Lesson Info

Black-Only Shadows

Well, let's get crazy. Sometimes I need to prepare things to be printed on a printing press. If you're ever gonna print on a printing press, your image needs to end up in C M Y que mode seem like a stands for science. Magenta, yellow and black. Those are the colors of ink used on a printing press. And if you don't convert your image, someone that you give your file to is going to ultimately have to convert it to see him. Why K mode before it gets printed on a printing press? Because those are what the colors of in car you're going to use. Well, the features and Photoshopped don't work as well in seem like a mode in doing things like color correction. In overall adjustments are dramatically better, an RGB mode, and there's a lot of technical reasons for that. It's known as a gray balanced workspace where I seem like a is not, um, but when it comes to shadows in backgrounds like this, oftentimes it's best to print those Onley using black ink. Well, if I work and see him like a mode, that...

's easy. But what if I like working in RGB mode, and I just want somehow elements to print with only black ink. Somehow I want to control that will. Usually it have to go to see him. Why came out to control it? So let's cheat and figure out how to make this background in the shadow print with black ink. Even though we're in RGB mode just to show you what I'm talking about, I'm gonna choose the eyedropper tool in my tools panel. Click and hold on it. And there's something called the color sampler tool that two allows me to click within my picture and add a little cross there. And I had two of them, and that's gonna cause over here the info panel to have some extra read ups, and it tells me what that's made out of right now. It's made out of red, green and blue, red, green and blue. If I were to switch this, I can switch it to see him like a and it'll tell me how it would be reproduced. And you see, it's using every single color of ink I wanted to only print with black hair and kept look at this background. It wouldn't use 1% black. I want those to print with black ink only. Here's how I'm going to do it. I'm gonna take those bottom two layers those with layers that contain the shadow and the background. And I'm going to turn them into a smart object. So layer smart objects convert to smart object that makes it look as if that layers those layers have been merged together. But they just got turned into a smart object. I need to access the contents of that smart object. So I double click on the thumbnail for that layer. And if I do, they appears a separate document. Well, that's separate. Document. I'm gonna convert to see him. Why came out? And I'm not gonna merge the layers when I dio. Okay, whatever. Then I'm gonna use an advanced feature with layers. I'm going to take the top most layer. I'll go to the letters FX. I'll choose blending options, same screen where we got to knock out shallow. And we got to those blending sliders in in there. I find check boxes right here that says, What inks can we use? I'm going to say you can't use that. You can't use that you can't use that. Therefore, all you could uses this, and I'm going to do the same thing for the layer below. Letters FX Blending options in turn off Scion Magenta yellows We only use black, and the only thing is we were using a lot of those other inks previously. So the end results here are much lighter than they're supposed to be, so I'll have to darken this up. Well, these air solid color layers. That's what it looks like me of these little color swatch on the left. And if I just double click on that color swatch on the left, I can choose exactly how dark this is, and I'm just going to try to get it close to the same brightness as it was before. I'll do the same thing to the layer above double clicking on the left side, just making a little darker click. OK, so now if I look in my info panel, you see that we're working on the smart object. It thinks that the shadow area will end up printing with only black ink and same with the background area. None of the other colors in the reason why you do that seem like a mode for large areas that should look like they're black is because if magenta ink prints too heavy, this would look pink. You have sai in in prints too heavy. This is gonna look bluish yellowing prints too heavy. It's gonna look yellowish, but with only black ink, none of that can happen. So then I'll close this. It was a smart object will ask me since I've made changes, if I want to save it and I'll say yes, it saved it back into this file. And so now if I ever convert this picture to see him when I came out right now, before converting it to seem like a mode, it thinks both of those areas going to use all those different colors of ink. But after converting to see and why came out? As long as I tell it not to merge, the layers don't pasteurize. How many times can you warn me about something? Just do it. Look at those areas they're printing with only black ink. So there's a lot of things we could do with layers. I mean, we've really only scratched the surface. I've been using Futter shop for so long. There's so much you could do that I'm trying to give you a flavor for it so that you can get more excited about some of these features. So maybe you'll start experimenting with some of those check boxes that I didn't use to try to figure out what they dio. And the more you can figure out the more features and photo shop and truly understand them, the more powerful you're going to become when you're using that tool. So I tried to feed you some that I think are quite useful, but this has been advanced layers as part of a photo shop. The Complete Guide.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Introduction To Adobe Photoshop 2020
2. Bridge vs. Lightroom
3. Tour of Photoshop Interface
4. Overview of Bridge Workspace
5. Overview of Lightroom Workspace
6. Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
7. How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
8. Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
9. Developing Raw Images
10. Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
11. How to Save Images
12. Using the Transform Tool
13. Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
14. Selection Tools
15. Combining Selection Tools
16. Using Automated Selection Tools
17. Quick Mask Mode
18. Select Menu Essentials
19. Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
20. Align Active Layers
21. Creating a New Layer
22. Creating a Clipping Mask
23. Using Effects on Layers
24. Using Adjustment Layers
25. Using the Shape Tool
26. Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
27. Masking Multiple Images Together
28. Using Layer Masks to Remove People
29. Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
30. Adding Texture to Images
31. Layering to Create Realistic Depth
32. Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
33. Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
34. Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
35. Understanding Curves
36. Editing an Image Using Curves
37. Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
38. Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
39. Editing with Blending Modes
40. Color Theory
41. Curves for Color
42. Hue and Saturation Adjustments
43. Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
44. Match Colors Using Numbers
45. Adjusting Skin Tones
46. Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
47. Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
48. Retouching with the Clone Stamp
49. Retouching with the Healing Brush
50. Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
51. Extending an Edge with Content Aware
52. Clone Between Documents
53. Crop Tool
54. Frame Tool
55. Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
56. Paint Brush Tools
57. History Brush Tool
58. Eraser and Gradient Tools
59. Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
60. Blur and Shape Tools
61. Dissolve Mode
62. Multiply Mode
63. Screen Mode
64. Hard Light Mode
65. Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
66. Smart Filters
67. High Pass Filter
68. Blur Filter
69. Filter Gallery
70. Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
71. Combing Filters and Features
72. Select and Mask
73. Manually Select and Mask
74. Creating a Clean Background
75. Changing the Background
76. Smart Object Overview
77. Nested Smart Objects
78. Scale and Warp Smart Objects
79. Replace Contents
80. Raw Smart Objects
81. Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
82. Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
83. Panoramas
84. HDR
85. Focus Stacking
86. Time-lapse
87. Light Painting Composite
88. Remove Moire Patterns
89. Remove Similar Objects At Once
90. Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
91. Replace a Repeating Pattern
92. Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
93. Remove an Object with a Complex Background
94. Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
95. Warping
96. Liquify
97. Puppet Warp
98. Displacement Map
99. Polar Coordinates
100. Organize Your Layers
101. Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
102. Layer Style: Knockout Deep
103. Blending Options: Blend if
104. Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
105. Layer Comps
106. Black-Only Shadows
107. Create a Content Aware Fill Action
108. Create a Desaturate Edges Action
109. Create an Antique Color Action
110. Create a Contour Map Action
111. Faux Sunset Action
112. Photo Credit Action
113. Create Sharable Actions
114. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
115. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
116. Image Compatibility with Lightroom
117. Scratch Disk Is Full
118. Preview Thumbnail