Learn The Basics of Adobe Photoshop

1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Elizabeth. I'm a digital artist. I mainly work in Photoshop creating photo manipulations in this class where we'd be walking through the basics of Adobe Photoshop. This class is for any skill level. So if you haven't worked in Photoshop before or you need to brush up on some skills. This class is for you. We will start by guiding you through Photoshop interface, make our way through the tools available in Photoshop. We will go through the basics of layers, adjustment layers, and how do we use masks to blend images together? Finally, we will walk through how to use Camera Raw Filter to improve your images. You will also be creating several projects in this class, we will use multiple filters to turn a portrait into a cartoon. Then, for our final project, we will be blending several images together to create a photo manipulation. Thank you for taking the class. Let's dive in. 2. Class Projects: In this class we'll be doing for projects. Each project is going to help you get some practice in different tools or practices in Photoshop. The first project we're going to be creating a 2D shape and then adding exposure leaders to give it shadows so it looks more 3D. And the second project we're gonna be using the stamp tool to fix an old photo. The third project, we're going to turn it portrait into a cartoon. And for the final project, we're going to put all the things that we've learned together into one image. We're going to take multiple images and blend them into one photo manipulation. All the projects should be posted in the project section of this course. Please feel free to let me know what kind of tools you use or adjustment layers you use on each project. I look forward to seeing what everybody creates. I hope you have fun. 3. Interface: All right, so the first thing we want to do is open Photoshop. And once you have Photoshop open, depending on how you open it, whether you drag an image over the icon or you just stretch open it. You're gonna see this window. This window is where you can create a new document. You can choose custom sizes that they already have set up for you. And they have different things depending on what you're going for. For photos, print illustrations, the web, film. Right now we're just going to work in the twelve hundred eighty, seven, twenty pixels. But you can also create your own over here. If you wanted to do something by inches, you can do like five by seven. Just like that for right now we're just going to click this and hit Create. Another way to bring a photo into Photoshop is you can simply drag it over and then it'll come in. Now once you have your document open, you're going to be in photoshops main interface. The interface is set up from different panels. Let me reset my interface so we go back to the original. This is how it's gonna look when you first open it. This is their default setting. And there's different panels around the interface. On the left side is going to be your toolbar right here. You have so many tools and we're gonna go over these and use these throughout the course. To choose a tool. You simply click on it. If you look at the little arrow next to the tool that indicates that there's more tools underneath that initial tool. If you just click on that tool, it'll show you the other tools underneath. For instance, we go to the eraser. You have different types of erasers. The brush, you have the pencil and other types of brushes. The shape tool, the paint bucket tool. So this is not just one tool here. There's many tools underneath those. If you can't find something, just go to the tool that is most similar to it and click on it and you'll probably be able to find it. Along the top is your control panel. Up here. This panel changes with every tool that you pick is basically how you set the settings for that that tool. Let's say you have the brush tool. And if you go up top, you'll see the different settings for the brush. You can change the size of the brush, the hardness, which is the edges of the brush. You can change the type of brush and the shape of it. You can change the opacity, the flow, the smoothing, which I will explain later. If you go to the bottom right, this is your Layers panel and this is where you're gonna do a lot of work. Every time you bring an image into Photoshop, it's going to create a layer. Every time you want to do an adjustment, you add a layer to it. We'll go over this more in depth in the next few sections. Above your Layers panel, There's a few different panels under here. This one is basically where you can just do quick changes to your setup. If you wanted to see rulers, you can just click there in the ruler, appear on this side and the top. If you go to adjustments, this is where you will alter your adjustment layers that you add to your composition. Above this is your colors. Your color swatches, gradients, and patterns. Along the top is where you can open files, export files, where you're editing is your Image Adjustments, your layer adjustments. Your type select helps you select different portions of your image. Filter is a filter gallery. But if you go to Window, you can add other panels to your workspace. If you wanted to create a custom workspace, this is where you would come and you'd select what panels you want in your workspace. And then you can save that workspace so that it's, every time you open Photoshop, it's there for you. So when I use Photoshop, I like to have the brush settings available. And then you can click this little arrow just to close it down. I also like to have the history. I can see what I've done. You can see this is where I brought the image in. If you want to just undo something, this is a great way to undo things. So this is where we brought the image in. This is where it was rasterized. And you can close that out and then it's gonna be right here. Another thing I do is I bring my toolbar to the right to move a panel. All you got to do is click and drag. And when you see the blue line show up, That's where that panel is going to end up. If you just drop it right there, There you have it. Than to save that. Go to your Window, go to Workspace, and just click New Workspace and then just title it. Just going to name it new for right now, click Save, and then go back to workspace. And it'll be right there for you, that's your new workspace. So this is just the interface for Photoshop and there's way more to get into which we will do throughout the class. 4. Layers: In Photoshop, we work in layers. So if you go to your layer panel down on the bottom right, you'll see that I have three different layers. I have a polygon layer, a triangle, and ellipse. The wavelet layers work in Photoshop is they are stacked on top of each other. The way you see them in your layer panel is how you will see them in your composition. So the ellipse will be on top. Since it's on top, the triangle is in the middle. You see how it's covering part of this polygon and it's behind this ellipse. And then the polygon is on the bottom. There are many different types of layers. There are also things called adjustment layers. And adjustment layers lets you adjust layers. You can change the hue and saturation, make them black and white. You can change the curves and levels of your layers. If you add an adjustment layer like an exposure layer to your composition, It's going to adjust every layer that is below it unless you clip it to a certain layer. So let's say we only wanted to change the exposure of the triangle. Click on that layer and you drag it down and change the order of your layers. You'll see that now it's only affecting the two below it and not the ellipse. But if we just wanted to affect the triangular layer, we're going to clip it to the triangle layer. So it only affects that one. And do that you can either right-click on your exposure layer and create a clipping mask. Or you can click this little square with the arrow, and that'll clip that to just that triangle layer. Then you can go in and adjust that single layer instead of your whole composition. Another thing that we're going to work a lot with in photoshop, our layer masks. Layer masks allow you to hide or reveal parts of a layer. To add a layer mask to a layer, you simply click on the layer and you go to this icon with the square and the black circle. Click on that, and now you have a layer mask. There are multiple ways to use layer masks. You can subtract or add from a layer using the paintbrush. If you click on your Layer Mask, click on your paintbrush. You only work in black and white. Black is going to remove parts that layer, white is going to reveal parts of that layer. You can also change the opacity of your brush to