- Alright, we just sat here for what,
I don't know, 20 minutes, while this dude,
welcome back,
tried to find his keys.
Where did you find them anyway?
Where were they?
- I put them in the side pouch.
- They were in the side pouch,
and what is the first thing I told you when we got here.
I was like, "I don't know, check your bag, man.
- Check your bag. - "Maybe it's in your bag."
It's okay. - Yeah.
- [Peter] I still love you because
you're an amazing photographer.
- Thanks for that.
- What's up everybody?
Welcome to another day in the city.
And I guess you could kinda call this like
a part two of the Instagram video that Alan and I made,
was that like two weeks ago already?
Wow time flies.
Anyways, you guys mangled his Instagram account,
which was absolutely amazing.
But he's been doing like new tips and tricks
that I wanna teach you guys today
that kinda fall in line with the video
that I did months back,
and so I mean he's been doing recently.
So, we came down to the city to make that video today.
Let's get started.
Random dude passing through frame.
Okay.
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- [Alan] You ready for this?
- They're gonna let me pour my own art.
I mean, I'm terrible at pouring art.
I'm not terrible, I'm okay,
but what coffee shop lets you pour your own art?
That's beast.
- [Alan] It's amazing;
I'm so excited. - I'm super pumped.
- [Peter] I'm so bad at this.
Oh no, no.
- [Alan] Ohhhhhh.
- [Peter] No, no. Redo. Redo.
Whatever, I'm over it.
I don't even care.
Yeah, let's go over to that yellow bridge, behind.
- That one right there? - Ready?
- Yeah, ready? One, two
(grunts)
- That was way faster.
- That was a lot better.
- That was way better.
Great idea, Alan.
- Better than anything else.
- I didn't wanna walk that whole way
so that was much better.
Okay, let's get into why we're doing this video today.
Action.
- We're here in downtown Toronto on this yellow bridge,
I don't know if this place has a name, but
- I don't think so. - It's a really cool spot
and we're gonna take some pictures of Peter
and then we're gonna animate them
and show you guys some cool techniques
you can do and apply to your photos
so that your Instagram stories are bomb.
And not only that, it's just really cool details,
you know what I mean,
like you wanna expand your portfolio,
you wanna expand your work,
this is an easy way to make your work stand out.
- What he said.
It got really, really cold suddenly,
like really, really cold and windy,
so we're gonna make this shoot fast because
this is more about what's going on in post-production.
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- Change of plans.
It got way too windy out here and way too cold to shoot.
Headed back to Alan's place
to finish the rest of this little tutorial 'cause
- It's cold and windy.
- We can't learn in these conditions.
Toes are numb.
- Fingers are ice right now.
- Oh, it's cold.
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- [Peter] Bro, this guy is in a T-shirt.
Who are you?
How?
That, dude, come on.
(upbeat music)
Alright, now we are in Alan's place.
Thank you Alan for having us.
It was literally so windy outside.
I was like, "We need somewhere that we can film an intro
so that people know exactly what they're learning,
that you're not gonna hear like (wind noises)
That'd make a good gift by the way.
Look at, this dude created a magazine.
- [Alan] A magazine.
- [Peter] Like a full-on, oh my goodness this is insane.
This looks so good.
Look at it.
- [Alan] It was a really cool experience.
And feel it. Feel it, feel.
- Oh, yeah. That is nice.
- Quality.
- That is like,
I'll do the back.
Yeah, that is nice.
- [Alan] (laughs loudly)
So we're continuing the dialogue around
creating series of photos
and really documenting your storytelling process
so this is another really cool technique
that you can apply to your photos,
and animating your photos is really cool.
I mean, the fact that the photo is cool,
and then you can animate it,
win-win.
- Whoa, this is super comfortable.
- [Alan] It's too comfortable.
- Wow, I did not expect that.
- It was like, you like, sink in.
- I know, I was like, "What is happening?"
This is sorta the same concept of the tutorial that I did
on how to make your photos move and come to life,
and I taught you guys
how to animate your shots within Photoshop,
kind of like a parallax effect.
This isn't the parallax effect
but Alan's been using it to
bring certain elements of his photos in and out of frame
by vanishing them or making them appear,
making them move throughout the frame and transition,
all within his Instagram stories
which is absolutely phenomenal.
