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Layers, Masks, and Selections Part 2

Now let's talk about how to combine players from one document into another document. This is a secret to creating collages, so to combine images in a meaningful way first have to get them each on their own layer in Photoshopped. So that's what we're gonna do. Of course there are. How many ways to do this? At least six. So we're going to go with just about four of those, all right, so perhaps the easiest way is to use a straight copy and paste. So if you have any image open in photo shop, you can select it. So create a selection so we can trot up to the select menu and choose all or press command a on a Mac or control a on the PC that will select everything on the currently active layer. So if we look at my layers panel here as I zoom in, we see that it's a guitar layer that is active, so the only thing on that layer is a single guitar. So as soon as I have a selection of that layer, then I can either press command or control, see for copy or go up to the edit menu and choose copy just ...

like a word processor. Photoshopped has all of those commonly used commands right there under the edit menu, so you can copy it to your computers. Clipboard. Open another document into which you want to paste that content, or even create a new document in which you would pace that content. So we're gonna activate the other document that I already have. Open here. You can see it's tab lurking behind the currently active document, So if I give it a click now, we can choose edit paste or simply press commander Control V. Can we have a very surprised hippie dude, right? That's one way. So that's just a straight selected Copy it to your clipboard and paste it into the other document. That's probably the simplest way I'll go and delete that layer. Another way to do it is to position your documents so that you can see least to open documents open at the same time. You can see there layers panel. Okay, so that's easily done By going up to the window menu, choosing the arrange command and depending upon how you want to stack the open documents, I'd like to see them both side by side vertically. So let's choose to up vertical. If I had more than two documents open, then these other commands would not be great out. They would become active. So we've got three up, four up, six up, etcetera. So let's choose to up now. I can see both documents, so to drag and drop from one layers panel of it open document into another open document. You simply need Teoh. Activate the document that you want to do the dragging from. I'll get rid of my marching ants by choosing select D Select or by pressing Commander Control D D for D Select. So now I can come over here to my layers panel, and we'll choose another guitarist for fun. Click to activate the layer that you want to drive from one document to the other and click it's thumbnail. Hold on your mouse button and then physically drag it into the other document. See how I get a light grey outline around that document that lets me know that if I were to release the mouse button and indeed it would end up in that document so kind of fun either right so to dragon, drop from the layers panel of one open document into another one. You first have to see both documents in the easy way. To do that again is to choose window Arrange, and then she is one of these options, depending on how many open documents that you have. And that was a way Number two or do a an Italian? Ha ha ha. Another way to do that. I'll go ahead and delete it, and I'll go back to viewing documents as tabs. By choosing window arrange. Consolidate all two tabs So now they're kind of stacked behind each other again is that you can position your photo shop environment with the application application frame turned on member window application frame. You can simply drag and drop from any open folder or your desktop into an open Photoshopped document. And photo shop will add that content on its own layer. So I've got image on the desktop here. Get rid of that so I can click and drag from the desktop for any open folder into the photo shop environment. You may get a dialog box asking exactly how to handle that content, depending upon what it ISS click. OK, and then Photoshopped will add that content. Looks like we've got the spinning beach ball of happiness, which is always fun. So now we've got this content on her layer. Okay, so you can drag and drop from outside the photo shop around into an open document. Or you can drag and drop between documents from the layers panel. Last but not least, if you want to add an image, let's say this ice cream cone. I'll go ahead, delete it. If I want to add it to this open document, I can choose file place. That's another way to do it. It's a final place. Navigate to where the animal is on your desktop for somewhere on your computer and click place, and you get the same kind of situation again. So whichever way feels most comfortable for you, use it all right, the next thing we're gonna do, close up some of those items. Now let's start about. Let's talk about creating new empty layers and get into some practical retouching. This kind of thing is gonna be really, really used for full photographers. Pacey Photographers out there sit up and take notice. The first thing we're gonna do is use the healing brush to zap some blemishes. But we're going to do the healing on a new empty layer, which is a very flexible, nondestructive way to edit your images. Someone had popped back to bridge back into our photo shopped for beginners folder, and now we're working in folder number five, retouching on new layers. And after we finish this segment that will posit take some questions on using the spot healing brush. So let's go ahead and open up a few images in which to play with here. So the first image, if I zoom man by pressing command or control Plus we see we've got a very unhappy little girl. Why is she so unhappy? Well, if I look in my layers panel and I toggle the visibility off on the layer named spot Healing, we see exactly why she's upset and I would be upset