Did you know that Adobe released a powerful new feature inside of Photoshop 2020 and almost
no one noticed? Even today at the time of this recording,
it is still not even mentioned in the Adobe page for Photoshop 2020 updates, and I think
it's one of the best and most powerful new features.
In this video, I'm going to show you how you can create patterns, vector graphics, color
themes, and gradients inside of Photoshop using Adobe Capture.
Hi, I'm Jesus Ramirez from the Photoshop Training Channel.
Adobe Capture is a powerful standalone
mobile application that's made its way into Photoshop 2020 without almost anyone noticing it.
I found out about it last minute at the Adobe
MAX conference where I was a speaker and where Adobe released a new version of Photoshop.
A designer friend of mine, who you might know, Kladi from print my soul told me about it.
She is part of the Capture pre-release team, and even though I am part of the Photoshop
release team, I still didn't know so thanks to Kladi for letting me know.
Unfortunately, it was already too late for me to update my Photoshop 2020 video, but
I did have time to update my session. So if you attended a conference, you saw me talk
about it there, if not, no worries, this is what this video is all about. Let me show
you how that tool works. You can follow along with any images that
you like, but this is the document that I'm going to use. It contains three layers. This
photo of a woman running, a hand drawn graphic, and a white background. To reveal this new
feature in Photoshop, go into the libraries panel. If you don't have that open, you can
go into Window in Library. Then click on this plus icon to reveal that add content Options.
Then select Create from Image. This window will come up, and this is Adobe Capture inside
of Photoshop. Adobe Capture the mobile app allows you to
create assets from the photos in your phone or photos that you take with your camera,
and this version inside of Photoshop allows you to do the same with photos in your computer
or layers in your Photoshop document. Notice how it's already trying to create a pattern
from our photo. Patterns is selected by default. And we have a preview window here in the center.
And to the right we have the controls. On top we have the pattern shape. So I can click
on any one of these pattern shaped presets to determine how my pattern will look. Once
I find one that I like, I can adjust the image Options including scale, which makes the image
larger, or rotation, which rotates the image. And then from here, you can click and drag
to offset the photo. One Option that I skipped over was the color
mode. You can click on color and also select gray scale. In this case I prefer the colors
mode, I think that the pattern looks much better in color. But you do have the Option
of creating a black and white pattern if you like. When you're done creating your pattern,
all you need to do is click on Save to libraries and that immediately will save to the library
you currently have active. In this case, I have a brand new library that
I called, Capture Tutorial, but you can add this to any of your libraries. I'm going to
click on Save to CC libraries. And you'll see the pattern appear there. Let me close
this for now and show you how this asset works. All I need to do is click and drag that asset
into my Layers panel. And now I have that pattern I can double click on the pattern
thumbnail to bring up the pattern fill Options, and I can make adjustments for example, I
can change the scale, I could change it down to 25%.
Press OK, and I can work with this as my pattern for my design. And this works just like any
other layer, I can adjust the opacity, and of course, use a blending mode to blend it
with the layers below. Also keep in mind that you can use this pattern in Adobe Illustrator.
You can find it in the libraries panel there. Next I'm going to disable these layers and
we're going to work with this hand drawn image to make it into a vector shape. Once again,
I'm going to go into the plus icon and I'm going to click Create from Image.
Photoshop will, of course, bring up the capture window. And notice that immediately creates
this really cool pattern, I actually like it a lot. So maybe I'll save it just to have
another pattern. But anyway, go into the shapes tab, and from
here, you'll see that Photoshop turned all the pixels in this layer either white or black.
The white pixels will become transparent, and the black pixels will become part of the
vector shape. And you can use the detail slider to adjust the threshold. So we can have fewer
pixels that are black or more pixels that are black. It's up to you.
In this case, I think that a detail of about 66 works great. You'll notice that there's
some spots here that don't necessarily look too good, but you can erase them by clicking
on the eraser button and then brushing over them.
