How are you all doing? my name is Vertic and this is the very first lesson on Photoshop.
This is going to be a short little series on my channel, where it's going to be 3 or
4 videos, depending on how long it takes. But hopefully it won't be any longer than
15 minutes and each one is going to explain important things that you need to know to
actually learn Photoshop. The reason I'm doing this video is because I know a lot of you
would prefer to watch and learn, rather than going on separate websites and reading it
off there. First of all let's actually talk about the menu bar right at the top. Just
like any other program you will have File, Edit, Image and so on.
These are all used
when you're in Photoshop. The most popular ones or the ones that you will use the most
are File, Edit, Image, Layer, View you'll probably use this one quite often. Definitely
Window and Help because help you can get a lot of useful information from their
website or you can go and check out other blogs and community posts, to help you out
and to help you learn it. Window is going to be the tab that you're going to use a lot
so, as you can see, the ones that are ticked right now are the ones that are being displayed.
So if we look at colour, we have colour right here. If we look at tools, we have tools on
this side. In Photoshop what this is called is a workspace and the workspace is the area
which you pretty much use to actually edit the image. This bar at the top is going to
be the program itself and inside of it you have panels. The first panel is tools, you
another panel, right here and you have libraries. To actually edit these, it's really simple all
you do is right click on it and go to close or you can click on these lines and you can
close it from here. To move them all you do is go to this really fainted line, it's a
lot of different lines. All you do is left click and drag this out, until it pops out
and you let go. A lot of people like to have it like this because, you get a lot more space.
If you're someone with a smaller resolution, it can help you a lot. What you want to do
is you want to click on these arrows right here and that will put it all together. Rather
than having one big line. You can even move this on the right side if you wanted to. All
you need to do is wait until the blue line appears and you can pretty much move it there
and you can always snap things on, like so. Right now this really doesn't look very good so,
let's just pop this back out to here. Let's say you've accidentally closed this down and
you want to get it back up but you don't know how. So I'm going to close this down and let's
say, you know, now it's gone. All you do is go to window and go down to tools and now
you have it back. But we're going to put it back to it's original area and we're going
to press these arrows to make them all in line. What I would suggest for, some of you
that are getting used to it, is to rather than looking into properties you can go to
adjustments and that just makes it a lot easier because these are really useful, tools to
use. Especially when you're editing the image or wanting to change the lighting, you can
get all the saturation, you can get brightness and contrast and these are like filters in
a way. Underneath the menu bar, you will have one for the tools and pretty much it is to,
open up all the other options. For example, if we click on the quick select tool, you
will see all the options for the quick select tool. If we go further down to the pen tool,
you will have all the options for the pen tool. It's a lot easier because it pretty
much collapses them or puts them all into one and you can access them from here. Another
thing that you should remember is all these tools right here with an icon at the bottom
right here. Are all into groups. Let's say you've had a tool before that you saw on the
screen but you don't know where it is now. All you do is right click on here and you
can get more options.
File, new and in here you want to pretty much create your own. This
is what the defualt one looks like and this is what yours probably looks like. First of
all what I would recommend is to first of all change the centimeters to pixels. If you're
someone who works with digital graphics or if you want to, let's say create a thumbnail
for YouTube, you'd want to have pixels rather than centimeters. For the height and width
the most popular two are, definitely 720p. Which is 1280 by 720. The resolution we're
going to change this to pixels and inches, I like to do this I don't know why and I like
to set this one to 75. It is a nice quality for the image and for me it's always been
75. For the colour mode, leave this on RGB. For the bits you'd want to put it on 8bit,
rather than 32 or 16. These two can be good but they're mainly for images that are high
in detail or need more pixels to show the true colours and the true shadows. For example,
If I had an image that is quite dark then, 32 or 16 would be a lot better. But just keep
in mind that these are a lot higher in the file size so if you have an image that is
16 bit it will require more space. For the background contents this is going to be on
transparent. You can have it on white or any other custom colour that you wanted to
but transparent is the best one to start off with. I'm pretty happy with this, I'm actually
going to change this to 1280 by 720 because 1080 is a bit too big right now
we don't really need 1080p and if you wanted to you can save this as your own template, just give
it a name and press save and then it will always up it up if you set it to document
type, it should hopefully be in here. But by default Photoshop will pretty much start to
pick up your settings after a while, so if I kept on using these settings it will automatically
set them as default, it will set it on custom. So that's a nice little feature in Photoshop.