only slightly remove it or faded out. If your opacity as at a 100, it's going to remove parts of that layer completely. Another way to use it is to use it by selecting if you have an area of your layer selected, let's just select part of this ellipse. While it's selected, if you click the layer mask, it's going to only show the part that you selected if you want to invert that and showed the part that wasn't selected. If you have your layer mask selected and click Command or Control, I will invert the layer mask to show the opposite. Layer masks are perfect when you want to blend multiple images together, which is something that we will do later on in this class. There are also good if you want to use them on like an exposure layer. If you want to add shadows to something, Let's say we wanted to add a shadow to our ellipse. Let's just get rid of these. Move this over. Let's say we wanted to add a shadow to these ellipse to make it look not as flat. So we can add an exposure layer to it. And we're going to clip it to the ellipse. And then we're going to bring the exposure down. Then if we invert it, it'll take the entire exposure layer away. And then we can paint some of the back to give the ellipse some shadows with that Blair mass on the social layer selected, hit Command or Control I. And then with your paintbrush selected, make sure white is in the foreground and that's going to bring parts of that layer back. But since we're gonna have a shadow, we're going to bring the opacity down. So it's not as apparent. If you bring your brush up a little bit and just start painting around your ellipse. You can start giving you some shadows and some form to make it look not as flat. You can also change the opacity of the exposure layer if you want. It's not as apparent. 5. Smart Objects: All right, In this section of the course, we're going to learn about smart objects. Smart objects are great to work with because you can work with a non-destructively. And what that means is that any changes you make to a smart object layer has a capability of being undone or revised later on, the changes aren't permanent. For example, if you take this normal layer right here, Let's say that we adjust the hue and saturation of this image. Just bring the saturation all the way down. Let me hide this first. You can see it's black and white and then let's go do something else. Like let's change the levels of it really quick and I'm just doing anything. Let's say that I wanted to change the hue back and add some color to this image. I would have to undo everything. To do that. I couldn't just go back and change the hue and saturation. So I'd have to undo the black and white. I would have to undo the UN saturation. But if we convert this to a smart object, we can do as many things as we want to layer and go back and change those filters. So let's convert this image to a smart object. So if you right-click on your layer and convert to smart object, you'll see this little icon come up on your layer thumbnail. And that lets you know that it's a smart object. So let's go ahead and change the hue and saturation again on this one. Now it's a smart object. Let's just bring the saturation down like we did before. Okay, then let's change the levels like we did before. Just change, change that, hit Okay. And now you'll see here that you have smart filters for the levels and the hue and saturation that you already did. Let's say you want to go back and bring some color back into this image, let's double-click on a hue and saturation, and then just bring the saturation backup. Let's say you want to change the levels again, just go back and double-click and change your levels. This is why Smart Objects are great, because you can alter things that you've done to them. And if you want to make things that you bring into Photoshop, smart images automatically go up to Photoshop, go to your preferences, go to General. And then click right here where it says always create smart objects when placing. This will allow things that you place into Photoshop. Convert it to smart objects automatically. Whenever you can convert your layers as smart objects. 6. Exposure and Hue Adjustment Layers: In this section of the course, we're gonna talk about a few different adjustment layers. Adjustment layers allow you to add color, change exposure, and adjust the tonal ranges within your image without permanently changing the pixels on your layers or image. They also allow you to go back and adjust them at anytime. The first one we're going to talk about is the exposure layer. Exposure is the amount of light in a photo overexposed images or were given too much light when taken, underexposed images were deprived of light when they're taken. When you add an exposure layer to your comp, it allows you to increase or decrease the light of your image. So let's start off by adding an exposure layer to an image. Go down to your layers panel and click on the circle and find exposure. This is your exposure layer and it automatically comes up with a mask. Above that should be your Properties panel. And if you don't see that, go to the Windows and down to properties and you'll have a pop-up. The first slider is going to be your exposure. This allows you to darken or lighten your image. Do that. The second is the offset. The offset slider gives you more control of your darker parts of your image like your shadows. If you bring that down to the right, you'll see that the darkest part of the images are being adjusted. And the Gamma allows you to control the mid tones of your image. So if you adjust that, you'll see that those are being manipulated the most. As a manipulation artists, I use exposure layers to add shadows to a composition to make the image look more three-dimensional. For example, I had this ellipse here and I add an exposure layer to it. And if I bring that exposure down, say right about there. And if I invert that mask by clicking on it and hitting Command, I hitting B on my keyboard to bring my brush up, making sure white is in the foreground. Bring my brush size up by hitting the right bracket button. Make sure you opacity is down. You can paint in shadows. Moms, sorry, I forgot one important step. We need to clip this exposure to the circle. So it only affects inside of that circle. To do that, let's right-click on the exposure layer and create clipping mask. Now you'll see that it only paints inside of that circle. You'll see that it's starting to give it some shape. Let's say that you wanted to add more than one tonal range into your circle. You can do that by adding another exposure layer. Just go to the adjustment at another exposure layer. Click that exposure layer to the circle. Go back to your first layer and see where the exposure is. It's at negative 2.34. So let's go to the new exposure layer and bring it to about negative 1.5. This is gonna be our middle shadow. Let's invert that mask and then paint those back in. Just to get a little bit of a mid-range. And if you undo that, you'll see, I think I put too much in, so we're going to take a little bit out over here. Exposure leaders don't always have to just do shadows. You can also add highlights to it. If you want to add another exposure layer and make it brighter in certain areas, they were the lightest hitting the sphere. Clip that to your sphere, and then invert your mask once again. Make sure you're exposing your opacity is down. And then paint that light back in a little bit. Let's remove these and show you the difference. This is your darkest shadow. This is your mid-range, and this is the light. Exposure leaders are great if you want to increase or decrease the exposure of an image or add some shadows to a scene. Another great adjustment layer is the hue and saturation, which will allow you to alter the hue or the color of your image, increase the saturation or the intensity of the color in your image. So let's go back to that first image that I had. Delete the exposure layer, and let's add a hue and saturation adjustment layer. In your properties panel, you'll see hue saturation and lightness. Just like I said before, the hue is going to change the color of your image. This is great. If you want to change the color of someone's t-shirt, the saturation slider will decrease the color in your image or remove the color in your image. Or you can make it more vibrant by increasing the saturation. And the lightness is similar to your exposure where it's going to make it darker or lighter. Let's undo all this and let's delete that. Another great adjustment layer that I use is a solid layer. These are great for backgrounds. Let's say you wanted to add a background to this circle. Just go to your adjustment layer, hit solid color, pick a color that is not a pretty color. Let's say we just wanted to do a blue. Now you have a solid background. Drag that below your circle. Now you have a background color. I also use these to add some glow or some highlights to an image. Let's say we wanted to add some glow to these lights. Let me zoom in on here really quick. So let's add a solid color. And I'm gonna pick a yellow hue. Click, Okay, Let's click on the mask, hit Command or Control I to invert that mask to remove it. And now we're going to paint back just over these lights to add some glow. Make sure your brush is soft. Make sure your brush is hardness is all the way down so that the edges are feathered. You Steve, you just click on the light. It adds some glow to the lights. This lays dead, so we won't do that one. Makes sure you don't go too crazy because if you just go nuts, it starts to look a little burnt out. Zoom out. And you can see the before. And after. This adds a little extra touch, adjustment layers or something you can get really creative with. And we're gonna talk about your first project in the next section. 