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00:00Hey guys, today I'm gonna do a photoshop tutorial on some various things, uh, one sec guys,
00:13one sec.
00:15Okay, sorry I was just making a stand, which, nevermind.
00:21Okay, so what we're gonna do today guys, ignoring the fact that I haven't made a video in like
00:25three months, it's not important, we're moving on, okay cool.
00:27So uh, right now I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, wait, I know what you're saying,
00:32Marty this is not a Sony Vegas tutorial, what's wrong with you?
00:36So I return the question saying what's wrong with you?
00:39You should be able to work with both programs without bickering, you know.
00:43I'll eventually do a Sony Vegas tutorial but, right now, let's just work on Photoshop.
00:49So guys, enough of that, I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, I know CS4 just came out, looks
00:56pretty cool but, it should all function the same.
00:59So right now what I'm just gonna teach you guys is just the basics, I know most of you
01:04don't like that but there's people out there that do, so I'm gonna do that.
01:08Which means, maybe you'll learn something along the way that you didn't know, that's
01:11all I'm saying.
01:12So what I'm basically gonna teach is all the tools, some tools I won't go over in detail
01:17like the pen or the history brush tool, just because maybe they require their own video
01:22later on because they're a little more confusing, I hope that makes sense.
01:27And then I'll go over some of the menu options that I know about and I use, necessarily I'm
01:32probably gonna be wrong about a few things and a few things I probably won't explain
01:36but that goes along with every video I do.
01:38So right now I'm just gonna take an image, we're gonna stick it in here and we're gonna
01:42work on it.
01:43And we're just gonna do various things to it and it'll help you learn about what to
01:47do.
01:49Obviously the different effects are gonna differ from photo to photo or picture to picture
01:53so not everything I do here is gonna work with your photo but hopefully it will.
01:57So right now let me minimize this and take this spaceman picture and we're gonna wait
02:04for this to pop up and hopefully it'll go through smoothly, so one second.
02:09There we go, okay cool.
02:11Now I'm just gonna go, this is actually useful, see I'm gonna teach something right now.
02:16Down at the very bottom left of your tools, your tools might look like this, which in
02:20the case it's still on the very bottom but I'm just gonna keep it like this for sake
02:24of convenience that is, it'll say change screen mode or F.
02:28Now if we click and hold it you have all these options.
02:32Now I'm just gonna do, the standard one is standard screen mode obviously, I'm gonna
02:36do maximize screen mode just so it makes it a little cleaner if you're just working with
02:41one picture, though most of the time I'm using just standard screen mode.
02:46Again that's at the very bottom down here and you just click and hold and select the
02:51thing or press F on your keyboard.
02:54And now on the right you'll see it says index and there'll be a lock over here.
02:59We're gonna unindex this right now and it's because it's just a different type of image.
03:04What we're gonna do is go to image, the image menu at the top, click on that and go to mode,
03:10it'll be right below it, and then follow the menu and you'll see indexed is checked.
03:15Go to RGB color and we're gonna check that.
03:19Again it's image, mode, image, mode, RGB color if you're on index.
03:24And we're gonna change it just to a regular layer instead of a background.
03:29What that means is on your layer tab right here, if you don't have that up, you go to
03:33view and, I don't actually see how that's gonna help, nevermind it should be up by default.
03:44So down here on the bottom right it should say layers, you're gonna double click that
03:47and just click OK.
03:48Double click OK and you're good.
03:50And then it's layer number zero usually.
03:52You can rename it just by clicking once on the layer title, or double click on the layer
03:59title, and I guess I'll just call it space man even though it's completely unnecessary,
04:04but just to show you guys how that works.
04:07Now we got a picture of the space man with the stereo and these colored lines behind
04:10him.
04:11So we're just gonna show, I'm just gonna go down the list of tools right now and show
04:14you what to do.
04:15If you know what a tool does, just skip ahead because I'm going linear at the first part,
04:19going straight down with the tools.
04:21Menus will probably be a little random, but we're just going straight down.
