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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial : The Basics for Beginners
Adobe Photoshop Tutorial For Beginners, teaching the Basics Of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners, going over many important aspects when first starting graphic design!
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►Sections/ Lessons Taught:
1:36 – 1) Interface
10:48 – 2) Effects Panel
16:54 – 3) Working With Images
27:25 – 4) Working With Text
30:10 – 5) Essential Tools
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This tutorial was made to familiarize anyone to using Adobe Photoshop, and start creating awesome graphic design and projects today! This long video is a 5-Section tutorial that was designed to be a resource which could be used if one wishes to improve upon/ learn one certain aspect covered in the basics, however if you are a complete beginner, I recommend you follow along the whole way though this tutorial, so hopefully by the end of it, you will be alot more confident with your knowledge and ability as you continue getting more comfortable with the program!
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00:03 what is up guys this is mr. ninja boy
00:06 and today I'm gonna start a new series
00:08 guiding you guys through Photoshop
00:09 starting from the very basics and
00:12 essential to eventually getting into the
00:13 more advanced stuff in graphic design my
00:16 goal here is to maintain simplicity in
00:18 this series and to make it possible for
00:20 literally anyone to learn to use
00:21 Photoshop even if you've just started
00:23 and are already confused just looking at
00:25 the interface don't worry I can
00:27 understand it may be daunting the first
00:30 time you open Photoshop with all these
00:31 options in fact it can be intimidating
00:33 at first starting with any new program
00:35 but my goal here is to show you guys how
00:38 simple yet powerful Photoshop really is
00:40 the sky is truly the limit with what you
00:42 can do with it if you guys don't know
00:44 this channel isn't only focused on
00:45 gaming in fact I've started it with
00:47 tutorials on game development by the way
00:49 you can check that on on the channel if
00:51 you want to but I've always really
00:53 enjoyed teaching you guys my tips and
00:55 tricks and passing on my knowledge I got
00:57 in certain programs to newcomers and the
00:58 people looking to improve so I'm quite
01:00 excited to start the series later on
01:03 we're gonna be doing some really
01:04 exciting stuff like making thumbnails
01:05 making logos complex graphic art and
01:08 much more but in this first tutorial
01:11 we're just going to focus on the very
01:12 basics of Photoshop this is the perfect
01:14 guide for someone who has just begun
01:16 using Photoshop so like any program the
01:18 best way to familiarize yourself to it
01:20 at first would be would be to get a hang
01:22 of the interface and all its features so
01:25 we're gonna do just that then as we dive
01:27 deeper into this tutorial I'm gonna show
01:29 you guys a collection of simple yet
01:31 essential features that you must learn
01:33 while first starting all right so let's
01:35 get started alright so let's get started
01:38 with learning the interface now um to
01:41 make sure that we're all on the same
01:42 page with the interface itself with all
01:44 its features all the windows everything
01:46 let's go to window and then workspace
01:48 and then make sure you're checked on
01:50 essentials default which is basically
01:52 gonna ensure that we have all the same
01:54 features and everything alright so now
01:56 let's proceed to make our first file our
01:58 first project you can call it so let's
02:00 go to new our file and then new and then
02:03 this is basically the window where we're
02:05 gonna do all the settings for a project
02:07 so first of all we can name the project
02:09 whatever we want
02:10 I'm just gonna name an example for the
02:11 tutorials sake and then for the width
02:15 and height you can later on you can do
02:17 whatever you want mattering on what what
02:19 sort of project you want let's say you
02:20 want to do like a Twitter header or
02:23 something and then there's certain like
02:25 dimensions you want to do then you
02:28 choose that but for now we're gonna do
02:29 it a standard 1920 by 1080 dimension for
02:34 this project 1080 and then make sure
02:37 you're always selected on pixels okay
02:40 this is important um so for the width
02:44 and height you want to be on both on the
02:46 same units essentially but we're gonna
02:48 be working with pixels because it's the
02:49 easiest I mean I don't really work with
02:52 the centimeters or millimeters inches on
02:54 the computer it just doesn't make sense
02:56 for me but I mean I guess it matters on
02:58 what you're doing but for me pixels
03:01 refer now we're just we're gonna work
03:03 with pixels for both width and height um
03:05 and yeah I was gonna say for me it's
03:07 just the easiest because you know
03:08 everything is in pixels on the computer
03:10 so yeah so the just select everything
03:13 here it doesn't really matter if you
03:15 what you do for the bit-depth