to you. So let's look at what we've got here. I'll turn on the visibility of the layer that I did all the retouching on and turn off the original just to illustrate that that's the only thing on that spot. Healing layer is just the pixels that I fixed. I already mentioned one bonus of doing it this way is that you could undo refuse at somebody's sacred mole. Well, you can get it back, you know, open up the document. Don't let the client see you do this. Ever, ever, ever. They should not know what kind of you do you're doing in the background. So you could pop open the file cause you wisely saved it is a Photoshopped document so that your layers remain intact in this situation, it would be perfectly fine to go grab the eraser tool that lives in your tools panel actually looks like a really eraser, which is helpful. Grab it. And then you could come over here and you could just erase the fix for the sacred mole, right? I don't have anything. It's malls. I'm covered with them. But it's just to illustrate that sometimes it's okay to use the eraser toll. Okay, so now we're gonna turn off that layer, and we're gonna start from scratch, so I'll zoom in a little bit more. So the first thing we want to do is create a new empty layer onto which we're gonna do this retouching couple ways you can do that. You can try it up to the layer menu. Choose new layer. You do it that way. Photo shops gonna ask what you'd like to name it so we can name this one spot healing. It is a good idea to get into the habit of late of naming your layers, because as you get more and more, it becomes more difficult to figure out what the heck's going on. Where, then we'll say we'll click the OK button. So now we've got a new layer. It is active and you know it's active cause it's highlighted. Now let's go grab a spot healing brush The spot healing brush lives in these second quadrant or section Museum in a little bit more of tools. See the little dividing line beneath the selection and crop tools. All the healing tools live in this one little section. Okay, so click the tool that most likely looks like a Band Aid. Again, the icon shows you the last tool that you use. So look for the Band Aid and keep your mouths held down on your button or your button held down in your mouth, and you can choose a different healing brush or healing tools that you want. We're going to start with a spot healing brush because it's good for fixing things that are round. Now, before we start clicking around on this photo, there are a few things we need change in the options bar. The first thing we need to do is if you're fixing skin. I tend to use a mathematical formula of proximity match because what that does is it tells photo shop, a photo shop. I want you to look just outside the edges of my brush cursor for the pixels that you're going to use, and I want you to copy and paste those pixels to the thing that's inside my brush cursor. And then I want you to swirl them around a little bit so that it looks riel. That's what proximity matched as content. Aware does a similar thing, but with a slightly different algorithms, so either one of these would work. But more often than not, when I'm retouching a face, I will go for proximity match. If I'm trying to get rid of an object in the photo, we're going to do that in a moment, let's say a power line. Then I would go for content aware, but on a face try proximity match. Because that way at least in my opinion, the retouch is gonna look a little bit more natural because photo shops really going to try to match tone and texture. So let's go for proximity match the next thing we wanted to you. And this is crucial for this technique. Toe work is to turn on the sample all layers check box that tells Photoshopped to look through the currently active, very, very empty layer down to the layers below where the pixels actually live. Okay, if you don't turn this on, then Photoshopped will squawk it. You in the form of an error message and say no pixels were sampled blah, blah, blah. So just make sure to turn that on. Now let's come over here to our blemishes and you want to make the brush just a hair bigger, then the blemish that you're trying to zap just a hair. So if I'm zapping this blemish right here, I might make my brush just a little bit bigger. And I've got another keyboard target for you for brushes. And there are several different keyboard shortcuts for brushes, but a lot of them require all five fingers and an elbow, and I have trouble with that. So I like using the left and right bracket keys. So the left bracket key lives next to your peaky, as in Paul McCartney, and that goes down and brush size. You can either tap it or hold it, and then the right bracket key increases breast size. So we're going to make the brush size just a touch bigger than the blemish. And then it's a one click situation and it's gone. You can also click and drag with it. Well, look at that in a moment. So what I do when I'm doing this for real for money is I will take my left hand and I'll put one finger on the left bracket. Came one figure on the right bracket key, so that can very quickly with my left hand increase or decrease brush size. And then my right hand is on my mouse or I have my stylist of my Wacom into his tablet. So then you just move around with your mouths and very quickly using that two hander procedure, you can zap the blemishes. You do need to be cognizant of introducing any repeating patterns, and I'm using my scroll P to move around within the image. But you could also use the scroll bars here or the space bar trick we talked about at the top of the day. Hold on the space bar and then move around within the image. So it is pretty easy and lots of fun. When you get up into areas like this, I would go for the regular healing brush, which we're going to use in a moment. The reason being is because we've got a strand of hair crossing over a blemish, and things could get a little bit dicey with the spot healing tool. But there's nothing wrong with having a go at it. And with a little whisper like that, it's fine if the whisper disappears. But if you want to be a