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If you basically learn one application, you know, most people say Photoshop because you can do so much with it.

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And you can edit. You can create. You can even do raster in vector images.

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You know, you can do collages. You know, you can do magic, you know, with photos and remove objects so you can blend photos, you can repair them.

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All kinds of fantastic things that you can do. And so today, this workshop basically helps you learn some beginning editing techniques and Photoshop,

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and it's going to provide you with resources to continue learning.

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And also, as we kind of go through the workshop today, feel free to post in the chat if you have a question or a comment,

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something like for me to go over again, if we have time, that kind of thing. I do my best to to watch the chat, but be a little patient with me.

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Usually I have a helper who helps me with that. But I'll do my best.

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And so basically, in order to begin working in Photoshop, you need to have an Adobe I.D. And if you're an Auburn student,

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you automatically get in an Adobe idea for free to have to go and requested at this link.

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If you're a faculty yourself and you don't yet have an Adobe I.D., then you request it's your, oh,

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I.T. contact and you get that at a discounted rate of nine nine dollars for your subscription.

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And then another thing I recommend is once you do have your Adobe I.D. set up,

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download the Adobe Dust Creative Cloud desktop app to your computer, and that helps you really manage everything on your computer.

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So on your Mac, for example, to install itself in your taskbar. And then you can manage all the applications.

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You can sort them by categories and things like that, which is super helpful.

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And so as we get in to our presentation on Photoshop today, we're gonna just kind of talk about it in general.

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And, you know, a software program is pretty big if it's now become a verb.

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Right. And somebody says this has been photo shopped. You know, it's like.

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When we got photocopies and people said this has been Xeroxed, right?

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So what do you think of when somebody says photo shopped?

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You might think of something like this, which is kind of like silly and in and you can't trust, you know, the photo and things like that.

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So this was kind of just a fun a fun thing that this dad started doing.

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So obviously the baby is not and this is actually not actually in this dangerous situation.

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But the dad photo shopped, you know, the baby into these situations.

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You know, just to be kind of funny, to show to be silly to his relatives and to freak them out and that kind of thing.

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So when you hear photo shopped or something like that, you might think of something like that, like, oh, that's it's fake.

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You know, it's been photo shopped and that kind of thing. But Photoshop is also things on Behance, you know, which is professional artwork.

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And so this is also another fantastic resource to visit.

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If you would like to get some inspiration as you develop your own materials that you may like to have your own Behance basically online portfolio,

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which you can have with your Adobe I.D. But it's also it gives you some good ideas and inspiration, too.

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And they also do behance live, which there's a link to on this resource page as well,

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where live artists will livestream and and explain their techniques and show you what they're doing and how they use the different Photoshop tools.

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You know, because, you know, Photoshop is basically a series of digital tools that help you with imaging.

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So there's a million different ways to use them.

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Right.

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And so, you know, just like anything else with art, there's several different techniques you can use and combinations of tools and things like that.

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So there's there's an endless number of things to learn.

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But today, we're going to focus on basically four to five very simple, practical ways you can use Photoshop.

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And by the end of the period today. But it's also Photoshop is also things like this.

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You know, we can use Photoshop in a very academic sense. So this is Dr. Beckman over an entomology.

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And so he knows Photoshop pretty well. He actually has a background in art.

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So this is very handy for him to be able to apply this in science.

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So this is an image that he worked with one of his graduate students on to help her get the point across about her research.

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So if she had just maybe left this little Venn diagram and was explaining to people, you know, that she's studying, you know,

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this tiny little part of, you know, the part of the blood, which is also this tiny little part of the part of blood of mosquito.

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You know, she just left. That is like a regular Venn diagram or something like that.

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People be like, why does that matter? Is like a teeny tiny amount. Who cares, right?

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Well, you know, being able to sort of blow up the image of the mosquito by drawing it, you know,

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and making it huge and important, you know, it's kind of visually gives them the person, the idea.

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This is really important.

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It's super important that we study this very small percent of the infected mosquito blood because that's what causes infections in humans.

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It is actually the number one killer of humans on the planet.

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So British, in order to do that, she needed to have some skills to do the drawing and put that together in Photoshop.

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So that's an example. You can use it to create graphics that then go into other products that you can use.

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And if you're interested, he has a class, a graduate level class and teaches students how to use Photoshop to do their scientific illustrations.

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Is that is running again this fall, which is great. And so another little a few things before we get into Photoshop as well.

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Adobe has a whole slew of mobile apps as well.

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And so if you're unaware another mobile app that's great is the Déby Capture.

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It'll do some neat things like this, like you can point your smartphone at something in real life or at a photo or an image,

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and it'll pick up the color palette and then it'll save that color palette.

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And when you're signed into your TV idea on the dooby capture on your phone, it'll save that library.

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And then you can access that color library when you're in Photoshop so that

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you can continue to design using colors and inspiration from other sources.

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So they have several neat apps like that that are worth looking into as well, because you get all so much with your want to do.

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And it wouldn't be right to have a workshop on Photoshop and not, you know, give some time to just talking about framing and cropping in general.

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Not going to show these videos to you. These are here for you to watch as a resource later.

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you may be discerning which photos you want to use from a set that you have or maybe you're pulling from other people's photos.

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So this helps you decide, you know, what makes a good photo. How would you frame one if you were taking it?

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Because garbage in. Garbage out. Right. So if you have a really.

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Bad photo. And you're like, I want to make this better in Photoshop.

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There's there's not going to be a whole lot you can do if it's inherently poorly taken photo in the first place.

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There are things you can do as far as lightening it, maybe changing the colors and the hues and the brightness and doing some minor correcting things.

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But if you're taking, like, most of the photo out, then why take that photo in the first place?

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These are fantastic tutorials.

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This is actually what is based on today's presentation is based on and I may not be patient with that load because we're zooming at the same time.

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So but you can check that out. They have fantastic tutorials. They do.

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They have the sample files that they use.

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They allow you to download them. You know, they'll have a sample file photo to use in a three to four minute video.

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And then also some text information. This the same as the video.

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And so you can go through and finish the whole course if you want to.

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We are actually working in the get to know Photoshop course.

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I've taken that course and kind of condensed it a bit and not used all of the sample files because that will be a lot to download.

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But we're doubling up some of the uses of those. But if you want to continue learning Photoshop after today, you can go to that,

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get to know Photoshop course and kind of pick up where we left off, which is about halfway through.

