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0:00[Music]
0:05Hello everyone and welcome back to our
0:06second week of the Adobe Photoshop
0:08course. Previously we opened up
0:11Photoshop and did a small project
0:14getting a look at the layout and some of
0:16the formatting. This week we're going to
0:18jump further into the program and learn
0:21how to create a composite image. A
0:23composite image is where we take
0:25multiple images and combine them
0:27together to make one. kind of like a
0:29collage. In Photoshop, we call that a
0:32composite. We're going to do that by
0:34starting this week off with a digital
0:37pizza party. In this video, I'm going to
0:39show you how to build a pizza from
0:41scratch using all the different
0:42ingredients. We'll put them together and
0:44create our first composite image. After
0:46watching this video, and after you've
0:48seen me build a pizza, you'll then go
0:51and build your own pizza from scratch.
0:54You can either use the assets or images
0:56that I've provided to you or you can go
0:59on to Adobe Stock or even your phone or
1:03your camera and use images of pizza
1:05you've created. And then you'll use the
1:08same steps to create your own pizza from
1:11scratch. In my experience, Photoshop can
1:13be kind of an intimidating application,
1:16especially the first time we open it. We
1:17talked last week about how it kind of
1:19looks like the cockpit of an airplane
1:21where there's knobs and screens and
1:23buttons everywhere and we don't know
1:24what they all do. This week we're going
1:26to focus on how just using three steps
1:29and three different tools, we're going
1:31to be able to create a composite image.
1:33So, we don't need to know the entire
1:35application. By just knowing a few key
1:39parts of the program, we're going to be
1:40able to create something amazing
1:42together. My hope is that by the end of
1:44watching this video and then by the time
1:46you've used these tools to build your
1:48own pizza from scratch, we will have
1:50kind of like demystified and taken away
1:53some of that anxiety that we have about
1:55using this new program. We'll start to
1:57feel comfortable in Adobe Photoshop.
2:00Now, once you've watched me make a pizza
2:02and then you've made a pizza on your
2:04own, the next video is going to show us
2:07how to customize that pizza. But before
2:09we do that, let's jump back into Adobe
2:12Photoshop and start our digital pizza
2:14party. All right, here we go. So, when
2:16you're finished watching this video and
2:17ready to get started on your own,
2:19navigate down to step two where you'll
2:21find the pizza ingredients. These are
2:23all the digital assets um and all the
2:26pieces of the pizza where you can
2:29download them from my box. So, if we
2:31click here, use your net ID to log into
2:33box and then you can download all of
2:36these assets. Once again, you're welcome
2:38to use your own if you prefer. Then
2:39navigate to your Creative Cloud desktop
2:42app and open up Photoshop. This time,
2:45instead of opening a new file and
2:47choosing a document and creating a
2:49document from scratch, I'm going to go
2:51to my assets that I downloaded. And I'll
2:55start with my
2:56background, which I think is going to be
2:58the crust. That'll be my bottom layer.
3:01So, I'm going to drag that in to
3:04Photoshop by dropping it on my Photoshop
3:07icon. And to review briefly, I'm going
3:09to make sure my workspace selector is
3:10set to photography and not essentials.
3:13On the left hand side, I have my tools.
3:15Today, we'll be using three tools. We'll
3:17be using our move tool, a selection tool
3:20of our choice. So, there's a couple
3:21selection tools here, and we'll be using
3:23our brush tool. Navigating to the right
3:27hand side, we'll see that I only have
3:29one layer. It says background and that's
3:32my background layer. Um, if I want to
3:34utilize good naming conventions, I can
3:37rename this by doubleclicking on it. But
3:40we'll see that this layer is locked.
3:42Anytime a layer is locked, I can't make
3:43any changes to it. So, by clicking on
3:46that lock, I can now make adjustments.
3:48I'll doubleclick where it says layer
3:50zero, and I'm going to type crust.
3:52That's optional. Uh, it just helps me
3:54stay organized and it's best practice.
3:57to add my second ingredient, which is
3:59going to be the sauce. I will take this
4:02sauce JPEG, and I'll just drag it
4:04straight on top of the pizza. Like that.
4:06By scaling this down, you can see I have
4:08one image on top of a second image with
4:11my sauce on top and my crust on the
4:14bottom. By dragging the sauce to the
4:16bottom, now the crust is on top, and I
4:19can drag the crust back to the bottom to
4:21put the sauce back on top. So, in this
4:24scenario, I want to keep the sauce from
4:27this pizza on top, but I want the rest
4:29of the background from the layer below.
4:32So, what I'm going to need to do is
4:33somehow detach the background from just
4:36this sauce. Now, we've we've used our
4:39first tool already without knowing it.