Now it's not limited to Instagram stories,
you can do this just for your photos
if you wanna post them on Instagram or whatever,
but stories is a great way
being that this guy is like the series expert on,
you know when he goes on trips so,
that's kind of what we're teaching you today.
It's funny too because when you go on a shoot,
like in the city wherever you go,
I don't know about you guys,
I take so many photos.
And you guys don't see half of them
but I take so many shots.
- We were talking about this last video
where we were saying that you don't
necessarily just have to archive those photos;
you can bring them back and you know,
create a story around them and this is
another way of really bringing those photos to life.
So Peter and I were on the bridge
and I was trying to take photos
so that we could show you guys an example
but sometimes you might get a photo that is very difficult
to manipulate and create the animation,
so here's an example of that being the case.
Oh. - Ohhh.
- [Peter] I mean like, no.
- [Alan] No.
- [Peter] It works, but like it doesn't work.
- [Alan] Yeah.
- Okay, so let's jump ahead in time
back to the studio,
so that I can teach you guys
how to do this with screen share.
We'll do that in three, two, one.
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Alright, and welcome to the studio.
I'll try to make this as quick as we can
and we'll get back to Alan's place
but I wanted to preface this by saying
it is very important the photos
that you're gonna use to do this technique.
Like we mentioned, the more intricate, busy, detailed shots
are gonna be harder to do.
When the backgrounds have a lot of stuff going on,
and there's cities and cars and buildings
and just stuff everywhere,
if you're trying to remove something from that photo
you gotta recreate that background.
So it's much harder to do it in a photo like that
opposed to something where you're maybe only
painting back the sky,
which is what we're gonna use for this example.
As you continue and progress
with your Photoshop skills and your photography skills
and all of that, your post-processing,
you can start moving up to more advanced photos
and then it looks even more impressive.
But, I would say, personally,
start with something that's not gonna stress you out
and make you rip the computer out of the wall,
throw it down the stairs,
so for that sake we're gonna start with
a very nice, simple, clean photo for this demonstration.
Look how official that sounded, right?
That was pretty good, right?
Okay, so we're gonna start in Photoshop.
So find the file that you wanna use,
bring that into Photoshop.
We're gonna duplicate that layer.
So just come over here to "background,"
drag that down into the new layer
and you have it duplicated.
Now go over to the side panel and select the pen tool
and we're gonna use that to just select this building.
So just click at a point, click at another point,
at another point, at another point,
for this next one click and hold
and you can drag it around the building
and then just hold "option" to remove that little tail
right there and bring it back to where you want,
join it at the bottom.
Now come over here and right-click on one of those points
and just choose "make selection."
Hit "okay," and you are good to go.
Now we have a selection,
but you need to delete this from the photo.
So hit "edit," go over to "fill."
If you want the shortcut for that it is "shift delete."
It's gonna bring up the same box.
Hit "okay" and wait for Photoshop.
Boom, to make it disappear.
"Command D" is gonna get rid of those marching ants,
is what we like to call them.
From this point we're gonna select the clone stamp tool.
His "S" on your keyboard to get that.
You can control the size of that brush
by using the brackets on your keyboard.
Once we have "S," when you hold down "option"
a little target's gonna pop up.
Wherever you click that target,
the next paint strokes you use with that brush
are going to paint where you chose that target.
So what we wanna do is just kind of
take away this darker, shadowy area.
So all we're gonna do,
let me make that brush bigger,
different target spots,
we're just selecting different target spots,
making that brush bigger, painting on the area,
just to try and mask away those darker shadows.
I mean that looks pretty good right there.
It doesn't take much work, clone stamping's pretty easy.
Now when hide and unhide that layer,
as you can see the building appears and disappears,
and we're pretty much done in Photoshop.
All you're gonna do is start with the top layer,
we're gonna save this photo,
then we're gonna turn this layer off
and save the next photo.
So hit "command shift S."
That's gonna bring up the save dialogue box.
Name this to "one," change it to "jpeg,"
choose where you wanna save it, hit "okay,"
and do the same thing for the next photo.
Alright, so now we're gonna bring them into Premiere.