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And then you can continue to learn from there and also do a Photoshop two workshop later on, which is a follow up to this.

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And we also have all of our workshops recorded and available on our website as well.

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So if it doesn't work out for your schedule, that's an option, too.

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But if you go to the adobe ones, you could finish the book, get to know Photoshop course, and then they have additional.

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They have the intermediate level, you know, an advanced level.

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And once you're kind of used to how they do them, then it's very easy to continue learning and you can do it in sections, which is fantastic.

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You know, if you're an employee, that can also be a good resource to for tutorials.

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But I'd like to start with the Adobe ones, because I think the way they have them placed is is very good.

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I don't have to go make my own playlist in like I do in linked in learning and figure out which ones might be good for what I need and stuff.

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These are good for getting started, you know, initially, and then also have a quick little hand out here.

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So this might be a good thing for you to kind of keep handy with you as you're starting to learn Photoshop.

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You could print this out. You could download it as PDAF and keep it.

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Keep it with you. Kind of handy. We're gonna go through several of these.

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And so this is a very good sort of memory aid for you guys to refer to after today's workshop, because it'll kind of remind you, you know what?

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What tools do we go to? How do we deal with graphics? How do you select something?

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How do you move something and things like that? So that's another resource for you as well.

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And so with that, we will go ahead and go ahead and put in the link one more time for anybody who joined the last minute.

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And we will go ahead and jump into Photoshop. So this is kind of our lesson plan for today.

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We're going to be kind of checking out the interface a bit and then we're going to talk about resizing resolution and croppies straighten.

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We're going to talk a lot about layers, because what I'd like to focus on in these workshops is sort of the concepts.

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So you're going to figure out kind of which tools do a lot of a lot of the more intricate tools.

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You'll figure out what they do, you'll learn along the way and that kind of thing.

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But if you don't have the major concepts down that are associated with Photoshop or CESI with in design and so on, then it makes it a lot harder.

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But once you have those major concepts down, it's a lot, lot easier to to work on.

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And then we're going to do some image adjustments. We're gonna learn how to remove objects and touch up images.

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So very practical things you will be able to do by the end of the session today.

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Okay. And again, if you would like to follow along, you are welcome to.

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I know it's kind of hard to do that, so whatever you're comfortable with doing will be great.

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So we're going to use the first of all, we're going to use is going to be cropped straighten.

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So let's go find that one. So we're just going to open this file. So if you're following along, you would go to Photoshop and you go to open.

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And then you would navigate to where you downloaded the practice file that was posted here and then you would just open it.

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But here it's in my reasons. So I'm just gonna go ahead and get this open for now.

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All right, so here we've got our Photoshop interface.

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The first thing we need to do is kind of just talk about the interface a little bit and kind of get used to it.

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Photoshop can be intimidating when you first opened it. And we're not going to focus on all the tools, of course, but a few major ones.

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So on the left hand side here, we've got sort of our toolbar set.

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one of the first things we like to check is to get my video thing out of the way here so I can kind of see is the check.

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Which sort of tools scheme are you in? So right now we're in the one called the essentials.

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OK. So that's one of the first things that you can check over in your Photoshop interface.

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Notice that if you're working in something more specific, you know, you want to get all the photography tools together.

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There are different schemes you can choose. But right now, we're gonna be working in a centrals, and that's a good place to start.

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And then also down here, over here on the left hand side, you've got your tools.

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So we have like the move tool, which helps you move things. Notice that when you mouseover in Photoshop, you get these rich text tools, information.

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So if you forget what a tool does, you know,

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or you're not sure what it does and you want to kind of just learn as you go and play around with it, which is a great idea to do as well.

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Then just mouseover it and it'll even kind of show you a little mini video of what's happening there.

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Which is great. Also, when you first opened up Photoshop, it may open up to this LERN tab.

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This these are the same tutorials that they have available on that link.

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I showed you this Adobe student tutorial. So if you see that come up.

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Those are logit and they're good to use and so on over here.

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We're going to be using a selection tool later. So a selection tool like the lasso tool helps you select a certain area of the photograph.

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We're gonna be using crop, which also gives you crop and straighten and notice.

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It also has a little learn how as well. So if you forget or you're not sure you can do this, you know, you can.

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You can check those out. We will be using the spot healing brush tool to do some correcting.

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So that'll be good. And we'll be using the text tool today, which helps you put type notes, text on on the screen and the shapes tool.

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So this will give you all kinds of shapes to work with. Shapes are a nice way to sort of add to your collage.

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Maybe you want to put a shape and then you put a text box on top of it and then you can kind of make your text, pop some more things like that.

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So you can do that as well. Notice that some of these tools have a little white ear on the bottom.

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If they do, then you press and hold the tool and that means that there are more tools underneath.

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So the little white flag on the bottom right hand corner means there's hidden tools.

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It could be that it's in the hidden area. So like when we use the lasso tool, if we want a different selection tool, we can press and hold.

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So that's the base in what I'm telling you here, as far as interface goes, is pretty much across all the Adobe applications.

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So once you kind of get familiar with one, which I think Photoshop is probably the more in-depth one, the others will be easier to support.

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That knowledge to the hand tools very is also very good.

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So if you want to sort of move around and of course, we need to kind of zoom in first.

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So we can zoom in by using the zoom tool.

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We can also do a command plus or command minus on a Mac or control plus control minus on APC to zoom in and out.

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That's super useful.

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It's great for you guys to learn the shortcut, the keyboard shortcuts as you go, because then I'll make all of your workflows a lot easier.

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So now I can go back to the hand tool and I can sort of pan this around, you know?

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So just helps you to kind of know how to move around your workspace, OK?

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You can also get to you can edit the toolbar as well.

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So if you want to make like, specific changes to your scheme and like save that, then you could.

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We're not going to do that today, right now. And then also, let's talk about color.

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So down here, we have what we call what they call the foreground color in the background color.

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OK. And to get to your color palette, you can just double click it.

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And now we're in what they call the color picker. So here is where we can pick certain colors for us to use.

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We can, of course, just freeform pick these if we want to.

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OK, and just kind of click around and see what we like and it tells you what the new one you're about

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to pick is and it's telling you it's going to replace this current one as the foreground color.

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So like if you were designing a collage and you wanted the text of the same color as one of the colors in the photograph,

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that's a super easy way to get your new color that you can then use to type over here.

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We've got the RGV colors. We also have to see him like a color, so we're designing for Web.

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Then we're going to use the RGV colors. If we're designing for print, then we're using the same like colors.

