Learn the Basics of Adobe Photoshop for your Creative Flow

1. Introduction to the class: Hello, and welcome to our Adobe Photoshop course, whether you are a complete beginner or someone with a bit of experience looking for a refresher, I in the right place. In this course, we'll cover the essentials and dive into some advanced features as well, ensuring you gain a solid understanding of photoshop without overwhelming you with every single function. We'll start with an introduction to get you familiar with a photoshop interface and basic tools. Understanding layers is fundamental in photoshop. So next, we'll explore how to create, manage and utilize layers effectively. Selections are key to editing specific parts of your images, and we learn various selection techniques and tools to help you with that. Combining images seamlessly is an essential skill, so we'll teach you how to blend and merge images like a P. Using adjustment layers for non destructive edits will be our next topic, enhancing your images without permanent changes. We also cover how to crop and resize your images without losing quality, which is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your work. Removing unwanted elements and imperfections from your photos using powerful healing tools will be another exciting part of your journey. Adding creativity to your project is just as important, so we'll dive into working with text, shapes, and a variety of filters. After that, we'll go over the best practices for saving and exporting your work in different formats to ensure you always get the best quality output. In this course, you also discover some of the latest AI powered tools and features that can speed up your workflow and open new creative possibilities. Throughout the course, you'll have class assignments for each section to practice what you've just learned. These assignments will help you reinforce your understanding and give you a hands on experience. Additionally, this class comes with asset materials, including images and photoshop project files, so you can follow along and practice alongside me. I'm excited to guide you through this journey and help you unlock your creative potential with a Dobby photoshop. Let's get started and have some fun creating amazing visuals. 2. Class Project: Let's talk about the class project. Now, this course is structured in such a way that for each section, you're going to have an assignment towards the end. So when you see an assignment video, that means that this section is finished and I'm about to start a new one later on. So make sure you do the assignments because the best way to learn and to practice and to retain the information is to actually working on the field and use the image that I gave you. So if you feel like you want to use your images, do that, it's not a problem as long as you practice. And also, by the end of this course, if you follow all the assignments, you should be able to have around five or six of them. So choose the one you most proud of. Publish it on the project area here on Skillshare. Another thing I would like to emphasize is if you have any questions, or if you have any doubts about any topic or any tools that I'm covering throughout the course, you have a discussion top down below here, please use that tool to ask me questions, and I will be more than happy to help you out to answer those questions and also to record videos about your queries and perhaps using a different image or perhaps using a different terminology, or different way to explain things in order for you to grasp that concept. I really want to make sure that this course is your reference point to go back to to refresh about photoshop basics. So I'm really looking forward to see your projects, and I'll see you in the next video when we're going to start to learn about photoshop. Okay. 3. Introduction to Adobe Home page: In this brief introduction of Adobe Photoshop, I just wanted to show you how you can access to this app from the web and from your desktop as well. Now, if you are on the web and you want to access to your plan with a Dobbie, all you need to do is simply go to a doobie.com slash home, on top of got this link, make sure you go there and also make sure that you are logged in with your account. If you go on the top right hand corner of the screen, you should be able to see this little icon here. And then when you click on that, you should be able to see your name. If you're not logged in yet, make sure you logged in. And then you have also D monthly generative credits. This will allow you to access to your credit limits, and this essentially gives you up to, in my case, 1,000 credits per month. So that allows me to actually generate images and using functions such as generative field and generative expand, which I'm going to briefly explain and show you in this section as well. So for each generation, you will basically use one credit out of your collection of credits. But I'm going to explain that later on. Once you log in, you should be able to see a welcome page with your name and also be the apps that you have access to. At the moment, I've got my subscription with access to all the apps, as you can see I've photoshop here for the web. You also have an option to access photoshop from the browser and also from your tablets, if you have an iPad or if you have a tablet which is compatible, the Android system, perhaps you can access photoshop from there as well. We also have photoshop. This is the desktop version as well as the other apps that you can see here. Now, on the left hand side, we've got this menu, and I can go, for instance, from home to apps. Here's going to show you all the apps available in your plan, and you can see the ones that are due to updates. If you don't see the updates straightaway, the easiest way to find out if you need updates is by going to the right hand side of your screen and you can see I've got here view updates. And also the list of the apps that have been updated so far on my system, so I can click on view updates, and I'm going to show you the latest updates for my apps. At the moment, I'm using Photoshop 25.7, which is the latest version of Photoshop at the time of this recording, and I've got also other apps here as well. Now, if you go back to the updates here, You can see I've got also the option to access photo shop from here from the desktop, so I can go to my desktop directly by clicking on this display icon. I've got also the option to access to my tablet, and I've got the option to open photo shop on the web. So I can click on that just to show you how it looks. This is the photo shop introduction page, so you can access to the desktop to the web and tablets. In fact, lion open in browser is going to show me another table on top here, and this is the photo shop on the web version. I've got a nice, lovely introduction home screen here that I can access to different tutorials, and also I can start my project by either uploading an image, or having some quick actions by editing images with one click. I've got the start from scratch. I can choose a blank document, a blank canvas on my own size or some standard size, and I can start my project from here, or I can choose popular dimensions. And here, you will access to popular sizes for social media, you know, for any standard project, and so on and so forth. And down below here, I've got now my recent document that I opened and they saved in the cloud. Here on the left hand side, I've got also another tab, which I absolutely love, which is the learn tab, and this allows me to access to video tutorials and updated features in photoshop that allows me to take advantage of that tool directly from a desktop or from the web and shows you just a little tutorials on how to use those features, and I've got plenty here. I have done an amazing job in terms of making their app as user friendly as possible. So You can go also to files to access to your creative cloud files and that you've been saving so far. You can go back, of course, the home and access to your documents by going to create. You can also click on the plus icon on the top left to create a project from here, and you got different options. You can also go to quick actions to create something by choosing one of your images, or you can go to custom size. And, you can just choose a custom size and click on Create. So when you do that, it's going to open the Canvas. And this is how Photoshop four web is looking at the moment. At the moment you have here on the left hand side, the tool browser, the tool bar. And as you notice, this is a limited tool bar comparing to the one that you have in your desktop. But you can do quite a lot of editing and quite a lot of adjustment here on the web. The cool thing that I really like about the toolbar is that when I click on any of these tools, I've got a sub column that pops up here that is always present is always there for me. So in case I want to instead of clicking and holding and choosing the brush that I want and the function that I want in photoshop desktop version, I can simply click on the one I want, let's say retouch, and I've got all the options for retouch here on this column. Pretty handy, quite like it. On the right hand side, we have the layers panel, which has all these functions that we have actually down at the bottom on the desktop version. It's very similar. We don't have anything here on the top as a horizontal option view. So this is actually laid on the left hand side. But apart from that, everything looks quite neat and streamlined. We also have some other pop menu here that you see on the left hand side on your desktop version. But apart from that, you can just resize the columns by just dragging the column from the edges. To customize it. If I choose a brush, I can just press the x to have a little bit more room on my screen to work on my project. And of course, I can bring back the panel by clicking on this little double chevron here on the left hand side to bring back my functions. Apart from that, that's pretty much what you need to know. And if you want to save, of course, your documents, you can just go back here and you have an option to save to rename, and also the versions as well, the versions histories of the version history of your documents. I haven't done anything otherwise. Otherwise, you would have seen more on this pop up menu. Okay. So I'm going to just press photoshop here on the top left and Corner. And this will bring me back to the main home page within Photoshop. If I want to get rid of this altogether, all you have to do is just press the x on top on the tab to go back to your previous webpage and I can go back here with the Chevron to go back to this view. So this is what you need to know in terms of adobe packages within the web. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to access to this menu on your computer. 4. Introduction to the Creative Cloud APP: In the previous video, I showed you how to access to your Adobe apps using the browser. If you have a Mc, you should be able to see the creative cloud app right on top on the menu here on your menu bar. So you see that one, the little icon there that is our creative cloud, and you can access to the same apps that you saw before on the browser. Let me just close the browser for a second. So you'll see a little bit better. This is the floating window that you have on your MC. If you have a windows, you're going to have pretty much the same sort of view. And if you go to home, you'll notice, we have a very similar layout that we saw before on the browser if I make this a little bit bigger. I'm going to make it in full screen so you don't have any destractions in the background. And as you can see, I've got a nice beautiful view of the Adobe packages and the Adobe software that you have available in your plan. Again, make sure you logged in in the same way I showed you before on the previous video, but just click on the top right and corner and make sure you are logged in here. If you are signed in with a different account, just make sure you signed out and you sign in with your account. Now, you see here, I've got my photoshop that I can access directly from here, and this is just a list of shortcuts of all of your apps. We also have photoshop beta at the time of this recording, and this is the new version 25.10. We're using 25.7, the photoshop that is being released in September 2023, and this is the full version of photoshop. This is just a better version, which is going to show you new features of generative AI. And more improvement as well. I'm going to show you the difference between these two in a separate video in a separate section within this class. But for now, just be aware that you can access to this apps directly from here, and you also have the photoshop four web version, and by the way, you can drag and drop these files in whatever position you prefer. You can also access to the updates directly down here on the apps, so I can go here and I can access to the apps from here. You got the updates here on the right hand side. Very, very similar to the browser, and you also have the option to access to the discover. You have the files from accessing to your documents, recent documents you've been working on. We also have the discover, which I was going to link you to the web page of Adobe, and this is going to show you all the different kind of updates, features, artists that uses the Adobe packages and the Adobe software to make amazing art, and you can access to this directly from here. And you can also sort of buy apps as well, which is pretty handy or by categories. So by photo, graphic design, video, illustration, and so on. And you also have a little tutorial here, a little, you know, brief description of how to use this menu as well. Stock and marketplace. This is going to show you the marketplace of Adobe. You can download fonts and freebies that you have available on this page. So if you see something different, then mine means it's been updated, and this will keep updating in the future as well. Then we have quick actions, and this will basically show you the main features that are available now in the Adobe environment, for instance, we have removed background and it shows you how to remove backgrounds using the Adobe express. This is the icon for Dobbie express. But you also have other functions here on top, sort of by categories. You got photo, So all the things that has to do with photos, like cropping, converting to JPG, removing background, rece image, and so on and so forth. So if you don't remember, if you want to ever refresher about this, you can also access to these nifty tutorials about the app. And you also have videos, PDF, convert file, and all quick actions. Very, very handy, have fun with this, and we go back to home. And again, if you want to have this creative cloud here on a menu bar, if you don't see it and you want to have it on your dock, like mine, I've got mine and dock because I found it quite useful to open it from there. But if you don't have it there, I'm going to show you how to actually add that into your dock. So all you need to do is simply go to your launch pad and search for Adobe creative cloud. Mine is under adobe, is this folder. And we've got creative cloud here, or you need to simply drag and drop it into your dock. And by doing that, it's going to be there forever until you remove it. That is pretty handy. So if I want to access to my critic cloud, on to simplic concrete cloud and it opens here, so I can check updates, I can check all the new features directly from here without going into the browser necessarily. If you have windows, again, make sure that you have the access to critic cloud directly from your desktop, it's easy for you to access to the various tools or create a shortcut on your desktop. Probably the best bet. If you have windows, right click on the critic Cloud app, and then you have an option to create a shortcut, and then you can actually drop it on your desktop, do that if you have windows. Apart from that, this is what you need to know about accessing photoshop from your Creative Cloud application. 5. Checking your Photoshop Version: Before we get started with this class, I just wanted to make sure we are on the same page in terms of version of Photoshop. At the moment, I'm running Photoshop 2024, and here on top on a menu bar. If I click on that, and you click also on about Photoshop, you should be able to see the version of Photoshop that you are running on your machine. Machine is running 25.7 0.0. This is the latest release as, you know, at the time of this recording, which is May 2024. So if you have an earlier version than 25, do not worry. You can still follow along this class because I'm covering the basics. So you should be able to basically have all the tools that I'm actually showing you here. And by the way, whenever you open photoshop on your computer, whether you have windows or Mc, you should be able to see this little briefly floating windows on your screen that tells you the version of photoshop. You have this graphic will change every now and then. So if you see something different, do not be alarmed, you are in the right place if it says a Dobby photoshop. So get ready because we can get started soon. 6. Opening images: If it is your first time opening photoshop, you should be able to see a page that looks like this. Now, we have a few areas here to explore, and one of them is on the left hand side. We have an option to create a new document by clicking on this blue button here. It says New file. This will allow you to create a new document from scratch. Now, we also have an option to open an existing document on an existing image by going to open. We also have home, which we are now. Also, we have other areas such as learn your files, share with you light room photos and deleted. Now, if you happen to watch this video in the future, you might see other areas here or perhaps some modifications or some improvements, but the concept is going to be the same. Under home, we have welcome to Photoshop. You're going to see basically the new features. In this case, we have generative AI, which is a new feature that is being added in photoshop and all the other packages of Adobie. We also have an option to learn about in Up tutorials as well. Adobie has done an amazing job in terms of video tutorials and in terms of making their applications as user friendly as possible. Now, on the left hand side, we also have an area where we can actually learn many, many things and many, many features in photoshop. There are video tutorials, there are other people's experience in photoshop, using photos for professional use for day to day use, and you can learn a lot also by clicking on search for tutorials, and there are hundreds of these videos that you can actually tap on and learn anytime. We also have an option here, an area to access to your file. When you save your files in the cloud in the Adobe Cloud, they will be stored here and you can access them also from other computers as well. But I'm going to explain this later on. Now, let's go back to the home page, which is this one, and we're going to open a file. So if you don't see the screen when you open Photoshop, do not worry. You can still go on top on the menu bar here, and you can go to file and you can actually go into open. I click on open. It's going to reveal the browser, you go into the desktop, and you go into the exercise files, you should be able to see these files under M zero folder. I'm going to open screen agent scene and I click on open. So when you open the file in photoshop, it's going to look like this. You're going to see several areas here as well, which we're going to cover in the next video. Do not worry. But this is how the image will look like. We also have an option on top to close the image. So as you can see here, I've got this tab, which tells me the name of the file, secret agent sent PSD, and I can close it by clicking on the X. Now, I'm not going to close it now, but I'm going to show you also how to open several images at the same time. We're going to go back to file on top, and we're going to go to open. So if you are already in the M zero folder, we can actually highlight several files together. In order to do that, you can hold down command if you are on Mac or control if you're on a windows and just highlight the other files that you have available. So I'm not going to highlight secret agent sin because it's already open. And I'm going to click on pen. You can release control or command on your keyboard and click on pen. Now, as you can see, I've got all my files open because you see on top, I've got four tabs. I've got a secret agent tab, Lady Bag tab, I've got mouse, and I've got tropical background as well. I can actually switch between these images by clicking on the tab on top. If I want to see the other images, I can click on the tab and it's going to open the image in front of me. I can go to Lady Bag and I can go back to my secret agent scene. So I can actually switch between them very easily by clicking on a tab. This is how you navigate between images in Photoshop. If I want to close the images, all I need to do is simply click on the X icon next to the name. Now, if you are on Mc, you should be able to see that on the left hand side. If you are on windows, it might be on the left, or on the right, or somewhere on this page. So I'm going to click on the x, and I'm going to click on the x on the other one as well. In fact, all of them. Okay. And as you can see, now they appear under my recent. So the recent area where I open my file and I close them and I work with them, they're going to appear here. Now, if you've done any editing or any modification on your images, photoshop is going to ask you to save. If you want to save them, just press save. If you just open them for the purpose of these tutorials, you don't have to save them. You just press don't save, and they will be unaltered and back to the original folder. Now, this is how you open and close files. In the next video, we're going to get our bearings in photoshop layout, so we have a basic understanding on how to navigate this interface. 7. Interface First look: Let's get our bearings about the interface within Photoshop. We're going to open one of these images. I'm going to open this image here that I opened before, secret agent scene. It doesn't matter which one you open. Now that the image is open, let's explore the layout of photoshop. We have mainly four areas. The first one here is the tool bar on the left hand side. Now, all these tools that you see here, that look intimidating. Don't worry, they won't look intimidating anymore because now whenever you have a the cursor over them, you're going to see a little video tutorial of what that tool does. I'm going to tell you the name of the tool, which is history brush tool, for instance. And if I want to go in the first one here, I've got the move tool. I've got the selection tool. I can click on the Marque tool, which is a selection tool. And as you can see, I've got a little video there as well. Now, we also have an area, which is the tool bar on top, and this is the option bar. This will change according of the tool that I chosen here on the left hand side. For instance, if I'm going to the brush tool here, is going to change with the brush tool options. If I go for instance to the text option, I'm going to also have an area here on top to change the font style, to change the size, and other properties of the text. If I want to go, for instance to this tool here, which is the removed tool, and click on it, and I've got the option on top for the removed tool, and so on and so forth. Now, the third area is the menu bar on top. Now, this is very intimidating for many of us, especially in the beginning, using Photoshop for the first time. When you click on any of these drop down, we have a myriad of different options and functions that we can use. Now, some of these options and functions are actually duplicative of the same which are hidden within the tools and within the option bar and within the panel that we're going to explore in a second. But basically, what you need to know is that you can access to these functions also from shortcuts and from other areas of photoshop. But we're going to learn that later on. But for now, bear in mind that this is where you can go to access some of these functions as well and some of the editing tools. Now, the fourth area is the panel area here. This is where you're going to see all of your layers panel, you're going to see channel panels, you're going to see the colors, the swatches, and other panels as well. Now, to enable or disable a panel, all you need to do is simply go to the window on the menu bar here, and here you can actually enable or disable panels. For instance, if I want to come up with the brushes panel, I can click on brushes. And now I've got this panel popping up here on screen. Now, if I want to use this, I can just select what I want on the brushes and basically use it on my image, or if I want to minimize it, I can click on this little arrow here, the right arrow that appears on the top right and corner of this function. So if I click on that, it's going to minimize it. If I want to bring it back, it's going to appear here on this column. But do not worry about this now. We're going to cover that later on. And by the way, if you want to get rid of panels from here, you can actually go back to window. I can click one of the panels. For instance, further one, I have the color panel, I can click on Color panel, and now the color panel disappeared from my view here on the right hand side. If I want to bring it back, I can go back to window and click on color as well, and that will appear. Now, I'll be going to cover that later on. So do not worry. This mainly is the areas that you need to know about photoshop and how you can interact with them by clicking on them. Now you know that when you are on the tool bar on the left hand side and click on let's say the crop tool. You have the options on top here for the crop tool, and we also have the area here on the screen that will appear according to what tool you click on. And bear in mind, some of these tools works differently and have different way to work, but do not worry. We're going to cover some of them in this course, and you're going to get familiar with the most use tools by the end of this course. 8. First Dive Editing an image: Before diving deep into Photoshop, let's learn some basic functions that we can actually apply on this image. Now, I'm using secret agent sin dot PSD. So if you don't see this in front of you, all you need to do is pig to file, click on open, and under your exercise files, you should be able to see that under the M zero folder, click on open, and the image will be open. I've got the crop tool enabled because I actually used that in the previous video. But do not worry. You go back to the first tool here. The very first one is the move tool, and that is also enabled by using the V, which is a shortcut for that, but you're going to see the shortcut appearing next to the name of the tool. But do not worry about the shortcut if you're not into shortcut, click on the Move Tool. Now, what I'd like you to do is to actually click on the agent, in this case, this man here. I'm going to click on it, and as you can see, photoshop will automatically highlight the subject in this blue frame. Now, if I want to move it, all you need to do is simply click and hold with the mouse and move it somewhere else in the image. Now, the reason why you're able to do this is because the agent and the background are two different elements within this image. You also notice here on the right hand side under the layer panel, we have these two layers, one is the background, and one is the agent. Do not worry about this. We're going to co layers in the next chapter. But for now, let's move around and experiment different options in different positions. Let's say I want to move the agent here. Now, let's flip the agent horizontally, so I want the agent to actually look on the other side of the scene. When you want to do these things in photoshop, we actually using something called transform. That will allow us to actually change the size of the image, in this case, the agent, flip it horizontally or vertically, and do many other things. And this is something you find under the edit menu on the very here. So I click on the menu on top. Make sure you select your agent, and on the layer, you actually have a white background around the layer and go to edit. Now the edit, you should be able to see a function called transform. Under Transform, this is all the different actions that we can apply on this subject. In this case, we want to flip the agent horizontally. If I click on flip horizontal. Now the agent is facing the other side. This is something you find the edit the transform. Now, if you managed to do this, I want to challenge you to do something else in photoshop before we get going. So we're going to close this image. To close the image, you need to go to the X icon here. Otherwise, you can go to file and close the image. When you do that, is going to ask you to save the image or not, it's up to you if you want to save it or not. I'm going to just click on Don save. I want to leave the image as it was and click on Don save. And I want you to open the mouse JPG, which is the image that we opened previously. Now, if you don't see here on the recent, all you need to do is simply go to file, go to open, and under the exercise files on the M zero folder, you should be able to see you should be able to see the mouse JPG. I'm going to click on that and it's going to open in Photoshop. So what I would like you to do is to try to change the color of the face of this mouse. So the first things we're going to do, we're going to basically choose a color. The easiest way to choose a color is to actually go here on the panel color here and choose a color from this little rainbow bar here on the Ryan side. You can actually go here and choose a color from here. But let's say you want to use a color within the image. So one way to clone a color is by going to the tool bar here on the left hand side, and we're going to go into this icon here, which is the eye dropper tool. When I click on that, you can actually go and choose a color. Let's say we want to make the face yellow. I'm going to choose this yellow here. As soon as you click on that, the color panel here, we actually get the color that we actually picked. Now we want to select the face and change the color of it. So we're going to go into the tool bar again, and the fourth icon from the top is our selection tool. Now, if I click and hold with my mouse, Here, you should be able to see a flyout menu. This will happen when you hold the click on any of these tools. So if you click on any of these and I hold it, you can see all the other tools that I've got beneath it. Now, let's go back to our selection tool, and we're going to go into Magic Wand to. I'm going to click on that, and I've got the magic ones. And now I'm going to go into the face and click on it anywhere within the face. Now, photoshop is clever enough to select the face and leave basically the eyes and nose and anything else outside the selection. Now we are ready to paint this face with a color that we cloned before. We're going to go into the brush tool. Again, we're going to go to the tool bar here, On the left hand side, we're going to go to the brush tool, which the shortcut is B, but we're going to click on that. We're going to hold it, and we're going to make sure we're going to choose brush too, which is the first option. We're going to click on that. And now we have this little circle, which is our brush. So if I go here on the face and I start to brush, it's going to come up with that color. Now, if I go on the borders and I go over the border, you can see photoshop is actually respecting the selection is not going to go overboard, is actually respecting the boundaries. Of my selection. And by the way, if I want to make this brush bigger or smaller, I'm going to show you this later on. So do not get overwhelmed. Just go over and brush the face completely. Now, if your brush is very tiny, all you need to do is simply go here on the option bar. And when you see here on the top, you have a little home, you got a brush, and you also have this little circle. When you click on that's going to show you lots of different kind of brushes, but do not worry. You just need to change the size from the top, and that is a slide that you need to basically drag either on the left or the right to change the size of your brush to make it bigger or smaller. And as you can see, my brush is getting bigger. The other way to change the size is by using the bracket key on your keyboard, and these are the square bracket. So if you use the one on the right, it makes the brush bigger, and if you use one on the left, is going to make smaller, so as simple as that. So you can actually go and make the brush bigger. But do not worry, we're going to cover the brush tools and all the other options in future videos as well. So this is the a quicker way to actually do this sort of things in photoshop. If you manage to do that, congratulations, and in the next chapter, we're going to learn all about layers. So faster your seat belts because we're going to get serious now. 9. Understanding Layers: Before we get stuck up with this class, I just wanted to make sure that we understand what layers are and how they work within photoshop. Trying to think of layers as sheets of glass stacked on each other. And as you can see here, we have our SC agent scene, which is the file that we opened previously, and we were able to change the position of the agent and flip it around as well because the agent is actually on a separate layer. As you can see here, we have our layer zero, which is the first layer that we have, and Layer one is stacked on top of it. Trying to think of layer zero as the very bottom layer, and then we have all the elements on top of it. In this case, the agent, and perhaps some graphics that we're going to put on top, some speech bubbles, some color adjustments, or any other adjustments that you can think of. That's why we have bottom, and we're going all the way up with our sheets of glass. As you can see, the layer one is only the agent and nothing else around. So this is just glass. It's transparent, essentially. And in photoshop is represented by these white and gray dots. So when you see these dots around an image, means that image is translucent, is transparent. So trying to think of looking at anything that you do in photoshop in a fly over perspective. Something like this. Hopefully, this clarifies what layers are and how they work, and we're going to dive deep in using them in the following video. 10. Selecting and Rearranging layers: The first thing we're going to do, we're going to open a file. We're going to go into file here on the menu bar. We're going to go into open. And on the exercise files on the M one folder, we should be able to see this file called fairy friends dot PSD. We're going to click on open. And the file looks like this. And we have on the right hand side, our layers panel. Now, if you don't see this panel here, you should be able to see it once you go into the menu bar on top on the window and click on layers. If this is not ticked, you shouldn't be able to see it at all. It's actually probably like this. And if you go back to window and click on layers, the layers panel now is back. The first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to get rid of this color panel, I don't need it from there, I'm going to go to the window, I'm going to get color just to get rid of it for now, and I'm going to have a curse over this divider here, as you can see my mouse, my cursor here changes shape into two arrows, and now I can click and hold and drag the layer panel a little bit up. I don't mind to hide this stuff behind for now for the moment being, I just want to be able to see my layers panel properly. Now, if you see these thumbnails quite small on your side, All you need to do is simply have a a cursor over the thumbnail itself here on any of these images, not on the actual writing on the text here, but on the image itself and right click. When you do that, you should be able to see the thumbnail size. You have small thumbnails, medium and large. I use large because small here, it's quite tiny. I don't really see the image inside. So make sure you put a size that you're most comfortable with. I'm using large thumbnails for now. So once you have that, you'll notice that these layers when you click on any of this, we'll highlight, and you also have this white frame around it, so you know exactly in which layer you are in. At the moment, this picture has three cats and a title, as well as a background, the bash background. Now, if I want to select any of these object, any of these elements within my image, I need to go to the Move tool, which is the first tool here on the left hand side. I'm going to click on that. We also notice I've got my auto select here on the option panel on top, it says layer. So what that means is if I click on any of these elements, as you can see when I have a curse over any of these elements, it will highlight in blue. And as you can see, if I click on any of this is going to highlight the layer here on the right hand side. So in this case, I clicked on this cat, which is a British short. And by the way, these layers are not labeled automatically. So you would have to rename them yourself. So I suggest you to do this to take this habit of renaming your layers, especially if you have many or if you're planning to do a composition and you end up having lots of layers. Make sure you name them. In order to name them, all you need to do is simply go to the layer that you want to name. Let's say this layer one is not named yet. Double click on it. And now I can name this background. Once you finish, you can press enter or you can click anywhere here on the layer next to it to save your editing. And the same thing here, I can just go into text, and if I want to change that, I can do that, but this is already called fairy friend, which is here, so I'm not going to change it. The rest is been named. So smoked SMEs when I click on it, it will highlight it here. Same thing, British shorthair and white SMs. Now, if I want to change the order of my layers, it's say, I want to have this layer, this cat on the right hand side, and this cat on the left, all you need to do is simply just move it. Let's say I want to move over the way here. I'm going to click on this other one here and I move it, as you can see, as simple as just clicking and dragging. Now, if you have other images in your composition that are smaller, make sure you click on them to have the right layer selected on the right hand side. It's very important. Also, another tip is sometimes if you press back space if you delete a layer or pressing the back space by accident, you will lose not just the item within the image, you also lose the layer, but you have the undo function the edit. If you go to edit here on the menu bar, you have undo delete layer in this case. This will do as many times as you did since you open your files. This is the shortcut, which is command Z or control that if you are in windows. If I click on that, my layers is back. And by the way, you can go back as many times as I said, but you also can redo as well, if I go to edit, I've got a redo delete, if I change my mind, which is shift command Z. If you are in Windows, it's going to be probably shift control or something similar. And also you have other shortcuts here, but do not worry about shortcuts too much, but this is where you would go if you have made a mistake and you want to retrieve something that you deleted. Let's say you want to bring this cat here in front. So as we said in the previous video, these are sheets of glass piled up on top of each other. So as you can see, this cat here is my smoked SMEs, and this is actually here on this layer here. And the first, this cat here is the white SMS is the very front one. And you can see when I move it around, is the one that over impose everyone else and everything else. So if I want to, for instance, have this cat, going on top of going in front, actually. All you need to do is simply drag this layer all the way up. And as you can see, when I drag it, I've got this blue line that appears on top of the layer that I wanted. Let's say I want to go up to the white image all the way on top. And as you can see, as soon as I do that, the image will show me this cat in front of the other two. So, bear in mind, you have the kind of control with layers. So you have lots of potential, lots of things you can do. Now, if I want to bring these short hair in front of the white one, all I need to do is simply go to the layers panel and drag that layer above my white semis, and you can see live what happened there on the picture. Now it is in front, but it's not in front of the smoked. So you have plenty of flexibility in terms of using layers. And now, perhaps the text behave as well. So as you notice, my text is behind this smoked Sames. If I want to bring the text forward, one way you can do it is you can highlight the text on the image itself to highlight the layer, or you can go to the layer itself and drag it on top. Of the smoke, Sam, and you can see now my text over impose the cat. If I want to have that in the back, I can just go one step back and now my text is behind. So you can definitely have a lot of controls with layers, and bear in mind, you have Dund options on the menu bar, and you can have flexibility in moving your layers around. 