder here, hang on. Let me hit the Save button. Let me open this up. This was my original Photoshop
file right here. This is the one that I saved. Again, if you haven't
already saved it, you'd be saving that
for the first time. You can see here's the other
one that I saved as J. Let me make these
a little larger. Again, we have the collage here that is a photo shop
file that's layered. And here is the Jpeg which
is a flattened image. And what do I mean by flatten? Okay, I'm going to open this
one up in photo, let's see, I'm going to open up
photo and I'm just going to drag and drop this
right here into the tab. If I drop it here, it's going
to open up inside the file. I don't want that. I'm going to drag and drop it right here. You can see now we have both. It came in as a Photoshop file. Well, let me check that file. Okay, it changed it. It converted it to
a Photoshop file, a PS D after I uploaded it. But you'll see there
are no layers. All of those layers here. Over my layers panel, there's just one single layer. So when I click on this, you can see it's just one solid piece. Okay, and if I come over here, you see everything is
layered and separated. And what that means also is, again, I'm on a Mac, I'm
going to hit Command. You can see this is 141
megabytes, it's pretty large. And then I'll click on
this one and hit Command, and you can see that's 2.3 megabytes. That's
a big difference. And this Jpeg file, that 2.3 megabyte file, that's what you want to upload
to as your project file. That's what you'll
want to to skillshare. And this one you'll want
to save for your files. If you don't want to
save it for your files, you don't have a lot of space on your computer or you're just playing around and
don't really care. You can go ahead and
trash this file later, but make sure that's what you want to do before you do it. Now I'm going to show
you how you can upload your piece to
skillshare. All right.
11. Uploading Your Project: The way we're going to
upload the project, we'll come down
to this area down here and it says
Project and Resources. And you're going
to upload it here. This big button that
says Submit Projects. Okay? And we're going
to click on that. You can give you a piece of a title and a
project description. I'm going to call this class example project in
this area here, project description, I can describe what the piece is or anything you
want to say to me. You can put down here like
I had fun with this piece, that I can't wait to learn more. All right, here you
can upload the image. So I'm going to go ahead
and click on that. Actually, if you want
to make this private, you can click here to make it private so everyone
won't see it. But I hope you don't do that. I hope you'll share
what you did. And then then down
here you can add tags, but I'm going to
click on the image and we're going to
upload it's the Jpeg. As you can see here,
I told you how the Photoshop file and the
Jpeg images were different. You'll notice the Psd files
are actually graded out. It won't allow me to upload it. So I'm going to
click right here. And another quick way you can upload your piece really quick way is while it's opening photo is to just take
a quick screenshot. But this way you have the
highest high quality file. I'm just going to hit open. I have fun with this piece. Let me change that. I
had fun with this piece. It seems that they've
changed this. It says, okay, there's
a cover image. If you upload the cover image, it will be cropped down. I'm going to avoid the cover image here and see what happens, but it uploaded
the class project. If you want to cover
image like if this were something that was a video, you had multiple images, you could do a cover image. But I'm going to skip
the cover image. And we have project
title description. And I'm happy with that. I'm just going to hit Publish. Okay, the project should
show up down here right now. I guess it's processing. That is how you save
and upload your piece. I hope you had fun with it and I hope to see you
in my next class.
12. Wrap-up: Thank you very much
for taking the class and congratulations on
making it to the end. I hope that you enjoyed it and you came up with
something that you like. I hope that you will post your
work in the projects area, you know, and share with
the community here. And I really look forward to seeing what
you've come up with. And if there's a technique
or something that you wanted to learn to add to the collage
that you created here, let me know and I'll try to make an addition to the class anyway. I hope you had fun. And I'll
see you in the next one.
Aaron Porter, Illustrator