perfectionist about it, and depending upon your client you may need to be, then the healing brush itself might work a little bit better for that situation, but we'll look at the healing brush next, but if you click on a blemish and you don't like what Photoshopped did what you do, you don't panic. You just press Commander Control Z and it comes right back. So let's use our little flick painting to get down to another problem area. So these guys right here I can fix pretty easily. But when I get over to this one, that's going to be a little dicey simply because look how close the blemish is to the shadow where her chin stops. So if I were to make my brush big enough to encompass that blemish, I am much too close to the line of her chin. So if I click, it could. Sometimes it does that when you use this, you'll get different results every dagon time you use it, but you really get a good chance of repeating that line of her chin over there. So what I would do in that situation is make the brush big enough to encompass the blemish. But position the blemish or position your brush cursor away from that line. So don't do that. Do that, and that will get rid of it without repeating the shadow next to her chin. So be aware of that kind of thing. And again, you know, you're gonna need to zoom in for this kind of detail work, but it's really quite simple and again a lot of fun. But don't let your client So you do this, you know, when we when we're doing client work, it's so easy to think. Well, that didn't take me very long. I won't charge him very much, but you also need to factor in all the years that it's taken in your life to gather the knowledge and the expertise and the experience that you have. So don't sell yourself short. It's best not to let clients watch you do this. When I first started teaching at photo shot World years ago, I think in 2006 my buddy Scott Kelby had me in to do a head shot portrait. I've never had a professional portrait done before, so we we did that and I was all excited about watching him re touched me. He wouldn't let me. He kicked me out of the room and I thought he was kidding, like, Come on, Scott Lee let me and he's like, No, I mean, get out, wouldn't let me see anything that he did partly for my self esteem. But also it's just a good rule of practice. You don't let your clients see the retouching that you do. So here we have this photo now so we can toggle the healing layer off and on. So there's before, and there's after very, very easy to do. Very, very simple again, let's delete that layer. All we did was open the image. Create a new image layer by either choosing image or layer new layer or another way to do it is with the keyboard shortcut. Shift command in for new or shift control in for new on a PC gives you the exact same dialog box spot healing. Pressing return triggers the okay button. Now we're going to go grab the spot healing brush. Give that tool of click. Hold down your mouse button. Make sure you've got the first healing brush active, Then trot up to the options bar. Make sure you've got proximity match turned on in turn on the sample all layers Check box with photo shot. Looks through the empty layer that's currently active to the layers underneath where the pixels live, then zoom into your image by pressing command or control. Plus, move around within your image by pressing and holding the space bar and dragging with your mouth and position the cursor above the item you want to fix. Make it just a hair bigger than the blemish. And if you have an area that is near a shadow that needs to be fixed, try your best to keep the brush cursor edges away from that area as far as you can. Another way to fix this particular spot would be to go way down and brush, size and click and drag. So depending upon the thing that you're fixing, either single clicking with the tool or clicking and dragging with the tool may do a better job. And again, your undo command is your lifesaver in all things for shop as well as your history panel. Any questions on the spot? Haley rush from the audience. Yes, what if her whole face was covered? What tool would you use with little dots? Women with blemishes. I would still use the spot healing brush. Yeah, great question. So the question is, what if her whole face was covered with these blemishes, then you would have. Ah, very nice paycheck coming from the client because it would take quite a while. Teoh, do those. But to make it look realistic with tone and texture, you really do have to do them individually. Yes. What if there's ah, like skin discoloration? Sometimes some people have, like a reddish areas. Are Can you use the same tool to kind of even out the skin tones you might be able. Teoh. The patch tool might be a little bit better in that situation. We're gonna look at the past Children minute. Basically, you draw selection around the thing, and then you take that selection, you move it to another area and your images until Photoshopped Hey, used that as the patch, their skin graft, say, And then you might lower the opacity of that layer that you did the fixing on so that it looks riel. There's so many different ways that you can fix, you know, coloration problems. So, again, six different ways to do that. Any questions from the Internet on spot healing? Yes, I'm actually a sort of a dual question from Delilah. Should you change the opacity of a brush when you are working on skin. And then, in addition, do you ever change the the feathering on a brush when doing the spot healing? Those are great questions. It's not necessary to change the feathering on the brush of the spot healing brush because there's blending going on anyway. If you were using the clone stamp tool to do this instead, you might need to change the opacity and feathering. But all that's really happening automatically with the healing brush You. I think we're good. Okay, now let's take a look at the regular healing brush, so it's very similar museum in a little bit. He's air space bar trick to reposition the image problem zoomed in. So let's take a look at our layers panel. So over here we've got two layers