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Adobe® Photoshop® File Settings

Let's go ahead and take a look real quick. How? Toe open documents. Okay, this is the easiest part. Okay, Go up to the file menu. Choose open. You can open images straight from light room and two Photoshopped that command lives in the photo menu in light room. And you just slipped down to the edit command and you'll get a list of programs so light room can trigger a file to open up right in the photo shop as well. Okay, so that's really all there is to opening a document. If you want to create a brand new document, let's say you're a fine artist and I'm gonna do some fun painting. Then you can choose file new. And, of course, you've got keyboard shortcuts Here is well for any of these guys. So when you choose Final New, you get some handy commands. Photoshopped has a lot of presets built in, so I do encourage you to experiment with them. So let's say, for example, I'm gonna mock up a web page, maybe in photo shop. Well, I may not know exactly what the current you know. Standardized siz...

es are in a in photo shot for that. So I'm gonna look to the presets. Right? So here we are in the preset menu, and we have all kinds of different categories. OK, so if I'm working for an image that's gonna be posted on the web, I might choose Web. And then once I do that, there's a size menu that pops up here and that gives me a slew of useful practical, commonly used size is OK, so do poke around in these pre says. Okay, so again, we just chose file new and from the preset menu were picking the category. Okay, so if you're gonna print something, you might choose us paper. If you're gonna print something that's gonna be or create some things printed in Europe, you might choose International. If I'm working with a photo, I might choose photo. And from here, I get all these handy sizes. This comes in handy. Say when you're going to make a postcard. Okay, so you might start out with a blank document. We're gonna do that. Then you might bring it in an image, and you might create some texts and so on and so forth. But this gives you some nice handy sizes. And when you choose any of these presets, photo shot fills in the other blanks and poppet menus for you, which is great when you're start now, when you're just starting to get the feel of what the heck does all this mean? Okay, there's also, if you're working in video, there's a nice little film and video category, and if we click on the size preset menu, we get a bunch of different, very useful practical presets for video. That was real handy because in video there's a lot of other things you have to worry about, such as the shape of pixels, you know, whether they're square or something else. So when you choose these presets, photo shop fulfilling all that stuff for you Okay, so let's go back, Teoh. Let's go back to one of the photo presets. And here we are Landscape. So what we've got here is a width and a height field, and you can change this unit of measurement to be whatever you like. And we've got a resolution field. We're gonna talk about that here in just a minute. Okay? We're going to de mystify resolution once and for all Color mode. Most your photos were gonna be in RGB color mode, so that's totally fine. Background contents. That just means what color the documents going to be when you open it, That doesn't really matter. She can always change it. So don't worry about that too much. And then when you click OK, Photoshopped creates a document. Okay, so then you can start bringing in imagery or what have you. So that's kind of the basics of the workspace. Do we have any questions on that? And then I'm gonna show you just real briefly what bridge looks like and real briefly, what camera raw looks like. Yes, Anne Marie asks from New Jersey. If I bring a bunch of images in at once, is there a way I can save all the images at once rather than saving them individually? And that may be something you may chat about later. Yeah, Yeah, we'll talk about that later. There. There's no easy way. Did he that? Yes, one more. It was from coal. Miner was a regular in the chat room. Is there a file format that can save all the snapshots with the image? A file format that can save all sandwich with the image. I'm not really understanding questions later. All right. Okay, so now I want to show you bridge real quick. This is what the bridge interface looks like, and it gets installed. NCs six, right alongside Photoshopped in photo shop CC. It does not get installed automatically to separate download, but it's free program free with the price photoshopped free. But it really lets you unless you import your images and let you assign ratings to them with a star rating system. So which is great for filtering and sorting and things like that? You can see your hard drive structure over here on the left hand side. You get a nice preview of the images and you've got a nice little slider that controls how big those previews are. So I use bridge for just basic final management on my computer. And again it will see any image, any file, whether you used bridge to import it or not. I've got a full day deep dive on bridge that I would love for you guys to check out in the course catalog. Just go to my instructor page on creativelive and you'll see that deep dive on there. So we spend a full day on that. Yes, for to catalogue. But I could use bridge, and it would still see all my images because I have Lightman for automatically saves all my images in their filing system. So bridge will still see all those images. The raw images. You can't act. They're great question. You can't access your lightning catalog file through here, but you can dive into the date folders. Okay, That's what I have. I I actually have everything organized by de eso. It saves a copy of the original image off the camera card and then and then it creates a catalog, right? Right. So you could dive into those folders within the date folder structure. Right? So that's this little bit about bridge. It's a great tool if you don't have another tool that you're using for importing and organizing, reviewing and rating files. This is a great one, and it's free. Thea, other program that gets installed alongside photo shop is adobe camera raw, which is the converter that takes the wrong negative that you're shooting and processes it into a J peg. Okay, is hands down the best place to do all of your exposure. Correction, Your color correction, things