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We didn't create a new one yet. We'll do that in a minute. So it knows, since this is a jpeg, that this is for Web.

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If you have a specific color you want to use. So let's say you wanted to use the exact Omron specific colors.

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they'll tell you what the exact hex code is for RGV and what the codes are for seem like.

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OK, and now we're gonna have our new foreground color. If my computer will cooperate.

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So if I were to type some text right now or to, you know, just draw with the brush, it's going to be active to that foreground color.

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easily switch these two colors by using this little switcher option right here,

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the two arrows. And so that's just a technique a lot of people use.

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Those set the background color to maybe a secondary color.

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They're using a lot and then they'll just switch back and forth, depending on which one they need to be active at the time.

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OK, we'll see what else colors. Another thing you can do in Photoshop, which is very handy,

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is let's say you were designing something earlier on these flowers and you knew you wanted to maybe use this color again, maybe later on.

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And it's not handy to just write down the code or something. Right. You can do it's called add to swatches.

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And then what that does is that will add it to a sort of a set color, a set of colors that you can then access throughout this document.

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The trick is, is that your swatches are only available within the file that you created the Swatch in.

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Unless you tell it to add to your current library. So if you add it to your library that it'll be available across all of your Adobe applications.

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And I can even give this a name, Soucy.

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I can name this color flower green, you know, and then if I'm doing this whole, you know, set of photographs or, you know,

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images that have to do with flowers, then I know Flower Green is that exact green and I can use it across all of my applications.

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So being able to work with your color and your swatches is definitely helpful.

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So we'll cancel for now and then we'll cancel this for now.

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We can also go to the color libraries here and see what we've got. Before we go and add the color again and that kind of thing.

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notice that basically all of the menu items that come up within the all of the Adobe applications are what they call context specific.

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So right now I'm on the brush tool. So it up here, it's going to show me basically the properties for that particular tool.

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Now, depending on what version of Photoshop you're using STEM on 2019, it could be appearing over here, too, which is fine.

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It might be there instead. So just look for.

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But the trick is sometimes people will go nuts at first because they'll say, where are my text properties?

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How do I pick, you know, the different fonts and stuff like that?

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Right. So there's no way they can display all the menus all the time.

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The properties of before you go looking for it.

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So the properties of the brush right now are. This is tells me how how big it is, you know, the size of it, the hardness.

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I can make it softer if I want a more feathery kind of look and so on.

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So clicking and choosing the item that you want to make changes to first is crucial for sure.

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OK. So we've gone through color. What else? Any other things that have to do with the interface.

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If you're trying to get one of those larger sort of properties panels over here, you know, and you're not seeing it.

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Here's my swatches know there's my it's remembering that Swatch, even though I didn't really save it remembers is the last foreground color I picked.

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That was nice, but if you are looking for a panel over here and you don't see it, you know,

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option up at the top because you notice you have these menus up at the top two.

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Most of these are additional menus, which we're gonna go through.

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But the window menu basically helps you control these properties over here on the right hand side.

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I want my swatches panel to be up the whole time because I want to keep picking different colors because I'm going crazy with my colors.

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put the checkmark next swatches and then that forces it to appear over here.

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So if you want to go look at what are the character options first, you know, before you go choosing the text and stuff like that,

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you know, then you can do that and you can also kind of rearrange these panels by kind of clicking and dragging them around.

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So managing your interface is really important. You can also collapse and expand these different panels as well.

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OK. And then also your view is kind of handy.

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So if you've zoomed all the way in and you want to get out quickly, you can do things like fit on screen.

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So what we're going to do next is we're going to see what we can learn about this image and talk about image size and things like that.

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So we opened this JPEG image here. And so currently we're making changes to this JPEG image right now.

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OK. So as far as thinking about your workflow, when you bring in a file like this, you're technically kind of making a copy of it, right?

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You still have your master saved on your computer. So that's important to think about.

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what sort of file naming conventions you want to use for your versioning if you want to do multiple versions and things like that.

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So just making sure you're doing a good job managing your files, you know, as you're working in Photoshop also because I brought this in as a JPEG,

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something I can do is I can do a save as an a Photoshop file type is going to be p p p p p.

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Yeah. A PSP. And so what I can do is I if I want to maintain good at its ability, I would save this image in Photoshop.

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Because then that way if I wanted to go back and like, you know, get rid of that brush or something, that I could do that.

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So keeping it in a native Photoshop format.

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And then either doing a save as or an export as a jpeg or whatever you need, you know, and then that's a different copy.

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This is a good workflow to kind of develop and think about conceptually, OK, because that meant it helps you maintain at its ability.

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If you decide to go in and edit this file again, you've got it.

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You don't have to do all those edits all over again because you didn't save it as a PSP.

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And so that's a good tip as well. And then, of course, you could do a save as you can also export all kinds of stuff.

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While we're here, let's just open a new document real quick so you guys can see what that would be like and then we'll get into this photo a bit.

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So if you were just starting out Photoshop and you wanted to maybe create something from scratch.

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OK, what you would do is you would go to file new and then you would check out you would figure out,

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am I making it for print and making it for the web? What kind of image is it?

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Notice they have art and illustration because you can use this to help you create those types of images as well.

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And so we can go to photo. There's a default Photoshop size here.

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If you have if it comes up is something different here, sometimes it'll come up as pixels or whatever.

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So you can choose from these default sizes to start with. Or you can create your own from scratch, whatever you want to do.

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So over here, you would give this a name. So we can just call this sample.

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We can change it. We can make it pixels instead of inches.

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We can you know, we can change it back to inches. We can make all kinds of changes to that.

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What's it gonna go in? Is it gonna be in print? Is giving out web? Is it going to be both?

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Miles, for that, you know, and keep the stability of it, and then you can also choose the orientation, you can have multiple art boards.

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That's kind of like multiple pages within the documents. So if you're going to do a lot of different illustrations, you could do that starting out.

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I wouldn't recommend that right away. But we can change the orientation.

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The resolution here, because it's a photo, it wants it to be at a high resolution because it thinks maybe you're gonna print it.

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Maybe not. But you don't have to. You can change that to seventy two, which is kind of the minimum for the Web.

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And then color mode here, RGV is fine. A bit is fine.

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for example, which we're gonna see an example of in a minute, which you would just create.

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And you could save your PTSD file and then work on it and add your photos to it and add a collage,

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add some text to it, and you can do some really neat things pretty quickly.