7. Adjustment Layer Project: For the first project, I want you to create a circle and practice adding exposure layers, mask and painting the shadows in to add some form and dimension to the Circle, Be sure to blend those shadows using your mass and brush tool. Also practice adding a hue and saturation. Practice using your keyboard shortcuts, especially the B for the brush tool and the x, we're changing in-between black and white to remove and add onto your masks. Be sure to upload your project to the project section of this course and let me know what type of adjustment layers you used. There is no right or wrong way to do this project. Be creative, explore the different types of adjustment layers and have fun. I'll look forward to seeing what you create. 8. Selection Tools: In this portion of the class, we will go over different ways to select things in your composition. There are many different ways to select things and alter your selection. And you just need to figure out which way works best for you. The way I do things might not be as easy for you as they are for me and vice versa. So to start, we're going to go with the basic selection tools. Go to your toolbar and you'll see a rectangle or a circle. This, these are the basic selecting tools. Let's draw out a shape really quick just to have something to select. If you just select the rectangle, you're going to get a basic square or rectangle if you hold down shift, it'll be proportioned equally on the sides. If not, you can have a rectangle. Everything inside these marching ants is what is selected. If you invert your selection by hitting Shift Command or Control I, everything inside that selection is what's not selected. And to go back, just hit Command Z. If you want to alter a selection even more, you can go up to your option bar on the top and hit Select and Mask. This is where you can feather out your selection or smooth out to go over the options, go to the right and you'll see view. You have different ways of viewing your selection. You have the onion skin, which you can't really see here, but you also have overlay. So anything in the white is what is selected. Anything in the red is not selected. You also have the marching ants as you did before. But for right now I'm going to work in black and white because it's the easiest to see the feathering and the smoothing. If you go down to radius, this will determine the size of your selection border. Use a small radius for sharp edges and a large one for software edges. You'll see how the edges get blurry. Go down to smooth. This will smooth out your selection. So you have a jagged selection and this will help smooth it out. And you can see here that'll round off the corners of this rectangle. Feather. Makes your edges soft. If you increase the feathering it you'll get somewhat of a gradient selection on the edges. If we increase that, you'll see how it feathers out your selection and it's not as harsh shift edge is going to allow you to increase or decrease your selection. You can also invert your selection here as well. Let's click Cancel. If you look up in your options bar, you'll see these square boxes. These are areas where you can add or subtract to your selection. The first one is your initial selection. So if I have a selection and I go ahead and drag out another selection, that first question that I had, it's gonna go away. If you want to add to a selection that you have, you're going to click the one with the two solid boxes. If you click inside of a selection, it's just going to add to that one. You can also go on the outside of a selection and do that. Next to that is your subtract selection. Wherever you intersect your selection boxes, it's going to subtract that. You can also do this by being in your edition selection and holding down your Alt or Option key. You'll see that the plus sign by the cursor changes to a minus. That's just a quick shortcut so you don't have to go back up to your toolbar. And then here you have the intersect. They intersect will only leave the portion of the selection that is within the two selections. Let's say we have this box and we drag out another box. And where those two shapes are intersecting, That's the only selection that's going to be left. You'll see that this new box, whatever those two boxes are intersecting, is what's left. Let's de-select everything. And if you go back to your toolbar, you'll see this Leso. There are few tools underneath the lasso tool. We have the Polygonal Lasso tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool. The first lesson tool is basically free and you can click and drag, draw wherever you want, Wherever you let go. So let's say I let go here. It's going to automatically draw a lines at the beginning of my selection. And then everything within that shape is what's selected. Let's de-select that. Hold down on your lesson two and go down to the next one. This one's just going to give you straight lines. And if you double-click, it will close off your selection. Undo that. The next one is your Magnetic Lasso Tool. The magnetic tool is just going to make automatic points along the line that you're drawing. Say I follow along this shape, you'll see that there's points being made automatically. This works great for straight lines. Just be careful because if you go out of the shape. It's going to follow wherever your cursor is. And if you double-click, it'll close off your selection. The next few tools operate mainly on artificial intelligence. If you go to the Object Selection tool and you hover over it and click, you'll see that you get a selection automatically. You can also use this tool by just drawing a circle around the object you want to select. And it'll do its best to select the object. It might not work as well if you're in, your area is really busy. So let's say that we wanted to just select this person. Let's draw a circle around him. It does pretty well. You'll see that it selects areas that are outside of him. You just need to be careful with this. You can always go back in and alter this selection by using your lasso tool. And just de-selecting the area that you don't want. The next selection tool is going to be the quick selection. The quick selection tool. You just click on the area that you want selected and the artificial intelligence determines the area around it as well that will get selected. Sometimes it goes a little too much and you can just hold down the Alt or Option key and then click again to de-select the area that you don't want. Again, this isn't the best tool to use unless you have a clean composition like this shape. You just click on this shape and drag a little bit. It's going to select the whole shape. The next one is the magic wand tool. And this tool makes selections based on color. If we click on this yellow building, you'll see that it's selecting that hue of yellow. We click on the shirt. It's going to select all the black in that area as well. In newer versions of Photoshop. You can also go up to the Select menu. And you have options to select by color range and also by subject. So let's say that we have this shape and we just want to select the subject and it will select that shape for us. In a busier composition, it might not work as well because it doesn't really know what the subject is. You can also select by color. So if you go to select and color range, and let's just say we want to select the white. You'll see that the white part in this little box is the selection. Okay? And if you want to pick the red, just click on the red with your eyedropper and the white is a selection here. Click Okay, and now you'll see that that is selected. If you go in the other image. Let's say that we wanted to select. Just yellow. Click on here. And you'll see all of this is what is selected. This isn't a great picture to do this width because it's very desaturated and muddy. And also very busy. It has lots of similar colors. When you're working with selections, you can do things like make a mask from that selected area. So let's say we have this half of this shapes selected and we click on the Mask tool. You'll see that it's the area that was selected, is the part of the mass that is showing. Selections are also great if you want to just alter a certain area of an image. So let's just say that we have this guy shirt and we draw a selection around it. And we want to, let's just say that we want to paint something in that area. If we have that selection and we have our paintbrush selected, we can only paint in that area that is selected. 