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How To Remove A White Background In Photoshop

November 13, 2019

In this video, I’m gonna show you how you could remove a white background from any image. And I’ll show you how to save that image with a transparent background. So let’s start with this logo. This logo has a white background, and it’s just on one layer. I just opened it with Photoshop. So first thing we want to do is we want to unlock this layer. I’m gonna double click here, unlock it, name it if you want to, press ok. Now you have an unlock layer. Now the fastest way to select the white background that I like is coming up here and choosing quick selection tool. And now, these are my settings on the quick selection tool that I have for this image. Now if I just click and drag here around the logo, it just quickly did the selection for me. Photoshop is smart enough to know this is a white background. Now if I press delete, it deletes the white background just like that. Now I’m gonna press command Z, Control z on a PC and I’ll get this back and if you press command d or control d on a PC you could deselect your selection, so you could start over. So if you went over like this, and if you press delete, it’s Gonna delete part of your logo, just command z and then command D, that will deselect. So again, drag, delete and now if I press V for the move tool, I could just move this around. I could put it in a different file, and I could save it with this transparent background. Now let me show you the same thing with a more difficult selection. And I’ll show you another way to do this. So I’ll go over here, now I have this white background here. Again first thing I want to do is double click and unlock this layer. It allows me to do these things. If I don’t unlock it, I can’t do some of these things I’m gonna show you, press ok. Again, you could do the same thing if you wanted to and you could kind of drag around your model, and then it just did the selection, press delete, if you missed a spot you could come here and press delete. But let me go back a couple of steps and show you a different way to do this. So let me press command D to deselect again. So another way to select white is to come up here, select color range and with that, let me just make sure this is set to quick mask and with that you could just select your model out. So if I change the fuzziness, you see the setting fuzziness, if I bring it up, it’s starting to select a part of my models face. If I bring it down, if I bring it all the way down, you see starting to not select some of these part of the white in the shadows. So I just want the fuzziness to be somewhere in between selecting my models face and selecting more of this background, so let me show you this is a little bit of a difficult selection. So if I bring it up here, it’s gonna select my models face a little bit and I’ll show you how to remove that, so let’s say at a 50, I press ok and now if you see my selection, it surrounds my model. It has most of the white here, but as you could see, her teeth are not selected, her eyes, so what I could do here is I could again go to a quick selection and if I hold option or alt here, you see this minus sign, I could just make sure these selections are included, so they don’t get cut, so right here, a little bit right here. Again, I could zoom in and then I could do this and then if I let go of alt you see I get a plus sign. So again, I could just make sure my selection is perfect around my model exactly how I wanted it to be. Again, do this. Let me gonna go back. I’m just pressing command minus sign here, and now if I press delete, it deletes the white around my model. Let me undo that. While this selection is here, you see the selection is here, my whites, I could do one more thing. I could come up here to select and go to select and mask. This gives me a little bit more option in refining my edges. So my radius, I could raise the radius and you see what it’s doing around my model. If I go, low, and if I go high, it just makes the selection more tight around my model. I could feather it, smooth it, I could just give it some of these settings just to make the selection a little more defined. Here, I had my transparency about 1/2, that’s how I could see it this way. I could press ok and then it just refines my selection a little bit from what I previously had. Now I could press delete and this is pretty much gonna get you close to where you want. I’m gonna press command-D and that’s gonna deselect. So if you don’t like the feathering like I have here you could go ahead and change that and if you want more of these whites gone you could just again go to quick selection and just select some of these and just press delete if some of these things in the shadows are bothering you. Again a lot of the times you’re not gonna have those issues especially with the logo, it’s such a quick selection, but with a person, you may have these issues. So make sure you really dive in there and use a quick selection to take out those whites. Again, if I press V, I could move this to a new Photoshop file. If I created a new Photoshop file with a different background for example. Let’s say I just picked a red background. If I put that here, I could then select my logo here and move it over to this Photoshop file and drop it here and it would be on top of a different background. Another way is if you want to save this, if you want to bring it to a video file, or somewhere outside of photoshop, you go up here, press save as and you want to save it as a Png. Png comes with a Transparent background. A Jpeg does not. Jpeg is gonna automatically add a white background. So make sure you select Png, select where you want to save it and save and this is fine. I’m gonna press ok. Now let me just show you on the desktop how I saved that image. I’m just gonna minimize this. This is the Jpeg. It had the white background. Now this is the Png, the backgrounds transparent. I hope this video was helpful, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel for a lot more tutorials just like this one. Hope to see you on the next video. Thanks for watching.