11. Layer Visibility and Opacity: In photoshop, you can hide or view your layers by just clicking a little button. As you notice here on the layers panel, we have this little icon next to it. So if I click on this is going to turn that layer on and off. And when I do that, as you can see that smoked Siamese cat disappeared from my composition. If I want to bring it back, I can just simply click on it, and it will bring it back. Now, I can do the same thing for the other elements by just clicking on them. Or if you want to, for instance, just highlight one of them and hide the rest. All you need to do is simply hold down the option key on your MC or Alt on windows and click on the little icon next to the image you want to view. And it's going to hide everything else in the composition. If you want to bring everything back, you can simply just click on the one you want to bring back or just hold down the option key again on the old key and click on the i again to bring everything else back. If you are under this view and you perhaps move the layer around and then perhaps you click on another layer to view the other image on decomposition. Now, if you do this and you want to bring everything else back, you would have to do that manually. Because if I hold down the option key on the old key and click on the image I clicked before on the little icon next to it, I won't bring everything back. As you can see, I'm holding down the option key, and it only brings back the cat that I highlighted before. But do not worry. You can still click on the other elements within the layers panel to bring everything back. There's also other ways to view your elements within a composition. For instance, let's say I want to make this Siamese cat here in front, a little bit more opaque or a little bit more translucent. I can change the opacity of this layer by just clicking on the layer, Here, on the top, right and corner, I can see opacity is 100%. Means I can see the t completely here. But if I click on this little drop down arrow, I've got this lider and if I drag the lider to the left, you'll notice my t becomes translucent. I can actually see through that. Why would you do that? If you have other elements such as geometric elements, or perhaps you want to have elements that you want to see through just to have a little bit different kind of composition or perhaps you're composing something more complicated. You might want to have the ability to do that, especially for geometric shapes or any other things like solid colors, et cetera. So let's say we want to do this on the actual text here. I'm going to click on the text. And by the way, you need to be on the move tool here on the top left and corner, and I'm going to go to the text here. Now, with the text selected, I can go back to opacity here on top. So I can make this text a little bit opaque by just dragging this slider to the left. And as you can see, now, I've got this different effect on the image. Now, why would you do that? Well, you could do that, perhaps if you want to create an effect of a text which has a double color, for instance. You might want to duplicate this text and have the same text on top of it and have a double or triple sort of shadow over imposing the text. So that will be a nice effect you can add. This is just one other thing you can do with text and whichever other object you want to work on. That is a control you have with images and object within your composition. Okay. 12. Resize and transform Layers: When the objects are separated in layers in Photoshop, we can do things such as resizing them, rotating them, warp them, flip them, and do all things with them. This is called transforming in Photoshop. Now, we have this file called cheetahs in the savanna dot PSD. You find this file in the exercise files. And basically what you could do, you can perhaps move them around. So let's say here, I've got my move tool here on the top left. Make sure you are there, and I can actually have a cursor over one of these cheetahs, and as you can see, photoshop will highlight them. Now, if I want, I can just move them around by simply drag them. But let's say I want to rotate them. Let's say I want to actually flip them to the opposite direction. So I'm going to work on one first. I'm going to click on one. Make sure that you are selecting the right one, and the layers panel actually highlighted that one as well. Now we're going to go into edit on the top. And we're going to go to free transform. The shortcut for that is common or Control T if you are in windows. Now when you do that, you have the subject now selected with these white dots. What you could do with that, you can resize it by just dragging one of these dots. If I do that is going to resize it, restraining the proportion. It's say I want to make a slightly smaller. Another thing you can do on top of moving it is also placing the cursor just outside. As you can see the cursor now became a little curved one curved curse. I can just move around. I can rotate the subject, if I wanted to. I can resize it by just dragging these white dots. I've got lots of flexibility in terms of moving it. Now, if I want to also flip it with the new photoshop feature, we have the ability to flip it directly from this menu down below here. As you can see, I've got the flipping menu here, the flipping option flip horizontally, flip vertically, cancel and done. Fully flip horizontal, is going to flip on the other side. Now, if you're using a previous version of Photoshop, what you can do, you can go to edit on the very top. You can go to transform here and you can actually use one of these transforming actions, including flip horizontally, same thing. You can also access to this menu here on the transform, this menu will appear also on the subject as well, directly here. You don't have to go into the menu. To do that is simply just by right clicking on the subject. When I do that, I've got all my options here. Now, you're not going to see all of them because my screen goes beyond the view. But if I make this if I move this cheeta just above here, just to show you if I right click there, you go all these transforming action, including flip horizontal. If I do that, I can flip horizontally as well. But I'm going to use this is quite handy to have that feature and the option here now with the new photoshop. I'm going to click on that. But bear in mind, you have three ways to access to flip. You can use this. You can right click and flip, or you can go to edit, go to transform, and use flip horizontally. Okay? So now that we are here, we can actually do the other cheetah as well. So in order to select the other cheetah, we have to basically press done or at least just press return to actually confirm our editing. And by the way, if you are on the transform, if I go back to edit the free transform, we also have an option to, you know, instead of pressing enter or just click on done, You can also go on top here on the Option menu and click on this little tick just to confirm that done with the editing. Okay? So once you've done, you can just go in the other cheetah, make sure you selected, and it's also selected here on the layers panel as well. And now we're going to go into edit. We're going to do the same thing. We're going to go into free transform or command T or control T in windows. And then we're going to flip again, we're going to go into flip, and we're going to resize it as well. And we're going to rotate it as well. Let's say I want to have a little bit lift it up from the ground, just to give a little bit of sense of jumping and running. And there we go. We have that. And actually, it looks like a kangaroo like this. I'm going to leave it like this. Let's see. Okay, that's fine. Perfect. So now that I've done that, I can just press done, and my composition is ready. So this is how you can manipulate objects using the free transform tools and how to access to all these actions. So we're fun with this and see you in the next video for more. 13. Smart Objects: One important factor in transforming object within Photoshop is the fact that if we do too much modification, too much transforming, we might lose the quality of the subject. For instance, if I start to change this subject and transforming it and warping it and changes size, flipping it and do all sort of modification, I might lose its quality. And one of the way to retain the quality of an object before you even start transforming it is by converting it as a smart object. You can do that by going to the layers on the very top menu here and you can go to smart object and convert to smart object. You can also access to this by going to the layers panel here on the subject that you want to transform. Right click where the text is, not where the tamer is. Because if I right click here, I'm not going to be able to see that option. But if I right click on this side where the text is, I'm going to see all these other options, including convert to smart object. Now, you see my screen cut through, so I can just do that and convert to smart object directly from here. You can go on top on the layers and go to smart object and convert to smart object. So that will retain the quality of whatever you selected. If I want to do the same thing on another element, I can select the element, go to layer, go to smart object, and convert to smart object. Now, as you notice now on my layers panel, I've got this badge next to the object that I just converted, and that will basically retain the quality of my elements while I'm transforming them and while I do any other modification within my composition. Okay. 14. Create and Delete layers: Now, let's talk about how to create layers and how to delete the layers as well. Now, at the moment we have our cheetahs in the Savana's PSD, we flipped our cheetahs here. Let's say we want to create a layer, and this is really depends on what you want to do. So for instance, if you want to create a layer for your text, you don't have to do really much in terms of layers. All you need to do is simply go to your text here on the tool menu on the toolbar here. Click on the text. Make sure when you hold down the click here, you are on the horizontal type tool. And let's say we want to create a text here. Let's say I want to type something here. I'm going to click on it. As soon as I click on it, look what Epens going to basically come up with some text. And here on the layers panel, you'll see we have a text layer automatically created for you. So if I want to type something there, I can just click on there and type cheetahs. Ceas in the savanna. And once I'm done with that, I can click on the check mark on top on the option menu, and that is done. So let's say we want to now make some background here for our text, and I want to make this by using a paint brush. To do that, I need to create a layer myself. So I have to go to the layers panel here, I'm going to go to the bottom here and I've got an option to create a new layer. This little plus icon you see. I'm going to let me create a new layer. I'm going to click on it. And as you can see, now, I've got a layer here just above my text. I'm going to rename this brush. And I'm going to click here on the side to confirm. Now I can go to my brush tool here on the tool bar on the left hand side. Let's say, we're going to choose a brush such as this. I'm going to choose brush tool. I happen to have a yellow here color, and it's okay. I'm going to use that one. And I'm going to basically paint here. My brush size is quite big. It's 125 at the moment. But again, if you want to change the size, you can go here and change the size from here. Leave it as it is, not really important. Just click away and then start to basically brush away. I'm going to just brush on top of my drawing here. I'm going to make another stroke on top of it, and that we go now is like this. Now, as you notice, my text is being now covered because my layers is above my text. And if I want to basically make the text visible, all I need to do is simply drag this brush layer just down my text. As you can see, I've got my blue line there, I'm going to leave it there, and now I've got my text over imposing my brush strokes. If you want to delete layers, all you need to do is simply go to the layers panel here, select the layer you want, and perhaps you want to delete more than one. You can hold down the command key or control key if you are in windows to select multiple layers, and you can basically press backspace or delete on your keyboard. If I want to undo that, I can press Command Z or I can go to edit undo layers, delete layers. And you can also delete in another way. You can drag the layers you just highlighted down to the bin here at the bottom right in corner, and the layers will disappear. These are just some of the ways you can create layers, delete them, and manage them within your composition. Okay. 15. Duplicate layers: When we're working on a composition in photoshop, we might want to duplicate layers. And one other way to do that is by just selecting the layer, you want to duplicate, right click on it and click on duplicate layer. So when I do that, I'm going to have now an option to rename it. I can just leave it as it is, and click on. And that will show me a duplication of the layer. Now, you're not going to notice anything on screen because it actually duplicated exactly the same cheat on top of it. So if I move this you know this is now I've got two of them. If I want to resize it, I can just move it here and the edit, I can go to free transform, and I can make it a little bit smaller and move it around. Perhaps I want to move it in the back to do that, all you need to do is simply just drag the layer below the other one to that composition. That is the way to duplicate layers and to move them around your layers panel. 16. Assignment: Okay. Welcome to our first assignment for this chapter about layers. So if you open dream board PSD, you should be able to see this file with all these elements on top and this dream board section here down below. What I would like you to do is to create a composition a creative composition by just moving this object in this area in a creative way. So you have freedom to do whatever you like with them and to use the skills that you learn in this chapter. So now you know how to resize an object, how to flip an object, how to move around, rotating it. Perhaps you want to duplicate a layer or duplicate an object and have more than one. So you have freedom to do whatever you like. One additional task I would like you to challenge yourself in doing is finding out how to remove backgrounds on one or more of these objects. Some of them have transparent backgrounds, but some others have some wide background, and perhaps you might be able to remove the background somehow by using some of the functions that you have available on screen. I'm not going to tell you what they are. I'm going to reveal this in the next video. So I fun with this assignment and be as creative as possible, and I'll see you in the next video. 17. Assignment Solution: Okay. Okay. Hello and welcome back. This is how I would go about resolving these assignments. Now, bear with me because I'm going to be a little bit faster than usual. But if you don't understand what I'm doing, just make sure you pause, you go back or perhaps you watch some of the previous videos on this module to understand what function I used. So I'm going to go about and just move some of these objects around. And just to have an idea of what I can do with them. I notice I've got a couple of objects here with a white background, and these two don't have a background, which is good. Perhaps I want to move this cat on top of the couch. But before we do that, I want to make this background bigger. So I'm going to just move this stuff around. I'm simply just dragging them around, and I'm going to click on this layer. Make sure you are the move layer here, tool selected. I'm going to select on my background. I can see it says here living room with Seaview. Very good. I'm going to go to edit. I'm going to go to free transform, and I'm going to drag one of these white dots to make it nice and big. And let's say I'm going to keep it like this. I like to keep a little bit of framing here, just to keep a little bit of design order in my dream board. Once I've done, I can just click away or just press return. And now I'm ready to move other object. Let's say I want to make this I want to put this guitar here somewhere here. But as you can see, when I move it around is go beyond my background. I need to bring it forward. In order to bring it forward, I need to go into the guitar layer here and basically drag it above my living room, at least above my living room. I know that now my guitar is going to go forward. And now I need to remove the background. This is one of the assignment I ask you to do in the previous video. If you have one of the latest versions of photoshop, you should be able to see option down below here to remove the background. So I'm going to click on remove background. This is how you easily remove a plain background, in this case, it was white, so it was pretty easy to remove. And now we're going to resize this guitar, and we're going to rotate as well. So I'm going to go into edit again. I'm going to go to free transform and I'm going to rotate the guitar slightly and give the impression that it's actually leaning on the couch and I'm going to resize it slightly. And there we go. I'm done with the guitar. Once I finish, I click on done. And then I'm going to go to the couch. I'm going to do the same thing here. I'm going to remove the background. And then I'm going to place it just right here. It doesn't have to be necessarily, the same dimension as my background. I can go back to edit. I can go to free transform. I can make it slightly bigger. Okay. And also, I just going to leave it like this, actually, and I'm going to press done. And then I'm going to make this background here, like almost like a poster. I'm going to make it slightly bigger. I'm going to go into edit, free transform. I'm going to make it slightly larger. Going to overimpose my couch. I'm going to basically go back to my layer panel here and I'm going to make sure the couch is actually above on top of my poster. I'm going to drag it up. As you can see, now, the poster is behind my couch, which is good. I'm going to drag this cat. I'm going to resize the cat. I'm going to go to edit free transform or command or Control T, if you are on windows, and I'm going to make it slightly smaller and Dico is sitting on the couch. Very nice, and then we're going to get this British shorter somewhere here. Again, edit free transform. Then we're going to make it smaller. Let's say we're going to make it here and it says, walking here on the floor, and let's make it a little bit smaller to contain the proportion. Actually I'm going to make it just on the other side here. I actually nice. And click on done. So as you can see, I applied all the skills that we learned or at least some of the skills that we learned on this chapter. I haven't covered a duplication. I didn't duplicate any of this, but if you feel like you want to duplicate something, do that. So I hope this inspires you to do your assignment. If you've already done it and you want to post it, please do. We are looking forward to see what you've done and see you in the next video. Okay. 18. The importance of saving your projects: After hours of work on your image, making your image look great, adding effects, adding filters, do some retouching, and perhaps adding some layers as well, you would want to save your work in order to retrieve it later on, and that can be done by saving it as a photoshop project. So one way to save this is by going to file on top and going to save. Now, if you haven't saved the file before, when you click on Save, you're going to see a dialogue box popping up on screen. Now, if I do it on mine, it won't come up anything because I already saved this file. So I'm going to go to save as, which is the same as clicking on save for the very first time. I'm going to click on save there, and you should be able to see this dialogue box with the destination folder. I can click on my downloads folder here. And please feel free to use your own folder. If you are on Windows, you should be able to see a similar dialog box, as I see here. Just make sure you save it into the right folder. And as you can see on top of I've got my file name, which is ladybug saving dot PSD. So this is the format that we need to make sure we save it on when we want to retrieve all these layers, all the adjustments that we made on our image and be able to retrieve our work in a later stage. Down below here, I've got the format, which is photoshop. If I click on the Popa menu here, I'm going to see other three formats, which are large document format, Photoshop PDF, and also TIF. So these formats retain all the adjustments and all the layers that you created in Photoshop. Now, in this case here, we want to use Photoshop because we're going to reopen this file at a later stage, and we want to make some improvement or some changes. So we're going to save it like this. And now we are ready to click on Save. So this file is been saved already and I'm going to do that now, but feel free to do that with your own file. So this will save the file as a project. Now, if I want to use this image for web purposes, if I want to use this image for sharing it on social media, the most used format is JPEG. And JPEG, of course, will flatten all the adjustment that you did. Let's say if I made this image using four or five layers, here on the right hand side, it will basically flatten the image in one layer just to save space, and just because we don't need to retain all this information for web purposes or for posting on social media. We just need to flatten image with the end results, essentially. And in order to do that, we need to save this as a JPEG. So we're going to go again into file, and we're going to choose Save as. Again, you're going to see the same dialogue box. But in this case, we want to change the extension. Instead of using PSD, we want to use JPEG or JP G. In order to do that, we have to go down here, and the Photoshop here, we're not going to see those format, the JPEG format. If I have the curse over save a copy, I'm going to see a little tag that says, Use save a copy for JPEG or PNG. I'm going to click on that. And this is going to open another dialogue box which is very similar to the one we saw before. But if I click on the pop up menu here, I'm going to see more formats that I can choose from. One of them is JPEG. The other one is P and G, and also we see the TIF and also other formats as well. Now, we use PNG when we want to retain transparency on an image. Let's say we have an image with some transparency in it and you want to save the transparency for any other purposes. Perhaps you want to use it for an interactive slides that you want to have the image that transparency and perhaps use the slide background instead of the image background. You could do that. In this case here, we're going to save it as a JPEG. We're going to choose JPEG. And as you notice the extension on top says JPG, which we want. We're going to click on downloads. I'm going to save it there, and then I'm going to press save. Now, after you press save, you have an additional dialogue box. Now here, you can choose the quality. At the moment, it is set to 12, which is the maximum quality, and you're also going to see the preview of the size of your file. Now, personally, I always use maximum because I want to retain as much information as possible. But if you just choose 8-12, you are safe. You have still high quality for we purposes, you know, you're not going to lose a lot of quality. But if you want to go down, you can slide it down here. And as you notice on the quality, it says medium. And if I keep on going down, it says low. So make sure you are 8-12, if you want to be safe in terms of that, and you want to save space as well. So I'm going to press. Leave it at 12. And now I'm going to open the same file as a JPEG, just to show the difference between the file we have here, which is our photoshop file project and the JPEG. I'm going to go to downloads. I'm going to just drag my JPEG file here. So this is my JPEG file, and I'm going to switch between the two tabs here on top. This is my photo shop, which is much bigger in size, and this is my JPEG. So you're not noticing anything, but the only thing that actually is changing here is the number of layers that have got here on the right hand side. As you notice, my JPEG is a flattened image, which is only one. My photoshop has two layers. Let's say we want to instead use the same image but without the background. I would have to go back to my photoshop file. So it's very important to save your file as a photoshop project in order to retrieve all the information that you need. In case you want to use your image for another purpose. So I'm going to go to my photoshop file now here, which I have now all my layers back, and let's say I want to get rid of the background. I don't want to have the background. I only want to use this as a PNG to use it for one of my slide presentation or for a web page. In this case, here, I'm going to go to file. I'm going to click on save as, and I'm going to choose the save a copy option, and I'm going to choose here under the dropdown menu. Instead of JPEG, I'm going to choose PNG. I'm going to save it again into my downloads folder. I'm going to press Save. Now I've got a different dal box, which gives me three options. Large file size, fastest saving, medium file, or smallest file, I'm going to choose large file, and I'm going to press. Now, if I go back to my downloads. You notice, I've got a ladybug saving copy PNG. So if I open this into Photoshop, you notice is also a flattened file, but it has retained the transparencies that I need. So this is the way you can save your files in Photoshop. Make sure you practice with this and you save it into a specific folder that you can easily retrieve later on. If you have any questions, please let me know and I'll see you in the next video. 19. Saving to Cloud: Let's talk about how to save your project using the AdobiCloud option. So this will allow you to access to your project wherever you are and on whatever device you have available. So for instance, if you're working on an iPad, you should be able to open Photoshop there and open your project directly. Also, if you use a browser from another computer and you want to use the photoshop beta version and open your project from there, you could do that as well. So bear in mind, you have the abilities and these benefits. So if I want to save this photoshop file now on the Cloud, all I need to do is simply go to file on top, and I'm going to click on Save S. I'm going to have the same dialogue box that we saw before in the previous videos. But basically, you have the option down below here to save this two Cloud documents. Now, this button can be somewhere else if you watch this video in the future, but bear in mind, this is how to save to the Cloud documents. I'm going to click on that, and this is going to open another dialogue box, which is going to basically save this photoshop project into the Cloud. Now, I'm going to just leave as it is, ladybug saving, and I'm going to just press save. And by the way, if you change your mind, you can still go back to your computer by clicking on on your computer, and you're going to see the same dialogue box that we saw before. In this case here, we're going to stick on the Cloud, I'm going to just press save. Once you've done that, you'll notice now my photoshop file as changed extension. Now, it is not PSD anymore. It's PSD C, which C stands for Cloud. Now, if I close this project, or if I press the home button at the top left and corner of the screen, I can see my home page. I can see my photoshop project is a with a C at the end, and also the other one the PSD that is saved on my computer. Now, if I go to file under your file, you should be able to see all the files and all the project that you saved on the Cloud, and this is the screen you're going to see whenever you open Photoshop in any other computer or device that support photoshop. So this is the benefit of using Photoshop Cloud. Enjoy this benefit if you have it available on your subscription, and I'll see you in the next video. 20. Selecting a Subject: So let's talk about selections. Selections in photoshop is essential, especially when you want to modify or edit part of an image without affecting the rest of it. For instance, if you open an image such as this, this is called three models dot JPG, you should be able to find this image under the exercise files. And as you notice, when you open any JPEG within Photoshop under the layers pannel here on the right hand side, You're going to notice you only have one layer. And using selections is essential in order to do any modification. So if I want to highlight this model here and I want to use it somewhere else in another image, for instance, I would have to highlight it first and select it. So one other way to do that is you notice if you have one of the latest versions of Photoshop, you have an option down below here, select subject. If I do that, is going to highlight all of them, and I would have to deselect the one that I don't want. But I'm not going to do this. I'm going to just deselect by using the delect tool and I'm going to use another tool that you're probably going to have on your screen as well, whatever version you have a photoshop. Now, if I go to the fourth icon from the top here on the left, you should be able to see this icon. If you don't see that icon, hold down the click and you have three options, you've got object selection tool, you've got quick selection tool, and you've got magic one two. We're going to use the first one object selection two, When you do that and you have a the cursor over the image, you'll notice the photoshop automatically highlights the separate subject for me. So this is very clever and time saving. So if I want to select this subject here, I can just click on it, and then we'll automatically highlight it. And you also notice the marching ends as well, effect that you see in photoshop and highlights the subject. But as you know, also other part of the image that's been selected by mistake. For instance, I've got a little bit of this marching ends on this other woman shoulder. So I would have to get rid of that. In order to do that, all you need to do is simply go back to the selection tool. And instead of using the object selection tool, you're going to use quick selection tool. That allows us to add or subtract selections in our subject. So in this case here, I want to subtract that. And as you notice my cursor there in the center of the circle, you have a plus icon. If I instead hold down the option key on Mc on the old key in windows, that plus will become a minus, and that will basically subtract anything that I want from my selection. So if I hold down the option key, and I just click on that selection is going to get rid of it. Very good. Okay, now, the subject is selected, and I think I don't have anything else around it, and now I'm ready to basically get rid of the rest. So in order to do that, you can go down here on the layers panel, and you should be able to see this function, which is the layer mask. When I click on it, It will create a mask around this model, and the rest of the models are all gone at the moment. They're still behind, but now they're being masked away. Now if I want to use her somewhere else, I can go to my rectangular market tool here, the second tool from the top, and I can highlight her and I can copy, and go to edit, copy, and I can paste somewhere else if I wanted to. But let's do this for now, and I'm just going to go back to edit undo, edit and do again to go back to our selection, and I'm going to deselect for now. This is one of the quick way to select the subject within an image in photoshop. 21. Selecting and modifying colours: Let's say we want to change the shirt color of one of these models by using the selection tool. So I'm going to change the shirt of this model here, but I need to select it first. So we're going to go into the selection tool again here on the top left and corner. I'm going to select object selection tool first, and I'm going to basically select. So I'm going to have a curse over her. I'm going to click on that. You're going to have the marching ends. And now I'm going to go into the selection tool again and I'm going to use quick selection tool. And the reason why I'm doing this is because I want to get rid of some of the selections and also her face as well because I don't want to change the color of a face, of course, and the trousers. So I'm going to hold down the option key, if you have a mac old key if you have windows, and I'm going to make sure my selection to say minus. Another way to also enable this without, you know, holding down the option key is by going on top here on the option menu bar here and click on this brush here, which is say minus, and you don't have to hold down the old key. So I can just go directly here, and now I'm going to brush a face away. I'm going to just click a few times. Just to make sure I don't have those marching ends around the face and also on the neck. If you made a mistake and you just click a way to deselect something, you can just go back in and use the plus. But I like to use the option key whenever I need it. So in this case, I need to add that shirt back, and I want to diselect a little bit by doing that. And by the way, this takes a little bit of time. If you're trying to do it manually, you might need to kind of reduce the brush and go over the skin a little bit more. If you kind of made a mistake and you get frustrated, which can happen sometimes, especially when you need to do selections quite a lot, do not worry. Just go back here down below here. Press the select and do it again. Just go back here, go to the object selection tool first. Click on the image that you want. Once you selected, go back there, go into quick selection tool, and you're back into business, and then you can just hold down the minus, make the brackets, make the brush a little bit bigger using the brackets, and then holding down the option key. You dselect what you want. Be careful near the neck. As you can see, just by doing that, I make a nice selection and everything is now selected, I'm going to just get rid of the trousers. I'm holding down the option key, or the old key on windows. Now I've got my selection here pretty much done. Now I'm ready to change the color. If I want to clone a color from within an image, let's say, from here, I can go to the color picker here on the left hand side, which is this here, which is called eye dropper tool. I can click on that, and I can just point at the color I want to clone. Let's say I want to have the color of lips, for instance, I can click on that and automatically clone the color here on my brush color as you can see I've got that pink color over there. If you want to see the color palette here on the right hand side of your panels, all you need to do is simply go to a window and go to color. And now you have the color here as well, which is the same as that one. So I can actually go and pick any other color. And as you notice, the color panel here will change accordingly. I'm going to go back to the lips here to have this nice reddish color actually. And now I want to apply that color to this shirt. In order to do that, what we need to do we need to go down below here in our layers panel, and we have an option here under this white and black circle icon. We're going to click on that. And we're going to choose solid color on the top. As soon as I do that, look what happened. When I click on it, it will apply that color to that shirt, and it will also open the color picker panel as well. I'm going to just leave it as it is and press okay. So one of the things we need to do though is to blend this color with the T shirt underneath. And one of the way to do that is to use the blending mode that we find here under the layers. And this is something you find on the drop down menu where it says normal. So when I click on that, You see all sort of, you know, functions here, all sort of effects. And in order to just view them, all you need to do is simply have a curse over them and you see live how they look, which is pretty cool. So now I'm going to choose one of these, multiply is quite nice. Color linear burn. So you get lots of different kind of effects. And the one I'm going to choose for this purpose is color here at the bottom. I'm going to click on color. And now, the color is being applied. If I want to make any change to this color, all I need to do is simply go to the layer panel here where this color is. I'm going to just double click on that. And this is going to open the color picker panel, which is also this one here, but I like to use this one because it gives me more control in a sense. And basically, I can move that to perhaps change the tonality of the shirt. To make it a little bit brighter, perhaps, and press. If I want to see the before and after, all I need to do is simply just click on the icon here on the layers panel. So this is the original color, and this is the color that we just applied. And this is just one of the way you can do a quick selection and change color of an object within an image. 