03:17 I'm just gonna go 16-bit and yeah buts
03:20 that's pretty much it so let's press
03:22 Continue or okay and then we continue to
03:25 this screen which gives us the by
03:26 default we're just gonna have a blank
03:28 white square so this is as you guys can
03:32 see um right here to the right this is
03:35 basically like the layers tab this this
03:37 shows us all the layers all the elements
03:39 everything that is included in the
03:41 project so all we have now this is
03:43 basically like a very blank project with
03:46 all we have is this background um white
03:48 box sort of thing so um to first get
03:51 started and we're just gonna unlock this
03:54 layer because by default when you make a
03:55 new project the first layer is locked so
03:58 we don't really have a lot of freedom to
04:00 do like move it around and stuff so what
04:02 we're gonna do is actually double click
04:03 on this locked icon or this lock icon
04:07 and then when we do that as you guys can
04:10 see we have this like layer option so
04:12 let's name it background so
04:16 let's name it background and then we can
04:19 keep the color we can do it none and
04:21 then they'll basically be default color
04:23 or we can choose whatever you want and
04:25 that'll essentially just make the color
04:27 of the not essentially the box but that
04:31 that's like the color here let me do
04:33 that and let's let's select a color this
04:35 is this is actually very good for
04:37 organizing and then we're gonna go over
04:38 that later so lets us can see the red
04:41 color that we selected is sort of kind
04:43 of like marks it with that little red
04:45 color so later on while you're working
04:47 you can always assign layers different
04:49 colors and with that you can kind of
04:51 organize your project but that's not
04:54 very important for now we're just gonna
04:55 learn the interface for now so as you
04:57 guys can see we have a white background
04:58 here so the first thing we're actually
05:01 gonna do is learn the move tool so the
05:03 first tool that we are actually offered
05:05 in this column to the left is this move
05:09 tool so we're gonna select make sure
05:11 that you go to the right in this layers
05:13 tab and select our only one and only
05:15 layer in this project and then we're
05:17 gonna select the move tool and then we
05:19 can as you guys can see we can move the
05:21 box around and what you've seen this
05:23 background if you see this like sort of
05:25 checkered background that basically
05:27 means it's it's transparent because if
05:30 you if you render out this picture right
05:31 now it's basically gonna be transparent
05:33 so all you'd see is this box and then
05:36 nothing else this background is
05:38 transparent um so what we're gonna
05:40 actually do is undo that so you can undo
05:44 move and then let's say you do a couple
05:46 actions the best way to undo stuff is to
05:49 actually go ctrl alt Z because that is
05:52 the ultimately like you can only undo
05:54 once see as you guys can see I i undid
05:56 all the way back to creating the
05:58 background so let's actually read step
06:00 forward so if I do ctrl Z um I hold on
06:04 step forward and that's let's uh let's
06:07 add like just just for the tutorials
06:10 sake let's just do like scribbles
06:13 something like that so let's say I did
06:17 ctrl Z once and then I did it again
06:20 as you guys can see it just redid that
06:22 so the way we go step backwards if you
06:26 want to keep on undoing
06:27 more than once is ctrl alt Z or we can
06:30 go edit and then step backward that's a
06:33 very important tool you guys must know
06:34 in the future anyways so now let's add a
06:39 shape to this project as you guys can
06:42 see that is like we learned like to use
06:45 the Move tool which is you know it's
06:46 it's it's quite straightforward and then
06:49 what we're gonna we're gonna learn to do
06:51 more stuff like a rotating so the first
06:53 thing we're actually gonna do now to
06:55 learn that is actually go down to this
06:57 this tool right got you as you guys can
07:00 see it's like a little squiggly sort of
07:02 shape so we're gonna right click on that
07:04 and actually select the rectangle tool
07:06 so as you guys can see we can cut we
07:09 kind of have this little crosshair sort
07:11 of thing so we're gonna select and drag
07:13 and we're gonna make a rectangle by
07:15 doing that so we did make a rectangle
07:19 but as you guys can see it's sort of
07:21 like a a white rectangle so it's kind of
07:23 blending in the background all us can
07:25 see is like the black outline around it
07:27 kind of indicating that we're selected
07:28 on it so if we deselect that as you guys
07:31 can see we can't really see the
07:32 rectangle so we're gonna we're gonna
07:33 assign a color to it or a fill color so
07:35 we're just gonna go to the fill option
07:38 as you guys can see up here select that
07:41 and we can choose any color for the
07:43 rectangle since the background is white
07:45 anything that isn't white is it's gonna
07:47 show so let's just make this like a dark
07:51 grey color I guess that works so now if
07:55 you want to move the rectangle in the
07:58 middle of course we can do that by just