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How To Resize A Layer In Photoshop

November 12, 2019

In this video, I’m going to show you how you could resize any shape, layer or image in Photoshop. So I have four layers here. I have two shape layers, and I have two images here. I’m going to show you how to resize each one, so let me just choose a shape right here. This is the shape, the ellipse shape right here. I’m going to press V to choose my move tool. This way I could just move it around and place it anywhere, and now I want to choose free transform. So I would come up here to edit and then go down here to free transform. But I often use the keyboard shortcut command T or ctrl t on a PC. So I’m going to select it this time and now if I grab any other corners or any of these squares, I could resize it. So if I grab the center square, it’s going to resize this way. If I grab the corners, it’s going to resize this way, and it’s free transform. I could make it any shape I want. Now if you hold shift, it’s going to restrict your movement and not change the aspect Ratio, so it’s only going to be proportional in height and width the way you change the size this way holding shift. Without shift, you could do anything you want to it, and then once you’re done with your change in size, you have to come up here and press the checkmark or you could just press enter and that changes it. Now again command T, it gives me these selections and then press checkmark, and you’re complete now. I’ll show you how to do it with an image. I’ll do the sunshine image here, press command t or ctrl t on a PC. Now, I’m going to hold shift and I’m going to change it, because I don’t want the aspect ratio here to change. I want the height and width to be proportionate in the change, so I’ll just go ahead and move it to the corner. Press check mark and I if I press V over here, I get the move tool, and I could place it where I want to place it in my image. You could even do this with a background object, so again select the background object, press command T and you could change the background object to be any size you want to make sure it covers your background perfectly. Again come up here, press checkmark. So pressing any layer here allows you to change the size of that layer. Now if I go to an image by itself, if I go through this image for example, if I double-click to unlock this layer, it’s going to let me change the size here, too. So double click, press ok. Now if I press command T, you get these options to change the size again and shift to make sure it doesn’t change the aspect ratio of the image. So that’s how you could do it with what just one layer on one project file, press ok. I hope this video was helpful. Please give it a like and subscribe to this channel for a lot more tech tutorial than a lot more. Thanks for watching I hope to see you on the next video.

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How To Turn An Image Into a DRAWING in Photoshop

November 12, 2019

In this video, I’m going to show you how you could turn a picture into a drawing using a drawing effect in Photoshop. This is the image I’m going to use to turn into a drawing and I got this other image that I’m going to use as a texture. You don’t have to do this step, but I’ll show you this at the end. So the first step is we want to duplicate this background. So we could drag it down to our layer on the bottom and make a second layer and once we have our second layer, we want to desaturate this to black and white so go up here to image, adjustment and desaturate and that’s going to turn the image into black and white for us and now the next step is we want to duplicate this one more time. There is a shortcut, command J or Control J on a PC. That lets you duplicate a layer. Now we have a new layer here. Now with this new layer, we want to invert this layer, and that’s command I or control I on a PC, and now we want to change the blend mode in this inverted layer. So go to this drop-down and select color dodge. And you should see this white screen now and once you see that white screen, go ahead and right click on this one, and select convert to smart object. Once you convert it, you only have one step left and having this layer selected, go to filters, blur, Gaussian Blur and that’s going to turn into a drawing. Now you could change the radius to get a different effect. So just play with the radius here, the lower you go, it’s going to change the effect and the higher you go it’s going to turn it more into the image that it was. So I kind of like somewhere around 17, 18. I’m just going to press ok. Now we have the drawing effect. Now at this point, I’m going to add the canvas texture. That’s going to create a cool effect here, so I’m just going to grab this background and I’m going to drag it to my selection here. And I’m just going to fit it to the image behind and it’s right here layer one right on top. Now I just need to change the blending mode. I’m going to choose multiply this time. And I could change the fill to maybe around 60 and press okay up here. That’s the effect you get. Now you could change the fill to whatever you like, even at a hundred percent, it didn’t look bad, but I kind of like it around 60. Now let me show you what it looked like before. This is your before and this is your after. I hope you found this tutorial helpful. Please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel for a lot more Photoshop tutorial and a lot more. Thanks for watching.

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How To Change Channel Layout In YouTube

November 11, 2019

In this video, I’m going to show you how you could change your channel layout in Youtube and make it a lot easier for your audience to find the right videos. So I have one of my secondary channels here and as you could see, I can’t really edit anything on this channel. I can’t really move these things around and if I go back to my main channel here, you could see things are really organized here. You can see recent activities, you could put a playlist, you can put up recent uploads and you could always add sections and you could edit these sections, and you could also set it up for new subscribers with a channel trailer. But on this channel, it’s a new channel. So you could see I can’t do any of that. And it’s really easy to activate that, so all you gotta do is from my channels page, the page I’m on right now, you got to go and click this gear icon and you just got to activate customize the layout of your channel. You just got to click that slider, and then press save and as soon as you do that, it changes your entire channel layout. You’ll get these two different tabs for returning subscribers and for new visitors. You could add a channel trailer here and on this page for returning subscribers, you could go ahead and edit things, and you could add new sections that could be things like popular uploads or like videos, you could put up playlists. I only have one video on this channel, so I can’t show you too much of what you could do here. But you could edit any of these sections, add any of these sections, you can make things be vertical or horizontal. You’ll have a lot of options here to really make your front page look as best as it can, and make it really easy for your audience to find the right videos. I’ve done that in my main channel by putting up recent activities, because I always want my latest video to be front and center, and some of my popular videos on Instagram, I make sure that playlist is up. So they could see that there is a lot of videos on Instagram they could watch. And I’m always changing this I’m making it better and for new visitors, I made a channel trailer. So for your channel, make sure you make your front page as nice as it could possibly look, and that will help you gain more subscribers when they finally find your page. I hope this video was helpful. Please go ahead and subscribe to this channel if you’re new here. And give this video a thumbs up if it helped you change your channel layout. See you on the next video.