22. Add, Subtract and Inverse Selections: Let's talk about adding, subtracting and inverting a selection. If you open this image, by watchhuse dot JPG, you should be able to see just one layer as we saw in the previous videos and whenever we open any JPEG file. And basically, what we're going to do, we're going to select this house here in the middle, and we're going to make everything else black and white. So this is just one simple application that you're probably going to have to do in the future, or you might want to know how to do. And this is basically essential to know in photoshop. So we're going to go into the selection tool here on the tool bar. We're going to go to object selection tool, and we're going to basically have a cursor over this house here. Now, photoshop is clever enough to understand where the subject is. I'm going to click on it to confirm it. And now we're going to basically change the color of everything else. In order to do that, we need to invert the selection. So to invert the selection, we're going to go into this bar down below here, which you should be able to see if you have the latest version of Photoshop, which is invert selection. But if you don't have this here, you can still go into the top on the menu bar, And on the select, you'll find the inverse selection. When I click on in verse, this will basically highlight everything else. And as you can see, you've got the marching ends all the way around my frame and around this house. So it selects everything but the house. Now we're going to go on top the layers and go to new adjustment layer and choose black and white. Now we're going to basically confirm by pressing, okay. And now we have this Baywatch house in color and everything else in black and white. This is one of the typical effect. You might see in magazines and you might want to know how to do it, and this is one other way to do it. Now, we're going to do this, and I'm going to show you something else. I'm going to do this, and I'm going to just deselect everything. By the way, I've got this option down below here to deselect, but you can also use an option on top under the menu bar on the select and click Delect. The shortcut for delect is Command D or Control D. So when I do that, it delects everything and you back to square one. Now, the cool thing in photoshop when you are in selection tool here and the object selection tool, when you have a the cursor everywhere on the image, in this case, this image is going to highlight all different objects, so you can make all sort of editing that you can think of. So feel free to do that at the end of this session if you want to. So let's go back now to our move tool on top, and let's say we want to make this yellow color of this front house, the color of red. So in order to do that, we need to select this area first. One other way to do that is by going to the selection tool again. We're going to use object selection tool. First of all, we're going to highlight this house as we did before. And now we're going to go back to the selection tool because we want to delect the roof. We want to dselect the foundations. We don't want to have those in red, and we want to also diselect the door. So I'm going to go back to the selection tool and I'm going to use the object selection tool. Now, when I do that, now I can choose the brackets, the right brackets to make the brash bigger. As you notice, my brackets here is like this. I'm using the right and the left brackets to change. The size, I'm going to hold down the option key. By the way, you're going to use these shortcuts on your keyboard because when you start to select deselect things, you wouldn't want to go back here on top on the option bar and change the plus brush to the minus all the time. So it's very tedious. I'll probably just practice and using the option key or the shift key if you want to add something in. In this case, with the new version of Photoshop, all you need to do is simply brush to add something new selection or hold down the option key on Mac or hold down the old key in windows in order to deselect something. I'm going to hold down the option key, and I'm going to brush these foundations away and also the roof as well. Now, if you want to zoom in and do a more precise selection, you can use the command plus or minus or control plus minus on your computer to zoom in and out. So you can do that. Or you can use here the zoom that you see here at the bottom left corner of photoshop, which says 200%. If you want to make that bigger or smaller, you can do it here hundred percent, for instance, a press return, and it's going to go basically much, much bigger. Or you can use the cursor. If you have a laptop, you can pinch in and out to make your image smaller or bigger. Or you can also use the command minus a plus, probably is the best way to go about it and just make your image bigger. You can go to view on top of a menu bar, and you have an option to make the image 100%, to make it like this, 200, print size, actual size, et cetera, et cetera. So this is just another way to do to zoom in and out, so you can also zoom in using this zoom in. But again, it's best to use shortcuts. So in this case, it's command plus, command minus and command zero if you want to fit the image into the screen. So if I do command zero, it goes back to fit the image in my screen. In this case here, I want to zoom in. Sorry, I want to make sure that you know exactly how to navigate. Now, if the image is too big, you can hold down the space bar on your keyboard, and you can see my cursor changed to a little hand. And if I hold the mouse there, I can actually move around the image, so I can actually do navigation properly, and I can actually now reduce my brush by using the left bracket. And I hold down the option key. And deselect what I don't want from my selection. So this can be a little bit tedious at times, but if you get used to slowly, to modify your keys and just navigate within your image and zooming in and out. You can actually do a pretty good selection. Now here, I've got part of the foundations still I'm going to hold down the space bar, and I'm going to just drag up here. I'm going to make my brush a little bit bigger using the brackets, and I hold down the option key again or the old key in windows to deselect part of the roof because I don't want that to change color. And I can do the same thing here as you can see it done it automatically. Now, some part here is selected, so it's going to change color as well, which I don't mind. I'm going to leave this like as it is. And I think part of the roof is still selected, I'm going to make sure the marching ends disappear from my screen. I'm going to hold down the space bar, and I'm going to just scroll down a little bit, just to make sure that the door is not included. And I think I'm done with that and can just do command zero now to go back to my previous view, and I'm ready now to apply a color. Now I'm going to go to the layer panels down below here, and I'm going to choose this icon, which is the adjustment tool, this little white and black circle, and I'm going to choose solid color. When I do that, is going to create a separate layer with a color bread. But I can choose a different color if I wanted to. As you can see, I can just go here and it's going to basically pick up any pastel color I want, or I can just move the cursor around the image. As you can see, I've got my eye dropper tool, and I can just select that door to make the color that I wanted. Let's say I want to have this color here. I'm going to press ok now I'm ready to use one of the blending mode within the layer panels, which is a Pia, which is as normal. If I click on that and I choose any of this, you can change. You can see that changing live, and I'm going to choose color. And then we go now we have our front house with different color instead of yellow. Again, if you want to see the before and after, click on the little icon on the layer panel. And as you can see, this is the original color, and this is the new color. And this is how you add subtract and inverse selections. 23. Detailed and Copy Selections: Let's explore other ways to use selections. Now, we have this file called flamingos dot PNG, which you should be able to find in the exercise files. When you open it, as you notice, we only have one layer because it's a JPEG, so we don't have any other element in it. If I want to now select, for instance, this flock of flamingos, here, and I want to perhaps make a copy of it to have a little bit more here on the sky. What I can do I can go on the selection tool here on the left hand side. Again, I'm going to go to object selection tool, which is the first one. And as soon as I have a cursor over my image, as you can see this magenta highlighting will highlight the subjects. And as you notice, Photoshop does his best to try to highlight the flamingos, but as you can see, I only get just a few singularly. I don't get the whole flock together. So I would have to go here and do a selection manually. Now, another thing I wanted to show you before we even select these flamingos here is a selection feature that we have here on top. As you know this is on the option bar on top, it says, select subject. If I click on this little error next to it, I've got two options. I've got device, quick results, and cloud detailed results. At the moment, when we select something or when we click on Quick Selection, or when we go into the stool and we basically select object selection tool. Photoshop will use the device or the actual photoshop within your computer facility in order to determine where the subject is within your image. But if you want to be more precise, you want photoshop to highlight with more precision in your image, you can use Cloud detailed results. We're going to try to do that on this image. I'm going to click on that. And now I'm going to click on select subject. It's going to do pretty much the same thing that we saw before when we select our tool here. Let's have a curse over there and see if it's done a better job. As you can see, now the flamingos here on the lake are actually more precisely selected. As you can see, I've got my marching ends around it. If I go back here, I can go back to device and press select and press. And now we see that we don't have the marching ends anymore. Some of the flamingos are missing from the selection. So sometimes you might want to use cloud detailed results if Photoshop does not highlight what you want. But in this case, it did not work for our flamingos here flying in the air. So we would have to do that manually. Now we're going to leave this as it is on the device, and with the same selection tool with the object selection tool, we're going to go into our flock of flamingos here, and with this cursor, we're going to basically highlight just those flamingos in the air. By just doing that, I got them selected. Let's say I want to also include this. So how would I add another selection within this selection. All I need to do is simply hold down shift and highlight that flamingo as well, and that will be included in my selection. Now I'm ready to do something quite cool. What I can do, I can actually make a copy of this selection to have some more flamingos over here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to click on Command J, which is a shortcut in Photoshop. If you have windows, you can use Control J. And by doing this, Photoshop creates a layer only for those flamingos. Do you remember before in the layers chapter when we talked about duplicating a layer. This is not quite the same because we actually duplicating or making a copy of a selection within a layer. That is a bit different. Now, if you want to find out where this shortcut command J is, all you need to do is simply go to layers here on the top menu, going to new and the new, you should be able to see layer via copy, which is command J. And that's what we just did now. Now, you haven't noticed anything here on the image. You only notice the layer here with the flamingos. But if I move the flamingos here somewhere else, you're going to notice there is a copy. So I'm going to go to my move tool here on the left hand side, and I'm going to just grab one of these and you notice I've got my selection there ready, and I can move them to be, let's say, here on this part of the sky. So we have a little bit more flamingos around. Perhaps I'm going to have a little bit here. It looks a little bit more realistic. There we go. This is how we can copy a selection within Photoshop. And it doesn't matter what shape is the object you want to highlight. It can be any irregular shape, it can be a square, can be a rectangle, can be anything that you can think of, you can highlight simply by using the selection tool here and using object selection to for that. As simple as that and use command J to make a copy of it and it will make another layer with those. Flamingos that copy. If I want to hide them on the layer panel here, on introduce simply just turn off the eye and I can see what's being copied and whatnot. So hopefully, this is going to inspire you to do even more with selections and create some amazing compositions within photoshop. 24. Time saving selections: Let's talk about the power of selection using the latest version of Photoshop. At the moment, I'm running Photoshop 2024, as you can see here on the menu bar, it says 2024. If you have this version, you should be able to see this little gray bar here below an image that you open. So at the moment, I'm using smile dot PSD, which is an image you should be able to see under the exercise files. Just make sure you open that. And when you open it, it's going to come up with this little gray bar. If you don't see this gray bar, all you need to do is simply click on the move to here on the left hand side. So you should be able to see that little bar coming up and you can move it around by clicking and holding this little handle here on the left hand side of it, so I can move it around and do whatever I want with it. Now, if the image is too big, you can also do command minus to make it a little bit smaller, do it a couple of times, and I'm going to just move that bar down below there. Now, if you're here, and if you're running this version or a similar version, which has this bar appearing on top. Carry on watching. If you don't have that and you have a previous version and very early version of Photoshop, I suggest you to skip this video and watch the next one. But for now, I just want to show you the power of the new features within a new photoshop. By clicking on remove background, it will automatically analyze the image and basically make the background here translucent. I'm going to click on remove background. And it was pretty quick to get rid of the background, and it done a great job also with the hair selection as well. Now, if I want to see if the hair has actually been selected correctly, I can go here on the layers panel here. And as you notice, I've got this sandy beach in my background. I can click on the little icon next to it to hide it just momentarily. And as you notice, photoshop have done a very good job in selecting the hair. But there is an area here on top which still has the old background here. So it hasn't selected correctly or, you know, precisely, but I'm going to show you how to do a more precise selection in the following videos. For now, just don't worry about this, and we're going to carry on with this class because I'm going to show you other things you can do with this image. I'm going to check the box here next to my sandy beach to re enable it. One of the things you can do with the subject is to change the position to flip it around, and we covered this in previous videos, but I want to make sure we reiterate that. So I'm going to just select the model here on the layer panel. So make sure you select the subject. And now we're going to go into the edit on the menu bar top, and I'm going to click on free transform. Now I'm able to flip the model if I wanted to in the opposite direction. I can resize it and I can move it on one side like this. This is the things you can do straightaway. Just a couple of clicks, and I can click on Dane and my composition is now ready to be used and I can do other things with it. This is how simple it is to use remove background and move your object around in just a matter of few clicks. So experiment that F fun and I'll see you in the next video when I'm going to show you more about selections. 25. The Magic Wand Tool: There are situations in photoshop when we have to select multiple areas within an image, and perhaps this can take quite a long time, especially if you need to do multiple selections. In this video, I'm going to show you one tool that we have the selection, which is going to save you a lot of time in terms of selecting multiple areas within an image. In this case, we have lighthouse PNG, which is a file you're going to see in your exercise file. We want to change the blue stripes into red. Now, we don't have as many, but if you have lots of stripes or lots of things that you want to change with the same color or you want to do other changes, with this tool, you're going to save lots of time. We're going to go into the selection tool here on the left hand side, and we're going to hold down the click and choose Magic Wand tool. With the magic wand, now we can select area, a blue area here. And when you do that, it looks like it only select this area here. I would have to basically manually add these other areas here to do my selection. And let's say this only has three stripes. And what about you have lots of different things you have to select? It's going to take a long, long time. Now, one way to do a multiple selection with one click is by going to the option menu here. And untique the function contiguous. So contiguous allows photoshop to select the adjacent area within the selection. For instance, if I click here, Photoshop will analyze all the blue areas around my click and it will highlight them. But it hasn't selected this area here, for instance, who hasn't selected the rest of it. So I'm going to untque contiguous, and I'm going to select again under a blue area here. And as you notice, now, I've got a better selection. I've got more selection here just we do one click. But we still have some problems here in terms of highlighting the entire stripe. So I'm going to go into tolerance because this is something that has to do with tolerance. The more you increase the number of tolerance, the bet is going to be the selection within your image. So I'm going to choose something like 70. And I'm going to just deselect my selection. We're using Command D and reselect again and see if it does a better job. It does a better job here, but it looks like it highlights the C as well, which we can deselect later on quickly. I'm going to show you how to do that. But I wanted to make sure I've got a better selection. So I'm going to change the tolerance, let's say, up to 90. And I'm going to do deselect again, Command D, and reselect again and see what happened now. And now it's done a much better job in terms of highlighting the stripes and something on top as well. Now, if I want to deselect the rest of the image, I can go to the selection tool again here on the left hand side. I can click on Quick Selection tool. I can make my brush a little bit bigger because this is too small, I'm going to go to the brackets, the right brackets to make it big. By the way, if you want to make your brush bigger and smaller and you don't have the brackets on your keyboard, you can go to the menu here on the option menu and change that size by sliding this first slider on the right on the left. I'm going to just choose my shortcut. I'm going to hold down the option key on the Mac or the old key in windows, and I'm going to delect the C. I'm going to make sure everything here is delected also when I'm coming closer to my lighthouse here, make sure the brush is slightly smaller. Just to make sure that you don't d select things you don't want. Let's say here, I've got this little stripes. Here that I want to remove, I want to remove that as well. It looks like it removed more that I wanted. So I'm going to do command said to do. I'm going to zoom in a little bit, and I'm going to hold down the space bar and drag on the area here just to check if this selection has done a good job. I'm going to hold down the option key. Actually, I'm going to make this brush a little bit smaller, and then I'm going to hold down the option key or the old key in windows. It looks like it didn't do a proper job. I'm going to do command Z. Command again. I'm going to make my brush a little bit smaller, and I'm going to hold down the option key again and try to delect it. And it looks like it's delecting the whole thing, which I don't want. I'm going to do command. And let's see if I can just delete that from the equation. It looks like it's not doing it. I'm going to zoom in even more. And let's see if I can do this precise selection by making the image very, very big. I'm going to hold down the option key and see what happened now. It looks like get rid of everything. So I'm going to just do command, and I'm going to leave the selection as it is, to be honest. I just want to have everything there. I don't want to waste a lot of time in terms of selecting things, and I'm going to make my brackets a little bit bigger and I'm going to hold down the option key and get rid of the top here selection and the top of this red. Lighthouse here, and there we go. This is the selection that I want. It's actually done a proper job here. I'm going to do command zero to fit the image on the page, and I'm ready now to change the color of my selection. Now I'm going to show a quicker way to change the color of your selection by going to the menu bar on top and the edit, and we're going to go into fill. Now on the field, we need to make sure that content here says color. I click on that, choose color. And when you do that, you have this color picker coming up and we can choose a nice red from here. Let's say I'm going to choose this red. Perhaps I want to clone the red here at the top of my lighthouse. I can choose that red over there, nice and bright, and I can click k On the blending mode, make sure you are on the color. I'm going to click on color, and I'm going to click on. And now my lighthouse is nice and red. And now I'm ready to deselect. I can go to deselect down below here, or I can just use the shortcut Command D to deselect. Now my lighthouse is in red stripes. Now, I fun with this, and I'll see you in the next video when we're going to talk about refine selections. 26. Refine Selection: Let's talk about refine selections here in photoshop. And I'm sure after this video, your world of editing will change completely is a turning point, in my opinion, and knowing this feature and how to use it. So let's dive deep into this session. So first of all, we're going to open hair dot JPG, which is the file you're going to find on the exercise files under Module two, We're going to basically do a fine selection for the blown hair that you see here. Now, the first thing we're going to do, we're going to choose one of the new features in photoshop. If you have that, let's experiment and see how it looks when photoshop selects the hair. I'm going to click on remove backgrounds down below here. If you don't see this menu here, all you need to do is simply go to the Move tool here on the left hand side, and you should be able to see that appearing and click on remove background. When you do that, Photoshop will do great job in highlighting and cropping out everything else within the image. But as you notice, some of the orange backgrounds retained actually within the hair, and this is something we need to refine in photoshop using the select and mask tool. We're going to use just in a moment. I'm going to undo this. I'm going to go back to edit and undo. Okay. To go back to the previous view. And then we're going to go into the selection tool here on the left hand side and click on Object Selection Tool and have the cursor over our image and click on the image subject. And as you know this, the marching ends are highlighting certain areas of the hair, but some others are not selected. And we're also going to have those orange beats that we need to get rid of. So we have this tool called select and mask here on top on the option menu. We're going to click on that. And now we are in a separate sections within a photoshop. You'll notice that because the panel here on the right hand side has changed, and on the left hand side, our tools are much, much fewer than the one we had, and the option menu on top also has changed. Now, the first thing we're going to do, we're going to go into the view mode here in the area here, and we're going to click on view, and we have several kind of ways to view our image. The first one is the onion skin view, which you're going to notice you have the translucient you know view in the background. But you also notice some orange bits as well within the image that we need to get rid of, We also have marching ends, which we already know. We have overlay, and we have also others. The one that probably would work best for this image is overlay because I can actually use a different background color in order to view my orange beats here within the hair much better. So I'm going to click on overlay and click away to confirm. The other thing you need to make sure that under opacity, the opacity slider is all the way to hundred present. So I can actually pick up the color from the color picker here down below. If I click on color under this little square, I can pick up a color. And in this case, the original background was orange. So I think a opposite color or some color that can be complementary to orange would be blue, and that's what I'm going to use areas and click Okay. I'm going to click here. And then we're going to go down below here, and there are other functions. You don't have to know all of them now. Under global refinements. These are things we can cover later on, but for now, we need to basically know what edge detection is. With a new version of photoshop, now we have two different mode to refine your selection. We have color aware and object aware. In this case here, we want to use color aware because I'm using this background, and I want to get rid of this extra color within the hair. So I'm going to use color aware, and I'm going to basically drag the radius slider here. All the way to the right to see if it makes any changes whatsoever. And it looks like when I drag it to the right, it actually adds on more orange beats from the background, which I don't want. So I'm going to basically drag that all the way to the other side and see if I can move it like one third a little bit further and see if I don't lose any more details on my hair, and if I do that even more, it looks like I don't lose much in terms of definition. And then I'm going to check on smart radius, and this allows me to retain more details within the image. On the global refinements, this is not really important for now, but if you want to experiment, you just need to basically drag the slide, say the smooth slider to the right to see if you see any difference here on the screen. It looks like it doesn't do a lot in terms of defining the hair. But if I move that all the way to the right, you'll notice this area here of the hair somehow more defined. And if I move it on the other side, it loses details. This is the sort of things you can add into your selection. If you want to have more hair coming into the the image. All you need to do is simply drag it all the way to the right. But bear in mind, if you do that, you also bring back some of the orange background as well. Let's choose actually this up to 70. And I'm going to also use the feather. The feather does this to your image. If I drag that the effect all the way to the right, it looks like almost like an angelic view of my model here. But we don't want to have that sort of effect, but for now, I'm going to leave the feather as it was. On the contrast, you will lose a lot of this hairy bits there are not as thick as the one in front. So the effect might not look very nice because you see this, you know, chopped hair on the side. So I wouldn't use contrast in this case, especially working with air. And then we have shift edge. This will allow you essentially to cut off lots of, you know, lots of imperfections within an image. So for instance, if you have a geometric shape, or if you have perhaps a football and you want to, you know, make sure that the edges are nice and smooth, you can use something like that. Shift edge will smoother up those curved edges and those areas that are more regular. But for an image such as this, I wouldn't bother even, you know, to actually use shift edge. And also, you have an option down below to clear a selection. If I clear selection is going to get rid of everything. So bear in mind when you do that, You will lose the selection. So make sure you do command Zed to go back. So don't panic when that happened. I bring a little bit of details in shift edge, not too much, probably around plus 10%, I guess. And we're going to touch on output settings adjust in a second. I'm going to go up here now I've got to get rid of the orange bits. And we're going to go on the tool bar here on the left hand side. The first brush that you see here on the left hand side is our quick selection tool. That allows us to basically add something on our selections For instance, if we have some chopped hair somewhere in our selection here, we can add them in, for instance here on top, we have some chopped hair, and if I zoom in, you can actually see what I'm doing. If I hold down now the space bar and moving on the right hand side here. I've got this chopped hair, and if having the selection to selected, I can go here and make that selection and add the hair in my selection. But as you can see, when I do that, it also add the orange background that I had before. Let's do command Z for a second, and I'm going to make the brush a little bit smaller by using the brackets. The left brackets will make it that smaller, and I'm going to do the selection again. Here and he's going to highlight that. He's going to ad that orange bit. Do not worry too much about that. I'm going to remove that later on. I'm going to just do Command Z to go back here. And let's say if I've got some other chopped hair somewhere around. I've got some here on the left hand side, I'm going to zoom in this area here again, press the space bar and drag this way, and I'm going to add this selection as well, and there we go. I've got some of the hair back in track. Here. I'm going to do command zero. You just need to work in patches sometimes, especially with hair. I think we've done a good job here. Probably we've got a little bit here on the top. I'm going to just brush the little area here, not too many hair I've got there. That's perfect. Now I've got to use the second brush, which is the one just down below, which is called refine edge brush tool. The shortcut is R. And basically what we need to do now is to get rid of the orange bits. We're going to zoom in first, come on plus, then prese the space bar and start to work on this area here on top. I'm going to make sure my brush is a little bit bigger than that, and I'm going to basically brush this area away. I'm just literally holding down the click and brushing this area away. And as you notice, the orange background is disappearing and the hair actually staying in the selection. So this tool for me was revolutionary when I first discovered it because I can literally retain the most minuscule detail on an image without losing material within an image. Now, you can do this at your own leisure. I'm going to speed up a little bit here. Otherwise, this video is going to be too long, and I encourage you to do the same on your side. And by the way, if you want to change the size of your brush and other parameters. Instead of going to the top on the option menu here. You can also right click and basically change the size and the hardness and the spacing of your brush directly from here. I'm going to just leave it like this and carry on. Okay. Now that I've done a little bit with the editing, I can go to shift edge here just to minimize a little bit these orange areas that I've got in my image, just not too much. And now I'm ready to basically go back to my photoshop view by going to. Before I do that, I'm going to output settings, and I'm going to make sure the output is under selection. Here and click on. So now I'm back into Photoshop. If I want to, I can change the color of the background to give a different vibe to this image. So I can invert the selection by going down here on this floating window on the generative fill, and I can click on invert, or I can go on top on the select and click on inverse from here. If I do it from here, it's going to select the background, and now I can go to the layers column here on the menu bar. I can go to the white and black circle here. When I click on it, I can see a menu that looks like this. I show you what it is because mine goes beyond the screen, and I choose basically u and saturation. So if I click on that, should be able to see this color palta on the properties. And I can change the u and the saturation, It's say I want to have a different vibe. Let's say I want to have a more orange look, and I can change the saturation as well to be a little bit shaded and you know the lightness as well. Let Let's go to something like even brighter. These are the results you can get using refining tools such as the one that we cover today. Just to recap, when you go into the selection tool and you click on Object Selection Tool, you have the option to go and use select and mask. This is a brilliant feature to refine your selections to make your compositions and your images stand out. 27. Assignment: Hello, and welcome back. And now is the time for our assignment for this module about making selections in photoshop. What I would like you to do is to change the background of this image. I would also like you to change the color of this hat and perhaps make a different color of the T shirt if you want to. But the main assignment here is to change at least the color of the background and the color of the hat. So fun with that. And if you feel brave enough, you want to change the color of the T shirt, you can also do that. We have a section here on this module where I explain how to do that. And if you want, you can also post this into the project area here for everyone else to see. I can't wait to see your creations, and I'll see you in the next video with one possible solution on this assignment. 28. Assignment Solution: Hello, and welcome back. Hopefully, I've done your assignment. And if you haven't, don't worry, I'm going to show you just in a second, how to go about it. If you have done it and posted here in the project area. Congratulations, I'm looking for what you're going to do with this creation, and I'm going to show you now how to change the background and the color of the hat as well. So the first things we're going to do, we're going to choose select subject. You can use this menu here down below on this floating window, or you can go on top on the select and choose subject from here. Same thing. So when you do that, it's going to select our subject, and now we can invert the selection to make sure that he's highlighted the background. We're going to go into invert selection here and it's going to highlight the background. And now we're going to go to the adjustment layer, which is under the layers panel here, this little circle black and white. We're going to click on it, and when you do that, you should be able to see this menu here. Now, on this menu, I'm going to choose hue and saturation. So when you do that, I'm going to have this panel just above the layers panel, and I can change the saturation of my background to have something more vivid, something like that, and have a vivid yellow color, perhaps. Okay, let's change the color of the hat now. I'm going to go to the selection tool here on the left hand side, and I'm going to pick on object selection tool. I'm going to have the cursor over my image. And as you notice, the hat is selectable, in this nice magenta, I'm going to click on that. And now that the hat is selected, I can go to the layers panel here and under this circle black and white, I'm going to click on it, and I'm going to choose solid color. So you can see this menu. I'm going to click on solid color. And I'm going to do that here. And once you've done that, you can choose from the color picker, what color you want. And let's say I want to have a nice, vivid magenta color, which is quite nice and press. Once you've done that, I can change now the blending mode, and this case, I'm going to go to the layers panel again under this normal. I'm going to click on it, and do not worry that the menu goes beyond this area, but all you need to do is simply click on color. And once you click on color, you can change the opacity if you want to, and I can go to opacity here and make it slightly more faded. Otherwise, this is going to be too vivid, let's say, I'm going to go up to here, and I'm going to click away, and I'm going to go back to my move tool, and I'm done with this selection. So if you manage to do this, Congratulations. If you also managed to change the color of hot T shirt even better, you know, if you don't know how to do it, if you have skipped that session or if you don't remember it, and you want to have a refresher, go back and watch that video, and I'll see you in the next class, where we're going to talk about more features within photoshop. 29. Importing images: Hello, welcome back. In this section, we're going to talk about combining images and how to manipulate them between each other. So the first things you have to do you have to open this file called living room dot JPG, which you find on the exercise files, and we're going to import another image on top of it. We're going to go into file on the menu bar. And we're going to go into place embedded. This will embed an image on top of our existing one. I'm under the exercise files under Module three, and you should be able to see this image called flowers dot JPG. I'm going to click on place. You see the image over imposing our background, and you also see it here in our layers panel, which is actually right above our background. Now, I've got these dots around it and that indicates that I am on the transform mode. And what that means is I can do sort of things with this image before I even use it and edit it. I can resize it by dragging these white dots. I can also flip it if I wanted to horizontally or vertically. And I can also do so other things within transform. If I click anywhere here on the image, these are all the things I can do within the transform mode. Some of them, we already covered, such as flip horizontally or resizing it, for instance. We can also rotate and do all sorts of other things. Let's say we want to just resize it. I'm going to drag one of these dots and just move it to make it smaller. If I want to flip it, I can move it around, of course, by just clicking within the image. That's what I did, and I dragging it, and I'm dragging it around. I can also flip it if I want to flip it in a different direction. I can do that. And once I've done it, I can just press done down below here, or I can just confirm it on the top here on the option menu. On press return or enter. Now, my image is now embedded within my composition, and I've got my levy here on the right hand side. As you notice here on the thumbnail on the right hand side, as a little icon, the icon indicates that one is a smart object. And what that means is that essentially, whatever editing I do on this image, it will retain its quality. We covered the smart images in a previous chapters, but this is just to reiterate that by using this function file, place embedded, it will retain the quality of your image. There is another way to import your image. Actually, there are more than one way to import an image within photoshop, but I'm going to show you just a couple of ways. This is one, using file place embedded. Another way is by copying and pasting from another tab that we already open. I'm going to just click on this image. I'm going to go to the move tool. I'm going to select the image and press pespace or delete. And now the image is gone and also the layer as well here on the right hand side. I'm going to go to the flowers JPG which is the second image that I've got here on the second tab. And I'm going to highlight this image. I'm going to do command minus to make it smaller, and I'm going to use the market tool, going to select the image, and I'm going to basically to edit and copy the image. And by the way, you might ask, how did you open this image into the second tab? All you need to do is simply go to your exercise files and make sure that you drag flour, into the photoshop icon, and it will open into a separate tab. You can also do this. You can go to file. You can go to open, you go to the exercise files folder, click on flowers, and press open, and it will open here as a second tab. But once we copy this, we're going to go back into the living room. Now we're going to paste this here. I'm going to go to edit. I'm going to press paste, and now the image is in. The only difference is not the transform mode. And you notice this because I don't have any white dots around it. I don't have the blue interseting lines as well. So that might indicate something. I'm going to show you that in a second. I'm going to go into edit, and I go into free transform to enable free transform. I can see now the blue dots, but I don't see those interseting lines. That means that this image is not a mark object. And I'll show you what it is and what implicates, essentially. If I start to resize this image and I flip it around and I move it around my composition, and then I resize it again, I would lose the quality of the image because it's not a smart object. I need to convert this image before I do any editing in order to retain its quality. In order to do that, we have to go the layer on a menu bar on top. And the fact that everything is grayed out is because we need to press done first of all, here down below. We need to remove the transform or press cancel, but if a press Cancel is going to delete the image. I'm going to just press done for now. I'm going to go into layers on top. I'm going to go into smart objects, and I'm going to convert this image as a smart object. And when I do that, look what happened. When I do that, now the icon here on the layers panel is going to indicate the smart object icon. So the quality is going to be retained. And now I'm ready to do the transforming that I need to do to resize this image. I'm going to go to edit. I'm going to go into free transform, now you can see the interseting lines in between that indicates this as smart object. I'm going to drag one of the corners, or you can also drag one of these dots. It doesn't matter. It will constrain the proportion. I can move my image here. There's a nice Canvas on the wall, and I press done once I finished, or I press the check mark on top, or you press Enter or return on your keyboard is up to you. I'm going to press done, and now the image is embedded into another image within Photoshop. And just before we wrap up this concept, I just want to show you one other way to import images within photoshop. So all you need to do is simply go into your finder or into your file explorer and then just drag and drop the image into Photoshop as I'm doing now. When I do that, you have exactly the same view as you would go into file using place embedded. Now, if I residee the image, and I place it whatever I want. And I press done. My image will retain its quality because it's a smart object. You can also drag and drop images from your file explorer or from your finder into the photoshop project without losing its quality. These are just a few ways to import images, manipulate them and retain their quality within a photoshop composition. 