08:00 clicking dragging and if you guys want
08:02 to move any object in a sort of linear
08:05 fashion where you don't really if you
08:08 want it just like a sign like a certain
08:10 let's say we want to move it like
08:13 horizontally so we can just like put it
08:17 there and then if you just hold down
08:18 shift and then move it it sort of locks
08:21 to the position where it was if let's
08:24 say we're moving horizontally now we
08:26 can't move it left and right we can just
08:28 move it horizontally because it's locked
08:30 and then let's say we want to move it
08:32 left and right there so it that's how
08:34 that's the way you and then let's say we
08:36 let go shift as you guys can see it just
08:38 it does that so we can also do that
08:40 of course so that's the way you guys you
08:44 guys can move things linearly where it
08:47 kind of just locks on to the axis it's
08:50 on so now let's say we wanted to rotate
08:53 this rectangle we can go ctrl T and that
08:56 is basically just our basically the the
09:00 shortcut for the transform and let's say
09:03 we wanted to rotate this rectangle we
09:06 can we can guide our mouse to the sort
09:09 of corner of the box where we kind of
09:13 see this little arrow pointing downward
09:16 and then to the left and once we see
09:18 that we can click and drag to how we
09:20 want to rotate this so let's say we want
09:23 to rotate it like that or like that and
09:25 you can all you if you guys also can see
09:28 like this angle sort of thing up here we
09:30 can do that numerically we can we don't
09:33 necessarily need to do it visually here
09:35 but we can also input numbers and do
09:37 whatever you want with the angles same
09:39 with the width and width and height on
09:41 all the dimensions so let's say we
09:43 wanted to reset that to zero just to you
09:46 know have a have it like how it was
09:48 before we did anything any of the edits
09:51 or another way you guys can do that
09:53 let's say you you scaled it you did a
09:56 bunch of stuff to the object but you
09:59 didn't you want to just revert it to how
10:01 it was before um before you went to
10:04 touch control T you guys can just click
10:07 this sort of like undo icon I guess and
10:12 as you guys can see it kind of revert
10:14 sit to what we did before the transform
10:16 options so now what we're actually going
10:20 to do is yeah as you guys can see you
10:22 guys can scale it visually as I said or
10:25 you can actually do it here so let's say
10:28 we want it twice as big as it is now so
10:31 we can go 200% by 200% so it's basically
10:35 two times bigger than it was and then
10:37 once we are happy with what we do the
10:39 edits we did we can just click this
10:40 check arrow and then there are the check
10:43 icon and then basically we've just
10:45 applied all the changes we did to this
10:47 object all right so now we're gonna
10:50 actually now that's basically like the
10:52 very basics of the interface
10:54 and now we're actually gonna add some
10:56 effects to this box like a drop shadow
10:58 maybe an outer glow or something like
11:00 that and this is actually very simple to
11:03 do so we're just gonna navigate down to
11:05 oh yeah make sure you're selected on the
11:07 certain layer so if we selected on this
11:09 it kind of shows like these little
11:11 square icons where you can obviously do
11:13 the changes and then you can do all the
11:16 stuff that we learned so I'm just gonna
11:17 revert back to how it was but make sure
11:19 you're selected on the rectangle on top
11:21 and this is all very important to
11:24 actually know like the it's kind of like
11:28 a hierarchy so it let's say we wanted to
11:30 have this background on top of this
11:33 where we wouldn't be able to see this
11:34 we'd basically just have to drag that on
11:36 top so any any layer that is on top is
11:40 is shown on top of it so it's basically
11:43 like a layering system it's very
11:44 straightforward
11:45 so yeah always make sure that the
11:48 smaller layers this backgrounds are
11:50 always on the bottom of everything but
11:53 that's basically the way you want to
11:55 think about it so yeah make sure this
11:56 layer is on top of the background and
11:58 then let's say we want to add like I
12:00 said effects so we click on the
12:02 rectangle and go down to this effect
12:04 icon click on that and then go blending
12:07 options so now this is where we have a
12:10 bunch of options where we can mess
12:12 around with so the first thing I'd like
12:15 to do is to drop shadow so have a little
12:17 shadow on behind this box so we go down
12:20 to this option and click on drop shadow
12:23 so as you guys can see um we have a
12:25 little shadow behind this box but we can
12:28 make it more dress like make it bigger
12:30 so we can increase we can like make it
12:33 bigger by increasing the size and then
12:35 the spread the spread essentially makes
12:38 it more like condensed I want to say but
12:40 I'm not sure if that's the right word to
12:42 use but um so basically yeah we can
12:45 increase it using the spread and size
12:46 size just makes make it makes the shadow
12:49 spread a bit more so let's make this
12:52 size a bit smaller so as you guys can
12:54 see we have a little shadow behind and
