Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial here at the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me on Instagram @JRfromPTC.
One of the biggest and best additions to Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 is the powerful multi-scope
search.
You can think about it as Google inside of Photoshop.
It is a great tool for both beginner and experienced users alike.
You can use the search feature to quickly find tools, menus, tutorials, tips, assets,
documents, layers, and much, much more, all from within a unified dialogue box inside
of Photoshop.
Search integrates with Adobe stock to find stock assets and with helpX.Adobe.com to retrieve
relevant Help documentation.
To show you how search works, we're going to work with these two files.
This is a tutorial that I've done in the past on how to create window reflections and this
file, here, that shows you how to create color grades in Photoshop.
Both tutorials can be found in my website PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
But, anyway, here we are in the windowreflection.psd file.
To bring up the search feature, you can press Ctrl F, that's Command F on the Mac.
Now before you go further, I should point out that Ctrl F or Command F used to be the
"reapply the last filter used" keyboard shortcut.
So this new feature took over that shortcut, so if you want to reapply the last use filter,
you have to hold Ctrl Alt F, that's Command Option F on the Mac.
But anyway, let me show you how the search feature works inside of Photoshop.
I'm going to click inside the search box and I'm just going to start typing.
Notice that as I'm typing, Photoshop automatically starts giving the results even before I even
finish typing the keyword, so it's very fast and very accurate.
Notice that by default, the "All" tab is active.
This is showing me the results from three different categories available in the search
box.
We have the Photoshop search results, the Learn search results and the stock search
results.
You can sort by category by clicking on the tab labels underneath the search box.
Photoshop.
Learn.
Stock.
Photoshop search results are search results that you would find through the Photoshop
user interface.
That includes filters, layers, menus, new document presets, open documents, panels,
recent files, smart object and tools.
Learn gives you documentation or instructional material from the HelpX.Adobe.com website.
And Stock gives you search results from Adobe Stock and this includes photos, illustration,
videos, and templates.
One of the reasons why I really like the search feature is that you can perform tasks in operations
associated with the search result by clicking on any of the results.
This will, of course, save you a lot of time and it can also help you find or discover
functionality that you might not have known existed.
What I'm going to do now is show you the different types of search results that you get and what
happens when you click on those search results.
This is why we have these two files here.
So the first thing I want to show you is what happens when you get a layer as a search result,
so I'm going to press Ctrl F and I know that I have a layer titled "Busy City," so I'm
just going to type in the word "busy."
And before I even finish typing the word busy, notice that I already get the result here--Busy
City.
And it's inside the group called Window Reflection Effect in the current document that I'm in,
in the active document.
Notice that the group is here, Window Reflection Effect; there it is.
If I click on that search result, it will open up that group and select that layer.
If I go into a different document, however, in search for the same layer, it will not
come up.
The search only finds layers in the active document.
So watch what happens when I come back into the Window Reflection document and press Ctrl
F again.
There it is--Busy City.
You can also search for tools, so if I want to use the Quick Selection Tool, I can just
type in the word quick and right away, I get the Quick Selection Tool.
Notice the keyboard shortcut on the right-hand side, you'll also get that, and if I click
on it, it highlights it and selects it in the toolbar.
I can also activate Panels, so if I want to activate the Channels Panel, I can just type
in Channels.
There it is, Channels Panel, also known as the icon to the left of the search result.
That helps to determine what the actual search result is in case you have two search results
with the same name.
So, at Channels Panel, click, it opens a panel and highlights it as you can see here.
I'm going to go back into the Layers panel and I'm going to collapse this so we can see
what's going to happen here.
I'm going to create a new layer; it's a blank layer.
And I can also search for filters.
So, I'm going to press Ctrl F, Command F, to bring up the search panel and I can type
the name of the filter, so let's try "clouds."
There it is, Filter, Clouds, and I can click on that, and notice that I automatically apply
the clouds filter.
That is the same as going into Filter, Render, Clouds.
I'm going to delete this layer by tapping the delete key on the keyboard and, now, I'm
going to do the same thing again, but this time, I have a group selected.
Ctrl F, Command F to bring up the search panel, and this time, if I use the same filter, notice
that nothing happens because I have a group selected.
And, actually, if I reset the search and type in clouds again, notice that this time, clouds
come out as unavailable.
The reason that it was showing a moment ago is because we hadn't clear the search, but
once we clear the search, Photoshop did find the clouds filter, but it's telling us that
it's unavailable because of the currently selected object in the Layers Panel.
The Search Panel can also help us find and apply menu commands, so let me show you how
that works.
Maybe we want to apply a layer mask to this group that hides everything, so I can type
in the word "Hide" and you'll see one of the search results is "Hide All."
If you'll look right under that, you'll see Layer, Layer Mask, Hide All.
If I click on it, it will create a layer mask that will hide all the contents of the group.
I'm going to undo that, Ctrl Alt Z, Command Option Z on the Mac.
That is the same thing as holding Alt, Option on the Mac, and clicking on the New Layer
Mask icon.
And just to show you, you can go into Layer, Layer Mask, Hide All, and it does the same
thing.
The Search Command also allows you to open a recent file, so if I go into my Recent File
list, you can see that I have three files here.
Window Reflections, which is the one we're currently on, Cinematic Color Grading, which
is the other file open, and another file that is not open, Selection Mask.psd, so let's
search for that.
Ctrl F, Command F on the Mac, selection, there it is, selection mask.psd, and if I click
on that recent document, it opens up in a new tab.
You can also search for open documents, so I can press Ctrl F, Command F on the Mac,
click on the X to reset my search, and this time, I can type in the name of the other
open document, which is cinematic color grading, so if I type in the word "cinematic," it comes
right up here on the list.
I can click on it and Photoshop activates that open document.
If you search for help and learn topics, you'll open up the Helpx document, so I can search
for the word Crop, and notice here, this is one of the Helpx documents, so I can click
on that and Photoshop opens up your default browser and goes to that page.
Here we are at the Helpx.Adobe.com page and we have all the relevant information and documentation
on the Crop Tool.
I want to bring up the search bar again.
I'm going to leave crop and then, I am going to click on Stock, and these are the Adobe
stock search results that we get with this key word so I could click on one.
It will automatically upload it into my active creative cloud library and place it onto my
document, so there it is.
I can hit Enter and I can start working with this layer.
If I want to license the image, I can select it and click on license image.
I'm not going to do that for this image.
I'm just going to delete this layer for now.
I want to bring up the Search bar again, so Ctrl F, Command F, I want to hit All, and
this search feature is actually really powerful.
The algorithm is really smart and it can recognize synonyms, so I can type in the word "retouch"
and notice what happens, I get tools related to retouching, so this is truly a really powerful
feature in Photoshop.
The search feature in Photoshop CC 2017 is available in all the languages that Photoshop
is available in, and that is 24 different languages.
A couple of other things that you can search for using the search feature is Library elements
or individual styles, so I recommend that you use the Search feature as much as possible.
You might know that something is inside of Photoshop, but you may not remember exactly
where this is going to help you solve that issue.
You can just start typing and, right away, you're going to see the results that will
get you to where you want to be.