We're going to press ok now. As you saw when I was messing about with the layout I moved
things around and another thing that is really good to do is, let's say we had an image here,
we can add a adjustment and once we've done that you can see that this already takes up
a lot of space and we don't really need to be that big, it's just taking up way too much
space. So what we can actually do is we can, left click and drag this out and pop it inside
here and now that everytime we want to adjust the brightness, we can go right here and that
will give us the options right here and this is really nice to have rather than opening
it up in here just to mess about with other panels. You can always minimize this or you
can right click and close it, it is that simple. It's really quick and simple. So let's just
go back to another thing that I mentioned before and that is the option for the tools.
Underneath that you will get the actual project itself with the name and it will tell you
some other useful information. This is simular to a web browser where you have different
tabs that display different windows. For this one I can always close this down by clicking
on the (X) or I can switch to other ones just by clicking on them. What I'm going to show
you now is, first of all you can see that I've still have the adjustment layer. What
we're going to do is press delete and get rid of it. We're going to first of all start
off with the brush tool because, let's be honest, it is the most common one and the
basic one to start off with. If you're new or you're an exisiting user to Photoshop,
you will know that if you click up here on this arrow, you will get all the options for
the brush. This isn't all the options if you want to go into more advanced let's say you're
someone who does a lot of paintings or wanting to do more detailed brushes, you would go
to window and you'd look for a panel that is called brushes which is right here.
Click on it and this will open this up and this pretty much just gives you advanced brushes
that you can use. So let's go with like, this one. Let's see how this one is and we're going
to change the colour to black, we're also going to fill in layer one with a colour.
To get to the bucket tool you can either click on it or press G on your keyboard and that
will get you the bucket tool. If you don't see it selected you can right click and it
should be in here. What you want to do is left click and now that we've got a solid
background we're going to create a new layer. If you don't know how to create a new layer,
you have these options down here, these are really useful especially for creating new
layers for example. This one right here that looks like an empty paper is a blank new layer
and this one with a circle, this one is masks. These are the most popular two that you will
use. You will also most likely use a folder this is for grouping layers together.
and the bin icon if you're wondering what this is, it's pretty much a way of removing a lock.
If I wanted to I can lock this layer and if I click on the lock, you will see that now
I cannot do anything with this image, it stops me from having any permission to edit it and
this can be really useful especially if you're wanting to keep a background untouched. To
get rid of the lock you can either left click on it and that will get rid of it or you can
left click and drag this into the bin icon down here and that will unlock it. Ok so I'm
getting a bit off topic now *laugh* I'm going off track let's go back to the brush tool
and show you what I originally wanted to show you which was, to move one layer to another
project. We're going to select a white colour and just draw on it really quick for example
like a little squiggle. Create a new project but instead of creating a new one, what we're
going to do is this time we're going to import one picture. To import a picture there's two
ways just like creating a new project, you can either drag it in or click on open. What
I like to do is I like to go to the folder itself and just simply drag it into Photoshop
and that will give you a new project and you can see just like I said before, you can switch
between them really quick and simple and what we're going to do is first of all I've made
a little mistake and that is something that I'm glad I did because I can explain to you
what I've done. So as you can see in layer 1, I've actually drawn on this layer, rather
than creating a new one. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to the bucket
tool, fill this in again
and draw that line again
but this time what I'm going to do is actually create a new layer which is what I wanted to do in the first place.
So I'm going to create a new layer draw on top of this one and you will see that now I can edit
this one. You can still see a little bit of the old one. I'm going to use the selection tool
fill this area up with the bucket tool. Just so, make sure you're going on the layer
1 and just click on it because sometimes when you us the bucket tool, it will keep some
things behind. One thing that I'm going to do right now is I'm going to lock layer 1
because layer 1 seems to want to move everytime I'm trying to move this or sometimes I accidentally
do this. CTRL + ALT + Z is to undo and I'm just going to lock this right now. To move
this line all you do is left click and hold it in and once you get to the top area you
can now let it go once the lines are around the border, meaning that you can drop it in
and as you can see now I have it in another image.