going on. One is cleverly named bags, so let's turn the visibility off by clicking its eyeball and we see the original image turn it back on. The bags aren't completely gone, but they're much more subtle. You can see here with the bag layer active. The opacity setting is set to 60% so I'll go ahead and pump it up to 100. And now the bags are completely gone, and in my opinion, she looks a little waxy, a little fake. We all have those shadows under our eyes, so I tend to be a little bit more subtle in my retouching. Someone eyes at bags, even my own. While I'm Tim to do leave it 100% I don't. With great power comes great responsibility. So let's do this technique. So I'm gonna go ahead and delete the layer that I have made. And again, when you purchase the course, you're gonna get these layered files do keep the layers hanging around. So when you're practicing with the files, don't save over because I just deleted the layer that I used to fix it. But I want you to be able to reverse engineer what I've done, so keep those layered files intact. So let's go ahead and add a new layer onto what we're gonna do. Our zapping. So previously we've chosen layer new layer. We've also looked at the command shift command in shift control and on the PC. Let's look at one more way to create a new layer, and that is by clicking a little new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette panel. This will guy right here. It's like a piece of paper with a dog your corner, So give that a click. When you use that method, you don't get a naming dialog box, but you could simply double click the name itself the name it healing brush. Hey, leg brush. It's similar to a healing brush, but slightly different. It's not at all on the skinny, so now let's go grab the healing brush. It lives in the same tool set, so click and hold on your mouse button on that tool set and then cruise on down Teoh healing brush. This one works in a similar way, except that it's not gonna automatically grab pixels that are just outside the brush cursor to use as the skin graft Or what have you. You need to tell it where you want the fix to come from. Just like a plastic surgeon would scour your body and trying to figure out where to take skin from to match somewhere else. You get to do that manually here, so it's great for fixing things that don't really lend themselves Teoh, either fitting inside a round brush cursor or things that need to be fixed with a patch of skin that isn't directly around the cursor itself. So with this, when you get to choose where the patch comes from or where the skin graft comes from, so we have a healing brush active. Now it's trot up to the options bar and see if there's anything we need to change. And sure enough, we've got a sample menu here that set to current layer. If we were to use this tool right now a foot, a shock would squawk at us because there's nothing to sample on that layer. It's empty. So let's choose either current below, depending upon how many layers your image is comprised of this one. I could get by with this during current below, or we could just say all layers. Once you've done that, when we come back over to the image and this one, you're you definitely want to be zoomed in quite a bit so that you can see what you're doing. You need to make the breast cursor a little bit bigger than the area that you're gonna fix. It takes experimentation. There's no magic setting for that. So we're using our bracket keys to increase or decrease brush size. Then you're gonna set these sample source the source that photo shop is going to use for the copying and blending by holding down a modifier key. And it's option on a Mac or Ault on a PC. Once you do that, see how my cursor changes. See, it turns into a little target. So that's option on the Mac or Altana PC. Then you're going to click as close to the problem area as you can, because again, you want it to match in tone and texture. We would not try to fix her eyes by taking skin from her neck or her chest is That would just look very odd. So what we're gonna do is hold on that modifier key. Elysium out this a touch and you're going to click where you want the fixed to come from, so we're gonna give it a click single click, release the modifier key mouse back over to the area you want to fix and click and drag. Now, as I'm doing that, it looks pretty crappy. But that's because I'm still holding down the mouse button so no blending has taken place yet. While I'm holding down the mouse button, can you see the faint little cross hair that's riding along beneath that area that is showing you your sample point that showing you where the blended pixels are going to come from? Depending upon what you're fixing, you may need to take several. You may need to change the sample point at several different times to fix the image, but this one, I've done a whole bunch of time, so it'll work soon as you release the mouse button. Photoshopped does the blending. Now I want to get rid of this one little area right here. So I'm gonna take another sample point by pressing option are also on the PC, and then I'm just gonna paint that area away. I am getting some repeating patterns, but I don't care because I already know. I'm gonna drop the opacity of that layer so much so that they're not gonna show. So that's another lesson. Don't drive yourself insane trying to get it perfect if you know you're gonna drop the opacity because it may not matter and you may spend two hours perfecting something that nobody would see anyway. So now let's come over to the other. I We use our space bar trick. You could even do each eye on separate layers if they were vastly different. He had really dark bags on one and not so much on the other. Then you could create another new layer and do the fixing of the other eye on the separate layer. But for this one, they're pretty similar, so we can get by with doing it all on one. So now let's go ahead and hold down the option are all key to take another sample point. I just are breast size if we need to and paint that bag away. If only we could do this in real life, wouldn't it be fabulous? So