what's up everybody I don't know why I did that I feel great today because I
have such a valuable tip I almost didn't want to share it so valuable but I
thought you know what so many people are asking me I gotta answer it so the
question is how do you take a photo that you took and shrink it down resize it
make it small but still maintain excellent quality to upload to social
media so many people have that question I don't know what it is but today I'm
gonna give you that answer so let's jump into Photoshop and get right to it
alright guys so as you can see I have this portrait of this boxer that I took
for a film I was working on and what I'm gonna do is if you have all these layers
over here if they're open basically condense all those layers so
you're gonna go up here to layer and then you're gonna go all the way down to
flatten image okay then you're gonna press okay and then you're gonna have
all your layers condensed next what you're gonna do is go to image and then
to image size you could also press option or alt hold that down along with
the command key simultaneously and press I okay when you do so you'll get this
box image box up here and in this image box what you're gonna do is we want to
change the pixels okay so with Facebook social media Google+ all of these social
medias the width is always gonna be this it's gonna be 20 by 48 okay basically I
research and I figured out what what's the width that they condensed all their
images to and the width is 20 by 48 don't ask me why I know it's a totally
random number but for whatever reason that's the number they chose so that's
what we're gonna use all right so that's gonna play nice with all our social
media so up here which says pixels we got 2048 this is obviously connected so
this will change the height will change automatically make sure you have all
these checked I forgot to say that but make sure you have all them checked
also now we're gonna go down this is really key now you could go since you're
making it smaller most likely you could go to bicubic sharper however we want to
sharpen our own images right we don't want Photoshop to do it so what we're
gonna do is we're gonna go to bicubic smoother all right and then we're gonna
press ok now we have our image in the right size so we just resized our image
but we're not done yet because we still have to sharpen it and then we have to
save it in the correct way so we still have a few steps left so what we're
gonna do now now that we have it in the right size and if you want to check it
again you can just press option alt command I and then you can see the
dimensions right there okay alright so next what we're gonna do we're gonna go
to background layer and we're gonna double click on that and what we're
gonna do is press duplicate layer and you'll see a little background copy
we're gonna click on that then you're gonna have a copy of your layer right
here then what we're gonna do is we're gonna go up to the top we're gonna go to
filter we're gonna go down to sharpen we're going to go over to unsharp mask
so it's right over here we're gonna click on that and then once
the unsharp mask comes up you're gonna see something that says a hundred
percent and basically that's all zoomed in and it's gonna show you sort of what
it looks like if you sharpen it now as a reference point I usually do something
between like 0.7 to about 0.8 or 0.9 okay you can move this and obviously it
changes but the rest hold you can change that but I'm gonna keep the threshold at
3 okay the radius I'm gonna usually put it at 0.7 or 0.8 all right I'm gonna
leave it at 0.7 for now and then leave the amount at a hundred percent and then
we're gonna just click OK all right then we're gonna have to click a layer mask
so what we got to do is we have to go over here on the background copy we're
going go down and see this little layer down
here with a little circle in it we're gonna click on that and we're basically
creating a layer mask now what we're gonna do is now that you have this
highlighted you're gonna press command I so when you press command I that's
command inverse all right and then we're gonna have to go over here to our brush
tool so one make make sure this is white and black okay we want the white brush
so you can just click on this if it was on black you just click over in this
little thing right here toggle it off to make sure it's on white and then you're
gonna press the letter B and once you press a letter B it's gonna go to the
brush tool which is right here okay so now we have our brush tool what you can
do is you can press the bracket key which is next to the P key on most
computers all right it's in the upper right hand corner most computers and the
left bracket key will make it smaller your brush and the right bracket key
will make your brush larger okay so what we're gonna do now we're gonna have to
zoom in and the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna go up here to our
opacity make sure opacity is that a hundred percent make sure your flow is
at a hundred percent and what we're gonna do is we're gonna go in we're
gonna make sure we're zoomed in and we're just gonna sharpen the areas we
want to sharpen to a hundred percent so for me for portraits it's usually the
eyes so I'm gonna get right in here maybe it's a little small money yeah in
between right there and I'm gonna make sure I get all of the eye so I'm gonna
sharpen that nice and thoroughly all right right there right there to an
extent all right so now if we back off we can see it might be tough to see on
this but you see the difference right there it's just very subtle but we're
adding sharpness to the eye so we just added it to the eye now it's a little
sharper now we want to add some sharpness to the face now we don't want
to add it to the whiskers because when you you add it to the beer or some
