Essentials of Adobe Photoshop and Image Retouching

1. Class outline and Introduction: Hi there. Welcome to this course on Essentials of Photoshop. And you mentioned touching my name is, and I'm an instructor for this class. Here. In this class we're going to learn about various tools and techniques used in Photoshop. Editing photos, creating graphics and images. Don't worry if you're a complete beginner or you have a little bit knowledge of Photoshop. This course is completed beginner friendly. Here you will learn everything right from scratch. And it does not contain any complicated jargon. In this class, we won't be discussing everything in Photoshop. All the essentials to begin with, such care. Selection tools where you will learn about Quick Selection, polygon or Magnetic Lasso, Refine Edge tool and much more. Moreover, you will also learn various removal techniques such as Spot Healing, Brush Tool, magic wand, and clone stamp. And you will also learn it will be this types of adjustment layer and neon glow effect and much more curious to learn these skills and adult Photoshop, you start learning like now. See you in the class. 2. Object Selection using Lasso: Hey, welcome back friend here in this lesson you're going to learn about various lasso tools for making a selection in Photoshop. So let's start. So generally we got three Lasso tools in Photoshop, nurse, basic lasso tool, a polygon, and Magnetic Lasso. Here we're going to learn about all these three one-by-one. So when you go to the Tools option on the left-hand side, the top option, just below the selection area, selection tool, you got three Lasso Tools. You can hold left-click for a long time to make a selection of these things. So first learn the Lasso Tool. Lasso tool is a simple tool where you can draw over the screen, over the photo or to make a selection. So you need not to hold or click. You just need to hold the left-click left key, left mouse key, and hover around the selected area. If we have a drawing tablet. That awesome for this too, because it requires a gradual current role or a hold over the image. Sometimes it could be difficult. So lasso tool is just a primitive tool. And it can easily select if you're a good artist and you have a command over the selection using the drawing tablet pen, then this tool is very good and come handy for you because you can do so. But if you're using mouse, I wouldn't recommend using the basic lasso tool. You can know why, Because if you are making a selection, it will be difficult. Sometimes things could be overlapped. Some thing could we remained, are left out and are very difficult to handle. What? You can zoom into the image closer to your subject and you can easily around with this thing. You can copy the selected a subject to different image in Photoshop or you can create a composition from scratch. You can also duplicate the same selected area and the same image multiple times. Next is the polygonal lasso tool. So you can know that polygonal lesser tubercle try to draw a polygon of any orientation. So here we draw a line. So once you click on a certain point, it will start creating a line. You have to click somewhere else, then you can do so. It is ideal for symmetric selections. If you have some clear boundaries, like a building or a skyscraper, it has a clear line. It is better to use because in the traditional lasso tool, it won't be very nice. There could be some errors in the cell exchange area, but it is a straight line. It's a combination of a straight line. And you can do the selection of some areas. Okay? And the third is the Magnetic Lasso. And Magnetic Lasso is one of the most useful lasso tool. So what does it do? It is just like a simple lasso tool. You have to draw over the screen. You don't need to draw. You are not required to hold. Left-click on the mouse. You can hover around and it will detect the boundary of your subject. Say here we got a monkeys with a clear background. Now the plane looking background in the sky of the mountains and the Magnetic Lasso Tool works very well. But in order to have a fine selection, it is advisable to zoom into the subject, do zoom into the image and make a selection. Here, this is the Magnetic Lasso. So it just try to take all the points as if it is a magnet attaching to ferrous substance, this magnetic lasso. So when you are trying to crop some sub, if something from an image like a face, some shapes, some objects. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is widely used for finite Jasmine. Sometimes. The quick selection tool is not able to select everything if you have a sharp boundaries, Magnetic Lasso will help. It may take some time, but it is the key thing that provides you maximum control with the Advanced Image direction out of Photoshop capabilities. And here it tries to understand the image and the boundary of the image. That's fine. But if you hover around very quickly, it could do a few mistakes. So just don't rely on the boundary detection concept of Photoshop. You have to look to the image and best way to make a selection is to zoom into the subject. So once you've made a selection, you can zoom out of the screen. Selecting a subject or their desired object on the screen is the key thing. You can also replace that subject. Say here, when we zoom to the next one key, we can clearly identify the phase is not clearly superimposed. But if you zoom out to the bigger picture, you won't find any difficulties. Okay, So you can sell it, this thing later on. When you have the hairs are different things that can not be selected very well in this way. We can use Refine Edge tool that you're will learning in the coming lesson. And try to practice the Lasso tool for making a selection. Keep learning, and keep moving ahead. 3. Quick selection: Hey, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you're going to learn about very interesting selection tool in Photoshop does a Quick Selection Tool. So Quick Selection Tool, it's just like a paintbrush. You can select your subject or object from the photo very easily and very quickly. Let's learn about the selection tool here. So you can find a selection tool just above the eye dropper tool. And this is the quick selection. So you just need your mouse or if you have a drawing tablet, you can use a tablet to make a selection here to just paint around the objects that you want to have, say. And you can increase the area over time. You can change the size of the brush with the control. You can also control the hardness, other options, so you just need to move it around a subject. Here we have a street dog and we have to select it to make a selection. As subjects like a dog or humans have a lot of hairs on, we would require refine edge tool that you will be doing later after we have made a selection. So we just need to move around this brush selecting entire area. Don't worry if unwanted areas have been selected, we can remove it very easily. So you just need to press the Alt key and just paint over the area that you want to cancel out. So it's better to zoom into the photo to get a fine selection. And this is how we earlier we have selected both the legs and ground in-between. And we can remove the leaves and other unwanted components from our mask. So here we're selecting, so just press the Alt, hold the Alt key on the keyboard, and just paint around using the selection brush. Quick selection is the fastest way to select any subject. Although you can use a magic font, you can use the Lasso tools and other selection option as well. But I prefer using the Quick Selection Tool when I'm in a hurry. Okay? And it selects a subject very well. It's very widely used to make a selection. Here it is. We have just move around the photo. And here we have selected the dog to face the body, the legs. And now it's time to select their tail and it will fuse section near the ears that we want to remove. Just hold the Alt and move around. It's better to use a smaller brush size. When you are canceling. Remove X and components from the selection because it will allow you to have the edges and the curves intact. Otherwise, if you take a bigger size selection brush, it will remove a bigger area and is not desirable. In this scenario. Just make, just make a selection. And here's a quick tip that say your tail is with a medium size of the brush, but you have to take the size of the brush is smaller than the area to be selected. Okay. Don't take it to the equal-size. Don't take along size. Just take it. Right. It's more a little bit smaller than the area to be covered and remove unwanted sections. Whenever you want. This title, make this selection, and try to save it, or create a mask on the photo. And if anything goes wrong, just press undo, control Z, and start again. Here it is. We have selected and we will create a mask here. Just move to create a mask option. And here we have isolated. 