4:41Maybe that's our move tool. And the move
4:43tool does exactly what it sounds like it
4:45does. You click and you drag and it
4:47moves things around. The next thing I'm
4:49going to want to do is use a selection
4:51tool to select just the sauce off of
4:55this pizza. Let me show you the reason
4:57we use a selection tool. There's
4:59something in Photoshop called
5:01nondestructive editing. If I were to
5:04grab an eraser tool, which is not a tool
5:07I use very often in Photoshop, and I try
5:10to start erasing, what that's going to
5:12do is it's going to delete pixels
5:15permanently. That's going to be a
5:17destructive editing technique. That
5:19means I can't later go back and change
5:21that or fix that. When I start erasing,
5:23this dialogue box is going to pop up
5:25that this is a smart object and we need
5:27to rasterize that. Just ignore that. Hit
5:29okay. And you'll see that as I start
5:33erasing, the background will disappear.
5:35But later on, if I've decided I made a
5:38mistake, I can't go back and fix it. And
5:41that's just not best practice in
5:43Photoshop. If we want to use only
5:45non-destructive editing techniques, I'm
5:47going to hit command Z for Mac or
5:49control Z for Windows to undo that
5:53erasing. And instead, let's do this the
5:55right way. I'm going to grab a selection
5:57tool, which is my second tool and also
6:00happens to be my first step in
6:04compositing. I have a few options when
6:06it comes to making a selection. The
6:09first option I have would be like a
6:11rectangular marquee tool where I could
6:15click and drag and that makes a square
6:18selection. I'm trying to select this
6:21pizza which is round. So that's not the
6:23best tool for me. The next hotkey I want
6:25to teach you is for Mac going to be
6:28command D or for Windows control D and
6:32that's going to be deselect. If you have
6:34trouble remembering that, you can always
6:36go up to the top and go to select and
6:39deselect. Underneath the rectangular
6:41marquee tool, there's also the
6:43elliptical marquee tool, but this sauce
6:45is not a perfect circle or an oval, so
6:47that's also not going to be the right
6:49tool for me. The next tool we have is
6:51the lasso tool. The lasso tool is a
6:54selection tool that you'll use when you
6:56just need to make a rough selection. In
6:59this situation, I would have to very
7:01carefully go and outline this sauce. And
7:05there's just an easier way to do that.
7:08So, I'm not going to use that tool.
7:10Either command or control D to deselect.
7:13And the majority of the time that you're
7:15going to make a selection, you're going
7:16to be either using the object selection
7:18tool or the quick selection tool. I'm
7:21going to start by using the object
7:23selection tool to show you why in this
7:26specific case it's not the best tool.
7:29The way this tool works is if you hover
7:31over an image, it'll analyze the pixels
7:34and help you decide what it thinks you
7:37want to select. So if I hover over the
7:39pizza, does a great job selecting that
7:41pizza. The problem is it thinks I want
7:44to select the whole pizza and not just
7:46the sauce. So for that reason, this is
7:48not the best tool for me. And I'm going
7:50to go back and open that drawer. And I'm
7:52going to find my quick selection tool.
7:54The quick selection tool is the tool
7:56that I use the majority of the time. I
7:59would say by clicking and
8:02dragging, it's going to analyze your
8:05image and it's going to jump to the edge
8:08of the pixels where it thinks your
8:10selection will end. Now, it's not
8:12perfect. Up here, we can see it's made a
8:15little bit of a mistake by leaving out
8:17some sauce. It's also really easy to to
8:21refine your selection and make
8:23adjustments. So, I'm going to zoom in by
8:26holding command or control and hitting
8:28plus. And right here, I can click and
8:31get a little closer to the edge. You can
8:33see that'll make a better selection.
8:36Now, let's say I went too far and I
8:38accidentally selected some of the crust.
8:41By going up here, I can change this from
8:44a positive brush to a negative brush.