I can always switch back go back.
Go back to this one or I can even close this one down if I didn't want it and now we're back to
this one. The options above that are quite optional, you don't really need to use them.
I don't use them myself but eventually later on you will probably start to use them. Right
click on this, go to blending options and give this line a colour overlay
We change the colour to red
and we press ok.
You've probably already noticed by now the layer
also has the eye symbol. This is to toggle the visability so if you click on it and now the
eyeball is gone, you can't see it and if you click on it again, you'll be able to see it
and that is really useful to know because you don't exactlly have to delete it. So for
example, if we don't want to see the background we can just click on this and it will take
it back to transparent rather than clicking on here and pressing delete. Another useful
feature in Photoshop that a lot of you may want to use esecially when you're new to Photoshop
is the history. You can have a history of ever action that you make in Photoshop and
view it all in one area. What we're going to have to do for this though is we're going
to go back to the window and we're going to go down to where it says history and now you
will see we have this history panel right here. We can edit the size of it by dragging
the corners. We can also move it where ever we want on the screen. So if we wanted to
we can even put it down here or have it up here and to pretty much use this, all you
got to do is click on the previous step that you've done or the one that you was happy
with so we can go back to this one. Alright so we've actually gone over quite a lot of
features in Photoshop. I'm not going to stretch this video out any longer than
what it is right now but the very last thing that I want to tell you is, if you press
CTRL + R it will toggle the ruler in Photoshop. But one of the coolest feature and you've
probably seen this quite often on other peoples templates is the blue lines. The blue lines
all you got to do is click on this area here just left click and drag it out and that will
give you a y axis line and you will notice sometimes it locks when you get to the center
and that pretty much tells you that this bit here is the center of the image, we can also
get one for the x axis and now if we look at it this is the center of the image. What
we're going to do now is we're going to delete layer two by pressing delete. For us to import
a shape there's a few different ways you can do it. Photoshop has many different ways but
the tool for the shapes is down here and mine looks a little bit more different to yours
because I've selected a different shape which is the line shape, if you right click on this
area you can have all those shapes that are shown on the screen. But if you wanted to
have a custom one you can click on the custom shape tool and up here you will have a lot
more tools. So lets just look through this and get a custom shape like this one right
here. Now that we've got the shape selected we want to identify exactly what we want
the shape to be and by this I mean do you want it to be filled in or do you want the
edges of it. For example, the stroke which is selected right now will give you the border
or the outside of it and we don't want the stroke so we're going to click on this symbol
right here or this icon with the one red line going through it. Since we don't have a stroke
we don't really need to focus on the size or the line and all we need to do now is hold
shift and drag the left side of the mouse outwards. Sometimes it will snap like that
so, let's just go back try again and there you go. What I'm going to do with mine is
I'm going to convert it into a smart object because, I don't want it to be a shape and
I don't really need to edit it. The next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to use the
selection tool which is the second tool right here and I'm going to select the whole of
my work area.
The reason for this is because...
Ok?... why is it not selecting? Ok there we go.
uhhm..
*laugh* the reason for this is because I'm going to center this image to be in the center.
You can just move it in the center if you wanted to but that would just take time and
you're pretty much guessing, you don't exactly know if it will be in the center.
So you just
want to click on the first tool again, this tool will always have the alignment tools,
other tools don't have it so you won't be able to see it. Click on this one
and now you will see all these options here. The one for the center will be this one and it will
be this one. These two together will make your image directly in the center and now
if we press CTRL and D or Command and D that will de-select our selection.
and that is pretty much it for lesson 1. If you would like to see part 2 then there will be a video
on the screen or a link in the description. Leave a comment on what you thought of the
video let me know if it was good if it was bad or what you would like to see me make
in the future for example like a tutorial request. This has been VerticDesigns
and I will see you all in my next video.
BYE! :) ...
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