30. Layer masking: Layer masking is crucial for mastering compositing and other essential photoshop techniques. Understanding how layer masks work allows you to blend layers, remove backgrounds, and selectively edit parts of a photo without permanently altering your original image. That gives you the freedom to experiment and change your edits as needed. Now, we're working on a project called Layer Mask dot PSD. You should be able to see this file on the exercise file under this module. And we have here two layers. We have the woman here just right above, and we have some flowers down below here. And if I hide the woman, I can actually see the flowers underneath. I'm going to click on the eye again to bring the woman back. If I want to bring some flowers in front and have some creative effect on her hair, for instance, I can do that by using layer masks. And this is something that we actually use, and you're going to be able to use it in the future if you don't want to alter the original image, because we could in theory, just change the background or remove part of the background here on the image and you will see through the flowers. But then if you do other modification, other editing on this image, you won't be able to retrieve some of the steps back if you decide to change your mind and do some other editing if you want to. So we want also the original, but with layer mask, we'll be able to retrieve the original image whenever we want. So in order to create a layer mask, we need to make sure we are in the right layer. So we're going to click on the woman here on the right hand side, make sure this layer is highlighted. And then we're going to go down here on the layer mask, this little white rectangle with a gray circle in the middle. This is our layer mask. We're going to click on that, and that will create a layer mask just right next to the woman. And the moment this is translucent because we haven't done anything with it. But we're going to now, essentially, paint on the layer mask to remove the background of our image here without altering the original because we're working on the layer mask, we're not working on the actual image here. So make sure you select the layer mask, and now we're going to go into the brush tool here on the left hand side. We make sure we have our brush tool. The shortcut is B. So we're going to paint either black or white, and these are the two colors that will affect the image here for us to see through the background. And now we have to basically make sure that our brush in front is black and the back is white. So in order to do that, you need to press the letter D, and that will basically make the color in default mode, which is it is going to bring your white in front and your black in the back. And if I want to switch between the two colors, I can press the x icon to switch between the two, as you notice. When I do that, when I press the X, I can switch between white and black. I can also use these functions here down below with the new version of Photoshop. I will be able to actually use add to mask or subtract to mask. So if I do that, for instance, pclicon add to mask, is going to go to white and subtract from mask, I can see the black coming forward. But I'm going to use the x because the x is much easier on the keyboard, and I'll also be able to quickly switch if I made some mistakes. I'm going to go also on top here and that the brush tool. I'm going to make sure that my brush tool is around let's say, 100 and also the hardness is going to be around 70. This is just an experiment. So feel free to either use the same parameters or just use similar brushes. If I'm going to choose the soft round brush here, I'm going to go to my image now and now I'm ready to brush away. Now, if I start to brush anywhere here, say I want to brush in this area here, you'll notice that I can actually start to see through my flowers, which are underneath. And I'm using a soft brush, and the hardness was under 70, I believe, 70%, because I want to have the effect to be a little bit soft. Now, if you made a mistake, let's say if you brush away and you brush all the way here on the side and you want to correct that. So all you can do, you can press the x on your keyboard to switch to white, as you can see, I've got the white now here, and I can brush that in to bring basically my skin forward again. I'm going to press the x again, so I've got my black in front, and I can carry on now brush a little bit here on the side of the hair. This is just an experiment. So you just need to just go here and brush away, see how it looks, and perhaps I want to also do this area here. And I want to also probably brush again on top of it to make a little bit more clear, more bright because I'm using a soft brush. So That is something I need to be careful of. I'm going to just reduce the brush size by using my bracket keys. And then I'm going to go here. And let's say I want to make the bracket a little bit bigger and I want to change the brush to white again. So press the x I want to bring back a little bit of details on the hair. I'm going to press the x again and I'm going to make this brush a little bit smaller. So it could be just a subtle brush strokes here to make this effect a bit more vivid. I'm going to brush away here on the left hand side to bring those flowers really come to life in the background. And I can even go a little bit further here. If I want to reveal this flower, for instance, from the background, I can do that, and I can bring these flowers as well. And I can even over impose that if I wanted to, to give a nice effect. I can actually make the brush a little bit bigger to have a subtle you know, effect on the skin, and if I want to go back, press the x. So it's all about going back and forward between black and white. Essentially what we're doing, applying the changes not on the original image. We applying it on the mask. As you can see here on the layers panel, if I hold down the option key on the old key in windows and I click on the layer, you'll notice, this is what we're doing at the moment. We brushing away using black and white. The black brush will make the background see through and the white brush will make the model, the actual image of the woman coming into the front. You can see also have gray here. This gray is essentially the softness of our brush. At the moment, I'm choosing this size and this hardness, 70. But if I go to, for instance, all the way to 100 and I brush using that, it's going to be much, much more abrupt in between and in the corners. So I'm going to just undo that. Command, command, and I'm going to go back. If I want to make more subtle adjustment, I can change the opacity. Now the opacity is 82, I can make it roughly to 50. And when I do that, essentially what it does, instead of using black or white, you basically going to use sort of gray. So it's going to make the retouching more subtle. I'm going to show you how that look like when I disable this. I'm going to just go back to the layer. Mass key I'm going to press option and click again to go back to this view. And now that I've got my opacity at 50 around 50, and let's say I'm going to brasha, make sure you have the black in front. Otherwise, you just press the x to switch in between. And if I brush that away. You see now, it's much more opaque, so I can make subtle changes to my image. And I can go a little bit smaller here if I wanted to and always using this effect, this very subtle effect on my brush and actually, it's not really that bad doing that. So I can actually go here and invert this. And if I change my mind, I can actually brush some of that away to bring forward the rest of the hair. So this sort of modification here can give you a lot of inspiration to do some beautiful compositing using a combination of images, not just two images, you can also overimpose more than two images. So the sky here is the limit. So it can really be creative here and create some beautiful composition and uses this feature, which is non destructive, so it's not going to affect the original image. I can carry on here for hours. I'm going to have to stop here. But F one with this, and with layer mask, we open a pandora box of creativity that we can actually unleash and create amazing composition here in photoshop. 31. Quick ways to create layer masks: Since the last video, you might have thought to use layer masks more often, but it can be quite time consuming, especially when you have to select certain area of an image. But there are other ways other quicker ways to create layer masks. And that's what I'm going to show you in this video. So we're working on this file called living room dot JPG. And basically, what we're going to do, we're going to add a couple of images. Now, we have these images on the exercise files. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to just go into my exercise files, and I'm going to basically drag my guitar here, drag and drop it the way we did it before. You can also go the longer rooted way, which is file and then go to place embedded and do exactly the same thing. But I like quicker ways, and this is the quicker way to do it by dragging and dropping into the image. So feel free to do whatever you desire. And now what we can do we can resize the image. We can move it around, and we can flip it if you wanted to, I'm going to just choose to have this side and press done. And as you noted here on the layer panel, we have our smart object and our layer with our guitar placed there. Now, we're going to remove the background, so I'm going to just use this beautiful tool that we have here in photoshop, which is removed background, and that's what I'm going to do. And then I'm going to basically resize this guitar. I'm going to place it somewhere here on the screen. As you notice, when I use removed background, it created already a layer mask for me. Without me going and brushing away manually is already created that for me. As you know this, all the black area is a C through, and the white area is actually our guitar. Now I can just simply go to edit, I can go to free transform, which is command T or Control T in windows, and I can just make this guitar a little bit smaller and I can place it here if I wanted to. Now, I want to add another element into my composition here. I'm going to go to my exercise files again, and I'm going to use the seaview living room. I'm going to drag and drop that into my image by doing so. Now I've got my living room over here, I'm going to click on De. What I want from this image essentially is this plant here on the left hand side. The first thing I need to do I need to go into select subject. This is one of the first things you do when you want to select a subject. I'm going to click on that. But photoshop comes up with this message saying that there is no subject that you can identify. I'm going to just press, and I have to use another technique in order to select there. So I'm going to go into my selection tool here on the left hand side. I'm going to use object selection tool. And I just have a curse over my image. And as you notice now, my plant is selectile as well as other elements within this image that I can copy, manipulate, duplicate, and bring it with me and do whatever I want with them. I'm going to click on the selection here on my plant. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to essentially create a layer mask out of the selection without me do any drawing whatsoever. I'm going to go to the layer mask here down below. This is my layer mask function. This little rectangle with this circle in the middle. I'm going to click on that. And now that layer mask is being created. And as you notice here on the layer panel, I've got everything black here, which is translucent and my white selection is here, which is my plant. Now, I would like to actually move this plant on the other side of my image. What I'm going to do, I'm going to go back to my move tool here and I'm going to select the plant, and I'm going to transform this because I want to flip it. I'm going to go into edit. I'm going to go to free transform. And once I'm here, I can actually flip the image horizontally, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to just bring it on the other side of my room here, and I just press done. Now, if I want to make further modification on this plant, I can click on the plant again, I can go to edit, I can go to free transform. Now I want to stretch this image a little bit. I want to have this leaf a little bit more wide. I'm going to right click anywhere here on the section of the plant, and I'm going to go to the stort I'm going to drag one of these y dots to make the image a little bit stretched on one side to create a little bit more more thickness, more present in the room, and press done. And then we go. Now I've got my plant, It'll be stretched out, and my composition is ready to go. As you can see, you got plenty of flexibility of using layer masks with quick selections as we tried in this video. So I you have fun and experiment with your own images, and I'll see you in the next video, and we're going to talk more about layer masks. 32. Assignment: Hello, and welcome back to yet another assignment for this class. And this is going to be all about layer masks. Now, if you open the assignment dot PSD file that you find on the Module three exercise files, you should be able to see this beautiful living room. And you also notice here on the right hand side, we have two layers. One is the living room, and the other one is our nice, beautiful sandy beach. Now, this assignment sounds simple, but it takes a little bit of thinking in order to achieve it. So what I would like you to do is to basically create a frame here on the wall of this wing room, whether you want to make it one or whether you want to make two frames or whether you want to make a wide frame like this. It's up to you. Then I would like you to make this frame see through so that you can actually see the beach in the background. So that's the assignment. That's all you need to do. Now, if you manage to do this, a bonus point will go to those who managed to do another little task. And that would be to resize the sandy beach to make a fit into your selection here on the living room. And this is just another bonus task that you can do if you manage to do the first assignment. So good luck with that, and I'll see you in the next video with one possible solution for this assignment. Okay. 33. Assignment Solution: Okay. Hello, welcome back. Hopefully, you've done your assignment and you've posted in the project area. I'm really looking forward to see what you created. But if you haven't done it yet and you want to see how I go about it, feel free to watch this video. So the first things I'm going to do is create the layer mask on my living room here. I'm going to make sure I select the living room here on the layers panel. And then I'm going to click on this little rectangle here down below, which is my layer masks to create a layer mask just right next to my living room. So once you have that and you select it, now we are ready to do our drawing, in a sense. We're going to go into our market tool here, and I gave you the hint about using the market tool in a previous video. And then I'm going to create essentially a couple of frames here. I'm going to just create a selection. Let's say I'm going to make it roughly like this. Now I want to basically paint this in black. As you remember from previous videos, when you want to create transluciency within a selection, you have to use the black color. And in order to do that, we need to go into our brush tool here on the left hand side. Make sure you have the brush tool selected. And also, our color picker here needs to be black. If it's not black and as any other color, the quicker way to put that into the fault, just pressing the letter D on your keyboard to bring that into the fault into black and white. Now, if you want to have the black forward, you have to press x to switch between white and black. We know that we want to paint in black, so I'm going to keep that in black, and now I start to basically brush away here. To see through my background. That's what I'm going to do. As you can see, on the layer mask here, I've got this nicer tangle. Now I'm going to do another selection. I'm going to go back into my market tool. And this time, I'm going to be a little bit more creative here. I'm going to use the elliptical market tool and I'm going to draw essentially a circle, and if I want to restrain the proportion, I can just press the shift key to make this, let's say around it, and I can move it around like this. Now I'm going to paint that as well. I'm going to go back to my brush tool, and I'm going to paint this in black, and there we go. I've got my C through. There as well. And this is pretty much the assignment that I basically gave you in previous video. Now, the bonus task that I ask you to do was essentially to resize the background, our sandy beach. Now in order to do that, we have to select our layer, which our sandy beach, and then we can just click on the icon here just to hide that temporarily. Then we're going to basically first of all, our circle there to make sure everything is selected. Make sure that is highlighted by clicking on it, and now we're going to go into edit. We're going to go into free transform. Now we can make this smaller by just dragging it and make it a little bit smaller. Now, just to be safe, I'm going to leave it like this, and I'm going to check if it fits within my selection here. I'm going to click on the check box there to bring my living room here back in view. I can just use the move tool here just to make sure I select my background by ha a curse over it, and as you notice, I've got this blue frame around it. So as you can see, when I move outside that, it highlights the frame of my living room. When I move a little bit forward inside is going to basically highlight my background. I'm going to click on that, and I'm going to go back to my edit. I'm going to go back to free transform. Look what happened now. I've got my background selected there, and I can drag one of these dots to basically change the position of my sandy beach. Let's say I want to include some of those palms, some greens to make this frame a little bit more appealing to view. And I'm going to press done down below, when I can click on the checkbox on top or you can press return or enter. Same thing. And that's one of the possible solution for our frames. You can interpret them as Canvas, or you can interpret them as windows is up to you. But that's pretty much what the assignment was. I hope you enjoyed it, and perhaps you're going to try by yourself and do something even more creative. And I'm looking forward to see this in the project area, and I'll see you in the next video. 34. Introduction to Adjustment layers: In this section, we're going to talk about adjustment layers. Adjustment layers is a feature that you have in photoshop that allows you to modify an image without affecting the original. And this will be applied to any sort of image you're going to open in photoshop. Now, the first things we're going to do, we're going to basically make this sky a little bit more contrasty, and I want to also change the brightness as well. So before we do that, I'm going to just do command zero to make the image a little bit bigger. And then we're going to select the sky. I don't want to affect anything else on the image. So in order to do that, I can use a couple of tools. One of them would be the selection tool here on the left hand side and use object selection tool, and which would be probably your best guest. So when I go and Haas over my image, I can see now the sky is nice and highlighted. The picture is quite regular. The walls are quite regular as well. So it's quite easy to, you know, use this tool to highlight the sky. But I wanted to show you also another way to allig the sky in photoshop. If I click on D select. In this case, let's say we want to highlight the sky using the menu bar under select. I'm going to go back to the move tool here because I don't want to have those bagenta highlighting effect going on while I'm having a cursor over the image. I'm going to go to select here on top, and I want to show you this function which is quite useful, which is called sky. So this will highlight the sky automatically, no matter which image you have in front of you. I'm going to click on sky. Now, Photoshop will analyze my image. And as you can see now, my highlighting here, it's done and it only highlights the sky. And in order to apply an adjustment layer, I need to go to my layers panel here on the right hand side. And down below here, you have this little black and white circle. I'm going to click on that. And here you see you've got quite a few adjustment layers. Just before we click on brightness and contrast, I just want to explain what these four areas are. The first one on top, you see you have solid color, gradient and pattern. We covered solid color in one of the previous videos in the previous chapters when we have to change the color of an object within an image. We covered that before. Essentially, these three functions on top are for field layers to fill up the layers with something, and in this case, the color or some gradients or some patterns. The second section here will affect the lighting of your photo. This section down below will affect the color of your image, vibrant, saturation, color balance, black and white, et cetera, and then we have the last section down below here, which will offer some special effects to your image. Now, in this case, we want to change the brightness and contrast. So I'm going to go into brightness and contrast. And when we do that, it will automatically create a layer for us here above our original, and as you can see, here, I've got my selection already for the sky. When we click on brightness and contrast, we're not only enabling one layer on top of our image, but we're also enabling the properties panel, which is actually above here, as you can see, I've got brightness and contrast. Now, bear in mind, when you click here on the layer panel, and when you click on the thumel here, you'll notice we have a different effect. We have density, feather, et cetera. This will affect the masking. We don't want to affect that. We don't want to change that because we already done it. So make sure you click on the actual brightness on the actual sun icon here to enable brightness and contrast properties on top. Now, let's change the brightness and see what happened now. Whatever you do here, you're not going to affect the original. So do not worry what you're doing here, experiment. And as you can see, when I slide the cursor here to the right, the sky will become quite bright. And if I drag it to the left, it's going to make the sky a little bit more present in a sense. You can see the the blue areas of the sky, the clouds, let's say, you're going to leave it here for now, and then we're going to change the contrast. Let's have a look if I drag the contrast all the way to the right. It's going to it's going to kind of make it washed out. And if I move it to the left, also is going to make those clouds contour a little bit more present as well. So I'm going to just leave it somewhere here. I'm going to just retouch the brightness a little bit. So it's all about experimenting, your own image. But if you're working on this image, we just choose your own taste, and let's say we want to leave it right about there, and that's our adjustment done just for the section. And if I want to make more adjustment to the picture, I can use the selection tool here on the left and corner here, click on object selection tool, and then I can perhaps change the flooring, change the walls, and do other adjustment. But this is just an introduction to adjustment layers. Have it go with that, add an adjustment and see how you're finding it. And the next video, we're going to cover even more about adjustment layers. 35. Layer adjustment in a multilayer image: If you use an adjustment layer on an image, it will affect the entire image. But what about we working on a multi layer image, such as this one? So I've got my balini statue and I've got my beach in the background. Let's say we want to apply a black and white filter on this composition. We're going to go to the adjustment layer down below here under my layer panels, our circle here, I'm going to click on that, and we're going to choose black and white. So when we do that, the entire image is black and white, everything that we have below this adjustment layer will be affected. But what about we want to make the beach black and white and keep the statue in color. So what we can do we can drag this layer down in between the beach and the Balinese statue. So I'm going to just click and hold here on this layer. I'm going to drag it down as you can see come little handle there and I've got this now blue line in between the beach and the Balinese statue. And you also notice in front of you that the statue is now in color and the beach in black and white. I'm going to leave it there. And now my adjustment layer is being placed just above the beach, and the black and white will be affected only on the beach, not the statue. What about we want to make the statue black and white and the beach in color? In this case, the background. We have to drag the adjustment layer as it was before on top of our image. And now, of course, everything is affected, we want only affect the black and white on the statue, not on the background. We're going to link this layer only on the statue below. And in order to do that, we have to hold down the option key on Mac or the old key in window. And by doing that and have the cast between the two layers here, you notice I've got this little icon, and that means that layer will be affected only on the image right below it. I'm going to click on that. Now the image is being affected with the black and white. As you also notice I've got this little arrow here that indicates that this effect will only affect the one below and but not the stuff that is below it. And as you noticed my background now is in color. If I had any layer above this adjustment layer, the black and white will only be affecting the statue and nothing else. This is how you can deal with adjustment layers in a multi layer image. 36. Partial changes on a image: If you haven't done any editing in the past, you might have edited one of your images on your smartphone. Perhaps you have changed the contrast. You have changed the color of the image, perhaps you made it black and white, or you apply any other effect, and that will change the entire image. And what about, you want to only apply the effect in a certain area of the image without affecting the rest. Well, in this case, photoshop comes very handy in order to achieve that. Now we're working on a fishermen boat dot JPG, which is a file you should be able to find on your exercise files. This is a photo of Shangrila China, which have been many, many years ago. I took this photo with a professional camera. Now I want to apply an adjustment to this image. I want to make the background in black and white and leave the boat in color. In order to do that, I would have to select the boat and then invert the selection to the rest of the image in order to apply my adjustment layer. The first thing I'm going to do. I'm going to click on select subject. Or I can also go back into the select on menu bar and choose subject from here. Same thing. I'm going to click on that. Photoshop will analyze my image and basically highlights my boat, even though it's not completely highlighted correctly. Now, I'm going to add some of the selection manually. I'm going to go to my selection tool here on the left hand side, which you should be familiar by now. But we're going to go into Quick Selection tool, which is the second one here. Now I'm going to make sure that my brush here size is around 100, but you can choose your size, it's up to you and make sure also is the plus because we're going to add some of these selection menually. Now, if you want to subtract something, remember, you also can hold down the option key or the old key if you have window. And I'm going to basically click on the area that are missing. Just to add the rest of the bot to the selection. I'm going to add that a little bit. I'm going to add that as well. And then I'm going to subtract this area here. I'm going to press the option key on the old key. Window, and I'm going to add this in and add and subtract this out. Now, it takes a little bit of trial and error. But usually with the hundred size brush, I managed to achieve this before as well. Okay, now I've got my selection. It's Yeah, it's done pretty well. Now, I'm going to do something. I need to basically invert this selection in order to select everything else within my photo. I'm going to go to the invert, which is this button down below here, if you have one of the latest version of photoshop. But if you don't have that bar here, don't worry, you can still go to select on top and use inverse, which is also as a shortcut. I'm going to click on inverse, and that will inverse the selection to everything else but the boat. And now I'm ready to apply an effect to this selection. I'm going to go to my adjustment layer here on the right hand side, and I'm going to my black and white circle down below here, and I'm going to apply the effect white. I'm going to click on that, and that will basically apply the black and white to my background and leave the boat separated, isolated to the effect. This is one way you can achieve this in photoshop by simply masking out the rest of the image in order to retain the color of your subject. In this case, the boat. Okay. 37. Straighten and Generative Expand: When we apply adjustment layers on an image, it's non destructive, and by now, you should know that it won't affect the original. As you notice, I'm using the same image as before, but without any editing, reopen fisherman boat dot JPG from your exercise files. And what I want to do here, I want to straighten the image. When I took this image many years ago, I was in a very uncomfortable position. I was all crouched down and I have to remove a branch that was in the way before taking this shot, but I took it and now I want to do some editing with it. Now, I've got an option to straighten the image, which is the crop tool here on the left hand side. So when I click on the crop tool, which is the fifth icon from the top, I've got this frame that goes around my image. Now this will crop the image, but it will also straighten the image. If I place the cursor just outside it, and my cursor now became a little curved double arrow. Now, I can click and hold anywhere. And as you can see, as soon as I do that, I've got this squares guidelines that will allow me to actually use them as guidelines from the background building that I've got there. And let's say I want to use this sort of cropping. Now, when you crop something as a default, you would lose a lot of information on your image. And this is probably something that happened to you in the past, even when you did some editing on your smartphone, when you straighten something, usually you lose a lot of information. I don't like to lose information, and if you are like me, I want to retain as much as possible. And there are a couple of solutions to this dilemma. And these solutions are actually here on top on the option bar on the field. If you click on background, default, you have a couple of options. You have generative expand, which is a relatively new features in photoshop. And we also have content aware feel. If I click on Content Aware feel, look what happened. As soon as I click on it, the crop frame will change to include a little bit more information from the picture. So I would only lose a little bit of it. So it's okay and I can click on D and wait until Photoshop does the magic to include the missing part for me, which I have done a pretty good job. Now, the other solution is a generative expand, which I've got here. Now, I'm going to undo this because I want to show you also the option. I'm going to click on do Contin aware crop to go back where it was. I'm going to click on my crop tool again here on the left hand side, and I'm going to crop the image again. Let's say I'm going to leave it like this. And now instead of using contin aware fiel, I'm going to use generative expand. Look what happened on the image as soon as I click on it. Now the frame around is including everything from my image. And what that means is, is going to generate like contin aware field, the rest of the image. The difference is the generative expand is much more clever and more improved algorithm than the contin aware field, and is going to basically retain all the information from my image and add more, which I rather love to keep. Now I can click on the generate button down below, or I can click on the check mark on top on press return is up to you. I'm going to click on the checkmark on top this time. Now wait until the generative expand is going to do its job. It's going to generate all these black areas around my image, and see if it does a better job than continalwre field. As you can see, now I've got the missing areas. Another difference between continent were field and generative expand is that generative expand will also give me three different options here on the right hand side of my screen, or I can actually go here on the bar down below, and I can see this is one of three options. So flick on the arrow next to it, I can see the second option and the third option. So you got three interpretation here of generative expand. And let's say I'm going to choose going to choose this one here. Now, if you like this option and you want to retain it, you can just leave it as it is. But one additional thing I would do, I would go here on my properties panel and delete the other two images that are unused. This will save you space when you save this project. Because if you retain lots of iterations here, it will make your file much bigger. So I would suggest to have a case over the image you don't use and click on the little bin next to it. And you're going to do the same thing on the other one. Make sure that the one that is highlighted in blue is the one you want to retain. And by looking at the photo, you can see it, and then just have a case over the one that is not highlighted and click on it. And now you only have one option. As you notice, after we've done all of these adjustments on the right hand side under the layers panel, we have a adjustment layer. So that is being created when we were cropping the image and use either continent were feel or generative expand feature. That will be non destructive. If I want to go back to the original, I can click on the icon next to way, and I can see this was the image before cropping it, and this is the image now expanded and straightened. Now you know that you can use continent ware feel and generally expand in any situations that you have with your images. 38. Changing Colour of a shirt: There are situations where we want to change the color of an object or a piece of clothing within an image without affecting the rest of it. In this video I'm going to show you just that. I'm going to first of all, select the piece of clothing. I want to change and then apply an adjustment layer to change the color of it. Now, the first thing we're going to do, we're going to go into the selection tool here on the left hand side. I'm I'm going to click on object selection tool. Now we're going to have a c over the image, and as you can see now, I've got all my subject here separated by this magenta shadow. I'm going to click on this one here. Which is me, and then it's going to highlight everything. If I want to change the color only of the shirt, I have to delect my head, the jeans, and part of my hands and arm. So in order to do that, I have to go back to my selection tool again and I'm going to choose quick selection tool. Now, I've got this brush, which is around 100, and I'm going to subtract some parts of my image. Now I'm going to leave the brush on plus because I'm going to use the option key or the old key on my keyboard to add or subtract elements in it. Now I'm going to hold the option key, and I'm going to d select my head, And I'm going to select also part of my hands and my arm. And this army as well. So make sure you only leave the shirt in the selection, my jeans as well. And part of this little dark shadow here. I don't want to change the color of that. So I'm going to make sure that is a bit out of the way. Probably too much here. Okay. Now I think, the shirt is now selected. And now I'm ready to go to my layers panel here on the right hand side. I'm going to go to my adjustment layer, and we want to apply, let's say, a solid color. Okay. We've done this in the past, but I'm going to just choose a green color. I'm going to press. Then I'm going to choose the blend mode here on top on the normal, click on that and choose color. There you go. Now, practice with this image or one of your images and have fun with that. 39. Assignment: Hello, and welcome back to yet another assignment for this class. So I would like you to choose this image from the exercise files, but feel free if you want to use one of your own image, it's up to you. The image we're going to use is Markt JPG, which we also use in a separate video here in this section. So what I would like you to do is to change the brightness and contrast of the sky. I would like you to change also the floor the floor color to anything else that you like. So the sky and the floor without affecting anything else. And also, I would like you to do this other task if you can. If you have this special feature, which is generative expand. I would like you to expand this image on the left and on the right to make it more like a square or rectangle. Now, feel free to use that feature. If you don't have the latest version of photoshop, you might not have a generative expand as a feature, but do not worry. This is something you can do later on. Otherwise, for the assignment, just make sure you change the brightness and the contrast. So good luck with that, and I'll see you in the next video with one possible solution for this assignment. 