8:47And now I can kind of
8:53paint and
8:55deselect some of those edges and refine
8:57my selection. Now, let's say I want to
8:59get even closer and make an even more
9:01refined selection. I can switch from the
9:04quick selection tool back to the lasso
9:06tool. And by holding shift on my
9:09keyboard, I can add to my selection, or
9:13by holding alt on my keyboard, I can
9:16subtract from my selection. We probably
9:19won't have to do too much of that in
9:20this project, but that's just good to
9:22know in the future as you make
9:23selections. I'm going to zoom out a bit
9:25by hitting command or control minus on
9:27my keyboard. And at this point, we have
9:30our sauce selected. We have a pretty
9:32nice selection of the sauce. So, I think
9:34it's a good time to stop and talk about
9:37what a selection actually does. You'll
9:39notice that a selection is indicated by
9:41this what we call a marching ant line
9:43that outlines what I've selected. By
9:46creating a selection in Photoshop,
9:48you're indicating to the program that
9:50you only want to manipulate the pixels
9:53that are within that selection and you
9:55want to protect the pixels that are
9:57outside of that selection. So, let's do
10:00a little experiment. Let's say I grab a
10:01paintbrush and I'm going to paint with
10:03black. My paintbrush here is set to
10:06black. And if I go over top of my
10:09canvas, let's make this a little bit
10:11bigger. I can make it larger by changing
10:13the size up here. Or I can also use the
10:16brackets on my keyboard to make it
10:18bigger or smaller. And with my
10:20paintbrush selected, I can start to
10:22paint black over top of this sauce.
10:25First of all, painting black on top of
10:28your image is destructive editing and is
10:30frowned upon. But what you'll see is I
10:34can't paint black outside of my
10:37selection. It kind of works as a barrier
10:40to protect all of the other pixels. I
10:43can only change the pixels within my
10:45selection. I'm going to hit command Z or
10:48control Z. And I want to point your
10:50attention down to the contextual taskbar
10:53down here on the bottom. There's a
10:54button here that'll say invert
10:57selection. There is still a marching ant
10:59line around the sauce, but now there's
11:01also one around the rest of the image.
11:04So, when I grab my paintbrush again and
11:06I start painting, now I've inverted that
11:09selection and I can only change the
11:11pixels outside of the marching ant line.
11:14Let's hit command Z or control- Z again.
11:17So, our first step was making a
11:19selection. Our second step is going to
11:22be making a mask. The best way to think
11:24about a layer mask as if it was a
11:26stencil where let's say you take a piece
11:29of paper and cut a hole in it and hold
11:31it up. You're only going to be able to
11:33see through that hole. Right? So, we're
11:35going to treat our selection like a
11:38stencil. I'm going to apply a layer
11:40mask. And I can do it in a couple
11:41places. I can create a mask right here
11:44on this toolbar or way down here is a
11:48layer mask. Both do the same thing.
11:50Either one are fine. I'm going to go
11:51back over here. This is going to happen
11:54fast, but when I click on this mask,
11:57it's going to make everything that isn't
11:59selected disappear. So, 3 2 1, it's all
12:04gone. The reason it's important to use a
12:05mask instead of an eraser tool or just
12:09cutting it out using the move tool is
12:11that this is a non-destructive editing
12:13technique. If I navigate back over to
12:16this layer, you're gonna see that I have
12:19that magic stencil that we talked about,
12:22and you don't need to do this, but just
12:24to show you what's happening, I'll hold
12:26alt and click on that stencil or that
12:30mask that's been applied to this layer.
12:33We can see what that mask is actually
12:34doing. So, let me grab a
12:37paintbrush. In the center here, we have
12:40white. Let me paint a little bit of that
12:43black. Again, let me switch this to
12:45white and I'll paint over here. What I'm
12:47showing you is that I can change that
12:49mask or I can alter that mask or what
12:52we're referring to as a stencil. And
12:54when I hold Alt and click on my layer
12:57mask again, what you'll see as I move
12:59this around is that I've altered that
13:01stencil. So, what a layer mask allows me
13:04to do is if I feel like I've made a
13:06mistake or I want to make an adjustment
13:08while I have that mask selected, I'll
13:11grab my paintbrush and I'll paint with
13:14white over here and I'll bring that
13:16back. And I can paint with black over
13:19here and I can make that disappear. So,
13:22by making a selection and then applying
13:24a mask, I've removed unwanted parts of
13:26my image in a non-destructive way that I
13:29can always go back in and fix later. So,
13:32I showed you how to use the paintbrush
13:34and switch between black and white to
13:36manipulate your mask. And that's the
13:38traditional way of doing it and a good
13:40visual illustration of how to change a
13:42layer mask. But there's now an easier
13:44way of doing it that you might prefer.
13:48With your layer mask selected on this
13:51contextual taskbar, you can see I have
13:53subtract from mask or add to mask. So if
13:56I choose subtract from mask, you can see
13:58I can erase. And if I hit
14:01add, I can bring it back. Both ways
14:05work. It's totally up to you, whichever
14:06you prefer. So step one was making a
14:09selection. Step two was adding a layer
14:11mask. Step three is going to be free
14:14transform. Free transform just means
14:16we're going to change the size of this
14:18sauce to fit on the crust. I can do this
14:20in a couple ways. The first is to go up
14:22to edit and scroll down to free
14:24transform. You can also just hit command
14:27or controlt on your
14:30keyboard. You'll see that brings up this
14:32binding box where I can click and drag
14:36to change the scale and size of the
14:38sauce. I can also hover over the corner.