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So first, we're going to go back to our image here, though, and see what are some quick things we can do.

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So down on the bottom corner, we can just click here and get some information about this picture so we can see what's the resolution.

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You know what? How big is it, that kind of thing. So a lot of times people use Photoshop to adjust image size.

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It's kind of like one of the first things people use Photoshop for. So let's say I wanted to, you know, reduce the size of this.

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Let's say I'm taking it and I'm putting it online. But I don't need the pixels to be that big.

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I know exactly what pixel size I need, you know, so let's say I want this to be more like eight hundred.

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If I leave this linked button connected, it's gonna do it in proportion for me, which is really nice.

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So I can do that to reduce the image size.

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You know, if I wanted to maintain the entire picture and not crop it, you know, I can even change the resolution if I want to.

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I can tell it to you know, I can make this so it can be printable so I could change this to say three hundred.

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I want to make sure resampling is checked because that means sort of take all the pixels and re distribute them and keep them intact basically.

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And so I can see that now if I wanted to print this. This is the size it has to be in order to print out a high quality.

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So those are some real quick things people do oftentimes to just save their image and then resize it so you can do the same thing.

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If this was like, you know, just in inches and you want to reduce it down to four, four by six.

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You know, you can you can definitely do that. And then you export it and decide what quality you want it to be at.

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And that kind of thing. And it helps you reduce the file size of images as well.

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Also, we can crop it. So that's a very common next tool that people might want to choose to use next.

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So we can use the crop tool. Notice that now we have the crop tool.

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We have options up here for cropping. So it's asking, do you want it to be in a ratio?

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Sure. I can tell it a specific ratio I want it to be on.

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So if you're resizing something that, you know, has a two to one ratio, you can put that in there.

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Here's something to notice, too, right here. I have the option to delete the cropped pixels.

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So in most cases, you don't want to choose that because then it's not editable back words.

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Just sort of pay attention to that. And so I can resize.

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I can I can crop this by doing, you know, moving this around. I can kind of move the picture around to get it where I want.

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And notice that this nice bread comes up. So if I want to reposition this photo to where, you know,

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this is war and one of the rule of thirds sections and it gives it a lot more interest and stuff like that, then I can crop that.

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And then when I'm done, I sort of hit this. They call this like the commit button.

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So it means, yes, I'm done. This is what I want to do. I'm good.

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You can also undo command, zie or control Z on your keyboard is undo sets the next most important keyboard

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shortcut to learn if you messed something up and you don't like what it did.

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Command easy controls. OK. So yeah.

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We'll go ahead and hit. Yes. This is cool. Now our table is like whacked right here, right.

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It's not straight. So something else we could do to help this photo would be to straighten it up.

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So what we can do is we can use the straight tool. So we're gonna go up and click straight until.

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we have a perfect sample file for this because Adobe created the sample file and we can draw a nice line of decent width along the straight edge.

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And if we like what it did, we can hit checkmark. We can also rotate ourselves manually by putting our cursor in the upper right hand corner.

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And then I can rotate manually if I wanted to. I don't want to because it looks good.

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So my head. OK.

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So now we have a corrupt image that is straight and it's a little bit more visually interesting because it's over here in this third area.

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So that's kind of our first little trial that we did with that. We did this.

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We did this. OK, so now let's get into layers. Great. So going to keep that file open if you keep opening files, that was opened up this new tab here.

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So let's do that. So we've got to file open open another file.

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Actually, let me go back to you. We can do it that way.

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Going to file open and then we'll go to my desktop and then we'll go to Photoshop files.

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Here we go. And then we're gonna go to there is a P.

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S d file if you're following along. We're opening the one called layer basics.

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OK, layer basics, PSTN. So we're gonna open that.

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So now notice the previous file we opened was a J Peg. Right.

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This is a Photoshop file. So somebody has created this Photoshop file here.

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So now that we have this created here, we're going to go over to, oh, we're gonna get out of crop straighten.

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Let's just go back to the move tool. So if we go back to the to the move tool, that is kind of just like that's kind of my go to, you know,

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when I'm sort of done with something, go back to the move tool, because then it's kind of like, OK, what do you want to do next?

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It's kind of a home base thing to go to. OK, so now we've got our layer basic PTSD file open.

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So let's go to our window and we want our layers.

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Oh, it should have layers already here. Let's say. There we go.

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Or a menu is covering up our layers panel, so that was annoying.

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So we got that fixed. Another thing about these little collapsed buttons, too, if you see this little a hamburger menu.

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It means there's more options. So sometimes you don't want to do later right now, but sometimes you will be in a menu and it has a hamburger menu.

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that's a way that they hide tools over here similar to the way they hide tools over here at the white flag.

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OK. So where we got our layers here. So we need to basically kind of talk about the concept of layers and Photoshop.

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OK. So similar to something like the layers of a cake. Right.

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We start with a base and then we add additional layers on top of that.

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And the layers that are towards the top of the stack are its visible top down.

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So the layers that are at the top of the stack are the most visible. So they are on top.

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So this is the order that layers go in. You can change that order.

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So once you have layers created, which you can create layers by just creating a new layer, adding a new layer, which is the little guy down here.

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Create a new layer. Looks like a turned up Post-it note. You can add new layer and then do whatever you want with that new layer.

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We can also add a new layer by going to a file place.

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Embedded place embedded automatically makes a new layer. And we can add a photo on top of this.

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OK. If we add a shape to this. So this file, then it will automatically add a new layer.

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If we add a text box concept.

368
00:35:12,739 --> 00:35:17,719
Really a box with a text. You know, some text to it. It also automatically adds a new layer.

369
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,839
So over here, let's look at the layers that have already been created for us.

370
00:35:20,839 --> 00:35:22,549
So we have the background layer.

371
00:35:22,549 --> 00:35:29,149
When we created that new document, you know, if we had just kept going and just said, yes, create with a white background.

372
00:35:29,149 --> 00:35:33,619
This is what we would have come up with. We would have seen this this background here.

373
00:35:33,619 --> 00:35:40,059
We can turn layers on and off, you know, by visibility, by clicking the eyeballs.

374
00:35:40,059 --> 00:35:44,379
So that way, if you want to focus on one layer at a time and work on it,

375
00:35:44,379 --> 00:35:49,119
work carefully on one and get the others all the way and then, you know, keep adding and keep adding.

376
00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:53,169
That's a handy thing to use as seasonal eyeballs. You haven't heard the layer at all.