40. Assignment Solution: Hello, and welcome back. And hopefully, you've done your assignment for this class, and you posted in the project section here, and I would like to see what you created. But for those of you who haven't done it yet and would like me to actually show you how to do that, I'm more than happy to do so. So the first things I asked you to do was to change the brightness and contrast of the sky. Now, in order to do that, there are a couple of ways to select the sky. So one of the ways to select the sky would be either going to the menu bar on top and the select and going to sky. This will select the sky. There we go. The other way is, I'm going to press the select to show you the other way. We'd be going to the selection tool here on the left hand side and the object selection tool. When you have a a cursor over your image, you'll notice the sky is also highlighted and also the floor. I can click here as well to select the sky. Now I can go to my adjustment tool here on the layers panel down below here, little circle. I can click on brightness and contrast. I've got my controls here at the top on the properties, and I can change the brightness by do that and the contrast as well to make a little bit more, more present in the picture. Perfect. Now, the other task was to change the floor. Now I'm going to use the selection tool, which is already selected, I'm going to click on the floor. And as you notice has done a pretty good job in selecting the floor, and I will probably just keep it as it is, and going again to the adjustment tool down below here. And one of the options to change the color will be solid color, which we covered before. You can also do gradient or pattern. I'm going to go just to a solid color. And then I'm going to choose a color. I'm going to go to this blue. And make it a little bit brighter. And then I'm going to go to. And then I can use the blend mode, which is under here under this pop up menu when I click on that, I can go all the way down to color. And then we go up done, I changed the color of the floor. So this is one possible solution for this assignment. Of course, you can de select certain area here and there, and in order to do that, you would have to basically change the masking by going to the mask here on the layers panel, and you can use this function here to subtract from mask. By doing that, I can simply use my brush tool here and deselect areas I don't want. If you don't see it on screen, I'm just going to zoom in a little bit more. Or what I'm doing. I'm essentially brushing off the masking after applying the effect. So you could do that as well, and you can do the same thing here on the fountain if you want to. And on the rest of the flooring here, perhaps not on the wall necessarily. And on the wall here, I don't want to either, and there as well. And there we go. And I think and now I'm going to brush this in actually. I was a meant to removing that from my selection. How we go. Perfect. Okay, that would do command zero or control zero to go back and there we go. This is how the image should look like, at least on my side. And another task that I ask you to do was to expand the image using generative expand function. So for those of you who have that feature, you just press command minus or control minus to minimize the image a little bit more, and then go into the c and expand the image on the left and on the right to make it roughly like this. And now we're going to make sure that under the option menu on top on the field, we have a generative expand. And then we're going to click on generate and see what Photoshop does with our selection and with the missing areas as well. And then we go as you notice, also, our adjustment is being expanded as well, pretty clever. Now, the reason why I asked you to do generative expand as the last thing in your editing is because if you applied generative expand before applying the adjustment, it wouldn't have applied your adjustment to the rest of the image. So make sure you use generative expand at the very end of your editing because otherwise it's going to be a problem to apply your adjustment to your image. So I have fun with that, posted in the project section, and I'm looking forward to see what you've done with that. 41. Crop and Straighten: Let's talk about crop and straighten, which are probably two concepts that you are already familiar with, especially if you use them on your smartphone, where you want to get rid of some elements within your image, or perhaps you want to improve the composition of your image or center your subject, or perhaps prepare your image for social media. Now, we're working on people dot JPG, which you should be able to find on the exercise files. We're going to go into the crop tool here on the left hand side. We're going to make sure it's on the crop. And as you notice, when I do that, I've got this frame around my image, and my mouse cursor changed shape as well. It became like a double arrows with a curve. Now, if I want to get rid of this person here in this case, I can just drag this area in a little bit. There we go. Before I press done, or I confirm my cropping, I want you to pay attention or something. Make sure that delete cropped pixels here on the option menu isn't ticked. If it's ticked and you press done or you confirm, you lose this area, and you won't be able to retrieve it within this session of photoshop. You would have to basically close the image, don't save the image, and then reopen it again. So make sure that you untick this box just in case so that if you want to go back and retrieve it, you can do it. Now, I'm going to press now the checkbox or press return to confirm, and now my image is cropped. Now, if I want to straighten the image, I could do that. It's straightened already, but I want to just to make sure that it's correctly straightened. If you want to do that as well, all you need to do is simply click on the crop tool again to re enable it. There are a couple of ways to do it. You can either use the curved double arrows that you see here when you place the cursor outside image and you click and hold, and that will allow you to see this squares guidelines that allows you then to use any reference within the image to make your picture a bit straighter. At the moment, I'm using this little bridge as a reference. So when I do that, I can straighten it that way. Now, there is another way you can use as well if it's difficult for you to see the squares and use them as a reference. You can also go back to the straight and tool on top, which is a little icon here, when you click on it, and now able to use this and basically click and hold and basically create this line, and that basically needs to follow whatever reference you have on the image. So if I do that and I let go, look what happened. It's going to straight the picture correctly or as precise as possible. Now, I've got some missing areas here on the top and at the bottom. If you want to basically retrieve these areas, what you can do, you can go to fill here and you can choose a bunch of options. You can choose generative expand, which is one of the recent features that we have in photoshop and we covered in the previous chapter, or you can use content aware fill. In this case here, I'm going to choose content aware fill because I don't have a lot to cover, and also there's not too much to lose in this image. So I'm going to click cond. Going to wait photoshop to do its work, and it's done a pretty good job with the image. Now the image is nice and straightened. One other thing I can do I can improve the composition by clicking again on the crop tool. And if I want to basically see how the image look like in terms of composition, I can place the cursor anywhere on the corner and as soon as I do that, you notice I've got this grid that you see here on the screen. This is called rule of third in photography, and you want to make sure that the subject are, you know, somehow very close to the intersections line here. So in this case, I'm going to move the image just to make sure they are around the rectangle here, at least the three of them. Okay. And now, I've got a little bit of missing areas here on the side and on top. In order to get that done correctly, I would have to use generative expand. So I'm going to go to the option menu on top and I'm going to choose generative expand. And now I'm ready to press the check box here or press return or click on generate. I'm going to click on generate. Now, Photoshop will analyze the image, and it will include these missing areas for me. There we go. I've got three solutions here. I can click on first, the second one, and the third, which they not really change a lot. I will probably keep the first one and that we go, I've done with my composition using crop, straighten and also with a little help of generative expand and continent ware fill. Okay. 42. Cropping to the right dimensions: In the previous video, I showed you how to crop an image by simply dragging one of the handle from the crop tool here and by simply dragging it to get rid of things or unwanted element in it. But what about we want to use the image for social media or perhaps we want to use a series of images for printing for our photo frame or for a poster? Or perhaps we want to use our image to see on a big screen, and we want to have the right aspect ratio. Well, we're going to change the asper ratio before we even do the cropping, and this is something we're going to find here on the option menu under ratio. We're going to click on ratio here, and as you can see, I've got various kind of asper ratio, including one by one, which is a square. We also have the standard two by three or four by six, four photo frames, or perhaps we want to use that for a monitor, 16 by nine, and also we have other dimensions here as well. Now, in this case here, if we want, for instance, publish this on Instagram, Instagram wants to have a square image. And if I click on square here, and I reposition the image within it, so I place the curse inside and click and hold and drag in order to reposition my subject and press done. Let's say, this is square, and now it's ready for Instagram. Well, not quite yet. We need to make sure that it is in the right dimensions. And how do I check my image dimensions? Well, you need to check the bottom left and corner of photo shop, which is actually here next to our Zoom. And the moment, my image is 1,333 by 1,333 pixels, and this is the resolution, 240. Now, this is not quite the same as ten 80 by ten 80. So we need to be more precise in terms of pixel dimension, especially when we want to publish it online. In order to do that, we have to go back into our option menu under square. And instead of using aspect ratio one by one, we have to go up here under W H resolution, which is actually stands for with height and resolution. This is very important, especially if you want to publish it online. I'm going to click on that. Now, I've still got my frame here, my square frame. But now in this case here, I've got ten 80 by ten 80, which I typed before. But if yours is empty, all you need to do is simply go into this rectangle, the first one and type ten 80 and go into the second retgle and do the same thing, ten 80. As well. Now, the resolution here can be empty because it doesn't matter when you have to publish something online, this is not something that you should be worried about. So I'm going to now change again, the position of my subject here. And now I'm ready to click on the check box or press return or enter or press done down below. And now my image is in the right dimension and in the right aspect ratio. Why? Well, if you check down at the bottom left and corner, you'd see that my dimension is now ten 80 by ten 80, and the resolution stays the same. And by the way, if you don't see this little icon here, this little numbers here, you have to click on this little arrow next to it. And when you click on it, you can choose document dimensions in order to see what I see here next to the Zoom number. So this is the way to basically change the PCs resolution on an image. And now you know the difference between width and height and resolution and the aspect ratio. So the aspect ratio is only to change aspect ratio, not necessarily the pixel size of your image. So with that said, you can go back to original ratio or any other ratio you like, and then you can just go here, drag the handles and change the ratio to something else. Let's say you want to choose 16 by nine. Or actually, you want to print this for a photo frame. I can go to two by three here or four by six. And let's say I want to make the photo frame horizontal. Now it is in vertical, almost like a portrait. I can go here on the option menu, and I've got these two arrows here. I need to do simply click on it to invert the vertical view to horizontal view. And now I can go here and resize my image, reposition my subject here. Okay. Now I've got my two by three or four by six dimension, and I can click on done once I finished. And then we go now I've got the resolution down below here, which is 1,350 pixels by 900 pixels, and this is the resolution 240. This is one other way you can use to actually print out your photos for a standard two by three or four by six. Feel free to experiment all the other aspect ratio and other dimensions for whatever usage and purpose you want to use your picture. 43. Resizing an image: Let's talk about resizing an image. Now, resizing an image and cropping an image are two different things. When we cropping an image, we basically getting rid of information and elements within the image, so we lose a lot of information when we do that. Resizing, it's a different thing. Resizing is essentially keeping exactly the same information and the same resolution, and all the elements within an image essentially keeping the image intact and change its size. Now, if you want to change the size of it, we can go to image on the menu bar on top. We're going to go to image size. And on this dialogue box, we have quite a few information that we can see. But if we're going to use our image for digital purposes or for web purposes, or if you want to use it for a web presentation or for a PowerPoint or a keynote, or if you want to publish it on social media, you don't have to worry about all this information here. All you need to worry about is the width and the height. In this case, the width is 5,184 width, which is quite big by 3,457 56 height, and the unit of measurement is pixels. I would suggest to keep pixels and then change just the Now, if I do change the width to, let's say, 2000, the image is going to be, of course, smaller, and the height is going to change accordingly. Now, the reason why that changes accordingly is because it's constraining the proportion. If I untick this link, I would have complete freedom on the width and on the height. But then if I don't know what I'm doing, I might stretch the image. Or distort the image. So make sure that you always have that link on. So if I change the width or the height, it will change the other accordingly. So in this case, I'm going to choose 2000. The resolution can stay as it is. As I said, if you use it for web purposes, just leave it as it is, it doesn't make any difference. In terms of resampling, at the moment of recording, I'm using Photoshop 2024 and is using the preserved details two point, which is a feature that allows me to keep as much information as possible when I resize my image. Also, you notice something. When I change the width to something smaller, The image size will change here as well. It's going to show me what it was before and what it is now. So that is just a point of reference for you to understand the size of the image. Another thing is reduced noise. This I will probably keep it as it is. I will keep it as a default, do not worry too much about that when you resize an image. I'm just going to keep it like this and press. So after I press ok, the picture is much smaller. If I want to fit into the screen, I can do command zero on Mac or control zero in windows. And now I'm back to the normal view. I can press command minus or control minus to make it a little bit smaller. And you can also notice the resolution down below here at the bottom left and corner of photoshop is 2000 pixels by 1,333 pixels, and the resolution is still 240 pixels per inch. And this is how you would reduce an image size by using that function. Now, if we decide to do the opposite, and what I mean by that is making the image actually much bigger than its original size, bear in mind that that will lose some information. And what I mean by that, if you're trying to make an image as a poster or if you want to make a wall printing or if you want to make something humongous, bear in mind that when you do that, you will lose some of the sharpness and some of the details of the image because you actually stretching the original pixels and making it bigger. So Photoshop needs to make up that pixel resolution digitally, and that will lose resolution. My suggestion is, if you want to make a big big print or a poster print, make sure that its original size is already big. Otherwise, you would lose resolution on an image. I just wanted to let you know that that would be the case if you have an image quite small. That is the way to resize an image, and fun with that, use it for whatever purpose you think it's useful for you and I'll see you in the next video. 44. Adding to Canvas Size: There are situations where we want to extend the image that we have to add more elements in it, or perhaps we want to add a Canvas. And this is basically resizing the image to add something more or just to make it a little bit more interesting. I'm going to show you a couple of ways we can add a frame, and we can also add some more background in order to add another element in it. So the first things we're going to do, we're going to go into image on top and a menu bar. And we're going to go into Canvas size. Now, here we have our current size, which is 1,890 by 1,417 pixels. And here down below, we're going to essentially make a frame around the image. I'm going to make a black frame around the image just to show you how it's done. So I'm going to go into width, and here, I'm going to basically put 500 pixels. And I'm going to also make a pixels here for the height, which is 500 pixels as well. And I'm going to make sure that the relative is ticked because if I untick that he's going to give me exactly the same size as the image now, which I don't want. I'm going to make sure that one is ticked and under the anchor is going to keep it as it is, because I want to have the frame all the way around my image. So these arrows here indicates that this is going to be generated for all the surroundings of my image, all the perimeter. Down below here, I've got Canvas extension color. In this case, I'm going to go into this dropdown menu, and I've got an option to choose white, black or gray. But of course, you can choose any other color by going to other, and then you can choose the color if you like. I said, I want to make it black, so I'm going to go all the way down here to make it black, otherwise, I'm going to press cancel. I can just go here and choose black from the dropdown menu. And I'm going to click on. This will create a frame. I'm going to make this a little bit smaller with command minus or control minus, and then we go now I've got my frame around my image. But what about we want to add another guitar perhaps here on the left on the right of the image to make the image more interesting or perhaps to add another product to our line. I'm going to go up here under the edit and I'm going to undo the Canvas size. Let's go back where we were before. I'm going to go back to image, and I'm going back to Canvas size. This time, we want to adds a little bit of space here on the left side to add another guitar. Now, the way is done is by basically making a little bit more space. And I've got here 1,890, which is the width of this. Let's say we want to put roughly, I would say probably let's say 800, and that will be probably enough for this size. And I'm going to keep a relative. I'm going to make sure the anchor indicates that I want to have here on the left. And in order to do that, I need to click on the opposite arrow. And when I do that, look what happened. Essentially, leave some space on the left hand side. If you want to do the opposite side, you have to click on the other arrow on the other side. And of course, it will basically do the same for any direction you decide to do. In this case here, I'm going to have it here on the left hand side, so I clicked on the right harrow. Now, the color is going to be white because my background here is white, and I'm going to go to white. If the color was different, you can just go to other On the color picker, you can actually move the cursor on the background and clone that color. Make sure though the color is uniform. It's a solid color. Because if you have any other complicated color, you might have to do some more editing and some more cloing that is not going to be as simple as just using the color picker. In this case, if you have a solid color, you can definitely clone it. I'm going to just pass cancel for now because white for me, it's okay. I'm going to go to other and use white. Now I'm going to click on. Now I've got a little bit of space here on the left hand side, and I'm ready to add another guitar. In this case, I'm going to add, let's say, this guitar here on this side. I'm going to go into my selection tool here on the left hand side. I'm going to choose object selection tool, I'm going to basically highlight this guitar. And now it's highlighted, I can make a copy, and you can do that by going to Command J or Control J if you are in Windows. If you don't remember this shortcut, you can go to layer on Topa on the new, you can choose layer copy, which is Command J or Control J in window. I covered this in one of the previous videos when I was talking about cheetahs in the Savannah. So ever look at that video that I did in this class. But for now, after we've done that and created a copy, as you notice here on the right hand side, I've got a layer copy with that object in it. I'm going to just right click here on the thumbnail to make it a little bit bigger so you know what I'm doing. And there we go, I've got my extra guitar here in an extra layer. And now I'm ready to move this guitar. In order to move it, and go back to the move tool here on the left hand side, I'm going to drag this guitar to have it on this side of my image right about there. And if I want to do other modification, I want to change the color and et cetera, you can do that as well. But this is how you use Canvas size and how to create frames and create extra space for additional elements and additional editing. 45. Spot Healing and Healing Brush: Let's talk about one of the most used features in photoshop, which is the healing brush tool or the remove tool. Now, when we want to perhaps remove some blemishes, some object within an image, we can use the healing brush tool. And we can do that by going to the brush tool here on the left hand side, just right below the eyedropper tool. This looks like a sort of a plaster. I'm going to click and hold there, and I'm going to choose spot healing brush tool. Now, if I want to remove perhaps some of the spots here on the grass, I can just make the brush big enough to remove that piece of paper there and click on it, and it will remove it very easily. Photoshop will analyze the surroundings of the object and it will make something in order to remove it. Also, I can click on little spots here around the grass, just to make a little bit more uniform, and I can just clean up a little bit. And what I'm doing essentially, I'm making permanent changes to my image. So if I want to go back, The only way to do that is right now, if I want to do that, I can just go to edit and I can do as many times as I did so far in order to retrieve what I had. So I can do commands that who controls that in windows. And as you notice, slowly, all the spots that are removed comes back to life. Now, if I made 100 changes to my picture, I won't be able to go back and retrieve what I removed here. The only way to do that is by creating a layer on top of my background. And that's what I'm going to do now. Regardless, if I want to keep this piece of papers and these imperfectus on the grass, I can still create the layer and then change my mind later on. So I'm going to click on D plus icon here under the layers panel to create a new layer. And then I'm going to make sure that under the option menu here on top, sample all layers is sticked. This essentially will sample the layers that are just below that in order to make changes here. In this case, I'm using the healing brush. So if I want to remove that now, I can just do that. And as soon as I do that, this change will be register on the layer one. If I make another brush stroke here, it will automatically come up there as well. And as you can see, as soon as I click on any piece or any areas here, on the grass, on the image, it's going to be a register in my layers here. And I can go here and I just carry on, do my changes. And if I want to see that before and after, I can simply just click on the icon next to the layer. I can see how it was before and now it is now. And now I can actually do some more changes. I can make the eating brush lit bigger and say I want to get rid of that van in the back. I'm going to make the brush a little bit bigger and see if I'm lucky enough to remove it and we go and remove the van for me. Probably I didn't do a great job in order to get rid of it because I still got rid of the road down below there. Let me try that again and I'm going to just do undo and perhaps place in the brush a little bit higher than that. Okay, that's probably better than before. Let's see if I can get rid of that red car in the background. I'm going to just make the brush a little bit smaller, click on it, and it's okay. Let's see if I can get rid of these cars here. I'm going to try to get rid of this car first. This is a very difficult scenario, for instance, because photoshop will analyze the surroundings. In the surroundings, I only see cars here. There is very little grass, but I'm going to try that. I'm going to click on that car, and it did a good job because next to the car probably there was no other car, and I'm going to do the same thing there, and it seems like it generated something else that I didn't want to. So instead, I'm going to press commands there a couple of times, and this will happen in real life, like it's happening here. Now, I'm going to try to remove this car now. I'm going to just make the brush a little bit bigger and trying to also aim a little bit of grass here on the side. And let's see if I'm lucky, and I am lucky, actually. But he actually created something else as soon as I click on that. Let me just do that. So what I do, I just make the brush a little bit smaller, and I also zoom in a little bit with command plus or minus. I'm going to press the space bar, and I'm going to adjust point at there, make the brush a little bit smaller and see if I can make the healing brush do this work without compromising too much about my image. And it looks like he's doing a decent job here, removing the elements that I want. I'm going to try to make sure that perhaps I can click and hold and brush away, and sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it works. I'm going to make the brush a little bit bigger. And I'm going to try to make sure to get rid of this car without compromising the car in front. And let's have a look if that one goes away and it does. I'm going to do command minus or control minus to go back just a little bit. It did a good job, but it looks like there is a pattern here that I don't really like. So I'm going to try to use the healing brush to make random strokes here and see if I can heal it. I'm going to just click and hold and drag to see if it makes any sort of more natural changes to my background. I'm going to carry on here also on the grass to get rid of the road, and it looks like he's doing a great job there. And there we go. And here as well, let's see if I can get rid of the rest of the cars there. She is now just ruined this car here in front. I'm going to just press command. I'm going to leave it like this, and I'm going to just press command zero or control zero to go back. And this is what I've done so far. Now if you want to see what you've done in the layer area, you just click and hold the option key or the old key on the connects to the layer to see all the changes that you made so far. And this is what the healing brush generated out of all the brush strokes. I'm going to click again to go back to the original view, and perhaps I can make other changes here on this road. So one tip to get rid of and a line like this is perhaps clicking on one side, and then on the other side, you hold down the Shift key and click on the opposite side to see if it does something else. It looks like actually adds something. So I'm going to press Command. I don't like that. I'm going to go back here and see if I can get rid of this road by using just normal strokes. Let's see if I do that a couple of times here. It looks like it's trying to get rid of some of that using the grass instead of the road. Now I can trying to make a change from here to here. If I click on that and then I click and hold the shift and go to the opposite direction. Let's see what it does. It basically makes the whole line strokes for me with the shift. Pretty handy tool. Now I can make some other changes here just by using the bh the healing brush tool that I'm using now, and I can carry on this side by making the brush tool a little bit bigger, trying to get rid of the road if I can. It takes a little bit of trial and error. Of course, this is going to take a while. The retouching is skill that you need to master. So this is going to take a little bit in order to get the results that you want. Going to be very kind of careful here, especially near the car. And if you want to zoom in, you can do that, but as you can see, I've done a discrete job there. Now, on the other side of the road here, let's see if I can increase the brush and give it a go and looks like it make something on the car. I'm going to try to command Z to undo and do it again. Okay, now I making some progress here by removing the road. I'm going to try to do that. I'm going to click on that once. I'm going to press shift and do on the opposite direction, the same and see what it does. It looks like I can make some imperfection here, but I can still use the brush tool to try to make a little bit of adjustment of these imperfections. This car is going to be quite hard to remove. But for now, I'm going to try to make the brush a little bit bigger and see if I can hide as much as possible from this view. Now, another brush tool that I can use that allows me to clone some areas and paste it to the area I want is called the healing brush tool, which is down here is the third one. The one that we're using now is the spot healing brush tool. Now, if I use the healing brush tool, now, before I even click on the area, if I click on the area without doing anything, it's going to give me this message. It says Option click to refine a source point to be used to repair the image. So I have to basically choose the source. Let's say I want to have this source. Say this grass here. I'm going to hold down the option key on the old key on my mouse, and then I'm going to just point at the area. You can see it's actually making a patch to fix the area. It's not very good, so I'm going to just choose this other area here. I'm going to click and hold, and now I'm going to release the old key, and I'm going to just make sure that I make almost like a continuation of the road by keep on clicking it and perhaps I can clone this area here, click and hold the old key, and then let go and then try to carry on with that editing, and now I can change the brush tool to be a spot healing brush and see if I can make it up by retouching a little bit of that. And I'm going to do the same thing here. I'm going to use the healing brush tool. I'm going to hold down the old key to clone that area, and now I'm going to move to this area here, and as you can see it makes it a copy of it and a copy of it here as well. And there we go. Now we have a decent retouching area. I'm going to go to the spot healing brush and I'm going to just trying to fix these imperfections here. As you can see, it takes quite a few iterations to my editing. But as you notice now, let's see if I can remove those things in the back of the car. Okay. So it's done quite an amazing job just in a few minutes to completely change the aspect of my image. Now, this is a very good experiment to try on. So what I used so far is the spot healing brush tool and the healing brush tool in order to clone certain area of my image. Ever go with that, and in the following videos, I'm going to iterate more about these tools. 46. Removing big objects: In the previous video, I was showing you how to remove lots of different elements within a field full of cars, and there was a lot of grass around it. So it was a little bit more uniform and in a sort of way was actually easier to deal with and removing stuff using the spot healing brush and the helium brush tool. But what about we want to remove bigger elements, bigger areas within an image or bigger objects as well. We can use something else as well here in photoshop. Let's open this file called Shangri la dot JPG, which you should be able to find on the exercise files. I want to remove from this image this, this green bean here on the left hand side, and I also want to try to remove this element here as well, which is sort of like a cabinet or something. Let's see if we can manage to do that by using the selection tool. First of all, we're going to go to the selection tool here on the left hand side, and we're going to click on object selection tool. Now we're going to have a over the image. As you notice, when I have a over one of these objects and highlights in magenta, which is a good news. Now I'm going to click on this green bin here on the left hand side to select it. Now, before I even use what I'm about to use, I want to basically expand the selection in order to have a little bit of blending mode and helping photoshop to analyze the surroundings in order to hide this completely from the view. I'm going to go on top and the select, I'm going to go into modify and under here, I'm going to go in to expand. I want to expand that selection. I'm going to click on that. I've got this dialogue box where he's going to ask me, how much do I want to expand that selection? Now, for this specific object, I would say around 15 or 20 pixels. I'm going to try 20 pixels. I'm going to leave everything else as it is and press okay, and look what happened now on the bin as soon as I click on okay. Now, the been selection has been extended. It's been expanded for 20 pixels. So it's going to use a little bit of the surrounding of the walls in order to get rid of it. Now I'm going to use a generative feel here down below, which is a new feature in photoshop. I'm going to click on generative feel. I'm going to leave this area here blank, and I'm going to click on generate here and see what happened. Now, Photoshop will analyze the area for me and see if it does the magic and remove the object from the image. And as you can see, this is the first result, which is kind of okay because we've removed a big bulk of green bind, which I didn't want. Let's have a look at the second option that we get here. As you can see, I've got this bar, and this is just of the three options we have. The second one is this. The third one is this, which makes it a little bit more pleasant to see. The first one doesn't look like anything. So I'm going to leave this one for now. I'm going to use the spot healing brush tool again. I'm going to go here on the little icon with a plaster, and then I'm going to click spot healing brush tool. With this brush selected, I'm around 250 in size. Let's see if I can actually remove it now. If I use that, I'm going to press okay because this is a smart object. Whenever you create something we generative feel, it will create a smart object here on the layers panel. I'm going to click on. And now I'm ready to do my editing. I'm going to just click there a few times to see if I can remove that completely from the view. So it's done a pretty good job there in order to mask that off. And I can actually do a little bit more editing on this side. But as you can see, when I do brush strokes there and only apply the area that I field with generative field. Now, in order to expand there, I would have to go back into my mask here on the layer panel to select it. I've got the option here down below. I'm going to put it just next to it, to subtract from mask or add from mask. I'm going to click on Add to mask, and then I basically going to brush away that area there. To make the mask extend a little bit. As you can see here on the layers panel, I'm modifying the mask to hide those green areas there. I think it's good enough for me. I can just leave it like that and I remove that element. What about we want to remove this element here. We're going to use the same principle. We're going to go into the object selection tool again and choose the first one here, object selection tool. We're going to have a cursor over our image here, and we're going to basically select this area, this object. We're going to do the same thing, we're going to go into select, modify, and expand. Probably 20 pixels is going to be too much because I've got this vase just next to it. So I'm going to just choose 15 pixels, and I'm going to press. Okay, it does a decent job here in extending and expanding that selection, and now I'm going to go to generative feel, and I'm going to leave this blank and I press to generate and see if I am lucky enough to get a decent result out of that. Again, it's very important of the surroundings of the object in order to get good results. If it's really busy and it's going to create something that perhaps is not even easy to remove. Now, this is what it created. Let's try this second option. Here, I'm going to just remove this selection tool because this magenta is just coming in a way, I'm going to go back to the M move tool and I'm going to choose the second one at seven it does, does a much better job than the first one, and the third one as well. Actually, I think the third one makes it more credible, and I'm going to just probably use this as my as my option. As you notice here on the layers panel, I've got my other layer here with the object disappearing for my scene. By doing this, I've got a much better view of this beautiful glimpse of this little shop in the middle of this little town in Changila. This is a way for you to use generative feel to get rid of bigger area and bigger object within an image. 47. Real life editing scenario: I wanted to show you a real life scenario of a editing that I'm going to do on this image. Now you might count some sort of image like this, and you might want to remove elements within it. Now, at the moment, I've got quite a few things that I don't like on this image. Let's go back to the move tool for a second. I've got this bin that I don't like, I've got this hand he sticking out. I've got this man head, and also I've got this cameraman and really annoys me. For this beautiful scene of this elderly playing the server checker in Singapore, which I would like to have without having this object obstruct the scene and kind of disturb the perspective as well. I'm going to use the selection tool here on the left hand side. I'm going to go to object selection tool, and I'm going to basically select the camera man. As you can see, it does a pretty good job in highlighting that. But for some reason, it's not including the hand. When I have the cursor over the hand, it is including the man here as well, which is not ideal. So I would have to use another tool. So I'm going to go under the object selection tool and use the quick selection tool instead. And I'm going to basically select the camera man and the hand. And all these objects together. Now if I want to make this area a little bit bigger, I'm going to go and press command plus or control plus to make it bigger, to make sure that the selection is done correctly and included the man hand here. For some reason, it's heading this belt. From the man, I'm going to just press option or old key to select this area here and also this area here and the belt just make sure that everything else is deselected. To try to be very precise here and to try to make sure that I include the man shirt there. And there we go, I think I've done a decent job here as well, selecting that, selecting there. I don't mind this part of the shirt is there. It's fine. And then I'm going to select here on top. I think it's fine as well. So I'm going to now press command minus or control minus to make it a little bit smaller. And then I'm going to go into my generative field here. And I'm going to just leave this section empty, and I'm going to press generate. So this generative fill is quite a powerful feature that allows you to basically get rid of objects and analyze your image, save a lot of time in your editing process. And I'm going to wait another couple of seconds, and this is the first result, which kind of messed up the shirt here, the second result, and the third result as well. Now, we need to do something else in order to make this editing. I'm going to press Command sad to do what I just done a couple of times. I'm going to go back here. And what I need to do essentially is expand this selection because photoshop find it quite hard to blend, you know, this intersection here between the shirt and the camera man and this area here with the rest of this object. In order to do that, I would have to go to modify under select. You're going to select, you're going to modify, and then we're going to go into expand. This will allow us to expand the selection a little bit more to include part of the shirt, part of the trousers, part of this chair and help photoshop to do a better blending essentially. So I'm going to use 20 pixels. I think 20 would be a modern enough. I'm going to click. And as you can see now, my selection is more extended, it's more expanded. It's included more shirts, more trousers as well, and the chair. And now I'm going to just press Command minus, a little bit more just to make it a little bit smaller and place the image right in the center. And now I'm going to press generative fill and try that again, and press generate. And see if we are lucky this time. And now we have a better results than before. Let's look at the second one, much better, and the third one, wow it's even better. Okay, so let's say we're going to use the third option here. And by the way, always make sure you delete the, the other generation here on the right hand side on the property panel just to make sure that your project won't be as big as it should be. Now I'm going to do the same thing for the head and for this bin, and for the hand, as well. I'm going to try to remove this object one by one. I'm going to try to go again to my selection tool on the object selection tool. I'm going to have a curse over this head. And it looks like it's kind of missing out a little bit of the glass frame. So I'm going to basically add that with the lasso tool. So I'm going to go to the Lasso tool and I'm going to try to add that into my selection. Then we've got those as well done. If you haven't seen it, just press go plus a couple of times, and what I did, I essentially made a selection here. I'm going to do it again for you just in case you haven't seen me doing it. So the situation was this. And what I did, I went to the Last tool. I click on the asto tool. I made sure that I've got the plus just down below the asto tool. If you don't have that on the option menu, make sure you have this icon, the second icon from the left selected. So you'll basically add selection to our To our initial selection, and that we just need to make sure you make a loop and you basically close that loop in order to highlight that as well. Now that we've done that, we're going to go to generative fill, and we're going to click on generate and see if Photoshop does a good job in terms of hiding their head. Otherwise, we would have to use the expand option. I always tried that beforehand just in case, and it looks like the first solution wasn't good. The second one as well, trying to do, to add something else instead, I'm going to just press edit undo and undo generative feel and I'm going to expand this selection. I'm going to go back to select on top. I'm going to go to modify and use expand and use probably 20 pixels, which is right about what we've done before. And then we're going to do the same thing in generative fill and click on generate and see if it does a better job by blending the surroundings as well of this image. I definitely done a better job, as you can see, expand, it's very important to use. So that's the first results. That's the second result which actually makes this bench a bit more extended, and this is the third one. I want to just zoom out to see how the picture looks in a better perspective. And I think I would go for the first result. And by the way, if you choose one and you are sure about that result, make sure when you are on the properties in the properties panel, you get rid of the unused images here. I'm going to just get rid of the one not used. And the reason why I know that is because the one that I use is highlighted in blue. So make sure you d select those, so you will save a lot of space in the overall image project that you're making in photoshop. Okay, so that is done. I'm going to do the same thing with the bin. I'm going to go to the option selection tool. I'm going to just wait a couple of seconds and then click on the bin, and I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to go to select, modify, and expand, and I'm not going to try mic. I'm going to just use the same 20 pixels. And I'm going to also include the hand. And I'm going to do that using the lasso tool. I'm going to just command my plus or control plus to zoom in. I'm using my space bar to, you know, navigate around the image, and now I'm going to add that. I'm going to add that hand into the selection by just doing this drawing a little image of the hand like a silhouette around the hand. I'm going to here on the border, and I'm going to include and close my loop, and now that hand is included. And I'm ready to do a generative fill and press generate and see if I've done a good job in selecting and see if photoshop makes a good blending effect to this image. This is absolutely time saving, and it will save you a lot of time when you have to remove bigger object as you see now. This is the first result. That's the second result, which actually makes a better bench for that man, and this is the third result. To be probably consistent with the rest of the image, I would say I would actually use this bench, which is very similar to this other chair plastic chair, and this is pretty much what I done, and I'm pretty happy with the results. So I have lots of fun doing this editing, and perhaps you want to rewatch this video to see step by step how I went about it, have fun, practice, practice, practice with editing, and I'll see you in the next video. 