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How To Turn A Picture Into A GRAFFITI ART

November 10, 2019

In this video, I’m going to walk you through a step-by-step process on creating a graffiti image art just like this one, with your image. So the first step is creating a Photoshop file from scratch. So go ahead and open up Photoshop and press new and under new, you want to create one. It doesn’t matter what size. In this case, I’m going to do 1920 by 1080. These settings are fine. RGB color with white background is fine. I’m just going to name my project here. I’m going to press create. After the project is created, step 2 is unlocking this background layer, so you see this background layer here. I’m going to double click. I’m just going to name it main. It’s going to be my main image here. I’m going to press ok. Now I have my background layer. Next, I want to turn this into a smart object. Now you don’t have to do this step. But it’s going to save you a lot of time later when you want to create this with other images. I’ll show you that at the end. So let’s go ahead and command click or right click on this and click convert to smart object. I’m going to create that. So now that I have this smart layer, if I double-Click the smart layer, it opens up that layer in its own tab, you see this? Now this is my primary. This is the new tab. Now whatever I do to this and if I save it, it’s going to effect this layer. This is a really nice workflow to make things a lot easier. So now, I want to bring my image right into this layer. Let me go to finder. I’m going to press open with Photoshop and it’s going to open a tab in Photoshop with that image. Now if I just drag this layer, this background image, and if I just put it right here and drop it, it’s going to put it right on top of this layer here, you see layer 1 and here, if I press V, I could just move this around, place it where I want to. If I press command T, again ctrl T on a PC, it’s going to give me these things to reshape and resize, so if you have an image that’s much bigger, make sure you go ahead and resize it to fit this canvas. Again if you press shift here, it’s going to keep the width and the height the same, so if you don’t press shift, you could move it any which way, but in this case, I want to keep a proportional, so I’m going to press shift. This looks good to me. I’m going to come up here, press checkmark. Now if I close this and if I save it, and if I go back to my graffiti project file, it’s over here in this smart layer. Next I want to bring the brick texture background, and I’m going to go back to finder. This is my brick texture, open with Photoshop. It’s going to open it in its own tab. If I drag this layer and bring it to graffiti again and drop it here, it’s going to create another layer right on top of my main layer. So now I’m going to just rename this brick. So I know which layer this is. This is the one I just brought in and if I press command T, I could resize this to fit my canvas. I’m just going to press enter here. Now I’m going to press command minus just to bring this back, so I could see what I’m doing. Again if I press command T, I could reshape this, you see some much bigger than I need. I’m just going to reshape it here pressing shift, so it doesn’t change proportion and with V selected, I’m just going to center right here, press ok. Again, V moves things around, command T reshapes things. Next, I want to desaturate this layer, so all I got to do is I go to image, adjustment, desaturate. That’s going to desaturate my brick layer. Now I want to change the blend mode of this layer to hard light. So I’m going to come down here and click hard light. And this is the fact that I should get and now I want to change the exposure level of this. So all I got to do is with this layer selected, I’ll I gotta do is press command L. That’s going to give me the levels and I basically want to bring this up and bring the whites down, somewhere along there, so just compressing the blacks and the whites to look something like that, and I’m going to press ok. Now we’re going to do some of that affects that’s really going to make this pop. So the main layer we want to duplicate, so command J duplicates that layer. And now I want to move it to the very top. So now I should just see my original image again, and now just to make sure you guys are seeing the same thing I’m seeing, I need to go to preferences. Again on a PC, it’s not going to be under Photoshop CC Preferences It’s under edit preferences. We’ll go to preferences. And go to plugins and make sure this option right here, show all filter gallery is checked on. Usually it’s checked off. So make sure it’s checked on, press ok, so now you could apply some filter here, and we should all see the same thing. So now with the top layer selected, go to filter, artistic, dry brush. This is the first option that’s going to give us that graffiti look, so these are some of the numbers I have, 8, 8, 1, press okay. That’s the look I’m going to get here and now I want to use one more filter here, so filter, artistic, color pencil. Again, it’s on the same layer, colored pencil. Let’s go with four, eight and make sure this one paper brightness is all the way up to fifty, press okay. So now I have two different effects on this onem dry brush and color pencil. So now I want to change the blend mode again, and this time I’m going to choose color burn. It’s really going to make it pop just like that and the last step is I want to bring my graffiti background. I’m going to go to finder here. I’m going to open graffiti this time with Photoshop. And it’s over here. Again I’m going to drop it in my very main project right on top. Again it’s the top layer here, press command t to resize it, and then press enter. So now it’s right on top. Now this time instead of changing the blend mode, I want to create a clipping mask, so with this top layer selected, let me just change the name of this, so I know what I’m looking at. With this top layer selected, go to layer, create clipping mask, and then you should get some effect that looks like this and now I want to change the opacity of this, so it’s not so overwhelming. I’ll bring it down to somewhere about 50 or so. And I could change the fill of it to be a little bit less again, around 50 or so. So you should get an effect like this. Now we only have one more step left to make this work, and we need to go to our main and we need to make this more vibrant, so it pops more, so with the main image selected, go to image, adjustments, vibrance and make sure your vibrance is really dialed up. I like about 50. I’ll even raise the saturation to about 20 to make everything really pop. So you could just go ahead and use this to taste. On/off, you could see it’s subtle. But it really makes a pop with that subtle vibrance and this is how you create the effect. Now you could play each layer that you have here and you could change the opacity to make this more or less, depending on your taste. Now what I mentioned in the beginning with Smart object, this is why it’s really useful to have that. So on my main image, if I click right in the middle here, it’s going to open my smart object. Now all I have to do is bring in another image right there, let me just show you. I’m going to open this image with Photoshop. I’m just going to go ahead and drag this to my smart object that I just opened up right on top. I’m going to press V to move it in place, and then press command T to just reduce the size here, pressing shift. I’m going to just place it right here. I’ll press enter. Now if I close this and save it and if I go back to my graffiti project, all the effects that I applied to my last image are still here, because of the smart object. So that’s why this workflow seems to work a lot better for me than just applying everything right on top of the image here and creating the smart object allows you to basically create this template for yourself, all you have to do is drop a new image in your smart object every time and it’ll change everything as soon as you save it. So let me do that and go back to where I started. There’s my previous image. I hope this video was helpful. Go ahead and subscribe to this channel and like this video if you liked it. And I hope to see you on the next video. Thanks for watching.