I'm gonna take a few different sample points here to try to get rid of everything. And again, I'm not that concerned about the repeating patterns because once I do come over here and I drop that opacity by about 40% you don't see them. All we really did was give her a couple of hours extra sleep. Then she really got last night. So here's our before. Here's our after it's settle. Yet if she was my client, she would feel like I take the best pictures of her simply because I'm doing a little bit of that. And I would never tell her that I did that. Now let's take a look at one more tool in the same tool set, and then we're gonna put all of those tools together to create this portrait. I'm gonna use the toggle ing all layers off and on visibility trick that we learned earlier. And that is to hold down the option key on a Mac her off on the PC. Click the visibility of the layer You want to remain visible in photo shot will toggle off everything else automatically. So here's our after this is our before image. So what did we fix here? We fixed all kinds of things, so we'll turn those other layers back on by option Or all clicking that visibility eyeball again, even though it's on, so you'll notice the bags have been lightened. A lot of the moles have been removed. Not all of them the ones that drew your attention the most, because when you look at this portrait, I don't want you think, mole man. I want you to see the beautiful, handsome guy here. Other things that we did include removing the piercing. We're gonna use the patch tool for that so we'll start out with that so I'll go ahead and talk. All those other layers off again, by option, are all clicking, and we'll just start this from scratch. First thing we're gonna do is get rid of that piercing. We're going to do that on an empty layer using the patch tool, which we've not yet seen. But it works very similar to the regular old healing brush, not the spot healing brush, but the healing brush in that you last. So in area, you create a selection of an area, and then you move that selection to the patch of skin that you want to use for the fix. So kind of like the regular healing brush. So let's go ahead and create a new empty layer. Will use our keyboard shortcut shift command in her shift control in, and we'll call this one piercing be gone. Now it's mouse over to our tools pale I'll zoom in so you can see click and hold down on the healing tools and let's scoot down and choose the patch tool. Now let's try it up to the Options bar. And New and CS six is this mode menu, If you will next to the word patch, you won't find that in previous versions of Photoshopped. Click and hold down that menu and you want to choose content aware. The reason we're changing the mode of the Pash tool is because Content Aware mode is the Onley mode that includes a sample, all layers men. You're check box, so there's no way to use the patch tool on an empty layer. If it's in normal mode, the fix for that would be toe What? Just duplicate the image layer, but it is more efficient for file size. If you don't duplicate a halt, the whole layers worth pixels because the more pixel based layers layers that are full of pixels, you know the width of your document. The height of your document, the larger your final size is gonna be. So if you want to keep your file, size is kind of small, which just helps make Photoshopped run a little bit faster. Then it's best to create an empty layer and Onley Ada's few pixels as you did. You have two years. You can. So let's change this to content aware again that was new in CS six, the adaptation menu to the right of it, we're gonna leave that just set to the factory setting of medium. But what it does is it allows you tell Photoshopped how much blending to do when it tries to make this thing. Look, Riel, you know how much blending a bunch not very much. Okay, very strict to me, and it's not gonna do very much. Blending very loose me is going to a lot of blending and you can change. This menu can play with it after you've done the patch. So once you've done the passion, you contract through this menu and see which one looks best, which is fun. So here's our magical sample all layers check box. So go ahead and turn that on. If it's not already, and in my opinion, it's best to just leave the patch tooling continent where most I can't think of a single situation where you'd ever want to go back to normal mode because it limits the way the tool functions, so I just leave it to content aware. Call it done. So now it's come over to the image. Zoom in a little bit more, and the way this tool works is that you draw a very rough, loose selection around the thing you want to zap. So that's the piercing. I don't have anything. It's piercings. It's great demo file. So let's go ahead and just draw a rough selection. You can see I'm not being very precise at all. It just a loose selection. Then you're going to click and drag. Let me zoom in. You can see it. You're gonna point your cursor to the inside of selection. Can you see that little extra arrow that just appeared? So point your cursor to the inside of selection and then hold down your mouse button and drag the selection to the part of the skin that you want Photoshopped to use to delete that thing So you can imagine how useful this is. You don't have to only using a portrait. You can use this to delete anything same with a spot in healing. Brushes are not limited to just facial things, so I'm still holding my mouse button down now that I am on that area skin and you get a nice preview. See how the previews changing so I can even get an idea of what it's gonna look like before fighter shot blends it. When you're when you've got your selection in the right spot, just release your mouse button and then Photoshopped does the blending. Now, if the results didn't turn out very good, what do you do, Commander Control? Z undo it and maybe redraw the selection or move it to a different spot. What have you? It's gonna do a little bit of a different blending each time you use the tool, so I'll go ahead and get rid of my marching ants and we'll draw another