9. Levels and Curves Adjustments: The next two adjustment layers we're going to explore are the levels and the curves. These adjustment layers allow you to adjust the tonal range of your image. If you have an image bringing it up. And let's add an adjustment layer, a levels adjustment layer. You'll see in your Properties panel again, if you don't see your Properties panel and go up to Window and then just check on properties. Let's go back to our properties panel. You'll see that this little histogram pops up. The best way to use levels is to bring your white and black arrows. If you see these little arrows, they adjust the shadows. They adjust the highlights, and then the mid tones. The best way to do it is if you hold down one of the arrows at the end, hold down your Option key, you'll see that it blanks out your image. But you also see that there's little bits of color. Let the new image, and that's good. If you bring it over a tiny, tiny bit just to have color come out of your image and then let go. Then let's do the other side, hold down on the arrow hold down option and you'll see a little bit of color coming through there. And just bring it up just a tiny, tiny bit. You'll see the before and after, not much of a change. But if you go to your mid tones and drag your arrow over, it'll increase the exposure, or it'll decrease the exposure. I mainly use levels for black and white images only. We go down here and add a black and white adjustment layer. Go back to our levels. Then add a levels adjustment layer. And then do this process again. Where you click on the arrows while holding down the Option or Alt key. You'll see that it helps adjust the tones and the highlights of this black and white image way more than it does with the colored image. Levels is just a basic way to adjust the tonal range of your image. Now curves is the same thing, but you get way more control in your mid tones. Curves is very similar to levels, but it gives you more control by allowing you to add more points to adjust your mid tones. The way you use levels and curves is going to be dependent on the image you are correcting. For curves. You go down to your adjustment layer icon and add a curves adjustment layer. You'll see similar histogram pops up in your Properties panel. On the left is going to be your output. On the bottom is your input. If you have your Eyedropper Tool selected while holding down Command or Control, you can go into your image and click and create points on that line. For your input. I created a point in a darker area and then a lighter area. The points that I created are the input. The input and the output are matched perfectly right now. But if I take this point and drag up or down, it's going to change the output. If I drag down, it's going to make that tonal range darker. If I drag up, it's going to make that tonal range lighter. Same with a point up here. If I drag up, it'll make it lighter. If I drag down, it'll make it darker. These adjustment layers are going to be dependent on your image that you're using them on and how you want your final image to look. This is a great thing to play around with. 10. Stamp and Heal Brush Tools: In this section we will go over some tools that will help you in removing or fixing objects in your image. The first tool is the clone stamp tool. If you go to your toolbar is this little stamp icon right here, hold it down and just make sure you're on the clone stamp tool. The stamp tool allows you to select a target area and copy that area to another portion of your image. You're basically painting with pixels that are already in your image. So let's say we wanted to remove this puppy from this image. Select attempt stamp tool. Let's make sure that our hardness on our brush is all the way down because you don't want to have hard lines, you want it to blend in. It's also good to reduce your opacity a little bit when you're using the stamp tool. Now if you go to your composition and hold down Alt or Option, you'll see that a target appears. This is what you're gonna do to pick the area that you want to copy. Since we're going to remove this puppy, we're going to want to pick the areas right outside of where the dog is to copy that, to blend it in. Let's just click this area right by the ear. Now you'll see that your brush appears. And you also see that when you move it over your sink pixels with that brush. If we just click right by the year, you'll see that a plus sign also appears as well. That's letting you know what area is being copied. The more we move our brush, the more that plus sign moves. So it's a good thing to always re-select your target area. So you're not copying the same portion of your image over and over. Another thing, if you wanted to duplicate the dog, you could do that as well. Let me bring back this poor puppy. Say we wanted to duplicate the dog instead of getting rid of it. Just hold down your Alt or Option key. Click on that puppy. And if you move over, you'll see that it's copying the dog. Since our opacity is down a little bit, you want to want to click a couple of times. You'll see at the puppies being copied way better than removing the puppy. That is your stamp tool. The next tool is going to be the Healing Brushes. That is going to be this little Band-Aid right here. There's a few different options. The spot healing tool uses AI to determine the area that you're going to be copying. But the healing brush in the Patch Tool or similar to the stamp tool. These tools need you to tell it where to copy. I'm going to use a different image to explain this. Let's say we have this face and we wanted to get rid of some of these blemishes. Let's go to the Patch Tool first. This one is one, you just create a selection around it. Once you have selected, you take that selection and you move it. It's going to allow you to determine which area you want to copy. And it's going to blend that in for you and then de-select. Let's say we wanted to get rid of this right here. You'd circle it and move it over. And now it's gone. Let's bring those back. De-select and let's try the healing brush. You hold down alter option just like with the stamp tool, you'll see that it's making you select an area to be copied. Click on an area and then just start painting. And it allows you to remove blemishes. Now the spot healing tool is one that doesn't need you to tell it what to copy. It's going to determine it on its own. So you just click on the spot healing and just paint. You'll see that it gets rid of those blemishes. Simple way for removing an object from an image is using content aware fill. It uses AI to fill in the pixels where you want the image to be removed. To do this, you need to make a selection of the object you want to remove. So let's say we wanted to remove this dog from this image. An easy way to select it would just be able to select object. And now you're going to have a selection of the dog. Before you go to Content Aware Fill, you want to expand the selection that you have the entire dark selected. Because if you zoom in, you'll see that portions of the dog's hair is not selected. Best way to do this is go to Select Mask, increase the edge, and then feather out the edges as well. And then click Okay, and you'll see that more of the area around the dog is selected. Now if you go to edit content aware, fill, a new dialog box will come up. Image on your left is going to show your selection. And then the green around that selection is the area that's being sampled to fill your selection. The image on the right is a preview of what it will look like. Once it's finished. You'll see that it's not perfect. But if you remove portions of the green, you'll notice that this changes. So you just have to play around with it until you get something that you like. You can add or remove green by going up here. If you wanted to add some more green, that more pixels are being sampled, you