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How to Use Photoshop CC 2018 For Beginners-Part 3-Photoshop File Formats JPEG, PSD, PNG

November 8, 2019

Before we start creating some files from scratch and doing some photo retouching, I just want to get you familiar with file formats, photo file formats. Let me just show you a few file formats that you need to know about before we go any further. So if you go to file and if you go to save as on any document, so if you have any document open go to file and file save as and this is where you would save a file and in this drop down down here, these are some of the file formats that you could use in Photoshop to save your file and I’m not just gonna list these and go through these just to show you every single one. I’m gonna show you the most important ones that you need to know. So the very first one that you need to know is JPEG. So if you save a file in JPEG, let me just go ahead and save this one. This is the JPEG option that you get. So maximum quality. I usually try to get the maximum quality and this is the file size, so if the file size is too big you could just decrease the quality, but let’s just say for the sake of this video, we’ll go with maximum quality. I usually do that, file size usually doesn’t seem to be a problem unless I save for a website and that’s a whole different thing and I’ll show you that at a different time, so let me just press ok. And I’m just gonna minimize this and go to my desktop here and this is the file that he just saved right here, JPEG. JPEG is the first file I wanted to show you and as you know, most cameras nowadays including your phone take pictures in JPEG. That’s the compression of the image. So it looks like a very sharp good quality image. The compression is very solid and JPEG is most likely the image that you’re gonna come across if you’re taking your picture from a camera or a phone. Another one is raw, which in this case you can just go ahead and save something in RAW, but some cameras take pictures in RAW and raw usually comes in a file format called DNG. Different brands have their own file format like Canon has a different file format and raw allows you to do things with the image that you don’t have in a JPEG format meaning you could change the ISO for example, the color temperature and it gets a lot more complicated than what a JPEG can do and RAW gives you a lot more options, but there are a massive, massive file. A raw file is a massive file. So for now, let’s forget about raw. You’ll most likely be working with a JPEG. Another option is Photoshop. If you save something as a Photoshop, it saves it as a dot PSD. Now a dot PSD is basically a layered Photoshop file, so when you save as a dot PSD, you’ll have all these layers intact. So if I was to open a dot PSD file, it will open with all these layers. If I open a dot PNG file, it’s just one layer, so even if I open this in Photoshop here, I’ll just go ahead and open with Photoshop, and it’ll just open right here in this tab, so this is the PSD file. You have all the layers the PNG file I’m sorry the JPEG file, is just one layer, so you can’t really edit this anymore, so that’s the difference between JPEG and the PSD file. So for most case use, you’ll start with a jpg and finish with a jpg. Another important one is a PNG. Now let me just close this one and go back to this layer. So if I turn all these off, and I just had this logo, and I want to keep this transparent background, so let me just go ahead and select this. I’m gonna press the move tool and move it right in the middle here. So if I was to save this as a JPEG, so if I just save this as a JPEG here, I’ll just rename it so it doesn’t replace the other file. And if I go to my images, it has created a white background, so I can’t put this on top of something else. So if I want this to be transparent just like you see here, these checkerboard this shows transparency, I’ll have to do a save as and I’ll have to do PNG. If I come down here PNG. That’s the other important file format you need to know besides JPEG and the Photoshop layer document, PNG. So if I save as a PNG and I go over here to my desktop where I saved it, this is a PNG file. It has a transparent background. See the difference? This is created a white background for me. This one’s transparent, so if I open this with Photoshop, it’s not a layered document, but it is a transparent document, so what I could do with a PNG file like this one, look if I grab this layer and if I drag it over to one of these and drop it, It’s created that transparency for me. So this layer could be placed on top of a different layer. If I did this with a JPEG, open with Photoshop and if I click this layer and I bring it on top of this one I drop it, you see the white background is there, so if I don’t want this white background, I need to save it as a PNG. Again, save as the three file formats you need to know are Photoshop file for layered documents. This is how you save your project basically, so you could come and edit it. JPEG for exporting it and most of your pictures are gonna be JPEG to start editing with and PNG. That’s the transparent background. Some of the other ones you might come across our TIFF files or GIF files, but just for simplicity, PNG, JPEG and Photoshop files are the three to get you started with file formats in Photoshop. The next video, let’s start doing some photo editing and photo retouching.