selection. See if we can't get it looking this a little bit better. So the way you get rid of your marching ants and these are your marching ants right here is to either choose Select D Select or press Commander Control D for D Select. So now let's have another go with. It does seem a little bit more, and I'll try to draw my selection a little bit better than I did the first time. You could also use any of photo shop selection tools to draw this selection. You don't have to use this freehand drawing situation. You could create your selection first, then switch to the patch tool and do this. So we're gonna take a look at some selection tools that are based on color, which were really easy to use a little bit later. So you could do that in this situation, too. So now it's click and drag to another area of skin, and this time Photoshopped did a better job. So if at first you don't succeed, undo and try again. So now we're finished with the selection. So we compress Commander Control D. Zoom back out. And if there are any coloration differences, you could go back in with either the spot healing brush or the healing brush to fine tune those areas a little bit more. But let's call that section done. Now let's start getting rid of some of the more distracting moles, so let's add another new layer command shift command in shift control in, we'll call this one healing brush. Go back over to the healing brush tool set. Take a peek at our options bar. Make sure that the sample menu is set to all layers or current and below or one of the two, depending upon how many layers you've got going on in your document. Now, let's do the same thing we did Ah, moment ago. So we're gonna come up on our brush size just a little bit because I'm gonna make it about the size of this whole area or high. It's rather hold down option on the Mac, er Ault on the PC. Set your sample area by clicking once released the modifier key. Come back up to the area that you want to fix and then painting away and again, depending upon the area you're fixing, you may have to take several sample points, paying a little bit to another sample point paying a little bit more, or do another sample point. I'll go down and breast size a little bit as we do the right I said another sample point with the option or all key painted away. Now I have reintroduced a mole, so I got either used the healing brush or since I know I'm gonna do some spot healing a moment anyway. Probably not that big of a deal, but we could go ahead and get rid of it. There we go. Now let's drop the opacity on that layer to something that looks more realistic. In my humble opinion, that's going to be more in the 30 to 40% range now. If your client wants to be very, very clean and flat down there, little waxy, that's you know they can certainly request that, and you can certainly do that. But I wouldn't. So here's the before in the after, So it's just a little bit of lightning so that it's not noticeable. It's a great way to lighten wrinkles to with the healing brush like that and then drop the opacity down. I've got a little bit of a repeating pattern over here, So even after I've dropped the opacity, if I still see it that I could come in and fine tune an area or tea. Now we're ready for the spot. Hanley Brush. Let's create another new layer should command and should control in spot healing. Go over to our tools. Pain will switch to the spot healing brush. Take a peek in the options bar, make sure proximity matches turned on and make sure sample all layers check boxes turned on. Now we can come where we hear place up your free hand, your non mounting hand on your bracket keys left and right, and you can use those to increase or decrease brush size. And very quickly you could come through here and zap some of the offending malls. And again, you can click and drag with this tool as well. And we'll grab that one and we'll call that done. So that's all there is to. So now we've got this retouched portrait. We've got all of our layers in tact. We've done each step of the retouching on different layers so that we can go back and find Tune any of them if we need to save this as a Photoshopped. Documents that that are layers remain intact by choosing file save, as in choosing Photoshopped from this format, menu or use menu on a PC is I think it's called. I don't use a PC, so I'm not really sure what that menus. But just look for the pop up menu and shoes Photoshopped and that will keep all of your retouch is intact. Now to export the file for your client file save as from the format pop up menu, choose J Peg Pain will to stick this one on the desktop click save. And in this dialog box you can tell Photoshopped what kind of quality you want because we already learned that J pig is a lossy formats. You're gonna lose a little quality little detail. But all you have to do is pump this slider all the way to the right. Don't just choose maximum from this quality, poppet mean, because if you do that, you get a quality of case. If you choose maximum, that's what you get. 10. Well, you can get more quality. So dragged that quality slider all the way to the right. And that will give you the highest quality J pig from your master editing file. And that, my friends, is what you give to the client or email or post on Facebook or post on the Web, etcetera. You always keep your master file for editing and you don't give that to the client unless you worked out a special arrangement for that. Any questions on that part in our audience. Yes, in that, uh, JPEG output box. What's the difference between standardized, optimize and progressive? It's just the way they great question. It's just the way that the images were toe load. If they were posted on the Web, they would load line by line or kind of all at once. I didn't know what it's on the saving on. When you says Jay Pagan, there's a J Peg 2000. What is the difference between the two falls? Just a slightly different Jay Peak format. So I would stick with J. Peg because there one is the one. It's the J pay, just better than the other. Well, it's a more widely accepted format. Jay Peak 2000 is a little