12:56 that looks pretty nice and what else can
12:58 we do um for the effects we can add a
13:01 stroke and the stroke is basically like
13:03 a little outline that goes around any
13:05 jects so the stroke we can change the
13:08 color let's make it red for example and
13:10 then we can press ok and we can also
13:13 increase the size of the stroke by going
13:16 by clicking dragging or so like in
13:18 putting your own number so let's say we
13:20 want it 10 pixels and as you guys can
13:22 see that's the 10 pixel stroke that we
13:24 have around this rectangle now and what
13:28 else can we do we can do a bevel and
13:29 emboss as you guys can see it adds like
13:31 a little nice 3d sort of embossed bevel
13:35 sort of effect and we can increase the
13:38 depth and by doing so it gives that
13:40 illusion even more and then we can
13:42 obviously increase the size and that and
13:45 that doesn't look very good let's make
13:46 it yeah that looks good alright umm what
13:49 else can we do we can also add a pattern
13:52 overlay and then you can mess with this
13:54 add your own patterns and stuff but
13:55 these are the default patterns that come
13:57 with Photoshop so this is a nice little
13:59 texture sort of thing that's that's a
14:02 cool texture but we can't really see it
14:03 since the background is like white so
14:06 yeah
14:07 those are basically like textures you
14:08 can add so we're not gonna really add
14:10 anything for now I'm just gonna keep it
14:11 like that or actually let's just add bat
14:13 texture like that looks pretty cool and
14:14 what else can we do we can do an outer
14:17 glow so outer glow is basically let's
14:20 add a different let's make it red so
14:22 it'll go nicely with the D border so or
14:25 the stroke so the outer glow is
14:28 essentially just just like a drop shadow
14:32 sort of thing it it's very similar to
14:34 the shadow but it's it basically is just
14:37 like a little glow of a certain color
14:40 that you can choose that basically
14:42 outlines around the object you can also
14:45 do inner glow that that basically does
14:48 the same effect but towards the inside
14:51 of the object and instead of it having
14:53 it on the outside of it so we can also
14:57 do color overlay this is where we can if
14:59 it's not a shape and we can't edit the
15:01 fill we can actually do it here manually
15:04 so we can go to color overlay and and
15:06 then we can change the color do it to
15:09 whatever color we want choose whatever
15:11 color we want and yeah we're not gonna
15:13 do that now so we're gonna just uncheck
15:15 that satin basically just makes it a
15:18 little darker
15:19 but that can be cool effect and also yes
15:22 inner glow inner shadow the shadow is
15:24 based inner shadows basically like a
15:26 drop shadow but it makes it like in the
15:28 inside of it
15:28 same as inner glow in comparison to
15:31 outer glow so the same sort of idea and
15:33 a gradient overlay this is a this is a
15:35 cool feature that we can take a look at
15:37 so gradient overlays essentially it kind
15:40 of mixes colors into instead of having
15:44 one solid color so as you guys can see
15:46 this is a mixture of like a black sand
15:48 gray /white ish color and there's a
15:51 couple presets which we can choose is
15:53 like a rainbow and this there's like
15:56 striped black there's like there's cool
15:58 colors so these are only the presets but
16:02 you guys can edit them so let's say we
16:03 wanted that and then we can edit it so
16:05 we can change the colors here so we can
16:07 actually select that and then we can
16:09 select different colors so let's say we
16:11 want in the middle color like green we
16:13 can have it red and yeah so you can edit
16:16 it to whatever you basically want so
16:18 there um let's say we're happy with that
16:20 and then that's the gradient overlay so
16:22 it's basically like a mixture of colors
16:24 that's a best way to think about it I
16:25 guess so um yeah let's just keep it with
16:29 that texture and so yeah those are
16:32 basically like the effects the central
16:34 effects they're so easy to you know to
16:36 use and it's very simple and to add
16:39 everything and drop shadow all the
16:41 strokes everything um they're very
16:43 simple yet they're used in like you know
16:45 and in quite complex graphics I always
16:48 use them these are very basic and they
16:51 work really well so they're awesome
16:52 so now we're actually gonna import
16:56 eight an image from the internet that I
16:58 downloaded and edit that so the way
17:01 we're gonna do this is actually gonna go
17:03 to file and then we're gonna go to place
17:05 so there's two ways we can do this we
17:08 can go to file place and then find the
17:10 image that we downloaded so we're this
17:12 is an image of the McLaren p1 or let's
17:15 say we undid that and then we can go to
17:17 file open and then we can open that and
17:20 then that actually opens it to the exact
17:22 dimensions of the image itself and
17:25 that's the way best way to do it if you
17:26 want to edit a certain image
17:28 instead of doing it instead of placing
17:30 it inside a project but let's say you
17:32 have a project where you want to mix