04:25The move tool, or Y shortcut on your keyboard, well it's kind of obvious, it moves the photo
04:31around, or your selection around.
04:34So click on it and you can move your image around, you can see what it does.
04:38Right now it's not very useful, but when you're moving individual things around and stuff
04:42it does become pretty useful.
04:45So again, kind of an obvious tool to move around with.
04:49If you get something out of place and you can't realign it very well, just control Z
04:53it usually will work, or control alt Z if you've done a lot more, or you can go to your
04:58history tab and move there, but that's getting a little extensive here.
05:03So let's go down the list.
05:05Next is the rectangular marquee tool, or the elliptical, or the single row, or the single
05:08column, it's all pretty much the same thing.
05:10And what it does is it enables you to make a rectangular selection.
05:14Now what that does, you may ask, which you probably already know, even this is in paint
05:18usually.
05:20We're just going to make a selection right here, actually let's just do it around this
05:23boom box kind of.
05:25Then I'm just going to grab the brush tool, and if I try, let's pick a cooler color like
05:31red, make it more noticeable.
05:33Now if I try to draw anything outside of that box, if you notice right now, it's not going
05:38to work.
05:39It's because we have that rectangular marquee tool selected only around our area.
05:43So we can only make changes within that area.
05:47And that's pretty cool.
05:49It enables you to basically not run into anything else you don't want to.
05:53And you can see there's just a big ugly square there.
05:55So we're going to control alt z that a few times, and you can see it's taking a while.
06:00But there you go.
06:01Okay.
06:02You should figure that out.
06:03Elliptical is kind of the same way, and so are the single row and single column.
06:07So then our next tool is the polygonal, or the lasso tool is probably what it's on, or
06:13the magnetic lasso tool.
06:15Most commonly used is probably polygonal lasso tool, which is L on your keyboard, but
06:23it's pretty easy to understand what it does.
06:26Instead of the rectangular marquee tool, this enables you to draw your own shape if you
06:32needed to.
06:33See, I can draw this weird kind of stocking shape thing.
06:36So let's say we just wanted to draw around his fist right now.
06:39I'm going to zoom in on it just because it'll make it easier.
06:44So I zoomed in on the fist of the astronaut guy.
06:48Then we're going to take our lasso tool, and we're just going to draw in here.
06:51And you'll notice that it's probably going to run into some things, which we'll talk
06:54about in just a second.
06:58But you got your rough shape right there.
06:59So now if you just wanted to change the color of his fist, theoretically, I'm going to talk
07:07about this later, mind you, you'll go to image, adjustments, hue and saturation, and then
07:13you can change the lightness and the saturation and all that, and then you can change the
07:17color.
07:18And obviously you can see it's changing the color around it, and also I'm just about to
07:21get to that with the magic wand tool here.
07:24But you can see what I mean.
07:25It draws its own custom shape.
07:27Now the polygonal lasso tool enables you to do this, but it's a lot easier because it's
07:35harder to run into lines because it's helping you out here.
07:38So you'll see I'll draw around the pixels right here, and so it helps me not run into
07:45things.
07:46Now I believe you can do something like this with the pen tool, and I'm just about to tell
07:50you right now that I probably won't be explaining the pen tool or some other tools in this because
07:56they're a little more complicated.
07:57I know how to use them, and I will probably do it in an upcoming video, but it's kind
08:02of complicated.
08:03So as you can see, I got the fist outline, and you can do whatever you want with that.
08:08I think it's a good time to talk about, if I can get rid of this tool, there we go, okay.
08:15The zoom tool at the moment, because we're zoomed in, it's at the very bottom.
08:19I guess we're going out of order.
08:20It's Z on your keyboard, and we're just going to write, we're going to get the zoom tool,
08:25right click, and go to actual pixels, and that's going to stick us here.
08:29If your image is big, go to fit on screen, and that'll work too.
08:33Or just zoom out and zoom in, which is Z, and use the plus and minus things usually
08:40is how it would work.
08:42But regardless of how that works, just go to actual pixels, and you're good.
08:47So enough with the lasso tools, I'm sure you understand that.
