Learn Adobe Photoshop: The Essentials

1. Let's Introduce: Hi everyone and welcome. In this class, I will take you from absolute beginner to scale Photoshop user in no time. I'm professional web designer and I help people through my teaching. In the last six years, I've taught more than 10,000 people around the world how to work in Photoshop. I'm using this program ten years from now, weird certificate from the best private school in my country. This class teaches you how to use Photoshop like a Pero, no matter the subject. I structured this class progressive manner, where I take you from absolute beginner and we get hands on approach. You'll have a different activities and challenges in this class. You will learn by working alongside. Not just by watching. This class is perfect for all users, especially for beginners who knew nothing about Photoshop. This class will teach you how to be fast, efficient, and productive. So start your Photoshop journey with me right now. Cia inside this class. Good luck. 2. Where to find Adobe Photoshop: In this video, I want to show you very confined Photoshop to download or by it. Just go up here at the adobe.com and you will get something like this. So if we wish to buy photoshop or use it free for a couple of days, I think that period now is seven days. Let's go just up here at creativity and design than select Photoshop. As you can see from up here, we can try free. Let's go check that out. And from up here, we can buy it. K will go skip this one. And just to show you, as you can see, I prefer to use this one because if you using only Photoshop, this is the best solution for you. 1999, cost per month. And you will get last version of Photoshop, your own portfolio website and premium fonts and 20 gigs of storage. So I think this is the best solution. Let's go check out the free. As you can see, you can use Photoshop, full Photoshop for free. I think this period, as I mentioned before, is seven days. I think this is fine because in seven days, you can see is Photoshop really for you or is not? So from up here, just go download Photoshop for free and try it out if you like it, just go buy it. And I won't buy it because I already got my Photoshop ready. So I wait this step you go buy your own. And it's standard installation like the most programs are. So guys see in the next video with Photoshop installed on your computer by. 3. Speed Up Photoshop : In this video, I will show you how to optimize your computer settings to get better performance in Photoshop. So if you ever used Photoshop before and maybe sometimes in the middle of your work computer freeze and you can do almost anything. That's probably because you're giving too much information to deal with, but no resource. So we can try to fix that just a little bit. Let's go to Edit, then go up here at the preferences, then go performance. And now as you can see, I got 16 gb of RAM, and I let Photoshop to use ten gigs of RAM. So up here, we can change couple of things. If you have four or eight gigs of RAM on your PC or laptop, I would suggest you to move this slider up here and give him something like 74 or 75% of your memory, right? As the default, you will get something like 70. I suggest you to pick and stay with 75 or 74 from up here when it comes Graphic Processor Settings, I would suggest you to uncheck this one if you don't have good graphic cards. So if you have something like Intel HD tree hundred or stuff like that, I would suggest you to uncheck this one. And if you know your graphic card is good, check this. If your graphic card is not that good, uncheck this and your main processor will get this better and faster than your graphic processor if it's low. So that's it. I use this yes, graphic processor because I'm satisfied with my video card. It's R7, 370 with four gigs of RAM memory. And from up here at the history, I would suggest you to move this slider to around 15 or 20. Let's go with 15. History states that means that Photoshop will remember our 50 last moves. So we can reduce that and move it to around 15 or 20. Because then when we have only 15 steps to remember, it's lot easier for our computer to remember it. And 50 steps back, it's not really, You will never go five steps back. When I work, I usually go couple steps back, something like three or four or five steps back because we don't need that much information for our computer and that's it. And the last thing we need to go hit, Okay. And that's it. If we wish to get those changes, we need to close this Photoshop and reopen it again, and then we'll apply those effects. So guys, that's everything in this video. See you in the next one. 4. Practice: Black and White Effect: I know some people think that Photoshop is overwhelming program that's difficult to use, but I'm here to tell you that's not correct. I want to show you right from the start how you'll be able to get fantastic results with only a few steps in this activity. We'll transform this image to something like this. Everything will be done in just a few minutes. First, make it black and white. Second, bring back color to our cat eyes. So let's start with this image that you will have attached to this lecture. Please download it, right-click it and open it in Photoshop. Or alternatively, you also have the PSD file attached. So you can double-click and it will load directly. It's the same thing. There is no difference between those two. Don't worry about specific because we'll cover them later. Just follow me for now. As you can see, this is my custom made workspace. We'll create our workspace in some of the next videos. So I will make it to a default. They will hit essentials and Reset Essentials. And this is what you see in your Photoshop. So my first move will be, I will go from up here and click black, white. The rehab. Or the same effect we can get if we come up here at the image than adjustments and hit black-white, that's the same effect. Great. As you can see, my foreground color is black and the background color is white. Now, when I press Z, as you can see, I will click up here. Now when I press, I will zoom in. Great. Now let's go ahead, hit B to bring up our brush tool. From up here, we can change the size of our brush. Said that hardness, as you can see, I have this soft brush and I will stay with it. So as you can see, this is my currently active layer. And now I will just bring up our color. I will just paint inside of this eye. And it will automatically bring up color for me. Great. This is what we want it. Now, if we accidentally make some move like this, and we don't need color up here. So just press X and it will change color. It will swap those two colors. Now, our foreground color is white. And when I go over that, and it will automatically remove the color for us. And that's it. Now, let's go ahead, bring up again our black color as a foreground. When I press Space, we will get this hand. And now I will just move it with my mouse cursor and go up here. Great. Now, do the same thing for our second eye. As you can see, this is really easy. And I will go over those edges first. And that's it. Just paint over it in a second. If you wish to change size of a brush, you don't need to come up here. Each time you want to change the size with the left and the right bracket key, you can get this brush smaller or larger k. Now let's go press X and remove those edges. And we are almost done. As you can see, guys, this is really easy and we got this cool effect. Now when I wish to go to see my full image, I will hit Control or Command Zero to fit the screen, this image. And as you can see, this is our cat and that's our effect. So guys, please upload your finished work in a comments for this video and share your image with other students and see you in the next video. 5. Photoshop Search: In Photoshop 2017, we can use search feature to quickly find tools, menus, tutorials, tips, asset, documents, layer, and much, much more. So you can think about it like Google inside of Photoshop. This is a great tool for beginners and also for advanced users. Search, integrate with Adobe Stock to find stock assets. I will use this image for our lesson. So let's get started. We can bring up this option in three different ways. First is come up here at the Edit, then hit search, and there we have k. The second way is up here by coming up here at the top right corner and just click once on this icon. The last way is shortcut. By pressing Control an F, we can bring up this option. So let me show you what we can do with this tool. Okay, e.g. let's go type move. And right up here, it shows me that we have Move tool, and this is the shortcut. If I press V, it will automatically bring up this tool for us. So if I click once up here, it will automatically activate move tool. And one more thing I think you didn't notice when I go up here again and bring up this move tool, checkout this up here. Do you see how it highlighted? Well, this will do Photoshop with this search box each time when we go with some tool. So let's go ahead and pick Type tool. And when I click, it will automatically highlight this square and activate this tool for me. So let's go once more. This is all. And when I type up here, it will search everything. It will search my tools, name of my layers, and it will also search up here to learn and the stock. Okay, now let's go up here and create a new layer from up here. Let's go ahead and type layer. And if I go up here and press Control J, it will automatically duplicate this layer, this currently activate layer for us. If I go up here, it will create a new layer, as you can see. Or if I go up here to layer, then you again layer, we get the same results. Let's go check it out. As you can see, again, the same results. So if I go type now layer two, it will bring me to this layer. Let's go type layer one. And when I click up here, it will automatically activate layer one for us. I show you this because I think it will be easier for beginners to work with this tool. You don't know how to activate some tool or something like that, or you don't know where your layer is, but you know his name. Just go up here. Press Control F or Command F. If you're using Mac and you will work much better with the store. So go up here and experiment with this to take some time. Sled school type something like brush tool and experiment, how to use it, what you can do with it, and stuff like that. So go buy your own and experiment with this store and see you in the next video. 6. Customize your workspace: Like I promised in a previous video. In this video we are going to create our workspace. So we are going to make some changes up here. And you will see in a minute or guys, you can simply stay with this stock workspace that Photoshop offers you a really like and prepared to work with my own custom-made workspace because I found it really helpful in some situations. So I can show you how to create a workspace like I do have. And the workspace that I'm going to use through the course. As you can see, this is the stock or default settings workspace for Photoshop. If I go up here, this is essentials. If I go and click up here at the 3D, you will see how our workspace change. Or if I go up here and pick graphic and web, or go below motion, painting or photography. Those are ideals workspace. If you go for photography, this is ideal workspace that Photoshop offers you. Or painting, motion, and Graphic and Web depends on what you need for your workspace. So I will go with essential. Now, I will open this history and click up here, where is the text and just bring it up, up here. I will do the same with every dose. As you can see, brush, brush presets, color, swatches. As you can see guys, those are tabs by their own. They are just into our groups, but they can work by their own. Now we're going to close those that we are don't need for our course. Like I'm just going to do with liabilities. I will close them. Also. We don't need history. I will close history. Device preview. We'll close that too. And that's it for now. So let's go up here and now bring them into groups. So I will go up here, not on the top of this than just click up here, where is the text? As you can see when I press up here at the color and I will move it. When I see something like this, something blue around my swatches panel, I will release. As you can see now, there are in non-group. Great. I can move this group around and make some changes or add them more like I'm going to do now. I need adjustments. I will go with adjustments to and bring up adjustments. Also. The last thing for this, I will go and bring up properties inside of this. And when I see again this blue, it will release. Great. Now we have one ready. Okay, now let's go and bring up brush to brush presets or otherwise. Then we need paths. Again, bring up there and I don't need channels. So I'm going to close the channels, great. And go up here at the layers and bring up the layers. Great. Now we have two different groups and we can make them. And now we can make those two groups into one bigger one. So now I want click up here at the brush or this text. I will click up here at the top, this bar on the top. I will move this below. When we see this blue line, I will release. And as you can see, they are now grouped into one big group. So we can move those layers to give him priority to be first or second, third, or the last one. And you go change that if you need. Great. Now one more thing we need is characters and the paragraph. We can go up here to Window than find something like paragraph. As you can see there it is. And there is character too, just like that. Bring them out. And that's it. This is the third group or the second because those two are now one group. And let's go ahead and join them. This one. Great. Now we have our custom workspace ready. And the last thing for now, let's go ahead and bring up this, the right corner. As you can see when we see this blue line, it will attach our workspace right here. Now, our workspace, it's fixed for the right side. Great. Now we can go up here at the window than Workspace and go type up here new workspace. And we can name it whatever wheel-like or the same effect we can get. If we go up here, then go new workspace. I will call this workspace practice. You name it, whatever you like. Great. Now I will hit and save it. As you can see, we can change also keyboard shortcuts, menus, and the tool bars. But I don't suggest that anyone to change shortcuts in Photoshop. Great. Now we have our custom made workspace. As you can see, if I go up here at the essentials and then go Reset Essentials, now we have the workspace like we had at the beginning of this video. So if I go click once at the practice, we have our workspace already. So this is how you can make your own workspace, how to save it, and how to reset it. So I hope you all understand this. It's not that complicated. It's really easy. And I like this workspace because it works amazing to me. I hope you enjoyed this video and saying the next one. 7. Create new project : Now let's go ahead and create a new document. For creating a new document, there is couple of ways we can use shortcut or we can go up here that file than heat or heat, just Control N or command. And if you're using Mac. So with the new Photoshop, we will get this window from up here. As you can see, this is what I recently used. Those are saved. This is photo, print, art and illustration, web, mobile, film and video. Basically, we are going to use something for a web, but we will create it from up here. Those are presets that Photoshop offered to us. So let's go ahead and create a new document from up here. Whoever will go and type some name, let's go just type practice. And you will see in a second when I hit Create up here will stay practice. This is the resolution of the full age. The picture. As you can see, width 1920 by 1080 pixels from up here, we can change the inches, centimeters, millimeters point, and stuff like that. For web, we don't need 300 pixels per inch resolution. We will go with 72. Later in the course, I will explain your difference between saving file for a web or for a print and stuff like that. We will discuss about RGB, colored, make color and stuff like that. So don't worry about that for now. Let's go and create a new document from up here. We can change a color of our background. I would suggest you to always go with white. Maybe sometimes you need different color. That's okay. And I will now hit Create. And as I already mentioned before, as you can see, this is the name of our file. Let's go ahead and create one more by using shortcut Control N, and it will bring up this window. Okay, let's go again. Type 72. Now, let's name it. Practice too. I'm showing you this just to practice a little bit to make you active. So once again, let's go hit Create, and there we have it. Our second file is ready. So that's everything you need to know about creating a new file for now and later, we will discuss about image size, dimension, and resolution in Photoshop. So see you there. 8. Practice: How to remove anything from photo: In this video, we will practice a little bit and I have a little homework for you. So we will remove those two objects and try to not damage the background. So how we are going to do this? First, let's go up here and pick polygonal lasso tool. This tool works just like this. I will click once up here and move it around. I just click around. And when I wish to close selection, this, see this little bubble. Just click on it and it will automatically close this selection, as you can see, simple as that. Then go to Edit and then Fill. And from up here, choose Content Aware, blending mode to Normal and opacity 100% and just hit, Okay. And there we have it magically disappear. Now, hit control D to de-select. And again, do the same thing for this one. Okay, let's go try it out. Just like this. Make selection around it. Closed selection. Go to Edit, Fill, Content-Aware, normal opacity, 100, hit, Okay, and that's it. Control or Command D to de-select. And there we have it. Let me zoom in to show you this. See, this is like original image. No one would ever said there's a balloon before. Now, let's go try out this big one, k. Let's go and make selection around it. Just like this. Okay, that's nice. Go to Edit, Fill, Content-Aware, hit. Okay, it will take him a second. And that's it. Results are pretty amazing. So guys, upload your work at the comments section. And I hope you liked this one because this is really easy and lot situation. This can help you to better work and to get the job done quickly. I will upload this image with the video lesson you're currently watching. So make sure you download this image. I will also upload the PSD file. So choose whatever is easier for you to open and work with it. Saying the next video. 9. Photoshop interface: Now I want to introduce you with Photoshop interface. Once you are comfortable with interface, you will be more efficient. On the left side, we have tool panels. As you can see, this is where all tools are located that we are going to use to edit or modify our artwork. You'll notice that there is two different views of tools. Panel currently is activated single column view. If I go up here and click on this double arrows here, we'll see double column from up here. So this is really up to you. How do you like to display those settings? I personally prefer to work with single column view. There is too many tools in Photoshop and they can't all fit up here. So some tools, working groups to make it simple. And you can reveal those stools by just simply clicking up here on some particular tool. As you can see, currently, I have activated less Sue tool. Now, when you select tools, you'll notice that bar up here change. Let me go grab some different tools. And as you can see, this bar change with each tool. As you can see, this is all tools in Photoshop. And this is something that you need to understand. As you can see, this is a foreground color and this is the background color. By default, foreground color is black and the background color is white. If I go and press on this icon, it will swap those two colors. Or we can use acts as a shortcut to swap those two colors. Let's go and change some color to a red or something just in a second to show you. If I press X, it'll automatically swap those two colors. If I press on this icon, it will automatically bring up default settings for this option. As you can see, it will automatically bring up the black color for us. So let's continue. If we go up here at the top of the Windows, you will see the standard option bar. Across the top. From up here, we can access variety controls and initiates some of the creative features in Photoshop. Just under the top bar, we got control panel. As I mentioned before, when I select some tool, it will automatically change and give us some other options for a particular items selected. And control panel goes over the entire width of the screen, just under the menu bar. This control panel is really useful and it will display a variety properties and option of particular. Moving to the right side, we got some panels visible as another slim panel, width icons. Those icons represent panels that can be made visible by clicking on them. If I click up here, once panel will expand and we can make it again back to the icon FIPS one more. As you can see next to this, we have some panels that are already visible, as you can see, color or sweat here currently, we also can see liabilities. If you look carefully, you can see those panels include another panel setup, e.g. Those two were up here, layers, channels, and paths for the shop allow us to arrange and customize those Panel, whatever you'd like. And from up here we can see documents name. Now sometimes you will have four or five documents opened at once. So let me show you something. Let's go to file and create a new file. It doesn't matter. Let's go with this resolution. Just hit Create and once more. Yet, create a new file. Okay? Okay, we can navigate and swap from one document to another in a second. Just like that. Make some changes and go over that. You can navigate just like that. I'm showing you this because sometimes we will use multiple documents at once and we will do it in this way. Now, I'm going just to close those two, and that's it. In the next video, we will create our custom workspace. Okay, one more thing. I go up here at the Edit. Then I go to Preferences, then interface. And I just want to show you how I like to work with those colors. As you can see, my currently activated is this almost the black color of my interface? As you can see, we have some grey or white color. I like. And I would suggest you to work with darker interface because it's lot easier for your eyes to work with darker colors. Because sometimes we will work in Photoshop for around 23 or even more hours and this is too much light coming into your eyes. So I really suggest you to work with darker colors interface. Okay? And that's it for this video. In the next video, we will create our custom workspace. See you there. 10. Different ways to open files: Let's talk about how we can open document in a different ways in Adobe Photoshop. First way is just coming up at the image, right-click on it than open width and choose Adobe Photoshop. And it will automatically bring up this image for us in Photoshop. And the second way is the way I recommend for all is hit Control or Command 0. And it will bring up something like this for us, this window, and it will ask us which file we want to open. I will click on this one and just hit Open and it will bring up this document in a new tab. Third way is just going up here. Let me close this one and go dragging this image into Photoshop. Just like this, drag and drop. We can also add more images into Photoshop. Never mind, Let's go up here. Do not drop it up here in this canvas area. Go just underneath this option bar and release there. And it will open this image into a new tab. Let's go for now, bring up this image into our opened document. As you can see, when I hit Enter, it will create a smart object. We will talk about that later in the course, but for now, just a note, if you release up here, it will bring up this image into a canvas area. But if we go up here, it will open a new document. K. Let me now close all of those. And now let's go bring up all four images into our Photoshop. As you can see, it will open them separately in a new tab, each one of those. So those are ways how we can open the document in Photoshop. As I already mentioned, I choose and I prefer to work by hitting Control 0 to bring up my images or just go File, then Open, and that's it. We will get the same results. So that's everything in these videos. In the next one. 11. Different ways to save file : Now let me introduce you with saving in Photoshop. So first let's go ahead and create a new document. Let's go to File. Then. Go knew it doesn't matter which resolution you choose for this one, I just want to show you a couple of things. Now, let's go ahead and open one document. I will open this cat. Now I will pick Move tool and bring this image inside of it. So as you can see now we got our background and the layer one. Layer one is the file that we just exported. So if I want to save this file, I will go hit Control S. And we will get this window open. As you can see from up here, we can change our name. Let's go. I will type something like practice k. And from up here, we can change a type. This is the source file. We cannot upload this file on Facebook or stuff like that. If we want to upload, our phi will go with J back or something like PNG and stuff like that. But for now, let's go stay with this PSD. Okay, when I hit Save, now as you can see from up here, it says our file name is practice. So let's go and add a new layer just to show you something. As you can see, this appeared this star or x, call it whatever you like. This is the Photoshop telling us we have something that's not saved in Photoshop. So if we again come up here and hit control S or command S, it will save it in our document. And now we can go and continue with our work. Let's go ahead. Try. The second way is by hitting together Alt, Shift Control and S. And guys, as you can see, we've got this window that says Save for Web. From up here, we can change preset. We can say with PNG, JPEG and stuff like that from up here, we can change GIF or JPEG, PNG 824 and map from up here. If I go with JPEG, we can change our quality. Below, we got Image Size that says width is 1920 by 1080. This chain is activated by default. And from up here, if we wish to get this image smaller for around 50 per cent, we will just type up here 50 per cent and it will reduce the size for 50 per cent, 18. This is really easy to understand. So this is the second way how to save in Photoshop, K a will hit Cancel. We can get the same effect by coming up here at the file, then go Export and from up here, Save for Web Legacy. That's the same way. It will open the same window for us. And the third way is let's go up here. Again, export. And now let's go Export. As, now as you guys can see, it's the similar window like the previous one from up here, we can change our format, jpeg, gif, swag, and the PNG. This is the image size. We can scale it, and from up here, we can scale it. Let's go type something like this. We can get it twice. And this is the benefit of this option. As you can see, and just Export All. And Photoshop will export everything for us. Now if we want to save this layer only in a second, we will go right-click on it and just hit Quick Export as a PNG. And it will ask us where we want to save it and just hit Save if we need from up here to save as a JPEG instead of P&G, we can get that done by coming up here at the added than preferences, then general, okay, Now from up here