like that. Oftentimes you won't need to go into Photoshopped. Okay, so this is what it looks like when she when you double click a raw image, this is gonna open automatically. If you want to bypass this all together, then just click the open image button at the bottom of the camera. Wrong window. And it'll pop right open in the photo shop. OK, but if you do double, click or choose file open and navigate to a raw image, that raw software is gonna come up. So don't let that through you. But it is a fabulous piece of software for color, correction and exposure, correction and fat. We have a full day deep dive on adobe camera raw as well in my course catalog. So I invite you to to take advantage of that. But I just wanted to show you those other two programs so that you know what yet? Okay, So now let's come back over to our keynote presentation here and let's talk just a tiny bit about two pieces of theory that's really important to grass before we move on first is file formats. We're spending a tiny amount of time on that. The second his resolution. Hey, Scary. So here are a few file formats that you will encounter. Photoshopped can open hundreds of different kinds of image files. Okay. It's really amazing the one you're gonna encounter the most R J pegs. Okay, that's most likely what you're capturing on your camera. You may be capturing raw as well. We'll talk about that in a second. J pegs air great for photos because they can hold a lot of color. Okay, so they're perfect for photos of any kind of really high quality J peg is great to print. So let's say you download a J peg from your camera, you process it. Okay? You say that as a file format we're going talk about in a second, which is a native Photoshopped documents. And then you can export J pegs from that native Photoshopped document, and they will always be super high quality. Okay, so they're they're also good. If you use an online lab for printing, I use in picks, em isn't Mary P. I x dot com Fabulous online lab for my prince. And they don't accept raw images. Right? So I take the raw image, I process it, and I immediately save out the highest quality J pig that I can. Okay. And then I upload that to the impacts website. Same if you were going to use your local camera store to do prints. You do that as well? Same if you were going to submit photos to a stock image service like I stock or fa Tolia, they don't accept raw images. They only accept J pegs. Okay, So J pegs were great for photos, whether you're emailing them, posting them on the web, anything that has a lot of color. And you can see a difference over there on the right hand side between some of these files back in my blonde days. So the next file format that you might run into is called Jif, and it really is pronounced Jif. If you look at the documentation, that is how the engineer say it. So that's great for Leinart. So you can think about cartoon or anything that, um, has solid blocks of color like a cartoon. Jif is a great format for that. Both j peg engine for lossy, though Okay, so you have to be careful. You don't want to save ah file in those formats and then reopen that format, Do some more stuff, Save it again. Is that format because each time you do that, you go down the stair step of quality, Okay. You always want to go back to your master file for editing when you're saving out additional file formats. Another file format that is really nice is called PNG Ping. Okay, it's relatively new on file format block here. It's great for any images that need to have a transparency. Actually, Jif is, too. But Jeff is. You'll get a little bit lower quality with you if you'll get higher quality but a larger file size with paying Okay. So if you I need to delete a background, let's say and then you need to save that image in photo shop in a way that that background stays empty so that so you're going to put it in a presentation slideshow or on the Web. Or maybe the background of the Web page shows through. Then you have to save it in one of those two formats, Jif or pink. If you delete the background in photo shop and then you save it as a JP. Guess what happens. Quite background, baby. Right back onto it and you will scream. So just remember that if you do any deleting of your background and you need that transparency to stay in the same file, then you have to save it as a Jif or a ping. Okay, that trips up a lot of folks. Other couple of file format you might encounter are tiff T I F. In pdf, these guys are both great for print. So if you need to save a document, maybe that you're gonna have printed elsewhere. Maybe a local print shop maybe designed a flyer with text saving as a pdf. Basically, photo shop will take a picture of that whole file so you don't have to worry about including funds. Okay, So often times, if you say, create business cards or flyers or brochures, things like that and Photoshopped, Technically, she should be doing brochures and in design, not punish on but business cards. You're OK to do in photo shop, then you'd save it as a tiff or a pdf depending upon what that print service wanted. OK, those are both. Tiff is a lossless by nature means there's no compression. You're not losing any details in your image. Pdf can be lossless. Okay, so when you say it is a pdf, you get several options. Do you want a pdf that's optimized for the Web, In which case all your images would lose a little bit Equality? Or do you want a Pdf? It's optimize for print, in which case you would not have any compression. So that's nice, but the file. We're going to be a file type we're gonna be using the most here is PSD, so that stands for a Photoshopped document. So the basic workflow is import your photos when you open that J peg, even if it was a raw image, once it goes through the camera raw software, it gets converted into a J. Pig opens up in photo shop. You want to save it as a native Photoshopped document, because that is full super duper high quality, which means you could always open that file backup. It preserves all of your layers. We're gonna be using layers to do all of our edits in their own little cubby holes. so that we can delete that one thing. We did it. Maybe leave the rest of it someone and so forth. So it's very important that you save your image as a Photoshopped document and always go back to that when you need to export. Maybe you need to export a J peg for email. Maybe you need to export a high quality J pick for printing elsewhere and so on so that PSD