48. Content Aware Fill: Amongst the many tools that we already used so far, there is another one that we haven't explored in depth, which is content aware fill. I'm using this file called camels dot JPG. So if you open this file, you should be able to see this image, and you should be able to see this bin in the background and a little bit of another camel here sticking out from the screen. Now, one way I could fix this is by using the healing brush tool or the spot healing brush tool, but it will take you quite a few strokes and quite a few editing in order to achieve a good result. And that's when I will probably use a continent aware feel in order to remove bigger objects such as this and this. Now, we're going to do first of all, a selection. We're going to go into our selection tool here and I'm going to choose the object selection tool and see if it identifies that as a bin. Yes, it does. But it doesn't identify that, which is okay. I'm going to just click on that for now. I'm going to also add this into my selection. I'm going to go into the selection tool again. I'm going to go to Quick Selection tool and I'm going to add that to the equation just to make sure that I don't have any of that in my selection. Now I can basically use the select, modify, expand again to make the good blending here for photoshop to analyze. I'm going to press. Now I've got the distance that I need between the object and the rest of the background and also here as well. Now I'm going to use this content aware fill option, which is under edit here on top of the menuar and we're going to go into content aware fill. Be careful because we also have a generative feel. We have content aware scale, which is completely different. So trying to be careful there. Just click Content Aware Fill. And this will open a new window in photoshop, which has more tools here on the side, and you also have some other options here on the right hand side as well. Now, as you notice, here, I've got my original photo, And here on the right hand side, I've got a little thumbnail of the results, which, as you can see, has done a pretty good job in kind of getting rid of those elements. But if I zoom in, and I just move the slider here on the side, I can see this image a little bit better at least this area. Now, the functions that we have here, are there just to make sure that the blending is you know, done correctly. In this case, we have this, you know, ground and soil, so there's not really a lot of detail. Now we have to retrieve, but we can actually, for instance, change here, the field settings, and the color adaptation is the default. But if I click there, and I choose for instance high, you notice that this blending will change as well. And I can go to very high as well, and this will change it to something else. So you can just experiment with this according to whatever image you have in front of you. This is just a matter of trying the different tools and which one blends better, with your scenario, with your situation. So this will basically come handy when you have to remove objects which are quite complicated and perhaps you don't have generative expand, which is the other solution to this matter. You also have an option here on top, which says sampling area overlay, and this is essentially what it does. I will analyze the area around the object that we selected in order to create the empty space in order to create that area without that object. And this is something you can change the opacity of if you want to basically see what area of the image selecting to see the blending mode here. For instance, if I'm not happy with this results, I can actually go here under the opacity, leave it there, And then I've got a tool here on the left hand side, the first tool over here, allows me to essentially remove some areas that content aware field is using in order to blend these content. And as you can see, if I remove these areas here under the camels going to change the results of the blending here. And the more I remove, the more harder is going to be for photoshop to interpret the area on the bin and on the camel here. But sometimes you might find that by removing selections, it actually does a better job. And as you can see here, it's actually including more of this kind of reddish soil on my equation, which is actually not bad. So I'm actually trying to get rid of this selection near the camel. And it looks like it actually does a better job in a way. So make sure that you do experiment with this. And if you want to add more to the selection, what you can do, you can press the option key and do the opposite and perhaps add some other area here on the rock. If you want to do that, and you can see the results and actually adding a little bit more bush, in a sense there, I can add a little bit more and see what it does and doesn't do a good job. So I'm going to just remove that. I'm going to make sure that I deselect that and I can let go and see the results straightaway in real life. I can actually zoom in to see what content or were field does to this part of the image. I'm going to remove that. I'm going to remove that as well. And then we go, actually, it does a pretty good job as it is. I'm going to probably leave it like this and I'm going to zoom out. And these are the tool the hand tool to move around the image, and this is just to zoom in, if you want to see how it looks with the selection. So I'm going to just go back to the option here on the right hand side under the continent we feel. I'm pretty happy with these results. I can apply the results. And as you can see as soon as I press apply, is going to highlight the area and basically hide those objects from the image. I'm going to press. And now I'm back to my image in photoshop. I can just zoom out a little bit with command minus or control minus in Windows. And I've got this area here now gone and clean, and now I can deselect by using deselect or using Command D or Control D in windows. And now I've done my editing. This is non destructive because I've got a different layer here on the top of my original picture. So I can click on the icon here to deselect to see the picture I was initially, and now when I remove those objects from the background. So use content aware feel as part of your arsenal of editing tools in order to improve your images. Good luck with that, fun, and I'll see you very soon in the next video. 49. Clone Stamp tool and more Part 1: Okay. Let's talk about clone stamp tool. Now, clone stamp tool allows you to clone areas of an image and basically paste them somewhere else in the same image. So it's very, very useful when you have stubborn places that you cannot just retouch with the healing brush or the spot healing brush tool. So you would have to use some cloing. Now, this image is called Cotswolds dot JPG. I would like you to open it because it's very important that you follow along and feel free to post the video while I'm going through this editing. The reason why I say that because it might be a lengthy video, I'm going to try to be as fast as possible, but you're going to see me essentially getting rid of these cars. All the way here, all these people and this man here and also the pole with this sign, the street sign and kind of make this scenario a bit more desertic and more calm, with no kind of life going on. I want to just have this nice building all alone without any of this going on here on the street. Now, the first things we're going to use is the clone stamp tool. I'm just going to show you how we're going to use that. I'm also going to implement the generative feel tool that we used before and also the continware feel as well in order to get rid of these elements. So let's start by choosing the Clone stamp tool, which you find just below the brush tool, which is this one here. Going to click and hold and make sure you click on Clone Stamp Tool. And by the way, if you want to find out how to use it, if you want to have a refresher, you have a nice video which explains how that works as well. Very, very useful. To enable it by using the shortcut S. Now we're going to go here and we're going to try to remove this man from this area here. Now, I could use many other tools. I can use continawar fiel. I can use generative feel. I can use the healing brush tool, the spot healing brush as well. But I'm going to use the clone. I want to basically make sure that I clone this little wall here next to his legs, and slowly, I'm going to go all the way up here and remove everything. Now I'm going to zoom in, so you see exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to do just command plus or control plus if you are in windows. I'm going to hold down the space bar, and basically, I'm going to move with my mouse in this area here. I'm going to then use a brush here size. Now at the moment is under 22. I'm going to click on that. I'm going to make this size a little bit bigger. Now you can also use the bracket key on your keyboard. Feel free to use those as well if you are there, and also the hardness. You can use this hardness here. At the moment is 44%. I'm going to go a little bit softer here. I'm going to be just right in the middle 50% would be just enough, and I'm using the hard round at the moment. Feel free to use either this or the soft round brush. Now I'm going to click away here and I'm going to go now on this area. Before we get started, we have to clone an area. I'm going to clone this area here. I'm going to just hold down the option key in Mac or the old key in Windows. As you can see, I've got my little cursor there, ready to clone an area. I'm going to clone this area here. I'm going to click on it. I'm going to release the old or the option key on my keyboard, and I'm ready to paint the area I want to get rid of. As you can see now, my mouse, my cursor there is pasting this area that I just cloed. I'm going to just click and hold as you can see, I've got a little target cursor, as well, there on the right hand side, who's actually following me, and I'm actually copying the area completely. Now, one tip that I can give you instead of doing perhaps this and carry on, you know, holding the click, trying to make sure you want to clone a different area as well, just to make the area, the destination a little bit more believable, to make sure that it's not just a copy an exact copy of where you've taken it from. I'm going to just hold down the option key and perhaps use this other area here next to it, and I'm going to basically clone the area just down below to make a little bit more realistic. And then I'm going to go to the road here. I'm going to just hold down the option key, and I'm going to clone that area, and I'm going to go down here trying to make this area as well, a little bit more you know, a little bit more realistic. Now, if this happened, Do not worry. You can still use the retouch tool. You can still go to the tool bar here and choose the spot healing brush and make sure that the brush is a little bit smaller and try to click away there to give it a clean almost closer by. So you can actually do that, give it a nice clean, just to make sure that you have remove those spots that are quite stubborn. Now you can also use the other brush that we covered in the past. Here's still in the retouch tool under the healing brush tool, which is this one here is the third one. And that allows us to basically copy a pattern. If I want to copy that pattern there I can hold down the option key, I can click there. And now, as you can see, I'm basically copying there and pasting it somewhere else. It's very similar to the stamp tool. We're using now the clone stamp tool, but the clone stamp tool will follow you and copy around accordingly. Instead, this one will only copy that spot that you clicked on. So we're going to go back here and the healing brush tool. That's what the healing brush tool does. When I click and hold and makes a copy only of that area. And if I go here, you see, what it does, it will only basically make the copy without following me. So I can actually go a little bit closer to the area I want to change, and I hold down the option key or the old key windows, and then I can move slowly to make that line a little bit more regular in a sense. As you can see now, it looks a little bit more regular. Now, I can go back to my brush. I can go to the spotulm brush tool again, and I can give it a couple of stroxia to make it a little clean, to make sort of like a blend a blending mode. When I zoom out and command zero, control zero in windows, it looks a little bit more credible. The wall now looks a little bit more credible and I can go now back into the area and I can carry on here on top. Now, before I carry on here, I'm going to go to the stamp tool, Clone stamp tool again, O S. Now I'm going to clone this area here. I'm going to press option and click. I'm going to go here and slowly move accordingly to get rid of this area here. I'm going to do the same thing with this other wall. I'm going to hold down the option key. And I'm going to do the same. I'm going to just clone this area here. Hold down the option key. Click on it. Let go, and now you basically brush this area away. And again, there are several ways you can sort out areas like this. As I said, there is more than one way to solve your issue here in your image. Now, I'm slowly doing this because I want to be precise here. I need to also get rid of that car. So I need to also plan when I do this sort of editing. Now, I started with the cone stamp tool because I wanted to show you how you can actually apply that and the difference between the clone stamp tool and the healing brush tool. I repeat the healing brush tool will make a copy of a specific area and you can paste it somewhere else like I'm doing now. But if you want to click and hold a mouse and basically go around an area, you cannot use the healing brush tool. You have to use the clone stamp tool because that one is actually clever enough to understand where you want to basically clone the area. And when I go here with my brush is going to basically follow me to make the area that I'm my destination area the same as the one where the cross is. Now that I've done there, I'm going to click and hold it here and I'm going to do the same thing in this area. Let's say if I want to maintain this car and this man. I can actually click on the car and I can actually use the same tool just to make the area there white. Now, again, I'm keeping on holding down the option key slowly going to this area here to paint this man away. And on this area here, I cannot really use the clone tool. Because that is going to clone around the area there and the car is not what I want to maintain and keep. So I will probably clone this area here with this green, and I can go around this area and perhaps brush that to get rid of also the pole as well. I can click and hold here, and I can do the same thing here. Now, you might think, why don't you use a bigger brush? Yes, I could use a bigger brush. But again, this is very subjective. It it really depends on the image you're working on. And the situation you're in. Now, I could have used the content aware field to get rid of the car. But now that I'm here, I can also clone part of this window and go down here and perhaps create a pattern down below and I can do the same thing here and in rebuild in a way this window. And as you can see, is doing a pretty good job by just cloning the area. 50. Clone Stamp tool and more Part 2: And I don't want to make this window too long and going up down here, too much. Let's go. Let's keep it this way. Almost can be a door almost, and I can go over here actually, I can change the composition and make it like a door. I don't see why not. Feel free to post the video and try yourself and then come back here. Use this as a reference because I'm going and I'm doing this for the first time with you, using this tool and show you how the stamp tool can be very, very useful in order to rebuild and reconstruct areas of an image. And down below here, I'm going to do the same here. There we go. And that blue area doesn't really bother me that much. I can use a little bit of the green area. Now, to get rid of the rest of the car and to get rid of this part of the sign and the sign here, I can use steal the stamp tool. I'm going to go here again. I'm going to make sure I've got the clone stamp tool selected. I'm going to clone this wall, and I'm going to go and basically make this pattern as well with the wool. I'm going to hold down the option key again, and I'm going to basically paste. This area here. So I've got essentially that wall all the way there. I'm going to click and hold again. I want to make this area a little bit more irregular in a sense, and also here down below here. I could actually use the healing brush tool or the spot healing brush tool. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to use the spot healing brush tool and I'm going to make the brush tool a little bit bigger. And let's have a look if the retouch tool does a good job with that. Now, I'm applying these changes to the original because I really don't want to have this in permanently on my composition. But you can also decide to have a layer on top of it in order to keep the original image and you have the modification and the editing above a layer. I'm going to show you how to create a layer just in a second. But I want to remove this part of the poll, at least from my view. Done a pretty good job here, but I'm going to use the stamp tool again and I'm going to click the option key here on the top of this wall. I'm going to just paint a little bit here on top to make it a little bit more defined there we go. I've got my wall done here and the window over there. Now I'm going to basically remove this pole, and then I'm going to create the layer in a second. I'm going to go here on top and this roof I have to basically paint part of this roof on top of this sign. I'm going to go here and I'm going to make the brush a little bit bigger. And I'm going to clone this area. I'm going to hold down the option key or the old key, and I'm going to brush here to get rid of this sign. Make sure it's not repeating here. I'm going to basically use this other area here. I'm going to hold down the option key again, and I'm going to clone this area here as well. Don't get the chimney, go back k hold down the option key again. G here. Now, if I want to use this area here and clone it, I could use that, but then it's going to basically make a copy of it, which I don't want to do. I want to create basically a linear perimeter on top. To do that, I had to go to the spot healing brush tool and choose healing brush toool. When I do that, I can click and hold an area I want to perhaps copy and copy the pattern of. Let's say I want to use this. I'm going to click on that. Now I'm going to paste that pattern. To do a continuation there off the roof. I can also use this area here. I can click and hold, and I can have that. Perhaps I want to have it there. And I can also zoom in command plus or control plus in window. Hold down the space bar, go above here, and do option and click, and then we're going to copy that pattern on top. To have the roof, a little bit more regular. Then we go. And then we're going to go here and I'm going to use now the clone stamp tool, I'm going to copy an area here and I'm going to paste it here and I'm going to create a sort of pattern with some green. Some greenery around it. Now, still don't like this sort of pinky area. I'm going to use the spot healing brush tool, and I'm going to just click on that to give it a retouch, and to make a little bit more to make the color, same as the rest of the roof and there we go. Now I'm going to do the same thing here. I'm going to how I'm going to just use the clone stamp tool, I'm going to hold down the option key, and I'm going to essentially Carry on here and creating the roof, this area here as well. I'm going to copy this area, and I'm going to paste it there, but as you can see, it's just repeating this little thing which I don't want. I'm going to go back to my healing brush tool here, the third tool from there. I'm going to copy this pattern here, which looks like regular doesn't have anything in it, and I'm going to go here and I'm going to make my continuation here, and I don't want that to look the same, so I would have to go back into my clone stamp tool. Perhaps I can use this pattern here, and I can use also this other pattern here and paste it on this side. Now, if you're not happy with the result just yet, do not panic. You can steal retouch that later on. Now it's all about creating a cone area or at least cleaning the area, which is the object you want to get rid of, and then you can still retouch that by using other sources where you can clone your image, your areas. So in this case, here, I'm cloning part of the window, and I'm going to make sure the window here has some sort of continuation here, and I want to make that window go up here but finishes here. I'm going to basically copy this area here of the window, and I'm going to basically make the same sort of frame around it. And let's say, I think I want to basically carry on pasting that window, which is going to have pretty much the same pattern, which I don't mind. I will probably have to get rid of this little object here. I can go back to my spot heating brush. I can make that brush a little bit smaller and then basically retouch. That to get rid of it to make a little bit of, you know, variety on the scene. I'm going to get rid of that little poster or the little frame I've got inside that room. I believe it was that, and then here as well, I have to change that wall. I'm going to probably use this area here of the wall. I'm going to make sure I've got here my healing brush tool. I'm going to make the brush smaller. I'm going to hold down the option key, I'm going to click here. And now I'm going to essentially clone that wall. And if it doesn't work, I'm going to go here on top and trying to do the same here it looks like it doesn't do it. I'm going to have to go into my clone, which is what I want and basically stubborn areas can be fixed by using this tool, and looks actually doing what I wanted to do. What I would like to do is perhaps using that as a source and going down here and perhaps copy that. No, I don't like it. So I'm going to just command that a couple of times to go back here, and instead, I'm going to use a clone tool to clone this greenery. So I'm going to have this greenery here. So these are decisions you need to make while you're doing the editing, and of course, I can get rid of that as well. This is a flag. I can leave the flag there, hold down the space bar, move around, see if there's any irregularity or something that doesn't look right, for instance, this car is still there, so I'm going to clone this area here. I'm still using the clone stamp tool and I'm going to repeat this greenery pattern right below here, and I think I'm done with that. I'm going to do command zero or control zero in window. And now my poll with the sign, the street sign is gone, the man is gone, and now we're going to carry on removing the rest of the image in the next video. I'm going to show you how to make your editing without affecting the original image, which I did in this video, and the next video, I'm going to show you all of that in reiterating the tools. 51. Content Aware fill and Generative Fill: If you watch the first video of this editing session using the clone stamp tool and also the healing brush tool and the spot healing brush tool. You'll notice I removed the pole and the street sign. I also remove a car that was here and an old man sitting down here. Now, the aim was to remove also other cars, such as these three cars and these other men here and these are the people around to make this scene a little bit more clean. And I used quite a few tools in the previous videos, and I want to basically now carry on my editing, but this time, I don't want to affect the original. So in order to retain this image and do editing on top of it, I'm going to create a layer here on my layers panel. So I'm going to press the plus button here down below here, this little icon here. I'm going to click on that, I'm going to create a layer. I'm going to be calling this retouching. And our press return or click away here to save it. Now I'm going to make sure that under the option menu on top, when I click on the spot Ling brush tool on the sample, I've got current below. So means that this will essentially use the sample from this area here, this layer here, but also the layers below. In this case, our background. Once it's done, you're ready to go and make your changes here. Now, one other tool that I can use is the generative feel, but I can also use content aware feel. Now, if I use content aware feel, I can highlight an area. Let's say this car here. Let's get rid of it. I'm going to go into the selection tool here. I can click on object selection tool. And now Photoshop will analyze my image, and it's going to recognize that is a car. There's another car that are one, two, and this person here is not really coming up on the selection, but it's not really my worried because I can remove that with any tool, like the retouching tool or the healing spot. Tool. I can use any tool there to remove it, not very difficult to remove. The car over there as well. It's not coming up as a selection, but I can I can sort it out later. Now, let's start by using and removing this car. But I'm going to click on that. So he's going to highlight that. And I'm going to go into my select tool here on the menu bar. I'm going to choose to modify and I'm going to expand the selection up to 20 pixels that would do. If you don't know what this tool is, watch the videos, the previous videos where I talked extensively about this, and I use it quite a lot. So I'm going to press okay. And as you can see, now, my car, if I zoom in, command plus or control plus, if you're in windows. You notice my car is now selected, and I've got this expansion around. I've got lots of space around the car because I want photoshop to blend the surroundings and to make a nice, you know, nice retouching effect. Now that I've done my selection, I'm going to turn off this bangenta highlighting by going back to my move tool, and now I'm going to go into edit, and I'm going to go to content aware fill. And now, as you can see, on the left hand side, I've got my original image, and on the right hand side, I've got the results. The final results high is going to look like after I confirm. It looks like it's getting rid of this window, which is not ideal, but I can fix that. Now, if I now click and drag these green highlighting areas around perhaps this image, I can actually notice that there is some changes that are happening here on the resulting image. Now, the reason why I'm doing that is because I want photoshop to use certain areas of the image in order to clone the area there and to make a good blending, essentially. So I don't want this river here to be used as a source of material in order to create this area. So I'm going to basically brush this area of the image away. And as soon as I let go in my mouse, I'm going to see a little bit of difference here. And as you notice, the bush, the actual greenery here changes as well. And I'm going to also get rid of this part of the images we I don't want to have that as a source, and I can actually ever look at that as well, and I'm going to do the same thing here. This area here is definitely something I don't want to have as my source for the destination. So I'm going to get rid of it, and now I'm going to go, I'm going to check my right hand side. Okay. It's done a better job, looks more realistic. And I can actually include more of these bushes within that. And perhaps I want to use this window. So I'm going to press option, To add this to my selection, and let's see what it looks like now. Okay. It doesn't do a lot, but I'm going to press now the space bar, and I'm going to move around my image. And second, if I want to add more into the selection, I'm going to basically hold down the option key to add more of this source. In order to help photoshop to make a good destination. That looks like more realistic. I've got that window there. Let's say if I add this window into the source, it's going to use that. It is adding that into my results. I'm going to choose some other places here including this window. L see if understands that I want to have the window. It looks like it does, which is pretty cool. I'm going to include a little bit here as well. I'm trying not to include the people around. It looks like it makes it worse. So I'm going to just press commands there a couple of times, and I actually I'm quite happy with this result for now. And I think I'm going to leave it like this. And if I want to save this, I want to introduce in P press Apply. And on the output, it says new layer. And I already created a layer, but I don't mind to have that into the current layer. I'm going to just press current layer for now and press. And then we go. Now I've got my retouching copy here, and I can just click the eye to see how it was and now it is now, and I'm going to just press D select, and I'm going to carry on with my retouching by just do command zero to go back to the normal view. I want to get rid of this car. One quick way to get rid of the car is by going to object selection tool here on the left hand side. I'm going to select the car. And now I'm going to use a generative feel. Now, you might say, at this point, why don't you use generative feel in the first place? And I would probably answer, Yes, I could use generative feel to get rid of the pole, to get rid of the man if it was highlighted in Magenta, to get rid of that car, I just removed now, and to get rid of all the things that photoshop will highlight in Magenta. Yes, I can use generative feel. But generative fiel has a certain credit number. So each time you use generative fiel, it will decrease the number of credits you have each month. Now, it really depends on what subscription you have with photoshop or what a Dobby subscription you have. Perhaps you have only subscription with Photoshop or perhaps you have a creative cloud subscription, and that will give you around 1,000 credits per month. Now, this has sort of a credit score functionality. So it will cost you something in a sense. But 1,000 credit. If you don't do a lot of editing, it would be, you know, understandable to use only this. But, I wanted to show you also other tools such as contenta Ware feel, which does not take you any credits and is part of photoshop. So you have more tools in your arsenal in order to edit your images. Now, coming back here, sorry for just the tangent that I took, but I wanted to clarify that. So I'm going to get rid of this car and I'm going to use generative feel. I'm going to use the same sort of option here on top and the select. I'm going to go into modify and expand. I'm going to use 20 pixels again. So I've got a nice area here around this car. I'm going to just zoom it in in case you don't see it. And as you can see the car around it, a little bit of space, which is good. And I'm going to go to generative fiel, and I'm going to press generate. I'm going to leave this prompt area empty. I'm going to click on generate. And Photoshop now is going to analyze this area. I'm going to just remove the magenta, highlighting, I'm going to go back to the moving tool here as soon as this is done because this doesn't let me do it while he's doing it. I'm going to go back to the move tool. And as you can see, I've got now a nice hiding effect, I'm going to have to choose between these three options I've got. So I'm going to choose the one that I feel is the best. I'll probably say Let me zoom out. I want to also see the overall image. And if I do I want to have that door actually accessible. I can actually keep on generating more options, but I would be just going on forever. So I'm going to leave it like this, and I'm going to get rid of the other two options here on the property panel by clicking on the bin next to it, and the other one as well. If you ask me, how do I know which one is the one I want to keep is the one that is highlighted in blue? It is the one that is visible here on my image. So I'm going to get rid of that one next to it. So I'm going to free up lots of space in my photoshop project. Now, the other people that I want to remove are here, so I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to go to the selection tool, object selection tool, I'm going to remove the ones that are highlighted. It looks like they're highlighting now all of them, which is good. I'm going to highlight that, and I'm going to do this with one Swift. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to highlight all of them. I'm going to press the shift key on your keyboard. I'm going to click on the second person there. Click on the third person, and the car looks like it is blended with the building, which is not a problem now, but I'm going to get rid of these three people, and I'm going to use the same thing. I'm going to go to Generative feel. Click on Generate and see if it does a good job in hiding them. This is really time saving using generative feel. There we go. I got the first option. The second option, and the third option, looks like it brings back someone else. So I'm going to leave the second option here and I'm going to delete the other two here on my properties panel. Okay. There we go, and now I'm going to delete the car, and it looks like the car now is selectable. I'm going to click on that, Generative feel, generate. Again, this is so easy when you use generative feel. But of course, I don't want you to just use the easiest tool because you might not have that in the future, and perhaps it's going to change. You need to have the knowledge to use other tools. That's why the reason why you're taking this course. Now, as you can see, now, I've got that option, the second option, the third option. I will probably stick with the first one here. I can do a little bit of retouching if I wanted to, but I'm pretty happy with the results. And as you see on my layers panel, I've got quite a few adjustments, including the generative field we just used now. And if I scroll down here, is, I've got my background, which is my original photo. I've got my retouching layer, and I've got other retouching copy because I used also content aware feel. I use the stamp tool, the clone stamp tool, which is this one here on the left hand side. I also interchangeably changed between the spot healing brush tool and the healing brush tool. Now, I hope you went through these two videos with me. I know that they were quite lengthy, hopefully with these two videos, you're going to have a thorough understanding on how to go about choosing the right tool to do the right editing for your image. Good luck with that. Try this on your own, and I'll see you in the next one. 52. Assignment: Hello, and welcome back to yet another assignment for this section. I hope you are as excited as I am to actually go through this image. This is the flower field JPG, which you should be able to find in your exercise files. And what I would like you to do here is to use the skills that you learned in this section and use all the tools that you saw me using throughout this class. Remove all the people from the flower field. You can keep the animals here if you like to. Another thing I would like you to do is to remove this telephone pole here. From the view and the one in the background and these ones as well in the background, and also trying to make sure that these wires here are not visible as well. So that's all you need to do. The only thing I will ask you to do if you remember how to do it is to create a layer on top of the background here in order not to touch the original image. Now, if you don't remember that, do not worry, just carry on and do your editing using the tools that we touched on this section, just to remind you the one that you already know, which is the object selection tool in order to do your editing here for the people, and also use the spot healing brush tool. The healing brush tool, and also the last tool we just learned, which is the clone stamp tool. Now, if you don't remember any of this or if you don't remember one of them, just feel free to go back to the lessons where I was actually showing you that tool just to have a refreshment and then come back to this challenge and make the best out of this image. Now, I'm looking forward to what you're going to do with this image. Feel free to post it in the project area here, and I'll see you in the next video with one solution to this assignment. 