we got export. And if I go and change from up here, JPEG and hit, let's go with quality with 100 and hit Okay, now when I right-click on it from up here, you see export as a JPEG. That's it. If we click up here, Export As we will get the same window like we got before. Okay? And as you can see from up here, we got this Star that says something is not safe. So that's how you can save in different ways in Photoshop. But in most cases, we will go save our files, SLP as the PNG or maybe sometimes as such apec, each format has their own benefits. I will explain you later in the course. What's the benefit of jpeg or PSD or the PNG file and the other files in Photoshop. So see you guys in the next video. Bye. 12. Introduction with Layers : As a new Photoshop user, you're gonna find that layer panel are incredible, powerful tool. The layers panel gives you ability to isolate individual pieces of content away from the rest of composition, giving you the ability to work on individual elements within overall document. They also keep your organised. You want to keep all of your content separated if possible, because that's going to afford you the most flexibility when working inside of Photoshop. E.g. if you wanted to change the appearance of this rectangular because it's on its own layer. It's really easy. If it was mashed down here with the background layer, it becomes far more challenging at that point. But if we want to change, let's say the size of the rectangular, all you need to do is select layer and then choose two. In this case, I'll use Free Transform tool, which is Control T for Windows users or command T for Mac. And then you can make your own modifications. So what we'll do is just make this a little bit smaller. And once I'm happy, I will press Enter or Return key. So by having this on its own individual layer, it was really easy and very quick to make a modification to that piece of content. You have the ability to turn the visibility of layers on and off. E.g. maybe you want to look at this image without the rectangular to see what it would look like. All I have to do is turn off the visibility by clicking this little icon, you'll notice that the content is no longer visible. Again, this gives you additional flexibility. You can now save a version of this document without the rectangular, but you still have the rectangular information within the native Photoshop document. So if you ever need it to turn it back, you can do it. You can easily create new layers by coming up, down there towards the bottom of the layer panel and clicking the New Layer button. This new layer, you could add any content or paint any pixels that you would need to improve this composition. If you decide you don't want the layer, simply remove it by clicking the trash can. I'll go ahead and confirm this. And you also have options for individual layers in terms of fill and opacity. Again, giving you further control over this layer, interacts with all other layers within the document. With this rectangular layer selected, maybe a one to drop the opacity down a little bit. By doing that, I introduce pixels, the background, into the foreground of this layers. There is also blending mode options. So we could come over and choose the type layer. In this case, right now, the blend mode is set to normal. But you can see there's all sorts of different blend mode. Honestly, you could spend an entire course on blending modes. But right now, if you just experiment with them, you'll begin to see what they do and what they accomplish. Basically, you're controlling how the foreground pixels interact with the background pixels. Adobe built in several tools to stay organized with your layers panel by clicking this little folder icon. And you can also filter your layers. It's not uncommon to have hundreds of layers within Photoshop document. What if you're looking for just type layer? Well, there's Filter buttons up here towards the top. If you click this button, you'll notice I'm only displaying layers that are type layers. And you can turn off the filters by clicking the same button. And you can add as many of those is necessary. So it's not just one or the other. You can select the layers that you want to view. Finally, you can also control the stack order of those layers. The stacking order ultimately dictates in which order those elements will appear. Right now, practice layer is about the rectangular layer. I'll go ahead and set the blend mode back to normal. When I do that, I decide I want to practice layer underneath there rectangular layer. I can simply click and drag it underneath the rectangular layer. You'll see this highlight, which is an indicator as to where you want to place this layer when you let go off your mouse, you can see that the practice layer is beneath the rectangular layer. One final note, you don't have that ability with the background layer. The background layer is locked. So if I want to put background layer above all other layers, you'll notice Photoshop doesn't allow me to do that. If we want to unlock this layer, we'll simply click on this icon. And now we can move it. Layer panel are really powerful tool. And as you work more and more in Photoshop, you will find out that. 13. Types of layers in Photoshop: Understanding the types of layer in Photoshop, photoshop elements, upper five kinds of flavours, Image Adjustment, fill, shape, n-type. So let me tell you a couple of words about each one of those where the most time we will work with image layers. Each layer in an image can be edited without affecting the other layers. You can move, pains size, or apply a filter, e.g. without disturbing a single pixel of any layer on the background. The second one, our adjustment layers. We can find them if we go up here and this icon. And those are our adjustment layers. Adjustment layer is a special kind of layer used for modifying color and contrast. The advantage of using adjustment layer is when we need to make some corrections rather than applying them directly on an image layer, we will use the adjustment layer, e.g. let's go with hue saturation and change the color of our background just a little bit. As you can see. Great. Now we didn't affect our background. We just apply this effect into our adjustment layer. If I close this one, you will see this is our original image. So we use adjustment layer for those kinds of types. Next is fill layer. We use fill layer to add a layer of solid color, gradient or pattern like adjustment layer. Fill layers also include layer masks. We will talk about them later. I just want to introduce you with them for now. K, Again, we can find fill layers from up here. Those three are our fill layer, solid color, gradient or pattern. We can find them also if we go up here to layer, then choose New Fill Layer. Let's go ahead and choose Gradient. And I will hit Okay, we can name it whatever we need or alike. And there we have it. And from up here, it will ask us which gradient we want to apply. K we can apply something like this or this, or something like this. If I go double-click up here, we can now see this gradient editor. And again, double-click up here and we can change a color. Let's go to something like this. Hit Okay? And I'm satisfied with white color up here. K from up here, we can change an angle, but don't worry about that for now. And now we cannot see our background. What happened? That's because our gradient field is on the top of our layers. So we need to change this blending mode to something like multiply and maybe reduce the opacity K. And there we have it. This is with him, this is without it. Okay, that's it for the gradient. Fill layers or fill layers. Next, our shape layers photoshop will let us draw shapes with driving tools. Those shapes are vector-based, which means that the shapes are defined by mathematical equations which create points and paths rather than by pixels. You can freely resize those object without causing any degradation. And they're always printed with the smooth edges. And we can find shape tools from up here. Let's go with a custom shape tool. And I will draw something like, I don't know this. And I will just drag it up there. We have it from up here. We can change the color and the stuff like that, K. And we can go and edit, give him some blending options to make him look a little bit better. And that's it. From up here we can change to a multiply or something like that. And that's it. And the last, but not least, our, our type layers. As you can see, we've got already one. We can find type tool up here at the this icon. And we will use horizontal type tool for almost 100 per cent of our work. And let's go type something. Let's just say practice. Hit Enter or Return key. And now we have our type layer, as I mentioned in the previous video, if we need to see only our type layers, we can click up here. Or if we need to see our Adjustments layer, I will click up here and we need to see some images. We will click up here as you can see. And now let's go see our shape. Great, and that's it, guys. I hope you all understand this. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask and see you in the next video. 14. Start using Layers: Hello guys and welcome. In this video, we'll learn how to use layers effectively. So for now, I got those two documents opened. And as you can see, this is a blank document. Let's go ahead with this first, we got this background layer locked. And if I go pick a brush tool and make something like this, what we just did, we created this object inside of our background. And that's true. We can only move the whole image. And that's why we need layers. The FI go and try to delete this layer and hit Delete Photoshop one to let Me Why is that? Because this is the only layer there it is in this document and it's locked. If I go and create a new layer. Now, if I go up here at the background layer and hit Delete, now photoshop will, let me delete this. Now. I can go ahead and make something like this similar. It doesn't matter what we drop. Now we can move this layer. And if I need to create one more, we can create from up here. This is the icon for creating a new layer. Okay? There is couple more ways to bring up a new layer. You can also come from up here, a thin layer than New and just hit layer. That's it. And it will asks you which name you'll want to use for this layer. Okay? And the second way is by using the shortcut, by clicking Control Shift and N, we will get the same window. Sal already mentioned from up here. We will type name whatever we like and hit Okay, and that's it. We can even rename those layers from up here. Just double-click up here at the text and Photoshop will let us to rename those objects. Now, one more thing, if I go double-click up here, we will get this window layer style. We will talk about this later, but I just want to show you the difference if you click up here and something up here. So that's the difference. Now, let's go ahead and move with our stork. Let me show you what would happen if I go and type something up here at the background player? Let's just type Hello. Great. Now if I go up here and pick eraser to delete this, look, what would I do? I will destroy this image. And why is that? That's because I permanently damage the background layer. So this is destructive way of working. And please don't ever do like this. Okay, I will go and undo those steps. Great. Now let's go ahead and pick a new layer from up here. And let's type something similar. Hello. Great. Now if I go and create a new layer from up here, Let's type something like hello world. I would suggest you always, always and always name your layers. Because sometimes you will have dozens of layers opened. And if you're all layers are named something like layer one, layer two, layer three, and etc. Here will get really hard time in Photoshop because you will need to close each layer to see which layer is what. And by coming up here, just name it and it will save you lots of times. Trust me. Okay, Hello World. And now let me go grab a new layer and to drive something like this. It doesn't matter. I just want to show you something similar like this. Okay. Let's go create one or two more. Now, I got those four layers in each layer separately. I created those four layers because I want to show you something. This is my currently activated layer. If I hold Control and click on other layers, it will also select them. Why I need to select them? That's why because I want to add them into one group. We can move as many layers we need into a one group and name those group what they were we like. So if I click Control or Command G, if you're using Mac, you will get those selected layers inside of your group. And for now, we don't see our layers, but if I click up here, That's it. Those four layers are right up here into our group one. And just like with the regular layers, we can change a name of our groups. Let's call it circle. Because I really tried to make some circle with my mouse. It doesn't matter. So let's continue. If you need to ungroup those layers, it's simply just right-click on it and ungroup layers. And again, we've got those layers again into our group. Or if you need just this layer and those two layers, you can also just select them by clicking and holding Control and clicking on your layers. Just hit Control G and you will add them into a group. Simple as that. Now if I go up here and click to blending options, let me just make some changes. As you can see. What I just did. I created this group and I will add some effects into a group. And it will only affect those layers which are inside of our groups. As you can see, Hello World and this layer for our inside of our group. And it will only affect those layers. That's how you work effectively with layers. Sil already mentioned. Always try to name your layers because it will save you lots of times, even if you sometimes think it doesn't, trust me, it will really do save you lots of time and effort. So that's it for me, you guys in this video and see you in the next one. Bye. 15. Layer Masks basics: In this tutorial, we're going to look at the one of the most essential features of all in Photoshop that our layer masks, we will cover exactly what layer masks are, how they work, and why you want to use them. So before we continue, please make sure you check out the Layer lesson in this, of course. So what our layer masks then? Well, if the term mask is what confusing you, replace the word mask in your mind with transparency because that's exactly what our layer mask does. It allow you to control layers, level of transparency. That's it. That's all. There's nothing more to them than that. Now, you may be thinking, but I already control the transparency level with the Opacity options can die. Yes, you certainly can. The Opacity option right here and the right corner. The layer panel also allow you to control a layer transparency. But here's the difference. The Opacity option change the transparency level of the entire layer at once. As you can see, when I go and reduce the opacity. If you lower opacity level down to, let just say something like 50 per cent. The entire layer becomes 50 per cent transparent. That may be fine with some situation, but what if you want only part of layer to be transparent? What if you want the left side of the layer to be completely transparent and the right to be completely visible. That's actually very common thing to do with a layer in Photoshop, allowing you to fade from one image to another. But you can do that with opacity opinion. Since I said, It's limited to controlling the transparency of the entire layer at once. What you would need is some way to control the transparency of different areas of the layer separately, what you need is a layer masks. So let's take a look at the example. And I will go opacity up to 100. And I have up here to images. As you guys can see. Now let's go pick Move tool and move this image inside of this. Great. Now, let's, you can see this is separate layer. And if I go and pick Brush tool, if I want to remove those background, I will go with my brush tool. And just like that, we can do this job or make it some selection of those areas just like that. And also this is the way we can delete the background, as you can see, but this is working destructively and in some situation you will need stuff like this. But I will always suggest you to work with the masks. Okay, I will undo those changes. And right up here, I will hit up here Add Layer Mask. And now, as you can see, this is our layer one with the mask selected. Great. Now if I go up here and pick a brush tool and add, as you can see, nothing happens. Why is that? Because our layer is already white. So if I want to remove something from up here, they will need to go with the black color. And let's go and reduce the size of the brush. And just like that remote. And don't worry, I will show you why I do this. Let's go ahead and make something like this. Some rough. Ok. And there we have it. Let's go zoom in. You will see in a minute why our layer masks are awesome. Okay? And we can go with the whole image like this. But I want, I will just stay with this. And to show you. Now as you can see, I will hit right-click on this and hit disabled layer mask. And what happened? We got our background back. Layer masks don't destroy our image. Now let's go and enable this layer mask. Now, if I go and pick a white color as my foreground and go over those areas. It will again bring them for us, just like that. As you can see. This is the power of masks. And also we can go change our color and remove those areas. That's one way to do it. Layer mask. I will delete this mask and I will go up here. Let's go ahead and pick Quick Selection Tool. Okay? I will select this background because it's easier. Okay. And that's it. Let me zoom in to add those area or to remove them from selection. Let's go hit Alt or Option key. If you're using Mac to remove those areas just a little bit. That's it. And from this side, something like this. Okay. The rest we will get with our mask. So I will zoom out just a little bit. And now I will hit Control Shift and I together to inverse the selection. And that's it. Now, let's go ahead and click up here, Add Layer Mask. And now this is the second way to remove the background from our mask. And now let's go ahead and pick a brush tool than as a foreground color, white color. Make sure you select this layer and go ahead, bring up something that we need. Okay? If I need to remove just I will press X k. And now let's go remove those areas. Maybe we can use some soft edges, brush and to deal with these areas. So I will leave this to you to make sure you get this right. And I just want you to know what our layer masks. Okay? And just go ahead, bring up some pixels that we need for our, and let's go bring up something for our image. Those edges and stuff like that. That's it. Simple as that. I will leave this job to you guys. And if you have any questions, just please feel free to ask. As always, I'm here to answer for and to help you with your projects. And I hope you all can learn this. It's really nothing special with those things. And as you can see, I can remove something from up here. And you will need some time with those edges. But now I hope you all get how masks work. Great. And now if I want to close this mask, just disable it. And we got our background up here. And this is how we can work with masks and to not destroy our images. And that's it. Final results. 16. Move Tool: In this video, I want to introduce you with the most common tool that you're probably going to use when you're working in Photoshop. Name of that tool is move tool. As you can see, this tool is up here at the top panel. It's first tool. The shortcut is we, so remember that shortcut we move to. So let me show you what can we do with this tool. But first, let's go create something like this. I will create this object in the new layer. Let me fill it with black color in a second, and that's it. Now, when I wish to go from this from paint bucket tool or any other tool, I will go press V and there we have our tool selected. So as you can see from the Option bar, you got auto select layer, Show Transform Controls, and those are alignments. So let's start. As you can see when I go up here, just by clicking and dragging, I can move this object a new layer. As you can see, this object is on a new layer. So now when I press Alt on my keyboard or Option key, if you're using a Mac, you will see those double cross arrows. So when I go just like this, I will duplicate my current layer as you can see in a new layer. And once again, I can do that and that's it one more time. And that's it. We created three copies of our layer one. As you can see, Photoshop will automatically give them a name, Copy, Copy to, copy three, and etc. So what's important with this tool? As you can see, we've got currently selected this option outer select. So that means if I go click once, you see how our layer panel change, let me show you. If I go click once up here, you see my layer one is selected automatically and I can move it wherever I like. So if I wish to move this one, I can move it also just like that. But what would happen if our outer select is turned off? Let's see. As you can see, this is the last layer we used. Now if I wish to move this one, We'll stay with my layer one, copy three. Why is that? Because it's not outer. Select Photoshop don't recognize now which layer we want. It will only select the last one or selected this one, or let's see, layer one. And if I wish to move this one now, it will move only my layer one. So that's it. And now if I go and check this one, yes, you can see just by clicking on my layer, on my object in a layer, I can move it and do whatever I like. So that's it. That's how our outer select work in Move tool. As you can see from up here we got layer and group. So let me show you. If I press Shift and hold and go over those layers, it will automatically select them. As you can see currently I selected those three. Now, when I wish to do the same thing, Let's just say we need this, this, and this one to select. So I will just hold shift all the time, click once up here, once up here, and that's it. And now we got those three selected. I will move those three in one group. So now if I go click up here, group, I will move those three as a group. As you can see, that nothing special. This is really easy to use and you will use this tool in everything, whatever you do, you need Move tool. So remember, shortcut we, for our move tool, when you wish to move layer by layer, just click up here, layers. Or if you need groups, hate groups, and you can move groups and make sure auto select is because it's really simple to work like that. At least it is for me. And if you are beginner, it should be really helpful. This option is selected. So if I click up here, Show Transform corners, we will see if I press up here, it will automatically bring this up to me. Now I can move this transform and do whatever I want to. We can also get this option than if I press Control T or Command T of using Mac. And we can get this Free Transform than if I wish to get it proportionally larger or smaller, I will hold Shift. And as you can see, that's it. So I will undo this one. I usually keep this one turn off and I think it's easier for you if you are beginner to work like that. So let just say from up here I selected those two and I can align them and do whatever I need to. So that's how you align them in Photoshop. It's really simple. And one more thing before I get done with this lesson is when I press shift and move my object, I cannot go free. I cannot move it freely. It will go or horizontally or vertically. I can move it wherever I like, but if I press Shift, I can only move it horizontally or vertically. That's it. If you guys having trouble finding this tool, you can always come up here or press Control F to get this search box and just hit Move tool type Move tool. And you will get your move tool ready. And as you can see there it is our move tool. From the right side you see the shortcut and there is a name of our goal and we can find it also here. So that's everything for me in this video. See you guys in the next one. I hope you got this right. Bye. 17. Working with groups: In this video, I will show you how to work with groups. So let's get started. The most important thing when you're working in Photoshop is to stay organized. Sometimes we will use e.g. when one document we will have like 50 or even more layers. So what's important is to stay organized. So e.g. let me show you FI go create some shapes, some random shapes just like this. As you can see. Give me a minute to show you what I'm gonna do. As you can see, each one of those shapes are in a new layers. So when I go with some text, never mind whatever I type, I just want to show you how we need to stay organized. As you can see now, we got really messy thing. It's not that messy. But if I go with something like this, or even, even more, or if we got more images up here, or even 50 layers or more, we will have really, really hard time when we need to edit something or find some certain, specific layer that we need. So what's important is to stay organized by holding Control and just clicking on my text. I can select them. As you can see now, my layers, that is tags there are selected and from up here, I can go click on this icon and add them in a new group. Or shortcut is Control J. As you can see, now, all of my text is in one group. This is really important. So now if I wish from up here to add those shapes in one group, I can go click once up here at the first and the bottom. By holding Shift, it will select Automatically everything, what's between those two. So by pressing Control J or clicking up here on this icon, I can add those in non-group. You think we don't see them, but if I press up here, you see there are our shapes. So that's it. And now I can go rename those. From up here. I will choose to type something like shapes. And up here at the group one, I will also rename and I will type text. And that's it. Now, if I wish to add those in one group, I can see, as you can see from up here, I selected those two groups. It doesn't matter, I can still add them in one group. So I can name this group something like practice. And now when I press up here, you see we got two groups inside of our main groups. And now when I press up here on this one, you can see this is our texts. And now I can go Come up here, added this text or add some options up here, drop shadow or anything like this. It, okay, and that's it. We can apply any effect we need just like that. So this is really important to know when you're working in groups. So guys, keep that in mind. You will see later in the course when we got to the point where we need to create some business card, you will see why we need to work with groups. We will have maybe like when you worked 30 or even 50 layers in one document. So it's important to stay organized, the name, Each one of groups to know which layer is where. So that's everything from me. This video, this is really simple and it's really good practice to work like that. This is a good practice. I'm talking this especially to beginners. So if you're a beginner, please take a minute or two more to stay organized, to add your layers into groups to name them, to know which layer is where. Because later you will see it will be much, much easier for you. Or when you get to the point to sell your design to your clients, it will be really easier also to them when they got really good and prepared document for them. So that's it for me in this video. See you in the next one. 18. Photoshop Shortcuts for class: Hello guys and welcome. In this video, I want to introduce you wait, the most common shortcuts that we are going to