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How to Use Photoshop CC 2018-Part9-Using BLEND MODES

November 5, 2019

In this video, I’m gonna show you blend modes and how blend modes work, so we’ll start in the layer panel and I’ll show you blend mode here. You’ll end up seeing blend mode in a lot of the tools that you use throughout Photoshop. But they basically all work the same way that you’ll see in the layers panel so I have two layers here layer one or layer zero is this background here this texture and layer one is this create with a white background and this white background will come in handy Cuz they’ll really show you how the blend mode work to apply a blend mode. You’ll have this drop-down menu over here These are all the different blend modes that you could choose. I have my top layer selected I’m gonna blend that with my bottom layer, so that’s the order that I’m gonna blend things with this layer selected I’m gonna start applying the blend mode. They’re divided into different categories, so here’s a category Here’s a category and so on there’s five different categories here. Let’s pick this one darken what this does is Uses the darker image, and it just shows you the darker image so it gets rid of the lighter parts of the image now the second set of group lighten this will be the inverse of that so the lighter part of the image wins and then you have the overlay which blends the two and you could use the opacity to kind of Change that blend between the two or the fill option to change the blend between the two Those are the three different options? I like to use if I want the darker part of the image to win I’ll go ahead and choose one of these options like multiply I’ll just change the fill to a hundred these are basically almost do the same thing at different levels And if I want the lighter part of the image in this case the top image to win I’ll choose something like screen or lighten and I’ll play with the opacity and if I want a combination of the two I’ll use things like hard light or soft light basically everything under this overlay section So those are the three different options that I like to use often these will give you some different effects also So let me go back to normal I want to show you a quick way to see the blend mode in action So all you gotta do is if you hold shift And you press the plus sign you’ll start going through all the different options for you one at a time so color Dodge Donn’s lighting color overlay Soft light just like that you could just really test this out real quickly with all the different options hue saturation color Luminosity you could see how quickly I could go through this shift – and shift plus will show you these overlay options Very quickly so sometimes it’s better not to be scientific and try to really figure out how much Percentage is showing from this picture to that picture. Just go ahead and choose your top image Go ahead and pick one of these and then started shift + + shift – to see what they’re each doing And when you get closer to that effect that you’re looking for you could basically go here and change the opacity Or change the fill and get the perfect effect with your image. That’s just a quick video over the blend mode There’s so many things you could do with blend modes in Photoshop And I hope this brief overview got you started with understanding blend modes Please give this video a thumbs up and stay tuned for the next video where we’re talking about Smart Objects and using non-destructive editing in Photoshop Thanks for watching this one, and I hope to see you on the next video

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How to Use Photoshop CC 2018 For Beginners- Part 8-Reshaping Images with Free Transform Tool