377
00:35:53,169 --> 00:36:00,359
You're just changing the visibility of it temporarily. And then what they did here is they just added an image here.

378
00:36:00,359 --> 00:36:09,249
They called this one pattern. So they used fireplace embedded and then they put in an image and they renamed it.

379
00:36:09,249 --> 00:36:15,169
So to rename the files, to rename the layers, you just double click and you can name them whatever you want there.

380
00:36:15,169 --> 00:36:20,799
You know, I'll also ask you to name the layers as you create new ones. And then we have a layer called cloth.

381
00:36:20,799 --> 00:36:26,049
And notice I can select the layers by clicking on them. And we have another layer called tailor.

382
00:36:26,049 --> 00:36:33,249
OK, so the layers, what the layers do is it makes each of those elements of the image independent of the other.

383
00:36:33,249 --> 00:36:37,059
OK. So that's really important for its ability.

384
00:36:37,059 --> 00:36:43,449
So later, if I wanted to, I could keep this base layer but change these out.

385
00:36:43,449 --> 00:36:50,439
So if I'm refreshing a web page or something like that, but I want to keep my same sort of brand feel, but I want to freshen it up.

386
00:36:50,439 --> 00:36:55,989
That could be an option. So that's why it's important to keep, you know, your your master files.

387
00:36:55,989 --> 00:37:03,999
You can rearrange these how you want. So if you'll take, for example, the cloth layer and drag it down to underneath the pattern.

388
00:37:03,999 --> 00:37:07,779
Notice the new order. Right, background. Now cloth.

389
00:37:07,779 --> 00:37:15,039
Now pattern. Now tailor. OK, so you can rearrange them using the layers.

390
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:21,099
Any changes you want to make to that layer, you must have that layer selected first.

391
00:37:21,099 --> 00:37:28,629
So let's say I wanted to maybe point out his hat or something like that and I wanted to use the brush tool.

392
00:37:28,629 --> 00:37:37,509
And so if I began painting. OK. You know, on on the on the brush here then is basically just going to affect that layer.

393
00:37:37,509 --> 00:37:42,439
OK. So if I turn this layer off. Notice the brush is also gone.

394
00:37:42,439 --> 00:37:50,889
OK. So it's only affecting that particular layer. So of course we can command you to get that out of there.

395
00:37:50,889 --> 00:37:58,029
OK. So if we wanted to do something neat, like make one of these black or white, you know, there's all kinds of neat things you can do.

396
00:37:58,029 --> 00:38:07,929
But the trick is applying each of those things to the layer separately in order to make your image more complex.

397
00:38:07,929 --> 00:38:13,089
And then that way, you're only affecting changes to those to that layer that you've selected.

398
00:38:13,089 --> 00:38:17,469
So this is how you can make a collage. So let's say we want to add another photo to this.

399
00:38:17,469 --> 00:38:24,339
So we're gonna go to a file place embedded and let's just the listeners pick another JPEG.

400
00:38:24,339 --> 00:38:28,659
So we'll just pick our other another JPEG that we might work with later. So we've got a file place.

401
00:38:28,659 --> 00:38:33,429
It automatically is in what they call free transform, which means resize.

402
00:38:33,429 --> 00:38:40,359
So now I can resize this and if I don't touch the keyboard at all, it's going to resize it in proportion.

403
00:38:40,359 --> 00:38:44,009
If I want it to resize in a weird way, I would shift.

404
00:38:44,009 --> 00:38:54,339
But most ASV never want to do that. So it's nice that they added this is the default and now I can move this picture around to wherever I want.

405
00:38:54,339 --> 00:38:59,589
You know, I can resize it. You know, I can make changes to it, whatever. But notice what it did.

406
00:38:59,589 --> 00:39:03,759
It added itself as a new layer here. And it named the layer.

407
00:39:03,759 --> 00:39:08,409
The name of the file. So I can go in and double click and change that if I want to.

408
00:39:08,409 --> 00:39:13,419
And now I have I can keep building my collage. Same thing with shapes.

409
00:39:13,419 --> 00:39:21,609
So if I want to put some sort of rectangle shape here, know and then I can do this and create the rectangle notice,

410
00:39:21,609 --> 00:39:30,759
it filled the foreground color because that's what I have selected. I can make changes to the rectangle if I want to here.

411
00:39:30,759 --> 00:39:35,569
I can give it a stroke color, which is the exterior color.

412
00:39:35,569 --> 00:39:40,839
So I give it black and I can increase this point if I want to.

413
00:39:40,839 --> 00:39:45,739
I can even change it to be dotted, you know, to kind of match that and that kind of thing.

414
00:39:45,739 --> 00:39:51,909
So something like that, you know. And then now it's sort of a little bit more interesting.

415
00:39:51,909 --> 00:39:56,169
This isn't really good color for this. But, you know, we're just doing this on the fly.

416
00:39:56,169 --> 00:40:00,159
And notice what it did. A new layer called rectangle. Right.

417
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:06,459
And so we can keep going with this. And so we can also now detect. So we can add text over here.

418
00:40:06,459 --> 00:40:16,659
And it just puts in some sort of sample text for us. So we can change that sample text and we can make some changes to that text over here.

419
00:40:16,659 --> 00:40:21,309
If you don't see your panel member, you can go to window.

420
00:40:21,309 --> 00:40:26,709
And typically, as some, you're going to be character styles that you want to change.

421
00:40:26,709 --> 00:40:30,909
And we can change how big it is. What does it look like? All this kind of stuff.

422
00:40:30,909 --> 00:40:36,459
So good to 70, too. And we can make it italics or something like that or whatever options.

423
00:40:36,459 --> 00:40:39,259
We have changed the font style. You've got.

424
00:40:39,259 --> 00:40:45,019
Tons of other options over here, just kind of keeping in mind, you know, that that's additional options you can do.

425
00:40:45,019 --> 00:40:51,079
The point is, is that you're adding text to it and you can move that text and put it as a new layer and everything.

426
00:40:51,079 --> 00:40:56,629
So you have lots more options here. Notice what it did. It added text as a new layer.

427
00:40:56,629 --> 00:41:01,229
So then we can rename that. You know what we want when call this tape, you double click it.

428
00:41:01,229 --> 00:41:05,749
It will go with the first, you know, items that it put there, which is fine.

429
00:41:05,749 --> 00:41:12,109
It probably didn't have that color. So it's like it replaced it with a different color is probably what it is.