file format is very, very important. We're gonna be using that throughout the day. The other kind of format that you're going to encounter is raw just real briefly. What the heck is the big deal about shooting in raw? Well, I've got this little chart for you on the left. You can see what you get if you shoot in J peg and on the right, you can see the benefits of shooting in raw, so I like to think about A J. Peg is a fully baked cookie. That's right. A cookie in a raw image is really like the raw ingredients of a cookie. So if you think about it, there's not a whole lot you can do to a fully baked cookie to change it right. You can frost it at some Sprinkles. Teoh cut it in interesting shapes, but the raw ingredients you can change infinitely right, much more flexible format when it comes to editing. So I could add nuts. I could add chocolate chips. I could add coconut, all these wild things I could use G. I wish I were better instead of actual better, you know, on and on and on. So raw format is more flexible. You can do more things to it. Okay, a J peg. When you're shooting J peg in your camera, your camera is doing a little bit of processing in the background. Okay, what? You can root around in your owner's manual in and find all that stuff out, but your camera is increasing saturation a little bit. It's doing a little bit of noise reduction, and it's doing a little bit of sharpening all in camera. That's why if you compare a J. Peg shot of a raw shot, the JP will always look better than the unprocessed raw. So in raw, there isn't anything happening in camera. It's the actual data that you shot. OK, A. J peg, if you mess up in your camera telling it what the color of light is, which is called your white balance. If you screw that up in your camera, I'm really good at doing that Really good. I get so excited I forget to change the white balance, going inside to outside and so on. So forth. If you must set up on a raw image, you can change it in the adobe camera, raw software as well as light room. Okay, so that's a little bit more flexibility you get with raw. And the downside of that is J pegs or kind of manageable in size, and raw files are not manageable in size. They are absolutely enormous. Lens pro to go dot com is my gear sponsors. So they sent me a beautiful camera and some lenses to take over to Italy to play with. And I had been shooting with the 40 d Cannon and they sent me a 60 D and the raw files were like, three times the signs. They're like, 40 magaw eyes or something like that for each file. And so I lost all my hard drive space like that, so I had to ratchet down the quality setting on the camera. So I didn't lose all my hard drives, so just be aware of that. But shooting and raw is fun. So, like I said, we've got a full day deep dive on using camera raw, a little bit of raw shooting tips, so take advantage of that if you'd like. But now at least, you know what the heck? The differences. Here's just a little ditty on workflow. Obviously, you're going to be importing your images if you're shooting, you know, if your photographer or if you're a graphic designer, you've got to get those images you're gonna play with on your computer, So give them on your computer. First is the first step, and you're going to get this whole presentation if you purchase the course to so that'll be nice import. Do your correcting in camera raw. If you're shooting in rock, that is the easiest place to do. It's all slider base. Then typically, I cropped the image because why mess with pixels that aren't gonna hang around anyway? OK, so typically all crop. The next thing I'll do once I've opened in photo shop is to save it as that Master PSD, So file save as and pick Photoshopped from the format menu will look at that here in a moment. So that way you've got your master file and were no longer working on the J pig. Then I do my correction in photo shop if it needs it. Okay, then I typically start with the retouching. So if it's a portrait LD my color correction and then I will start doing things like fixing bags and lightning wrinkles and adding makeup if I need Teoh, that kind of thing. So retouching and adding effects comes after you get the color and the lighting right. Typically, the last thing I do is sharpen. It sharpens a pretty destructive technique, So I usually save that until last. And then finally I export the different file formats that I need depending upon where the photos going. Okay, so that's kind of the basic workflow. That's the basic basic gist of what I did. Of course, there's no photo shot police. If you do these in different order, you're not gonna get in trouble. Now let's talk a little bit about a resolution. And don't worry, this is gonna be fast so every single image that comes off of your camera is made of pixels. Okay, Every photo is made of pixels. If you zoom into a photo, you can see the individual pixels. So here's the bottom, right. We've got a cross section of the inner part of that sunflower. So at a certain zoom level, you will begin to see the individual squares of solid color, solid blocks, the color that comprise your image. Okay, How big are those solid blocks of color? They can be any size at all. If they're big enough, you'll see him on screen. You've probably seen that happen before. Really pixelated, blocky looking images made like they're made out of Legos or something. So those pixels can be any size that could be big enough to see. They can be microscopic enough that you can't see them, which is what you want when you're printing right when you print an image. I love these graphics. When you print an image, that's really when you need to worry about resolution, Okay, because your monitor the pixels on your monitor are pretty big. Okay, so unless you're gonna print the image, you don't even have to think about resolution at all because your monitor or the output device, the projector is what's controlling the size of those pixels. But if you do need to print the image than it definitely be, who's you to make them so small that you can't see them once it's printed? Okay, they're still there. They're just too tiny for your eyes toe. Actually, spot them. OK, so that's all. Resolution is. It's the measurement in photo shop that determines how big or how small those individual blocks of color are. That's it. And you just don't have to worry about it unless you're going to print the image, period. And if you use an online lab like in pics, they handle the resolution