Photoshop

PhotoshopIntermediate

skills

Introduction

If anyone wants to learn the basics of Photoshop they can learn it on the internet.I will show you how to do the cool stuff like using the layer-effects, masks, different selection techniques and much more.Mr Aske will be my model for this presentation.

So lets get started

Clipping Mask

As you can see I draw some random lines with the brush tool on Layer 2.

Next I right click on Layer 0 and click on Create clipping mask.

As you can see this is the result. I know this doesn’t look amazing now, but it will if you spend more time on it then I did.

You can do this with any image.

If you don’t like to right click on the layer and click on the clipping mask, you can just select the layer and press Ctrl+alt+g.

As you can see you can also create a clipping mask on text.

Black and White

I have shown how to do this before , but I want to go into more detail this time.So of course you can go into Image-Adjustments and click on black and white,But the result looks a bit too flat.

That is why I like to use the channel mixer, but before let us have a look in the channels-window.

We first look at each channel to give us an idea

RED GREEN

BLUE

After looking at each channel we see that the red channel gives us the best depth of field, but it is too bright in the foreground area, so we need to add some value of the green layer.The blue layer isn’t needed because it makes Mr Askes face very dark.

Now click on The Black and White circle at the bottom of the layer window and click on channel mixer.

A new Layer is made and a window will open at the right side where you can make all the changes in channels.

First of all we tick the box which says Monochrome, so we are working with black and white.

Because we looked at the channels themselves first we knew exactly what to do.Bring up the red value,Bring up the green value just a little bit,Bring down the blue a bit.Because the result was a bit to bright I brought down the Constant a little bit

Chanel Mixer

Adjustment

RESULT

So we made a Black and White image. Let us go a bit further and give the picture a bit more character by adding some colour.

First we create a new Layer and fill it with a nice orange by using the Paint Bucket tool.

Important: The layer must be over all the other layers.

I know that all you see is orange now but that will change immediately if you go into the layer-effects and change the setting from normal to colour.

After doing this you should see your image with a touch of orange.

Now if you bring down the opacity of the layer to 50% your image will look like this:

Correction

It is in the nature of humans to make mistakes, but with the help of Photoshop we can fix a lot on our pictures.

When you look at this picture you see a few wrinkles in the background.

Lets fix it.

Clone Stamp tool

The Clone Stamp tool is very good for correcting an even surface, like walls ,ground, clothes etc.We will use it to fix the background of our picture.

The tool copies an area of the picture and then you can use just like a brush to paint over the effected area.

So first you go on an area, which doesn’t need any correction, with your tool and hold the alt-Key and do a left mouse click.

Your mouse will change shape.

Now you can brush over the effected area and it will be copied exactly like it is , so that is why you should use this tool on even surfaces.

Before After

Patch tool

We can also use the Patch tool to solve the same problem and in my opinion this is a better way than using the Clone Stamp tool.

So we select the area we want to fix first with the tool.

Important : The Setting must be on source.

Now we can move the selection to a clean area, and the tool will use this information to correct the effected area.

The good thing about this tool use that it matches the lightning and environment unlike the clone stamp tool.

Before After

RESULT

Changing colour

There are many ways to change colour.

Probably the most common and easiest way to do that is to go into Adjustments and click on Replace Colour.

A large window will open.

This is probably one of the most interactive windows you see in Photoshop.You select the colour that you want to change.The black and white image shows you which parts of the image you are changing. White means selected.If you want to add a colour to the selection just click on the eyedropper which has a plus sign on it. And to deselect a colour you obviously click on the on with the minus sign.

You can also set the fuzziness, which means that you give the selection a bit more room to play, so the higher it is the wider the range of selected colour is, which is similar to the selected colour.Then you can change the hue, saturation and lightness.You can also see your result.Let us change the blue background of our image into red

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As you can see we changed the background from blue into red. It was a really quick process which just took me about 20 seconds.But as you can see it is not perfect, we still see a blue frame around our model and it looks purple in the bottom corners.That is why I don’t use this way to change colour.

What I like to do is to select the area I want to change, by using the colour range tool and different selection tools combined.

You add or subtract parts to your selection by changing the settings.

Now you open The Hue/Saturation window.

You find it under Image-Adjustments.

A small window will open.

This window allows you to change colour value. Hue, saturation and lightness.But not only can change value you can also replace it.

All you need to do is check the box which says colorize and than you can replace colour by moving the sliders.

Result

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