4. Using Refine edge on selection: Hi, welcome back friend here. And this lesson you are going to learn about Refine Edge tool in Photoshop. So let's tie. You can make a selection of your object from photo using any other selection tool, Quick Selection, Magnetic Lasso, the rectangle tool or different tool. There could be some surfaces like hairs on animals and humans are already different objects. Then you need to refine the selection. So we just select the mask, right-click and choose the option for Select and Mask. Or alternatively, you can go to the Select menu just next to the filter and the layer panel. And select. Same option is Select and Mask. Here we are using the Refine Edge tool. And we can change the size, the hardness, and the spacing of this 2.1 by one, just select surfaces that needs to be refined. Like here. We have the ears of this dark net, either Harry competition, and we have to select a sting. You need to just paint around the boundary. Okay? You already made a selection. You just need to refine a few surfaces, a few components here. When you zoom out and view it as large image, it may look like a blurry, but once you have isolated it in the setting, the background, it will disappear and will look very good. If you don't use any Refine Edge tool for masking here, your image would not look natural to, in order to have a natural look where the surface of image are embedded in the background. Are each individual hairs are finally selected. You need to refine your selection as well. So just paint around the boundaries of your subject. I slowly one-by-one. Sometimes if your shape is complex, it may take time, but it will generate a good image and it will have a natural added around the thing. So when you have a fairy or fluffy object with a lot of hairs or surface is coming out. You can use this to find edge. Zoom into the subjects, the areas that you need to refine perfectly well, like legs, underneath tail and different surface. As animals like dogs have a lot of hairs and it's antibody, we need to make it clear selection. If you have subjects like human face, they just need, you don't need to use the refine edge over the entire face. You just need to have it over there. Here's the beard and different things. They just need to make the selection. You can also use a minus or plus option for the Refine Edge. And you've got more options here. You can also control the transparency and different controls that are provided here using the slider options. But they are generally not required here. And hit the okay. To make a selection. Let's zoom out to confirm that we have made a clear selection. So this final selection is little bit different than the earlier one because it doesn't have the sharp boundaries. It has a gradual surface and natural looking object. When we press or when we are done, just press, Okay. To make a selection. Here, everything has been naturalized. Then we need to have some background. You can use this object as a PNG with a transparent background using various projects for compositions are different things. So let's just place a solid here. You can place a solid, different color. Now here's this black color. You can change the color and we can use the eyedropper tool to sample a color from the skin of a subject. You can choose a dark or the white background. You have an isolated look and free. People generally you use the isolated background rather than using the transparent ones for subjects like stock photography. But you can use a transparent layer as well for different compositions. And just take a selection. If you are making a campaign with some stray dogs or something like that, we can use this that are the selection for various compositions. Refine edge tool is very poor. Required, mandatory scales to master when you are upgrading your skills and using a selection is one thing. But refining your selection will take your photograph a skills to the next level. So just practice this thing perfectly well with different subjects. Take complex subjects with a lot of hairs and different selections. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 5. Remove objects with Spot healing: Hey, welcome back friends. Here in this lesson, you're going to learn about magical tool in Photoshop. It can bring a lot of information and allow you to re-imagine the photo in a new way. So here, just make sure that you are in the photograph, a dashboard, or you can choose to go with Essentials. On here just below the eyedropper tool, you got this spot healing brush. This is spot healing tool. Magically, it comes with a lot of options. Here you can change the size of this brush. You can make a bigger selection, you can make it fine-tuned, and you can select the hardness, the impact here on the spacing. So here I'll just try this thing. So when its hardness is set to zero, it will be early. In fact, anything make it hundred percent or something large. And here's the magic. We have clear this part of the ribbons with the surrounding surrounding beach sand areas. Spot healing tool is a magical tool in two ways. So in one way, you can bring some lost information in vintage photos and a different kind of things. And in other ways, Spot Healing also helps you re-imagine the image by removing unwanted components from the image very easily. So what is Spot Healing do? It just takes the average of the surrounding pixels and refills the selected area with the sideway areas. It do this thing by taking the average of nearby objects. Here. Sometimes the results may not be monotonous and it can change over time. So here, when you hover around some dense pixels with different colors, you can see different results for multiple time. So just hover around here. We got domesticated horse on. I'm trying to just remove all the ribbons and the bands on the belts from this horse and try to keep it free. So we want to liberate this while animal into the vial area so you can roam around in the wilderness as a one. So we have to remove the ribbons on. Current selection is a quite large in size. So just make it a little bit smaller. Here we are removing the hands of the owner. He went, said this wild animal free. Spot healing also allows you to mask or remove some people from photos. Like if you're traveling you a tourist place and it has a dense cloud there. And sometimes there could be a few people in the background. Just making your photo. Complete nonsense. And if you want to share it in the public domain, you want some exchanges to be removed. Only you and your background must be visible. So Spot Healing will help you definitely in a lot of scenarios. Here, we are trying to do the same things. This was a difficult subject to apply spot healing because this horse contains a lot of years. It has different textures. Also, it contains a variety of colors like our belt is, and dark black color. And some section of the horses skin and the face is generally in their dark brown. So it is difficult to distinguish between the black and the brown clue here. When, if the subject is in the sand area or the white skin, it is easy to remove. What you can do with overtime. Just hold down the Control Z shortcut key on the keyboard to undo any failed attempt here, you have to try this thing, the multiple ways because as you can see here, when you apply spot healing on a particular section of the image, it will generate different results. Over time. Say, You may differ with a little bit angle. And if you are using a drawing tablet, it would be a very good thing to do, but you can always do with a mouse. Currently I'm using a mouse here. To demonstrate interesting. Here, we have some image, we can have some difficult segment to choose color. So here we have three or four overlapping colors. Black belt, the pink mouth of this horse, a white and a brown skin tones, and a sandy desert spot. Healing brush gets confused. So what is the way out here? So simply, you can zoom in and make your selection area is small. This is a large image with a lot of details, generally short with ideas lack camera and you can use a mobile camera these days also have a lot of information, so it's better to zoom in, sample the pixels, the video. So here, when you zoom it, now the thing we can very easy and smooth. You can easily remove some sections. Although some sections could be refigured. You can try using different orientation of the Spot Healing. If you are applying a horizontal marking up this spot healing. So you can try using a different angle, try to make a c out of here. You need to practice as much as possible with this Spot Healing, cute, and overtime we were editing gets better. So try to re-imagine the photos the way you want and remove unwanted sections. Keep learning and keep moving. 