just have to play around with it until you get something that you like. This is a great starting area for removing an object. On the right. You'll notice that there are some options for when you're done. You can maybe go onto the layer that you're currently on or you can have a go onto a new layer. Let's say we wanted to go on a new layer. Click Apply, hit. Okay. If I zoom out, you'll see that the puppy has gone. You also, you have a new layer in your layer panel. If you hide that layer, you'll see that your puppy is still there. But you can also have it to where it goes onto one layer. Let's just say that it's one onto one layer. If you wanted to fix those edges, this is where the stamp tool would come in. You just call it your stamp tool. Let's bring our brush size down and we can just go around the edges where this puppy was. Removed those lines. So it looks like a seamless image. Now it just looks like the puppy was never there. These are some great tools if you want to remove something from an image or add something to an image or correct some blemishes or even remove a tattoo from skin. 11. Stamp Tool Project: In this project, I want you to either use this photo that is provided to you in the project and resources section, or find your old, old image that has some damage to it. Either some dust on the film or some cracks in the picture. And I want you to fix it up using the stamp tool or the Healing Brush Tool or the Content Aware Fill. Make sure you use all the tools available to you so that you get some practice and you know what each tool can really do. Like say you wanted to fix this corner. And easy way to do that would be just to use your stamp tool. Hit S on the keyboard and have your brush size up a little bit, and then just go around the edges. You can copy this. You can see it starts, starts fixing those lines. If you wanted to just erase the board of completely, you can just crop it. You get C on your keyboard, you see your crop come up and you can just get rid of that border altogether. And then all you'd have to do is fix these little imperfections over here. By using this stamp tool. You can use the healing brush tool. Just get to know these tools and what they're capable of doing. When you're done fixing the image, posted it in the project and resource section of this course. And let me know what tools you used and adjustment layers you used to fix the image. 12. Filters and Filter Gallery: In Photoshop, there are filters that can change the appearance of the pixels in your image, similar to filters that are available in some social media platforms. Each filter has a specific code that changes the image in different ways. When you work with filters, it's best to convert your layers to Smart Objects. Do you smart filters? And you can go back and change the settings on those filters whenever you'd like to start off, let's change this layer into a smart object by right-clicking and convert to smart object. All your filters are gonna be in the filter section up here in your menu bar. Click on Filter and you'll see all the filters available. The most popular filters are probably going to be your blur filter. Blur filter sharpen your image and the Gaussian blur is probably going to be the most used one. Let's open up the filter gallery and go through a couple of the filters. Your filter gallery is gonna be right here. This window is going to pop up. You can zoom in and zoom out to see your whole image down in the left. These are all different filters that you can apply to your image. We're not gonna go through all of these, but it's best for you to go through them and click on them and see what each one does. They all have different effects. Hit cancel. Some other popular filters are the sharpen filters. Then we have stylized filters that allow you to oil paint or solarized your image. The filters I use the most are sharpen blur, liquefy, and a Camera Raw Filter. Camera Raw Filter is something that we will go over later on in this class. But to learn what each one of these filters do, you really just need to play with them. The next section, we're gonna go through a few steps to change this image into a cartoon effect. 13. Filter Gallery Project: Now that we've gone over some filters, we're going to combine some filters and blending modes to change this image into a cartoon effect. The first thing we need to do is change our image size. So we're gonna go to image, image size and your dialog box will pop up. Now we want our smallest side to be at least 2 thousand pixels. Let's first change our resolution to 300 pixels per inch. This will allow for more detail to be seen with our filters. And then our smallest side to be 2 thousand pixels. And then click Okay. And then to have your image fit into your screen, just hit Command 0 and that'll fit it to the screen. Now the first thing we're gonna do is change the name on our layer to original or normal somethings that you'll know that this is the original image that we started with because we're going to duplicate this layer multiple times. Let's duplicate our layer by hitting Command J. And let's make sure that our layers are smart objects. If they are not right-click and convert to smart object. Now let's change this layer name to cartoon, because this is where our effects are going to be. The first filter that we're going to apply is the liquify filter. This will allow us to alter the facial features on this person. So let's go to Filter Liquify. You'll notice on the right-hand side you have all these sliders for different facial features. His nose, eyes, and mouth, the shape of his face. So the first thing you want to do is go down to the bottom and have the opacity down to 0 so that you can see what actually what you're doing. I want you to go through each of these facial features and alter them to your liking. What I'm gonna do might not work for your image. So I'm going to walk you through what I'm doing, but do whatever fits your image the best. The first thing I'm gonna do is zoom in so that I can see what I'm doing a little bit better. You'll notice that when you start moving the sliders, the features on the face start to change. You can change the size of the eyeballs, the height, the width. This is actually really cool. You can tilt the eyeballs, which I don't need to do. And then you can alter the distance of the eyeballs as well. Right about there. And just go through each of these features and change it to what you like. Remember, we're going for a cartoon effect for the face shape. I'm going to zoom out a little bit. Then if you toggle between preview, you can see the before and after. All right, Let's click Okay. Once you have the features the way you want them, the next thing we're gonna do is add the cartoon effect. So let's go to filter gallery. And we're going to zoom out so that we can see the effect. We want to go to the Artistic Category and find posters edge. You need to remember that what might work for my image might be a little bit different for your image. For the first filter that we're gonna do is gonna be 00 and then about two or three. What we're looking for is separation in the hues on the image. You see as t-shirt, the dark, the middle, and the light tones are separated. That is what we're looking for. If you go to one, you don't get a lot of separation. So I'm gonna go for two zeros, 02. Click, Okay. You'll notice in your layers panel that you have these smart filters now. And if you don't like something, say you don't like the way the eyes look. You can go back, double-click on the liquefy and change the filter if you want. That's why it's great to work in smart objects. Now the next thing we're gonna do is we're going to sharpen the image a little bit using unsharp mask. The unsharp mask filter lets you increase the image contrast along the edges of objects in the photo. So we're gonna go to Filter, Sharpen and then unsharp mask. Again. This is going to be different for my image. Then your image. The amount slider controls how much exaggeration will be applied. While the radius slider controls how wide the exaggeration will be. And the threshold is the difference between the various areas of pixels in the image. So if you play around with these, you'll see how it changes your image. We don't want to be so extreme. So we're going to go about 90 for the amount. Have a small radius of about four, and then a small threshold of about ten. You can see the before and after by clicking Preview. Click. Okay. I know it looks weird right now, but we're going to fix it up. The next filter we're going to add, it's going to give the image a smoother look, which is the oil paint filter. Go to Filter, go to stylize and go to oil paint. Our settings are going to be around five. Then let's