17:34 pictures in and add different pictures
17:36 you can go to file place and then find
17:38 the image and then put it in but um yeah
17:41 so we're gonna basically do some edits
17:44 to this to this image so the first thing
17:47 we're gonna do is actually duplicate
17:49 this McLaren p1 so we're gonna go to
17:52 this tool right here which is called the
17:54 lasso tool and as you guys can see down
17:57 here we have a little um this thing that
18:00 says 50% is basically the how much it's
18:03 zoomed to the original size so let's go
18:05 a hundred percent so that just this just
18:08 means that we are looking at the exact
18:10 resolution of this image and the reason
18:14 why we go 50% when editing the full
18:16 project is that is so we can see the
18:20 full project because if you go over 50%
18:23 we'd have to scroll around to be able to
18:25 see everything but for this for the
18:28 lasso tool it's very important to see
18:29 every little detail so we're gonna go
18:31 100% and if you guys have a smaller
18:33 image that you want to edit then you'd
18:35 want you you'd want to go even bigger
18:37 but essentially for this we're just
18:39 gonna go 100% and once we were zoomed in
18:42 we're just gonna have a nice shot of the
18:45 McLaren so basically just zoom in to a
18:48 point where the biggest part of the
18:50 image is the the focus where you want to
18:53 duplicate so now we're just gonna
18:55 outline this this McLaren p1 having
18:59 selected this lasso tool so we're gonna
19:01 outline it starting from here and we're
19:04 gonna do a bit of a sloppy job here it's
19:06 not very important to be very precise
19:08 but all you got to do is just click and
19:11 drag with your left left mouse button
19:13 tool and just select all the outer part
19:17 of the image that you so yeah I'll leave
19:21 this image in the description down below
19:22 that you guys can edit the same exact
19:24 thing that I'm doing but if you guys
19:26 wanted to do a different image just find
19:27 one on the Internet anything really uh
19:30 it doesn't really have to be carved but
19:33 for this tutorial is simple on a car
19:36 this this image is actually very good
19:38 for like the duplicating and everything
19:39 and that we're going to do so I'm just
19:41 selecting it with this lasso tool
19:43 doesn't really have to be very precise
19:45 if I was gonna do this very precise I'd
19:47 probably go like like six hundred
19:49 percent on the zoom and then just do
19:52 like very pixel by pixel making it
19:54 really really sharp but anyways now that
19:57 we've done that we can zoom back out to
19:59 look at the full image and go fifty
20:01 percent and as you guys can see there
20:03 we've selected that now before we
20:05 duplicate it let's do the same thing or
20:07 this background and double click on this
20:08 lock icon so once we do that a we can
20:12 basically lay in the layer two whatever
20:13 we want so let's name it McLaren and
20:16 then once we've named it MacLaren's
20:18 press Enter or click OK and then as you
20:21 guys can see there we've got the image
20:23 unlocked and the next thing to do is to
20:27 make sure that you selected on that on
20:29 that layer and then we're gonna go
20:30 control-c or command-c
20:33 matters if you're on Mac or PC it
20:35 doesn't really matter but yeah so just
20:37 ctrl C and then control V so once we've
20:41 done that as you guys can see now we
20:42 have two layers and if we hide this
20:44 layer we can hide layers by clicking on
20:46 this little eye icon which indicates
20:49 layer visibility as it says there so we
20:52 click on that as you guys can see we
20:54 have just an outline of the McLaren
20:56 itself and then the background is just
20:58 transparent as I guess totally as I told
21:01 you guys before um this checker sort of
21:03 thing is indicates that the background
21:05 is transparent so let's just bring the
21:07 background back and now as you guys can
21:09 see we have this McLaren here so we can
21:11 click in using the move tool that I
21:14 showed you guys earlier we can click and
21:16 drag and move it to where wherever we
21:18 want on this project let's say we want
21:21 this McLaren facing this McLaren so sort
21:23 of switching the the direction it's
21:26 going so we can go ctrl T which is short
21:29 for transform the shortcut and we can go
21:32 to height and just add a little minus
21:35 symbol or Nova that makes it upside-down
21:38 let's let's do it on the with actually
21:39 so let's go minus a hundred percent it's
21:43 it's still maintaining the same
21:45 dimensions however it's negative on the
21:48 width making it on the going to other
21:51 direction so we can also do that by
21:54 clicking and dragging
21:55 like that but the easiest way to
21:57 maintain the proportions is to just do
21:59 it like that so once we choose a spot
22:04 where we want that Maclaren we can press
22:06 ok or we can even do the rotation like I
22:08 showed you guys earlier and that looks
22:10 pretty cool just to little McLaren's
22:12 facing each other off so what are we
22:16 gonna do now we can do some effects
22:17 let's say like a drop shadow and that
22:21 looks alright let's make it a little
22:25 bigger we can do outer glow that looks