6. Photo alteration with Spot healing: Hi, welcome back. Pain here in this lesson you're going to learn about the spot healing brush in Photoshop with an example. So here we got a difficult image. You apply spot healing brush because it has a lot of different colors and a detailed barbed wire in front of scenery. We have a natural scene with a Blake and mountains and the sky. And we want to remove this part wire to have a clear view. It is easy to remove the segment that has been in the sky that is overlapping this guy, because we've got a clear, clean background and we can just make a selection with the Spot Healing with adequate size. And we can just hover around to remove the selection. They move this barbed wire. But when it comes to the mountain and other complex image that has a, some details, do we really difficult to average the pixels next week? So here we are first trying to remove the sky segment of this part via sometimes you want to remove different things. A lot of tourists places these days have a lot of boundaries and restrictions and different kind of sign boards on a border. Fences that don't allow you to take a good shots of the same tree. So what to do? If you know Photoshop? Well, you can remove some of those components and sometimes all of those components using a lot of tools like the spot healing brush. There's one other thing that you can use. You can use the Patch Tool and other tools as well. So you heard unit TB patient. You need to select everything one by one. Don't try to be very quick here. Because if Spot Healing Brush takes the average of the pixels next to it, so you have to give it time. So if you take a brush with it, large size to make a complex selection, it won't do its work very well. So with the Photoshop, we are not just creative. We want to be fine tuned in our work. We want our work to be precise and a high-quality. So we do this thing very seriously. Moreover, if you want to remove some big segments from the image, it's better to increase the size of the brush itself. Just increase the size of the spot healing brush. Liquid, make it a little bit more bigger to remove it clearly, here. God, this work done very easily. But here you can see that a bigger size won't be handy in some scenarios that has a detail complex and so just reduce it to fit the requirements. If you've got a very fine removal subject, you can zoom in to the photo and choose etiquette size of the brush. To remove individual segments, you need to be patient and remove individual component very easily. You can play something in the background, like a music can just do this thing to keep it interesting. Just make it a little bit faster. Select those segments. One tip here, you can create some lines. All the curves. Don't just click. Once. You need to click and drag, it's better to drag inwards towards the subject that you want to remove because it will take the sample from a different angle, older nearby pixels. You can make C, you can make L, you can make I are different shapes, are anonymous. See if you can make curves or anything just right to move your spot healing brush as if you are painting over a particular segment. If you have a mouse or if you have a drawing tablet, you can use either of them. Here. Flu doesn't matters very much. And you can easily remove. Here. We got this mountain segments and we need to be little bit careful because sometimes we can alter the images as well. Because it may create some new peaks are new Regis that the mountains are generally not having. In this scenario. You need to be little bit careful. Or it can also is some images like if you select the point, the mountain as well, it will spill some soils are the vegetation in the lake, and it doesn't look very good. So you need to make a little bit clear selection. And here it looks like muddy. And we need to clear it. So even if it makes your image not too good, you can just increase the size, change the size of the brush, and try to make it clear. And just apply the brush multiple times over the same segment. Now if you want to remove otherwise, just press to undo multiple times the way you want. Okay? So we can try to remove different segments, but let's leave a few segments of this barbed wire. We don't want to completely remove this thing out of the screen. Even although if we can try, but just try to keep it for the learning purpose, you can apply the same mechanism here and remove everything when the photo and try to keep your photo natural. Sometimes you cannot remove everything that is not desired in the photo. It's better to take multiple shots of the photo. This photo was not intended to remove this end post-processing. Otherwise, we can have a different shooting angle for the camera itself. Or we can put the camera between the barbed wire to get a clear view. This photo could have been short. The barbed wire in the focus. But here we want to remove it for the learning purpose. So when you are trying to learn, any tool in Photoshop, say Spot Healing, are passed to. First try to learn with a simple image that you can do things very easily. And then try to take a difficult subject to do, as this photo was little bit difficult. But we tried to remove almost a lot of thing here. And we cleared a lot of things here. You can see we've got a clear view. We have removed some parts of the boundary and this earlier photo, and the final photo looks a little bit. Try to do this thing on your own. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 7. Use samples to create Patch: Hey, welcome back friend here in this lesson you're going to learn about Patch Tool in Photoshop. So you can find Patch Tool just below the spot healing brush. And it's allow you to mess around some segments of the photo. So here just make a selection of the thing that you want to remove. So here we have selected this car on the street and we have to just left-click and hover around. You can drag towards the upper side and lower left or right anywhere out of the patch. And it will be replaced with the image underlying next to their Sarah, as you can see here, we, earlier we got a car on the road and we can have removed is successfully. We have created a patch or a sampled area and put it over. The component that we want to remove are high. It is just similar to as a Taylor's due to mend. The turnout segments of the clothes we use. Not for the turned out, but we want to hide some things here in the photo. There we got this a busy street or haylage station. But we want to remove some sign boards, I advertisements and these cars from the scene. We want to make the road almost clear. They're just repeat the same steps using the patch tool. And you can use a combination of different selection and removal tool as well. But the point here is with a faster. So as you can see here, we are trying to make a selection using the Patch Tool for this car that is close to the tree. And when we try to create a patch, it won't be a gradual path. It will have a blur effect simply because we got a tree too much closer than that. It takes the sample. So let's try on different car. Say here we have this monthly remove this car, this a little bit section of the blue segment, and we can clear it using the spot healing brush. You can also remove other segments like here we got another sign board and just make a clear selection. If you find any difficulty in selection, just zoom in to the photo for fine-tuned selection. Otherwise, you can remove things the way we got left with two more cars that we want to remove. So just repeat the same step. Just make a patch tool selection and just hover around selected some area. Try to create a sharp boundary here. But it's still, there's a blurry effect. So you can clear it out using the Spot Healing Brush. You need to zoom in more to get a fine correctly. So here we can see the error because some parts of the tree is overlapping with this car. On this, we got this green blur effect. We also need to select a shadowed area. Make it clear selection. And here just try to do the same thing. Again, regard this loaded area. Why do we can even go to a spot healing brush and just change the size for the brush to make it fit. And hover around on the blurred area. Reduce a little bit. Have a fine adjustment. Selected area, just hover around to get a clear view up to photo. Here we got the road is cleaned up and the blower has been removed. So in the similar way, if you want to remove something with it, clean and refinished approach, you may use a combination of tools such as patch on the spot healing, brush, either of any selection tool, magic wand, or Lasso tool as well. So here we got this thing. It looks better than the earlier versions. And now we got this one more car. And here it is challenging because half segment of the car is covered on the road and half segment is on the mountain. So we cannot just simply remove everything. So here you can see that the spot healing brush works very well. And removing the blurred area in this part. So in the similar way you can also use you can use the Patch Tool two parts, or you can use the spot healing brush as well. So if you are making a selection over a large area, it's better to increase the size of this spot healing brush. Sometimes it could generate some weird results, but don't, don't worry, it just, you need to reapply the spot healing brush over and over again to make it clear that adjustment at once, if you're not satisfied, you can always undo the changes. Controlled procedure would be better if you want to move one step backwards. Here over time when you apply, it gets the image off the ground. See here it is. We have almost clearly removed. And here it is. You got this. These cars are removed. We got this image where there is no car or the sign boards we have removed to cosign boards and three cars. Four cars actually on the scene. And you can see the earlier image that was crowded. So once we zoom out and look toward the road, it looks very clear. So in the similar way, if you have a photograph offers some tourist place and you want to remove some persons are some things. Someone wanted tanks from the image. You can use a combination of past two and a Spot Healing Brush. Remove different things. So this is how you use the patch tool and as Spot Healing Brush and Photoshop. Try to create your own photo edits. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 8. Background replacement with Magic wand: Hey, welcome back friends. Here in this lesson you're going to learn about making a selection using the Magic Wand Tool. Magic wand is an amazing tool to make a selection very quickly and very easily. So we are currently using the essential dashboard and you can find a magic wand right below the Lasso tool, and above the crop and the Eyedropper tools. So here you've got two options, the Quick Selection and a magic one. We have to select the magic one and just click on the component that you want to remove. Sometimes it could be that clear if you have a lot of objects and the selection. But if you want to make a selection, you can just click around. And if we want to expand with more objects, you just need to hold down the Shift key on the keyboard and hover around to make more selection. So here, when we click just once on the sky, we got a few clouds selected. But holding the Shift key and clicking on more segments, we'll add more area very clearly to your photo. You can also repeat some segments by just simply undoing the changes that you have drawn, make the selection. So here we have just almost selected the entire Cloud and we want to remove this cloud and a few mountains in the background. So just, you can just press the Delete option on the keyboard or you can mask it out depends on your requirement. So here I want to just replace this as chi for this guy is policemen, and it will press the Delete option. And here we got this clear selection and we got just mountains. You can use this layer for creating any vectors or a different graphics, any composition in Photoshop. So here if you want to add this Mountains to any other compositions you can use. Here, we want to add a different mountains with a mobile towers installed and will be replaced, putting it in the background here, just select this image at the select and drag on the first image. By default, it has been created as a new layer and it is placed on the background. Here. If we don't consider the lightning issues, the photos are almost identical and we can simply replace any object with the magic wand. We have this empty mountain road and we've got if chi replaced completely and we can add a photo, you can crop or you can escape the background photo. You can move around the vertical and horizontal axis. You can scale. You can increase the size, reduce the size. You can change the orientation and a different thing. So it's better to just select a photo for the replacement that has a similar lightning and different conditions. Both of our skies are clear skies. Clear blue sky with the white clouds on. They look identical and natural. So the people looking at this image not too close, it will not be able to distinguish whether it's Photoshop or there's a Sky Replacement or not. Sky Replacement come in handy when you can use the magic one. Magic one can be used in a lot of scenarios. Try to use it in your phone photos. Keep learning and keep moving. 9. Clone objects with Stamp tool: Hey, welcome back friend here in this lesson you are going to learn about Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop. Let's start. Here We got two different shots of the same photo, same subject, who is playing a game of cricket. So let's merge them together. Here we got a window arrange and to split view. Here, we can look at both of these images together and the vertical way. So here on the left-hand side we've got an image and we want to apply Cloning stem. So just select the Clone Stamp and take a sample of the subject that you want to insert. So we're going to insert this ball, cricket ball from the right image, left side. So on the right-hand side, you can see the person actually played the wall. And here we can place the ball anywhere. But to make it more exact, exact, it's better to just place it somewhere right in the place it was there in the second photo. So this way we can have too short of a person missing a ball. And person actually taking a ball. For short could be a white ball or an oval. And a second ball is hit. B for sex, anything we want run. So this way we can alter the concept of photo and here it looks completely realistic. Okay, So this is how you use this amplitude. You can use the Clone Stamp. Take the sample to the point where you want to add. Here you require two images, although you can do in the same images. On the right-hand side, we also want to remove this subject, the person standing in the back to make your photo more attractive. We have sampled the ground on the right-hand side, and let's take the exact position. You have to just click once to the sample area to select a sample. Here, you click just take a fresh and just start painting over it. You can paint or you can just click to make it precise. I'm just matching this line, okay? You can take anything for refinance that will have a gradual effect. You can add the lost information and fill it in the photos. This is how you do this clone tool. When you have multiple versions of the same photo, say this is a quicker short and we make it short. The same person with different angles. Sometimes you may have missed a wall, sometimes he have missed a white wall. The novel, The sakes hit, run anything. And we can create all the things. Say here. Just imagine we are creating a photo Tudor of a cricket match. How different positions that you can do? What should we prescribe? How you can take a ball, how it can miss a ball. This could be used for any kid mandating. And here we can just add it to show it for break-even. The planet, the only Stamp tool comes in handy where you've got multiple images are the same subject. You can use any other selection tool like Quick Selection, Magic Wand or anything else. But here in this particular scenario, when you have multiple photos, It's better to use the clone stamp because the ACLU and this term would have a smooth effect. It won't have an intersection. The sample area is large. You can also change the size of the brush. Sometimes if your subject is too complex, it's advisable to just go into this object and match. So here we have created these two images. And you can use the selection tool, draw a rectangle to crop the photo to get the subject that you want to hear. We got distinct and we can go to the edit or the image to crop an image. You can also transform this subject. You can scale it up, you can rotate, we can flip, you can design a poster, you can create a composition, anything you want. You can create a new layer out of the subject and you can export it to the way you want. You can turn the visibility mode on and off to make the main image. And this is how we do. This is clone stamp was very easy. Try to apply this thing on any photo, take multiple shots of the same subject. We eat a player or versions of different transportation bikes and so on. 10. How to apply Exposure with contrast: Hi, welcome back. In this lesson, you're going to learn about changing the values of exposure contrast, brightness, and the gamma correction in Photoshop. So let's learn. So here we got this photo of a wild tiger, but this photo is short and a lot of shadows and darkness. So they are less like. We just need to create an adjustment layer for exposure first, just increase the value of exposure by changing, moving this slider control here. You can also do some gamma correction and change the value of brightness and contrast as well. Next, you need to create one more layer for brightness and contrast. And increase the value of brightness and decrease the value of contrast to make your photo look distinguishable and vibrant. So here you can note here the entire image has been enhanced with a change of exposure, contrast, and brightness levels. But sometimes there could be scenarios that we want to increase the contrast and exposure only for a certain segment of the photo. So how you can do that, you will learn. Now. There could be different techniques. You can use various selection tool to make a selection of a segment in your photo. And you can partially increase the value of exposure or add any adjustment layer, be dark, a gradient map, anything. Okay, So we will using the Lasso tool and the Magnetic Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Select Subject sometimes automatically and almost perfectly well. So here we just need to select this subject here we got this tiger that is in dark color. So what we will do here, we will just select this tiger and apply the adjustment layers for exposure and contrast just to this tiger. But we will keep the background in the dark. Okay? So we want to highlight just this tiger. You can do with different kinds of photos or anything like that. You can apply. You can also apply the value change how the dry darkness or adjustment layers in gradual form say, well for the Tiger, this is the main subject. It is in centre. We can increase it to contrast or exposure to a certain level. And we can add some buffer layers in between. The buffer layer is nothing but just, you got two or three layers of the same image. And you can gradually change. It will look like a light is coming out of these tiger and aura. What feels like what? It will look dramatic. You keep it real. Just select this thing and make the selection object. Once you are done with the selection and moving. And if they're just add an adjustment layer and the hair, you got this mask. So now if you increase the value, changed the value of anything, say increase or decrease, it will only affect the selection. So here we have selected this tiger. It will uniformly have factors. But there could be scenarios as well where you want to change certain areas even after Tiger say, if you want to highlight is tiger's eyes and keep them out. And the same level, same brightness level that was earlier. You can also do so. There you learned about at curating adjustment layer for exposure, brightness and contrast. Also, you'll learn how to make a selection and apply selective exposure and selective contrast. So just make a selection, apply all the value of properties or any adjustment layer to the area that you want. So if you're not satisfied with the selection and the change of values, you can read, apply and tried to make a selection once more time out. My tape is here that don't go for extreme values for exposure, contrast and brightness. Keep it in the mid-range. Try on your own. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 11. Hue saturation adjustment: Hi, welcome back friend here in this lesson you're going to learn about getting hue saturation adjustment layer in Photoshop. There are different ways to create an adjustment layer. You can right-click from the layer panel or you can go to the adjustment panel selector option. So here we are going to select a hue option and we want to change the color of this photo. So by default it is set to costume. And when we change the value of U, all the colors in the photo will be affected. So here we can change the colors to red to green and different spectrum of colors. It will affect everything. So here you are learning to apply the hue in different ways. So it's better to create a replica, a duplicate layer of the same photo. So here we have applied one adjustment layer, and now we're going to clear another adjustment here. So here this is net adjustment layer. Here we want to just affect the blue section of the photo. So you can change the value from customed to blue, and then you can slide the value of U. So it will only affect the blue components on your photo. Here on the right-hand side, we got this blue colored wall and we can change the value of blue. Okay? We can make it light blue, we can make it dark blue. We can make it green, read anything. It will only affect this particular volume. It won't affect the screen and a white ceiling. When we change the value in the custom setting, it will affect all the colors. Remember, each photo has three basic data for about pixel RGB, red, green, and blue values. So only blue values will be affected in this way, you can use red, green, yellow, and different thing as well from a photo. So if you have a photo where which have clear distinguish colors, you can choose a setting for blue, yellow, and changing the value of different use. I'll go to the default. So here we have this painted wall. So just imagine we are running a painting company, and here we paint different words. So we have short this photo for two different colors, and now we want to create differentiates. There are two ways, rather to paint the walls again and again with different colors. And it would be a costly and time taking approach. Rather than we can open the Photoshop, create different hue adjustment layers, and change the value of the wall colors in differentiates. This way you can decide which color to go. So your clients or the customers and everyone would have option to choose a color combination here. And they would have an idea how it will appear. So here we are changing the value of this green component. Try to make it purple. Sometimes you can make it red or pink or yellow. And try to keep differentiates. You can save, create different adjustment layers and save it for the reference purpose. And you can change. You can also sample a particular color. You can use this eyedropper tool in the adjustment layer as well and assemble a particular color and change its value. So it is advisable when you have to decide when you have certain photo and you have to edit in different ways using the color combination. So you can create a palette out of it. Okay, this is just a palette option of different colors. And you can decide which one to go. So you have to save it in a Photoshop file and save it in JPEG or PNG. That because there are images and you want to have all the adjustment layer information intact. So for those who don't know about the difference between Photoshop, PSD file, energy pack. It as simple as JPEG file is just an image. It's a singularity much. Okay, All ears are combined into a single image. You cannot re-edit anything that is already edited, okay? Because all the edited information and the data about adjustment layers and differently as a lost, simply all the mask and reducing is lost. In order to keep it safe for the future edits, you have to save it in Photoshop file. So here we are creating different adjustments here. And we can export each individual photos by changing adjustment layer, the visibility mode. You can keep the black and white color as well. Take any different photo of room. This is a simple rule. You can take anything, you can take a bungalow, you can short anything. You can change the value of colors or cars. You can decide. And you can change the colors using the hue adjustment layers. The similar way, you can also create different adjustment layers, like black and white and different other layers, gradient map. You can combine those layers to create a master art piece. So once you are done setting all the adjustment layer, just simply turn the visibility mode on and off. For having a loop over various color options. I'll have a color palette that you will create it for this fall. So try to create this on your own. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 12. Selective color: Hey, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you are going to learn about creating a Selectric color effect in Photoshop. So let's start. So here we've got an image with a few tropical fruits go over, kept in the background. Hey, we got a beautifully shop. Well why in the center? And we can add the gray scale adjustment layer and change the value of individual colors. Once you increase the values of the yellow color or decrease the value of yellow color. The component captain yellow color will be in dark, otherwise it will be bright. So this is how you set the gray scale adjustment layer. But first we are going to create a mask here. So you can use any selection tool I'm using to pick selection tool and just hold the left mouse click and just drop over the selection. So next, we want to change the color of the background of this photo other than the selected area to be black and white. So we have selected this component. We need to just right-click and invert selection. This way. Just right-click, select, invert. This way, we have selected everything else other than this cut banana. And when we hit a gray scale adjustment layer, it will convert everything into grayscale. Next, we can change the value of individual colors, like intensity of the green and a yellow color because the fruits are outer layer of the fruits are generally in yellow and green color. We can make it more intense, black, or intensified depending on your choice. And we just have this pinkish cut, beautifully cut guava kept in the center with the pink color. This black in the background, black and white in the background, and the red color. Or you can have any color. Here we are using the red color will keep more emphasis on the photo. It will add to narrate your story a photo in a different way. So for Instagrammers and everybody will do this kind of photo edits. This is the effect that you can do very easily in Photoshop. That it is still on Iran. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 13. Thermal camera effect: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you are going to learn about creating a thermal camera and photo. So let's start. Here. We got a photo with a few monkeys sitting on the mountain clip. And you can use any selection tool to select the area that you want to change the color. Here, Let's make a quick selection using this quick selection paintbrush. And here we got the selection of a few monkeys. You can create a mask here. You could change the background to gray scale or add any adjustment layer. But here we will be using the gradient map to allow the change in colors. So what is a thermal camera? Thermal camera or a heatmap is an image that has different colors. Now show that cool colors are represented in green and blue shades. The warm colors are represented in red and yellow. So here you just need to go to Adjustment Layer. And last option is the gradient map. Here we got a different options. You can select the blue and yellow duotone. You can say Duotone for orange and different color. You can also choose your own custom color as well. Here you can create a black and white poster as well, and a different thing. So for creating a thermal camera, we will be going with her rainbow option. And as you can see here, the monkeys are colored in red and warm colors because they're mammals and the warm blooded animals. Background is in the cool color, the blue and the purple. And the ground is in a mix of normal colors in between. So here, the thermal camera, it looks natural and realistic. Sometimes in different photos, it won't be realistic because this is not a real thermal camera photo, but you can create using gradient maps. So this was an easy approach to creating a heat map. Try creating your own time and photos. Practice with different stocks. So Tilden, keep learning and keep moving ahead. 