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- In this episode I wanna talk to you about doing
a 3D effect on your photo for Facebook.
Check it out.
Here I am on Facebook and this is a photo I shot years ago
and look at this, it's moving,
and it's really cool effect.
Now this kind of effect can really help you
get more exposure on social media.
So it is vital because having more exposure,
if you don't get more exposure as a photographer
you won't get deals with galleries,
you won't get published
and you won't become the star you wanna become.
So listen up, also at the end of this video
I'm gonna show a really cool trick with one button
where you can get the same effect on a photo like this.
All right, also I'm gonna show it to you
how you can do this effect, the 3D effect with a composite,
it's really cool.
So let's get started.
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All right, so here I am in Photoshop.
Now the way this works is that
you just have to give Facebook an information.
You have to give the JPEG,
the photo that you wanna upload
and the depth map that goes with it.
Now what is a depth map?
To make it simple it's a black and white photo
that has information of the depth of different level.
It's something that I create and I make a very simple one.
So for example, here on this portrait of this actor
you see how the background is black,
how he's gray,
and how the wall here is white.
So closest to me is white, further away is black.
So black, if I go on this photo on Facebook
you see black is the sky behind him, all right?
And then grayish is kind of the middle element is him.
And then very white which is here is the wall.
And so then you get this effect of three dimensions
because now Facebook knows
and this only works on Facebook for now
or maybe a specialized website
but from a social media perspective
only Facebook does this technology.
But I think it can really increase
your exposure on Facebook.
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All right, so, how do you create these depth maps?
Well let's first start with this photo
of the Arc de Triomphe, let's start simple.
This is just a JPEG 2500 pixels.
Why, now 2500 is a size that I love for social media
because some of my screens, my best screens
have pixel resolution of about 2500 pixel.
So I just have this rule where
I put on social media files which are 2500 pixel wide.
That's just how I rock
and I find it's kind of the best ratio
to get the best result.
Okay, so now we need to create,
basically we need to create three level of
depths on this photo.
One for the sky and a tree which would be very black.
One for the Arc de Triomphe and this whole part here
which would be gray.
And another one which is white which is here.
So how do we do that?
Well, let's press W to use the Quick Select Tool.
Let's make it bigger by holding
the Control and Alt key on your keyboard.
And let's do the sky first,
so I'm just gonna paint on the sky
and I only want the sky.
Now I don't want the lamp, that's the problem.
So you see I painted everything
but now it's selected also the lamp.
So, I can zoom in on the lamp
and by holding, going back to W
which is the Quick Select Tool,
if I hold on the Alt key you see,
I don't know if you can see that but basically
the tool becomes like a minus.
Let me make it smaller by using the Alt and Control.
So I'm pressing Alt and I'm just gonna brush,
I'm gonna Alt + brush the lamp
so that it doesn't get selected.
Okay, I did a very poor job
so I'm gonna zoom in and just do a better job.
Now, that's really important especially for the lamp
that you have to get it right.
So, W, so when you're outside you want the sky,
so plus, plus, plus.
And when you're inside minus.
And it just, you have to go back and forth,
back and forth until you nail it.
I'm gonna do this in accelerate mode so you can see.
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All right, so I'm done with the basic selection.
It doesn't have to be super, super precise.
I mean the more precise you can do,
the better the result will be,
you know, the more time you wanna invest into it.
One quick trick.
So once you've done like a basic selection
with a Quick Select Tool one way to improve it
which is cool is go to the Select and Mask option
and then I like to see it with the overlay.
Overlay is just what is red is selected for me
and basically I can just click here on Refine,
Smart Radius two pixel,
and that's gonna go through my entire selection
and try to refine it a bit better.
I can see here I missed a lot of things
so here is the tool that I was using, the plus,
and I can just, oops sorry.
You see I made this mistake and you will do it too,
it's actually minus, we're trying to select the sky.
So, I'm sorry what is red is not selected in this.
So it's basically the same tool,
it's the same tool here.
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So you see what we have here is
everything which is red is not selected.
What all we want is a section of the sky,
I think that's gonna be good enough for this.
So now I have a selection of the sky,
that's what we call marching ants.
So I wanna put this into pure black
because that's gonna be the farthest away.
So I'm just gonna create a new layer
and while this has been selected
I'm gonna press D for default colors,
and you see now black is my foreground color,
and then I'm gonna press Option + Delete.
And Option + Delete fills the selection
with the foreground color which is black here.
That's the foreground color, that's the background color.
It's a cool shortcut.
All right, so now I wanna make a selection
of the Arc de Triomphe.
What do I want?
I want the Arc de Triomphe
and I want everything but the lamp.
So one thing to speed things up I can try
is I can go here and I can go to my selection
and I can invert it.
So now I have selected all the bottom part of the photo,
the lamp is selected, I don't want the lamp to be selected.
So one way to do that I'm just gonna click here on remember
minus on select so I'm gonna minus out.
So I don't want this to be selected.
I don't want the Arc de Triomphe to be selected so minus.
Voila.
I basically want, okay plus this,
I want the, oh actually sorry, I made a mistake.
I want the Arc de Triomphe to be selected.
This is all about the, I want everything,
I want the Arc de Triomphe to be selected
except this sidewalk here and that lamp.
