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1. Intro: Hello, beautiful people. I will show you how I prepare
my posts for social media. This is the follow-up class for the watercolor and ink
sketching class in the park, which is the first of a
series that we're gonna do. Now that we've done
this beautiful sketch, what are you gonna
do with it so we can present it well on social media. If you haven't checked out my
class from urban sketching, to feel free to go and check it out if you already have
an artwork ready to go. Why not go ahead with this one? Instead?
2. Retouching in Photoshop + Express: Once you've scanned
your artwork, preferably you're going to use a scanner with 300
DPI, at least. In order to prepare
something for social media, I recommend something that's 1,000 pixels by 1,000 pixels. This is an RGB color mode, meaning that this is
meant to be seen on screen since the data
posted on social media. Are we going to send it in
an email to my mom, e.g. so it's going to be
RGB and not CMYK, which is more for printing. However, I do prefer usually to still go with the resolution
that is 300 pixels per inch. Even though you
could go lower for something that is just
a digital format, I prefer to keep it
this way, however, first we're going to
bring in our scan. This obviously is much smaller
than my actual sketchbook, so I don't feel bad
about resizing this up a little bit without
being too afraid that it's going to
pixelate and hit Confirm. Okay, now we have our skin
in our digital form it, but it's still far
from perfect in it. First of all, I'm going to
clean it up a little bit using the rectangle tool here already, we can get rid of a lot
of impurities of people. Okay, now you see that the inside of our
sketch is selected. However we want to do is select everything that is outside. That being said. Keep in mind that now even what we do not see on our
Canvas is still there. It's still there. It is. Non-destructive way of working. So if you want to see everything
that's going on outside, it's actually seems
to Canvas size here. If you want to change
the canvas size, you can go to Image and concise. So now you can see that
there's actually still a whole lot left over. So if we drag out a rectangle, we want to invert our selection. There will be Command Shift I. Now you can see all of the dual marching
ends that actually cover everything outside
of what our motive is. It will give us
an error message. Why? Because it's
a smart object. You can actually just
intervene like this. So you right-click
on your layer. And then you can restaurants
in there. There you go. Now it's a raster image and I
can just delete everything. I go back to my original 1000s, still not super pure visible. I want to get rid of this
background here for a second so I can see what is
or isn't transparent thing. And now we still need to
clean up those edges. But you can also see that the
page walked a little bit. So there are sort
of dark puddles and they are brighter spots. So what I do is I go in with Command L to bring
that all levels panel. And she can adapt
it a little bit. You see as a slide, as I move the slider, this is bringing
our darker tones. Darker. If you feel like you want
to prove and the contrast, go ahead and improve
the contrast. For me, I don't usually
touch it that much because I feel like
that's kind of the point of the watercolors of the arm with more
soft and subtle. What I'm interested
in a little bit more. These sliders here you can see that's bringing up the shadows. Here we have our mid-tones. You can even make it really
pale or pretty dark. I want to bring the whiter tat. You also have the possibility to bring up the Lasso
tool with the L. And only select
parts of your image. And now you see only bring up certain areas and
not the entire image. You could just select
the magic wand, everything that's
white, you see the car was eventually things
within our picture. That's not what we
want to select. You have another option, which is actually
selecting the color range. But you will encounter much
of the same problem you can see within the square over here. And the right-hand side, what is selected
or not selected. So if you want to give it
up on the specific colors, this is a great tool to have. Now you can see what is
selected in my image. We could go ahead and delete it. Now what is transparent? This is still not quite
exactly what we really want. So if you were to put
it on top of an image, let's say you have something
that is underneath just to show you what
it would look like. If I fill it with black.