430
00:41:12,109 --> 00:41:21,499
So which we can again, we can rearrange. These are very wants later on as you get more, more complicated with it, you can grip the layers together.

431
00:41:21,499 --> 00:41:26,089
And then that way you can apply effects to entire groups of layers. As you can see, this will get tedious.

432
00:41:26,089 --> 00:41:28,549
If you had like 300 layers. Right.

433
00:41:28,549 --> 00:41:37,419
But for now, you guys can see how you can add a collage, you can file place embedded, you know, add automatically adds a new layer, so to shape.

434
00:41:37,419 --> 00:41:43,879
So does tech. So this is where you can put together a pretty nice looking glass with some great pictures.

435
00:41:43,879 --> 00:41:48,469
So that is that one. But layers are super important, understand?

436
00:41:48,469 --> 00:41:55,579
And just the concept wise of them putting them together. And if I save this right now, I would save it as a PSC file.

437
00:41:55,579 --> 00:42:03,619
And when I open this back up in Photoshop, I'll have all my layers here and I can continue working, you know, and all of that, which is great.

438
00:42:03,619 --> 00:42:07,529
Let's go to image adjustments, because that's a really neat thing that we can do.

439
00:42:07,529 --> 00:42:12,319
So we're going to use brightness contrast. Let's open that one up.

440
00:42:12,319 --> 00:42:20,239
So let's open up brightness contrast. So if you're following along, open the file called brightness contrast.

441
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:26,599
We'll get that open here so you can do a lot of things to make your pictures or let's

442
00:42:26,599 --> 00:42:30,889
say you downloaded some stock pictures because we do have access to some Adobe stock.

443
00:42:30,889 --> 00:42:35,719
You just sign in with your Auburn I.D. to stuff. Got a debate outcome and then good images.

444
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:41,449
We don't have all the premium content and stuff like that, but we have a good amount of images which are nice to pull from.

445
00:42:41,449 --> 00:42:46,939
So and we have full license to use whatever so we can republish and all that good stuff.

446
00:42:46,939 --> 00:42:50,899
Very, very like the highest license you can have, which is great.

447
00:42:50,899 --> 00:42:55,399
So you can take your photos and you can do some really neat things to them over here.

448
00:42:55,399 --> 00:43:00,859
So here we're going to talk about. You can do some image adjustments.

449
00:43:00,859 --> 00:43:05,899
And there's also something called the filler filter gallery. So if we go to image adjustments,

450
00:43:05,899 --> 00:43:10,369
this is where we can do a lot of things with our photos and Photoshop to help help them

451
00:43:10,369 --> 00:43:16,669
out so we can a lot of people will adjust the brightness depending on what is needed.

452
00:43:16,669 --> 00:43:20,599
You can also adjust the contrast depending on what's needed.

453
00:43:20,599 --> 00:43:28,399
You can also do this little magic auto button and also make sure that in these windows you've got this little preview button checked.

454
00:43:28,399 --> 00:43:32,929
That means as I'm making the changes here, I can see them live here.

455
00:43:32,929 --> 00:43:40,289
If this wasn't checked, it wouldn't be doing that. You also have this nice little auto button so we can, like, look at the picture for you.

456
00:43:40,289 --> 00:43:44,249
Figure out what it thinks might be best for the image and apply it for you.

457
00:43:44,249 --> 00:43:47,999
So it's decided that 28 brightness is good, in contrast.

458
00:43:47,999 --> 00:43:55,049
Eight is good for this particular image. So the Photoshop uses a eye to do this.

459
00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:59,249
They have an eye system called a demi sensei.

460
00:43:59,249 --> 00:44:04,679
And it helps review your images and things like that. So that's very handy as well.

461
00:44:04,679 --> 00:44:13,999
You've got all kinds of other adjustments you can do. You can change the levels. Hue and saturation is another very common one that you can adjust.

462
00:44:13,999 --> 00:44:19,269
OK, so you can bring out certain colors, you know, in the image depending on what you need.

463
00:44:19,269 --> 00:44:28,259
If you were trying to get, you know, sort of a model orange tent or something like that, fields' your images, then then you can do that.

464
00:44:28,259 --> 00:44:33,269
You can also change it to black and white, you know.

465
00:44:33,269 --> 00:44:37,769
Now, this is more of a permanent change to this image that we're working with.

466
00:44:37,769 --> 00:44:41,629
Of course, we would do a save as in so we've keep we keep our master.

467
00:44:41,629 --> 00:44:47,489
But just keep in mind, you know, all of these changes or, you know, you're pretty much permanently making changes to your photo.

468
00:44:47,489 --> 00:44:52,709
Hair color balance is another good one that you can adjust.

469
00:44:52,709 --> 00:44:56,699
They have invert that gives you some crazy kind of looks and stuff like that.

470
00:44:56,699 --> 00:45:03,539
So neat things here you can do. There's auto tune, auto contrast, auto color, which are good, really quick ones to try.

471
00:45:03,539 --> 00:45:06,659
So ways you can improve your pictures. Definitely are there.

472
00:45:06,659 --> 00:45:13,649
Another really neat artistic thing you can do is use the filter gallery so you have a filter.

473
00:45:13,649 --> 00:45:20,779
You can also use the filter options here, but you can also go to the filter gallery, which has more options.

474
00:45:20,779 --> 00:45:28,829
So I thought this might be anything for you guys to see. And if this is like, you know, too big, you can click down here and go to fit in view.

475
00:45:28,829 --> 00:45:37,499
So now we can see our picture. But over here, we are previewing what our picture might look like in different types of effects.

476
00:45:37,499 --> 00:45:42,239
So we can choose colored pencil. And it's going to apply a colored pencil effect for us.

477
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:49,949
And then we can even go through and adjust some of the specifics to the colored pencil effect, for example.

478
00:45:49,949 --> 00:45:56,879
So you can keep doing this and try different things, you know, pending on what sort of look do you want for this photo?

479
00:45:56,879 --> 00:46:02,069
You know, where it kind of really blurs out the background, which is a neat effect, texture.

480
00:46:02,069 --> 00:46:07,019
There's all kinds of textures you can do if you're trying to make it look kind of old or something.

481
00:46:07,019 --> 00:46:12,339
You can do some textures like that. And then you can even increase the grain and all kinds of stuff.

482
00:46:12,339 --> 00:46:18,779
So the filter gallery is a fast, easy way to add a really artistic look to your picture.