14. Change season with Channel mixer: Hey, welcome back friend here in this lesson you are going to learn about channel mixer adjustment layer in Photoshop. So let's learn about this. Here we've got an image of a forest that has a lush green and dense forest in the monsoon season. So here we want to just create some adjustment layer. Just create an adjustment layer for the channel mixer. You can change the value of the channel mixer. There's like this. So here you got a slider control and you can change the value of any color here we got the green color. If you want to change the value of the green color, you can make it a little bit yellow so that it will feel like it is an autumn season. So you have to add a combination of these three colors. So it's better to reduce the intensity of red, change the value of pre-Internet more vibrant, and make the blue, keep the blue in the mid tones. So here we got this. All the color, green color has been changed to the vibrant yellow color on the road. Paved road is now more Black Hand Luke with DC. In this technique, we can simply change any photo that is shot in the monsoon season and the rainy season. The lush green primer into an autumn season climate. In the similar way, you can change it to the spring season as well. You can change the color not just into the green and yellow. You can also change the value of entropy in red, blue, or any color you want. Also, you can change the components of individual segments or the photo. Say, here we use the quick selection tool to select the grass, the shrubs, and this photo and change it in a different color. Let's similar way you can select a different thing as well. We just move around with this quick selection tool to select some segment of the graph. You can use any other tool like lasso tool order to Lasswell. Here we got this right-hand side. The glass is being selected and we'll create a new layer, hue and saturation. And we can change the value of hue and saturation. Okay? So let's try to change. It. Can change the individual colors, not just Western color. You can change the value of yellows, greens, blues, and the reds. This class was generally in the green color. How it looks like, yellow color due to the adjustment layer that we have used. So you can decide the color accordingly. And you can change the value of individual color. You can make a lavender, blue, pink, and red. The yellow, change it to a different color. And here we are destined. Try different colors until you are pretty sure that you have to go with that particular color. Otherwise, just keep on trying. You can also create multiple adjustment here for individual selections and individual mask. And just turn the visibility mode on and off to decide which one you should go. Here we got this little bit. We read graphs on the right-hand side. In the similar way, we can use the same selection tool, the Quick Selection Tool here, to select the graphs on the left-hand side. In this way, we can change it the same color or you can have a different color. Sometimes in the autumn season, you require some leaves to be turned. Yellow. Golden color are some leaves could turn like maple leaves turn to red color. So this way you can make a selective adjustment. Some trees are some plants that we in yellow, some to be in green, and some could be converted to red, violet, anything like that. You can not just change the value of entire scene. You can also select an individual mask. But there could be some difficulties. Lot of complex actions. So you can zoom in to make a proper selection. So this was an earlier photo to tropical. And then we apply some mask here, change a value that adjustment layer, turn it the item color. Now, we can have this red shape using the selection tool. We have used two adjustment layers, generally speaking. One for the channel mixer to change the value of all the green color into the yellow for autumn season and an adjustment layer for him. Try doing this thing on your own photos. Alien, keep learning and keep moving ahead. 15. Create Duotone with gradient map: Hey, welcome back friend here in this lesson, you're going to learn about creating a duotone effect in Photoshop using gradient map adjustment layer. Here we've got an image of a migratory bird. And we want to change all the colors of this image into just two colors. So just go to the adjustment layer. And the last option is the Gradient Map. So just click on this to add a gradient map adjustment layer. You can also add a gradient map by right-clicking the layer panel and different ways. So here we got by default some options. Red, green, purple, orange, different colors. For duotone. Different photos work in different ways. Say, if you require these images, you can also create a heatmap different color map. Here we want to create a custom duotone effect. And it can be done very easily. Okay, There's no need for paintbrush or any complex prisoners here. We're just using the gradient map. So here we've got these two colors and the violet and orange. And here we have to just double-click the selection of a color option. And you can change the value of the color. You can change it to the brown. You've got these three options. You got to change it to white. And when you double-click, you are anti color spectrum. And you can see it a value into different things. We can change the hue to red, pink, blue, green. Vesting is you should play with the colors. Just be open to experiment with a different color. And based on your color desire, your mood, or your narration of this story that you want to convey with this photo. You can change the color. If you want to run a campaign to save migratory birds, you can change the color to green or something like that will appeal people. And if you want to just add something to your project work, you can choose a different color. If you are, know the color theory where you can choose a proper color combination, because we are using a duotone, we can have two colors. So I would prefer using the green color tone here. So we will be experimenting with a light green and a combination of blue and a yellow. You can go with the overlapping colors. The blue and yellow are close to degree. You're going to explain it other colors as well. Although you can add multiple colors and do the color spectrum. Here we got this Duotone in the similar way, you can create tritone and more different number of tones. You can use three colors, fall colors, multiple colors, any number of colors you want. You have in photo. It will affect the colors based on the darkness and a brightness. Here. If you select two different colors, one dark and Windham, right? So the dark color would affect the shadows and the dark colors, dark areas of the photo and the white-collar will affect y. Here we choose the two different colors, one yellow and one dark green. We can also change the value of the slider. So we can increase the value of greenness or yellowness in a same photo. You can also add, just add more colors here. Okay, so just experiment. So here we are using a two combination of green and yellow. So we will experiment with increasing the green component or the real component. So when you increase the value of green component of photo doesn't look decent. We will try increasing the value of yellow. I'll just keep it normal ear. Okay. You can also individually dragged the shadows, the highlights and the dark and the right spectrum as well. Once you are done, just hit Okay. And a gradient map layer adjustment layer resupply can also apply the gradient map adjustment layer multiple times. So if you want to have some advanced customize colors, you can do so. You can turn the opacity and different color options differently. Okay, So if you're just not sure about what color to choose, it's better to just duplicate the original photo, keep it one over another. And just try to apply the gradient map adjustment layer multiple times. Say one with this orange and purple color and one with the custom color that we have created, a green and yellow shade. You can have different things. So if you want to take opening of your friends or colleagues and anybody else, you can show them various options that you have created and then you can decide which option to choose. So try to do this on your own. Play with the Gradient Map, create amazing duotones. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 16. Create Neon Glow text: Hello, welcome to this lesson where you're going to learn about creating a glowing text effect in Photoshop, or you can call it neon light effect. So here, first we need to just create a text, write something on their screen that we want to glow. So here, just write positive vibes, only, just keep it positive. We can place this thing in front of anywhere. Here this is. So you can change the font size, font, color, font, type, anything. You can decide, just go with your selected option or making it quite large. A different variety. I prefer central spacing here because we have just few texture. You can put any texts and the capital or response. So next, we just need to, we'll creating a Gaussian blur to have this blurred effect. There could be different ways to create neon effect. What we would be going with this Gaussian blur effect. So here I've created this text. And next we'll be creating five different layers. All this color. Reposition this text on the screen. And here we got this background color and this text. Okay, just create a new group here by hitting the folder icon for this text layer inside that group. So you can convert it to the smart object, right-click convert to smart object. Next we need to go to Filter menu. In the filter go to blur and Gaussian blur. This will create a Gaussian Blur and reset default radius 2.7. You can take any decimal value here. You can provide any value here. What will be creating five Gaussian blurs. So just copy this layer and paste it. Control C and Control V, or the shortcuts you can use. So I've taken this five times if you want more accurate, use 9711, anything. One, and just gradually increase the radius. So the bottom most layer, how the minimal radius that is increasing over time. So let's provide these values. I'm providing the value is 0.77, 2,777.2, 50. You can provide any values. Don't be crazy about. We just don't need few layers. The more Gaussian layers with different radius you are, the more smooth this effect will look like. So don't worry, if it looks blurry right now. We will change everything to make it the same. So we have to change the blending mode here and set everything in the group. Okay? So you can create a new solid with a different color. We'll be using the background color black. Because we are using a light. Light is more displayed in a better way when it is kept in front of something dark. So here, you can change each blending mode. Just select each Gaussian mode handset to screen. Screen blending mode is used to light and something. It will enhance the lights from your layers. Next we will apply a gradient map. So first apply the screen. On each Blending Mode. You could use a different blending mode. Learn about lending word by practicing this in different photos and people moving. Learning more in the coming lessons. Till then, keep learning, keep pulling your hair. 17. Applying glow layers: Welcome back. In the previous lesson, we have created a neon glow text effect in Photoshop, and now it's time to move forward and add something to it. So just add a gradient map here and go to the adjustment option. And you got to create an adjustment layer. For the gradient map. We have added Gaussian blur, the blending mode, and different things. Here, we just need to add this gradient map. So take the color of your choice. You can use various predefined gradients. You can use orange, yellow color, the dark green, or different colors. You can choose a rainbow colors. And this vibrant green color also looks good. You can use the pink color or you can choose a custom color and you can create your own color as well. So here, this is a gradient map that has multiple color values. And currently the green and the blue are displaying the list j is take this gradient map with a black and white color. Here you got this many different options for hue saturation and field. Click here to choose a color. Let's try with the red color. So you can do two things. You can change the color one-by-one and decide which one appear, looks good. You can go with that particular Neon effect. Otherwise, you can create different adjustment layer, each for different gradient maps and turn the visibility mode on and off. And this way, you can share with your peers, friends, colleagues, and discuss which color looks good. Here, Let's try to dark red color. You can take the yellow, pink, or different color. Okay, so just try with the pink color. It looks good. Now, this is the orange color you can use. You can use this neon glow effect. The weight and add to follow here. The Gaussian blur to the Gradient Map, the blending mode, everything. And you can change the background as well. Okay? You can also increase the intensity of a particular color by changing the slider. You can increase the proportion of orange color, red color. You can also play some color in-between. Just hit in-between and place a color used. If we're using this color palette option, you can provide any color. You can also sample a color from the image using the eyedropper tool. We just adjust. This is lighter, you have a field. Here, we've got different shades of color, from red to yellow, with the orange colored in-between. So this is a vibrant neon effect. You can see here the Gaussian blur works very well. So if you have this same maximum radius was to 50, when you increase it from 250 to say thousand, it will have more gassy look like it is for the light is refracted on the foggy climate. So you can add this thing more. You could have different radius or combination of radiation, the gradient map. You can turn the visibility mode on and off for the background adjustment layer and the groups as well. And you can change the color anytime you want. You can take the saturation that you are different points to decide to color. You can also change the color of your background as well, your light. And just experiment with this to try to create your own glowing text effect on neon light effect in Photoshop. Enjoy learning. Keep learning, and keep moving ahead. 18. Create travel postcard with brush: Hey, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you're going to learn about creating a travel postcards in Photoshop. So let's start. Here. We got a photo of a beautiful is no mountains are under agriculture field and a clear sky. And we want to create a postcard here. So there are various ways to create a postcard, but you will be using a simple effect where we painting over this photo as it is painted. So here, just create a new solid layer and create a mask. Don't forget to create a mask. Because when you create a mask, it will allow you to paint over this thing. Okay, So here just select the paintbrush and the brush you want to select and make the color to black. Because when you paint over a mask with a black color, the background layer or a start appearing. Here we have to paint over a certain section. You can paint over as if this is painted, this is revealed. This kind of effect is quite popular among travel bloggers and travel influencers. A lot of Instagrammers also use this kind of effect. Now you know how to do this thing. So now it's going to make it perfect. You can change the color of the brush from black to white. When you paint white over something, it will work as an eraser, okay? Moreover, you can use different blending modes that can enhance your photo. You can turn the opacity and a different way. So I won't be adding any blending mode. Let's keep it in a normal world. You can change the size of this brush and paint over the screen to the particular section that you want. So here we just want some segments of the sky. Some lands on. This mountain is no mountains. You can paint in a different way. You can add text as well, just hypertext. You can add text wetter brush itself, just light travel. We can write anything. This is not sufficient space to write, Trevor. So we can create a logo here. We can create a mountain. You can add anything, just anything. It will just start painting. You can draw something in shapes. You can draw outlines of the shapes and add the background as well. You can do anything with this technique. You can use different paintbrush because different paintbrush will have a different influence over. Thanks. I've created a custom brush, fire brush, and we're using this to reveal. But you can use a different brush here. Each branch will have a different texture, like oil paint, watercolor, and different thing. You could have a strong, you can increase the value of flow. Anything. We just write any texts here I'm writing is no. It is. It will add reflect the color of the background. Here we have retained in the sky. So this thing is really, now we want to write the same thing over this image as well. It will reveal the light color. Here we have change it to white. So as it is working like an eraser, because this photo is being revealed in the white color. So just practice this technique. You can use a variety of photos. You can use the rotary for tools, you can use. Oceans, sea, mountains, cityscapes, you can reveal the city is that we are going just try to apply this effect. Just take a photo, create a mask with different color here I'm using the white color. You can take Moscow unequal and just start painting over it and try to reveal your background subjects. You can also combine different photos as well. Just placed them on the screen, on the art board. Placed one thing on the right-hand side, something on the left-hand side. And when you I start painting, it will reveal both of them as if they are used as a photo collage, but it is an artistic photo collage. Just make time to practice this skill set. The more you practice, the more you'll learn. Just take our different photos from the city's mountains and the sea and practices that you're learning more in the coming lessons. Till then, keep learning, keep pulling your hair. 19. Create a Photoshop Action: Hey, welcome back friend here in this lesson you're going to learn about very interesting concept in Photoshop that's called action. Action allows you to automate certain tasks or operations for editing a photo or creating in hardware. So here we have four different photos and we can open their actions by just going through the window menu. And just we'll move to actions. So once you have this Action tab open, you can use any of the actions that comes pre-installed with the Photoshop, or you can create custom actions and you can perform actions. Okay? So what are actions really? Photoshop action is a series of tasks or steps that you can playback or performed on a single or a batch of five. Okay, so here we got this photo. So actions are useful, say, in the scenario where you have, say, hundreds or thousands of photos with the same lighting conditions, same colors and