53. Assignment Solution: Hello and welcome back. Hopefully, you've done your assignment and you posted in the project area. And if you haven't done it yet, do not worry. You can just follow along and see how I actually go about changing this image and improving it. Now, the first thing I'm going to do, I'm going to create a layer here on the layers panel. Now, if you don't remember how to do it or if you find it difficult to implement that into your retouching, do not worry. I just ask you to retouch this image without worrying too much about there. But if you remember how to create the layer, you just need to go into the plus icon down below here on the layers panel, click on that and it will create a new layer. I'm going to recall that layer, retouching. And then I'm going to make sure the sample here on top, it says current and below. So that will affect and will sample essentially the original our background, and anything that is below that as well. In this case, is only the background. So that is the first things you need to know before you even do any retouching. Then the first things that will probably go through here will be all these people. I try to make sure that I remove all these people all at once. And I'm going to go into my selection tool here and I'm going to click on Object Selection Tool. And all I need to do is simply just click on the first people here on the screen, and then I'm going to select the rest of one by holding down the Shift key on my keyboard. So I'm going to add other ones on my selection. I'm going to go through all of them. You can do that. You can do it about one by one. If the photoshop recognize some of them, if it doesn't recognize, some of them, don't worry. Just carry on to your selection. And then once you've done your selection and you get rid of those people, photoshop will reanalyze the picture, and it will probably find those people that it couldn't find before. Sometimes it happened, sometimes it doesn't, but do not worry. These three people here, for instance, in the background are not recognized. Do not worry about that. Now, I highlighted this and now I'm ready to get rid of them. Now, you can use a couple of ways to do that. You can use the generative feel that I showed you before here and click on Generate. That is one way to do it. But I would like to use the content aware feel in this case. So I'm going to go into select first of all, I'm going to go to modify, and I'm going to expand the selection. I'm going to make sure that Photoshop has enough information around these people in order to do a good blending. I'm going to leave this at 20 pixels. I'm going to click on. Now, I've got a little bit more space in between these selections. And by the way, here, as you notice, this woman here is carrying this bag. I would have to probably highlight that bag at the same time here. I'm going to just do shift and click on it. Now, if you haven't done it, you can still remove that little bag using the retouching tool, the spot healing brush tool. But do not worry. I'm just now add it into my selection, and I'm ready to use now the edit and content aware fill. I'm going to click on that. Okay. And now, as you can see, all these people now I highlighted here on the right hand side, I've got the preview of how the results is going to be, which is pretty good. I'm going to leave it as it is, and I'm not going to touch anything here on the settings because I've got enough information on the flower field in order to remove these people. And I'm going to press apply. Make sure that on the output you use a new layer and press apply, and okay. And by the way, don't worry too much about new layer. You can use new layer. You can use current layer as long as you know, you've done your selection and you're happy with that, it's okay. Unless you need to do any further editing with the original, then in this case, I would suggest always use new layers. So it will not touch the original and press, okay. So once you've done that, you can see now all these people are gone. So we need to basically deselect the current selection. I'm going to go into deselect or press Command D or Control D in Windows. And now I'm back to this view. I'm still under this object selection tool. Let's see if now Photoshop recognize those people that couldn't recognize before. Let's have a look. It looks like it does. Now I'm going to click on that. Now I'm going to see if these other two people are actually highlighted. The two of them are so I'm going to press and hold the shift key to add that second person, that third person and the fourth person there. The other one it didn't recognize, but it's not a big issue to do that. I can actually use now the same tool, I can go to select. I can modify and use expand. Use the same 20 pixels and press. And now I can use the same continent ware feel or I can use generative fiel. This time, I'm going to choose generative feel and press generate. Just to show you that you can use several ways to edit an image. There is not one way to solve certain issues within an image. So be aware that you got lots of tools at your disposal. Okay, so I did a pretty good job. Now, I don't really need to see the other two versions. It looks like they all pretty much the same. They're very similar. I'm going to just stick with the one that come up as a first option, and I'm going to delete here on the properties panel, the other two, which I don't need. And I'm going to delete this other person here. And this time, I'm going to choose the spot healing brush tool. Because I've got enough information around that area here to remove that person, and I'm going to just click on it, and I'm going to just press okay. The reason why you have, you know, these messages because when you create something with a generative fiel, the layer will become a smart object, and it will protect it from any editing. And now what I need to do is simply just press okay in order to do any selection I want to do here. Now, when I do that, though, look what happened now, it looks like it doesn't let me select that person, probably because I am in the wrong layer. I would have to probably go to the layer down below and see if it does the same thing and looks like it let me do it from there. Now, I need to go back to the first layer on top and carry on my editing. And as you can see the masking here on this side degenerative feel. If I hold down the option key or the old key and then click on this black area here, ice, the generative field that I use here down below and got rid of that person and these other three people as well that I had it. So I would have to if I want to do any other further editing on this layer, I would have to basically, you know, remove or add, you know, the masking using subtract from mask or add to mask in order to get rid of other things or other areas within this image. I'm going to just press again, option and click on the layer, and I'm back here. Now, the other things that I asked you was to remove these telephone poles, And we're going to do this just right now. I'm going to go back here on the layers panel. I'm going to click on this area here. I'm not going to click on the actual mask, but actually on the image itself. And I'm going to basically highlight this in order to get rid of them from the scene. Now, I am now at the last layer here, which I removed those people, and I'm going to try to use the spot healing brush tool. I'm going to try to remove this pole. But if I try to do it from this layer and I try to do that, it won't let you because the masking here will only apply for those people that I removed. So I would have to go back one step on the retouching here down below this layer, and then I'm going to use that to retouch. And to remove that pole from that layer. This is a bit tricky sometimes, but if it doesn't work on that layer because you use generative feel, you have to go back one layer, one step down, and then start to do the utuching that way. Now, I also tried to remove this pole using the healing brush tool which repeats a pattern or a specific spot within an image. But in this case, I didn't do just yet. Also, you could have used also the clone stamp tool to clone an area and then to brush the other area away. But at the moment, for this field, the spot healing brush tool, it's more than enough to get rid of this in this case, this telephone pole because I've gotten enough information on the image to, you know, clone and in order to photoshop, essentially to analyze the surroundings and hide that pole for me. I'm going to do the same thing with this pole here, which is quite small. And I'm going to just click on that a couple of times. As you notice, when I do this, you actually see the retouching brushes as well here on the layer. If you want to see the retouching that I've done on this layer, all you need to do is simply hold down the option key on the old key in windows and click on the icon next to that layer. And as you notice, that pole is actually being removed with those strokes, and this layer is where I actually remove those peoples as well. Okay? So bear in mind that when you use generative feel, which is this function that you find down below here and let photoshop remove the objects, you would have to go one layer below and carry on your retouching. This is very important. I'm going to just hold down the option key again and click on this icon to go back to my normal view. Being on this layer now, I'm going to carry on and do my retouching. I'm going to go and here and this out the telephone pole we've beg. I'm going to retach this as well. Now I still got these wires going on. Now the easiest way to remove this wires you would have to just basically click and retouch. Sometimes, though, they won't go away, and then is where you're actually going to use the healing brush tool. Here down below. And that will allow you to basically select an area that you want to clone. Let's say I want to clone this area here, I'm going to just hold down the option key on the old key in window. I'm going to click on that. And now I'm going to move to the area, I want to remove that wire. And as you can see, now that one will remove that area. And I can do random retouching all around this area here where I can actually perceive a little bit of cable and remove it. Another tool that I can use is the clone stamp tool, which is actually pretty good for this scenario. Let's say I want to remove these wires here. And let's say I want to choose. I'm going to just choose this area here. I'm going to hold down the option key, and now I'm going to paste that there. I'm holding the mouse to click down, and I'm going to do the same thing on this area. I'm going to probably I'm going to choose the retuching. I don't have a lot of information to clone. I can clone this area and perhaps do this area here. Let's see if it works. I can't go any further than the cross. You see the cross, how close it is to the house. If I carry on, is going to clone the house. I'll see, so I don't want to do that. So do command ed or do. So make always sure that you are as far as possible from an object. You don't want to clone. Otherwise, it's going to be a problem. Okay. I've done a pretty good job there. I'm going to do the same thing here on top, but in this case here, I cannot clone anything that is kind of the same light on the same brightness area there, that does not have any wire on it. Yeah, I'm going to just choose the spotted in brush too, and I'm going to click on that. A few times until I got a decent results. Okay, I blends it quite well. Let's go over here and I'm going to just choose the spot healing brush tool just a few times to make the area a little bit more believable and that we go here as well. As you can see, it takes time and it takes iterations and it takes patience. And here, on the flower field, I think, Okay, so I removed pretty much all the wires or the perceived wires are not there. Probably a little bit here. I can actually do a little bit more retouching on this area. Now, you can do also other further editings If you feel like you want to change the brightness, you want to change the contrast, or you want to change the color or the flowers. Now you know how to do it, feel free to do that, have fun with this assignment, and I'm looking forward for your work in the project section. Okay. 54. Adding Text: Now, let's talk about adding text into our images. Now, the first thing we're going to do, we're going to open Hong Kong dot PNG. And basically, what we're going to do, we're going to add some text here on top and another text down below here. Now, to add a text, all you need to do is simply go to the tool bar here under T. The short cut to add text is T. And you can also watch a short video or how to use it pretty handy. But otherwise, you just click and hold and make sure you choose one of these four options. I'm going to choose the first one horizontal type tool. And before I even click anywhere here, I'm going to show you that you have an option on top to choose the font style by clicking on this first drop down menu. And here you got lots of different kind of funds. You also have the option to filter the funds. Let's say you want to only have the Serre funds or perhaps you want to have all the script fonts or only the monospace funds, and it will only show you the one you actually have filtered. Now, I can go back to whole classes, you got more choice here. And I'm going to choose aerial, the very first one, nice and simple. And then under here, under the style, I'm going to choose regular. The size, I'm going to choose something a little bit bigger. I say I'm going to go for something like 60, and the type here, I've got sharp, crisp, strong, smooth. I'm going to just choose sharp for now. I'm going to choose centralized as a justification because I want to type a couple of lines, and I want that to be here right in the middle. And in terms of color, I'm going to click on the color here. And I'm going to choose a color from the color palette. But I would like to actually clone one of the color within the image just to keep consistency. And I'm going to click on one of these yellow area here. I'm going to just press. And now I'm ready to type some text, and doesn't matter where you actually click, you don't have to be precise because you can actually reposition the text later on. I'm going to just click there, and the text is quite big. I'm going to make sure that the text a little bit smaller. I say I'm going to go to 48. I still quite big. I'm going to go to 30. I still quite big. 24, I think 24 would do unless I'm going to go a little bit further down. Okay, probably, this is probably the best, and I'm going to type best Hong Kong hotels. And then press return to go to the next line for your anniversary. Then if you want to move the text, you need to place the cursor just outside. Don't go too far, otherwise the cursor is going to become just a normal cursor. Just make sure you're right about the proximity. And when you see the moving tool next to the cursor, you can click and hold and you can drag and you can move it around. Now, if I want to centralize this, all I need to do is simply go to the moving tool here on the left hand side, the first one, and then I'm going to click on the text, and I'm going to move it slightly until I see this line that tells me that it is right in the center of my page or at least in the middle of the page. And now I can actually do some other modification. Now, as you notice, when I click on the text again, here on the tool bar, and I click inside this text box. I can do more things with this text. If you notice on the properties panel here on the right hand side, I've got a few options on the character to change not just the size, but also the distance between the lines and the metric. This will change the distance between the letters, and this will change the overall distance of all the letters. Let's say we want to change the distance between the lines. If I go here and I choose one value, let's say 30, nothing happened. This is because we have to highlight the text, like I'm doing now, and then I can go back here into the distance and I can choose for instance, 30. And as you notice now, the text is distant between each other, 24, let's say I'm going to keep it like this. Perhaps I want to have the text a little bit wider. I can go here, and instead of 25, I'm going to have 50, Or perhaps I changed my mind. I want to go back to five, and I can do that. So this is control you have. You also can choose the paragraph, how you want to have it, you want to have a centralized or not, and also you have indentation and other things that you can actually work around. If you go back here and you want to change perhaps only the word Hong Kong, you can do that. You can highlight the word Hong Kong, and you can go on top here and choose perhaps a different size. Let's say I want to have it 24, perhaps you want to keep it the same size and you want to make it bold. You can go to bold here. Perhaps you want to also change the style. You don't want to have aerial, you want to have a different style for Hong Kong, and I'm going to go here on the style. And the cool thing is, if I just move this image on the side, If I click away and just go to the moving tool and hold down the space bar and just move the text here on the side. If I click again into my text here on the left hand side and click inside my text box, Now, when I highlight the word Hong Kong, and I go back into my font style here on top and the aerial. If I click on the drop down menu, I've got the option now to have a cursor over any of the style to see how it looks on the actual image, which is pretty handy. Let's say I want to have something like I like actually alkaline bold. I'm going to choose that and I'm going to just go back to the move tool here on the left hand side, I'm going to press the space bar, and I'm going to make this in the center again. Now I'm going to go back into my text. I'm going to click inside the text, I'm going to highlight the word hon Kong because I want to change the color and perhaps the size as well. I'm going to change the size, first of all, I'm going to make it a little bit bigger. Also, I'm going to change the color. I'm going to go to the color palette here on top. I'm going to essentially clone this nice magenta color on these buildings. I'm going to have that color there. Let's say when I have a little bit brighter that we go, and then I can click Okay, that we go now I've got if I click away from that, I've got this nice effect on the word on Kong. I can also type something else down below here. Now, keeping the text tool here selected, I can go down here and I can click on it, and I'm ready to type something else. Let's say I want to type something like summer. 2025. I'm going to just move the curse slightly outside to center. Now we go roughly and around here. And if I want to center precisely, I can go to the move tool here on the left hand side. Then go back in the text box and then just move it, click and hold and move it until it is selected. And I would like to have a different color. Now, I can choose the color either from the property panel because you can see the color here here on the right hand side, or down below here, I've got this floating very useful tool bar that allows me to change the color. I click on a little button there, the little color palette. Then I'm going to go into the white area and click on. Now I've got a nice white color of my text. If I change my mind, I remember always to go back to text here, select a text, and highlight it, then change the color. Let's say we want to have a little bit darker color. The reason why I'm doing this is because I'm thinking actually, I'm going to have something as a background for that text. Let's say I want to have this color, actually, I'm going to clone this color here, which is white, but I'm going to leave it like this. Press, and now I'm going to click on the move tool to see how it looks. Now, if I want to put some background here, perhaps under the text or under the title here on top, all I need to do is simply go to the layers panel here. Go one step back. Let's say I want to choose summer 2025 to have something underneath. So in order to do that, you have to click on the layer just down below that. Now I can go to the brush tool here on my tool bar and click on brush tool and make sure you choose a color for your brush. Now, the moment the brush tool has this yellow color, which are probably going to keep. But if you want to change, click on that little square to change your own color. Let's say I'm going to choose I'm going to choose this yellow again, which is the same, and click Okay. Now I can go down here. I'm going to make sure that my brush is a bit smaller and also is not too hard as well, b softer, and I'm going to choose the soft round to do. I'm going to just click again on top to confirm, and I'm going to go down here, I'm going to just make a couple of strokes here to make a little bit like this. This is just one of the way you can create text on your images to make it more entertaining, more exciting, and more engaging for whatever purpose you are thinking to use them. I fun with this, and I'll see you in the next video. 55. Adding Shapes: Now is the time to add some shapes into our image. Now, if you follow along, you should be able to see this image on your screen. Otherwise, open Hong Kong text dot PSD, so you're going to see all these layers here on the right hand side. Now, shapes in photoshops are veto graphics, and what that means is whatever size or whatever resolution you're going to make your image, those shapes are going to look great because they're made out of points and lines and not by pixels. Now, if I want to create a shape here on this image, let's say I want to have a nice rectangle just below just behind this text. All I need to do is simply go to the shape tool here under the rectangle, and I click and hold there, and I've got a bunch of shapes that I can choose, geometric ones. I've got rectangle tool, I've got ellipse, I've got triangle, polygon, line, and I've got also custom shape tool. I'm going to choose red tangle tool on top, and I'm going to draw a shape. Before I do that, I've got some options on top that I can change. Let's say I want to have the color of that different. I can click on the color picker, and here, I've got quite a few options that I can choose from different palettes. Let's say, I'm going to go to RGB, red, green, and blue, and perhaps I can choose one of these. Perhaps I can go to CMYK, or I can go to pastel colors or light color. You've got plenty to choose from. Or you can just clone a color from the image, which are going to show you in a second. Or you can actually choose a gradient color as well. These are the mix of two colors if you want to make it that way. But in this case, I've got some text, so I don't have to complicate myself. Now, to keep things simple, I'm going to choose something neutral. Let's say I'm going to choose for this color here, which is not going to contrast to any other color here for now, and then I'm going to change it later on. The stroke, I don't want to have any stroke means, I don't want to have a frame around it. I'm going to go to stroke, and I'm going to choose the first one here, I'll be the line. If you want to have a colored stroke, just choose the color that you like. But in this case, I'm going to just leave it as it is, without any frame. Then the pixels. This just shows you the thickness of the stroke. In this case. I'm not going to choose anything, so I don't mind. Lines. This is the lines, if you want to have dotted lines, if you want to have just a uniform line, I'm going to leave it as it is, this is the width and the height. I'm going to leave it like that, and now I'm ready to draw my shape. I'm going to just click anywhere here on the bar to confirm and now I'm ready to draw my shape. I'm going to now click anywhere here on the option bar to confirm, and I'm ready to draw my shape. I'm going to do something like that. I'm going to click and hold. And basically, I'm going to choose this guideline, you see in the middle, this magenta line that tells me that the shape is already centered. But I can change that later on. Do not worry. I'm going to let go, and this is the color that I've got. Now, before I even change the color, I want to have this shape with rounded corners. And as you notice I've got these little dots around my shape. All I need to do is pre drag one of the dots inward. And as you can see, my shape now has a rounded corners. I'm going to just leave it roughly about there. Then I'm going to basically move this shape just behind the text. I'm going to go to my layers panel here, and my text is actually down below here, which it says best Hong Kong hotels. I'm going to just drag this shape all the way down just below the text, as you know this now, you can see it. But this color is quite vivid. I'm going to change the color and you got a bunch of ways to change it. You can even change here on top on the feel. You can change here under the properties panel, but you can also change it under the layers properties, so I can double click there to reveal the color picker. Okay, blue is quite nice. I'm going to choose the blue. I'm going to have a dark blue. There we go, and I'm going to click Okay. Now if I want to see how it looks, I can go to the move tool here on the left hand side, click away, and this is how it's going to look like. Now, if I want to add any other shape, in this case, I'm going to go into the shape the tangle tool here, and of course, you go to have the geometric shape, but I really want to show you the custom shape tool. When I click on it, the option menu on top is going to show me an additional option here on top, which shows me the shapes. I can go to the drop down here and I can choose any of this shape. Now, if you don't see them open, all you need to do is simply click on this little down arrow. You might probably be able to see them like this. Just click on the down arrow there, and it will basically reveal all the shapes available. In this case, this is fourth anniversary, so I'm going to choose one of these flowers. And once you check the flower, all you need to do simply just click away, but place the cursor here on the top to confirm anywhere here on the top, and then you just are ready to draw your shape. If you want to make sure that the flower or the shape is proportionate, make sure you hold down the shift key on your keyboard, and then you draw the shape, and you can do the same thing on the other side. So it's up to you where you want to put it. And as you can see, when I click with the move tool here and click away, the shape is now there. If I want to change the shape, all you do is simply click on the shape, you want to change. In this case is those two, and then I can change the color. If I want to change the color, you can go to the properties bandle here. You can go down directly into the layers panel, double click on it, and it's going to reveal the color. Here, I can change the color, and it will change live for me to see how it looks. Let's go to something like yellow to make it more vivid. Perhaps use one of these yellow here and just press okay. And then I'm going to go to the move tool, click away, and this is how it's going to look like. Now, you have plenty of flexibility with text and shapes, have fun with that and I you in the next video. 56. Layer Styles: Any elements with transparency in photoshop can have some sort of effect in them, and these are called layer styles. Now, as you notice here on this file, which is called Hong Kong shape dot PSD. I've got shapes such as these flowers, I've got this shape, which is this rectangle, and I've got also my text and the text down below, and I've got this brush strokes here as well. So all of these elements have transparency in them. So if I want to verify that, I just need to hold down the option key or the old key in windows. On the layers panel, let's say I want to verify if this summer 2025 is transparency in the background. I can just click on the icon next to it, and I notice that I've got transparency all around it. So what that means is, if I want to apply, for instance, some drop shadows, if I want to apply perhaps a stroke around each letters, I can do that. Or if I want to apply any other effect that is available in photoshop, I can use that effect in here, and these are called layers style. In order to enable this layertyle, all I need to do is simply select what I want to modify. Let's say I want to go and I want to change the effect of this summer 2025. I'm going to click on it. And when I click on it, my layers panel here, highlight my text. And if I want to bring the layers style option, all I need to do is simply double click next to the text of the layer, not on the actual thumbnail of the layer. So when I do that, it's going to reveal the layer style. And here, I've got lots of effects that I can actually see and modify. Let's say I want to change the stroke. I want to enable the stroke and see how it looks with that. All I need to do is simply click on it and it's going to change with that, you know, style. Now, if I want to see the options for that stroke, I need to click on the actual line here because I I was the blending option. So if I click on strokes, I can actually see all the options for that. If I want to change the size of it, I can just go here and choose this slide that you change the size. I can even make a huge if I wanted to. So let's say I want to leave it like this. I can change the position outside, inside, center, you decide how you want to have it. Let's say I want to have it outside. The blending mode. This is how you want to blend it whatever is in the background. You can change the opacity as well. You also have the option to, you know, change the field type, if you want to have a gradient, if you want to have, you know, solid color, if you want to have a pattern with some patterns here that you got here available. Let's say I want to choose gradient, and then the gradient could be whatever you like. I can click on the little color picker. I can choose a gradient from here, I can have red. I can change the main color to be, let's say, a different one. In this case for celebration, I'll probably choose a red. I'm going to stick with red. I'm going to press okay, and you can even choose how the gradient is going to behave on the text, which is pretty cool. You've got lots of controls here. So just press okay for now, and then the angle as well, who's from as well. So that is something you can do as well. You can just experiment the scale of it. So how much you want the gradient to be. The method, if you want to have a smooth, you want to have a classic linear. So you have, again, plenty of choice, and I suggest you to experiment different effects for this. I can also add, for instance, drop shadows, I can add gradient overlay, I can add all sorts of different kind of effect. Now, let's turn off stroke, and let's choose another effect. Let's say we want to have let's say drop shadow, and we're going to click on drop shadow, and perhaps we want to change the opacity of it. We're going to change the angle. But in order to see the angle, we have to change the distance first, so you can see now the shadow is there. And I can choose the distance and the angle by choosing these two different options. I can also choose use global light, and that will match all the other shadows that you applied in any other shapes within the image. And let's choose that. We also have the spread, how big you want that to be. If you want to have it more sharp or a little bit more blurry, you can use size. You can also choose the quality and plenty more. So ever look at this and have fun with that. And also, if I want to, for instance, add stroke as well and add these two effects to my text, I can press. And as you notice now on the right hand side, on my layers panel, I've got my summer 2025, and just right below it, I've got my effects embedded to it. And I've got complete control of it. If I want to see the text without the effects, I can just click on the effect to see how it looks without and with, and perhaps I want to choose stroke and get rid of it. I can do that and I have only the shadows, or perhaps I want to see the shadow with the stroke, and I can do that as well. I have this on and off as soon as I click on the icon. So you have plenty of control with layer style, use them wisely, and you can make really amazing graphics in photoshop. 57. Applying Filters: There are many filters that we can apply to our images here in photoshop, and they're mostly found under the filter menu on top. When I click on it, I've got quite a few that I can explore. And down below here, I've got some classic ones, starting from three D, going to blur, down to distort, noise, pixelate, and so on and so forth. And for each of them, I've got filters or sub menu, essentially, that allows me to access to further filters. And of course, I'm not going to cover all of them, but I'm going to show you just some of them and how to apply those to this image. You have an idea of how to use them, how to enable disable them, and also how to switch between them to experiment at your own leisure. Now, we also have other filters which work in a separate environment within Photoshop, which are the one right above the classics, which are this one here, starting from filter gallery, which is a series of art gallery filters that you can apply to your images. You also have adaptive y angle, you have lens corrections, liquefy. This is used a lot to bend features on a person's face or perhaps on shapes on entire images as well. We also have filters that use artificial intelligence, which are neuro filters. We're going to touch on them in a later movie. But for now, let's explore some of the classic ones first. I'm going to go to the distort one. And I'm going to make sure that actually before I apply the filter, I'm going to select the right element in my image that I want to change. In this case here, I want to change this text here, a weekend in Cotswolds. I'm going to click on that. So it's also selected in my layers panel. Now that my layer is selected, I can go to filters on top, and I'm going to choose this sort. And let's try something like Spez. Now, before I click on this filter, I just want to make you aware that if you click on that, you might have a message from photoshop saying that you need to convert your text into a mart filter. And that will allow you to essentially amend and change your text without affecting the original text. So you can do all the different kind of editing you like without affecting the original text, which is very important. The reason why I'm telling you this is because at the moment, my layer is already a mart filter. As got here a little symbol under the layers panel. Indicates that this is is converted force Mart filters. And also, you notice here on this menu, what it says, convert force Mart filters is grade out, means my text is already converted as a smart filters. If yours doesn't say that, you can either click here to enable it as a smart filter, or you can just go directly to one of the effects. Choose the one you want, and then that dialogue box, and that message will come up and you have to press essentially convert to a smart filter and press ok and you can carry on applying your filter. I'm going to click on sphere Iz now. You're going to notice this dialog box floating on my screen, and then I can just go and scroll up here to discover what my text is. I can make the Zoom smaller and by pressing the minus and the plus here to resize your text to see the preview of it. And then here, we have the amount. This is the amount of effect you want to apply. This speriz effect can do these sort of things to your image, in this case to your text, and we also have the mode. You can have a normal mode, You can have horizontal only, and horizontal will only affect the horizontal lines. And you also notice. And you can also notice here on the right hand side, I've got this sort of squares that guidelines that tells me how much I'm stretching the text. And you also have vertical, and that would basically change the vertical view of my text at the moment that my text is quite small, so it's not going to distort the text as much. By if your text is much bigger, you're going to notice he's trying to stretch vertically as well. I'm going to go back to normal, and I'm going to make my text a little bit curved that way and press. So that is a sort of effect you can apply using the sphere. If you don't like that and you want to change it, you can go to the menu bar on top and edit and press undo. If you apply other editing on your image and you decide you want to go back or perhaps you apply other editing in your text, and you decide you don't want to have spheres anymore. You can actually change that because now that I apply sphere Is, under my layers panel, I've got my smart filters, and under smart filters, I've got spheriz. So I can turn that on off by simply clicking on the icon, and that will show me the before and after of my text with spheris and without sphere Is. I can also turn off the smart filter altogether by clicking on the eye Icon again, and then we'll turn off anything that is below the smart filters. So perhaps I apply sperie or I may apply another filter as well. So I can actually control all of my smart filters by turning the eye on and off, which is very handy. Now, let's say we don't like spheres. We want to go back. I can also remove it by right clicking on it here with my little hand icon, and then I can just go into delete smart filter. By doing that, I'm going to go to square one. So I haven't applied any other filters. That's why that smart filters, why thumnil disappeared. I'm going to go back to filter on top, and I'm going to apply another filter. In this case, I'm going to go to something like twirl. This will give me another kind of effect, twirling effect to my text, and I can change the amount, and I can see what sort of things does to my image. Let's say I want to have it like that, and I want to emphasize the word Cotswolds and press k and then we'll apply there. Effect for me. If I want to turn it on and off, now you know how to do it by turning the icon on and off. And if you decide you don't want to use it, you want to use something else. You can just go back to edit, and you can also do undo enable filter, and you go back to this view. I can also go to undo again, edit, disable and enable that to go back a few steps. It's just register everything that you do in photoshop until we come back to our original position. We're going to go back to filter again, and we're going to try liquify. I'm going to go to liquefy and in liquefy, I've got a different environment, as you can see, or I just want to show you something and press cancel for a second. When I go to filter and I choose one of these here on top, I've got these three dots after the actual name of the filter. That means those three dots means that when you click on it, it's going to open a separate environment within photoshop in order to do your changes. So I'm going to click on liquefy again. I've got a different environment with different kind of tools here on the left hand side. I'm not going to cover all of them. Of course, I'm going to show you the first one on top. And just to show you what sort of modification and alteration you can make to your image, in this case, the text. Let's say I'm going to go into the word Cotswolds. And I'm going to click and hold with my mouse to make this sort of changes to the actual letter C, and perhaps I want to make a change to the letter A. So you can actually change the font style almost with the liquefy. But you can do way more with this tool, of course. I just wanted to show you the potential that you have adding this tool at your disposal. And let's say also the W as well. Let's say I'm happy with this and I can press. Now I changed the text view and shape of it. As you notice now, I've got my liquefy here on the right hand side. I can turn it on and off, of course, to see how the text was and how it is now with liquefy. But I want to also show you another way to do your editing in your text in this case. If I select the text again, I've got an option to transform my text. We covered transform in previous videos in this class, and we also have an option to choose a shortcut which is Can t in Mc or Control T in Windows. But you can also go to edit and you can go to free transform to transform your text. By also have another option in the new photoshop to transform my text. At the moment, I've got the text selected here on the layers panel. I'm going to click on the button. I'm going to come up with this option. It says, Mart filters applied to this layer will be turned off temporarily while the transformer is being previewed. So I'm going to click. I want to it's okay for me. I'm going to do that. I'm going to disable the effect of the liquefy effect that I applied before, because I want to do something else with the text. For instance, when I'm in free transform, I can do something like this. I can just resize my text if I wanted to. I can also hold down the command key or the control key in windows and drag one of these corners to basically alter the way the text is actually coming up. I can go to a different corner, hold down the command key or control key, and I can make changes like this. Perhaps I want to make this I want to change position of my text to be a little bit more like that, to have ctsols, more in the center or perhaps just right above the roof of this hotel. I can you know, rotate that. I can do sort of things with command. The command does a lot of distortion as well. Let's say I'm happy with that. I'm going to just drag the middle there, doing this, and I'm going to put it back here. When I press done down below or press return or press the check mark on top. I'm going to basically confirm what I wanted. Again, under liquefy, you'll notice that the text has not retained the liquify on certain area of that. You can still go back to liquify here, double click on it to re enable liquefy, and I can just go back and make my changes if I wanted to, and I'm going to here, I can make similar changes that I did before. Once I finished, I can go back to here down below the bottom right corner, and now my text is being modified and I can remove it and reposition it if I wanted to. These are the potential that you can apply to your images using filters. Have a go with that, and I'm going to show you even more filters in the next video. 