- It started snowing again.
Snowing and raining it got like really cold,
it's like back to winter just no snow,
it's the worst!
But we're gonna back the best of it
'cause I'm here with one of my favorite Instagrammers!
I've looked up to this guy from the very day
I actually started to make an effort with Instagram.
The creativity that I'm about to show you guys
from my friend here,
is gonna blow I mean if you saw the thumbnail,
you can already tell,
the dude is a beast, absolute beast,
and we're gonna share some tips and tricks
with you guys today to start doing those same
types of photos pretty much anywhere,
so to kind of further prove that fact we're sitting
here in the middle of an alleyway,
in the snow,
to make this tutorial for you,
and honestly I couldn't be more excited.
How are you are you not freezing right now?
- You know honestly its worth it.
- Dude I'm so I'm in a Puff coat.
I am in a puff coat and I'm dying.
- I'm sorry man it's (laughs)
- How are you but I mean like
he's just like an urban street photographer
so it's all about the fashion before being warm
'cause you want those fire Instagram shots.
- Exactly
- Tell me
- That's a fact
So today we're going to teach you guys how to levitate,
and to do that all we have to do is use this stool
right here and a tripod because
- Wait that's it?
- Yeah some of the times I don't
actually float in my photos,
but we're gonna show you three different methods
in which you can levitate in your photos.
- Sick I thought you were actually doing it.
I'm a little bit bummed on that.
- Well
- I though some David Copperfield stuff happening but
- Hey there's some illusions everywhere.
Don't be surprised about what you see on Instagram.
- That is very very true.
- That's true for real.
- Also why did we pick the coldest day to do this?
- I don't know bro
- Because we needed to do it a video?
- (laughs)
- That's a great answer
- Alright let's teach this stuff
- Alright let's get started.
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Method one step one.
We're gonna take a picture
of the background that we want in our scene.
Method one
step two.
We're gonna take a picture of ourselves
in a floaty like position,
so that we can insert ourselves
in the first background.
So to make sure it looks natural,
we're gonna make sure that we don't
look stiff
in the jump we gotta make it very fluid,
so it looks super realistic,
and we're gonna show you some examples right now.
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Alright method two step one,
we're gonna take another picture a background
so that we can insert ourselves again,
but the reason we're taking so many pictures of background
is in case we make a mistake somewhere,
we can always come back to that background.
It's like our original starting point
basically a blank canvas
Method two step two,
we're gonna use this so that we can lean on it
and make ourselves float
whoaaaa!
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- Alright we're walking to find another background.
The Irv here can cut himself out of it
and paste him into whatever background we're gonna go find.
Alright how long have you been shooting on Instagram
for and how long have you made a career of it?
- Well honestly the first year of Instagram
it was pretty dry it was more experimental,
I didn't really do that much it was more
just trying to figure it out.
- Figure style out?
- Yeah
- Figure out the grid?
- Pretty much but I've always wanted this
conceptual feel to it,
and once I found that it was the right
- Fit for you?
- Yeah I just went for it I loved it.
- Love it yeah cause you're like I'm right now
kind of heavy on landscapes,
and I'm trying to shift it a little bit,
and the shift is hard to do when you
start trying to change your style it's not easy.
- It's not It's not especially once your
your core audience has kind of already
figured out what your niche is
- And they like you for that thing.
- It's very hard to switch.
Luckily I love what I do so I don't need to switch.
- Dude your account is so dope.
- Thank you bro
- So everyone needs to and like 100 per cent
troll his account,
you will learn no like don't troll it in a mean way,
go to it like mob over there,
hit that follow button 'cause like super inspiring stuff
and when people are putting inspiring work
and putting their heart and soul into what they do
which is what this guy does on the daily.
He grinds!
I love it man his stuff is just go follow him.
Just go follow him,
drop a comment,
are we good for trains?
- Yup
- Drop him a comment,
tell him I sent you,
Show the man some love!
What are you thinking of this spot here?
- I love leading pathways and stuff like that
so I think I intend to
take myself from the other picture,
and put myself right here.
- Whoo hoo I love it!
- Right around here
- Alright let's snap that pic bro.
- I'm trying to match the background,
with the subject,
and I think I'm gonna take a picture of myself
on this garbage can right here,
show them the garbage can,
- (laughs) sounds so random okay
- And then I'm gonna Photoshop myself
in the background all the way over there.