say around three. And our scale can be about 0.2 and the bristle size is going to be 0. And make sure you're lighting is off. Then click before and after. And then click Okay. Now because we smooth out the image, we're going to want to sharpen it one more time. So go back up to your filter and the sharpen and unsharp mask. And then just reduce your amounts a little bit. Say by about half. And then click Okay. Now the next thing we want to do is we want to duplicate our cartoon layer. And then we're gonna remove some of those filters that we're not going to be needing on the new outline layer. Let's hit Command J with our cartoon layer selected. Let's change the name of this to outline because this is where we're gonna get the details and strokes on our image. We want to remove the unsharp mask. So let's right-click on the unsharp mask, delete that. And the second one as well. We're going to double-click on the Filter Gallery because we're gonna change the settings on this poster edge filter. We're going to leave the thickness at 0, but we're going to increase the intensity because we want to get some of those black lines to show through as our stroke. And it'll give us outlines on our image as well. Then we'll increase the posters as well to about five and increase the intensity. And then click Okay. Next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna change the blend mode of this outline layer so that it blends in with the layer below it. And we're not just seeing this outline layer, we want to see those strokes, but not the entire layer. We're going to change this blend mode to overlay. And then we're also going to decrease the opacity to say around 40 or 50 depending on your image. You can see the before and after by just clicking on the eyeball. Bring it up a little bit. And this layer is just adding some strokes to your image. You can see that his beard is a little more parent. All right, the next thing we wanna do is we want to create a new layer with all of our layers. Instead of combining all these layers, we're going to just have one selected and we're going to click Shift Option Command E. And you'll see that a new layer was created. From all of these layers. What we're gonna do with this new layer is we're going to add some sharpening to it with a high-pass filter. Let's rename this to sharpen. Then let's go to our filter and go down to Other and go to high-pass. High-pass increases the contrast of an image which will help you sharpen the image. If you move the slider around, you'll see how it affects your image. We don't want it to be too high of a number. We just want to have these lines be crisp. My image is going to be probably around a four. And then click Okay. And then we're going to change this blend mode to overlay as well. You'll see how some of the features are a little more exaggerated with this filter. And if you want, you can bring the Blend Mode down as well. I'm sorry, if you want, you can bring the opacity down as well. So it's not as parent. You've cartoon eyes an image. So for your project, I want you to use the filter gallery and other filters to give an image a cartoon effect. When you have your image finish, don't forget to post it in your project section of this course. And let me know what filters you used in the image. And remember there's no right or wrong way to do this project. Just have fun and be creative. 14. Camera Raw Filter: In this section we're gonna talk about camera raw filter. This is a really quick and easy tool to make your images look better. You can access just about any photo correction tool within the Camera Raw Filter. To access it. We're first going to convert our image to a smart object. This image is provided to you in the projects and resources section of this course. We're going to go up to Filter and Camera Raw Filter. And this box is going to pop up. And if you look on the right side of your dialog box, you're gonna see all the tools that are capable within this filter. If you open up basic, you can see the color balancing tools. So let's say that your image had too much blue into it. You can warm it up with some yellow. There was two magenta, you could balance that with green. Below that you have the exposure contrast highlights, shadows, whites and blacks. Let's say you wanted to lower the exposure on this and darken it up so that those lights pop a little bit more. You can do that by lowering the exposure. You can do some more by increasing the contrast. If you wanted to increase the highlights. Be careful when you're working with lights because you're gonna have this burnout as Section. Balance that out with your shadows. Okay, and then you can move your blacks and whites. You can also change your vibrancy and your saturation and the basic as well. My favorite thing about the Camera Raw Filter is the color grading. You've seen those photos that have mostly blue or pink hue to them, they accomplish this look with color grading. So if you go down and you click the color grading arrow, you're gonna see that there's three different circles. Each circle represents a different tone in the image. To your mid tones, your shadows and your highlights. You can alter the hue of these tones by using these little circles. So we want to do the mid tones first. You'd grab that circle that's in the middle of the color wheel. And if you drag it out, you'll see that your image starts to change color in those tones. Let's say we wanted to add a little bit of red to it. So you just go right there. And if you click the I where that circle, you'll see the before and after. And down here is the blending of it. Let's say we wanted to change the shadows to have some blue hue to it. Give them more of a nighttime feel. Then you can also change this. Then your highlights. This is how you alter your highlights. Color gradient is completely subjective. You can do it however you want. There's no right or wrong way. You can be really realistic with your color grading or you can go on the complete other side of it. Once you have your color grading done, these are your blending options for it. You can either go all the way with it, all the way down or right in the middle is where it usually is. Let's go back up here. You can adjust your curves in here as well, make it lighter or darker at different points. Camera Raw Filter is a great way to access all of the color correction tools within Photoshop in one filter. Another great thing in camera raw filter is that you have presets. If you go down to this double circle icon, those are gonna be your presets and you can go through, there are dozens of presets you can go through. There are so many presets available to you in Photoshop. It's just something that you have to go through and find one that you like. Just like with any other smart filter. Once you're done in camera raw filter, if you want to change something, you can go back and by just clicking on the Camera Raw Filter and then adjusting what you wanted. 15. Final Project: Putting It All Together: Once you have a good foundation and get a little bit of a handle on all the tools that Photoshop has to offer, you can really create anything. In this final section, we're going to create a manipulation. We're going to put a face on this broccoli with some beautiful teeth and put it in a kitchen setting. We're going to use some adjustment layers to add some shadows and some highlights to get started. The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna hide some of these images so that we can adjust the background. To do that, we're just going to click on these little eyeballs. All right, and then we're going to select the background layer, unlock it so that we can move it around. Zoom out Command T. And we're gonna make this a little bit bigger because we're going to put the broccoli right on that countertop. We can have some reflections of it and then hit Enter. Now the next thing we need to do is make our broccoli character. We're going to lock this, I'm sorry. We're gonna hide this background layer. We're going to bring up a broccoli layer. We're going to make that a little bit bigger by Command or Control T to make it bigger. And then we're going to mask out all the stuff that we don't want. Basically all we want is the broccoli head, nothing background or that reflection. Remember from before, easy way to just select something is to go to Select, select subject. And perfect. We don't want all this extra stuff in there. So we're gonna use the Quick Selection Tool holding down Alt or Option so that we can subtract from it and just subtract the portions of the broccoli that we don't want. Alright, Unless just make sure that looks okay. We don't want any of this. We want to this. Alright, and then click Okay. And now