So open up a new Premiere project,
choose nothing, don't select anything, just new project,
and then we're gonna go to where we saved these photos
and we're gonna drag them directly onto the timeline.
What that does is creates the timeline specifically
for the files we just dragged onto it.
So here we have our clip with no building
and clip with the building.
So, all we're gonna do is grab that second clip
and place it to where we want it
to start coming into frame.
So we can start here, see how that looks.
I think that probably takes a little bit too long
so we'll move it to here
and we'll just drag out that bottom clip.
Now what you wanna do is raise those tracks up.
So just come over here and grab that line,
drag them both up,
and it exposes a kind of little timeline.
Hit "P" on your keyboard to get that pen tool
and you can actually click and create points.
Click another one, drag it down,
and that's gonna actually adjust the opacity.
So now when we play that back you can see
that building's fading into view.
If we drag this to the end,
it's gonna make that fade happen longer, over time.
If you want it a little bit faster
we can drag that back to the middle.
Somewhere like that looks good to me,
so once you're happy
just select your in and your out points,
that's "I" on your keyboard and "O" on your keyboard
just like that.
And we selected our points.
We go over, "file," "export," "media,"
and we're pretty much just gonna save it as is.
Just output name, we're gonna change
this to "building" up here,
choose the target where we wanna save it,
and again, hit "save," hit "export,"
and you are pretty much good to go.
Now if you wanna send it to your phone so you can post it
on your Instagram stories or anything like that.
If you're using a Mac and you have an iPhone
you can right-click on that file,
hit "share" and go down to "air-drop."
And if you're phones on
(lip pops).
Your contact info is gonna pop up there
and you can just select your own name
and it'll send it high-res right to your phone,
which is also, pro-tip, how I send all my photos
for Instagram to my phone.
That's it, you're done.
- So that's it guys.
It's a pretty simple technique.
Just remember that you have to have
a good foreground and a good background to work with,
and like Pete was saying in his tutorial,
to take your time and just keep working at it
and perfect the skill.
This is another cool technique that
we're sharing with you guys that goes hand-in-hand
with what we were talking about earlier about stories
and how you can really make your photos come to life,
and also just work with the photo and content
that you already have and not always thinking about
what to create next.
- That's it.
Thanks, man.
- But you promised me a card trick.
- [Peter] I didn't promise you anything.
- Pete promised me he'd do a card trick so
- [Peter] I didn't promise you anything.
- I know that Peter is a magician,
and he will say that he's not but you are.
- I don't know what he's talking about.
- He's a magician.
- I don't know what he's talking about.
- And he has tricks. - Alright, fine.
- I'll show you. - Show me one.
- One card trick.
- I'll show him one. He gets one.
Instead of naming a card
just name a number between 1 and 52.
Doesn't matter what it is.
- Okay.
24.
- 24. Okay. You don't want to change your mind?
- No. - You happy with that one?
24. Like the show.
Okay, so in my Notes app,
where is it, uh, right here,
you click Notes, you touch it.
I have commonly selected cards, click on that.
And then you'll see I have a list of playing cards.
There'll all here, you can attest to that.
- Yeah, they're all there.
- I can show you this.
I don't know if it'll pick up in the screen,
but it's just a big list of playing cards.
So, 24, what does it say?
- 24 says 7 of diamonds.
- So 24 is the 7 of diamonds.
Let me see if I can focus on this
so that you guys,
oh that's super blown out.
Let's see, I'll stop down.
24, where is it?
Everyone's gonna be like, "You cut 7 of diamonds."
Okay, whatever.
I think they can see it there.
So, that's fair, you named anything,
deck of cards has been sitting here the whole time.
So, if we were to spread this on the table
you'll notice that there's one card
that's actually reversed.
- [Alan] What?
- [Peter] You can see it right there.
You can flip it over.
Take a look at it.
- No way. (clap)
How? How did you do that?
- [Peter] Very well.
- No, I'm serious.
Like, how?
- [Peter] Alright Alan, thanks, see ya later.
- (laughs) What the hell, man.
I'm like, this was not staged at all.
- No, no, no.
This was legit.
- This is insane.
Take your cards and go, get out of here.
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