14:43And you can see that changes my cursor.
14:44And this is how I'm going
14:46to rotate images. If you have an organic
14:50shape, I wouldn't recommend doing this
14:51with a person or an identifiable object,
14:54but you can hold shift on your keyboard,
14:57and that'll let you kind of skew or
14:59morph your image. And then if you
15:01rightclick, you can also warp, which
15:04will kind of like liquify, and you can
15:07like make fine adjustments. I think that
15:10looks pretty good.
15:13All right, quick recap. We've composited
15:16an image by using three steps, a
15:19selection, a mask, and a free transform.
15:22And we've used three tools, which is the
15:24move tool, the selection tool, and the
15:26paintbrush tool if we want to do it that
15:28way. Also, the add and subtract mask
15:30works as well. That took us a while, but
15:32you're going to see now that we know how
15:34to use these tools, it's going to go
15:35super quickly. Let's add the cheese.
15:37I'll do the same thing by dragging my
15:39cheese layer on top. This is a
15:41transparent PNG, so we can skip steps
15:44one and two and just free
15:54transform. That looks pretty good to me.
15:56Let's hit the check. And now I'll drag
15:58in a pepperoni. If I have a white
15:59background, Photoshop makes this super
16:01easy for me. I'm going to hit this check
16:03real quick and then go down to my
16:04contextual taskbar and see that it
16:06actually has an option for me to remove
16:09my background. This only works if you
16:11have a simple background, but let's
16:13click that
16:14button. You're gonna see that it selects
16:17and adds a mask for me. So, all I have
16:20to do is hit command or control T. Let's
16:25free
16:30transform. And now we have a pepperoni
16:33pizza. I could repeat that step over and
16:35over again, dragging in pepperoni,
16:37removing the background, and free
16:39transforming. But I'm going to give you
16:41a little bonus tool right now by holding
16:43Alt on your keyboard and clicking and
16:46dragging. That's going to help you
16:48duplicate a layer. So you can see as I
16:50do this, I'm adding more and more
16:57layers. And that looks a little bit
16:59messy to me. So let's clean that up. I'm
17:01going to click on the bottom pepperoni
17:02layer. Hold shift and click on the top
17:05pepperoni layer. I'm going to go down
17:08here where there's a folder. And let's
17:10group those by putting them into this
17:12folder. Then I could rename group one
17:14and name it pepperoni. That's my
17:17pepperoni
17:19file. Statistically, I'm going to upset
17:22about 50% of you here by adding some
17:25pineapple to this pizza. I want to show
17:28you one other way we could add assets on
17:30top of this image. Instead of dragging
17:33it straight onto the pizza, I could also
17:35drag this to the Photoshop icon by
17:38grabbing an object selection tool and
17:40selecting just one of these. I'll then
17:43create a mask layer and I'll go back and
17:45grab my move tool. So, there's a couple
17:47ways I can move this over. The first is
17:49just to copy and paste it. Let's hit
17:50command C. And then over here on this
17:54tab, we'll hit
17:56commandV. Oo, I think everyone's against
17:59that much pineapple on pizza. So, I'm
18:01going to hit delete. Let's go back. One
18:04other way would be with my move tool to
18:06click and drag and hover over this tab.
18:09And I haven't let go yet. I'm going to
18:10drag it over and let go. Now, one thing
18:13to note before you make your own pizza
18:15is going to be that I can only make
18:17changes to a layer that I'm that I have
18:20selected. So, if I want to shrink this
18:22pineapple, but I'm on my pepperoni layer
18:26and I hit command or control T. As I
18:30drag down, I'm shrinking my pepperoni.
18:33If I want to shrink the pineapple, I
18:35need to be on my pineapple layer. So,
18:37I'll select that layer. Now, I'll hit
18:39command or control T. We can shrink this
18:43down to a much more manageable bite.
18:45There we go. Hit enter. And that is it.
18:47Before I move on to my next step, I'm
18:49going to save this project by going
18:51file, save. I can name it whatever I
18:53want and save it to wherever I want.
18:56This is just best practice so that
18:57nothing gets deleted while we're
19:03working. All right, now that you've seen
19:05me build a pizza from scratch, you're
19:07ready to try it on your own. Scroll down
19:09and either download the assets that I
19:12have to make this pizza or find your own
19:15ingredients or assets on Adobe Stock.
19:18Get to this point where you have a
19:20delicious looking pizza whether it has
19:22pineapple on it or not. And then we'll
19:25move on to our next step which is going
19:27to be to customize this pizza and make
19:30it your own.

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