bit different, not a standard. Yes, if you had taken off the, um, but he, the pierce everything, and that some of the eyebrow was removed. Would you just go back with the spot healing tool? That's a great question. What would we do if we accidentally zapped a little bit of the eyebrows? You could come in human really far, and you could use the clone stamp tool hunk Constant told. My opinion is a little bit advanced, not going to use it as much as you would at some of these healing tools. But the clothes stample do a straight copy from one place to another so you could create an empty layer and then do the same kind of setting of a target point. And I'll just do that real quick. Guide any layer and then you could set your sample menu just like the other healing tools. We're looking at all layers, and then you would set your sample point. Let's say I want to duplicate that model right there so you would just or I can give him the the ever popular third eye. You know you got to do this is great for breakup. Family re unions, divorces anything. Okay, so let's set a sample point. We're using the clone stamp tool on an empty layer with a sample menu set toe all layers. That's key. Set your sample point holding. The options are all key. Release it mouse over there where you want the new thing to be and just painted in. So whereas the that's so creepy get even better. So whereas the healing tools have blending. There's no blending going on with this. It's just a straight copy. So you want Spider Man? No problem. So that's just silly fun. But that's the difference between the clone stamp tool and the healing tools is there's no blending with climate Stangel. So if you accidentally zap an eyebrow or an eyelash or something that needs you need to bring back, then the clone stamp tool would be what you'd reach for. Thanks for that. That was a lot of fun I wasn't planning on doing. That's that Cereal treats Any questions from the absolute way have to one from Joshua Flanker from San Jose, California and Tracy Nicole in Tucson both ask about retouching teeth would be your preferred tool to use. My preferred tool to use would be to wait about 15 minutes and watch what we're gonna do in a minute. If we're talking about lightning teeth, there's a There's an adjustment layer trick that is super fast that also can fix yellowing as well. So lightning and reducing yellowing, Easy, easy, easy to fix. And we'll do that here in just a minute. Charm media had asked would use the same technique for tattoos and wrinkles? Absolutely. Yeah, There are other techniques for wrinkles that are far too advanced to get into in this kind of class. I don't want you all running out screaming across the road here, but they're all covered in my book, and we've certainly covered them in other creativelive classes. One of the best, most intensive ones that I've done is the CS five intensive class. Know what the CS five moniker fool you? Because the techniques and there are mostly, I'd say 99.9% of them still applicable here. It hasn't changed that much, but I go way into a foe dodge and burn technique for very, very finely lightning shadows. Because that's all. A wrinkle is the shadow, so there's definitely some other techniques for that, Janice asked. Could you explain the difference between using sample all layers and sample current and below? Sure, that's an easy one, so stable all layers will sample information from everything that's in the layers panel. Wherever photo shop sees pixel information it will sample from current and below will only sample what's on the current layer that's currently active in any layers underneath it so you would use current below if you had some other things going on higher up in the layer stack that you didn't want Photoshopped to be using in your healing. All right, I think we're ready to lonely. All right, let's rock and roll. Incidentally, I'm using a keyboard shortcut to close my windows Command or control W for Window, and then I'm triggering the button. I want to click by pressing the first letter of that button so impressing D for Don't save. Let's go back to bridge and let's take a look at another way to use specifically the healing brush gonna show you how to use it to delete objects. It's the same technique, really. So here we have an image of my favorite beach in Hawaii on appeal eBay and this guy had the nerve to get in my picture, and I didn't want him in my picture. So what we can do is use the healing brush with spot healing brush rather to zap him. So let's again and create a new layer onto which we're gonna do our zapping shift command and er shift control in and we'll call this man be gone. Now let's go grab the spot. Healing Brush an N. C. S. Six. We got a new option for the spot, hailing, brushing. It's called Content aware. So let's go ahead and give that radio. But in the click, we've still got sample all layers turned on, which is fine. So now we can come down to our image again. You can either make the brush cursor large enough to fit the offending item into it if you can, or you can click and drag, so we'll go ahead and fit him into this one. That all I love the studio audience reaction. So let's undo and do that again. Unfortunately, there's no way to do it in Slow Mo. So basically, we are merely fitting the thing we want to zap inside the brush cursor and because there's so much what I'd call free background around the thing I want to delete. It does an incredible job. If there was something else really close to this guy that I wanted to keep, it wouldn't do so great of a job, but because there's free space all the way around him, it's just really outrageous, really outrageous. So that's helpful. We've never had anything like that before in the program, and it really is magic. This content where stuff is absolutely outrageous so quickly again with with one with free hand on the left and right bracket keys to control brush size you could go through here pretty fast and delete all kinds of people from this beach and again you can click and drag with it. It gets a little dicey appear because we've got trees and shrubbery and