we're just going to make a mask to mask out everything else. Perfect. Now let's command and control T. Size it up a little bit more so it's easier to put the face on. Okay, next thing we're gonna do is we're going to mask out the eyes and the mouth of this character and put it on our broccoli. And easy way to do that is with the selection tool. So we have our selection tool. We're going to select the eyeball, makes sure that layer is selected. Select the eyeballs. And then instead of copying and pasting, we're just gonna take this eyeball and put it on its own layer. So to do that, while that selection is there, we're going to hit Command or Control J. And you'll see that you get a new layer here. And that is just the eyeball. So let's have that layer selected. Let's rename it to write i. Then we're going to Command and Control T and we're going to move it on over. Okay, Go back to your face selection. I'm sorry, Go back to your face layer. Select the next I Command or Control J. Rename that layer to left I Command or Control T. And we're going to move that one over two. All right, now let's make a selection around this mouth. Using the Lasso tool. Just go right around. Because we're going to blend in those green edges with the broccoli. Hit Command or Control J one more time. I'm sorry, make sure that your layer with that selected Command or Control J. And then let's rename this mouth. Then let's move it on over. Will adjust all the other things later. Why not give it some eyebrows as well? Let's have the layer selected and let's use our quick selection tool to select that eyebrow or not. Let's de-select that. Let's use our polygonal and just use some straight lines to select that eyebrow. Perfect Command J. Just do eyebrow. Then move it on over. We can just hit Command J again, and that'll be the other eyebrow. And we can just flip it by right-clicking and then flip horizontal. Now we don't need this big picture of the face anymore, so we can just delete that layer. And let's zoom out to see where we are. Cool, we have a face. All right, the next thing we're gonna do is give it some arms and legs. Let's select the layer that has all the legs and arms on it. Move it over here just so we can get a better look at it. Let's hide some of the face stuff. Let's go to our quick selection tool and we can just select that arm, select that hand Shift Command J to put it on its own layer and then Command or Control T and move that arm in the place. Let's rename that right arm. Always name your layers. Let's hide that for a minute. Let's go back to our bigger picture. Select the next arm shift Command J, rename that to left arm command and control T. Move that over to the broccoli and let's hide that. And the same thing with the legs. Make sure the whole foot is selected. Shift Command J. This is the left leg. Move it on over, hide it. And last one, shift Command J. And this is the right leg command and control T. Move it on over. All right, and then we can delete this layer because we don't need it anymore. Let's bring all of our layers back so that we can put together our little broccoli man. The last thing we're gonna do is select these teeth of the zebra and put it in the mouth here. Because I just think the teeth are beautiful. So let's zoom in on this 0. Let's move it over a little bit. Let's find the mouth layer. We're going to make a quick selection of the inner side of that mouth. And let's expand that a little bit by going to Select and Mask will shift the edges and increase it. Then smooth it out and click Okay, and then just hit the Mask button. But we want to keep the green part, not the white part. So we're going to invert that mask by Command or Control I. Alright, and now we have that. Now let's work with the Zebra. We just want the teeth and some of the gums. So we're just going to go in with a lasso tool, zoom in on it, and just make a quick selection of all of this. Yummy gums are right. Now we're going to click the mass button and we have some teeth. Let's zoom out. Command or Control T. Move that over and we're going to just hold down, Shift and resize these teeth until they fit inside that mouth. We're also going to warp it a little bit while the free transform box is still on there, right-click and hit Warp. You'll see that some of these lines aren't really helping because the box is too big. To add some more lines, hold down Command or Control, and then click some more lines so you can warp it a little bit better. I see it part of the mouth that we need to get rid of. Let's go back into the mouth in our paintbrush tool and make our brush a little bit smaller and makes sure the opacity is all the way up because we want to get rid of this white line right here. This one as well. Alright, let's zoom out, see how our mouth looks. That's just amazing. Go back to your 0 mask. Make sure your paint brush is selected. Make sure black is in the foreground. And we're going to get rid of all of the spillage on the outside of the lips. So let's bring up your brush and let's just go around the edges to make sure that none of that is showing. Now we're gonna go to the Layers panel. It makes sure that your teeth layer is under your mouth layer. Select your mouth layer, hold down, Shift, select your teeth layer, hit Command or Control G. And we're going to put that into a group and call it mouth, that they're altogether. And then if we just have that group selected hit Command or Control T, we can move them as one, but they're still on separate layers. We'll just put those in place and we're gonna come back to that. Hit Enter. Perfect. Zoom out one more time and we're going to take the broccoli layer and drag it above the legs and the arms layer. Alright, and then we're going to adjust these legs and arms and put them in place. Do the next leg. Looks good. Do the next arm. Right about there. The last arm, make sure that the same height. Maybe make the arms a little bit smaller. We need to make it look like this thumb is in front of the broccoli and not in front. Go to your left arm layer, hold down Command and then click on it and you'll see that selects your layer for you. Go to your broccoli. Make sure black is in the foreground and your brush is selected. And let's just get rid of that one little part of the broccoli. And now it looks like the thumb is in front of the broccoli instead of behind. The next thing we're gonna do is change the color of these arms because they should be green. The first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to take these shoes and put them on their own layer. So go to your left leg. Have your quick selection selected. Let's go and select the shoe and Shift Command J. And now just name that left shoe. Let's go to the right leg and do the same thing. Make sure the whole shoe selected shift Command J. Name that. Right. Okay. Let's take the shoes and put them on top. Now we have all of these on their own layer. Let's hide everything for a minute. We just see the limbs. Actually, I'm sorry, we need to put the hands on their own layer as well. Let's go to the right arm and select the right-hand Shift Control J, right hand. And do the same thing with the left hand. Make sure everything's selected. Shift Control J, and name that left hand. All right, now let's hide the hands that we just have these little limbs. We are going to change the color of these limbs by using a hue and saturation adjustment layer. With your right arm selected hold down Shift, select left arm, left leg, and right leg, and then Command or Control G and name this limbs. Alright, now go to your adjustment layers, add a hue and saturation. Clip that to your limbs group. So it only affects the layers in this group. And then we're just going to change the color to green. Let's darken it. Let's bring up our broccoli so we have a little bit of comparison. Just play around with the color until you get something that you like. Once you have a color that you'd like, Let's duplicate this broccoli layer by clicking on the broccoli and then Command or Control J, and then delete the mask. Take that new broccoli layer, drag it down above your hue and saturation layer. And then we're going to delete all the black. So just go to your Magic Erase tool and just click on the outside to where the black is. Delete all this black as well. We can delete all of this and this one doesn't have to be perfect because we're just going to overlay this onto our limbs. Take that new name, this limb overlay. Let's clip this to our limbs group by right-clicking and create clipping mask. Let's hide our broccoli layer so that we can see what we're doing here. Go to your limb overlay, hit Command or Control T. And you'll see that the broccoli is now clipped to your limbs and you can see it inside