08:51The magic wand tool, or the quick selection tool, I'm just going to talk about the magic
08:54wand tool because it's the most useful.
08:56It's a very, very useful tool.
08:58So let's go to our zoom tool again, Z on your keyboard, and zoom into his fist.
09:04Very useful tool, I use it quite a bit.
09:07What you want to do is, let's say we just want to change the color of his fist to a
09:12yellowish color, or something of that manner, okay, an orange.
09:16We're going to take the magic wand tool and click on his fist.
09:19And if his fist is all the same color, which it is, it's all white, and there's a few gray
09:23pixels within there, it doesn't really matter, then it's going to select all the same color.
09:28That's what it does.
09:29It takes all the same color, like if a white pixel is touching another white pixel, it's
09:32going to select both of them.
09:34That's the science behind it, basically.
09:36And then you just have that selected, just like our selection tools I was talking about
09:39earlier.
09:40So all the top ones are basically selection tools.
09:43Now, back to changing the color, we're going to go to the image tab, pay attention here
09:46because I'm actually teaching this.
09:48You go to image, we're going to go to adjustments, then we're going to go to photo filter, okay,
09:54that's image, adjustments, photo filter.
09:56Then we're going to go to our custom color right here, not a warming filter, and we're
10:01going to change it to a purple color.
10:04And you can see now that only the gray pixels are changing in color, and that's because
10:09white doesn't like to change in color usually.
10:12But if we uncheck preserve luminosity down here, then that will change the fist color
10:18to what we want.
10:19But let's change it to an orange color like I was telling you about earlier, like this.
10:27And we're going to keep it like that.
10:29Now, let's right click that layer inside of the selection, mind you, and go to layer via
10:36copy, okay?
10:38And what that's going to enable us to do is, real quick, if I get this back to the regular
10:45color, one second, let's change it to a white color, and it doesn't look like it's doing
10:56anything.
10:57Well, that's fine, okay.
10:58So what I did is just made another layer, and on that layer, now we can deselect our
11:03wand selection, and we can change the color to whatever we want under hue and saturation,
11:09and it will only do it to this portion.
11:12So you can do a lot of cool stuff with this tool right here is just basically my main
11:16point.
11:17So if we use our zoom tool now and zoom out to actual pixels, you can see he has like
11:22a human colored fist now.
11:24We can do that real quick on the other one, so let's do it real fast.
11:29Go to spaceman, don't do the mistake I just did and try to do it on layer one.
11:33Spaceman layer, wand tool on his fist, image adjustments, photo filter, we'll do an orange
11:42color, take our density all the way up and preserve luminosity, and then lower your density
11:47as you need to, and there you go.
11:50Now it looks like he has like two human colored fists.
11:52I don't know why an astronaut would do that, because he would probably die or explode or
11:55something, but you know.
11:57So that is pretty cool.
11:58We're going to just leave that how it is at the moment, though I'm going to delete layer
12:04one right now.
12:06So there you go.
12:07Our next tool is the crop tool.
12:09The crop tool is going to, basically it's a selection tool, but it gets rid of everything
12:13else.
12:14Say we only wanted this part of our picture, it's going to do this, then you can mess around
12:17with the lines and whatnot, and then you click enter, and your picture is exactly like
12:22that.
12:23Control Z if you want to undo that.
12:24Pretty self-explanatory.
12:25The slice tool is used commonly in website creating and other things like that.
12:30I'm not going to go over it right now like I mentioned, maybe in a different tutorial,
12:34but it's a little more advanced than our other tools.
12:38The healing brush tool is a little harder to explain.
12:41It's not that hard to explain, but it's not something you're going to be using all the
12:46time.
12:47It's a way for you to, if you make a mistake or if you're trying to do other things, you
12:52can take the source of your original image and correct it.
12:56So again, it's kind of hard to explain.
12:58I'm going to go on to the regular brush tool, which is probably the most used tool in Photoshop
13:04with most people.
13:06Not photo editors necessarily, but you know.
13:09Now I already have a Photoshop tutorial on downloading brushes and installing them.