58. Neural Filters: Let's talk about neural filters. These are filters that have been developed within Photoshop using artificial intelligence, and you find them under the filter menu under neural filters. And by the way, I'm using the model dot PNG file that you find in your exercise files. Feel free to open that one and follow along. We're going to go to filters on top and I'm going to click on neural filters. When you open neural filters is going to open a separate environment within Photoshop. I can now zoom in the picture CID Command plus or control plus in windows just to focus on her face because we're going to do some changing on that area of the image. Now, here on the right hand side, I've got all the filters available for neuro filters. Now you can do some amazing amazing editing with this using artificial intelligence. But for this video, I'm going to show you the portrait section here. You got different categories. You got portraits, you got creative, so you can change landscapes. You can change color or colors of an image. You can change photography, perspective, super Zoom, depth blur, et cetera, which some of these are in beta version, which are still in development. But you can try them out. By the time you're probably watching this video, these will be probably already available, or perhaps you might see some new ones as well. You also have restoration. If you have some old images, you can go to photo restoration here and you can basically upload your old photos and restore them, and it's pretty amazing what you can achieve with this. Now, I'm going to go into smart portraits here. And mine already has this switch. If you don't see this switch, you probably see a little cloud next to it. Make sure you download the one you want to use. In this case, if you want to follow along, download the smart portraits and the makeup transfer. So I'm going to choose smart portraits, and I'm going to basically turn it on. When you do that, here on the right hand side, I've got a series of features. For instance, I've got be happy, facial age, hair thickness, high direction. I also have some options here to change her expressions as well and some other global settings. Now, I'm going to make sure that this face here is actually smiling a little bit more. So what I can do I can just drag the slider and the B happy to the right. So when you do this changes, make sure you do subtle changes first to see how it looks. And as you notice here, photoshop is processing the image in the cloud. So we have to wait just a few seconds to allow photoshop to his analyzing. And as you notice, the picture has changed, her face has changed. If you want to see what it does, if it makes some subtle changes, or you need to do simply just go to the switch, turn it off and see how the picture was and how it is now. I can just carry on here by dragging the slider a little bit further to see if I got a little bit better results here with her facing with the face expression changing. I can also change her age. If I want to make it a little bit older, I can just drag the age to the right and see what it does. And sometimes the change is so subtle that you might not notice something, but as you can see, it's changing a little bit. I can see a little bit more wrinkle here. Hair thickness. If you want to make the hair thickness, you know, change and increase, you can do that. You can go all the way to the right to increase her hair. Or I can go to y direction. I found this quite good to use. If I want to change the y direction to go to the left to the right, I can do that. On this particular image, it does a pretty good job. I can also drag it on the other side if I wanted to, to have a different kind of composition. And I can go to expressions down below here. I can make an expression of surprise or an expression of anger. Let's say I want to make expression surprised. I can go a little bit further here. And on the other side, I can do the opposite. It's not bad. And under anger, I can make a little bit more angry if I wanted to. Okay. That's cool. Now, under global and all the settings, I've got something like head direction, which again, might change in a good way if depending on the image. In this case, yes, I can change the direction, but the perspective of my model here does not allow me to make, you know, very credible changes. But yeah, I can do some changes here. Feel free to experiment on how to use this head direction. I can also use the light direction as well. This is a flash picture if the flesh is being used to take the photo in front, so I can actually just make sure that the light perhaps is more towards the right or towards the left of her face, and that can be changed. And it's really up to you how you want to go about this. This is the things you can do. Another thing I can do on the image, I can change the makeup. I can transfer the makeup from a reference image. Now, if I turn that on, what you can do here, you essentially use a reference image, which you also find on your exercise files, which is called makeup PNG, I believe. If you go to select an image and you go to select an image from computer, you can choose that file. Who is this one here, you should be able to see it and click Use this image. As soon as you apply that image, it will actually come up on the destination right away, and you can turn the switch on and off to see our looks before and after, essentially. It does a pretty good job also on her lips as well. I was expecting actually to see this paint effect as well on her face, but it only applies to the eyes and to the lips for this specific image. Feel free to experiment this, have fun with that, and I'll see you in the next video. 59. Assignment: Okay. Hello, and welcome back. Hopefully, you enjoyed this section of the course, and you're ready for another assignment. I'm using this file called Richmond park dot PNG, which is a photo I took quite a few years ago in Richmond Park in London. Now, feel free to use this image, or feel free to use any of your images if you have any image of your favorite park. Of your favorite outdoor place, or perhaps you have a favorite place where you've been for holidays, use there is up to you. And basically, I would like you to create a brochure cover for an event. Whether it is an outdoor event full of activities, for family and friends, whether there is a musical event, whether it is any sort of treasure hunt event or whatever you can think of, you can create. So feel free to use all these skills that you've learned so far on this course, especially the skills that you learn in the latest chapter, which is about creating text, creating shapes, adding filters, and creating also custom shapes as well. So feel free to use these skills that you have learned and perhaps apply even more. And get as creative as possible. I'm looking forward to see what you've done with your work and posted in the project section if you feel like you want to share it with the rest of the community. And in the meantime, I'll say good luck, F fun, and I'll see you in the next video when I'm going to show you one possible solution for this assignment with my own interpretation of the brochure cover. 60. Assignment Solution: Hello and welcome back. Have you done your assignment? Hopefully, you have done it and you posted into the project section here for the rest of the community to enjoy. And I'm going to show you my own version. If you want to follow along, feel free to watch this video. Otherwise, open the file brochure cover dot PSD, which you should find in the exercise files. So you see exactly what I see here. Now I hidden all the other layers above my background here just to show you step by step what I've done. So I started from this picture, of course, layer zero or background, and then I added the first shape, which was a rectangle. And I curved the corners and I made the feel transparent. So that's what I did. That's the first step. And I also I made an effect to the outline here, which is the outer glows. It's a simple yellow line, and then I add the outer glow. If I double click there, you notice this is the effect that I added, which is there, and I add this sort of opacity, and I applied this color to the effect. The second effect I added was a layer, which is a brush strokes that I created here. But I actually created a text first, and then I added the brush strokes just behind it. So the text is Richmond Park, which I also added the stroke effect around the writing and also the inner shadow as well to add a little bit of depth of the on the letters. And if I basically double click here, you'll notice that I added stroke, which is the one that you see here, the green one, and I apply this color. I also apply the inner shadow to have a little bit of death, and also nothing else, two things I added and I press. And then also actually, I added a drop shadow there, which I actually hidden because I thought that was a good idea. But after I added this nice fact on the first title, I changed my mind and I turned that off. And then you have rectangle. I add this rectangle here because I wanted to add the event and all the details about the event here. And also, I added a couple of custom shapes here, a reindeer and a moose even though this park does not have moose. But I found these two shapes into the custom shapes when I went into the shape here and the custom shape. So I added those two. I felt they were quite nice to have it. And then I also added on top here another text, which is basically says, bring your bicycle to immerse yourself in a full day of activities. And then I added another text down below here with the date, 24, 25th of May 2025. And then I also added another text, which was something that I took inspiration from a Zoo that I visited, probably going to see there in quite a few films as well, about Tarzan, about you know, wild life or any documentaries, perhaps that you saw on TV, and there we go, I've got a kind of a subtitle says a journey beyond discovery. And basically, I did this in a matter of 20 minutes or so. It doesn't really matter how long it takes as long as you get inspired of, you know, adding shapes, adding text, adding a little bit of graphics as well, and, you know, making some other manipulations using filters, and all that you learned so far. I hope you enjoyed these activities and this assignment and the rest of the course, and I'm hopefully going to see you in the next video. Okay. 61. Introduction to new AI Features: Welcome to this section of the course where we're going to talk about the differences between a W Photoshop 2024 and the version that I'm running in this class is 25.7 0.0, and the new version of photoshop, which is the 25.10, which is actually in beta version, but I just wanted to show you the main differences and the new improvement on the new version in terms of generative AI. If you're interested to know how to leverage generative AI in your creative workflow, this section is for you. So I'll see you in the next video with Photoshop and the power of generative AI. 62. Contextual task bar: Whenever we open an image in photoshop, you might have noticed this little bar floating bar that appears on your screen. This is a contextual task bar that is now available in photoshop. Now, this allows you to do several tasks and several actions within that image, and of course, it will change according to what you do. So this is something that will stay somewhere here floating around. If you don't see this task bar, All you need to do is simply go to window on the top here on a menu bar and make sure that down below here, you have the contextual task bar ticked. If it's not ticked, it's not there. So you would have to bring it back by going to window and click on contextual task bar. So this will let you do certain action to your image. One of them would be, for instance, select the subject. Perhaps we want to do that and start to edit our image. So if I click on that is going to determine where the subject is in my image, and it will highlight it with the marching ends. Effect, and perhaps I wanted to do something with that. As soon as I clicked on that, you might have noticed that the contextual task bar now has changed two different tools. So, for instance, if I want to use generative AI or generative field in this case, to use on this selection, I can do that. But I'm going to show you this later on in this class. Then we have also the option to modify the selection. Let's say I want to get rid of or redefine certain part of the selection. Perhaps I want to get rid of these little areas here that I don't want in the selection, and perhaps, yeah, the background there as well. I don't want to either. I can use that tool. And when I click on that, I've got several options. So I don't have to wonder about the layout of photoshop to find these functions. For instance, the transform selection is something that I find here, the edit transform. And I would have to enable the free transform on the image. But I can do this now directly here on this contextual bar. I can go here, I can click on Transform selection, and now I've got the selection tool enable. I can right click on my selection, and I've got all the same functions and options that I've got available under edit the transform. Which is pretty pretty dian time saving as well. And as you also notice when I enable the free transform, I also have the option to flip my selection and horizontally vertically. This is there just in case. I'm going to press cancel, and that will go back to the other contextual bar. Other thing I can do I can perhaps invert my selection. If I want to instead highlight the background, but not the people, I can just press there and that will do the opposite for me. And then I've got also the option to mask this, if I want to have a layer mask. I can also fill this with a color or feel with something else or perhaps using the content aware fill and do other things with that. I can also use the adjustment layer. So this will add an adjustment layer to my selection. And as you can see here on my adjustment bar, I've got all of my adjustment tools so that I can basically affect the background without really affecting the selection here, which is pretty handy. Then I've got this little ellipsis here that will allow me to pin the contextual bar into a specific position. Let's say I want to leave it there, and I can click on Pin. So whenever I use or I open any image, this contextual bar will stay here. And also, I've got the option to reset the bar position or to hide it as well. And this is kind of how you would have to interact with it when you open an image, when you open your work, and in the next video, I'm going to show you more on how to interact with this bar and hold its benefits. 63. Copy and paste subject in different images: Let's have a look of a couple of applications that we can actually benefit from using the contextual task bar on an image. So make sure you open this image to follow along or use your own image as long as you have a subject that you can work on. And basically, what we're going to do here, we have two options. We have select subject. If you want to select a subject quickly, you can use that, or if you want to remove the background, you can do that as well, and that is going to use generative AI as well to analyze the image and get rid of the background. So let's say we want to remove the background, so that is the easiest way you can work on an image. If you're happy with the selection, you can leave it like this. But as soon as you click on that, you have another bunch of options here on the contextual bar, which have basically subtract from a mask or add to mask. So at the moment on the layers panel, you notice I've got my layer mask here, which is being created automatically. So let's say I want to get rid of this selection here, which is part of the background. So I'm going to go to subtract from mask, and I'm going to make sure my brush strokes is a bit bigger by using the brackets and perhaps I'm going to go here with molar. And then basically deselect this part and make it transparent instead. So it's not part of this selection and perhaps here. And let's say I'm doing this quite roughly, just to show you the concept of what you can do with that quickly. And then we go now we have our subject selected correctly. If I want to use this selection somewhere else, let's say I want to copy this subject, and I want to paste them into a different image. I can do that. Make sure you click on the actual image here on the layers panel, just to make sure you're actually selecting the image, not the mask. So I'm going to do that, and then I'm going to go into edit, and I'm going to copy my selection. And let's say I want to now paste it somewhere else. I can go to file open. I'm going to open one of my images that I've got my downloads. It really doesn't matter which one you open for the purpose of this exercise, open anything you want and press open. Now if I want to paste it in here, I can go to edit and press paste and now I've got my image here, which is actually quite big in size. I can actually go to edit and go to free transform and basically, you can see, I've got these handles. I can actually make the image smaller by using command minus or control minus. As you can see, I can drag these handles to make the image a little bit smaller. In order to fit into my screen here, and then I press command zero or control zero in windows. And as you notice, I've got also the option to flip them around if I wanted to change that and press done once you finish. So the contextual bar keeps on changing according to what I'm doing, which is very handy. I don't have to wander around photoshop to find where the function is here and press done. And in the next video, I'm going to show you even more that you can do with the contextual task bar. 64. Generative Fill between old and new model: With generative AI, now we are able to create compositions, images, or a series of images just by using the power of prompt and with the power of firefly, which is an application of Adobe, which works mainly on the browser, but is now being implemented in photoshop and also an illustrator as well. Now, if I go to New file, we're going to create a new file from scratch, and basically, we're going to go to something like 1920 by ten 80. That's the format I would like to use. So you can actually go here under preset details and just type 1920 by ten 80 and make sure the orientation is horizontal. And by the way, you can also use one of these presets that you find here. You can go to something like web or perhaps you want to go to art illustrations and shoes view all presets, and then we go you got 1920 by 1080300 pixel per inch. That's the one I want and press create down below here. Now, I go our white canvas. Now, we have an option on the contextual task bar to import an image. But what we're going to do, we're going to actually generate an image from a prompt. So in order to do that, we have to go back into our market tool that we go rectangular market tool, and we're going to highlight the whole canvas for us by doing so. Perfect. Now we have the contextual task bar changing to generative fill and all these other lovely tools that we have available. I'm going to click on generative fill I'm going to type this prompt, which is a sandy beach, with a mansion and palm tree and palm trees in the background. Simple as that, press generate. So this will generate three solutions for me. Again. This is going to use the image two model within Photoshop, which is actually from the Adobe firefly software, which is within Adobe, and the new beta version as a different model. But this is what you can get out of Photoshop 2024 so far, which is pretty good, actually, very realistic as well. I've got three options. I'm going to just skim through them and see which one I like the most. Let's go here. So I'm going to choose this one, and I'm going to delete the other two. This again, this is my way to kind of free up some space in photoshop to delete, you know, the alternatives, the iterations because if you build up with this, generation is going to make your file humongous. So you don't want to make you know, huge files in photoshop. This is the first option for me. Now, I just wanted to compare quickly how it will look like this in the new photo shop better version. So I'm going to just copy this prompt. By the way, I'm using Photoshop 2024, and the version is the 25.7. And now I'm going to switch to Photoshop better, which is the version. 25.10 just to show you how this would look like here. I'm going to go to new file. I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to go into my art illustration. I'm going to click on V A preset and go to 1920 by ten 80 and do the same thing here. I'm going to go to my selection tool here. But the cool thing is, you see, I don't have to go to the selection tool and do my selection. It gives me ready an option here, an additional option. It says, generate image. And when I click on generate image, look what happened. Now I've got another floating window. That allows me to actually generate my prompt, and I've got also some prompt inspirations as well. So I can click on any of this to get inspired on how that is being created by using this prompt here. And I can just go through, you know, quite a few I've got here available to create something amazing from scratch, which is pretty cool. And also the content type, I can actually choose art or photo. Now, this is actually coming from Adobe Firefly, which is the software I was mentioning you before, and this is something that work mainly online, but on the web, I mean, but this is actually now available in photoshop directly. Which is pretty cool. Now, let's go and just paste the prompter we did before and make sure that this is the photo. And of course, we can add more filters here, but I'm going to leave this as simple as it is just by going to photo and leave everything else unaltered and just press generate. Again, I've got photoshop which is going to generate three different iterations to my background. I'm going to go back to my moving tool because this tool is just too distracting. So I'm going to just pass there. And as you notice, I did a pretty good job in rendering this image for me. I'm going to go and just choose the three different options. And I can see that the quality is pretty amazing. If I compare between what I've got here, which I guess is the image two model, you know, resolution within Photoshop and the new one, here, there is definitely a difference in terms of quality. Even the palms and, you know, the sand and these details here, I can actually see there is a difference. Between these three, I would say, I quite like this one here. I like the kind of the shading colors of the beach, the sands here on the shore. Beautiful. It's actually quite nice. These are the difference in terms of quality, which might look subtle to you on screen, but really, I encourage you to give it a go and see what you can do with generative fill in Photoshop 2024 and a new photoshop better 25.10. A fun with that, and I'll so the next video, and I'm going to show you another creative way to create images within Photoshop. 65. Replacing background with your creation: If you're following along from the previous video, you might have noticed we have our subject now in a different image. Now, we're going to go back to our people JPG here on the first tab. And if you see this transparent background, we want to basically get rid of the layer mask that we have here on the right hand side. We're going to click on that. And one way to delete it is by pressing back space on your keyboard. Or perhaps you just right click on it and just press Delete layer mask. And that will basically bring back our image as it was originally. Let's take advantage of the generative feel feature that we have available now on our task bar down below here. So what we can do, we can actually select our subject. We're going to go and deselect to start again. We're going to click on the image again, and we're going to have the select subject and remove background functions again. I'm going to click on select subject. And now we're going to basically contract a little bit in order to basically create a new background and have a nice smooth blending mode between this subject and something that we're going to generate in just a moment. Now, I'm going to go on top the select, and I'm going to basically go to select and modify I'm going to go to contract. And I'm going to use something like five pixels enough is just going to basically contract the selection a little bit inwards. I'm going to just press there. And as you notice, it went a little bit inwards, just a tiny bit so that when we merge this into a new background, it's going to look like more realistic, in a sense. Now, we are ready to do our inversion. We're going to invert the selection. So basically, we highlighting everything else but the subjects. And now we are ready to take advantage of generative feel by clicking on generative feel down below here, and we're going to type a prompt. Let's say I want to have a sandy beach in a tropical with a tropical background with a tropical forest forest in the background. Palm trees and that's a palm trees. I'm going to leave it as simple as that. Press generate. And now, photoshop will generate basically three different background. And as you notice, I've got three thumbnails here loading up with three different solutions to my prompt, and this will cost me one credit. So bear in mind, three generations will cost you one credit. Now, I've got this first selection, which is quite nice as you can see the blending worked pretty well apart from the fact that this hand didn't come up properly, but I can adjust it later. Let's check the second solution, which is this one here. It is my second background here and the third background here. It does an amazing job with the shadows, I have to say, and even reflects the color of the skirt here, which is pretty amazing. I can actually use this chevron here on the task bar to switch between the generations. Let's say I want to use. Let's see. I think this one looks more believable. I'm going to go for this one here and I'm going to leave it as it is. And this is just one other way to create a background out of a selection. Ever go. Sometimes, the results are more surprising and more satisfactory than this one. But this is what I wanted to show you in terms of generating a background, using your subject, have fun with that. I'll see you in the next video, and I'm going to show you the same thing on the beta version of Photoshop. 66. Comparing with Beta version: Hello and welcome back. I'm now using Photoshop beta version, which is the 2,510.0. As the time of this recording, today we have the latest update about this beta version, and also the new version of Photoshop, which is 25.9 which also had some bug fixes and also they added another additional brush tool, which I'm going to show you in a separate video. E a look at the update videos in this class. But for now, let's compare this selection that we did in the previous video with a new version. I'm going to go into the same file, people JPG. I'm going to select the subjects here with the same contextual bar that we had before. I'm going to click on that. That hasn't changed, still there. And this selection here is actually more accurate, even though I had this person here, which I didn't want to comparing to the previous version, which it didn't include that person. So it's becoming sort of more clever in terms of highlighting subjects. But I'm going to my selection tool here under Quick Selection tool, and I go to make sure is under the minus sign here on top because I want to brush the selection away. I don't want to have that person in my selection. And I'm going to now go into subject into modify, I'm going to expand this selection a little bit more. I want to include a little bit more of these people. I'm going to go into probably three pixel will be the selection that I want. I'm going to press. Now they're slightly extended and hopefully, is going to have a better result. I'm going to just now invert the selection to invert the background. And I'm going to go into generative fill I'm going to type a sandy beach with palm trees. I could actually add in the background, but I'm going to leave it as it is and just press generate. This shouldn't make a lot of difference in terms of the generation is more like the quality that I want to show you. The difference between the model two in 25.7 version of Photoshop and the new version beta version, which is model three. Very similar to what we had before, the shadow here, it's also more accurate as well, comparing to the previous version, but not significant second version here, and the third version. Okay, so considering that this photo is not super sharp, which I taken this photo quite a few years ago in 2013, I believe, 2014. So it was quite a long ago, but I wasn't really a good photographer either. So these people were also moving. So that's why they're a bit blurry. But I would say that I will probably choose this as my final image. I could generate even more. Let's try a second attempt, but I will probably choose this image as my alternative to the three that I've got. But just to try another time, another go. And give photoshop a little bit more trust. I'm going to see if I've got a better results. I got here, the first one. And the second one and the third one. I would probably say I would go for the first one here. So this is my final results in the new photoshop better, not significant improvement in terms of what we're trying to do here by selecting the subject and cutting the background off and creating a new one. But if you watch the rest of the videos in this section, you're going to notice the quality difference in terms of generative feel and the images that you can generate using the new model three in Photoshop beta comparing it to the previous model. Now, you're going to see a lot of improvements in the future, so don't get discouraged if you don't see significant changes between these versions, but I just want to make you aware these are the changes, this is what you can achieve and try with different prompt and with different backgrounds and see what sort of results you're going to get out of this. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next video for more. 67. Remove tool Vs Generative Fill: I wanted to show you a couple of ways to remove elements within an image, and I'm using the same example image that I used in the previous video. Now, to access to the removed tool, you have to go into this little plaster icon here on the tool bar, which is our remove tool. And when you click and hold, you should be able to see the removed tool, which is the second option here. Now, when I go there, I can actually choose a brush tool, let's say, this size because I want to remove basically this person here passing by, ruining the composition of my image. And perhaps I can actually try and attempt to remove these people here in the background. But I'm going to try with this person first. So I'm going to just go here and with this remove tool, what I'm going to do, I'm going to basically just give it like a few brush strokes to make sure that I cover this person. And I've kind of been very generous here and leave a little bit more space because I want to be able to not have any blemishes from the person. And as soon as I release the cursor, there is a progress bar here that will try to remove that subject from my screen. It looks like I did a decent job, even though it kind of altered that, you know, that stone bench in a back and also this part of the stones as well. Which is not something that I would like to have on my image, especially this handle here is being also dislocated in a way. So I would have to probably try to use another tool. So this sometimes works wonders, but in this case here, one actually do the justice for this picture. I would have to basically go here and readjust this using other brushes, which I don't want to really do. So I'm going to go back into edit and press on undo removed tool, and I'm going to go back here. And now I'm going to use another tool. So I'm going to go into my selection tool here on the object selection tool. And now photoshop will analyze my image. And if I just have a the cursor over any of the subject, including the intruder here, I can just try to remove them from my scene. And as you can see, in the background as well, I can highlight other people, which is wonderful. Now I'm going to click on this person here. And with that selected, I'm going to have my magenta highlighting effect and my marching ends as well. And now I'm ready to use generative field down below here. And when I click on it, I will leave the prompt section here empty and click on generate, and that we'll basically trying to analyze the area and remove that person from my scene. Let's have a look what sort of results we get. Sometimes you get pretty good results, but for this sort of scene, as you can see here, let me just remove this magenta highlighting by going back to the moving tool, And as you can see, I've got still a little bit going on there. Looks like there is a little bit of blemishes from there. It's trying to generate something in the back that is not quite sure what it is. So I'm going to try to the second option here, which did a pretty good job and the third one as well. But as you notice, struggled to determine the surrounding of the person. So I would have to do something else in order to fix that. So I'm going to do, press do here, edit. I'm going to go back a coup of steps until here. And now, when I have that selected, what I'm going to do, I'm going to expand this selection in order to help photoshop to blend this silhouette to something that I can work on essentially. So in order to expand the selection, we're going to go into the select two here on top of the menuar. We're going to go into modify, and we're going to click on Expand. Now, I'm going to stick with 20 pixels. I use this usually for the subject and for this kind of scenarios. So I'm going to just press. So that will extend my selection, as you notice here, I've got my selection a little bit extended outward, and then now I can go to generative field and do the same thing and generate and see if Photoshop now does a better job in removing that person. Sometimes it might work. Sometimes you have to work your way around it. But in this case, patient, we're going to see what results we get. Okay that's pretty good. This was very good. The second one here also gives me another version of the stone bench, which is not really ideal. The third one, that could actually work. And I think I would choose this option here. Perfect. I'm going to go to my properties panel here. I'm going to delete the other two. I don't need. And this is pretty much what you can do with generative AI compared to the remove tool that you have here on the left hand side. The remove tool does not require any Internet connection, and it does not take any of your credits. But with generative feel, you will get some credit out of the way because you used it. But of course, the results are way better with generative feel. Have it go with that with your own images, and of course, interchange between the remove tool and the generative field tool and see how you're finding it. Sometimes the remove tool does a good job, and you don't have to do, you know, a lot with the rest of the image. Otherwise, just go to the generative field and use that as your way to remove elements from the image. So I fun with that, and I'll see you in the next video with more tips and tricks about generative fiel. 68. Replacing elements within an image: Let's make a good use of generative AI by changing the aspect of certain items within an image and completely change the vibe of the composition. In this case here, I'm using three models dot JPG. I got these three lovely ladies in a classy look, and I would like to change them in a more cozy or sporty look and change completely the vibe of this image. The first things we're going to do, we're going to use the select subject. This is one of the first things I would do now to do this change, and of course, it's going to select all of them, including their heads. Now, we have to deselect their heads and hair from the equation. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go to my lasso tool, first, well, I'm going to try that first. And I'm going to essentially go over here and holding down the command key. I'm going to deselect the hair. And I'm going to make sure that I include a little bit of skin here of the neck, which is not completely necessary, but I'm going to try to attempt to do that. And also, I'm going to do the same thing here, little little bit of neck and part of the neck from the equation. Then I'm going to go here. I'm going to go on this side here and I'm going to get rid of this area, and now I'm going to close the loop, and now I've got a good selection, and now I'm going to go into here and include a little bit of this selection from the equation. I'm going to do the same thing here, and I'm going to include that as well, actually exclude that. I need to exclude this, and I'm going to go here and do the same with the minus. I'm holding down the option key or the old key in windows, and I'm going to just make sure that I've got a good refinement to remove also this belt from the equation. I'm going to do that. Actually, I'm going to include it. I want to get rid of it. So I'm going to include that. And I'm going to now try two. I don't mind to actually add that into the generation and that as well, a little blemish. I'm going to leave it like this. I'm going to go to my generative fiel, I'm going to type here. Who the jumpers, make it very simple and I'm going to press generate. So here, I'm going to try for the first time to do this to see if I can manage to change all their clothing in one go. And I'm going to have basically three different options. Okay, I think it's done a pretty good job. Is first version a second version, and I've got the third version here. I have to say that the most realistic one. I have to say, I also I'm checking here at their shoulders as well and proportions because, you know, generative AI does a good job, but of course, there is an element of sometimes artifact of that we need to check ourselves. And I would say I will go for this one. So this is quite nice. So I fun with this experiment and try with your own images as well, and I'll see you in the next video for more about generative AI. Okay. 69. Conclusion: Congratulations. So you reached the end of this class. Hope is being useful. It's been informative and somehow inspiring to get you started in this amazing world of image editing, image manipulation, and even image generation nowadays with the new features within Photoshop. Now, I really hope you're going to use this course as a reference point to go back to in order to refresh about the basics. But as you know, photoshop is a never ending evolving software that will improve with new features and new tools. So keep up with the updates, and I'm going to do the same, of course, on my side. And I really looking forward to see your review and feedback about your learning experience here, and this will not just help me, but it will help other students as well to enroll in this class. And with that said, good luck with your future endeavors, and I'll see you very soon in another course. Bye.