for you. You don't even have to. You need as many pixels as you can, and then you upload that high quality J peg and then tell them what size print anyone, and they their machines managed the resolution for you. But that's all. Resolution means OK controls how big or how small the pixels are. You can think of resolution like brown sugar e thinking. What is this chicks obsession with cookies about? So let's Let's spend just a second to talk about brown sugar, right? If I had a measuring cup, okay, one cut measuring cup and I poured brown sugar into the cup and it came all the way up to the one cup line, right? You can think of each granule is pixels okay? While until I've packed it down with my fingers right, it takes up more surface space. Kind of like bigger pixels, right? So if we have a one cup full of brown sugar that's not yet been packed down, that's like low resolution like kind of big pixels. Once we put our fist in there and we start packing down at brown sugar, the surface space decreases right because they're packed more densely together now that brown sugar only comes up to the half cup line. But there's the same volume of pixels or Granules in that cut. Their just smashed really tightly together much more densely. Okay, so if we have a given image of a given size right and we make the pixel smaller, the physical size of that image, if it were to be printed, get smaller, right, because you're taking something that's big and your condensing it just like brown sugar in the measuring cup. That's my current favorite analogy. And again, if the image is gonna be trapped on screen, it does. Doesn't matter, Okay, cause you're whatever is displaying. The photo is handling the size of the pixels. You can change that in your monitors preferences, your display preferences on a Mac and so on and on your projector. You can tell it how big or how small those pixels were going to be. But on most monitors and most projectors, it's around 72 to 96 pixels per inch. Okay, so how much resolution? What's what is the magic number for nice prints? 300 technically 240 for most inkjets is just fine. OK, but 300 is easy to remember. Okay, Anything over that, unless you've got a really high and printer is overkill, it'll take your printer longer to print it. And, um, because inkjets print by spraying paint. Things can get a little weird if the resolution, if the pixels are too small because it's putting so much pain, you know, in a small area. So she for somewhere between 243 120. But if you're gonna have something printed by somebody else, they'll tell you what they want. Most online business car companies want so it's kind of a good rule of thumb. I guess an Olympics doesn't care because they manage the resolution for you. Okay? And why is Resolution show hard to understand? Because you can't see the difference on screen at all. So the image on the left is 72 pixels. Branch looks exactly the same as the image on the right at 300 pixels per inch. Okay, so that's why it's confusing. Because you can't really see pixels that small cause your monitors controlling what you're saying resolution specifically, Maybe we should wait until the end. I think we should, because not a lot of resolution. Question. Okay, maybe give them a second for the questions to come in. All right, so now let's go back in the photo shop and let's take a look at, um, opening some images, seeing how many pixels air there and what happens when we change that resolution measurement. Okay, so I had to get the unsexy stuff out of the way. The rest of the afternoon is gonna be all for the shop. Sexy stuff. Okay, so here we are, back in photo shop. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at the image size dialogue box, and this is really a powerful, powerful dialogue box. And you access it by choosing image image size. Or you can press a shift, command I on a macro shift control I on the pc. Okay, so in this box week, find out all kinds of information about our image and in photo shop CC, this box has been completely redesigning its a heck of a lot easier to use, so Yea, but right now, let's just take a look at what we've got here. So at the very top, I can see the file size. So how much room is it taken up on my hard drive? Well, 28 megabytes. Okay, I can see the pixel dimensions. So I've got roughly by 2500 pixels. If I were to print the document, I really wish this part right here said print size, because that's what it means. Print size. If I were to print that document at the current pixel size right, which is resolution. I would need a piece of paper that's 54 inches wide by 36 inches tall. That's a honking big printer. So if I were to turn off this little check box here next to re sample image, which really should be named, protect image quality because that's what it does, watch what happens to these two fields right here, which are are pixel dimensions. Watch what happens when I turn that check box off. They're locked. Okay, so here's the check box on meaning you can change the pixel dimensions, thereby quality of your image. If I turned that re sample image off, I'm locking the pixel dimensions. Therefore, locking image quality. Okay, Now we can experiment with resolution until the cows come home and we won't mess up the quality of our image at all. This is a great way to figure out how big of a print you can make with a photo. Hey, let's say I want an eight by 10 you know, high quality. So I know I need at least my pixels to be small. So about 300 resolution. But do I have enough pixels? because as I increase decrease the pixel size, my physical print size goes down. So this is a great way to experiment and see how they can. You go at high quality with an image. Okay, so now, after turning off free sample image, let's change that resolution number. Now watch what happens automatically in the width and the height fields in that document size section. I'm gonna change this to 300. See how it's getting smaller, just like compressing the brown sugar in a measuring cup, right? Same number of pixels, but much more densely packed together so I can see that. Oh heck, I could totally do any eight by 10 at high quality with this image. No problem. Well, what if it's going to a magazine? Say, and they want 600 pixels per inch? Well, it's type 600. Now. Look how big my print will be. Roughly 6.5 by a little over four inches. Okay, Does that help kind of solidify the relationship between pixel size and print size and resolution? So that's