use in this course. Those shortcuts are really useful and it will save you lots of time when you're using them. So it will take some time to implement the use those shortcuts. But trust me, your work will be much better and easier when you're using shortcuts. So let's start. First. Shortcut that I want to show you is our move tool. So e.g. if I use this tool or some other tool, it doesn't matter. I press we automatically, I will activate my move tool, e.g. let me go type something like gets this larger. E.g. like, he doesn't matter. Okay. As you can see now, my type tool is activated, but when I press my, we automatically, I can go and move this wherever I like. So this is Move tool. The next tool that we are going to use a lot is our brush tool. Shortcut for our brush tool is B. Just like that. So as you can see guys, we cannot go and paint over this text because we need to rasterize this layer first, then we can go and paint over it. But if I go at my background, now, as you can see, we've got our brush up here. And the next shortcut that we are probably going to use whenever we use our brush tool is left and right bracket key. So right bracket key is to get our brush size larger and the left bracket key is to get our brush size smaller. So right bracket key get larger, left bracket key to get it smaller. Simple as that. Next tool that we are going to use is our eraser tool. Just by pressing E on our keyboard, we got our eraser tool and we can edit and erase anything that we need. So that's about our eraser tool. And the next shortcut that we are going to use, probably in any work we do in Photoshop is our undo command. So when I press Control Z, it will go step back or Command Z. If you're using Mac, it doesn't matter. It's the same thing. So next tool that we're going to use is our paint bucket tool. By pressing G, we automatically bring our paint bucket tool, e.g. let's create a new layer by just pressing once we fill the whole layer with this color, with our foreground color, That's about paint bucket tool. The next tool that we're going to use, the shortcut for it is our type tool. Shortcut is T. So guys, you will need, as I mentioned before, a couple of days or weeks. It doesn't matter. It's individual and how much you work in program. But when you go over those shortcuts, trust me, your work will be much easier. The next thing that I want to show you is how we swap foreground and the background color. So whenever we use our brush tool, e.g. let me go on my background layer. When I go and paint over this. As you can see, it will bring my foreground color. If I need white color or any other color that is background color, just press X on our keyboard and we will get this color automatically as a foreground color. It will swap those two colors, simple as that. Next is Control Plus to zoom in document or Control minus to zoom out. Next thing, the FID, the screen, you need to go and press Control zero. Next thing that we need is our free transform shortcut for this is controlled automatically. I can go and reduce the size of my document of my current layer. And this is something that we're probably going to use a lot. So keep that in mind. Next thing that I want to mention is when we need some square, the all lead just need to be the same. You need to hold Shift and it will automatically, properly reduce or increase each corner of your document or if your selection, Excuse me, That's it. Next we have our inverse selection, e.g. now, let me show you, if I go up here, create a new layer. This is my selection. When I press G, I will automatically fill this selection with white color. I will go one step back control Z, and now I will hold Control Shift. And I, now I inverse this selection. Now my selection is everything except this area. So let me show you. When I press, once, you see this is my selection. So keep that in mind. The next shortcut is maybe the most comment in Photoshop, and that's Our new layer. How we can create a new layer. We, sometimes we don't want to come up here each time when we need a new layer. So we can create a new layer by just hitting Control Shift and N. We have this pop-up menu and just hit Okay, and it will automatically create a new layer for us. And the last thing that we probably going to use a lot is our control J to duplicate current layer. As you can see, FI go at my background layer and press Control J. You will see I will create a copy of it. So guys, that's the most common shortcuts that we are going to use in this course. It's really simple. Take sometimes take maybe half an hour or even an hour to practice with shortcuts. It's really easy. It's really easy. And when you do that, See you in the next videos. Thank you for watching guys. See you. 19. Introduction with Selection Tools: Hello guys. And as I promised in this video, I will introduce you with selection tools. As you can see currently, I have activated quick selection tool. If I go up here, big rectangular marquee tool, it will be activated. When I drag just like that. It will move something like this. And this is our current selection. I can move this selection, I can copy this selection and I can paste them. So as you can see, then let's go ahead pick lasso tool. If I press Shift, it will bring up this cross upon our selection. Then if I go from up here and do something like that, it will bring up this area into our selection, as you can see. But if I press Alt or Option key on Mac, we will get this minus. As you can see, now if I go over this area, it will remove from our selection just like that. Now, if I press Control G, I can move this, everything, what's inside of this selection? I can move it into a new layer. Watch out our layer panel where phi press Control J or Command J. If you're using Mac, we will create this into a new layer. But we don't see anything right now. If I turn off this layer, this background player, you will see this is our selection. Great. Now I will go some steps backward. There we have it, our starting selection. So if you are having trouble with selection and how to find them, you can just go up here and type whatever you like. Just go something like this. Let's go try Quick Selection. And you will see, if I press W, we will get this Quick Selection Tool, activate it. And as you can see, it's from up here. Let me grab my move tool. If I press V on my keyboard, it will bring up my move tool. Then if I press W, it will bring up automatically our quick selection tool. As you can see from up here, we can change the size and stuff like that. We can also use left and right bracket key. For, if I press the right bracket key, you will see how my brush is going to be larger. Then if I go and it will bring up more into the selection, it will be faster. But with tricky areas, we need our brush to be smaller. So right bracket key is to get your brush larger and the left bracket key is to get it smaller. Just remember this, if I press Alt, it will remove from our selection alt or option key. But if I press Shift, it will bring up into our selection. So keep that in mind. And in this section we will go and talk about Rectangular Marquee Tool, Elliptical Marquee Tool, Lasso Tool, polygonal lasso tool, Magnetic Lasso Tool, also Quick Selection Tool, magic one tool. And also I will teach you how to use Pen tool to create selection. As you can see guys for map here. This is currently activated lasso tool. If I go and pick polygonal lasso tool and then press L, Let's go just first, pick a week to get Move tool. Now, if I press L again, it will bring up this polygonal lasso tool Photoshop. Remember the last less Sue tool that we are used? So if I press Magnetic Lasso Tool, then I work with some brush. Then again, I press L, it will bring up the last one that I used. So keep that in mind. And from up here you can see shortcut key for these selections. Great. And last thing I want to show you in this video is how to get rid of your selection. Just press Control D or Command D to remove your selection. And that's it. So that's everything for me in this video. See you guys in the next one. 20. Marquee and Elliptical Tool: In this video, I want to introduce you with Rectangular Marquee Tool. Let's go ahead and create something. As you can see, shortcut is for this TO great. Now we got our selection just like that. I can move it and place it wherever I need. Great. Now, if I go again and hold Shift, I can bring up into our selection just like that. And this is our selection now. But if I press Alt, it will remove from our selection. Great. But keep in mind, if you go again and type something up here, just like that, I will lose my first selection. So make sure you don't do that when you're making selection. I will undo this step. If I wish to add something from up here. Just go again and press Shift and hold it until you're done. And now we got two separate selection, but they work together. I can move them just like that. Great. If I go again and hold Alt, I can remove from our first selection just like that. Then from up here we got this adds to your selection. We don't need to hold Shift anymore. Just go with your mouse and it will bring up into your selection just like that. It's really easy to use and maybe you will use this sometime. Great, just like that. And the second one is basically what Alt key or Option key on Mac, it will remove from your selection just like that. Great. I hope you all understand this. It's really basic thing. And the last one is something like this. It will remove everything. If I don't select it, it will save only the thing. What's inside this, what's inside this new square that I'm making. Everything else, it will disappear only, will select it be what the inside of this. If I press and release my mouse cursor, we will get this. This is all what's inside my new selection. And I hope all understand this. It's really easy. And the same thing we got from our elliptical tool. We can create something like this, some circles and stuff like that. Again, we can add to our selection. Maybe if you go and create some clouds for your game assets and stuff like that, or some background you will see later in the course, we will use this tool to create some clouds. Let's go and create some Cloud. It will be really fast, just like that. Get this cloud effect. Great. Now let's go big something like gradient tool. Okay, we can pick our color. Let's go from up here. Maybe we'll choose some color like this. Great. And from up here. Okay? And just like that, this is our cloud, or we can basically go and add some some white color on it. Let me just paint over it. And that's it. But what we just did, we destroy our image. And why is that? That's why because we didn't create a new layer from up here. Now our background layer is destroyed. Lucky for us, we got option to undo those steps in Photoshop. Great. Now let's go again and create a new layer. Then from up here, just go and now go and fill this. Great. Now if I go and pick my move tool, I can move this cloud wherever I want. And if I wish to close it just like that, we don't need that cloud anymore. One more thing about Rectangular Marquee Tool. Just go and create something like this. And if I press Shift, it will create perfect square for me. Just like that. This is my free with my mouse cursor. But if I press Shift and hold, it will create a perfect circle. Then if I press and hold shift and move just like that, it will reduce or get it large properly. That's it. The same thing we can get with this Elliptical Marquee Tool. If I go just like this with my mouse cursor, you see this is some eg. And if I press Shift, it will create a perfect circle for us. If I release, that's it. Now, we can go ahead and reduce from this just like that. Again, if we press Shift, it will create a perfect circle. And what's our selection now? Is everything inside of this area. Great. Let me just paint it for you to explain. That's it. This is our selection. Great. I hope you all understand and see you in the next video. Bye. 21. Lasso Tool: Of all selecting tools in Photoshop deal with Sue tool is probably the easiest to use and understand because you simply drag a free hand selection around the object or area you want to select. In a similar way to how you would outline something on a piece of paper with a pen or pencil with the Lasso Tool selected, your mouse cursor will appear as a small Lasso icon. Let's go and grab it as you can see. And we simply click on this part and drag around and make selection. That's it. To complete, the selection, simply returned to the spot where you began and release my mouse button. You don't necessarily have to return the same spot as you started from. But if you don't, photoshop will automatically close the selection for you by drawing a straight line from the point you release your mouse button to the point where you started. In most cases, you will want to finish what you started. Let me explain it. As you can see, we simply drag up here, if I release Photoshop will from this, but connected from the start, these c, That's it. Okay. I will undo, unselect this. If I say that the Lasso tool is not one of the most accurate selection tools in Photoshop that would be true. But lawsuit to have that ability to add or remove from any selection precisely. You will see later in this video, I find the best way was to work with lasso tool is to drag initial selection around the object or area I'm selecting, ignoring the obvious mistake I made, then go back and improve them. So for this, it will take maybe a minute or two. This is rough selection, just like that. If I go this area, it's not precisely. But you will see later on. Great. I will select this. I'm from up here. It's not, as I mentioned, the most accurate. But it can get job done. Great. And that's it. We made our selection. Now, I will zoom in this document and improve those selections. As you can see by holding shift, I will add to my selection just like that. Now, it's really easy to improve those steps I made before. Great. It will take some times, but you know what I'm trying to do up here, just like that. And I can go with the whole image like that, but it will take lots of times. I will go this faster. Let's go ahead and pick Quick Selection Tool. It will select the most of it because it's really easy to recognize those dots. Now I can zoom in and improve. If there is something to improve, like those area up here, I will go and pick list pseudo. Now by holding shift, I will add into my selection just like this, just like this, Excuse me. And I will zoom in more to improve those tricky areas. Great. Now let's move on. This area a little bit. And I think that's it. Maybe removed from up here a little bit. Let's zoom out. See, is there everything I need to add this little bit? I will undo this step. As you can see, those tiny improvements we do with this. Let's show too great. That's though much. I need to zoom in to make sure my selection is really precise. So I would recommend when you work with those things, you need to zoom in your document. Great. And that's it. Also, what's important is the quality of your image. Always work with high-quality images. Because if you work with low resolution images, this will be really tricky job for anyone in the world. But when you have high-quality images, it should be really easy for anyone to do this. Great. I forgot this area. And that's it. You see there is lots of job for this. Great. One more there. It's really hard to select everything with Quick Selection Tool because there is lots of details on images. And we can improve that selection by coming up and do the heavy job for Photoshop. That's it. Now I can assign mentioned before, use this to get it in a new layer by hitting Control J. Or we can add from up here mask, or if I go step back. Let's go try at some hue saturation. Now, you will see what just happened. This effect will only apply on our selection. We can change the color, but I wouldn't recommend doing this. Maybe sometimes I can go get it saturated or D saturated. You can get black and white. That's it. So you need to experiment sometimes with the Photoshop. And that's everything you need to know about lawsuit tool for now, later in the course, we will apply this tool more and more and you will understand everything about it. So seeing the next video. Thank you for watching. And if you have any questions, just ask, I will be here to answer. See you there. 22. Poligonal Lasso Tool: In this video, I will introduce you with polygonal lasso tool. It's another basic selection tool. It's a bit like a cross between rectangular marquee tool and the standard lesser to both. We are looked at the previous tutorials. It allow us to easily draw free form selection outlines based on a straight sided polygon shapes. But while the Rectangular Marquee Tool limits us to grabbing foresights, polygons, rectangular, or squares. The Polygonal Lasso Tools. Let us draw as many sites we need with as much freedom as the lawsuit to give us the move at any direction we need. So from up here below, Lasso tool, we can find polygonal lasso tool, drawing selections with Polygon Lasso Tool, it's like dropping straight sides bad with the pen tool. Begin by clicking somewhere along the edge of the object or area need to select. Then release your mouse button. This adds a point, commonly called anchor point to the document. As you move the Polygonal Lasso Tool away from the point, you'll see the straight line extending out of your mouse cursor looking a little bit like spider webbing overlap with another end of the line attached to the anchor point. Polygonal lasso tool is unlike the standard last Sue tool, as well as many photoshop other selection tool, there is no need to keep your mouse button held down as you move from point-to-point, simply click to add a point. Release your mouse button, move to the next point where you need to put your line, and then change direction, then click to add a new point again. So once we made good selection, I go up here at the beginning. You will see this little circle. That will mean if I press up here, this will be my selection. Let's go ahead and press. And that's it. This is our selection rate. I hope you all understand this. Now, let's go ahead and create a new layer. But let me zoom in to show you something. Great. This is our need to zoom out a little bit. This is my object that I want to select. Let's go from this point from up here. Then I will move my line up here. At the end of this. Again, I will add one more point from up here. And that's nice. And at the end you will see this circle. When I press, it will create selection now in a new layer, Let's go just paint something. They will use some color. Let's go with this green, something like this. Okay, just paint over it. Now. We have this in a new layer. Let me zoom out Control D to de-select because we are Move tool. And that's it. We just created another object with selection. Great. Now let's go with this triangle. It will zoom in to get my Selection more precisely. Again, I will go pick Polygonal Lasso Tool, and this is my starting point. They will add point here, here and there. It will close my selection. Great. I will zoom out a little bit. They will create a new layer. They will fill this layer with something like this by picking this paint bucket tool, just like that, Control D to de-select and beaker, we move it just to show you the risk copy of it. Or I can move this below. It doesn't matter. Great. That's it. That's the basic things about polygonal lasso tool. If you have any questions, don't forget to ask me because I am here to help you understand everything. In the next video, Bye. 23. Magnetic Lasso Tool: Hello guys. In this video, I will introduce you with magnetic lasso tool. As you can see from up here, the magnetic lasso tool is one of the three Lasso tools in Photoshop. First is standard lesser tool, second is Polygonal Lasso Tool, and now we have our Magnetic Lasso Tool. One thing that I forgot to mention in previous video, when you have something like this. As you can see, the suitable have three different tools in this group. Or this from up here, Quick Selection Tool, or as you can see, rectangular marquee tool or any of those tools actually does. Go ahead, e.g. let's go become brush by hitting B on my keyboard. Now, when I press L, it will bring up, as I mentioned in a previous video, the last that I used from up here, Let's Sue tool, shortcut L. And as you can see, the last iOS is Magnetic Lasso Tool. But what if I wish to go from brush, from my brush and now I want to go and pick standard lasso tool. And I'm lazy to go with my mouse cursor, or I will lose some time, or I will want to do it with my shortcut by holding Shift and pressing L on my keyboard. It will switch between those tools inside of this group or e.g. we can do the same with brush or any other tool. Just go hit Shift and hit B. As you can see, it will switch between those tools inside of our group. Great, now we can go ahead and continue with our work. As you can see, I will hit and pick Magnetic Lasso Tool. Why is called Magnetic Lasso Tool? Well, unlike the standard lesser tool, which gives you no help at all, and release entirely by your own ability to manually trace around the object, usually with less precise results. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is edge detection tool, meaning that it actively search the edge of the object as you are moving around it then snaps the selection outline to the edge and cooling seat like a magnet. Great. Now let's go ahead and try it. As you can see from up here, we got this image and those edges we can say are well-defined, as you can see, to begin selection, just simply go, click at any spot up here. You wish that is started point. I will go with this. And now as I move my mouse cursor, it will add those dots and it will apply it into our selection. It's not perfect. I will explain you why Photoshop down to recognize those color. In a second. Just let me go and finish with this. As you can see, it's not 100% perfect and that's because we don't have good image for it. Okay, now let's go and close this selection. And now let me zoom in. As you can see from up here, you can see there is not good selection or from down there or down there, as you can see, n. Why is that? Well, that is because do you see those edges are not clear enough and Photoshop don't recognize it as a thing that needs to be inside our selection. Now, I got those two documents to show you something similar. As you can see. Again, we've got our Magnetic Lasso Tool. Let me zoom in. And as you can see, it will be really easy for Photoshop to go and trace this object because there is our fears difference in colors. And it will be easy to do it. Great. Okay, I hope you all understand this. And one thing, frequency, e.g. if I wish to add more details up here, let's go try it with 100 DC. Now, there is too much dots. There are more frequent. Now. This is good thing to know because sometimes we really need it with this subject. We don't need too much frequency because it's easy to trace it. But with tricky things, you will need to get your frequency as much larger as you can. So again, I will cancel this. Let's go stay with 40. And now let's go to our image. Let's go and try to trace this image. Let's trace only the skin, only the hands. Great. Let's go start from up here. As you can see, I'm doing really well for now. There are not too much frequent, but it doesn't matter. Still I got good-looking selection for now. And why is that? Well, that's because the color difference is obvious. This will take a minute or two maybe. So you can go and skip it. And as you can see, this is really good selection. Only those tricky areas. We will need to go with our standard lawsuit and improve this thing. But I'm really satisfied how this selection looks for now. And let's go close this service rate. As you can see, from those tricky areas, there is a problem. And that's why we need to go and pick our standard Lesotho by hitting Alt or Shift. We can remove those things from our selection. Because in this area, Photoshop see too much similar things, too much similar colors, and it's not sure what do we need. So for those tricky areas, we need to get our standard lasso tool. With magnetic lasso tool, we can get maybe 80 to 90 per cent of our selection done. But those ten per cent we need to go and do it by our own manually width last Sue tool. As I'm doing right now. We already learned something about Sue tool. I hope you all can get this. If you have any questions, please ask me. This should be really fun thing to do in Photoshop and I really enjoy making good selections. As you can see from up here, this is a tricky one. Grade. This see, there is too much similarly colors in this area. And that's why Photoshop can do good thing about those things. Great. Let me zoom out. And now we can go and do different things with our selection. And this is our starting one. The same thing we can do with this by coming up and hitting lasso tool. And it will take maybe a couple of minutes more for it, but I hope you all get it right and see you in the next video. Bye. 24. Quick Selection Tool: Hi guys and welcome. In this video, I will introduce you with quick selection tool. As you can see, we can find this tool by coming up here and click once up here or press W for the shortcut. So what Quick Selection Tool, as the name says, it will make a quick selection for us, just like this. If I go with over, with my mouse cursor by holding the left key on my mouse, it will select everything inside of this ray. This is good for this quick selections. It won't get perfect selection because as you can see, and you, and you saw in a previous video, this image is tricky for selection because edges are not sharp enough. And it's really tricky. But we can get a good job in just few seconds with this tool. As you can see, I'm almost done. And that's it. This is our quick selection. Now we can go and as I said, improve those edges, weight last Sue tool and stuff like that. Or we can go and try with our Select and Mask option. We will discuss about this later in the course. But just to show you something really quickly, this is our selection right now. If I move this selection in a new layer, it will look like this. As you can see, we missed a spot right here. Let's go cancel this and add this into our selection rate. On your left bracket key. You can get this brush smaller. On the right bracket key. You can get it larger or by coming up here and move it this size to get it larger or smaller brush. Great. Now let's go ahead and click this option, select and mask. As you can see from up here, we can change view mode and stuff like that. We don't need that right now. But I will just go and move this smooth effect and also feather. And you will see in a second what happened. See how those edges are not too sharp now, this is too much. Let's go back. Great, maybe just a little bit more. And that's it. This C, It's not like when it's zero. That's it. We can get those, whether something like this. And by clicking Okay, when I move this selection in a new layer, it will look like this for not have a sharp edges, it will be just like this. Okay, Let's go hit. Okay, and now I moved this into a new layer. We can see this is the same thing with the previous k I will undo. And that's it. Let's go with our second. As you can see, if I just click once, it will automatically select this square. Why? Because there is obvious difference in this. Great. They can let me zoom out. We can also invert selection, but about that later. And let's go make a quick selection of this two hands with those. Just like this, as you can see in a second, we got almost perfect selection. Why is that? Well, that's because it's really obvious difference in colors. And with Quick Selection Tools, when we got high-quality images, we can get really good selection just in a few seconds of working on it. So that's everything about Quick Selection Tool. I hope you got this. Feel free to ask me in Q&A section and I'm here then's for each question you ask. So see you in the next video. 