- Whoo hoo hoo oh I'm pumped dude
- Got it cool - let's go!
- Alright so once again no tripod
- You're gonna get wet!
- No nothing
- It's soaked!
- To show the illusion that you're not
literally flying on something,
or you're not levitating on something,
you want to have something long like this that can cover
- I'm not responsible for your injuries!
- Like this
- So it covers like oh that's so cool.
- See so now you don't have to Photoshop
anything under your back
- Yeah I guess like this whole ridge
that whole ridge you don't have to worry about
- Exactly
- Jacket covers it
- 'Cause if you don't do that you're that
then you're gonna have sharp angles and it's
gonna look like you were leaning on something.
It's gonna help a lot.
- Ooh gee that is like straight up magic!
That's like something we would do back
in the magic industry oooooh illusion!
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- Alright now we're getting our background shot,
as you can see the bouquet is still there,
the background is nice and blurry,
and I can take the shot from the exact same angle.
I was pointing it a little bit up,
I'm eyeballing it,
you know if you're perfect you can actually
measure the angle that you want but I don't want to do that.
- I just wanna get the shot really quick
'cause it's freezing outside.
- And it's raining.
- We're gonna eyeball it
to make it nice and quick for you guys
and here I am taking that shot,
and a couple different angles,
so I can see what's best.
Now we're good to go,
- Photoshop time!
- Time to go home and Photoshop this stuff.
- Whoo hoo!
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You know I'd like
I'm fine with winter,
I'm fine with summer,
but just like choose.
Be winter be summer
I don't like when it's supposed to be warm
and then it starts snowing and it sits,
and back and forth
(sighs)
Let's talk about this float thing for a second shall we?
From day one when I met Irving I've always wanted to
do a video or something with him with regards
to this floating concept,
and whenever he posts a photo and it's
of him floating and doing something crazy
conceptual on Instagram I just think,
ahh, he's just so good at that and I've always
been inspired from him amongst all the people
I follow I really love his stuff.
So I'm super excited to be able to share
some of that with you guys today.
So I wanted to do a quick recap
to just kind of go over a few of the points
so you guys know exactly what to do
when it come to making yourself float.
Let's start with method one.
You actually don't need the background frame
for method one because all you're doing is capturing
someone jumping mid-air.
The key like he mentioned was making it look all
floaty and watery and fluid,
which I have no idea how he does so well
because when I do it I look like I have rigor mortis
and I just got tased mid-air like (groans)
But he does it extremely well,
I threw my camera into high speed frame rate,
he jumped up in the air,
did it a whole bunch of times until I knew
that I had something I was happy with,
some vertical
some horizontal,
gotta remember the Instagram you know vertical photos
and when we were done that was method one.
Method two we're using that background frame now
and another frame of him floating on a stool,
and then we're just merging those together in Photoshop,
removing the stool.
The stool is used because you can get way more
meticulous harder to reach angles
and floating directions that you can't just do,
I mean he's not gonna jump up in the air
and just like hope for the best
and then fall on his back and never walk again
so we use the stool for that instance.
Now the third option is just cutting him out of that photo,
and pasting him in a totally different photo.
And to make that realistic,
we were saying you have to make sure the light matches.
The light from the photo that you're cutting someone out of,
has to be the same as the light of the background
that you're gonna use to paste them into.
Yes that made sense.
So that's essentially one two three methods,
I'm gonna show you how to use
the pen tool in Photoshop so you can
quickly make a layer mask,
select that stool and blooop delete it forever.
It's super fast we'll just take a couple minutes,
dive into that right now.
Alright so fire up Photoshop,
make sure you have the background photo
and you're float photo we'll call it.
And then you're gonna copy that float photo,
and paste it on to your background photo.
Now what I like to do is change
the opacity of the float photo,
so they can line them up as close as possible.
I just pick something in that photo that I can
use as something to line up so in
this case I'm using the sign,
and we're just gonna arrow over back and forth
just to make sure that's perfect right about there
and then I'm gonna make that opacity back to 100,
zoom back out and you'll see when I hide and unhide
the layers everything looks good,
now we can start making our layer masks.