things. But for the other areas, it's just really easy to Zach them. So here's our before, and here's our after, so it's pretty amazing. And also it works so well in this image because there's a random texture going on. So you're not really seeing any weird things that might be happening to make those objects go away? Yes, so I noticed. Um, you didn't check the proximity watch like you did the last time, so I usually use proximity match when I'm doing portrait so faces. So skin texture content Aware has a little bit of different math going on, then proximity match. So, in my opinion, proximity match works better for Portrait's and continent where works great on things that you just want to delete that aren't necessarily on skin, but you can experiment with either one. They're very similar. Any questions on that? It's pretty amazing. And so let's take a look at clicking and dragging with that as well to get rid of power lines. So there's a shot I got in Santa ringing in Greece a few years back when I was teaching on a cruise ship. That was fun. So what we're gonna do here is again create a new layer onto what we're gonna do. Our zapping I'd be gone. We've already got our healing, our spot healing brush activites already and content where mode and sample all layers is also on. Now it's just a matter of clicking and dragging. You want to make your cursor just slightly larger, wider in this case and the thing you want to get rid of and you're just going to click and drag with it an amazing again. It's working so well because there's free space on either side. If there was not so much free space, you could do a combination of spot healing with the clone stamp tool, which we're gonna need to do over here, so I'll move over to this power line. And now let's click and drag and finish out marks the area that's going to be affected with that dark highlighting now going to run into a little bit of trouble if I go too close to the cement. So I'm gonna stop just this side of it. So my power line is gone. I can come back in and fine tune any color oddness that I get. But this part right here is a little bit more difficult to fix. So what you could do seem really far in and go wait and on breast size and try to get it with the spot healing tool as close as you could get. But if you come down too far into that area, we run the risk of duplicating a little bit of the concrete. But actually it's working out kind of OK, but what you could then, due to fine tune that area, is create another new Larry layer. Go grab the clone stamp tool and then just rebuild that one spot so you could click, alter or option on the area that you want a sample cruise over to that spot and then just painted. So that's really good that we did that because it illustrates the point that you want Photoshopped to do as much of the heavy lifting of this stuff as you possibly can make it get as far as you can with some of these not really automated tools, but they are to a certain extent, especially with the healing brush tool set. Then, after you've gotten us faras, you can then go back in fine teen with things like the clone stamp tool. But you don't want to start out with a clones dent. Cool, cause that would be so slow it would take you forever can. You probably wouldn't end up doing as good of a job as a spot healing brushed it. So ready NYSE, where the tools are best used, used them and then find teen as much as you have to you. Any questions on the spot healing continent where zapping goodness, um, questions from the great Internet? Absolutely, Steph Marr asked, Editing these things be a problem when printing and high resolution. That's a good question. Will editing this way be a problem with putting high resolution. If you've got a whole lot of pixels to begin with, you're not up sampling. Then I would tend to say no, but it also depends on what you're putting in. If your image that you're retouching is going in National Geographic, then you would be a lot more precise with it than I am doing for demonstration purposes in this class, you zoom way far in and you would make sure that that it was as perfect as it can be. But you also need to think about what size this thing is gonna be printed at. Even if this was to go in National Geographic, How big do they print? Eight by 10. Maxime. Actually, it's more narrow than that's what smaller than that. So if I had a lot of pixels in this image to begin with and I was able to bump up the resolution so the pixels are teeny tiny, you're not gonna see anything. But if this thing is going to go perhaps larger than that where people can get up close to it, then I might be a little bit more concerned. So it depends on print size. It depends on how far away people are gonna be and the quality of that print, you know, Is it magazine, or is it more of a fine are super high, detailed print. How far people going to get from it, that kind of thing. But I would say for the most part, he started out with a lot of pixels, and you were precise with it that you would be just fine no matter what, he said. Dream. Bree, I would like to know if you can change the shape of the spot healing brush. Or is it always around negative? It's always around. Cool. I think we're good. How are easy? Just negative. Good buddy. I want to know what my CD handle. Waas. Wildflower. That's right. My parents had a CV in their car. CB radio in their car breaker. 19 What's your 20? Steph? I totally giving away my age. Okay, now we're going to switch gears just a little bit, and we're gonna talk about layer masks. We touched on them just a little bit earlier from, uh, we got off on that tangent by question from the internet. We're gonna do some asking to create some of the things you're seeing here now I have purposely loaded up these exercise files with more techniques than we will ever have time to get to, even if we had a week. But that's just more fun for you, All right, So with the techniques that I'm showing you, you can then go through some of the other files that I put in there. Well, Easter eggs, and you can reverse engineer and see what else you can do with those techniques.