22:28 cool and then we can increase the size
22:30 as yes and see that looks pretty cool so
22:33 yeah I just showed you guys everything
22:35 else that you know it's quite
22:36 straightforward for the effect but now
22:39 we're actually gonna do is to actually
22:41 make a adjustment layer and basically
22:45 we're gonna mess around with the color
22:47 correction the exposure everything to
22:49 make this image look as nice as possible
22:51 so the way we're gonna do this is we're
22:54 gonna go to layer and then new or sorry
22:58 no we're gonna go to layer new
23:00 adjustment layer and then the first
23:02 thing we're going to do is to add a
23:03 brightness / contrast layer so we're
23:07 just gonna click OK you can name that
23:08 whatever you want you can even color
23:10 code it just like I showed you guys
23:11 earlier too for it you know for a better
23:14 organization but we're just gonna leave
23:16 that alone for now
23:16 so as you guys can see this is the first
23:20 adjustment layer now adjustment layers
23:21 basically are just like editing layers
23:24 they're not visible they're not
23:25 necessarily like solid items but or
23:27 objects in the scene or in the and you
23:30 know in the project and the oh and all
23:32 the elements but they're basically just
23:34 to just the the visual aspect of this
23:38 project so we're gonna go to contrast
23:40 we're actually gonna increase the
23:41 contrast as you guess and see if we
23:43 decrease the contrast it it looks a lot
23:45 more like washed up or if we increase it
23:48 it looks a lot more like like vivid so
23:51 we're gonna make it let's say 40 looks
23:54 good 40 yeah that looks pretty good and
23:56 then we can increase the brightness a
23:58 little decrease it that looks pretty
24:00 nice if we decrease the brightness a bit
24:01 there too much brightness doesn't look
24:04 very good in my opinion
24:06 let's go actually -7 I thought I'd
24:08 actually go more brightness but a little
24:10 lower brightness looks a lot better so
24:13 now that looks that's how it looked
24:15 before the first adjustment layer and
24:17 then after that's how it looks so it you
24:20 know but as you guys can see it already
24:21 looks pretty cool just like that so
24:24 we're gonna add another adjustment layer
24:26 by going layer new adjustment layer and
24:29 then we're gonna go to levels now we're
24:32 just click OK just like everything else
24:34 and then levels we can there's a lot of
24:37 presets so you can mess with that
24:40 yourself here but we're gonna actually
24:41 select their preset on the level so you
24:44 can click darker whoo that looks really
24:46 cool and then there's increased contrast
24:48 and you know so this is basically like a
24:51 easy way to make your project look a
24:54 certain way so let's just me let's just
24:57 select let's see and let's see increased
25:01 contrast that's a little too much
25:03 contrast one darker that's a little too
25:07 dark mid-tones brighter mid-tones darker
25:11 I think that looks pretty damn cool and
25:13 now since it's quite dark we can
25:16 actually go back to this and double
25:18 click on that icon and increase the
25:20 brightness a bit because it is quite
25:22 dark all right that looks pretty cool
25:24 now so next thing we're gonna add is
25:27 actually a let's see a layer and the new
25:31 adjustment layer we can add a let's see
25:34 exposure and then once we add exposure
25:38 you can mess around with that we're
25:40 actually gonna decrease the exposure a
25:43 bit and then the offset you can mess
25:46 around with that and then we're actually
25:47 gonna increase that a bit just to bring
25:49 out the color that dark color is a bit
25:51 and then the gamma correction you can
25:53 mess around with that as well
25:54 that is starting to look really cool so
25:57 that is how the project are like it's
26:01 initially looked and then after all
26:02 these correct correction layers this is
26:04 how it's looking right now so let's add
26:06 one more just for the sake of you know
26:09 showing you guys how all this works it's
26:11 all the same you know it's all the same
26:14 concept you just have to tweak it and
26:16 then play with all these settings
26:17 everything just to get the perf
26:19 look of the project that he want so
26:21 let's go to layer new adjustment layer
26:23 and then let's add a let's see color
26:26 lookup now color lookups are are
26:29 basically like a correction color layer
26:32 and and these are quite tricky to work
26:36 with because you can you can you can
26:39 basically load up files that are called
26:43 LUT files and I might actually do that
26:46 later in like different tutorials and
26:48 show you guys how to make those LUT
26:50 different color um color correction
26:53 files so for now we're gonna go with
26:57 something that is default that it looks
27:00 pretty cool so we're gonna go in let's
27:03 see turquoise sepia but as you guys can
27:07 see these are basically like filters um
27:09 that make your project look a certain
27:11 way let's see that looks cool so if
27:17 we're happy with that we can just leave
27:18 that on yeah so that's basically like
27:22 the UM you know all the adjustment
27:25 layers