That's what it looks like. And that's still not very sexy. But that's okay. You're going
to fix this in a moment. You're going to get rid of this background layer
for just a second. What I would like to
do is I would like to actually work a little
bit with a texture. I'm bringing up
the texture brush. This one is chalk on cardboards, one of Kyle brushes, if I'm not mistaken, this is a free brush to
download on the Adobe website. You can get it on
all of your devices. No problem. I like it because textured. So I want to make sure that I'm on the white since the pages white colored ones are
working differently. And I want to bring up the
brush size just a little bit. It's obviously not
only on a new layer. Drag that layer
underneath our motive. And now we can even this out. What is nice about it, that even the brush that we
apply has some texture to it that makes the
edge a bit uneven, but it looks much
more intentional. We could even sample the color of the actual
color of the paper. Never more tone down version
that is not as bright. There's a neat little
trick that we can use. That is, as you go up here to
the settings of the brush, From know more, you can
actually select Clear. And now it's an eraser. Now I can erase elements. Why is it not erasing? Because I'm on the layer where
I've just only for white. This is actually our motive. Of course, you could mask it out if you want to go
non-destructive and just mask it and you would have the same
kind of texture effect. Who is there? Let's go back to normal. Like to have this overselling
it just because it just, I feel like it makes
it more interesting. Now, if you wanted to
check what it looks like, we can always bring down the second layer
in a darker color. You expect that's what's
easiest for the bucket tool. And now that gives you an
idea of what it looks like. Immediately, I feel like
there's a couple of things I want to clean up
just a little bit more. I go back to clear and just
clear out a couple of things. You can copy what you have in your group
and merge it down. So I don't need that background. That was just to see
what I'm what I'm doing. I grouped the background
and the original piece. This is my original. I'm going to call this working and I'm gonna duplicate it. On this one. I can merge down. So it's just one flat image. If you wanted to have a
consistent look for all of your posts for
a specific series. And you want to always
reuse this white frame. But I would recommend is
actually filling out this frame. If you're already in
the Creative Cloud. What is great about
this is now you can use this finished image
and you can use my library is open if for any reason do not see
your libraries here, you're going to Window
and you select Libraries, and then it will show up. And that shows you
all of the libraries. Here we are in a library that I created for nature assets. You see that I already
imported right here. These are, this is the scarf
on my very first lesson, if interested in painting in
watercolor and ink scalp. So that's something new. And you see I already
tracking in here, so you just click hold, drag it into your library and loaded into your
library immediately. So you want to go open a new browser window or
tab to go to Adobe XD. Adobe Express is free to use. So even if you don't have the full Creative
Cloud subscription, you can absolutely
use Adobe express, a lot of quick actions
templates that you can remix. And then you can start from what we're going to
start from scratch. I feel like I'm gonna go
with the nice green maybe. Alright, you scroll
down, find your asset, and you just click drag. And you can resize it. And there we go. It takes a second until the
resolution and dance. But you see it gives you a
really nice texture effect against the background. And it doesn't just look square. Of course you could
take it much further and much more if you wanted to. I was happy to maintain
a geometric shape, but I wanted it to be a
little bit more broken up and look a little
bit more interesting. And then also crazy about adding little bit more
texture here and there. Now we can just add some texts. The one that I add is
the name of the series. It's my ongoing
challenge right now. I'm going to post every
Thursday thing about matrix. So that's the one
that is planned. And I call it creature of
nature, like the fund. But it does suggest
a bunch of fonts. So I think I'm gonna
go with this one. And since video is often
working just better, I might actually add a
little bit of animation. Another neat feature, if you are very picky about
the kind of colors, you can upload, the
color palette that will present you are the
representative brand. It also suggests shoe
bands of colors. You can re-mix the colors until you stumble upon something that talks to you
and you're like, yeah, actually, I really like
the contrast of dark blue, the big white canvas. Really love it. And you can just click through
a couple of options. It's always good to
have a starting point. We'd like the screen is pretty much what we started out there. It's just to keep in mind
for your vector assets, you have to change the
colors beforehand. Once this is done, we can either download it right over here. In different file formats. Another neat features, sketch with directed
where social media, it avoids think about taking the restroom and
wanting at the right time, it just automatically
is going to get posted. That's interesting to you. We can always do another
class specifically on workflows, organizing,
time optimization. Alright, there you go. There's your finished and prepared posts for social media. Go ahead and have fun and let me know what kind of class project you came up with.
Sophie Herbert