483
00:46:18,779 --> 00:46:25,199
And you can do this by. If you're unable to kind of take your own really good pictures, you can use stock pictures from Adobe.

484
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:27,299
Stock, of course, would be a good fit.

485
00:46:27,299 --> 00:46:32,669
And then you can make adjustments to them and kind of make it your own and put your own spin on it and stuff like that,

486
00:46:32,669 --> 00:46:37,109
or use them in a layered collage, you know, and make it interesting.

487
00:46:37,109 --> 00:46:43,649
So those are some quick that's a quick filter gallery. That's that's good to to use as well.

488
00:46:43,649 --> 00:46:51,179
Another thing you can use is the you can also create what they call an adjustment layer.

489
00:46:51,179 --> 00:46:55,589
So we learned about creating new layers.

490
00:46:55,589 --> 00:47:03,539
But you can also create an adjustment layer. What that does is it makes many of the changes to your image that we just looked at.

491
00:47:03,539 --> 00:47:06,389
But remember, we talked about how it's kind of more like a permanent change.

492
00:47:06,389 --> 00:47:12,779
If you add it as an adjustment layer, then it's not necessarily as permanent because look what it did.

493
00:47:12,779 --> 00:47:20,489
It created a new layer. And guess what? At any point I can click on this and I can go down to the delete option and delete this layer.

494
00:47:20,489 --> 00:47:26,589
So if I change my mind about the effects that I put on this photo, I can alter it.

495
00:47:26,589 --> 00:47:30,939
OK, so if I applied it the other way, it's kind of permanently like that.

496
00:47:30,939 --> 00:47:34,199
We just find pencil. What's your project design, what you're doing.

497
00:47:34,199 --> 00:47:39,389
And you can also adjust some things here so you can get different, like if you want the Greens to come out more,

498
00:47:39,389 --> 00:47:44,249
whatever, you have all kinds of options, you know, to make your photos look more artistic and so on.

499
00:47:44,249 --> 00:47:51,929
So we need to do the fun things next. So not that this hasn't been fun, but, you know, this is more fun retouching images.

500
00:47:51,929 --> 00:47:57,709
So we're going to do use a couple of files for that. Let's see, delete content and remove object of the files we need.

501
00:47:57,709 --> 00:48:04,349
So let's go open those delete content. We're going to use these spot healing brush tool.

502
00:48:04,349 --> 00:48:10,109
So this is so fun. So if you don't get a chance to try this right now during the workshop, then definitely give this a try later.

503
00:48:10,109 --> 00:48:14,339
So first we need to zoom in. Remember, use command plus or control plus.

504
00:48:14,339 --> 00:48:18,609
And another trick is the spacebar gives you the hand tool.

505
00:48:18,609 --> 00:48:24,749
OK. So space for free and tool command plus control plus the zoom in the opposite, you know, minus to zoom out.

506
00:48:24,749 --> 00:48:30,149
So now we've zoomed in pretty good on this lady's shirt. She's got some paint splashes on her.

507
00:48:30,149 --> 00:48:36,479
I guess she's painting, you know, these flowers. But let's say we didn't want her to have paint squashes.

508
00:48:36,479 --> 00:48:44,169
OK. So we can go over to these spot healing brushed. Well, which if you don't see a member press in hold because it might be hidden.

509
00:48:44,169 --> 00:48:50,479
OK. For you right now with the spot healing ritual, now that we've got the spot healing ritual, we can make these adjustments appear.

510
00:48:50,479 --> 00:48:55,159
We can decide how big is it gonna be, what what hardness does this have?

511
00:48:55,159 --> 00:49:01,789
You know, we can adjust the feathering, you know, how soft the brushes and that kind of thing.

512
00:49:01,789 --> 00:49:07,089
And right now, notice that content aware is selected. That's what we want.

513
00:49:07,089 --> 00:49:17,059
So content aware. What that does is it, again, uses Adobe's A.I. to read the pixels around the splotch.

514
00:49:17,059 --> 00:49:22,789
And then it fills in the splotch that you want to remove with the pixels around it.

515
00:49:22,789 --> 00:49:31,069
So it's best if you can get your brush size to be a bit bigger than the thing you want to remove,

516
00:49:31,069 --> 00:49:38,179
because then it has room to read the pixels around it. A shortcut here that I'm using is the bracket keys.

517
00:49:38,179 --> 00:49:42,289
The bracket keys change the size your brush. OK. So we'll do that.

518
00:49:42,289 --> 00:49:47,389
This is probably pretty good. And now I'm just going to click and remove four paint swatch.

519
00:49:47,389 --> 00:49:52,669
Isn't that fun? So you can keep doing this, you know, and kind of get rid of these paint swatches.

520
00:49:52,669 --> 00:49:58,339
So think about small things you would need to remove from pictures.

521
00:49:58,339 --> 00:50:06,139
You know, somebody is mold, you know, very tiny things, even something like a small water bottle.

522
00:50:06,139 --> 00:50:14,299
It would do OK with you, you know, in know imperfections that maybe you want to get rid of and stuff like that.

523
00:50:14,299 --> 00:50:15,979
Along with those lines, though.

524
00:50:15,979 --> 00:50:24,359
Another thing I use also tell students is now you know how to do some of these things as far as like making edits to photos.

525
00:50:24,359 --> 00:50:33,229
You know, you can create fake photos. Right. So just being sure that with your new skills that you're being ethical with that and you're just

526
00:50:33,229 --> 00:50:38,959
maintaining good character and making sure you're not kind of using that to your advantage,

527
00:50:38,959 --> 00:50:41,689
like just like you wouldn't want to, you know,

528
00:50:41,689 --> 00:50:47,179
find somebody is intellectual property that you thought somebody would never find and and copy and paste it.

529
00:50:47,179 --> 00:50:51,679
Right. Same kind of idea. You don't want to violate that.

530
00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:55,759
So you don't want to have bad ethics when you are creating photos.

531
00:50:55,759 --> 00:51:01,149
You don't want to misrepresent something completely. You know, you don't want to do that.

532
00:51:01,149 --> 00:51:05,019
You know, I'm sure you can have examples of the news of people who have done that kind of thing.

533
00:51:05,019 --> 00:51:10,999
Right. So and that's why if Photoshop drive, this image has been Photoshop since, basically it's not real.

534
00:51:10,999 --> 00:51:15,579
Right. So deceptive. Kind of, you know, be careful with your new skills and that kind of thing.

535
00:51:15,579 --> 00:51:22,089
Make sure you using them ethically. And then the other one we're going to use is remove objects.