November 5, 2019

In this Photoshop video, I wanted to show you how you could transform an image, how to scale it how to rotate it how to resize it and I’m gonna show you that with this image here. Now one thing to know is if you start with an image I just opened this in Photoshop, and it usually starts like this. It’s locked and we want to change this to a layer all we got to do is press lock that will unlock it I’m just gonna command Z Or you could double click it And you could just rename this image that way and that will create it layer from that So you could start transforming an image just right now you could transform this layer, so if I press command T That’s the free transform, tool. I could just transform that image like that but before we do that. I’m gonna press command Z I recommend duplicating this so you could just select this layer, and you could right-click on it And you could just duplicate that layer and my background layer now. I’m gonna turn it off This way if you do anything Destructive with your copy layer you always have the original layer to go back to so now with this layer selected Let’s go over some of the transform tools so over here edits, and if you come down here to transform You could see scale rotate skew, and then you have the free transform option Which is my favorite one so that’s command T on the shortcut? I’ll just select that one and that’ll let you do many many things like you could grab any corner here And you could change the size of the image And I always recommend holding shift cuz with a picture like this You don’t want to distort it you want to keep the width and the height the same aspect that you start with this way It’s gonna get distorted if you just free Frant transform holding shift allows you to change it like this Again if I press V for the move tool I could bring it to the center here If you grabbed it from any sides you could change it this way again if you were working with a shape These are much handier than working with an image So I’m gonna press command Z and to rotate it you could come here, and you could rotate it from any corner And it’s actually rotating it from this point here So if you bring this point somewhere else in the image it starts rotating it from that point And if you want to reset this point over here, you just click right in the middle there And he moved it right back to the middle so you could rotate it And if you don’t want any rotation all you got to do is You come over here and press zero on the angle and that’ll reset it and press ok So now again with the free transform tool. Let’s press command T to get the free transform tool You could just right-click or control-click here And it allows you to just rotate and do flip horizontal and flip vertical Without going into the menu so for example if you do that. I’m gonna press command Z again right clicking it You could change the skew that’ll create effect like this if you wanted to ski your image for some reason Let’s look at perspective. You could change the perspective of the image This is kind of a cool effect, and you could work the image, too And there’s a lot of warp options like there’s this one That’s a fish, and it’ll change your image that way And you could change the bend of it to any size you want to So if you want a really subtle Bend of a fish you could just change this number and then press ok again I could press command Z to go backwards So now if you distorted this image too much And you wanted the original Image luckily you have the first one so go ahead and delete this one and you could just turn on your original layer And we’re back to where we started. Let me show you one more thing. I haven’t talked about in other videos I’ll go ahead and duplicate this layer one more time, and I’ll press ok I’ll just go ahead and press command T to resize the top one I’m holding shift, and I’m just gonna make it smaller and I’ll bring it right here. Let’s just Make it this size, and I’ll move it over here, and now I’m gonna press the checkmark to say that’s okay There is a really cool option here in the layers panel with opacity so if I click my background layer here I could change the opacity of it To be much lower than the other layer so now with the top layer I could move it somewhere else in the image, and I could create some layer styles to it like a stroke and I could change the Stroke size to just like a four and then I could put that on the inside And I could start really playing around with these kind of image and image Using opacity and using layer styles on top of each other so the free transform tool really comes in handy right here To quickly change this and then I could just press okay And then I want to change the background to be a little bit darker So this really stands out so I could use that CIN overlay and I could make a much darker and press okay So those are some options with the layers where you could work with opacity and work with layer styles and then work with the free transform tool to work with two images on top of each other and Create a cool picture in picture effect for your photo Please give this video a thumbs up and stay tuned for the next video in our Photoshop tutorials. 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How to Use Photoshop CC 2018 For Beginners-Part 6-Working with layers and layer styles