So just come down here to this little icon
with the circle inside the rectangle click that,
that's you layer mask,
then we're going to go over and select the pen tool,
that is the type tool we want the pen tool
which is this one and we can
really be meticulous with this,
and I highly recommend you taking your time,
to make this as perfect as you can.
The more time you take with the pen tool,
the better your photo will be.
So we're masking out the stool.
So all we need to do is select around the stool.
So we start by clicking our first point,
we start making our way around the subject,
just gonna make our way along the bottom of his coat here,
top of the stool,
make sure to take our time,
I'm doing this probably even faster then I should be
I should still be doing this a lot slower,
but for the sake of not keeping you guys
here for a full day,
Keep going all the way down
now you don't have to be as meticulous
around his arm where I'm doing this right now
because there's nothing in this particular spot
that we're masking out,
just the spots with the stool.
I mean you get to a point where you wanna
kind of bend that pen tool you can click,
and then click another point,
hold that drag and that makes the tool bend.
Then you let go, hold option,
and you can bring that tail end of the pen tool
back and continue the path.
Then when we get past his thumb here,
I don't need to actually mask out his
individual fingers so we're just gonna do
big block kind of selections all the way around
back to where we need to continue masking,
which is the stool right here.
So now we'll take our time again,
going around his hand,
going around his watch,
once we pass this little spot here,
again we can just be kind of loose with this,
'cause we don't need to mask that,
back to where we need to mask that stool,
being nice and meticulous,
past his arm,
now we're just gonna outline the stool kind of loosely.
And then we're gonna bring those points
all the way around and make this weird shape
and connect it right back with our first point,
and then we're gonna right click,
hit make selection,
and then hit OK.
Now I just realized I had that feather set to three,
I'd probably have it set to zero so it
keeps that selection that we just made
nice and tight to the subject,
so maybe play with that number,
figure out what works for you but
I probably would have had it at zero
if I wasn't trying to so this fast.
Alright once we're done with that,
hit B to select your brush tool,
make sure your foreground in black,
make sure your on your layer mask layer,
and all you have to so is paint away,
and that banishes the stool.
Essentially we're painting away
to the layer beneath which has nothing in it
which is why that stool is able to disappear.
You made a mistake and you wanna go back
you can just hit X that makes your foreground white,
you can paint the stool back in,
hit X paint it away.
So you can see it's a little sloppy,
if I had taken a little bit more time
I wouldn't have any of that weird kind of fuzz
around his sleeve
but like I said it's the most important part,
so definitely give it its due diligence.
Alright down here you can see the stool legs
left some kind of weird shadows on the ground
we're just gonna remove those using the patch tool,
so come over here to the tool bar,
select the patch tool,
which is this one right here,
is draw selection around it,
when it's highlighted just drag it to the left
or the right whatever looks better,
let go and its done.
Again, select the problem area,
connect it,
drag it to the left or right whatever,
up down let go control D to deselect,
It's done
So we can do the same thing for the big sign
up on the wall here,
draw all the way around it,
select it,
close that up,
drag it over,
let go command D sign's gone.
Now for this sign on the garage door,
all these panels are different shades,
so if we just tried to drag that
down to the panel below it, you'd see a brighter spot,
it just wouldn't look right,
so we're just gonna use content aware,
like I taught you guys last week,
on how to remove people from your photos.
Check out the link above.
Hit L to get the lasso,
select it,
shift delete
hit enter
peace out.
You can do the same thing for the sign on the other side,
peace out.
And that is it now we have our finished photo,
that we can continue color grading
and doing whatever we want
tweakwise to make it however your style is
That's it guys I hope you really enjoyed this video,
I hope you get something out of it,
I love these types of photos.
If you're doing this today and you're
trying it out yourself,
totally tag me on Twitter on Instagram
I'd love to see you guys floating in your photos,
Check out Irving's profile,
I've linked it below,
he does incredible work and special thanks
to you Irving for coming on the channel
and showing everybody this,
I really appreciate it
and yeah keep up the good work yourself bud.
So hit that like button if you like this video
smash it if that's something that you're into 2018 style
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and I will see you guys in the next video.
Peace!
- Oh my goodness
what is that?
- Dude what is, who is this? Oh hello!
Who is this?
- My best friend right here.
- Oh what's his name?
- Geda
- Yup
- Oh wow just purebred husky!
- Uh huh
- Oh can I have him?
- Not really
- (laughs)
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