13:14You can check that out.
13:15I'm going to put a link to your right if you want to do that.
13:17I recommend it highly.
13:18I have all of these random little ones that I've got going on here, but just for the sake
13:22of this tutorial, let's use ones everyone has and go to just basic brushes.
13:28We're going to click OK right there.
13:31And I'm just going to use a size 28, maybe actually a little bigger, and change the hardness
13:35down to zero.
13:36Now this should be pretty self-explanatory.
13:38The brush tool just draws on the picture and the hardness, you right-click by the way to
13:44change the size.
13:46Master diameter is the size.
13:48Hardness is how soft it is, kind of ironically, or how hard, obviously.
13:52So if you change the hardness to 100%, you can see the dots like this.
13:57Let me just draw one dot.
13:59Change the hardness to 0% and the dot looks like this.
14:03So you can definitely see the difference between them.
14:05One looks more like spray paint is how I would put it, in my words.
14:10So again, it's self-explanatory.
14:11If you want a new type of brush, right-click, take that little arrow on the top right, and
14:17there's a bunch of lists of your brushes down here.
14:19I'm just going to, for example, take this one, and it has all of this wacky stuff right
14:24here.
14:25This is actually a very useful one right now.
14:27Like say if I wanted to do that with the brush.
14:30Actually what I would do is take a new layer, if I can get rid of this tool real fast, take
14:35a new layer, we're going to make a new layer on top, take our brush tool, and then we're
14:41going to do something like that, or whatever.
14:44Actually let's make it a little smaller so we're not going too insane here.
14:49Then we're going to put this in the corner as best we can, like that.
14:55And see the opacity up here at the top under your layers?
15:00We're going to lower that a little bit, and then it'll look something like that.
15:05You could also put it behind the spaceman, but it wouldn't work because the spaceman
15:08has a background.
15:09Now if you were to change that, it would work a little better.
15:12You can also change the color of that by going to image adjustments, hue and saturation,
15:18or you can just change the source of your original color.
15:21Let's say if you wanted it like a blue, then there you go, it'd be something like that.
15:27So cool things you can do with brushes, once again, that's pretty much my point.
15:31Go down and we'll get to your clone stamp tool, probably one of the more favorite tools
15:36of people that just got photoshopped and are experimenting around.
15:42Basically what it does is you need to hold, once you select the tool, you need to hold
15:45alt, or is it control, let me figure this out, yeah it's alt, sorry I'm a little rusty
15:52here.
15:53Hold alt and define a source point.
15:55What a source point is, it's going to clone whatever that is, you'll see what I mean in
16:00a second.
16:01Let's say we wanted to make just a second fist right here, we're going to click on his
16:07fist, alt click on the fist, then we're just going to start drawing up here, and you'll
16:12see what I mean where you can see your brush actually moving over there, the little crosshairs
16:19moving while we're drawing, so you can see what you're about to draw.
16:23Like if I want to go down, but then I'm going to run into my spaceman and it's going to
16:27go right over him.
16:29So you can see what that does, it's a lot more useful in photos, which I'm going to
16:33get to in a minute, than it is with pictures like what I'm using.
16:37So let's just control z that, that's one you're just going to have to experiment around with,
16:42just go in there and just get a photo and you'll see what I mean.
16:45But it's really fun once you get the hang of it.
16:48Now I'm going to skip over the history brush, just because it's not used that much, I'm
16:53not dissing you, history brush users or something like that.
16:57But you know, I'm just going to skip over it right now.
17:00The eraser tool is like the anti-brush, it's the opposite, it's really easy to figure out.
17:06Say let's just make a large brush, put our hardness to zero, and let's just see the modes
17:12and the opacity and the flow up here are what pretty much decide what's going to happen.
17:18So if we're erasing something, it's obviously going to erase way into the checkerboard background,
17:24which is nothing.
17:25If we change the flow down up here to like 50%, it's going to erase it a little lighter.
17:31Right now you can't really tell because we just have one layer, but if I had another
17:35layer it would be, I'm not going to do it right now, but you would be able to see what
17:40it is.