a neat thing to do is to pop in there, see what you've got to work with you know this is great. If you accept images from from other folks, we've got a nice lady here in the in studio audience, that is, you know, building promotional materials and websites for her church. So she's only getting images in from other sources. So this is a great way for you to see what you're working with. Is it high enough quality to print or holy cow I can on Lee posted on the Web. I cannot put that in our newsletter, that kind of thing. So it's really useful on. You can also change resolutions simply by changing the width or the height field. Okay, so let's go back to 72 for a moment here, so I could have started out putting, you know, eight by 10 in there, and then Photoshopped would change the resolution for me. Okay, so all these three fields are kind of locked together. That's what this chain link over here is all about. You change one, the other two are gonna change. So if we come over here and okay, so my prince landscape. So if I have typed into here, Okay. So with the current shape of the image Okay. Photo shot wants to make the height a little over 6.5. Right, Because we're not doing any cropping in here. We're only manipulating pixel size. That's it. Hey, so I can see that then Then the resolution would be 388. If I wanted to do a five by seven, I could type seven here, and all you have to really do is make sure to watch that resolution feel to make sure that it's, you know, above 300 again. That's a little 555 is a little overkill on resolution. Also, I'm unable to get the Hyatt two perfectly five. And why is that? That's because the shape or the aspect ratio of my photo isn't perfect for a five by seven. So in that situation, I would now exit the image size dialogue box and we go grab the crop tool so we trim off a little bit to make it the right shape so that we could get the right print size that we want. Okay. And as you use this dialog box, things will begin to solidify and make a little bit more sense. But that's the basic gist of it. But just be careful with this re sample image button right here. So I'll go back to 70 t now let me turn that back on. So now we've got our width and height fields in the pixel dimensions section active. If I were re sizing us for the web, I would definitely need to actually reduce the pixel dimensions. Throw away some pixels, thereby making it a smaller file size, but also reducing quality. Okay, So if I knew that, I wanted to post this it, let's say 640 pixels on a website. I could simply type in into that. Whitfield and Photoshopped changes the height for me according to the aspect aeration of the photo. And then I would click. OK, and now you can see how the file size has actually changed. So we went from 28 megabytes to 800 k You know that seem a little 28 megabytes. Not so much. Okay, so just make sure that you have that re simple initiate box turned on. If you really do want to change pixel dimensions meaning you're changing quality. Turn it off if you just want to change resolution and lock image quality. Okay, so I'm gonna show you another will keyboard shortcut, which is very handy was press and hold the option key down or all on the PC and watch what happens to my cancel button. See how it changes to reset. So if you're playing around experimenting with the settings and you just want to go back to what it was, you don't have to click, cancel and then reopen this dialogue. Just press and hold, option or all, and click reset. And we go right back to the state of these settings when you first opened it, Yes. Is that Jirka across the dhobi sweet or is that just Photoshopped? It's a great question. It is across all the programs. Yeah, So any time you need to just reset everything and you've got a dialog box opened, just press and hold that option key and look for the cancel button and should change to reset or ault on a PC. Okay, so now let's say that I really do want to make this image of perfect five by seven. Okay, so I'm gonna turn Ofri sample image well, type seven appear, I said. I've got plenty of pixels so that they could be small enough. I could do that. Print. I'll go impress. Okay, but I can't get the highest district. So now let's go grab the crop Tool said, No, we'll come over here. The crop tool lives in your tools panels. This guy right here. If you point your cursor at any of the tools and leave it alone for a second, then a little tool tip shows up that includes that tool's keyboard shortcut. So in this case, the keyboard shortcut is C, arguably the easiest keyboard shortcut to remember in photo shop. See for the crop tool. So we give it a click, and Photoshopped changes the color of the button to let you know that it's pressed in or its active. Okay, so now the crop boxes active in CS six, the crop tool changed a lot in a lot of people are still trying to get used to. Don't worry, it's on change again and see, see. But what happens in CS six is that the minute you activate the crop tool footage shot automatically puts a box around your image with little handles that you can grab. You can see him on the corners. Here, See these little bracket looking guys? There's another one right there. Another one right here. You can grab any one of those handles and change the size of the crop box. Okay, a crop is not in progress at this point. OK, I just activated the crop tool. So if I can go to any other tool, photo shop doesn't ask me if I want to crop the image. Okay, So don't let that throw you. Just because you activate the crop tool, don't freak out and think, Oh, my God, I'm cropping the image because you're not that crop box really doesn't come into play or action until you click it. Okay, So once I click a corner and start to change things now, I am in the process of cropping the image before I was not. You have to click on that box to activate it. Now what are we seeing here? We've got this nice little tick tack toe grid, which is the rule of thirds overlay, which is very handy if you wanted to tweak the composition of your image after the shot, then this This overlay is very handy. You're not stuck with the rule of thirds overlay. However you got lots of other options available appear in the view menu in the options bar. Okay, so you've got a slew of different overlays that you can place the top your image depending upon how you what? What kind of method you want to use to compose the shot? Okay, you can cycle through all of these different