So that's gonna be some work
so I'm gonna press the Alt key
and I'm gonna unselect the sidewalk here.
Oops, Command + Z if it goes too far.
Let's do it again.
And then plus here I want this part to be selected,
this part to be selected.
This part to be selected, yeah, I want that.
And I think I'm pretty good,
let's go inside here so W.
So remember I want this to be selected.
This has to be selected, so plus.
So now I'm making a selection of basically
the Arc de Triomphe, the road.
Everything but the sky and but the lamp
which is the foreground element,
okay which is good there.
So that I got a good selection of that.
So now I'm gonna create a blank layer
and my foreground color instead of being black,
I'm just gonna lift it up to some sort of middle gray,
about in the middle here, okay?
And then Alt and Command.
Okay, so now all we have got left
is basically the lamp and here.
And I'll show you a really cool trick to do it very fast.
You select the basic layer,
you press Command + A to select everything
and then you hold down on the Option, okay,
and the Command key I believe on Windows is Alt and Control.
And now if I click on this photo you see
there's a little minus
and I'm gonna minus out this selection,
and I'm gonna minus this selection.
And normally all I got left is the lamp and here.
While there's a bit of an issue there,
that's fine we can take the W's tool
and I don't want this to be selected so minus.
I'm holding the Alt key, I can make the tool bigger.
Holding the Alt key to take that out,
I wanna make sure that I don't get this
but you see now I only have a selection of
the bottom and the lamp which is what I want.
Oh some of the lamp looks like it's missing
so that's fine.
W, make sure you don't press Alt, just plus.
This time we want to have the lamp,
we want to have the lamp, something like that.
Okay and now I'm gonna create a new mask
and this time the foreground color
I'm gonna go all the way to white.
So, it's only three value black, gray and white, okay?
And three level of depths, Alt and Control.
Okay, so now I've got the three layers
is basically my depth map.
Oh, I need to clean it up, something is wrong there.
Make sure you don't have,
yes something is missing here on the lamp.
So, what you can do is I can take a brush,
small brush, make sure it's pure white, 100%,
and I can just, oh make sure the hardness is about 85.
Yeah, I kind of missed that post.
I wanna make sure and again it doesn't have to be so precise
because the effect has anyways
some little bleaches, you know?
It's kind of more like a show effect or something.
Okay, now so my lamp is white,
my Arc de Triomphe and my street is gray
and my sky is black.
So that should work.
So to export it you go File, Export, Save for the Web,
and Save, I'm gonna put them on the desk,
I'm gonna call this one arc_depth.
Now very important for this to work,
your basic file, my basic file is gonna be called arc.jpg
and depth map needs to be just arc_depth,
D-E-P-T-H, that's it.
So, that's the depth map, now I'm gonna turn that off.
I'm gonna go to File, Export, Save for the Web
and this time I'm gonna call it just arc,
I'm gonna take out the depth,
and that's the format Facebook is expecting.
All right, so let's go over to Facebook
and the first thing you need to do
is to activate this option, it's kinda crazy.
You have to type in Facebook 360, okay?
Now Facebook 360 is a page and that's where it is,
you have to like this page.
If you don't like this page,
Facebook doesn't give you the feature.
I know it's crazy but that's how it is.
Okay, I've already done it and once you've done that
all you have to do is go to photo and video
like you would load a photo and video
and take the arc.jpg and the arc_depth.jpg.
Click Open.
And because you give it a depth map, look at it,
boom, it's gonna say Creating a 3D Photo.
It's gonna detect it as a 3D photo
and it's gonna do it for you.
And here it is and you can move your mouse around
and you get this super cool 3D effect.
I'm gonna show you another example which is really fast
which is really cool is when you do composites.
So composites is basically,
let me just show you the before and after.
So I start here, I have a background,
I have a foreground which is the wall
and I have Arthur which is here.
And then I have some special effects
that I added on top of it.
So, same thing using the same technique,
I created a layer for Arthur.
So white here, gray for him,
black for the photo for the background.
So three colors.
Same idea but it was very easy to select
because they were already isolated on Photoshop.
So for example to create Arthur
all I had to do is create Command + Click on his layer,
on that layer where he's alone
and then create an empty layer and fill it with gray.
And you get the idea and the result is this, pretty cool.
Okay, now, here is how you do it
with one click with an iPhone.
All you have to do is you take your iPhone,
you make sure you go to.
So, I don't know how to do it with Android
and if you know please leave your comment
'cause I don't have an Android phone.
But with the iPhone you need to have
I think an iPhone 8, 9 or X,
and you need to have the option to take the portrait
because the portrait option creates a depth map.
All you have to do is you just take a portrait
with the portrait option,
then you go to Facebook and you load.
Because it's a portrait automatically you're gonna get
the 3D effects which you see here.
Pretty cool.
All right guys.
I just came up with my best course ever,
the Fine Art Masterclass.
Here is a little presentation in case you didn't see it.
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I'm really happy to announce to you
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actually even more if you take into account
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over the last seven years.
We are gonna start with the Paris book black and white.
I'm gonna show you some of our best shot like this,
Arc de Triomphe photo that I retouched
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This crazy panorama of the Eiffel Tower
that is my most sold panorama
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