17:41Now that should be pretty obvious what to do there.
17:43So let's go to our gradient tool now.
17:47I'm actually going to use this in conjunction with another tool.
17:53So let's try this out.
17:55Let's go to our magic wand tool, first exercise for you guys.
18:00Go to your magic wand tool.
18:01I have this image by the way, I probably should have mentioned this.
18:05This image right here is available on the right if you want to download it.
18:10It's linked to my photobucket or whatever I decide to do that is, and you can download
18:15there and then you can edit along with me and do whatever you want.
18:18So let's magic wand this little thing in his chest and see how I'm trying to magic wand
18:23two things at once and it's not working.
18:25Just hold shift and you can do multiple ones like this.
18:28So let's actually zoom in on it, is what I should have said first, and then you get a
18:33little easier of a thing to do.
18:38It's hard to get these little crevices in here, but it's not the end of the world.
18:41There's also another way to do this and I'll explain that in a few.
18:44So we got the box selected.
18:46Let's right click it and go to make layer via copy.
18:51Then click on layer one.
18:53Go to your gradient tool.
18:55Go to your gradient at the top left, got a lot of stuff I know, and you can see there's
18:59a lot of colors right now for mine.
19:01You might have like none.
19:02Let's delete all but four colors and let's make the one on the very right white and the
19:10thing on the top, let's make the opacity zero, which it already is.
19:14That's good.
19:16Now we're going to drag our colors around over here and I'm going to do some certain
19:20colors.
19:21I'm going to explain to you guys in a second.
19:22Make sure your opacity is zero on the white color, by the way, or it's not going to work.
19:25The first color is going to be, click on color down here, the same color as this pale red
19:31type of thing over here.
19:32You just take the eyedrop tool it'll give you and you drag it over there.
19:35The green is going to be this light green over here.
19:38If you can't see what I'm doing, I'm just clicking on this color right here, clicking
19:43on color right here, then if I just, I don't even need to select a new color, I just take
19:48the eyedrop tool and I'm going to click on the blue over here.
19:51Now I have all the colors in my spaceman photo, as I call it, and it's going to look pretty
19:56cool when it's done.
19:57So let's just, there, we got all the colors right there and we have the opaque white over
20:01here.
20:02Let's click okay and then we're going to take the gradient tool and just, whoa, see that's
20:07not what we want to do.
20:08See that's probably what you guys, what's going to happen to you guys.
20:11So what we want to do now, as you can see, it's just going right over our box in this
20:16layer.
20:17I'm going to click on this little eyeball button so I don't want to see my spaceman
20:20layer.
20:21We need to select all this back again real quick, this should just take you a second.
20:26There we selected it.
20:27Then we go to our gradient tool, which we already have our same gradient, and what we're
20:32going, you could not use the gradient tool because the target layer is hidden.
20:36That is because I'm clicking on spaceman layer.
20:38Go to layer one and you should use your gradient tool and it should just fill in your box.
20:42Do you see what I'm doing here?
20:44It's kind of, I know I just did a very crappy job of explaining that.
20:46It's because I ran into some few problems right there.
20:49But see now when we put our layer back, it's going to look like this.
20:54And now basically what we did is we just colored in that little box on his chest with the gradient,
20:59which match our colors over here.
21:01And that's pretty cool.
21:02So what I did is just created a layer, using the magic wand tool, took the gradient tool,
21:07made a new gradient, and re-selected the layer.
21:11And then I just put in the gradient and there you go.
21:14We're going to leave that up for now.
21:16And then our next tools, I should say, are blur, sharpen, smudge, and dodge, burn, and sponge.
21:23Hey, that kind of rhymes.
21:24We should make a song out of that.
21:26Actually, that's a bad idea.
21:27These are kind of self-explanatory, these six tools.
21:30They're also commonly used among people that just started and they're very fun to use when
21:34doing forum signatures, if you know what that is, and just touching up photos and stuff.
21:39So let's check them out.
21:40They're really useful.
21:41First one is smudge.
21:42It should be semi-obvious.