27:25 alright so let's say it wanted to add
27:27 some text now to this project it's
27:30 actually really straightforward in
27:31 Photoshop there's this icon with a T on
27:33 it one of the tools and that actually
27:36 allows us to add text so let's actually
27:38 select that and then anywhere on the
27:40 project that we want to act actually I
27:41 add the text box or the text itself we
27:45 can just click so let's say what we
27:47 wanted to add a title here at the top so
27:49 we can just click there and type
27:51 something so I'm just gonna say example
27:54 since this is a tutorial so as you can
27:56 see we just typed a text there but um
27:59 it's not visible because it's like half
28:01 cut off because you know it's not
28:03 positioned correctly so if we just move
28:05 like anywhere out of the actual text box
28:09 itself we can still see the the move
28:10 position before we click the check mark
28:13 for the transform tool so there as you
28:16 can as you can see it says example but
28:18 it actually is quite big this text so
28:21 let's make it a bit smaller let's go to
28:23 let's say you can change the the the
28:27 font and everything from here let's say
28:29 we wanted to change the font so it's
28:31 about some
28:32 select something else and that one
28:34 that's not a really nice font there we
28:36 go that's a pretty good font and then um
28:38 we also need to tone down the the actual
28:41 the the font size so here we there's
28:46 like a drop-down menu that only goes to
28:48 72 point but that's obviously way too
28:49 small so we can input our own number
28:53 here to make the text a lot bigger so
28:55 let's say I'm 500 yeah that's good so
28:57 that's our example text as you can see
29:00 there so that looks pretty cool and then
29:02 we can also mess around with some of the
29:04 settings for the actual text itself like
29:07 effects so we can go to FX and then
29:09 blending options and then from here we
29:11 can go to let's say overlay blend mode
29:13 and then blend mode is basically what it
29:16 does it's like there's different blend
29:18 modes that do different things like
29:20 difference is basically like it it does
29:22 opposite colors and then you can do
29:24 exclusion which is essentially does the
29:27 same thing darken that that it doesn't
29:29 really work there but you you can
29:31 basically just mess around with that and
29:33 different different settings different
29:35 backgrounds there's different effects
29:38 that work better than others so for this
29:41 one we're actually gonna go difference
29:42 that actually looks really cool and then
29:44 if we just move around you guys can see
29:45 it kinda does like an x-ray sort of
29:48 filter on the background itself on what
29:50 it's um you know on what it's on so that
29:53 looks really cool you can still see the
29:55 clouds and everything in the actual
29:57 background it's basically just the like
29:58 polar opposite of what the colors are so
30:01 yeah that's it's really simple to add
30:03 text and photoshop you can also do other
30:05 effects like drop shadow or everything
30:08 else that we learned in the effects
30:09 panel okay so now let's say I wanted to
30:12 erase a part of the McLaren so we can
30:16 actually use the eraser tool which is
30:17 also very straightforward to use so
30:20 there's this little tool like this
30:22 little eraser icon that we can select
30:24 here once we selected that we're gonna
30:26 go up to here and actually select the
30:29 size so let's go a hundred around 100
30:32 pixels and then we're gonna actually
30:34 decrease if you have a hardness on like
30:36 50 percent by default just decrease it
30:38 down to let's say we're just gonna go to
30:42 0% for now actually and then I'll show
30:45 you guys the different
30:45 when you actually increased the hardness
30:48 of the eraser so now we're gonna select
30:50 the the duplicated Maclaren layer and
30:53 then we're gonna start erasing so as you
30:55 guys can see you can erase parts of the
30:58 of this layer using this simple eraser
31:01 tool and now let's say we go step
31:04 backward and then we go to the hardness
31:06 and we increase it's a hundred percent
31:08 just to show you guys the complete
31:09 opposite so let's select the Maclaren
31:12 layer again and then we can actually
31:14 just erase it directly and as you guys
31:16 can see it's a lot different it's a lot
31:18 like crisper and then I can show you
31:20 guys a side-by-side by decreasing the
31:22 hardness and then going back and as you
31:24 guys can see here it's a lot softer like
31:26 the way it's it erases them they're just
31:28 crisp it's a crisp line so that's
31:30 essentially the difference between you
31:32 know and then you can also select a
31:34 different like brushes for the eraser so
31:37 that's like sort of like a a nice little
31:39 um a pen sort of brush or like a a paint
31:44 brush sort of not a pen a paint brush
31:47 sort of style to the eraser so you can
31:51 do lots of cool Styles with that
31:52 actually but um let's for now let's just
31:55 go control Z first step backward step
31:57 backward and just go back to where it
31:59 was so um yeah that's basically the
32:03 eraser tool and I wanted to show you