overlays by tapping the okey cannot zero but the okey. So once you have activated the crop box meaning you've activated the crop tool, then you've clicked on the box itself. Then you can tap the okey to cycle through all the different overlays that photoshopped past. But you do have to click the crop box first to activate it in type o all day long. If you haven't clicked in, nothing will happen. Tank. Also of note is that I grabbed one of the little corner handles and dragged it diagonally inward to make the crop box smaller. Can you see the ghosted part of the image that's outside of the box? Okay, that's Photoshopped, letting you know what area is going to be trimmed off. Okay, That little color overlay is called a crop shield. Okay? And you can make it lighter or darker by clicking this little gear icon at the top of the screen here in the options bar. Here it is. Crop shield opacity. Sometimes I like to make mine solid black so that I really get an idea of what that image is gonna look like if I choose to accept that crop so you can change the opacity of it Here, see how it gets lighter as I go down and opacity in darker is I go up. This is another little tip for you Any time you have a field meaning that you can type in number into it and you've got a label to the left of it. If you point your cursor at that label, it turns into a little scrubby bar, and you can click and drag to the left to reduce that setting or click and drag to the right to increase that setting. And that works anywhere in any adobe program where there is a text label and a field with a number in it next to it. Okay, and that's real handy. So that's just a little bit about the crop shield. Another thing that's important to note is this little button up here in the options bar delete cropped pixels. I would very much like for all y'all to turn that check box off and leave it off. Okay, Once you do, you are now entering the realm of non destructive cropping forever. We can cross this image, and we'll do that. Let's do something. Drastic. Press return to tell foot a shop? Yes, please. Copy image. Okay, I can then save this image. Okay, file save as we'll just throw it on the desktop crop demo. Close the file, Reopen it today or a year from today, and I can get those cropped pixels back. This is this was a new in CS six. Okay, that this is funny race sitting forward in their chair. What you do is you activate the crop tool in a soon as you activate the crop tool, you press return or enter. See him See the edges. Yep. So at this point, now you can pull your crop box back out to the original dimensions, and you're back to square one. Right? So do turn off that delete crop. Why the hell it's not turned off from the factory? Nobody knows. Okay, But do turn it off. Otherwise, you are deleting the edges of that image, and you can never get him back unless you open up the original and then, you know, continuing like that. Okay, But we were talking about earlier. We were talking about making a five by seven out of this Coliseum. Right? So there's a couple different ways you can do that. You can use thes Littlefield's right here. They're unlabeled, which is the opposite of helpful. But what they are are aspect ratio fields. Okay, this unlabeled you need is your aspect ratio preset pop up menu, and it has a lot of handy shapes. Okay, I wish this menu said photos shape or image shape, because that's what it means. It's not gonna really It's not gonna change resolution. It's not really going to change the pixel dimensions much other than trim off what it needs to make the aspect ratio. What you tell it to you. So remember how we couldn't get a perfect five by seven in the image size dialogue Well, if we choose five by seven from this pop up menu, it feels in the fields for us. Okay, Unfortunately, the orientation is wrong, but we can click this little circular arrow. Okay to flip flop those fields. There we go. Okay, Now, I can, uh, position my crop box. Anyway, I want any size I want, and it's still going to make a five by seven shape out of the photo. Okay, So I can press return. Now it's pop back into the image size dialog box, and you see, well, we've got a slightly different pixel dimensions because remember, it was 28 megabytes. Now it's 25. It was 38 something or other announced 35. So some pixels have been trimmed, but the document size didn't change. That was the big confusing thing about the new crop policy of six. It's on Lee changing the shape. It's trimming off whatever it needs to make the aspect ratio suitable for a five by seven. So now if I come in here, my Reese able image boxes turned off. So my qualities safe and sound. If I type seven into the Whitfield here, see how the height popped perfectly to five or as perfect as it can get. So that's the confusing thing about using those fields is they're changing the shape of your photo. They're not really changing the print size. It's not changing resolution at all. Okay, when you upload your images to like, say, M picks, would you need to do all that? Or do the automatically figure that out for you? Based on the prints, ice that a washing, they automatically figure it out for you, and they have a crop function in their uploading software. But if you're a little bit anal retentive like I am, then you know, controlling precise, then you would want to do this yourself before you uploaded it. Otherwise, the the image may be cropped a little bit in an unexpected way. Now, if you've got some area around the image, arguably this one, there's nothing super important near the edges. I probably wouldn't care, but if you do you have stuff. It's really important that not get trimmed off. Then absolutely, you would need to make sure that you make your image is the perfect size before you upload them for printing. Do you have a question. I was just gonna ask. What you just said was that if I wanted a print at home, this is basically a two step process for me because I was trying to figure out how toe get a five by seven that looked the way I wanted it to. So I was going into the image dialog box, changing the document size, and it still wasn't doing for me. So go into the crop tool, select the aspect ratio that I want and then go into the image dialog box and just again from there, Yeah, that makes sense now, or vice versa, you know, Doesn't matter which one you do first. But what I usually do is I change the resolution in the image size Allah boxer. I see how big a print I can get, and