21:44Let's smudge these little...
21:46Basically, right-click, you can change the diameter and the hardness as usual.
21:49And change the strength if you want.
21:51Let's change it to 100%, show the extremes.
21:53And you can see, whoa, my god, what are we doing?
21:56You know, that's not good.
21:58We can also change it to zero.
22:01Or actually, you can change it to 19, which is only going to give you tiny smudge.
22:05If it's even noticeable, you can barely see.
22:07It almost looks like a blur.
22:09So anyway, let's control-alt-z a few times here before my computer blows up from so much smudging.
22:15There we go.
22:16Okay, so you pretty much...
22:17The smudge is just kind of semi-obvious.
22:19You just smudge things around.
22:20Sharpen's a little less obvious, but if you know what it is, then that's good.
22:24Let's change our strength to 100 to show you the extreme of sharpen.
22:28It's kind of hard to tell what it looks like if I'm on the right layer.
22:33But obviously, you know, you're not that blind.
22:35You can see what it does.
22:36It's just sharpening the pixels.
22:37Same as on your TV.
22:38You can go to sharpen, and it'll make it look better.
22:40Obviously, you can't do it this much, but you get kind of a weird retro look here.
22:44If I want to sharpen that thing in his chest.
22:46So it looks like that.
22:48Let me control-alt-z that again.
22:51There we go.
22:52So sharpen just sharpens the pixels.
22:54It's one I haven't used very often, but sometimes it's useful.
22:57Don't overdo it, though.
22:59The blur tool, which actually was the first one, ironically, it just blurs things.
23:04So let's keep the strength at 50%.
23:06And if we're trying to blur those lines...
23:08Oh, whoops, I'm on the wrong layer.
23:10I hate doing that.
23:11Let's just blur these lines right here.
23:13You can see it's blurring the lines.
23:14It looks pretty cool.
23:15This is a fun tool to mess around with, I think.
23:18So if we blur Space Helmet 2, you can definitely see the blur.
23:22It looks like when you fade your eyes, kind of.
23:24It's kind of hard to explain.
23:27Yeah, it looks really cool.
23:28It's self-explanatory.
23:29You guys should be able to figure that one out.
23:31We got all three of those.
23:33Next one's the Dodge, Burn, and Sponge.
23:35These I don't expect you to know, but they're even easier to use.
23:38Dodge is to brighten up the picture.
23:40Simple as that.
23:41You can see when I'm using it, it's getting the background a little brighter.
23:45Okay, let's Ctrl-Z that.
23:47It's obvious.
23:48Burn tool makes it darker.
23:50Dodge, lighten, burn, darken.
23:53So it looks like this.
23:57So again, pretty obvious.
23:59I'm going to keep it normal.
24:00If we go to Sponge tool, the most unobvious one.
24:10Oh, sorry for that long, awkward pause there.
24:12My brother just burst through the door with some crazy shenanigans.
24:15Anyway, I see him almost like a half an hour now about this,
24:19so I kind of have to go a little quicker, but not that much quicker.
24:23So Sponge tool desaturates the color.
24:27If you were to put the flow to 100%, you can see it takes out the color.
24:30It soaks up the color, hence the sponge term.
24:33Well, that's why they call it that.
24:35You can also saturate, which is the opposite.
24:37Just go to Mode up here and do the opposite.
24:39Kind of self-explanatory.
24:41Next is the Pen tool, which I won't go over.
24:43It's very useful, though, but maybe it'll have another video dedicated to it entirely.
24:48Horizontal type text is really easy to understand.
24:51You just make a box with the text, and you type whatever you want in there.
24:55I have a tutorial on how you can download different fonts, so check that out.
25:00I'll put a link on the right for you, and you can just type what you want.
25:07You can change the color by going down here to your foreground and background color
25:12and change it to white if I wanted to, and then that'll make it a little more visible.
25:17Then it'll create a new layer, and you can drag it around with the Selection tool,
25:20which is the first one, the Move tool, actually, my bad, and just what you want.
25:25There you go.
25:26If you want to delete it, just take the layer and go to Trash Can over here.
