(Trevor) Okay, folks, so what I'm doing here is going to show you guys
Now, I have a sample image.
This is one of the two samples that I'd given you guys up on Brightspace.
And what I'm going to do is--
First of all, I've just turned off this layer--
this is why it probably looks a little bit different
from what you opened right away-- so, turn that off.
Now I'm just going through
So,
and allow certain information in a tonal range and color range
to either be hidden or be combined
or ultimately hidden or shown,
so that you can have a specific effect on your image.
So for this layer, if I open up my
and you can find it right here in the
it'll usually say
Remember that these are split into groups.
So we have the
So right now, this layer is going to mix with the layer below it.
So you're going to see
So what it's doing, it's just darkening down certain areas of one layer
and mixing with the other,
so depending on the effect and depending on the range.
So
Color Burn
different aspects of color when it's doing its thing.
We have the
so it's just going to
And then we have our
but it does have an interesting effect depending on how you use it.
We have
and this is useful for certain aspects in Photoshop ultimately.
And then we have the
Now practically, for you guys, if we want to do something interesting
like a
that is where the "Snake" layer comes in.
What we're going to do is just change the
so, it'll blend with the layers below it.
So, I'm going to go down to
Now, if you've ever seen a "double exposure,"
this is kind of how they do it.
Now, this is applying only to the...
portrait, for two reasons-- the background is pretty much
pure white, so it's not going to really affect that.
And I do have it mask at the same time, so there you go.
That's why it's applying to that
So...
that is how we can mess around with a
Now of course we can do certain things like, move the layer above if we want to,
or we can duplicate it and free transform.
Need to zoom out here.
Let's rotate it like this and do something like that.
So we can do a bunch of different things and then we can lower our layer opacity
to do any kind of texture we want within an image, itself.
We can, of course, mask after that if we want to.
So for example, if I don't want this built up on my subject's eyes--
Let's go with the 50% brush.
And we'll go with the concealing brush.
There we go.
I'll have to do the same for both layers.
Cool.
So we can do something like that, if we wanted to.
Now, another
This is the second layer and we have a layer already created for you guys
called "Color," so if I wanted to, say, create a color.
So let's go 10, 30, 40.
So this is basically just the CMYK value for "perfect Caucasian skin."
Now again, this won't look realistic
because nobody has those exact numbers all over
but if I start painting over the person's skin--
now my brush opacity is low--
you're going to see that it's just a solid mass.
This is where
If I change my
which is at the bottom,
you'll see what will happen is, it's going to allow the tonality
to come through the layer.
Now you'll also notice that if I paint on the background
because there's no information,
it will not blend through.
So there you go.
This is how
This allows us to change the color of something if we want to
or do something creative.
Now once upon a time with
to do a lot of the functions you actually do in Photoshop.
So if I wanted to lighten an image, I'd have to use a
If I wanted to darken an image, so on, so forth.
So there wasn't a lot of flexibility in Photoshop, once upon a time.
Now the benefit of Photoshop evolving over time
is now these features are evolving into different things.
So we use curves and what not in adjustment layers.
Now I still use
I use
depending on what I'm doing.
But the one I use the most is
as it will only affect tone.
Okay, now to give you an example of that, if I add an adjustment layer,
and I do something very drastic, so let's just get rid of that.
And there we go.
You'll see that it's affecting the color of her skin.
She now looks like a very orange color.
If I change this
it will just affect the tone and not so much the color.
So if I just step back and move forward, so I'm just changing my
back to normal and back to
This is the one I use the most, so if you guys want to make
an adjustment layer that is quite strong
because contrast and you find it doing weird things with your color,
you guys can use
So there you go, folks, that is how we use
and some creative things you guys can use