then I see if the aspect ratio is right. So I always try to do it in the emphasized dialogue box. But if the shape of it isn't just right, then I will go grab the crop tool. But I'm gonna show you another way. That will be a one step process for that. Okay, Okay. So I'm gonna nd There we go. So now we're back to our original Now, since I have previously entered settings in the options bar, see how they're still there? So I can try to change this crop box all day long, and I'm still going to get a seven by five. So I need to clear that out. Remember, anything you change in the options bar stays change till you change it back. So the way you can zero everything out in one fell swoop is to click this little curved arrow button toward the right on the options bar. And when you do that, it resets all of the crop tools options across the board. Okay. Or you could zero out those fields, whichever one you want. OK, so now it's come back over here. If you want to change the document size, the print size. Okay, but not resolution. You can still use these fields, but you can type in the unit of measurement. So now let's type seven space I in Tab five space I in. All right, so now I'll school and press return. Now, when we go into the image size dialog box, we've got the actual size So the first time we did not inter unit of measurement in photo shop was only changing the aspect ratio of the shape of the image it was trimming off. However many pixels. It had Teoh to get a five by seven aspect ratio. It was not changing the size to a five by seven. That is so darn hard to understand, you know. So if you want it to change the size, the print size, then you would type in a unit of measurement next to the number. So PX for pixels, I infer inches cm for centimeters. Okay, that kind of thing. And all this stuff is in my boot to if you'll take advantage of that O'Reilly deal, which is really good. Okay, so that's the second way you can use those fields. The third way you can use the crop tool to both resize and change resolution at the same time is to go under the unlabeled aspect ratio preset poppet menu, scoot all the way down to the bottom and choose size and resolution in every other version of the program. There's always been a resolution field in the options bar, okay, and people scream to the high heavens when Adobe took it away and see a six. Which is why it's coming back and see. See? Okay, Yeah, yeah, but for CS six, you can get that resolution field back by choosing size and resolution from this poppet mini right here. Not this poppet menu. That's presets for the crop tool. This. Pop it in your case, a choose size and resolution. When you do, you get this box which basically just gives you the Dagon feels that used to having the options for anyway. So now we could say seven by five. That's great. And now we could type our target resolution into the dialogue box, and photo shop will crop it according to how we set up our crop box. And it will change the document size, and it will change the resolution of that resulting document in one fell swoop. Okay, so what we've seen now are several different ways where we can alter the size of our image, alter the shape of the aspect ratio, alter the the size and resolution at the same time. So if we go ahead and say OK on this, we get our crop box and I can move the image around. So when you click and drag it across boss and CS six image beneath it moves okay? And I can position it perfectly and was clicking and dragon diagonally outward to make the crop box bigger, diagonally inward to make it smaller and clicking and dragging within the crop box to reposition my image. Now, when I press return, when we go into the image size dialog box we have a seven by five at 300 pixels per inch. Okay, I think this is the easiest way to do it. But unless you know for a fact that you've got enough pixels to make that size print at that resolution that I go check in the emphasized dialogue box and then crop and change resolution at the same time. So let me show you quickly what happens if I were to do that and I didn't have enough pixels. Okay, so let me open up another image here. Not that one. This one. Okay, somebody clear out my my crop box here. Yes, my husband. I really do. You get suited up in our Star Trek best, and we go to conventions in public. So let's say I wanted to print this at eight by Right? Let's say somebody took this at the convention for me Emailed it. I haven't looked at inner size dollar box. I don't really know what size it is, but let's go eight by 10. So let's see, eight inches by 10 inches. Or actually, I want to bring up that other one. Okay. Click on the little Poppet. Minion shoes, Size and resolution. Here we go. Eight by 10 300 pixels. Print, right. Come in here and I position my image will say it's all perfect. Now watch what happens when I press return. Taken note of the zoom level that this image is currently being viewed at. See how it got huge. That means that I added pixels that weren't there. I up sampled. So photo shop is gonna do whatever you tell it in that size and resolution box, no matter how many pixels you have. So if it has to add pixels that weren't there toe have enough of them to be pixels per inch. At eight by 10 it's gonna add them. So if you use this dialog box here, or the fields that are gonna come back and see, see and you enter dimensions in a resolution that makes the zoom level of that photo increase. Then you have just blown it up. It's not as big of a problem in photo shop Sisi is. It isn't CIA six, but nevertheless, that's what's happening. So that's why it's important. I was press command Z to undo. That's why it's important to always peak in the image size dialogue to see what you've got to work with. How I look there first, I would have seen Holy Cow 300. That's not remaining pixels to work with. Okay, so how big could I print that image? This is where the experimentation comes in handy. Turn off, Reese Able image. Come down here to the Resolution field and let's in her 300. Oh, well, I'd have a postage stamp. Well, if I'm you know, if I know my inject printer. If I'm printing it at home, I know that I could probably get by with 2 pixels per inch. We've got a slightly larger postage stamp now. You know, maybe 100 and 80 would squeak by you know. And now we've got nearly a two by three image. So this box is great for just getting the lay of the land and figuring out what you've got to work with and what you can do with