25:30Then we've got this tool.
25:32The Path Selection tool works with the Pen tool a lot easier, so I'm not going to go over it.
25:36Rectangle tool is as simple as making shapes.
25:39It can also work in conjunction with the Pen tool and stuff like that,
25:42but you can just make shapes or make lines with it.
25:45It would be the Microsoft Paint equivalent, if you're coming from there, that is.
25:50Next one is Notes tool, which is kind of weird.
25:53You take it and you drag a box.
25:55Don't make it too big.
25:56Right here, say, you can adjust the size for whatever reason,
26:00and you can just type, like, if you were to close this the next day and you were working on a project,
26:05say, like, remember not to delete blah, blah, blah, something like that.
26:11Then you'll see the note when you pop it up and be like, oh, yeah, I shouldn't delete that.
26:15Anyway, you don't like it.
26:18Hold on one sec.
26:19I just did this, I swear.
26:21Right-click it in the top left corner and click Delete Note.
26:24If you want to delete all of them, just click Clear All and click OK, and you've got no notes.
26:28So, again, something you're going to have to mess around with that's not used that much.
26:32Eyedrop tool is very easy.
26:34You just take the Eyedrop tool and you click on a color, and the color appears in the foreground color right down here.
26:41If you want to change that, you can click on this little arrow,
26:43and it'll change the foreground and the background colors to different stuff.
26:46But I'm just going to keep it the way it normally is.
26:48Hand tool, very cool tool.
26:50Once you get the Zoom tool, which we already went over, click on Zoom In.
26:55We're just going to zoom in.
26:56Then we're going to take the Hand tool, and the Hand tool enables us to move around the picture.
27:01Not like the Move tool where you're moving the picture, but we're moving through the picture.
27:06We're actually trying to look through it.
27:09So then that's all the tools besides this Quick Mask mode, which I've gone over in another video.
27:15I don't remember what it was, but I might go over it in more detail on the other tools video I'll do sometime.
27:21So I've done all these tools now for you.
27:23You should understand them at least decently.
27:25Now what I'm going to do real, not that fast.
27:28I've got plenty of time, but I don't want to take too long.
27:31We're going to exit the spaceman picture, and I'm going to go ahead, once my computer stops freezing,
27:37because that would be downright horrible if it froze right now.
27:42There we go.
27:43We're going to pop up this picture of this galaxy, Daxley, apparently, as I called it.
27:52So we're going to pop up this picture of this galaxy that's in space, obviously.
27:55It's more vibrant in color.
27:57It's kind of small, but we're going to change it to a regular layer by double-clicking the background and click OK.
28:02Then I'm going to zoom in a little further.
28:04I know it's kind of pixely, but it's not the end of the world.
28:07Then we're going to go to Image, Adjustments.
28:11Actually, let's do a better one.
28:14Let's go to Color Balance, Ctrl-B for a shortcut.
28:21You can see there's Shadows, Midtones, Highlights, and Preserve Luminosity.
28:25I'm going to keep that checked for now.
28:27On Midtones, you drag the colors around, and it's a very cool way to mess with the colors.
28:33This will change your midtones to the midtones of your colors.
28:37It's kind of hard to explain if you're not that advanced in your color knowledge there.
28:41Not like I am, but you know.
28:43Then your highlights, you can change around.
28:45One of the brighter aspects of it is going to be that.
28:49So let me just keep it right there.
28:53Shadows, I'm going to do the darker portions.
28:56This, I don't mess around as much with.
28:58The shadows, mostly the midtones, is what's going to look cool.
29:03You can definitely do a lot of cool stuff with this.
29:05I highly recommend it.
29:06It's a lot cooler than Hue and Saturation, which basically just changes the colors around in one set spectrum.
29:13This one, you can actually check it out.
29:15If you want a before and after right here, you have the pale green that nobody really likes.
29:19Then you have this cool purple, crimson, pink color.
29:23If we go to Image, Adjustments, let's try another one.
29:28Why don't we just do Brightness and Contrast for basics.