If you need to resize the brush, you can click and drag the slider to the right to make it
larger, or click and drag this over to the left to make it smaller. One thing I will
point out is that if you're painting and you accidentally make a mistake, unfortunately,
you cannot undo. So keep that in mind. There's a few more Options that you need to
know about. First, you can invert the graphic. In this case, I don't need to do that, I like
this much better. And I could also smooth on save, which I definitely want to do because
I don't want these jagged edges on my vector graphic.
Then I'll click on Save to CC libraries to save my brand new vector graphic and you can
see that appearing in my libraries panel. I'm gonna close this for now, and I'm gonna
show you how this works. I'm going to disable the line art layer,
and I'm just going to click-and-drag my vector graphic onto the layers panel,
and I can scale it accordingly.
And it looks like my background layer does not have opacity at 100%, so let me increase that.
There it is,
100% opacity, and this looks much, much better.
And just as a side note, if you would like
to edit this vector graphic, you will need to open it up in Illustrator. So go to the
libraries panel in illustrator and drag it onto your working document to edit it. I'm
gonna enable the photo once again and I'm gonna show you the two other features inside
of Capture. I'll click on the plus icon and select Create
from image. And let's look at color themes. Color themes creates a color palette using
a harmonizing engine to find compatible palettes in the photo. And you can use the color mood
drop down to select different types of moods. For example, I have colorful selected, you'll
notice that all the colors are colorful, but I can select dark and that will select the
dark colors in the image. You could also rearrange the colors by simply clicking on one and dragging
it over to any position. You can select the color by clicking on one
of these swatches here on the right. When you select the point, you'll notice that it
will light up both on the point here over the image and on the actual swatches.
So you can select them any way that you want and then click and drag to select a different
color of course. I'm gonna save it to the CC libraries and I'm gonna come back to that
in a moment. Next, I'm gonna click on gradients and this
tab allows you to create a gradient based on the colors in the image. By default, your
gradient will have three stops, three points, and you can click and drag them anywhere that
you want to create your gradient. You can use the slider to reduce the gradients.
So you can go down to as few as two stops, or you can have as many as 15 stops, the choice
is up to you. I'll bring it back down to two stops and I'll select the green on the tree
and round on the brakes. Once you have a gradient, you can of course
click on Save to CC libraries to save the gradient asset into the currently selected
library. I'm going to close this for now, and I'm just
gonna show you how the last two work. The color themes are really easy to use, all you
need to do is click on one of the colors and notice that it automatically becomes the foreground
color. And of course, you can click on any other
color swatch to select it. And with the gradients, you can create a gradient fill layer, so I
can double click on it and it clips a fill layer to the layer below.
If you wanted to apply this gradient as a gradient map, what you need to do is double
click on the gradient once it's on the Layers panel, then click on the gradient to bring
up the Gradient Editor, and from here, you will notice the name Capture Gradient One,
you can give it whatever name you want. In this case, I'll leave it at default and I'll
click on nil. That will appear in my gradients preset, there
it is, and I can Press OK. I can close out of this and I can delete this gradient fill
layer. And if I wanted to apply this gradient as a gradient map, and I can do so by going
in The New Adjustment Layer icon and selecting gradient map.
And from the drop down, you'll find your most recently created gradient way at the bottom.
And when you click on it, Photoshop will apply it as a gradient map.
Next, let me show you what happens when you have no layer selected. To deselect the layer,
all you need to do is click on the empty space in the Layers Panel, like here away in the
bottom. And you go into the libraries panel and you
click on that add button and you click on Create from Image. The window will come up
but there will be no image selected. You can drag any image from your computer
onto this box to open it up in the Create from Image window, or you can click on select
the file or you can click on this plus icon. So I'm gonna click on the plus icon and select
this image that I have here, and click on open. And I can actually open multiple images
at the same time. So I'm going to click on open and select this
image as well, and bring that up into this window. So now you could create assets from
these images and I could load more images if I need to.
And like I said, this is one of my favorite new features in Photoshop 2020, I would love
to know what you think. Do you use a mobile application? Do you like it better inside
of Photoshop? I think it works much better inside of Photoshop.
So let me know down in the comments below what you think.
Also, another quick shout out to Kladi from PrintMySoul
for letting me know about this new feature.
You can find Kladi on Instagram @iamkladi
You can find me @JRfromPTC.
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