there. Let's delete, decrease the opacity a little bit. Because we want some of the texture, but we don't want it to look just like that. And change your blend mode to screen. And then just play around with it until you get something that you like. The next thing we're gonna do is put the eyeballs in place. Let's find the eyes. Zoom out first. Let's say right about there, puts your other eyeball in place. Let's find our eyebrows. We won't don't want that green. Let's go into our erase tool. Zoom in. Let's make our brush hard it is. Okay. The easy way to erase a straight line is to just click and then hold down shift and go to the where you want. The other lines end and click and you'll have a straight line. Let's take that eyebrow. Let's move it right there. Do the same thing. So let's just copy this eyebrow. So Command J and then transform, right-click, flip horizontal, and then just move it over. We have some eyebrows. Now let's take these eyebrow layers and put them up here, and then take all the layers and put them in a group. Highlight or select all of your layers and then Command or Control G, name these eyes. Then we are going to add a mask to the eyes and blend those edges in a little bit with your brush selected and your opacity down. Black in the foreground and bring your hardness all the way down and your brush size down a little bit. We're just going to go around the edges and fade those edges in. And do the same thing with the other layer. Remember, if you take off too much, just put white in the foreground and go back in and bring it back. Let's zoom out to see how that looks. Go back to this mask and remove some of this. Alright, now let's work on the mouth. Go into the mouth group. We are going to select the mouth. We're going to add a hue and saturation adjustment layer just to that mouth. So go to your adjustment layers, add that H02, etc, adjustment layer, clip it to your mouth layer. And then let's change the color so it matches the color of the broccoli. We need to darken it a little bit. Desaturated it a little bit. That looks good. And now inside the mouth mask, we are going to do the same thing that we do with the eyes. We're going to blend these edges out. So it looks like it's part of the broccoli. Let's bring our brush size up a little bit and then just blend it in so there's no hard edges. We're going to add some shadows, so it gives it some form. I brought some back of the white and I didn't mean to, so we're going to remove that. All right, Let's zoom out. That's adorable. Let's bring some of the other things back. These layers here needs to be desaturated a little bit. They're just too bright. We're gonna put these all into a group as well, the shoes and the hands. And just name it hands and shoes. We're going to add an adjustment layer and clip the hue and saturation layer to that group and then just desaturated a little bit. We have our character somewhat created. We're going to add shadows and everything once we put them in the environment. So let's close up all these groups. The next thing we're gonna do is we're just going to take all of this stuff and put it into one group. So it's just our characters in one group. So let's select the limbs, select the top layer and hit Command and Control G, and then displaying this character. Then let's bring back our kitchen setting. Let's select our character, Command and Control T. And let's put him in place or her. Let's zoom in a little bit. Now that we have it in place, we can start adding reflections and some shadows to make it look like the character is actually there. To add a reflection. What we're gonna do is we're just going to duplicate the whole group. That group selected hit Command J. Let's bring that character copy to the bottom, and we'll name this reflection. Now we're going to Command or Control T, and we're just going to flip that a 180 degrees. And if you see how this candle is, that's how we're going to match the reflection. Just like this. Then let's change this to lightened or screen. Either one of those will work. I like lightened and then reduce the opacity. A tiny, tiny bit, maybe screen will work better. Then we're going to mask out everything that's not on top of this counter. So let's add a mask to the whole group. And then from here down we're going to remove it with your opacity at a 100 black and the foreground, bring up that brush size, so it's a little bit easier. Click on the right here. Click on one edge of the counter, hold down, shift, click on the edge of the counter, and you'll see that it starts removing that crystalline. Then just paint all the way down until the rest of it is gone. We also need to remove parts. Here. Okay, then let's go into our group and find the shoes. We need to warp the shoe so it looks like it's coming right off the counter. And then do the other shoe Control T warp. And then close that group up again and bring this opacity down a tiny bit more. Okay, The reflection is done. Now we need to add a tiny bit of a shadow underneath that character. Because you can see right along here there's a little bit of darkness underneath that candle. To do that, we're going to add an exposure layer. Go to your adjustment. Go to exposure. Make sure it's in-between your two groups. Drop that exposure down and then go to your mask on the exposure later, hit Command or Control I. And then we're going to paint back in just under those feet. Make sure whites in the foreground and you can leave it at a 100%, but make sure your hardness is all the way down. And just paint underneath those feet. Alright. Don't worry if you do too much because you can always take it away. Which I'm going to do right here. Also, you can change the opacity of it if you think it's too dark. Let's zoom back in. I'm sorry, using back out before and after. Maybe try changing the blend mode. Let's put some more in the front. All right, I think the last thing that we're gonna do is we're just gonna, I'm gonna show you how to add a little shadows to your eyeballs and your mouth to make it look a little bit more realistic. Let's go to your character layer. Let's find the mouth group. Open it up. Go to your mouth layer. I'm sorry. Go to your go-to your teeth layer where the zebra is that I didn't label, that's my fault. Add an exposure layer above that. And we're going to clip it to the teeth layer and then bring that exposure down. Then we are going to invert that mask by Command or Control I. And then we're going to paint that back in. Bring the opacity down, and then paint that back in. Because the teeth wouldn't be that bright. The lips would cast a shadow. You can bring the opacity down a little bit so it's not as extreme. Right? Then let's add another exposure layer to the mouth. Make sure it's clipped to your mouth layer. Bring the exposure down in an invert that mask as well. If I Command or Control I and then right around the edges and then also on the inseam of the mouth where the lips are. We're going to paint some of that back in. So it looks like there's a little bit more definition. The lips. If you can't see what you're doing, just go here. If it's too much, don't worry, we can always lower the opacity. And then let's paint some in on the inside as well. Make it look like it's beveled. You won't really see it on the top. So we're going to leave that on the top lip, but on the bottom lip, you'd be able to see it. Let's zoom out. That's the before and after. And let's bring the opacity down some. Alright, so before and after. This is just to give you a little idea of what you can do with different layers or different images, how you can combine them to create something completely unique. Your final project is going to be to create a photo manipulation. I want you to gather a few different images or vector assets and create an unrealistic scene, had fun with it. And you can create a character. You can add a shark swimming through the woods, do whatever you want to be creative. Use all the tools that you've learned in this class, from the selection tools to adjustment layers. Your camera raw filter. Just have fun when you're done with your project posted in the project and resource section of this course. Let me know what type of filters you use, what type of adjustment layers you used. L I look forward to seeing what you create. 16. Thank You: We've reached the end of the course. I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time out to take the course. If you have time, I would love it. If you can go into the review section of the class and review this course, let me know your thoughts. Don't forget to post your projects in the project section of this course, I look forward to seeing what everybody creates. I hope you had a great time in this class. Thanks again.