29:31It just changes the brightness and the contrast.
29:33It's pretty simple.
29:34Don't do too much contrast or too little.
29:37Definitely, brightness should be kind of obvious.
29:39Don't mess around with that too much, but you can make it look pretty cool.
29:43A little before and after here.
29:44You can see it gets a little brighter.
29:45I don't necessarily like that, but I'll keep it for now.
29:49That's pretty much just messing with your image options.
29:52As far as your Layer, Select, Filter, and all that, it's pretty simple.
29:56Filter is a little more different.
29:59If we go to Filter and go to Filter Gallery, once this pops up here,
30:03it gives you a bunch of options.
30:05If we go to Brush Stroke, let's find a cool one here.
30:09Let's just do Angled Strokes.
30:11I think that's what it says.
30:13Go to Direction Balance, and it'll change the direction of the strokes.
30:17Stroke Length should be kind of obvious.
30:19Sharpness, we already went over what that means.
30:21You don't want to make it too unlegible, if you know what I mean.
30:24Let's click OK then, and you'll see it looks more like a little painting there.
30:27Filter changes, it makes some really cool options there.
30:30I'm not going to go over it in too much detail,
30:32like all of them, because I'm running out of time here,
30:35but it's pretty cool.
30:36Liquify does some very weird things.
30:38I'll let you venture in there yourself.
30:40The Layer Options menu, pretty much you can control it all
30:44from your area over here in the bottom right.
30:47I think I have one more image down here.
30:49I don't remember what this one was, but I'll remember in just a second.
30:53Let me open this new image here.
30:56Let's see.
30:58Oh, OK.
30:59Well, this is Jimmy Page playing a guitar, apparently.
31:02Let's resize it by going to CTRL-T.
31:09Let's make it a layer.
31:11That should help.
31:12Then CTRL-T, and we're going to make it a little smaller by holding SHIFT.
31:17It'll preserve the aspect ratio.
31:20Oh, well, we wouldn't want that to happen, would we?
31:23Let's redo that there.
31:25You always want to keep holding SHIFT.
31:28There we go.
31:31It'd be easier to crop that now if you want to use the Crop tool.
31:36Try to get around.
31:37It'll attach itself to the image, and there you go.
31:39It's smaller.
31:40It doesn't look smaller, but it is smaller.
31:42Then let's go to Image, Adjustments, Photo Filter, Color,
31:46and let's just use a cool crimson red sort of color here.
31:50I know I've showed you this before, but it's a better example
31:52of taking a black-and-white photo and adding some color to it.
31:56You can see by changing the density, you can check Preserve Luminosity if you want.
32:03I'm going to keep it checked for now.
32:06You can see it looks like a cool neon sign sort of look.
32:09There you go, going on.
32:10We'll click OK, and you can see now from the difference,
32:13before, after, before, after, before, after.
32:17Say you only wanted to change those two lights up there, a different color.
32:23You would take your Lasso tool, just for easy sake,
32:26and just quickly draw around the lights.
32:29Then you would right-click and go to New Layer Via Copy.
32:36Then go to Image, Adjustments, Photo Filter, Color.
32:41It's kind of a long process here.
32:43Make a cool color.
32:44Click OK.
32:45Then change your density, and you can mess with your Preserve Luminosity,
32:50since it's just a pure white color.
32:52You can see now the two lights up there are purple.
32:54That's pretty much just a little change in color around with that.
32:58We got our galaxy right here I just went over.
33:00I went over most of the things in Photoshop,
33:02so you should now be able to take these things
33:04and understand in my future tutorials what is going to happen.
33:09Guys, I'm sorry I've been gone for so long.
33:11What's coming up now is I'm going to have some other cool videos
33:14on some Google tricks, how to find things instead of asking me so much,
33:18which is just kind of me being lazy, but I want to help you guys too.
33:22I'm also going to show you some cool time wasters
33:24and just things that you'll enjoy.
33:26Have a good day.
33:28Do what you need to do.
33:30I'll catch you guys later, hopefully soon.
33:32I hope this video goes up smoothly.