25. Magic Wand Tool: In this video, I will introduce you with the magic wand tool. This is one of the oldest selection tools in Photoshop. Unlike other selection tools that select pixels in an image based on the shapes or by detecting object edges. The magic wand select pixels based on the tone and color. So as you can see, I created this image to explain you something about this tall. You can find this stole from up here, as you can see, Magic Wand Tool. Then as you can see, this is all one layer. Now, if I go and click once at this yellow, you will see it will select only the yellow one. Or if I click up here, it will select only what's inside. Because it recognized there is difference in colors. And the same thing from up here. If I wish to add more into this, just by holding shift, you can bring up in selection. We already learned that. So I will unselect this. And that's it. Selecting those color is really easy for this stall because there is no similar color near it. So if I go and click once up here, do you see what just happened? There is the tolerance, that's called tolerance. So this time Photoshop select an entire row range of brightness values, rather than limiting itself the pixels that were exactly the same tone and color. This time Photoshop select the entire range of brightness values, rather than limited itself, the pixels that were exactly the same tone and color as the middle gray area. I click then. Why is that? That's called tolerance. As I mentioned. As you can see from up here, our tolerance is 32. That means by default, it's 32, which means that Photoshop will select any pixels that are same color as the area we clicked on it, plus any pixels that are up to 32 shades darker or 32 sheets brighter. In this case, my gradient, which contains a total of 256 brightness levels between and including pure black and pure white, as you can see from up here, is pure black and pure white color. Photoshop select the entire range of pixels that fall between 32 shades darker and 32 shades brighter than shade of gray. I initially clicked on. Just like I do up here. As you can see, up here, it will select 32 darker and 32 brighter color. So let's go try with 60. Okay? Now, if I press up here, this see this range is larger. Now, it will select from my spot here, it will select 60 darker and the 60 brighter colors. Now let's go ahead and type tolerance then. Let's see what's going to happen. As you can see, it will select only ten of the left and then from the right, darker or lighter colors. And those are basic things you need to know about how this magic one tool works. Later in the course, we will work with those stalls and you will see how to use them and apply those knowledge into your projects. So guys, see you in the next video. I hope you all understand this. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and see you there. Bye. 26. Tricks with selections: In this video, I just want to show you a couple of cool things about selections in Photoshop. Those are really good tricks and you will find yourself using them a lot. So my first trick for you is how we can get this color change with our strawberries in a second. So let me explain. You. Just go up here at deselect, then go and hit Color Range and just press once up here at the red color. And maybe I will hit Shift. And to get this plus what this mean. This mean as I press the Shift and click at the other spot, it will bring that also into our color ring, just like that. Okay. And that's it. Now, let's go hit Okay, and see what's going to happen. Do you see this is really something. Now let me go grab from up here, hue, saturation. And just like that, Let's go and change the color of our strawberries. Let's go with this color in a second. Did you see that? This is width, this effect and this is without in a second. This is cool trick to know. My second trick is going and create your selections with the pen tool. Just like this from this part, we will learn about Pentel later in the course, how the pen tool works. And as you can see, this is our path. If I go up here at the pads, do you see this is our pet of this. Now, if I press and hold Control or Command, if you're using Mac and just click once, it will convert this into our selection. Just like that in a second. Now, I can go and fill this selection with any color. Just painted. And that's it. As you already know, to get selection of just hit Control or Command D. And that's it. This is now into our background player. But what if I go up here at big rectangular marquee tool, make some selection, something like this. And also painted, excuse me, I didn't hit which layer I want. Let's go hit layer one, Control D to de-select the. Now, what if I want to get selection of this layer in a second? How we can go and do that does come up here to layer up here to Image and hit control or command. Just hold it and click once and it will automatically select everything what's inside this layer. This is cool tricks to know. Those are cool tricks to know. And you will see you will use them a lot and it will save you lots of time. 27. Practice: Selection Tools: Guys. Now when we know basic about selections in Photoshop, I got a little job for you. So what you need to do, first, you need to get selection of this object and move it into a new layer, then the change this red color to agree. And after you get the all that, you need to go and put that up here in this image. So how you are going to do that? I think you all know, pause this video now and go on your work. You will have these images in description of this video lessons, download them, open them, and try to get this done. This is really important to try by your own. You can watch this video after that. And I will explain how I can do that. But what's important is to try by your own, to try to understand how you can get the job done in Photoshop. So pause now and see you in a couple of minutes. Okay, now, for me, I will go and hit this Quick Selection Tool. Make this brush larger and select quickly this object because it's the fastest way and it's really precise because we mentioned about this difference. And now let me zoom in. And as you can see now we can improve those things. I will get my brush smaller. Great. Get that done. Cool. Now let's move on. Everything's fine. You can go with lawsuit tool also, but I found this quickly. And it get job perfectly. I'm just checking dosages. Everything's fine. I'm satisfied with it. About here. Year, everything's good. We can get this. Great. Just a little bit up here. And that's it, I think. Yeah. Now when I'm sure that I got perfectly good selection, I will go hit Control J and move this selection in a new layer. As you can see, that's it. That's awesome job. Now, I will hit V and move this, just drag-and-drop. Just like this up here. Now, this is, this image is too large. I need to rescale it. I will hit Control T. It will zoom out this object and I will get smaller rate. Now I can place it, I will hit Control Zero to fit the screen or Command zero and that's it. Great way job. It's not perfect background, but you get the point. Another way to get this job done is just coming up here, hit Control C to copy. And from up here, Control or Command V to paste, just like that. And we got the same thing in a new layer. I will delete this layer, but that's up to you how it's easier for you. I show you two ways. Great. Now I will undo that and let me zoom in. We got one more job to get this red color in, agreed, Great. Now let's go up here. Select, then hit Color Range. I will select up here. We'll add a couple more times. Great. And now just hit, Okay. Let me zoom out. As you can see, those little things are similar with our color. I will go because our lasso tool, I will hit Alt to get it from our selection. Great. Now let's go ahead and hit Hue Saturation. We can get this effect from up here, or we can go up here at the image adjustments and find hue saturation. Okay, now let's go and bring up hue saturation. And I will hit colorize. I will move this to something like this to agree in and go with saturation around here. And let's go zoom out to see results. Yeah, everything's good. I'm satisfied, and that's it. I hope you all got this. We can also get some cool effects by coming up here to blending options. We can go add a drop shadow to get this effect. Let's go try it on rate from up here we can turn off this shadows. And that's it. I hope you got this. It's really easy. I hope you have fun with it. And in the next video. 28. Introduction with Brush Tool : Hello guys and welcome. In this video, I want to introduce you with the brush tool. The brush tool and the brushes in Photoshop are really, really important. And I hope you will get this section right. I will try to make it easier. It's really easy. There is no heart. Tools in Photoshop. All what's matter in Photoshop to understand which tool when to use. And that's the hardest thing in Photoshop. Let's go and begin with this. In this video as I lower dimension, I will just introduce you with the brush tool. The shortcut for our brush tool is B. As you can see in this set, our pencil tool, color replacement tool, and mixer brush tool. Let's go with brush tool. As you can see from up here at the options panel, we see some things, e.g. from up here, we can change the size of our brush. Going left. We'll get our brush smaller, going to write it, we'll get it larger. Hardness and the softness of our brush. Well, basically, when I go with hardness at zero, the edge of my brush will be soft, as you can see. With this. Now let's go with 50%. Is the same brush, same size. Only. What I change is hardness. Now let's go with 100. As you can see, there is obvious difference in edges about this too great. I will undo this because I don't want to destroy my image. From up here is direction of our brush. We can go. Those are brushes in Photoshop that Photoshop offers to us. We can go with this. Let's go just to show you something. Great. Let me go and click just once. Great. Now, let me rotate my brush. They see now I changed direction of my brush. And that's what I wanted to show you. Great. And from up here, we can change the blend mode of our brushes. Let's go with the same thing with something like light and it's the same color, same thing. Just just when I press, we don't see nothing as you can see. But if I paint, you will see, it's a little bit different. Great. We will discuss about this later. For now, I just want to show you opacity. Opacity, let me reduce to 50, something around that and go paint over it. But let me set the blending mode to Normal to show you something. This is with 53% opacity. This is transparency. Basically. It will reduce the opacity and it will became transparent. It's about 50%, 53 to be precise. Now, this is with 100, there is no opacity. Let's go with that. Rate. And flow is something similar to opacity, but there is difference. We will discuss about that later in the course grade. And this is a new option that came up with the last version of Photoshop. It's about those edges. Now, as you can see, it, I can make pretty nasty edges because I paid with my free form hand, with my mouse. Now, if I go said this about 60 per cent, it won't get me make those hard edges. Do you see how it's solved those edges? Great. Let's go try even more with 100. Now, Photoshop want, let me make those tricky areas. This see how this area is clean. There are no tricky things like this. Maybe this is not perfect brush for this. But never mind, Let's go with this. Just coupled time. Let me undo those steps, create a new layer. Great. Now let's go with modeling with 100. This PSC, there is no tricky areas. Now, let's go try to make same thing with smoothing to zero. You see, it's really hard to work like this. Maybe when I use my tablet for driving this with my hand, I want make something like this. Maybe it will look similar like this, but with the mouse is really tricky to paint. So that's good thing to know. But anyway, we will discuss about this later. And from up here at this wheel, we can go and import brushes. If you have saved brushes and your PC or Mac, just click Import, show location, and that's it. When you do that, you can find your brush up here. We will also create our custom brush, but about that later in the next videos. So those are basic things about brushes in Photoshop. So guys, thank you for watching and see you in the next video. Bye. 29. Spot Healing Brush Tool: In this video, I want to introduce your weird spot healing brush tool. As you can see, I prepared three different images to show you the power of this though. So let's start. We can find this stole from up here at the our tool panel, or just press J, right? This is the same thing like the most tools from up here. We can choose a size of our brush, hardness, spacing, angle, and stuff like that. Blending mode type. And this, this is really important to check. We don't want to work destructively. As you already know that we will create a new layer and it will apply this on a new layer. Let me show you what I mean. If I go and delete this layer and turn off this, then let's go create a new layer. As you can see, nothing happened. But if I go click sample all layers, they will see this will disappear. Same thing up here. Basically what this tool does, it will go from up here. As you can see, this is tricky area. Let me zoom in. Photoshop, recognize this as something different and we want to remove it. So it will go just by clicking once. It will remove that object for our image. Just like that. Great. These results are pretty amazing, even if I'm really zoom in this image. Great. Now, I will go and get my brush smaller and just pressing up here at this tricky areas, it will remove them from our image. We can also paint like this. And that's okay. Great. This is really good results for now. And that's it. I think we are almost done with this image. Now. I think you all know what this told us. Let me zoom in to show your results before and after. This is before, and this is after in just a second. But what's important when you're working like this, you don't want to destroy your image. So create a new layer and hit this sample all layers and type. We will almost always use content aware. We don't want to create texture and proximity match. So choose Content-Aware blending mode to Normal and brush depends on what size you need. On the left bracket key you get brush smaller, right key, you get it larger. So basic things like the same. Great. Now let's go to our second. This will be a little tricky because there is lots of things to get done in this image. So let's go get started. Let's go try this big ones. At the beginning. I'm just clicking around. And photoshop automatically remove that for us. It will not always remove everything as you can see because there is too much of them. We will need to go patiently with those areas. Great. We will use this tool basically for portrayed images, for portrait photography, but we can use it for other things too. You will see later in this video. And if I wish to get this image to the perfect, I will need maybe five or 10 min, so I won't go very detailed about that. I just want to show you basic things about this tall rate. Now, let's go try it on. This is with our effect, and this is without, this is original and this is with our effect. In unjust minute of working. You see those areas. There is lots of job to get it done. This red thing up here, we can improve that, but I want to lose our time right now on that, Let's go to our third image. As you can see, this is not skin, but we can use our spot healing brush tool to remove this from image. Just paint over it. It's really simple as that. And as you can see, now, this shirt is clean as new. So I hope you got this. If you have any questions, just please feel free to ask me. Like I always mentioned in almost each video at the end, because I really want to help you and see you in the next one. 30. Healing Brush Tool: Now let's talk about healing brush tool. And you will see difference between those two tools. So as you can see, again, I got several images up here. Basically what this tool does and what's the difference between those two tools? Healing brush tool, we'll take a sample and what sampled us. Well, let's go from up here. Let's take sample from this spot. Now, this is our brush. And from up here with the sample, now you will see, when I paint, you will see this grass at the our butterfly. It will bring up those pixels around, up here at the new spots, at the new place that I wish. Just by painting over it. As you can see, just like that. Let me explain you in a second just to finish with this butterfly. Great. It's absolutely the same one. As you can see. I just painted over it. It will bring those pixels from this spot. And now if I paint over, you will see when I move my mouse cursor, this cross is following. Now, as you can see, if I took sample from up here, we can paint this butterfly up here and it will look like original. We do those things with healing brush tool. It will bring up those pixels. It will not bring 100 per cent those pixels at the first time. As you can see when I go to the example from up here, this is not the same color and nothing is the same color. And I need to paint over a couple of times to get it at the same place. This is really tricky to work sometimes with, but it's really easy with this image because there is no difference in the background. Background color is the same. So this looks really simple and easy. The same thing up here. We can go take a sample from up here and just paint over it, and it will go and hide our plane. I can go with a larger brush sample. Just like that. No one would ever said there's a plane before. But if you didn't follow, I destroy this image because I work destructively. Let's go hit a new layer and make sure you take the sample at the current and below. Great. And now we can do the same thing. And we will make this plane go away. But we did that on a new layer and we didn't destroy our image. So this is the image from before. Let's go to show you something about this, how this tool is powerful. As you can see, we're almost done with this image, but there is lots to improve in this image. Let's go create a new layer. Now. Makes sure that the sample is current and below, I will get this brush smaller. And now I will take a sample from our peer. I will get it smaller a little bit. Now, I'm going to apply something about this image. Great. What's important? When you move a lot, you need to always the case sample. You hit Alt and you will take a sample just by hitting Alt. Your brush will convert this. It's really precise. So the sample, and it will bring up that color for you and we can now paint over it. Those tricky areas. You will see later what we got with this store. Okay, Give me a minute to go and you will see results soon enough. We need to combine those two tools when we work with this kind of images, it's really important. And we cannot do 100% good job with just one tool we need to combine with this portrait images. It's really tricky areas sometime like this. You see, this is really, really, really tricky to work with. But even after I got finished with this, this image is not 100% ready. So there's a lot things to get it done. Never mind. I just want to show you something about the stove. We are almost none. You need to practice with those tools. It's really important. You need lots of practice with those stalls. And I think you can get from now to show you just before and after. This is before, and this is after. You see. There is lots to improve. Still. We need to improve. This knows about up here there is lots to improve. Again, from up here we can go and waste around 30 min to improve those areas. It's really tricky, but at the end, results will be amazing. But what's important to understand is how those tools works. So I hope you all got this and that's it. 31. How to create and save your own brush: In this video, I just want to show you how to create your own custom brushes and maybe you can sell them and earn some cash from it. But let's assume you need it for your work. So how we can create the brushes from those objects. As you can see, I got flames from up here. It's the different types of flames. And from up here, I got this heart in fire. How we can go and create brushes from the, from this. Okay, now let's go and start first. Let's come up here and unlock this. Just like that. Really simple. Now, let's go double-click up here to bring up this layer style. We will discuss about this later. But for now, what's important to get rid of this black color and in background. So how we are going to do that? Let's go remove this, this layer and remove this around here. But as you can see, those tricky areas are really sharp and we don't want that for our brushes. So how we can deal with this? Let me just go back a little bit more. Now when I'm holding Alt or Option key on Mac, from the right side of this. I will just hit and drag it out. And it will remove those tricky areas for us just like that. And I will hit, Okay. Now, when we got rid of our background, let's go ahead and create some brush. I will go and pick polygonal lasso tool. And let's just say, I want this. Okay, I will make selection around this. Just like that. Now let's go to Edit, Define Brush Preset, and let's call it. I will call practice one and just hit. Okay. Now we got our brush and I will use this brush later. But for now, let's go with our second image and we will do a similar thing for this image. I will unlock this background layer, double-click up here, and remove this background. As you can see, it's really tricky. Okay? And I will do the same thing by holding Alt on the right side of this. I will remove those tricky areas around that is fine. And hit okay. Now again, I will hit polygonal lasso tool, make selection of this object. Then go to Edit and choose, Define Brush Preset. Let's go call it practice too. Okay, Now we got our brushes. Let's go and try it on. And one more thing. What's really important when you're making your brushes? You go always width larger images. If you go this way, always try to work with larger images because when you go, let me show you. You can see from up here I will choose my brush tool and let's go at the end, will be our brushes. As you can see, practice one in practice. Let's try it out. And I will use some alias and blue color I think for it. Okay, it's really important, but just like that, and that's our brush that we just created. What's important for size, as I mentioned, it's important to work with larger, larger images when you create your own brushes. Why is important to work with larger images when you're creating your own custom brushes. Well, that's because when you look e.g. we got this pretty good and large brush. But if my image was really lower quality and the size will be really just like this. Maybe when I try to increase the size of my brush, we will get something that's called pixelized, and we don't want that. So it's really important to work with larger brushes. As you can see, this is our brush one and go where the brush number two. Let's go with the red color and try it on. It's really big. That's why I'm telling you, I will undo this and I will increase the size of it. As you can see, this is our heart inflate. It's really amazing. A fact, as you can see. One more thing before I finish with this video, you can create your own custom brushes and sell it. You can earn some extra cash from it. But the thing Q will go buy your own because I want to cover that in this course, maybe in some next. So guys, thank you for watching. I hope you're all goddess. And those effects are really amazing. As you can see, it's really stunning effect. And see you in the next video. Thank you for watching. 32. Practice: Brushes: Hello dear students. In this video, I got a little practice for you. And I wish you go in this alone. What I mean by that alone, because you watch those videos about healing brush tool then the Spot Healing Brush Tool in this video, I want to go buy your own. I want from you to go and remove this bottle, this up here, this object, this tricky one, and maybe couple of things from up here to make this image looks even better. So the next thing is this from up here, I wish to go and remove this cigar from our image. So how you are going to do that? That's your job now and put a pause on this video. And when you're finished with your work, come again and see how I get it done. It should be really easy. So let's start. Wait, I assume you got this really quickly and easily because it's really easy and I think you all got this right. So let me show how I can get this job done. I will use just this tool, healing brush tool because it's really easy. And I will take sample from this spot and just paint over it as you all ready know this. Just like that. It's really amazing. Now the example, remove that again from up here. Great. I just want to remove those black spots as you already see them. Just like that. It's really easy. For this image. I think I don't need more than 1 min. Just like that. And maybe a little bit up here. Weight, as you can see, results are fascinating and we got it in a new layer. Let's go check it out. This is before and this is after in a second. And what's the most important thing up here is this looks natural. This image looks really natural. And this is before and this is after. That's really important when you're working in Photoshop, e.g. when you got your client and sometimes they will get with crazy ideas and maybe he or she will tell you, you see this image. I don't want anyone to figure it out that work in Photoshop. So it's really important to your images looks natural. And this is the second image. It's really easy. This though. Take a sample and just like this, paint over it. That's it. So guys, I hope you all got this and it should be really fun and easy for anyone who fall of the scores. If you've got any questions, I'm here to help and that's it. See you in the next video. And thank you for watching. 