536
00:51:22,089 --> 00:51:29,479
So this is really fun. So let's go to the remove object file and let's pull this guy up.

537
00:51:29,479 --> 00:51:35,089
OK, so four, remove object. Let's say we liked this photo, but we don't really like this boardwalk.

538
00:51:35,089 --> 00:51:43,399
So but were we really like this mountain and stuff like that? Now, ideally, we would go find a photo that we liked that didn't have an object in it.

539
00:51:43,399 --> 00:51:47,929
But let's say you just really, really wanted it or you took this photo or this is the view, exact view.

540
00:51:47,929 --> 00:51:51,499
You want that kind of thing. So what do you do if you have to remove a big object?

541
00:51:51,499 --> 00:51:57,489
You can't use a spot healing ritual that be crazy. So you have to select again, same type of idea.

542
00:51:57,489 --> 00:52:04,669
Because we're gonna use what they call content of we're Phil, you have to select the item that you want to remove,

543
00:52:04,669 --> 00:52:09,259
but leave some pixels in between the item you want to remove.

544
00:52:09,259 --> 00:52:13,789
And the rest of the photo so that it has room to read the pixels.

545
00:52:13,789 --> 00:52:19,309
So we're actually going to use the lasso tool. There are all kinds of other selection tools.

546
00:52:19,309 --> 00:52:23,949
All these tools with like dotted lines are selection tools.

547
00:52:23,949 --> 00:52:28,339
But we're gonna use the lasso tool, which is a freehand selection tool.

548
00:52:28,339 --> 00:52:35,809
So we're just gonna freehand it. And this is because we want we want to leave some pixels in between.

549
00:52:35,809 --> 00:52:40,849
And it doesn't have to be perfect. You don't want to have to get exactly around these lines and that kind of thing.

550
00:52:40,849 --> 00:52:47,299
But I should do a pretty good job of mostly selecting, you know, around the boardwalk.

551
00:52:47,299 --> 00:52:50,889
And then I can just go off the page here and it should just capture the rest of that.

552
00:52:50,889 --> 00:52:55,549
Right. So this is my selection. So in Photoshop, these are the marching ants.

553
00:52:55,549 --> 00:53:01,159
So this is an active selection. So right now, I can do all kinds of things to a selection.

554
00:53:01,159 --> 00:53:06,319
I can I can I can use those image adjustments that we looked at earlier.

555
00:53:06,319 --> 00:53:11,659
I can change the brightness of a certain section. You know, there's there's all kinds of things I can do.

556
00:53:11,659 --> 00:53:17,239
Once I know how to do selections and use selection tools in Photoshop, too, we go a little bit more into the selection tool.

557
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:23,449
And more layers and stuff like that. So anyway, what we're gonna do here is we selected the thing we want to get rid of.

558
00:53:23,449 --> 00:53:29,009
And now what we're gonna do is we're gonna go up to edit content aware film.

559
00:53:29,009 --> 00:53:37,789
OK. So that's going to do its magic. Demi sensei will probably have to say some special words like Boardwalk be gone.

560
00:53:37,789 --> 00:53:46,099
There we go. Perfect. How about that? So it's showing you a preview over over here of what your image is going to look like.

561
00:53:46,099 --> 00:53:55,129
OK. If you don't like it, if you don't quite like the way it turned out the first time, you can do it again, because every single time you do this,

562
00:53:55,129 --> 00:54:01,159
it will be different because it uses artificial intelligence to review your selection, to review the image and so on.

563
00:54:01,159 --> 00:54:06,769
So it did a pretty good job, you know, and I can go ahead and hit OK, if I like that.

564
00:54:06,769 --> 00:54:09,589
I can also tell it to output to a new layer.

565
00:54:09,589 --> 00:54:16,249
If I wanted to sort of keep that boardwalk there in case I wanted to come back to it, then I could do that.

566
00:54:16,249 --> 00:54:21,259
Or I can just tell it to output to the current layer and affect the current layer.

567
00:54:21,259 --> 00:54:30,049
So we'll go and do it to a new layer and see. So now I can hit it Kamandi to deselect commanding or controlling and I did a pretty good job.

568
00:54:30,049 --> 00:54:35,989
I might want to try that again. Another thing I can do is there's a tool called the clone stamp tool.

569
00:54:35,989 --> 00:54:41,569
And what I can do is select part of this grass and literally paint with that, with those pixels.

570
00:54:41,569 --> 00:54:49,819
So that's what I could do to clean up an image. So that would be sort of a good workflow to try if you want to take a large object out of your photo.

571
00:54:49,819 --> 00:54:57,079
All right. So those are really the essences of what I wanted to show you today in Photoshop.

572
00:54:57,079 --> 00:55:02,239
I would challenge you to try a Photoshop within the next few days just because research

573
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:07,819
shows if you use what you learn in a recession within the first three days or so,

574
00:55:07,819 --> 00:55:12,529
you're much more likely to use it again in the future. So try to give it a try.

575
00:55:12,529 --> 00:55:16,489
And then there's some optional project challenges and things like that.

576
00:55:16,489 --> 00:55:24,619
Here's the link to Adobe stock. And then you can also continue. I'm going to offer creating graphics to in a few weeks.

577
00:55:24,619 --> 00:55:28,609
But if you're unable to attend, then here's a recording of it.

578
00:55:28,609 --> 00:55:34,669
Adobe stock images available is available to you. This is instructions if you're unsure how to use it.

579
00:55:34,669 --> 00:55:40,369
And then just also being sure we're ethically using those with those videos about other resources available to you.

580
00:55:40,369 --> 00:55:45,199
Adobe has a daily creative challenge. The e-mail you a challenge and you can try it Behance.

581
00:55:45,199 --> 00:55:51,289
We talked about that for educators, the Adobe Education Exchange is a fantastic resource.

582
00:55:51,289 --> 00:55:56,209
They have even premade lesson plans on having your students use it and the applications,

583
00:55:56,209 --> 00:56:01,729
as well as many courses you can take for free and earn badges and things like that.

584
00:56:01,729 --> 00:56:06,709
And you can become a to be creative educator and stuff like that. So all kinds of neat stuff.

585
00:56:06,709 --> 00:56:13,879
So what I'm going to do now is to see if there's I'm happy to hang out for a few minutes, see if you guys have questions.

586
00:56:13,879 --> 00:56:13,934
There's something in the chat and effects. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mariah.