person they said whiskers not a cat but if you add it to
a person's face right you don't want to add too much because it will look funny
so that's what I've known from experience doing this a lot so I'm gonna
put the opacity down to about 70 percent and then I'm gonna make my brush bigger
and I'm gonna keep going I'm gonna back up now it's all how much you want to
sharpen all right but I'm gonna show you how we change that later on so don't
worry about overdoing it too much right now don't stress out we just want to get
it nice and sharp for the most part all right this face because that's where I
want the the person's eye to go and I also kind of want to go to the glove
because the glove is important right here we want to make it like stick out
make it a little more 3-dimensional and you can see right over here where we
sharpened it shows it in the little layer mask right there so we're
sharpening the glove all right sharpening it nice maybe the
glove will give you more minutes let's do the glove at 100% right we want to
really make it pop out especially right here in this region you can zoom in if
we have to all right then you can see see before and after subtle but it makes
a difference all right it makes it a little little pop-out a little sharper
all right now we're just gonna go over and then I usually go down to about 50%
and this is just for my general sharpening so I want to sharpen his face
just overall just a quick sharpen in his head all right
here's all right not really gonna do the body because the body I don't really
want to focus many the may need the gloves in the face cuz that's where the
focus should be all right I use a shallow depth of field which is why this
glove isn't that and focus that's okay all right so now our image is much
sharper on off on off all right it's very subtle but you can see it all right
this is the nuance that really makes your photo that much better on and off
on and off now let's say you sharpened it too much you can go
over here to the opacity and you can bring it down no I recommend somewhere I
found between about 55% and about 70% in that range if you sharpened it way too
much you might want to go down to 55% and if
you haven't sharpened it enough you can go up to 70% let's leave it at 70% so
still gonna be sharp but it's not gonna be ridiculous remember we don't want to
sharpen too much see the see is beard being sharpened right there but we don't
want it too much right 70 percent is good alright so you can adjust it
accordingly to how you want it alright so now that I have that all sharpen the
way I want what I'm going to do now is I'm going to save it so the way we save
it is we're going to go up here to file then we're gonna go down to save for web
alright not save as or save we're gonna go to save for web which is all these
key commands combined but I usually just click on this all right so now this is
gonna pop up so now how are we gonna save it so we're gonna save it as a JPEG
all right up here make sure all right so this is where make sure this is clicked
you want to optimize and you want to embed color profile that basically means
it's gonna have the same colors that you intended to use what you see in your
computer screen is what you want to see so I go over here and I make sure I have
monitor color because I know what my screen is calibrated for the right color
composition so that's what I'm gonna use all right so then what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go to quality now I already have it at the percentage I want it
might be at a hundred percent okay over here in the left hand corner you can see
how big the file is gonna be now I've found that folk that Google+ Facebook
Instagram all these social media sites they compress the photos so if you take
a really large photo you may say oh I'm getting away with it it'll look
better on Facebook well it's not the case because Facebook uses their own
compressor and they actually make a really large file look worse so instead
what we want to do is we want to make it as big as we can but not too big that
Facebook will actually adjust the quality of it so what we do I found that
range to be between about 65 percent all the way to about 75 so you can you can
experiment but I found within 65 to 75 is where I have played around with it to
be the optimal quality so that's why I leave it right about 70 percent right in
the middle right there that's where you're gonna get the best quality and
Facebook is not gonna mess with your image when you someone clicks on it it's
still gonna retain the quality so then you're gonna go to the width right there
we already adjusted it so we don't have to mess with that remember here change
it to bicubic smoother it's at a hundred percent we're all good to go over here
we can see how small the file is super easy to click on in see ya
look at the quality look how good the quality is still I can see it large on
my screen and we maintain all the quality so then we press save all right
so now I know I'm gonna save it here you can just label whatever you want to call
it then you press save and that's it you're done that's how you resize and
sharpen an image in Photoshop so that you can upload it to social media
without any quality being lost all right guys so now you can see the finished
photo here nice and big although we resize it so the file size is super
small yet the resolution and quality remains the same because we sharpened it
and resized it properly and that's how you do it all right guys I know that
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have been asking I had to do so so I hope you found it helpful
it'll change your world all your photos now will be sharp and when you upload
them you'll be like yes I no longer have to downgrade the
quality when I upload the social media get your social media game on point and
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