it then if you prefer, or if the aspect ratio isn't quite right and you can go use the crop tool to fine tune it there. But do take a peek here special if images were being email to you to see what you're dealing with. Okay, there is one more way to do this, and I think we've got just enough time to do this before we break for questions. All of that is rather complicated. Yes, it's a lot, Teoh. Remember, Especially if you're starting out. It is very important for you to know it. Okay, It's good basic theory for you to have for your photo shop life. But what if you just don't care? All right. So let's take a look at how to do all that with the print print size dialog box. Actually, only use this one over here. Pompei. People Crazy. Nearly 3000 year old city right here. Unbelievable. So what? I'm gonna do is go ahead and reverse out all the clear the crop tool settings. Okay, so we're back at square one. Let's say I just process this picture. I don't want to crop it at all. I just want to print the debt something. So let's go up under file. She's print, press command or control P, and we get the newly redesigned print settings dialog box that was new in CS six. It'll be really cleaned it up nicely. So the first thing you want to do is choose your printer. Okay, so we don't have a printer, so this will be a little interesting, but anyway, your printer is gonna show up right here. All right. We can click the print settings button and click the show details to kind of expand it, and your printer would be listed right here. And what you want to do in this dialog box is tell the program what size paper you won't use. Okay, So if we really did have a printer hooked up, there would be all kinds of other options here. Some of them would say borderless. So if you want the printer to print to the edges of the document. Then you would choose a paper size. It's borderless. Okay, but we'll just go ahead and leave it. Well, let's set it to tabloid. That'll be kind of fun. Okay, then, if we really had a printer, you click. Save. This is fun, blah, blah. So once you've set the paper, okay, choose your printer from this poppet menu, then click print settings until tell it what size paper and borderless if you want or not. Then you come down here, scroll down and you're going to turn on scale to fit media. Okay, in depending upon the size that you've chosen, photo shop is going to re calculate it's gonna either reduce or expand that image to fit the media, which is the paper size. Okay. And as long as you keep an eye on that resolution cause it tells you what it's recalculating the resolution to right here as long as that is higher than about 240 you're probably fine. So that's another way, Teoh change the size and resolution without really doing in all those other dialogue boxes that we talked about. Okay, Now you do get a nice print preview over here. Of what? The image What the piece of paper is gonna look like, Should you printed at that size? If you see any white, that means that is gonna be quiet on the print. Okay, So what I usually do is I pick the size paper I want, and then I go ahead and turn on scale to fit media, and I make a mental note of that percentage. So it's saying 63% to print the size that I asked it to. You okay, If I have any white areas anywhere around the image, I turn off scale to fit media, and I enter my own percentage. So I experiment with the percentage until I don't see any white anymore. Okay, that's a weird way to handle what should have been cropped. But if you're short on time, or if you just don't want to mess with all that other stuff just yet, there is a way to do it here in the print settings dialog box. Okay. And again, you choose your printer from this poppet menu, click print settings. Choose the paper size. Come back to this dialogue, scroll down and turn on scale to fit media. Take a peek at your print preview. If it looks good, great. Take a picket their print resolution. If it's over to 40. Great, then if you need Teoh. If the image isn't the right aspect ratio, make a note of the percentage that photo shop is going to scale it to turn off scale to fit media and then enter your own percentage. Okay, so 63% was a little bit too much of a reduction in size. Maybe maybe 50 would be better, or someone so far so you can experiment with that toe. Make sure that you don't have any white in this print preview. So on that new shall we take some questions? Absolutely. Police said there was a little bit of confusion harbor it's was asking about. Could you go over quickly again? The difference between the image size and the document size There was little Sure, thank you. So if we come up here to the image menu and choose image size, what we've got here are the pixel dimensions of the image rights. All these photos were made from pixels. That's how many pixels we have to work with the pixel dimensions is how much space on your hard drive that file takes up, so it's hogging up nearly 40 megabytes of space on your hard drive. The document size is how big that image would be should you print it so you can think of document sizes, print size. Just swap that in your hit and with a given number of pixels, you have full control over how big or how small those pixels are, which affects the document or print side. Do we have any questions in the studio audience? Yes, we do. When you buy a scanner, it often tells you you can get 1200 DP I What would we do with 1200 DP? Dp I well, So if you've got a scanner and it offers to scan an image at 1200 pixels per inch or so, what would you do with all those pixels? Well, when you're scanning, you're digitizing pixels that were not digitised right, so it is better to have more to work with. Okay, so you can scan. Let's say, if I knew I was gonna print something at 300 pixels per inch, I might scan it at 600 or 1200 just so that I have as much information to work with as I possibly can for cropping purposes, things like that. So you wouldn't keep the file at 1200 when you're ready to print it. But if you've got any cropping to do, that certainly gives you more leeway because you could crop and therefore kind of zoom into an image a little bit by cropping into it. So that's why you would scan at a higher resolution then you would actually print with. It also gives you more pixels to work with if that image needs a bit of color correction and so on. Great question. I've enjoyed a lot of your classes already, so this is great, thank you, $20 in the mail.