33. Crop Tool: Hello guys. Here in this video we will learn how to use crop tool in Photoshop and how to use it to crop images. Either the specific sizes or aspect ratios or to any free form shape we need. We will also learn some handy keyboard shortcuts and lots of other stuff. So let's get started. As you can see from up here, we can go and pick a crop tool. Just like that. The shortcut key is C, As you can see from up here. And let's go try something with a store. We can go and move this slider around here and get any form we need of our image. And that's it. Now, if I go and apply this effect, this will be our image, but we don't want to work like that. I will undo this step. The second way to use crop tool is just coming up here with this tool and dragging something like this or anything like your selection and everything, what's inside this boundary area will be our image. The rest of that, We'll go away just like that. And I can apply this effect by coming up here, clicking this icon or hitting Enter on my keyboard or Return key for Mac users. And the third way is just double-click up here and it will apply this effect. But what we just did, we destroyed our image. Why is that? That's because we permanently deleted the area around here and we don't want to work like that. So I will again go ahead and make a step back. Now we want to go up here and uncheck this delete cropped pixels. Now let's go again and try to drag something like this and apply. Great. We got the same results, right? Well, that's not absolutely the truth. Now let's go for a move to end. Now as you can see, our image is in Dutch, but we can move this just like that. It's a whole image and as you can see, it's no longer here. Our background layer that slogged. It's a new layer. And we are safe. Our original image is in Dutch. So we can go from up here and rename this layer. Great. Now, let me go zoom out a little bit. Now I will hit Control T for our free transform. And as you can see, this is a real size of our image, but this is our canvas area. Everything what's inside is our canvas area. But this is a real image and we don't see the whole image. But we can move those pixels and to place it around here to fit the screen. Go hit Control or Command zero. And you will fit the screen. And it will be easier to work like this. Or you can zoom out by hitting Control or Command Minus or Command Plus to zoom in, Command minus to zoom out. Great. That's it. Now, from up here, Let's go pick a crop tool. As you can see, we got this ratio. We can go and pick a new ratio we need. As you can see, this is square one by 14 by five and the others. So it's up to you which one you need for your work. Let's go try one-by-one. Great. And as you can see, we got our square. Now if I wish to move this proportionally, I will hit Shift on my keyboard and this square will stay in a perfect dimensions rate. Again, we can apply this. And just like that, we can move it around. So that's everything about crop tool. Don't forget. If you don't see entire image about some layer, you can go maybe use the move tool of that particular layer and move it just like this to place it anywhere you need. And that's basic things about crop tool from me. See you in the next video. 34. Eyedropper Tool: Hello guys and welcome. In this video, we will discuss something about eyedropper tool. This tool is really useful and let's go try it on. As you can see from up here, I got five different colors. So when we go up here and pick up eyedropper tool, just hit once. And as you can see from our color, from black, we got this color. Now let me go again, the default settings. Let's go click once. And now we got this blue color. And now if I go and hit double-click up here, you will see this is our name of our color. As you can see. Great. Maybe when you're working, sometimes you need really specific name of color, and this is name of the color in Photoshop. Let's go try this on. As you can see, this see how those numbers changed. Let's go with this green. Each color have their own unique number. Great. And that's it. Now, when we got this, right, okay, Now let's go hit once and hit B. To get our brush tool. I will get my brush larger. And the now make something like this. What they just did. Well, basically, what eyedropper tool does. This is our foreground color, as you already know, and this is our background color. By default in Photoshop, those are black and white. But if we press eyedropper tool, it will bring up this tool for us. Great. Or if you using already up here, using brush tool and you'll want sample of this color. Just hit Alt or Option key on Mac. And it will automatically bring Eyedropper tool for you just like that. And now this is our foreground color. We took a sample and we can go and continue with our work and draw anything we need. Let's go with the second one. It's really simple and easy. Grade this. I'm just messing with those colors as you already know this. And that's it. That's how you can go and work with this tool. It will save you lots of time when you're working with the shortcut. When you go from up here, then go find this tool, click once, bring a sample, then again, go back with the brush tool. You will lose lots of time. So basically you need to go and practice a little bit with those tools to start using the shortcuts. Shortcuts are really important in Photoshop and it will save you, as I mentioned, 100 times already, lots of buy-in and thymus brushes. So keep that in mind guys. Ncaa in the next video. 35. Red Eye Tool: This will be probably the shortest video in this course. And in this video, I just want to show you how red-eye to work. From up here, we can change the size, dark, and amount, and that's it. So basically, as you can see, this is my little brother. I really loved this guy. And I'm using this image because you'll see those red eyes up here. So it's really easy to go with this store. Just go hover the eye. And that's it. Boom. There is no more read things on his eyes. We will do the same thing at the second eye. And that's it. Basically, that's how this tool works. And as I mentioned, it's really easy and fast to remove those red eyes from any image you want. So see you in the next video. Bye. 36. Clone Stamp Tool: Hello guys and welcome. In this video we will discuss something about Clone Stamp Tool. The Photoshop clone stamp tool allow you to copy one area of an image into another area of an image. It's extremely easy to use and one of the programs tool that you will turn to quite often. So let's start. As you can see, we can find our tool from up here. Shortcut is as its standard brush tool. As you can see from up here, there are several options. Let's go check that out. It's the same like all brushes from up here. We can change the size, hardness, even a brush from up here. As you can see, our brush settings. Over here is our clone source. We will discuss about this in a second. From up here, Blend Mode, opacity, flow, aligned sample. As you can see, this you already know we discussed about this. Let's go to our layers, create a new layer. And we can go sample current and below or all layers. But I like to work with current and below. Basically, what this current and below does when I select my layer one. And it will affect background player. It will take samples from a background and apply it in a new layer. So let's start to see what Clone Stamp tool does. Let's go take a sample. We got dislike with healing brush tool. And the 99% of people do the same job with healing brush tool and the clone stamp tool. I will show you the difference in the next video. In this video, I just want to show you how this tool works. It's basically similar like Healing Brush Tool, but there's a difference to know which tool to use when. Basically what this target do is it will take a sample from this spot. And when I move my mouse cursor, it will bring up those pixels up here. Let's go paint this butterfly in a new layer. And just like this, it will paint it something similar, like Healing Brush tool. So let's go from up here. You can see Show Overlay this, see this area. When I go take a sample from up here. Now you see this, what's inside my brush. We see that if I turn off this Show Overlay, you see we don't see that anymore inside of our brush. This could be really useful sometimes when you work with some tiny images with small brushes, you need precise move. You will probably need to turn off this show overlay. But with stuff like this. And even if you are a beginner, I suggest you to check this. And only if you are 100% sure, go and turn off this. Great. That's it about this stole. This is a basic tools, as you already know those option, It's really similar like the Healing Brush Tool. But I got clone stamp tool. And what this target does, I want to show you this when I press Alt or Option key on Mac, we will get this target and it will book sample from this pixel. You cannot see this pixel because let's go take a sample from up here. Let me zoom in. This is one pixel. When we start to see some web, as you already may, we can see this is some web. And now everything what's inside of this one tiny thing that's a pixel. You see there's millions of pixels. As you can see. Let's go check this out. Image and image size. Let's go to pixels. And this is our width. And this is, hey, let's go. Let me bring up my calculator to show you in a second how much of pixels there is. One, let me multiply this number with this. That's the number of pixels in this image. There's 38040. Multiply with this, see this number, almost ten millions pixels in this image, in a single image. As you can see, those are really similar colors in those area, but this pixel, each pixel have their own colors. So imagine that there's a lots of lots of work that Photoshop need to get this done. But as you can see, when I go with this healing brush tool or even clone stamp tool and I took this pixel, this will be my point. And we can go with our brush tool and take a sample from this color and justify go up here. It will bring up this color. So that's how little pixels are in this image, and that's it for me in this video. I hope you all got this. And in the next video, I will show you the difference between this Clone Stamp tool and the Healing Brush Tool because they are really similar in some cases. So make sure the checkout, this next video, Bye. 37. Difference between Healing Brush Tool and Clone Stamp Tool: In this video, I want to show you the difference between clone stamp tool and the Healing Brush tool. Both of these tools let you select the sampling point. This is the part of the image you want to keep and paint over distractions and blemishes. The clone stamp paints a complete copy of whatever you select. However, the Healing Brush Tool keeps the highlights and shadows of whatever you're painting and only paint the color of your sampling area. This makes the clone stamp much, much suitable for areas with defined edges, since the Healing Brush Tool will normally bluer the color and you'll end up with messy edges. So let me show you, as you can see from up here, we got those images that we work before we dose. Let's go with this healing brush tool. As you can see from up here, I will take a sample by hitting Alt. And now let's go try to remove this object or this flower. And as you can see, it's really hard with this tool to get this. It's impossible, to be honest. Let's go try with this flower. As you can see, we got those messy edges. It's not what we need to currently. That's really tricky to work with. Now let's go a couple of times. And, and let me go and pick our clone stamp from up here. I will take a sample and let me get my brush larger. To make this faster. As you can see, it's really easy for this to hold. Great. Now let's go with this flower. As you can see, there is no problem at all with this thought. So, I hope you got this. Now, let's go with this second image. Let me get my brush smaller. The biggest difference from up here for those two tools is this. Let me show you with healing brush tool, the healing brush tool. Let me take a sample from up here. Now, let's go paint over this. But let's go create a new layer, current and below, or we can select all layers. Never mind. Not that much important for now. Let's go take a sample and now let's go just paint or so what this told us, it will blend with the background. That's the main thing with this healing brush tool. And if I go and pick clone stamp tool and do the same thing, Let's go. I will create a new layer to show you from this spot. It will bring everything from up here. It doesn't matter. These stole done blend, it, just bring up that area 100%. So as you saw in this previous image that we tried to do. Now let's go and paint over it. Like excuse me, we don't see anything because of this. Now let's go take a sample from up here. And as you can see, it will bring up 100% from up here. It doesn't matter. It will not blend with the background like the previous tool does. So for this tricky areas, I suggest you to work with healing brush tool with edges and stuff like this with this image, you'll go with this tool. But clone stamp tool is better for this kind of job. So keep that in mind. I hope you got the difference between Let's go one more time over those two tools. The difference between those totals, Healing Brush Tool will blend with the background and it will create something like this. It will healing brush tool is better for this kind of job. But if you want to remove something hundred per cent and it doesn't matter for you to blend in. Then you'll go with this clone stamp tool. I hope you got this right. So that's it. See you guys in the next video and thank you for watching. Bye. 38. Eraser Tool: Hi there and welcome. In this video we will discuss about our eraser tool or background eraser tool and our Magic Eraser tool. Those are similar tools. So let's get started. We will start with some basic eraser tool. Great. As you can see from up here, It's something like brush tool. As you can see, that's it. Nothing special. When I got this tool activated, I can go over and paint over it. You think I'm deleting those pixels, but know what this eraser tool does. Now, basically, when our layer is locked, like his case with us, it wants to delete those pixels. It will just paint over it with our background color. As you can see, our background color is currently white. Let's go swap those two color and see what's going to happen. Now, this C, we just paint over with the black color. But what will happen if I go and unlock this? Let's go now, try it on. As you can see currently, this color is our background color. But now I'm really deleting those pixels from our image. How is that? That's because our background layer is unlocked and I'm deleting those pixels like forever. The only way I can get them back is if I go and do those areas. So let's go couple times undo to get this image at the starting point. Great. I hope you got this basic thing about Eraser tool from up here, we can change our size of our brushes hardness modes. As you can see from brush, pencil, our block capacity flow smoothing. And that's it. I won't bother you with those assumptions because we go through them with our brushes and I think you all understand this. So let's go continue with our background eraser tool. Let me zoom in just a little bit. Great. Now, what will happen with this store? As you can see, let me get my brush a little bit larger. When I got this tool activated, you will see this circle and inside this circle, a little cross. So from up here, we can take a sample by hitting Alt. And what this tool does, basically, as you can see, if I go and paint over, it will delete my image. That's not something we want it and that's not something we need. Let's go one step back. Now. Let me check protect foreground color. And let me zoom in just a little bit more. Now, as you can see, let me go to default now to swap those two colors or whatever. Now, when I take a sample of this color and paint over it, it won't delete them 100%. And if I reduce the tolerance around 14%, Let's go now try it on. If I go and paint over this area, USE we don't delete our black color. That's because we press this protect foreground color. Basically, what will this told us? It will delete the background that's different from your foreground color. As you can see, we said with our, by hitting Alt, we created this color as our foreground color, and that's something black. As you guys can see, our foreground color is black. And if I go over this area, it will delete it 100%. And why is that? That's because the color is different. Let's go see it. As you can see, it's really deleting that pixels and that's something we don't need. Let's go. And for this area, Let's take a sample of this color and now just go and delete the background for our image. Just like that. Now again, for this area, take a sample of this and just paint over it. And as you can see, we're deleting our background pixels from our image. Just like that. It's really easy and simple to use. And that's something that we are going to use maybe in some project. And this area is really tricky. You will need some times may be couple of minutes to get this here right from the background, but results, I'm sure will be amazing. So that's something about this background eraser tool. Now, let's go to Magic Eraser though. Let me go and undo those steps. Let's see what's going to happen. If I press just once up here at this area, just like that. You'll see, we said our time. This is really tricky areas to deal with, but with this tool, as you can see, but it will recognize the color that you need to delete. And let's go with this second image. As you can see, the obvious difference in color is up here. Now, just one click up here. It will delete our sky from our image. This tool works similar like magic one tool, but let's go try it on just one hit. And as you can see, we deleted our background color, our blue color. So it will delete the color that's similar. Let's go hit just wants up here. And do you see what's happened with destroy our image? Let's go one step back to show you why this tool deleted almost everything from this image. That's because this color is almost everywhere. You see, it's almost everywhere this color and it will delete that color from the whole image. I hope you got this just by hitting once they see it deleted everything from our image. And we need to be careful when we work with this tool. This tool really can save us some time, as you can see from up here, if we go with this store with background eraser tool with those Syria, we will lose maybe five, 10 min, maybe even more with those tricky areas, but this tall save us lots of time. Maybe we can go and improve this by hitting this Background Eraser tool from up here and delete those tricky areas. But I won't do that in this video. Because my point is here just to show you how these tools work and I hope you is if you have any questions about this stall, just please let me know and see you guys in the next video. 39. Gradient Tool: In this video, I will introduce you with the gradient tool. So let's get started. We can find the gradient tool from up here at the our tools panel. And, or pressing G sharp and G gradient store from up here is linear gradient, radial gradient, angular gradient, reflection gradient, and diamond gradient. So each one of those are different. So if I took linear gradient, it will create something like shades from the starting point to the ending point, a straight line. Just like this. If I release, you will see what I get. Now, let's go with this second one. Radial gradient. Shapes from the starting point to the ending point in a circular pattern does like this, as you can see. Next, will be our angular gradient shades in the counterclockwise sweep around the starting point, as you can see now, let's go with our reflection gradient. Mirrors the same linear gradient on either side of the starting point. Just like this. As you can see, let's go from up here. It's like a mirror. So this is good to know. And the last is our diamond shapes from the middle to the outer corners of a diamond pattern, just like that. So that's it about this tricky area. And from up here we got some presets. As you can see, if I click, they will choose this one or this one. This is, this is transparent. As you can see. It will go from this spot, this, but it will be transparency. Let's go create a new layer. This. And again, it's transparency applied. So that's good to know. And if I go and choose this one, hit, okay. Let me go to my background layer. Dislike this. It will now bring up the white color on the other side. So from up here, we can go and add a new gradient, or we can reset them load gradients. And from up here, we can add more gradients. Let's go try this on F I click, Okay, it will remove those and it will apply just only this harmony is one. And if I click Append, it will bring up, but those will stay. Okay, Let's hit a band. And now we got something like this. Okay, from up here, as you can see, the name of this gradient is red angry. As you can see, gradient type is solid, smoothness is 100 per cent. And from up here, if I go and double-click up here, now I got color picker, I can move this, change our color. You will see the color will automatically apply on this end, we got a little preview up here. So that's good to see. Sometimes when you work. If I'm satisfied with this color and this green, I can go and create with this. I can also save this by just hitting this new. And from up here we got our new gradient. We can change a name. Let's call it practice. And that's it. Next time when I go up here at this gradient editor, we will get our practice gradient. So that's good to know. One more thing. If I press Alt, I will bring one more up here. Those little diamonds are on middle currently. Why is that? That's because this area is smooth. Now, if I want this to be really hard edge, I can go and bring up this to one or the other side. But if I go up here at the middle, this see how this color is constantly changing the data point. So that's the effect we want with almost all gradients. And the same thing up here. But we cannot see difference between those. And if I wish to add a new color up here, just like this, I can go hit this color though, K, and that's it. Now I can change this slider. You'll see how much color it will bring up, up here at this area. So that's good thing to know. Let's go apply this effect on our butterfly layer. But first let's go create a new layer. And I will go from this spot, this spot. And when I release, we will get this. But I will go and change our blend mode. Let's go. This is a multiply. We can reduce the opacity to get cool effect. Or we can go continue to see which effect is good. Maybe this is fine, as you can see before and after. This is good one, maybe reduce a little opacity. And this can look really nice. That's it. If you wish, from up here. If you don't need to go, create a new layer, if you are sure if you want to go with your background layer, just, let's go delete this layer and blend mode. Let's go up here, the same thing. Let's go with capacity at 55% and apply the same effect as you can see. But now, what's the difference? Now we can go back, basically we destroyed this image. How is that? Everything is up here is okay. But if I wish to go step back, I will need to go with and do. I cannot added this like I can when this is on a new layer. So I will suggest you always work on a new layer. You don't need to work like this to destroy your images. And one more thing from up here, if we go and create a new, let me go, make a new layer. And let's go with gradient like this. Great. If I go from this part, this part, we will get this effect. But if I go and hit Reverse and undo this step, go from up here again, now this effect is reverse. So keep that in mind. And one more thing you need to know is go from up here, Let's go just make selection. And now even we don't need this layer. And let's go with our background layer. Now, what if we got some selection just like this? And we need to apply some gradient from up here. And what's going to happen if I release my mouse, it will only affect what's inside our selection. That's some golden rule in Photoshop. The current thing you do with any tool, Let's go pick a brush tool and paint over it. It will only apply in the selection. In the current selection, it doesn't matter if there is 100,000 layers, it will only apply effect on currently selection. So keep that in mind. And that's it about this talk. I hope you got this guys if you have any questions, I'm here. So seeing the next video. Thank you for watching. 40. Paint Bucket Tool: Hello guys and welcome. In this video, I will introduce you with paint bucket tool. There is nothing special about this tool. It's really easy to use and understand. So let me show you in a minute. This will be, I think, really quick video. Basically, you can find your tool from up here as a standard tool from up here, paint, bucket tool, the shortcut is G. And from up here we got similar setting like with ordinary. From up here, there are several options and basically similar stuff like with other tools in Photoshop. From up here we can choose to, we wish were Paint Bucket Tool go as a foreground color or pattern. We will always work with foreground. Next from up here we got mode. Which mode we want for this paint bucket tool to fill this layer or anything, opacity tolerance, anti-aliasing and stuff like that. So let me show you in a second. And as you can see, when I activate my tool, we will get something like this. This bucket. You see this icon below our mouse. So that's, that's icon of our tool. Once I click up here at the background, it will automatically fill the whole layer with this color, which color is our foreground? Can go again, and that's it. Now let's go and create a new layer. And from up here, Let's go again with some similar color. Now we only see the color in the last layer. Why is that? That's because this layer have priority and mode is normal. If we change mold or something like that or reduce opacity, then we will allow layer below to get up here. That's some things we all know for now. And that's basically it. We can go and create something like that. And now let's go create a new layer or we can stay with this layer. Never mind. Let me go pick this black color. Let's hit G for our shortcut. And now when I press up here, it will only affect what's inside my selection. So you can go with the neural layer and still it will only select the lonely affect what's inside our selection. So keep that in mind. Be sometimes you will need similar stuff like this. Now, let me de-select this. As you already know. This is a new layer, this red color. We can move it and make some changes, but about that later, and let's go to our second image. As you already know this image, let me go again. Pick a paint bucket tool. What will happen if I click once up here, we will get messy things and why we get results like that. That's because let me undo this step. That's because our tolerance is at 32 points. This is default setting with photoshop about this stall. So let me go try with one. Now, if I click, you'll see almost nothing happened. And now let's go to maximum. Great. Now let me go and fill just one click. And almost everything is affected. And why is that? That's because tolerance is now at the maximum, but we will stay with 32. We already know about this. Let me undo those and now let's create a new layer. I need to remove those two. Let's again create a new layer. Now, if I go and click once up here at my layer one, this will affect the whole layer. We can change the opacity or some blend mode. Let's go to multiply, reduce the opacity, and we will see results. Great. Now, let me delete this again. Let's go create a new layer. If I check this, it will affect all layers like let me show you. The results will be like we paint on our background layer. So you need to uncheck this because it's really tricky to work with this. And I highly suggest to turn off this option because it's really messy sometimes and you will make some moves that you don't want. So uncheck this, and that's it. That's everything about this tool for now. And see you in the next video. 