November 4, 2019

This video is gonna be all about layers and layer styles and I’ll talk about what those layer styles are, but layers in Photoshop are these individual elements, so this is one layer this is one layer, and so on these are all different layers that make up our design here in Photoshop. And the benefits of using layers like this is that you have individual control over all these elements. For example, this Instagram logo is one layer, and it’s on its own independent layer, so if I press this eyeball here I could turn it on and off and I could individually effect this layer without affecting my entire image so working with Layers in Photoshop is my favorite thing and it’s the thing that you’re really gonna spend most of your time with in Photoshop so let Me just show you a few things the first thing is creating layers So if you want to create a layer from scratch these layers were all Independently created or they were brought into Photoshop for example this PSD this Photoshop icon I just brought this as a PNG file. I dragged it over and placed there here and created a new layer for me so sometimes Dragging the elements into a Photoshop file creates a layer for you, but if you want to create one from scratch down here You’ll see this icon, and if you press that it creates a layer, so now I have layer 17 I could just turn it on and off and there’s nothing on this layer, so this is not affecting our image And if you want to delete a layer just select it and press Delete, so that’s how you create a layer So what can you do with layers well layers could be images like independent images like you see here Or here’s another one This is our background, so if I turn this on and off that’s that Instagram photo in the background there could be text layers So here’s a text layer now How do you create a text layer same thing just go ahead and create a new layer? Just like this, and if you press T for the T tool with this layer selected and you go here and you just click somewhere in your Photoshop document you could just start typing and there’s a text layer C. Just created a text layer from that layer I just created so layer 17 turn into a text layer and With text layers you have all the control over text So if I select this I could just change everything about that text up here, just like anything else So I’m just gonna delete that now here’s a text layer that I’ve already created And if I turn this on and off you could see it in the middle of the screen So that’s a text layer and an image layer looks just like this, and if you want to name a layer You just click the text you just double click that and I could call this background for example, so now that’s my background layer That’s how you name a layer and turning it on and off is just like this with this eyeball and the next thing is Organizing this layer right now I have a bunch of layers, and they’re not really organized But you could actually organize them into these groups by clicking this tab down here It creates a group so you could just drag something like this and put it inside the group just like that so the layer The background this layer now you see how things changed the order of your layers matter So the layer on top shows first so if I bring this to the top it shows first and the blue one was on top of the white one here so as You could see the order makes a big difference so if I put this on the bottom It’s really gonna change it the blue is gonna show instead of this background layer So the order makes a big difference and by grouping him you could turn off the entire group so now if I turn this off Everything in the background should be gone just like that so that’s why you would do a group Another way to create a group just like this for example my logo here is multiple layers So there’s the text layer and there’s another text layer, and there’s the logo, there’s three different layers So I could select this I’m gonna just shift select these three And then I could press this group and you’ll put it in a group for me just like that and just like everything else I could double click this and I could just Name this what I want to and if I turn this on and off now all those layers could Disappear and the same thing that you would do with individual layers you could open this up And you could turn each layer on and off just like that or all three at the same time So this is a great way to organize your files now a lot of times you want to create something fast And you’ll skip this, but I recommend organizing your files the best way you can in the layer panel it’s a lot easier than to start from a Design for example with these images that are created for YouTube I always come back to the same design And then I could just double click this and then Changez text for example I could turn this off and then put another icon there It’s really an easier way if you have it organized just like this I know for example that my – any logo is always gonna be there and So on so that’s a brief view of the layer panel But let me just show you layer style which is also a powerful tool to really customize each Individual layer so on any given layer if you double-click on the text you could change the text But if you double-click right here on the side It opens this panel called layer style and with layer style you could do a lot of different things to an individual layer for example I could create a drop shadow which is the most commonly used? Layer styling that I use especially for text as you can see here There’s a drop shadow, but if you look at this Photoshop, icon. I could press drop shadow you see the difference There is creating a drop shadow, and if you want to individually effect that You could select it like this And then you could change the opacity of the drop shadow the distance and so on So I’m gonna just press command Z to undo that and then you could change the blending mode and everything else with each individual blending option here, so let me just turn this off and Let me show you Bevel for example so if I choose bevel as you could see it’s having the impact here So I could on an off it like this if I turn this off if I’m gonna do stroke I could just check that on and then I could come here and change the stroke options so it gives you a lot of options with this and one of my favorite things that it does is let me just show you this on an image, so I’m just gonna open this background group and I’ll turn this off so you can see this blue layer I use the gradient overlay as a layer option, so if I double click this over here if I didn’t have gradient overlay I just had a basic blue color that I created with a shape so if I check this on now I use the gradient overlay and these are the options I have with gradient overlay and I could change the opacity and so on for example to Affect this background, so I could press OK there and here let me double click this one I have multiple different layer styles so I have Gradients and and inner shadow so inner shadow as you can see on the sides is making a darker gradient overlay It’s just creating a gradient color overlay and Sens making everything Darker so the text could pop now play around with layer styles see which ones come in handy for you I know for me dry shadow stroke Gradient overlay are some of the most common ones I use bevel from time to time And then I play around with the setting under each individual one to really get the look that I’m going for so that’s a brief Overview of layers and layer styles it’ll help you organize your Photoshop file And it also gives you an option to edit each layer with a lot of different options in the layer style panel I hope you found this helpful. 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How to Use Photoshop CC 2018-Part 7-USING BRUSHES in Photoshop