different things. Say if you have traveled to a remote island, almost all the photos have the same composition and you have to set some adjustment layer for saturation, expos or hue or something like that. And in order to perform the same steps again and again over multiple photos, it's better to automate it. So you have to perform the steps once, only once a single photo, we will record the action and we'll go to all other photos and just press the play button. This will reduce the time that we take. So here, you can create an action by just moving to the create action options. There. You have to provide a name for your actions. Say here we write gray action because we will be converting this photo into black and white. Now the combination of gray with some changing the red and green components. You can add a shortcut key here that will trigger you, say if you set F to L, or you can also set Shift or Control C. If you press the Shift F2, the same action we played. Okay, So in order to record this, hit the Record option and perform any steps. So here we have unlocked this background layer. First operation. Second operation is we are creating a black and white. So here we got this black and white color. We can change the value of reds, yellows, greens, and blue. So let's increase the value of red. And next, you decrease the value of yellow and a green color. We also got the c and the blue and purple color. We can change the values of these colors. You can perform any operations, say like that is general or uniform, somewhat uniform over photos. Say if you try to create a mask or crop any particular entity in a photo, other photos will have affected because you have to be in the similar way. Here, if I use the patch tool, it makes no sense. If we have a different subject of photo. Here, we are just adding a gradient here. And the gradient, we can change the value of gradient opacity and different other properties. You could add something more. Try adding different adjustment layer, creating a dual to try to Gradient Map. Okay? Just do anything you want. You can add a text here, perform anything, and once you are done, you have to just hit the stop. I can stop the action. So here all the steps are recorded, an expo to another photo and select your action and just hit the play button. You can press the shortcut key. So what? We have created a shortcut key Control F to say here we have applied this action. Okay, you can create any kind of action. This will help you automate things. Lot of people, no editing, but the thing that distinguish between a professional or a beginner, something is called action. Here. There are more concepts in Photoshop that professionals use to save their time, automate a lot of thing. This is a 21st century is the age of automation. And you have to automate a lot of thing here. And actions allow you to do this thing very easily and very quickly. Okay? So once you're not satisfied with connection, you can delete the layer that is created. You could undo that action. You can press Control Z to undo that action. I'll just try a different action. So I would recommend you to just go to your photos and create certain actions, perform certain operations, and keep it generalized. And in the future, if you require these actions, you can use a different action. E.g. you could create an action for adjustment layer like gradient map, you can create a yellow and blue duotone. You can create an action for gray scale, not just the general gray scale. A specific value with a red color, reduced, green color increased, or anything like that. Okay, just try creating a combination of thing and keep your actions ready. Later on, once you apply these concepts in Photoshop practice well, you can create some advanced actions that you can't imagine where you usually, it's anything you can imagine you can create with Photoshop. So be creative. Keep loading back, keep moving ahead. 20. Create a LUT Lookup Table: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson we're going to learn about creating a lookup table in Photoshop. So let's start. Lookup table is also known as the LUT, and they are widely used in the industry across different platform. So here we will be creating multiple adjustment layer for this photo. So first create a black and white adjustment layer and you can control the values of reds, yellows, greens, blues, CN, and purple. Magenta. Here just change the values. I'm just decreasing the value of red, increasing the value of yellow and green, the moderate level. And you can take the value of blues to the extreme value. Because in this photo we have less blue color. Here we can change the value of made into S. Next, we'll recreating an adjustment layer for photo filter. Change the color. So you can find a photo filter adjustment layer and the adjustment panel or you can right-click to create filter here. Just change it to any color you want. Here I want to change it to green color because we are creating this LUT for the green wash. Luts are widely used in the industry, mainly in the Hollywood, in Hollywood. And they are widely used when you have to apply the color grading techniques across different softwares. So if you are using a more creating motion graphics with After Effects or Premiere Pro. And you need some similar color grading scheme as you have designed a poster up in Photoshop or Illustrator to have a consistency there, allergies are widely used. Luts are just like a preset. They are widely different because our Lightroom preset is just supported in the Lightroom. Whereas LUT supported across different platform, different software vendors and others. In industry, if various people, various teams are working on a different software, they could have this common color grading scheme. So you should learn LUTs and you could use LUT if we're really serious about building a carrier in this domain. Okay? So we have created different layers for the brightness and contrast, and we have are created labels on the curves. So let's move to the curve. Curves are one as the most advanced and very widely used adjustment layer in Photoshop and Lightroom. And here you can easily control the highlights that to a highlight, dark shadows and sections. Here. Just remove this. Take the value of the shadow a little bit lower, and you can change the value of highlights, increase the value of shadows. The lower point is shadow, the lowest point is dark. So we don't want extreme dark values to make it a slight gradual increase the value of darkness. You can also experiment with creating different things. Ideally, people prefer creating a with the kind of curve or reverse S. You can customize it as per requirement. Here we'd agree we have reduced the value of darkness while keeping the value of highlights and shadows almost intact. Little bit change. Okay, So this is a adjustment layer. So we have created a different adjustment layers and these are applied to this photo. So what happens? We can save this, these all adjustment layer as a single lookup table. So you have to just go to the File, go to Export. And here in the Xcode you can find a color lookup tables. So let's go to this option, color lookup tables. To create a lookup table, you need to provide a name for this lookup table. Let me provide any green with low dark. So here we have this color grade for the green color with low value after dark in the tone curve. So we have to provide this name. You can go with a medium, low, or the high-quality. High-quality are generally preferred by the industrial industry. But if you are doing this for your own purpose of a hobby, you can go with a medium or the high value. These days, computers have a high processing capability. So if you are using a high-end device, you should go with the high. Otherwise, you can keep it medium. Next you have to select a format that you want to export. You can export with all of the formats or you can check anyone. Here I'm using the cube because it works very well with the Photoshop. Just provide a name for this LUT again and hit the Save. Once you are done, you remember to find this location where your files are saved. You can hear this LUT file so to France or anywhere, anywhere else. So here, let me just turn the visibility mode of all these adjustment layers. And here we want to apply this color lookup table. Let's go to this icon and add color lookup. Once you click this color lookup, it will allow you to add lookup tables or LUTs. And here you can drag down to select Built-in preset or building color lookup table. In Photoshop, there are a wide range of these options. You can try this thing, SAP or the default, Fujifilm, canon and other things. But we want to import our own color lookup table. So we can import just go to color lookup and Harris color lookup. You can also browse if it is anywhere else. And here we have applied testing. If we want to add a common color grading is K, it's better to use a color lookup table. So this is how you can create a lookup table and Photoshop. Try creating your own lookup tables with different shapes and different combinations, different color. Use a variety of adjustment layers. And you can also apply multiple LUTs lookup table on the single photo because lookup table is also a layer. Try experimenting with this lookup table. Go to Photoshop, apply, use various photos, perform different kinds of edits and create amazing LUTs. And share with the world. 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