41. Blur, Sharpen and Smudge Tool: Hi guys, welcome to another video. And in this video, I will introduce you with the new tools, blur, sharpen tool and the smudge tool. Those are really useful tools and, uh, let me explain. Let's go from up here first, I will go with my blur. Where the blur tool, basically we blur some area with our brush. As you can see from up here at the options bar, we got several options. This tool also have a brush and use brushes for his moves. From up here you can choose size, hardness, or change your brush and stuff like that. Mode, strength, sample all layers, and that's it. So let me zoom in this area. As you can see. We can say this area is really sharp. So let's go and make some marks. But before that, I will go and duplicate this image by hitting Control J to show you results before and after. And from up here, at the strength, we choose how much our moves. It's gonna be hard. From up here as 100% is, our move is going to be really hard and it will make good effect. Or from up here, it's really tiny effect. So let's go basically with default settings at 50 per cent. Let's go just paint over those area a couple of times. And let me show you results before and after in a second. This is where this effect and this is without. As you can see, this area is really blurry. Now, this is weird and this is without this tool. Let's go with string at 100. That's similar. Just our moves gonna be harder and it's going to be faster. So when you're sure you don't need this, add 50 or 30 or ten per cent, Never mind, go with hundred and it will go faster. So you see before and after this area is really blurry now. And if I go from up here, sample all layers. As you already know, it will affect all layers that I got. Never mind if I got 51020 or 50 layers, it will affect them out. So I like to uncheck this and I suggest you to, if you're not sure 100 per cent, what you're doing. So that's it about this blur tool. Now, let's go with the sharpened thought. Let me just delete this and again, create a new copy to show you different results. And for this tool is important. When you want to get some area, get more sharp. You need high-quality images and that area cannot be really blurry and you cannot get that area really sharpens. So that's really important to know. Basically, with our image, this area is really sharp as I think. It's a little bit noisy, but never mind, we can get our job done. And let's go try this effect on USE what this tool does. I will show you results before and after. This is with this tool. And this is without. As you can see, this area is now really sharp. So that's about this tool. And as you already know, sample all layers. It will affect everything. Like I mentioned in previous thought. This is really important. Protect details, make sure this option is activated when you are working. So let me show you. I will uncheck this and put strength at 100. So when I make my move from up here, we will get this. It's called pixelized, and we don't need this. It's really, really awful effect. So keep that in mind guys and never work like that. Hit protect details and that's it. Now, the last of those tools, I'm showing you just basic things about those tools. We can work with those tools with our practices later. Don't worry. Now what's important is just to know which tool can do what. Later in exercise, you will get your chance to work with those stores. Now, I will get my brush smaller and Moves strength to thoroughly just like that. And what's going to happen when I move over, as you can see, when I click and drag, it will move those things with those kinds of images. We don't need this stall, but with some portraits and other stuff, we can use this tool and it's really powerful, but for now, it works like that. Just to show you, as you can see from up here, I just moving those. It's like you've got your work on a paper and you paint with your colors and then go with a sponge or something like that and just go over your work. And here we'll get similar effect. So that's it. And if I go from up here and check this finger painting, you will see what's going to happen. As you can see it. We'll go with the same effect, but we will get our foreground color effect that also, if I change this color, let's go with some blue and hit Okay, and now make move. It will again bring that color on our image. It just like you're painting with your finger. It's just like it says, painting with fingers. So keep that in mind guys. And the lighter, I have some exercise for you to see how you are going to deal with those stores. So I hope you all ready for it. It's really easy and see, are there 42. Practice: Blur and Sharpen Tool: Hi guys. In this video, I got a little exercise for you. So it should be really easy. And as you already can see from up here, I name those still images, sharp blur. So what's my point here? At this image i1 from you to use sharp, dull and on this image I want from you to use blur tool and the blur, this background. And from up here, I want to get this image sharpest as you can. So let's start, pause this video and do it by your own. And when you finish with your own work, you can come back and continue with this video or just watch it. It's up to you really. So first, I will go with this sharp and I will hit this sharp tool. As you can see, my brush is really large. I will get it smaller grade. Now from up here I will go and duplicate this layer to show your results before and after. Let's go get this mountain a little bit more sharper. Just like that two times over this area. And it should be good. I will get my brush smaller and I will go over this area. First. Maybe this is too much. I will go and undo this. Great. Now let's go see results before and after. Great. This is good. Now let's go and continue over this area. Up here. I'm just holding my mouse button and going over that area. Simple as that. This is too much, I will undo this. Great just once over that area. Once up here. That's it. This so much. Great. And we can go over this. I think it's lady who knows. Just once or twice should be fine. Now, over this hat, you see how those details are coming out. Rate. Now, let's go just a little bit over that sand. It's really nothing special. It's some basic stuff we doing up here at this image. So that should be, now let's go see results. This is really, really easy exercise. All you need to do is just come up here because sharpening tool and go over areas you want to get sharper. So let's see results. This is before and this is after. So as you can see, those are pretty good details and I think that's amazing. So that's it for this tool. Now, let's go with our blur tool. And from up here we can go with this. I can go and just clicking up here and trying to make this more blurry. But we will lose lots of times. So what should we do appear? So what, so what I'm going to do up here, I will create selection of this man, this young man, and then I will inverse that selection. So my selection should be this background. Then I will use my blur tools and it should be easy. So let's go make a quick selection of this man, I will zoom in. As you can see, I created a new layer because I want to show you results before and after. That's a rough selection. Now remind, I can go remove that area from our image. Let's go zoom in. Maybe you didn't expect this from me in this video, but I'm just showing you how you can get it done. So that's it. I can go. And now remind, let just say we're satisfied with our selection. Great. I will zoom out. Then. This is really important to remember. This is the shortcut key for inverse in your selection. Let me go with the screen by hitting Control Shift and I. You can inverse selection. You will see in a second. And now Dairy this, we inverse our selection. So now all I do will affect only what's inside my selection. So this man is no longer my selection here is outside my selection. Let me show you. If you see if I'm painting, I cannot affect him because he's outside my selections. So that's the whole point. I want to lose my time or your time by doing this with lower till, we can get this done, but it will take lots of time. And we can go just from up here at the filters. Them blur and hit Gaussian Blur, just like that. And from up here, you can choose how much your radius, one and B. As you can see, the more pixels are in this radius, the blurrier image should be. Let just say we are satisfied with this and just hit, Okay, Let's go Control D to de-select it. And now let's go see before and after. This is before, and this is after we apply this effect on the image. So guys, that's it. If you have any questions, just ask and see you in the next video. 43. Dodge, Blur and Sponge Tool: Hello and welcome. In this lecture, we'll talk about Dodge Burn and sponge tool in Photoshop. Those tools, I can say they are unnecessary for any amateur or professional photographer that is looking to interchange specific area of photography. What's important to remember, all the tools that we are about to go over are meant for small fixes, not the whole image. But for now, what's important for you is to understand how these tools works. So first tool that we are going to use is Dodge Tool. You can find that stool from the left menu and we can touch. Once you activated this tool, you will notice at the top of the window an option bar will be displayed. As we talk about. This is standard for all brushes in Photoshop. Second, we got range range specifics, whatever the Dodge Tool affects, shadows, mid-tones, or highlights in areas over which your drug, e.g. make sure the range is set to shadow, left-click, and draw the exposure. It identifies how much of change the Dodge Tool makes as you drag. Basically, you're telling the Photoshop how strong you wanted to lighten. This example, makes sure it's at about 50 to 60%. Okay? Protect nodes, tells Photoshop to minimize the clipping and makes sure the colors do not change. For this example, makes sure this is checked. I will make a copy of my picture. And now I will use Dodge Tool. As I move over to this area, it won't affect it as you can see. But when I go to darker areas, you can see what's happening. If you don't see, I will show you the difference in them second. Okay, I think this is fine. And as you can see, this is a much difference. This is width without. So what we learn from this, what Dodge tool do. The Dodge Tool tries to take darker areas and make from them enlightened. As you can see. Basically, this is Dodge tool. And again, results before and after, before and after. Okay, I hope all will understand this. It's really easy. Now, I will delete this one. Now, let's go and pick the burn tool. I will create a copy. If the Dodge tool lightens, then the burn tool must darken. Okay. Let's check it out. If I go over, as you can see, it will try to make it darker. Absolutely the opposite of the burn tool. When I go over the sea, it will affected. I will show you results before and after in a second. I will not affect more of the image. Okay, I think this is fine for you. This was before and this was after after applying the burn tool. I hope you got this. It's really easy. But again, this is only showing you the difference between those tools. I will recommend you never take a whole, never take a whole picture to work like this. Those tools are for smaller areas of a picture. The sponge tool allow you to D saturate or saturate the color. Before we proceed with, I will go on this image to show you. I will take a quick selection of this rows. Okay? I can remove this, and this is fine. Now I will inverse this selection. Click Control Shift and I, or Command Shift and I together to Inverse selection. Okay, we got, now what will I do? I will take sponge tool and I will go to D saturate. I will pick hardness to 100 and go over. Just like this. This effect can be really helpful. Okay? As you can see, we got black and white in just a minute. This defect can be really helpful. Sometimes. I go Control D to de-select. Now, if you wish, take a hardness to zero, then go over those areas a little bit to make it more realistic. And now there we have it. It's really easy. And I hope you understand this tool. I can go back to show you what means to saturate. Okay. I will again press Control, Shift, Enter to reverse selection, then I'll click saturate. As I move over. It will bring more color to our image. That's what Sponge Tool does. But this doesn't look nice for me. Okay guys. This is all for me in this lecture. I hope you understand difference between Dodge Burn tool and the sponge to see you in the next lesson, Bye. 44. Layer Styles or Blend Mode: Hi there and welcome. In this video, I will introduce you with the blending options in Photoshop. This is really important to know. We will use this option in almost every thing we do in Photoshop. So let me explain your holiday stole work. Let's just say let's type something like text. That's it. Great. I will just go and place it up here to show you. You can get your blending options. Just go right-click on your layer that you want to apply some options, or just double-click up here and you will see your blending options just like that. From up here. As you can see, we got really good. And as you can see guys, there is lots option, different options that you can apply on some layer. So if I go and apply each one of those, my text one go exactly how I want it to be. And in much cases we don't want to apply each one of those. So for now, let's go and I will explain you. Each one of those one-by-one. Let's go first to close those options. And as you can see, if I go and click up here at the styles, this is what you will see when you install your Photoshop. So as you can see, I can go and apply some of those. And you will see some options from up here will change. As you can see, it will show us which effect of those are applied on our text. This is some preset that you got with Photoshop. As you can see, you can go and have a little preview of what you are going to apply. And basically, we don't want to work like this. I never use those options. There'll be honest with you, but maybe this is good trick to know, to save some time. Maybe when you are in a hurry. As you can see, there is lots of different options. And we can get those options if we go by our own. And as you can see from up here, are options that are applied on a current layer. So that's it. As you can see. Nothing special. Anyway, let's go with the default and let's go with first option. And this is really good one when you are working with text or create some buttons for some web page or for some mobile app design and stuff like that. Or I don't know, maybe with your icons and the other stuff similar to that. So as you can see, when I go and click once up here, you see how my text is. Little change. As you can see, this is applied. Let me go back again. Bring up that. When I go click once up here, as you can see, we got from up here which style we want to apply. And when I go and click once up here, it will automatically change my layer. So this is some of the options you got. You can go and combine those options. And when you combine those options and know which option, what can do. That's good. Now let's go from up here. Technique is do wish your edges go smooth like this or you want some hard edges, as you can see from up here. And when I go and increase my size, you will see what I'm talking about. And this is even more depth. And you'll see what effect we are getting. So you don't need to go too much crazy because if I go up here at the maximum, you'll see this is nothing good. So don't go too much crazy with those options. Now from up here we got size. We can go increase the size or decrease the size, that's it. And the soft and the we wish our edges there will be dust like that. Even if he's up here hard, if I go and increase, this option, won't let it to go too much. Hard on it. From up here we can go and see which we wish to apply this effect. This is currently at 90 degrees. I can go just one click up here. You'll see how those options going to change dust like that. And from up here we got some extra options. This is something like how it will look like if this go through some glass. E.g. if we've got some glass like this or something like this, this effect we will get, this is basically Photoshop telling us there is a sun and there is a glass. So this is global light, this is something like sun. And from up here we choose this son to go through those kind of glass. So if I go to something like this, we will get this effect. If my son go through the glass like this, we will get this effect. I hope you goddess, I'm trying to make this simple for you. So I hope your government, and as you can see, this is some different effects that we are going. So you need to go and experiment with your own projects. May be you will need some options like this. Sometimes maybe the other time you need some different options and you don't need to go and practice by your own widows options. From up here we can add some texture and thus stuff like that. Basically, you'll see when I go scale it or reduce the size of it. This is the, and that's it. Let's go. Next option will be stroke. And we don't see anything change because our color is black and this is currently my text is black and we cannot see any difference. Let's go make our stroke red. And now as you can see, this is a red line. If I go, this is size of our stroke. I can go just type up here which size I need. Or I can go up here at this slider and get this effect. And from up here we can go choose inside, outside, or from the center. So let's go outside. And as you can see, we get this effect. If I go inside, we get this effect inside. Basically Photoshop, we'll go 15 pixels or ten pixels because there is ten pixels. It will go from this edge, from this search, it will go ten pixels inside and apply this effect. If I go outside, it will go from this part, ten pixels outside. And if I go from center, it will go five pixels inside and five pixels outside. So that's something you need to know rate. And this is inner shadow we cannot see because this text is currently black. Let's go make this color to red and try to see something. And if I go up here at the normal, It really depends which blend mode you use. Maybe sometimes with, as you can see, if I go with multiply, we don't see anything because this black color is dominant. And I, and when I go with my blend mode set at the multiply, we don't see anything. So if I press up here at the normal, I can go and see my color. This is opacity. I can increase the opacity distance, as you can see from up here. Choke and the size just like that. So don't go too much crazy with those options. Great. That's it. Inner Glow. And as you can see, we can add inner glow to our edges of our text. Let's go. As you can see from up here is blend mode, set up the screen. Those are some default settings that you are going to get with your Photoshop. So from up here, There's opacity. It's really similar and I won't bother you too much with those options. You need to practice by your own width Photoshop. My job is here to show you which tool can do what and to show you how to work, to get you through some basics, things, and trust me, you need to practice by your own. I won't call it the wastes sometimes working in Photoshop now, you want waste anytime. Practice is really important in Photoshop. If you don't know what you are going to do, just please ask me in section Q&A, anything you need to know about your project. I'm here to help you even with your own projects, because I'm here to help. I really like to help other people. Let's see, Let's continue. Okay, and from up here we got color overlay. This is something basically, this is my text. And if I go change color up here, it will apply on a whole layer. That's it. We can change the Blend Mode opacity, and that's it. Gradient Overlay. Let just say we can go and apply some gradient up here at the our text. Just like that, we don't need to waste our time selecting this tax or convert this text and then selected then applied this gradient. Just right-click up here, go to gradient overlay, apply gradient you wish. And that's it. It's really simple as that. And this is Pattern Overlay from up here you can choose your own pattern, or this is some of the fault that Photoshop offers. That's nothing special about it. From up here, you can reduce the opacity on it or increase it blend mode. And that's it. Our glow. From up here we can go and change up here, our color. Let's go with normal. And as you can see from those sedges, we got something like our glow. And we can go and increase the size to show you the effect that we are going to get if we apply something like this. And that's it. I can go from up here, increase the opacity to show you which results we are going to get if I go and apply this. Great. And the last one is drop shadow. From up here. We can go increase, multiply and we can go and add some shadow to our text. As you can see, you can increase distance or an angle to show you. It's really up to you which one of those u1 to apply. And this is do want to spread them the size of it. And that's basic thing about blending options or Layer Style in Photoshop. If you have any questions, like always sign here and see you guys in some of the next videos. 45. RGB and CMYK Color Models: In this video, I want to show you the difference between RGB color mode or CMYK mode. So what's the difference? What's the big deal in those two color modes? So as you can see, RGB color mode is red, green, and blue, and it's an additive color model. What this means is that this color model, based on adding and mixing light. When you add red, green, and blue light together, you create a pure white. You can see how adding pigments in RGB color model affect the ultimate color results as red, green, and blue all come to why it is understood that white is truly the combination of all colors and black is absence of color. Lgbt is permanently using for designing elements that can be displayed on television set, computer monitor, or a mobile phone, or any other kind of light source. Obviously, it's a device dependent color mode. What about CMYK? Color mode is opposite thing. So as you can see, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. So those are four colors for this model, and it's a subtractive color model. A subtractive color model works exactly opposite from an additive color model or RGB. It works up partially or entirely masking certain colors from white. So instead of adding light to achieve color, this color model is using ink to subtract brightness from y, therefore, cyan, magenta, yellow and combination is black, the absence of brightness. Where does the key or black comes in through additional printing, cyan, magenta and yellow inks were layered to create images. Eventually, key or black began being used to additionally subtract brightness, imprinting and heavily reduced Inc.'s usage of their other tones. Cm. Why K is also a device dependent color model, but it is most frequently used this day as a main color mode used in printing, whatever It's posters, brochures, business card, books, or magazines. So now let me explain you when we create our document, which color model we are going to use. So let's go create a new file. As you can see from up here, we can create a new file. And when we designed some button that we are going to use for our webpage or our mobile device. We will use this color mode, RGB. As you can see, we can from up here change eight bits, 16 or 32 bits. This is the default settings in Photoshop, and usually we will use resolution of 72 pixels per inch. What's going to happen when we design our business card or our posters or something similar, e.g. book covers and stuff like that from up here we will usually going to work with hundred and 50, but the standard is 300 pixels per inch. There is more pixels and this file is going to be larger. And from up here, we will change this mode from RGB color mode to CMYK, as you can see. And there we have it. And one more thing. What's the difference? 72-300 pixels per inch. When we create something for Web Legacy, recreate some web page, we need our webpage to load fast. We cannot achieve that if our files are really large, so we need really good Internet connection to load that site, right? So if I go with 300 pixels per inch, that's not good deal. We will use 72 pixels per inch and RGB color mode if we using our work for web or mobile devices or something similar. But when we wish to print something, e.g. some T-Shirt and stuff like that. We can use this CMYK color mode. So I hope you got this right. And it's really simple as that. When we wish to work for web, we will use RGB color. And when we wish to print something, we are going to use this color mode, 72, 300. It's really simple as that, and that's it, guys. I hope I make it really simple. And if you have any questions about this, please feel free to ask and I will be here, gladly transfer in each question you ask. So see you in the next week. Bye. 46. Type Tool: Once again, hi and welcome. So in this video, I will introduce you with the type tool. As you probably know, you can find your tool from up here at the tool panel or just press shortcut D and you will bring up this horizontal type tool. Because we will work with this stole almost every time. 99%. Maybe we will use this tool sometimes, but horizontal is our main tool for text in Photoshop. So let's get started. Just click once, and from that point, you can type your text. Let me just type something. Great. As you can see, this is currently are taxed and SEO already maybe noticed it is on a new layer. So it says layer one. But when I press on this icon, it will automatically change the name of my text. So let's go try it on just like that n. Now as you see practice for students from up here, you see name of your layer. We can also change the name of that, but we don't bother with that in this video. Now, if you want to add something more in your text, you can go ahead and just click somewhere in your text and just go continue with your work and type whatever you want. So when we type outside our canvas area, Photoshop will still continue to draw in this. Photoshop will still continue to write up here, and we can not see that. So we don't need work like that. Let me just go type something like this. So when I press enter, it will go below. Once again, if I press enter, it will go rob below. So that's the deal with this. And if you wish to delete some of those words, just go hover with the mouse. And when you get something like this, and just go backspace and it will automatically delete those for us. Now, we can go and limit our program, and I will go and drag something like this. And now whatever I type will go inside of this leg. Just say let me just type something fast. As you can see, we cannot go with the whole sentence from up here. It will go below. But if I move up here, you will see it will go up here in the first row. So keep that in mind. If you go like this, it will go and try to keep up with our settings. So that's one thing to know. Great. Now, if I pick my, my move tool, I can go and move this tax whenever I like just like that. And I still when I press T, I can go come up here and edit this text just like that. So from up here are our fonts. As you can see, there is lots of fonts. And let me just show you one quick thing. When you select your work, your text. And you'll come up here just like that angle over some font and you will see how our texts changing. And this is just preview of how it will look like if I go and apply some of those fonts, just like that, Let's go try with a song. And Okay, now this is our font. Great. Now let's go select the whole text from up here with some fonts, you just get regular. But with a font like this, you can go and see, as you can see from up here, you can go narrow or we can go narrow. Italicize, bold, italic, bold red color, and stuff like that. From up here we change the size of our text. And this is about something anti aliasing. As you can see, this is really sharp. It's about those edges when I press none here, see how those edges are really noticeable. When I go and hit Sharp, you will see how they get smarter. So that's it. From up here is aligned text. As you can see, this is left aligned text, this is center aligned text, and this is right align text. So now when is my text selected? I can come up here and change the color of it in a second. I can pick any color I want. And just like that Bittker color and hit Okay, and now that's my color of the text. Now let's go try this option on. As you can see, our style is currently none. And this is just a little preview. When I click up here, you see how our text changed. And we can go and reduce the size