November 4, 2019

In this video, I want to talk about Photoshop colors and how you set colors in Photoshop and all about brushes. So let’s get started. Go to file, go to file new and over here you could just click the photo icon and use the default Photoshop size. I’ll just press create here These are just a dimension it really doesn’t matter. I’m just gonna show you brushes on colors here We’re really not creating anything from scratch, so press create, and here’s my canvas so first of all let’s talk about colors so the Photoshop colors here This is your foreground color And this is your background color so to change these you’ll just go ahead and click one of these icons So I’ll just click this one and I should get this color picker here, so you could either use This elevator here to change the lightness and the darkness of the color that you’ve chosen Or you could just click around here to pick a color, and if you’re creating something for the web sometimes It’s good to click only web colors And it limits your colors that you could choose and you could get this number to use in HTML code for example But in this case. I’ll just freely browse around and I’ll pick a color I want let’s say if you want to pick a deep red and make it a little bit darker and press ok so now that’s our foreground color meaning everything we create now is gonna be this color so if I went to the tool and Chose the rectangle tool you see the fill color is based on this color So if I drag it will create that so I’m just gonna press coming as Etan do so your background color You could choose that one separately to let’s say we’re gonna pick this blue color press ok I could Switch the foreground and the background right now the foreground is red if I press this arrow icon here It switches us so now if I click and drag a rectangle. It’s gonna be blue so you get the idea here It created a new layer for me. I could just click this layer and delete So over here just to make sure we’re looking at the same thing go ahead and pick the essentials layout here And let’s start working with brushes, so the brush tool over here is Shortcut B. Or you could just select the here brush tool and just to reset the tool we’ll come over here And I’m just gonna right click or command click and reset the tool So we’re all looking at the same thing here if you click this you’ll see all the different settings for the brush tool for example The size of the brush so right now. It’s very small. It’s this dot here if I make it bigger here Let’s say if I go to 218 you see it gets bigger and even at 500 gets even much bigger and the hardness of the brush And I’ll show you that when we start working with a brush, and these are your presets these might look different These are just my presets my recently used brushes, but you could get hard rounds You could get soft rounds you could just have a lot of different options here with brushes so let’s just go ahead and start with a soft round brush and Hardness would be around 50 and the brush size around 124 So that’s gonna be our default brush so to start painting with your brush. You just click and drag just like that You start painting with your brush, so if you wanted a small brush you just reduce the size here And then paint again, and if you want a different type of brush like a hard round brush Same kind of thing so you see the difference here the soft round is just kind of softens the sides and the hard round is Just is very hard Edges and some of the other settings that are good to know are The opacity here so the opacity if I lower the opacity to let’s say 50 my brush Is just gonna be more transparent so if I draw a couple of them on top of each other you see the transparency shows through Okay, next is the floor the brush so if I lower the flow to 50% let me just bring the opacity up You see the flow is not at 100% so It has a different effect when you start drawing a line So that’s the flow so if it said low if it’s at like 3%. It’s hardly gonna draw anything and a hundred percent it’s gonna be just that hard line that we created before and the soothing is really a good thing to learn about so let me just change my brush size to That’s good about a 30 and The shooting right now let me just change it to zero to show you what this does if I draw a line You see it’s kind of hard to keep it very smooth, and if I change this using to a hundred percent It’s gonna just do a for me. It’s gonna be just a lot easier to create smooth lines here the one where I had the Soothing at zero you know it’s a lot harder to create those But with soothing on it’s just a lot easier to move around it just guides you a lot better So you could play with soothing? To get the right effect that you’re looking for and there’s multiple Option with with the soothing that I won’t go into in this video, but you could play around with these as well And just like everything else with blend modes everything has a blend mode, so do brushes So I’ll get to blend modes in a different video And you could come back and play with the different blend modes in a brush Let me just go to edit and fill here. I just want to basically start with a new blank canvas I’ll just click here and fill with white press okay that will just give me a new canvas So I could show you a couple other things again with the brush tool if you want to create a straight line You could click and hold shift, and then it will restrict your movement to be straight And if I click here, and I click shift, and I start moving down same kind of thing so if I’m not holding shift It’ll kind of be free-flowing either way But if I hold shift it Restricts my movement if you want to create a line between two points click once and then hold shift I’m gonna click again, and it creates a line for you So now I could click again and click again and click again This gives you a really nice way to draw straight lines between points obviously There is a whole world with brushes like over here. If you look if you don’t see this window Just go ahead to window and choose brush settings so you could see this window that I’m looking at here But over here You could see all The different brushes that I have access to and I’ve done a little bunch more from a website So if you google Photoshop brushes, there is some websites where you could buy these For example I have a smoke brush here so when I use a smoke brush it creates effects like that I have even a brush that looks like a leaf so if I want to create a fact like this So brushes are very Limitless in their possibility, and they really give you a lot more creativity And I’m just gonna change my brush color here just by switching the two so if you want to change the way your drawing with brushes all you got to do is click here and change your ground so if I want a green leaf here all I got to do is do that and Again, I could increase my brush size to make a big one right over there I hope this basic overview with brushes got you started in the description I want to leave you couple links that are really handy One is a place where you could get more brushes So just like mine as you can see I have a lot more brushes than then you probably have access to so I’m gonna just leave a link to that and I also want to leave you a link to a Tablet because with a tablet it’s gonna be pressure sensitive so if you start working with brushes you could start using a tablet to really fine-tune your drawing if Brushes and drawing are gonna be the main use of Photoshop for you. I really recommend the tablet so on the link below I’ll leave the industry standard one. That’s really well-priced and works perfectly so if you’re working with brushes Go ahead and pick one up just to really help with your workflow in the next video. I’m gonna really dive into transforming things meaning free transform tool Scaling things rotating things and all about moving shapes around in Photoshop. That’s coming up next

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