32:06 guys one more thing before I end this
32:08 first essentials sort of like basics
32:11 tutorial is I'm gonna show you guys the
32:14 pen tool now the pen tool is something
32:16 that is sort of like how you make logos
32:21 how you make like objects how you make
32:24 the shapes and stuff on in in Photoshop
32:26 and this is a very essential tool that
32:30 you must learn so let's go let's make
32:32 another new project a blank project so
32:35 let's go 1920 by 1080 or we can actually
32:40 just go back to this one I actually
32:41 forget that so let's just delete that
32:43 and then we have a back the white
32:45 background here oh we don't really have
32:47 to delete it we can just click on the
32:48 visibility icon and just hide it so
32:50 let's make a shape so let's say we want
32:54 it to make a a a letter Z so
32:59 we can start by selecting a point here
33:03 and then let's say we wanted to make a
33:05 another point here so letters that look
33:08 something like that right but that
33:10 that's not necessarily straight so we go
33:13 controller fault see for step backward
33:16 and then we can we can keep this Anchor
33:19 Point here however when we select the
33:22 second point we can hold shift down
33:24 which basically makes it straight see as
33:28 you guys can see this a perfect straight
33:30 line now to do diagonally we can also do
33:33 this shift tool you use the shift tool
33:35 then if you want to move this we can
33:37 select control and then shift or it
33:39 sorry not shift just control and then
33:41 and then now once you've dragged it to
33:44 where you want we can click shift and as
33:46 you guys can see there it's straight so
33:48 let's put it right there that looks good
33:51 and then we can also select the third
33:54 point by clicking shift and right there
33:57 so now we're gonna actually make it like
34:00 three-dimensional and there we go
34:05 you can press control to edit that one
34:07 point and then let's bring it up to here
34:10 click shift to make it straight and then
34:13 add another point by clicking shift and
34:15 make it straight of force and then
34:17 finishing this object once you once
34:20 you're finished and then you want to
34:22 like close the object you guys can see
34:25 that little circle icon bus besides lay
34:27 beside like the pen tool and then once
34:31 you click that it basically makes it a
34:33 shape and then you know we can
34:35 right-click create a let's let's define
34:38 a custom shape actually and let's name
34:40 it Z so and then we can click enter and
34:44 so let's actually go to this rectangle
34:47 icon and then select custom shape tool
34:49 and then from here there's a little
34:52 drop-down menu we can select all the
34:54 custom shapes that we have and the most
34:56 recent ones are on the bottom so your
34:58 icon that you probably just made is on
35:00 the bottom and we can click anywhere on
35:03 the screen and then have this is like
35:04 the default width and height I guess so
35:07 make sure you're always on preserve
35:08 proportions if you want to look exactly
35:10 how you made it
35:11 and then you
35:11 you can adjust the height and width but
35:13 I'm just gonna leave it like that for
35:15 now
35:15 so this is the shape that we have and as
35:19 you guys can see you can't really see it
35:20 it's probably because it's white so
35:22 we're gonna go to the effects and then
35:24 we're gonna go to color overlay and then
35:28 yeah we can change the color to whatever
35:30 you want let's just make it black I
35:32 guess cuz you know it's white in the
35:34 background it's easy to see and then we
35:36 can we can do everything else like that
35:38 I taught you guys like outer glow let's
35:39 make it
35:40 I don't know red and size spread let's
35:46 actually just make the background
35:48 transparent so yeah as you guys can see
35:50 there that's the outer glow right there
35:52 so yeah that's that's basically all I
35:55 wanted to show you guys in this
35:56 essentials tutorial I feel as though it
35:59 covered everything that is that is very
36:01 essential to learn when you first start
36:03 using Photoshop from the interface to
36:05 the you know the essential tools that
36:07 you must learn and from there it's not
36:10 very hard like everything else is really
36:12 straightforward just like this it's
36:14 basically just more detailed has more
36:16 features you know there's more features
36:18 to cover for sure and that's definitely
36:19 why I want to continue this series and
36:22 yeah that's gonna be it for this video I
36:25 hope you guys enjoyed this essentials
36:27 tutorial for Photoshop and yeah I'll
36:30 definitely be continuing this and stay
36:32 tuned and I figure if you're new around
36:34 here make sure you subscribe and because
36:36 I will definitely be doing them of
36:37 course a lot more tutorials get notified
36:39 when I do upload and yeah if you guys
36:42 enjoy this I'd love to hear you guys
36:44 have feedback what you guys would like
36:46 to see in the next tutorial and yeah
36:49 that's gonna be it for this video I hope
36:50 you guys enjoyed it as I said this has
36:52 been mr. Nimoy and I will see you guys
36:54 in the next one
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