of it, move it from one side to another and stuff like that. You will maybe use this sometimes I use it. As you can see from up here, you got really, really good previous and you can go and try them on later. I want apply that because I don't need it. Now, if you got workspace like I do, you see those character tap from up here we see also which font is currently activated with which settings and stuff like that. So if you don't see this character, you can go just from up here, click once, and you will see those options. So let me explain you something about this. As you can see, when I press up here at the outer, you will see when I reduce the size here, see how those go close to one. Now, I can also go with this. This is spacing between our letters. So let's go with five. Let's go maybe with 25. You see what I'm doing? Let's go with 75. You see it move distance between each letter. From up here. We can also change the size of our text and this is how much of it I wish. Let's go with 200. You see what's going to happen. We scaled our tax worked equally and this is also horizontally. I can move this slider. Great. I think you all follow me. I will undo those things. I will go with 100 up here. And also from up here I will type 100 and that's it. So one more thing that is good to know. I don't like to work like this. Let me just select this text to show you what I meant when I wish the change spacing between my letters. I want go from up here and choose what the Photoshop offer me. I will go up here at this icon. You'll see what's going to happen if I move my mouse cursor from the left. And now what's going to happen if I move it to the right? So this is like Slider. And with the preview, that's what I like with this. I can see instantly what I'm doing. So that's good for me. Maybe you don't like it, but I'm just showing you how you can work. And the same thing with all of those options. As you can see. What's good. You can see the preview and it will automatically apply that change when you release your mouse. And also from up here we can change a color of it. That's it. And also, you can go from up here, make your font bold or italic and stuff like that. So go practice by your own with this tool, it's really fun and should be really easy. As I already mentioned, when we pick our move tool, we can go select this and move it when our will. So one more thing, and when I press Control T, I will get Free Transform. Now, I can reduce the size of my text and that's it. I can apply that and still move it. But when I press T, I can go again and edit this tax. So that's good to know. And if I go right up here, right-click on it and hit rasterize type. Now, we got this like an image. We cannot go. If I go again, as you can see at the my type tool and try to add it, I cannot because this is currently saved as an image and we cannot go back on lease. I undo those steps, there is no way to go back. So this is now treated like an image. We can go and delete those pixels just like that. And there is not taxed. So keep that in mind when you're working with this tool. One thing that I want to show you, it will be really quickly. I promise I will go because we import this image up here. And let me just center it right there. Great. Now let's go pick our type tool and type something like summer rate. I will select this. I will choose some other font. Let's see the preview of it. Let just say I'm satisfied with this font. I will get my font larger. Great. We resize it. And now I will move this layer one at the top of my layers. Now I will hold my Alt key or Option key if you're using Mac until you see this icon, go up here at the layers. And you will see what I'm talking about. When I see something like this, I will just click once. And now we created this effect in a second. And one more thing that is good with this. I can pick my move tool and move those pixels and try to place them where I liked. So that's good trick to know. Maybe I can get this larger to get this cool effect. As you can see in a second, we created some cool effect. That's it. Maybe we can add a little bit something like drop shadow. Move the distance, spread and size. And you know what I'm talking about? In a second, we can get a cool effect in Photoshop and we can also change our background. But any background color you like, Let's go to yellow, something like this. Because g, because g for our Paint Bucket Tool click once and there we have it. We've got this cool effect in a second. So that's everything for me in this video. I hope you like it. 47. Text Effect: Golden Text: Hi guys and welcome. In this video we will create gold packs the fact in Photoshop, and this should be really fast and easy. So let's start just go create a new document. I will go with this resolution and I will fill my background with white because you will see in a second. And from up here, we need some gradient effect for our backgrounds. So we can go create a new layer, big our gradient tool, or we can go from up here at your adjustments and hit gradient just like that. And this is transparent. I will go with this one and go now click up here and let's try to change this color. We need something like they will go with brown color k and from up here, something similar. That's okay. I think this should be fine. And the last thing I will change from linear to radial, That's it. Maybe I will go just a little bit more brighter color to get more contrast up here. Okay, and I think I'm satisfied with this one. So let's continue. Now. I will go hit my type tool and bring up I will type gold because we will go and try to make some gold effect. And great. And I will go select this use, I will use this font and I will make it bolt. So it okay. They will center it to the middle. And that's it. Now we can go up here to blending options, right-click on it. And I will go with this one. And also I will need some gradient. So I got name of my colors so we don't lose our time. I will just type it up here. It's a to B, 7c3b. That's the color we need. Okay, from up here and up here we will use some different color. 908e0 is zero, and that's the color we need for our golden tax, the fact. And now I will go from up here at the Bevel and Emboss and technique. I will choose from smooth, just little hard, and I will increase the size to around 35 or 40. Let's go with 40, and that's it. I'm satisfied with this one. I will go opacity around 75%. And also from up here, 75%. Great hit. Okay, and that's it. Now, let's go create a new layer. But before that, let's go back to our layer. That is text up here. Just hit Control or Command and click once and you will get selection of your text. Now go back to our new layer, layer one, and now just go fill this one with black color, just like this. And now I will go more, this one below. And I will hit Control D to de-select and pick my move tool. And I will go and make it something like this to get this effect. Great. One thing that I forgot to show you is from up here at the blending options with your gradient overlay, you can go and try some other thing that Photoshop offer. So try it by your own. I'm satisfied with my normal. I think at the end I will change a background color for a little bit, and that's it. So just to show you that, now Let's go when we are selected our layer one, Let's go to filter blur and hit Motion Blur, and you will get something like this. I will go with dangle around. I will go with distance around 80 or a little bit less. From up here angle I will go with -60 to get this effect. And that's it. That's our golden tax, the fact. And I can go from up here, change my gradient tool around something similar. We can go and get this effect. Get it more interesting. It okay, and that's it, how we can get golden effect text in Photoshop. So we can use, as you saw in a previous video, we can use some background or some fancy stuff, but they won't bother you with that for now. So thank you for watching and see you in the next video. Bye. 48. Text Efect: Burst: Hi guys, Welcome. In this video we will have a little fun and let's go create some cool effect with text in Photoshop. As you can see from up here, we got new documents, 1920 by 1080. From up here, you can choose any color for your background. Let's go bake a black color because we need black color for our document. And when you are done, you will get something like this. If your background is still white, just go pick up paint bucket tool to fill it with black color. And that's it. For this tutorial, I will use this font. So make sure that check it out. Let just say I will type up here burst because this effect is called light burst effect in Photoshop. So let's try it on. This is my font that I'm going to use in this tutorial. Okay, now I can pick my move tool and as you can see, smart guys will lead me. They will place this on the center just like that. And now when I'm sure that my document is on the center, they can go from up here and add some blending options on it. So my first will be up here at this gradient overlay. Let's go try some colors. Let's go with the different color with some color like this. Okay? And when we are satisfied with our gradient, just go hit. Okay, and now this should be our gradient for this one. From up here, as you can see, Bevel and Emboss, I will go with style, inner Bevel, Techniques, mood with the 500% or even a little bit more. It doesn't matter. It's, Let's go with 100 size ten pixels. You can go maybe even larger. We can go like 13 or it's okay to stay with them. I'm satisfied with effect. We are going to get with them. From up here. I choose Opacity for my highlight mode is set on the screen opacity to around 70%, shadow mode to multiply. And let's go bring this around. 70%. Great, That's everything for now. Just go hit, Okay, and that's it. My next move will be able to go and duplicate this layer three times. You will see later why we can go duplicate layers. If I right-click on it duplicate layer, or I can simply go hit Command J and it will duplicate my layers in a second. Just like that. Now when we have our copies, I can go with my shift and select those three copies. That's it. And I will change blend mode from normal to this one. The second one, really easily, just like that. Now, when are those three are selected? I will go right-click on it. It will hit rasterize type. And once more the right-click on it and hit Merge Layers. That's it. Now we got our copies in a one layer. So that's something we need. And now I will go when this layer is selected, I will go to Filter, and then I will go to Blur and big radial blur. So with the fault here, we'll get something like this. It should be around ten and it will be Zoom or spin. It doesn't matter. Go to zoom and amount 100. Hit, Okay? And that's it. That's a fact. We want it, but I'm not yet done with it. Now let's go from up here at the blend mode from normal, Let's change to our Linear Dodge. That's it. That's a fact we need n once more. I will go up here at the filters. Blur, choose the same one, radial blur, again, 100 hit, Okay, and it will spread this even more. Now, the last step will be, I will add these stars on our background. So let's go bring up with our move tool. Just like that, drag and drop. I will place this one, move it below, and that's it. I will reduce the opacity to around 10%. Okay? And the last thing will be, I will go with my adjustment layer and I will choose levels. And from up here, I will create a clipping mask. It will affect this one. And I will move my shadows up here. It's really up to you how you wish for your background. And that's it. That's a fact we want it. So see results. This is too much. We reduce the shadows from. We're reduce the shadows. As you can see, this is without and this is where it's really cool effect. And that's it. Thank you guys for watching. I hope you liked this video. It should be really easy and fun. And it's not too much complicated. And if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask me and see you in the next one. Bye. 49. Text Effect: Neon Effect: Hi guys and welcome. In this video, we will have a little fun with those tricks in Photoshop. We will create some neon light effect in Photoshop. So let's get started. As you can see, I got my document prepared is 1920 by 1080. It's full HD resolution. So as you can see from up here, I will go and create a new layer. Great, now I will fill that layer with some gradient. And as you can see from up here, I got some gradient that I choose to go with. Let's go see which color is that. As you can see, this is the color that I'm going to use. And this color is almost black, is really some purple color, but it's almost black. As you can see. I will go a little harder with this color grade. And also with this. As you can see, this is our current color. You can go buy your own color. It's really up to you. How do you wish your background is gonna look like? And I will hit okay, when I'm satisfied with my gradient. And from up here you see we will go to create some circle effect, radial gradient and blend mode to Normal opacity hundred and I hit reverse. So when I go up here, I will go to something like that and we will get this effect. This is something that I want it. So make sure you're create a new layer, then fill that layer with your gradient, or you can choose some background that you wish. Never mind. Let's go continue. Now. Let's go type some text. I will go and type Neon. Okay, I will hit my move tool. We shortcut way plays this and let's go. Now, right-click on it. This is really important. Now, let's go to Blending Options. And from up here we will create our effect. So make sure to check this stroke. Choose the size to get something like this. I can go maybe even with four or let us say five. This is nice. And from up here, choose this option are low. But as you can see from a stroke, choose your color to be white. Position inside blend mode is normal opacity to 100. Now let's go up here at the outer glow. From up here, we can change the color of our gradient. But I want go with that because let's just say I'm satisfied with my color. But anyway, let's go change it a little bit. Here. See how color change. Great. Let's say we are satisfied with this color hit, Okay. And as you can see from up here, at the outer glow is blend mode Normal opacity to 63%. I think default will be something around 50 per cent. I hit noise to zero because when I hit, as you can see, when I increase my nose, you see Which effect we are getting, but we don't need that. So we need Neon effect. Just like that. I will go spread around 11%. Let's go make it maybe even a larger. Let's go with 11 to 15%. And from up here we can choose a size I want go too much crazy width size. Let just say I'm satisfied with 50 pixels. Great. That's the effect. We want it and just hit, Okay? And one more thing from up here, we need to remove this black color. So just go up here. Where is your text? And on that layer, go on that layer. And from up here you see this fill. Let's go just go fill to zero. And now we got this cool effect of our button just like that. And now let's go below. Type something more. Let's go again. I will type something like light. Great. I can select this and maybe choose some different font for it. Just like that. Okay, Let's see how this font is going to look like. Up here. I will select those to make them on a middle, just like that. Now, let's go focus on our light font. Now let's go and focus on our light layer. Again, go to Blending Options and do the similar thing. As you can see, stroke. The five pixels best at 100 m from up here, our glow. Let's go and change that color to something like this. Let just say, how is it going to look like when I go color? Great. Let's just say I'm satisfied. This is too much spread and I will reduce the size just a little bit. Okay, Let's see how this is going to look like. Now, again, reduce fill. And that's it. This is the cool effect. We want it. Great. Now let's go one more thing before we get finished with this. Select those two layers and make a copy of those duplicate layer. Never mind how they are going to call. And now, as you can see, our copies are selected. Right-click on them and just go rasterize layer style. Then again, as you can see, let's go once again, merge those layers. And now we got this on one layer. I will go up here at the filter. Then let's go to Blur and hit this Gaussian Blur and get something around eight pixels or even ten pixels if you're using the same resolution as I do, hit Okay, and move this layer below our taxed. And you will see before and after we can go and reduce the opacity of that. Forget something like this. So I think this is cool. So as you can see, we get this cool effect in a second. You can choose different options for those. Maybe reduce the light of it or even increase it. It's really up to you. But anyway, this is how you can create neon light effect in Photoshop. Thank you for watching and see you in next video. Bye. 50. Shape Tool: Rectangle Tool: In this video, I will introduce him away the shape tools in Photoshop. So those tools are really powerful and we can get lots of job done with those stalls. So let's get started. As you can see with all tools, we can find our tools from up here. First we will deal with rectangular tools. Those are all shaped holes. So let's go and pick a rectangular tool, or the shortcut is u. So this is default rectangular tool. And from up here at the option bar, we got some options. First, this shape, bad and pixels with default, you will got shape. So let's see what this shape can do. When I go and drag something like this. It will bring up that object in a new layer and it will name it rectangular one because this is our rectangular tool, FIP ellipse tool and create a new layer and create some object. It will bring up this and it will says from up here, ellipse one. So keep that in mind. Now, next thing is filled. We can fill this with any color of this, just like that by pressing ones. Or we can go up here and pick the color we need. It's similar from up here, can change to a gradient. Now, our shape is a gradient. We can change a color, as you already know that, just like that. And that's it. From up here, we can change to a pattern. Just like that. You see those are presets that we got with Photoshop. If you have your own pattern that you want to use, just go from up here and go load patterns, then just import that parent and you will see them up here. Great. Now, let's go up here and move it to us. Some color like this. Now, let's go to Stroke. And from up here, Let's choose color for our stroke. Let's just say we want our stroke to be this black color. And now let's change the radius. Let's type something like 15. And as you can see from up here, we will bring up 15 pixels inside of our shape to be black color. Great. We can also get it to a gradient, our stroke, and choose any color that we want, or even some pattern. It's the same thing. And now from up here, we've got our stroke options. As you can see, we can go with this straight line, something like this, or dots. And now we got up here. More options, just click once and you will see there is a pretty set costume and align. We can go inside the center. And as you can see now, the half of those big cells will be outside our shape and the half will be inside our shape. Or we can go and big outside. Now this is our shape and our stroke will be outside our shape. So those are good things to know. But anyway, ledgers hit Okay, and continue. From up here, we can change a size of our object. Let just say I will type 800 by 400. Great. Now this chain, what these mean. And if I press up here, and now let's go try it out. If I go from up here, 1,000 up here should be 500. As you can see, it will automatically proportionally reduce or get enlarge our shape just like that. So if I type up here, whiny hundred, this should be 600. And as you can see, I think you all follow me. Now, if you want this to uncheck, just click once, and from up here we can go now, just hit 1,000 and our red 1,000 an hour will be 600. That's it. From up here we got the slider like we learned in a previous lessons. So when I click and drag from the left or to the right, you will see our shape will get larger, just like that. Upon release, we will see results. And that's it. Now, each time I go with my rectangular tool and go create something, it will bring up, up here at the new layer. And if I want to combine those shapes, I will go and check this option combined shapes. Now those shapes will be in a one layer. But what's good with shapes? Later, we can edit them just like this. And as you can see, this will combine those shapes in a one layer. And this is subtract front shape. Let me go to show you something. As you can see, the last shape we used will go away just like that. Let me show you in a new layer. This is our shape. Let me close this one too. And if I go up here, it will, this area will disappear as you can see, but those shapes all still here. Great. And the next will be Intersect Shape areas. Now, whenever my shapes are intersecting that area, we can see only as you can see. That's it. I hope you all got this. It's really easy. And this is something different. This is the opposite thing. Exclude overlapping shapes. And the now how we can move those shapes, they are all in the same layer. Just go from up here at the our path selection tool. And as you can see, those are in one layer. And now I can go just like this and move it here. See why is good working with shapes just like that. Move it just like this, and move it wherever we want. And one thing that's good for shapes, you got this direct selection tool just like this. And as you can see when I press on some of our shapes, we will see as many corners there it is. You will get something like this. You see this little area. And when I go and move, as you can see when I go over that, it will become blue when I go click once and I can move this shape and create something what I want. And now upon release, Photoshop will ask me, their operation will turn live shape into a regular path. Do I wish to continue? You can choose yes or no. I will decline this because I don't want that for now. And let's go continue. From up here we can go and align those shapes. I cannot go because they are not selected currently. But if I hold my shift and I can just go like that and select, as you can see from up here we got, we can go and align them to a left edges. Or we can go horizontal, right edges, top badges. And you know what I'm doing? So this is aligned to selection, or I can go align to Canvas. Let me just zoom out to show you. Now when I press left edges, it should be come up here. Let's go try it on as you can. Now, my selection is more up here, our shapes, excuse me. So those are some basics about this shape tool. I can go and delete those shapes, those layers. And now let me go again, our rectangular tool. And let's go create some path. And just when I go and create something like this n upon release, we got several options from here. As you can see, this is our path. And Photoshop offers options. Do we wish to make selection of our path to wish to create a new vector mask, or do we wish to a new shape layer? And if I click once up here, it will create selection. When I click, I will get something like this and just, I will hit okay, and now, as you can see, it creates election of my bad. I will hit Control D to de-select. Let's go once more and create the mask. And as you can see, this is creating a mask up here. Great. I will undo that. And the last thing is it will create shape, regular shape like we create with our shape from up here. And the last thing I want to show you in this video is up here, this option, this big cells. Now I can create something like this. And upon release it will create something like this. And upon release we got this, and this is just regular pixels with the color we choose. Now what's tricky about this option, we cannot go back and undo those steps because we created that on a background or even on some layer. If I created a layer before, that should be on a new layer. But if I go once again and let's go with some blend mode to multiply. And you'll see what I'm getting. And it will affect our background. From up here we can choose a pass at the anti-aliasing and stuff like that. But it's tricky because we cannot edit this more. So that's it for me in this video. In the next videos, we will go over those option. And when we finish with that, you will see we will got cool project. And I think you will all like it. And it will bring up your skills to the next level. And it should be really fun projects. So see you there. 51. Shape Tool: Rounded Rectangle Tool: In this video, I will introduce our next tool, rounded, rectangular tool. Basically, it's the same tool with the same options. I won't go over all of those options because I don't want to lose your time. And let's go to try it on. It's the same thing, really. Just one thing that's different is those edges. So let's start. And when I go and move my mouse cursor over, upon release, we will get the shape up here. And this is just a preview. How should it look like? And when I release, you see what we get. And that's because up here, this option, this radius, if I put my radius, Let's go for ten. And let me go close this option. Now you see how our edges are almost at 90 degrees. Let me just show you it's really tiny. As larger radius I put up here that just would be smoother as you can see. So let's go try with 100. Just like that. I will close this, zoom out a little bit and now let's try it on. Just like that. Upon release, we get this option. Now. You see we got six dots from up here. And we can go again from up here, choose Direct Selection tool and just move this up here. And if I if I'm sure I can go and hit yes or I can decline and hit no. And with the path, just like that, we can move it around. And one thing also, if I press Control T or Command T, I can go make my shape larger or smaller, dust like that. And as you can see, when I go and make my shape larger, you see those edges Want go like we created this width, like we created it with Elliptical Marquee Tool and it will go stay with this width 100. The last thing that we put up here. So as you can see, when I get it smaller, those areas are coming up here. And now when they overlapping those two dots, they coming up to one. And now we can edit that just like that. So I hope you all got this. There is really nothing special about this stole that's different than a preview. It's the same tool with the same options. The only difference is about those edges. Up here. As you can see from up here, we can change the color that we wish to fill this shape and also put some gradient or some pattern and even a stroke just like that. And it's really 100% the same options like the previous told. So that's it for me. 52. Shape Tool: Elliptical Shape Tool: Let's go now and pick our ellipse tool. It's really similar like our rectangular tool. As you can see from up here, we got same options. So as I mentioned, I want lose your time with those options to go over again and again because you know that fill, stroke lines, stroke options. And from up here we can choose new layer combined shapes and stuff like that. From up here, we can align them. And from up here we can go and let me show you what this mean. Let's go just create new shape. As you can see when I move my mouse cursor, I can create some random shape, but if I press Shift, I can create only a circle. So upon release we got our shape with a, we were my move tool. I can move this again, press U, and we are back to our shape. Now, let's go hit Combine shapes. As you already know, this is on a new layer. Now when I create a new layer, or one more, or even to a couple of more, it doesn't matter. So when I go up here and hit bad selection tool and I select my first one. This shape is the last. It's in the bottom of all of those shapes. And we dose options. And from up here we got four different options. Bring shape to the front, bring shape forward, Sanjay, backward, same shape, the back. So if I press this, it will bring up my last shape up here, and it should be first one. So if I go and hit from our peers, subtract, and let's go send it back. Send shape the back. As you can see, we've got some different options. So that's good thing to know. While you're working in Photoshop. That's some basic things you need to know about those shapes. And what's important to remember. They don't work like other stuff. And if I go from up here with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, I can create something like this. It's really similar, like our shapes. But let me go show you just one thing before I finish with this. As you can see from up here, Let's go create a new layer. I will create some small circle, and I will fill it with the black color. That's it. I will deselect. And as you can see, this is circle. Now I will create same size circle up here. Maybe not 100% same size, but it should be it. As you can see, this is shaped and this is ordinary layer. I will show you the difference in a second. I will move up here, this. And let's go move this up here. Great. Now, when I go and re-size this, you will see results. As you can see, those edges here. See this is based on pixels. And when I go with my shape tool, let me get it larger. You'll see those edges. So when I resize my pixels, my image, That's why it's important when you're working with image to have large file images. Because if you go and stretch out your image, you will get results like this, but which shapes? It's really different story. So that's the difference between those two. So that's good thing to know when you're working in Photoshop. So that's everything for me in this video. See you in the next one. 53. Shape Tool: Polygon and Line Shape Tool: And now we've got our polygon thought. So what's different with this tool is this option here, is how much size we wish to have our shape. So for now it's up to six. It's something like this. If I go and create with five, you will see the difference. As you can see, this is five. Let's go with, for, this is with four. Just like that. With three, we can create some triangle, and that's it. So when we need some shape like this, we can come up here and hit polygon tool and get some cool effects and results. So let's go with you. And options are really same like with all shaped volts. We can fill stroke line. We can change the size from up here, as you already know this. And this option here is how much we wish our blue line is to be thick. Let me show you what I meant. My peer, we got 0.5 pixels, 0.70, 512 or three. When I press three, you will see how this line, this preview line is now larger. As you can see, this is with three, and now I can move it to a one pixel and you'll see how thicker it is. So I like to work with one pixel size. But if you want, you can work with three pixel size. It's really up to you. Now, let me go and delete this layer. I will also delete this triangle. Let's go with some of those. When I select it with my move tool and I can go hit Control T for transform. As I mentioned, we can re-size, re-scale, and stuff like that. We can also go and rotate this object. And from up here, as you see, we can go and type 90 degrees if we wish to, or some other dimension, hundred and 20, It's really up to you what you need for your purpose. So when I hit up here, we will get it. And what's important to know, this is a shape. We can go get it larger or smaller. We won't lose any detail as I show you in a previous video, as you can see. So let me go back a step and let me show you one thing. When I go from up here, right-click and hit rasterize layer. Now, this layer is no longer shape. It's ordinary layer. And now when I go and try to get it larger, we will lose details. So keep that in mind when you're working with those kind of things. And let me show you one more thing. I can go from up here, hit direct selection tool because this is our shape. And now I can go and select those two dots. As you can see, there is four dots because we got four ankles up here. Now when I press and hold Shift and my arrow key move to the left, you see what's going to happen. I will re-size this shape just like that. Or FI wish I can come up here again. And I wish just this spot, I can move it around and create some random shape that I need. So that's cool. Trick. Know. From up here, we got our line tool. As you can see, options are the same. And just from up here, I will choose the size of my line. Let's go with ten pixels. Now when I go and create, we will get a line like that. And that's our line tool. And when I hold my shift, I can move it up here at a 45 degrees, 90 degrees, as you can see, hundred and 35 degrees or 180 degrees. So when I holding my mouse, it won't let me go any further than this. As you can see, I can move it wherever I like. And just release. If I release with my free form, with my mouse, if I don't hold Shift, I can move and place this lines wherever I like. So that's it. When I hold my Shift, photoshop won't let me go and make some 33 degrees steps move. And if I release, I can go and try that on. As you can see, we got a little preview from up here. You see now it's 31.9 degrees. That's it. And we can go and hit 90 degrees by holding Shift 45 degrees, zero or 180 degrees. That's how line tool work. We can also from our peer changes size of our line. Also from up here we can change a color of lines and that's how line tool work up here. So in this video, I show you how to work with polygon tool, M line tool, which are up here at the shapes tool. So in the next video, I will show you something about custom shape tool. And after that, we will create some button games. So I think that should be really fun. And see, are there 54. Shape Tool: Costume Shape Tool: And the last thing, our nose shape tools are custom shape tool. You can find it right at the bottom of those group. From up here in the Options bar are really similar, like with all tools. And I won't bother you too much with this. So basically what's good with this tool is up here. We got some cool things to use from up here. So with the default setting in Photoshop, you will see something like this. Only a couple of those, but if I go up here at this, we'll then go hit all. Then it okay. Or a band, Let's go up band. And now let me go show you how much of those now we got to use. Good thing is, because they're based on a vector so we can go and re-size, re-scale, and we won't lose any quality of those. As you can see, the quality is amazing and we can use them for our work. We can go rescale, resize, rotate, flip, whatever we need, and still we will get the effect that we want. So that's good with this tool. And from up here, I can go by holding Shift. I can go and re-scale it properly. Or with my free form, I can go and try it on some cool effects by my own, just like that. And when some shape is activated, like this one is currently activated from up here, we can go change a color and stuff like that. So that's it. That's good for this stole from up here. Also, we can go and change the size hundred by hundred. Let's try it on. That's good. When we don't want to see those. Just go hit. We were Move tool and now they're gone. Just like that. We can move this tool at it larger or smaller, whatever you need and the quality will stay the same. So that's good with the stall. There is nothing else that I can show you about this tool. Go buy your own practice a little bit with this store, there is too much of those things stay is. So let's go and practice a little bit. And you will see in a couple of minutes of working with those tools, you will get familiar with everything you need to know. So that's it from me in this video. So guys, thank you for watching and see you in the next one. Bye. 55. New Features in Photoshop Part 1: Hello guys. In this video, I will introduce you with new stuff that came with the last version of Photoshop to be precise, Photoshop 2019. So let's start. One of the few things that are new in Photoshop. This version is blend mode preview. In a previous version of Photoshop one, we want it to go and add e.g. ledgers go, something like this. You'll see when I just go over those areas, we have a preview on a previous version of Photoshop. We needed to go click each one of those, then we can only see the preview. But with this version, we're just go over with the mouse, hovers some thing and we got this fact or example. We like this, okay, That's it. And stuff like that. So they figure it out. It's much better to go this way. Anyway, let's continue. The next feature that we are going to talk about is the Frame Tool. It's a brand new tool in Photoshop. This is especially good for the people who create some brochures or stuff like that. So basically we draw a shape, something like this. And let's just say, I'm satisfied with this. And now what I've done, basically, I just go from up here and drag and drop those images and they will stay inside this frame. So you guys can see we can move it. We can use Transform to re-size it. But what's important? These stay inside our shape, inside our frame tool. Great. As you can see, this is the preview of our real image, how big it is. And also we can grab our move tool and move it just like this, and place wherever we like. So let me go once again. From the second 11 release, we got our frame tool placed, and now I will just drag and drop my image. And that's it. You can go resize it. And that's it. Basically, that's how Frame Tool works. So we can get the same thing but rounded with this option. And the result will be the same as you guys can see. So let's move on. This was a big change, honestly, the modern undo and finally make sense. So let me show you what I mean. E.g. let me do something like this. I drop four dots On a previous version photoshop. When I wanted to undo those steps, I needed to go. I could cut Control Z to undo one. But if I do the same thing, if I press Control Set again, it will bring that step again back. So it will just go one step forward and one step backward. So that's what the previous version was. Now in this new version of Photoshop, It's honestly a lot better. Now, just press Control Z and go step backwards. If you want to go and do the step forward, just go, press Control, Shift and set. That's it. On the previous version, it's really messed up and it takes me a lot of time to get used to use this. Honestly, I needed a couple of days to get used to this new feature, but it's quite better. Next new feature is color wheel. I see this is extremely popular between artists, so this is color wheel. So how we can see this color wheel? Just go from up here Window, click up here at the color. And if you don't see colors like this, just go from up here. And probably you see something like this. Just go and hit color wheel. So let me show you what is this good, e.g. let's find out the opposite of this color. So let me go and grab my quick selection tool, excuse me, and just create selection. I will just press Select Subject. This is rough selection is nothing special. Just to show you how we can use this tool. And now I will invert this selection by holding Control Shift, and that's it. Now, let's go from up here. Choose Solid Color. It does matter which color we pick for now. Okay, Now, let's go bring eyedropper tool and take a sample of this. This is the color of it. Now, the opposite color will be something like this. And now I'll go double-click up here and just click once up here, and that's it. So we can go get some different color, but never mind. Okay? And now I will go from up here, choose color and reduce the opacity a little bit, and that's how we can play with it. Okay, this is before and after. Great. That's it about color wheel to this new feature is about proportional transform. Let me show you why it is. So we have our layer and I'll choose from up here Rectangular Marquee Tool. And I'll go draw something like this. K upon release will create a new layer. And I will fill it with some, let just say yellow color, something like this. It doesn't matter. K, control the de-select. Now we have two layers, and my layer two is currently selected when I press Control D, it will bring us free transform. But what's new about it on a previous version, if we wanted to maintain those proportion to keep it the same, we need to hold Shift. But in this version it's quite opposite. And just with our mouse, we can move and place whatever it is. It will bring the same proportion. And when I press the Shift, F will do the quiet opposite. So that's something you need to know and to keep in mind. But what's also important, these don't affect the shapes. So it's quite opposite with shapes. It's a little bit confusing, but it's nothing special really. When we're working with shapes and e.g. we have our U-shape. Great. And if I want to go and transform it, when I try to go only with mouse, it won't keep those proportions same. When I press Shift, it will bring them up so that something new in this version of Photoshop. 56. New Features in Photoshop Part 2: Next new feature that came up with this Photoshop is default sample text. So this is really helpful. And previous version we needed to go and try by your own some font type in. And with this, you have a preview. As you guys can see, Lorem Ipsum is our preview. We can go now from up here, change your font, do some different things, see what we like, what we don't like, and stuff like that. We can also change the font size and stuff like that. It's selected. One thing probably some of you are gonna use is when I press Control or Command H, my font is, my text is still selected, but we don't see it. We can go and still change your font, do some different things, changes size of it, and stuff like that. It won't affect. But personally for me, I like when I see this, okay, that's one thing. The second thing, when we go and create selections, something like this, it will fill the whole thing with our text, review, Lorem Ipsum, something that they found this really helpful because I do a lot of t-shirts and it was a waste of time when I need to see how some texts look on a different font. This preview, it's much easier and faster. So that's good thing. Let's move on. This is one of the most powerful tools that they bring up in this new version. So what it is, it's content aware fill, as you probably know some of you, we already have content aware fill, but it's much, much better now. So let me show you. My first movie will be able to duplicate this layer so I don't want to damage my background. Anyway, let's go create a selection around this car. Let's go something like this. Okay, now let's go to Edit. Then we go to fill. And from up here we got content aware. This is the previous version. As you guys can see, it's not something special. Let me go one step back and do the same thing, but with new Content-Aware Fill, It's right up here, Content Aware Fill. So when I click once, I have something like this, this green area, and it shows me what is the area that will take a sample for to make our image look better to how to remove those pixels and what is the similar things that Photoshop algorithms use to get it done? So we don't want this area. Let me just go delete those. Just like that. Just paint over them. Great. And you'll see from up here our preview of how things change. We can go in Greece or decrease size of it. Anyway, I will go and remove those area. Also. Great. Because we see those lines up here is because those are selected, so we need to remove them. That will be my next step. From up here, we can go and change your size of our brush. Or if we want to add something to our selection, just go press up here, this but so I will go get my brush smaller because of those areas. I will zoom in my image and just go remove those areas. I will increase the size just a little bit. That's it. And now, just to remove those areas, you see how our results are already better. Great. When I'm satisfied with my result, just hit, Okay? And what's also good about this is it won't damage your images. It will bring them in a new layer. So you guys see this is before and after. Great. Now let's do the same thing with the second one. So I'll make sure I select this one and just go create a rough selection around our object. Great. Upon release, Let's go try the old version of this stuff. Let's see Content-Aware. And let's see what we are going to get. You see guys take a sample of some other things and the results. One big good, like we can get them with a new tool. So let's go one step back. Go to Edit, Content-Aware Fill, and now we have a preview. You will see we will get the same results if we'll leave those things same. So what we are going to do is I will go zoom out a little bit. We need to remove this area and also this car. So let's start. You'll see already better. And now I will remove those areas. Just paint over it. Trust me, it will save you a lot of time and results will be amazing. And every case, Let's see results. Amazing. You see before and after, great. And now that's it. We remove those two cars from our image. And that's how new Content Aware Tool works. I hope you'll like it. 57. New Features in Photoshop Part 3: Next tool that we are going to cover in this video is this symmetry mode. Well, this is not exactly new option for the sharp offer, this option and a previous versions, but we couldn't find it right up here. When we go and select brushes, we needed to go to Preferences and then fight symmetry options for painting. This option is especially good for artist or for the people who paint lot in Photoshop and the similar stuff. Anyway, from up here, you see different options that Photoshop offered to us. Let just go with this vertical place ID, whatever you like. So I need to get my brush smaller because you won't see anything. Great. I'll get it even more smaller. So whatever I paint on one side, it will reflect to the other. So basically this is it about this store. So you can go do whatever you like. And I'm not very precise because I have only my mouse right now, but with a drawing tablet, it's absolutely different story. You can also get improved those smoothing. So you see now edges don't look rough. They did before. Anyway, that's it about this tool. And we can also create our own symmetry mode. So how we are going to do that? Well, just simply go to paths and I will delete this path. Right now you see there is no more, right? Let's go to the pen tool. I will go create something like this. This is just something to show you. Great. Now, when I go on my brush and from up here, I'll go select it. And now you'll see this butterfly. And that means we created for symmetry mode. Okay? And now I can go paint on the other side. I'll get reflection of it. So this is just to show you, you'll see results are not good. Anyway, that's it about this store. I hope you'll like it. The next thing is multiple artboard preview. So e.g. we have this image, right? And we need to create e.g. let's just say one image for Instagram and one for Facebook cover, something like that. So I'll go from up here and choose art board tool. And I'll just create something like this. Right? Now from up here, I'll choose something like this and hit Enter or Return key. And now I'm sure this is image for my Instagram, and I can call it Instagram grid. And now we have up here at the name. I know this one is for Instagram. And now I'll just click once up here and it will create the same size art board. But we can go change that. I'll go to create something like, I think it was something like this for our Facebook cover. That's it. What is good about it? We can see it all in one screen. So I will rename this. I will just type Facebook cover. Great, N Now I'm sure this is Facebook cover. This is for Instagram and this is my regular image. So I'll just go duplicate this one by holding Alt or Option key. Great, now I'll select this one for Instagram, Control T. I will resize it and create something like this. When I'm satisfied, Enter or Return key. And that's the same one with the Facebook. I'll get it smaller. And let's just say I'm satisfied with it. Hit Enter or Return key. And now I'll select those two, Facebook and Instagram image. And I'll go to layer, then go to Export As. And from up here we can export the symmetries and you see preview on one or second one. But when you press control or command, you will see a preview of both of them and just go export them. All. This preview is a new thing in Photoshop, so keep that in mind. It's really helpful. Sometimes. I found really helpful this new option. So what it is is Distribute Spacing Options. So e.g. let me just go from up here and draw some random shapes, e.g. something like this. Okay? That's it. I created a couple of random shapes. So I will go from now and on my first and second, I will hold Shift and it will select them all. And from up here when we go to Move tool, now we got new option. It's this tribute. This is distribute horizontally. And what just happened? Now, the distance between each one of those is the same. This is before and when I press it, this is after. So let me just show you. I'll just create a new layer. Okay? This distance is the same distance like those two. The same, like those same and also same. So this is the same distance between all of those. Let me just go delete them all. And let's do the same thing. But vertically. You'll see just random shapes. Great. Now go to layers and select them all, and go to Move tool and now select vertically. And now I'm sure that distance between each one of those is the same. This is really helpful when you're working in Photoshop. It really depends what work you do, but this option is really helpful. Now, let's discuss about scale, user interface, the font. So this is new feature also in this version of Photoshop on a previous versions, when we go to Edit and Preferences and interface, we didn't get this scale UI font. So basically, you see my interface is now pretty much symmetrical because I use only full HD resolution. But for the people who use for K displays, those icons become really small and it's really hard to work with it. E.g. on a previous version, when you make your font size large, you get larger letters, but this interface still stay small. As you guys can see, currently, I'm on tiny because I like work this way. E.g. let us go to large and hit Okay, Nothing happened. I need to restart program and you will see the difference before and after. So I'll go close. And now this is with the large icons on a previous version. This was not possible, and you'll see those icons are pretty big. And for my display, this doesn't work. This will work for the people who work with higher resolution and stuff like that. So guys find what is good for you and enjoy your work. 58. New Features in Photoshop Part 4: Hi, and welcome. In this video we are going to see new improved selections, objects selection in Adobe Photoshop 2023. So they call it one click, Fill and delete. So let's see how this thing works. So first we need to go and grab our objects selection tool. Then I'll go and create some selection like this. Great. Now upon release, we have something like this. This is our selection and an a previous versions. We need it to go up here to Edit, choose Content-Aware Fill, and then make sure we add the right thing that will be inside our selection. So I'm currently doing stuff that I want to be only up here. So upon release when I hit, Okay, you will see and results up here. And this is our selection. So let's go Control D. And let me zoom in. You see what happened with our selection. So let's go back and let's see the new feature. I will undo this step. And now all I need to do is I need to hold, Shift, then delete and see results. So give him a couple of seconds to process it. It's really the band on which laptop or PC you got. And there we have it. So this is much better selection with this new feature. And now what we need to do, we need to improve this area up here, so how we can get this done? You see this is really, it definitely much, much better than the Fill, Content-Aware Fill. And now what we need to do, we will go up here, choose clone stamp tool, took a sample from this area. And now we will just go and paint this area, something like this to make it better. So again, hit option and just drag to clear this area. So how we can deal with this, it will take a sample of this area and now just place it over, rate all the time to a new sample by holding options, you will see this. Mouse cursor will change and you will get something like this target. One-click with your left mouse and just move that area, e.g. just going to do that, or this area is darker, we can go with this. It's not really something that I'm satisfied with. And I will go with something like this rate much better. And now we can go focus on this area. And you'll see where I'm going with this. So we need to improve this area. Also, we can take a sample from here, make our brush a bit larger and just paint over that area. The sample of this one. Great. Again. And you see now it looks much better. Great. And just have fun with this. So your job up here will be to create something similar with this image. I want to test your skills with this. So I will not make this 100% done. I will leave this up to you to see how you are going to deal with this problem with this specific image, how to remove that 100%. So this is the technique that you need to use. And now it's really up to you how you are going to use it. So basically this is how we can use this new feature. Go up here at the object selection tool, create a selection of any object and just hold Shift and then press delete key and it will automatically delete that area, and it will make that area the best. It can be by default in Photoshop. Or we can use content aware fill. But as you saw, it's much better when they do their job, when Photoshop does it with this new feature. So this is one of dx samples about new features. So as I mentioned in this video, you will get a job to get this area done to make sure this area is clear as it can be. And that's it. See you in the next video. And don't forget to upload your work to see how it there or not. Or e.g. we have up here those three people on this image. And let me show you one example again with new feature in Photoshop. So let's go grab objects selection tool, and let's select this man. Let's create a quick selection of this man just by doing this. And now once we have this selection, we can go hold Shift and Delete key to see how it will process it. So it's not perfect, but just see before and after, just see this edge up here, how it fall of this shape, how it followups, this shadows up here. So I will undo this step. So you can see, you see how much work it had done up here in this area only. So let's go step back before and after. It's really amazing. So we can go try again on our own, go to Edit, and choose Content-Aware Fill. And now we can see how it will look with our fill. Basically, it's everything needs to stay up here as it is. All we need to remove is this man, just hold and click. Okay. And now see results. Control D. You see here is still there. That's what I'm talking about. This new feature is pretty much amazing. Only if you want to create Invisible Man, almost invisible man, Dann, go up here and choose Content Aware Fill. I hope this new feature will help you as I think it will help me. Because I really think this is amazing Photoshop. Get to another level each year they do amazing job with those new features.