now, the other thought is with either a camera or a scanner. There's all sorts of other things you can do. So, for example, I one of the things that I have a love hate relationship with his eBay because you can find so many things that are fantastic. But then occasionally it's not quite what to expect. But so I was looking around the other day and I had this idea. So I did a search for, like, watch years, and you won't be able to see this very welcomes their tiny. But there was a whole collection of these little tiny gears that came from watches. So stuff like this. So these are flat enough that you can still easily scanned them in. So things like this a little old watch face, you know, from someone's watching little years. Some of them are really small, so I would lay them out on here and scan them in. And then they become another element that you could either again turn into a brush or just put them in as is and get rid of the white background. Something like that. So I won't bother ...

doing this is because I have one already saved ahead of time. So I also want to show you another possibly with these as well. So my point is showing you this is to get the thought process working that anything that's even remotely flat ish can still become something you can either photograph or scan. And back in the day when I had only had a scanner, Nagy it'll camera. I scanned my hand. I scan my hand holding things. I put pens on their cause. I thought by the time I try and take a photograph of a pencil and then developed the film now for those you under the age of 25 film, so I would use a scanner and all I would do is I had a big piece of white paper. Sometimes I couldn't close the lid far enough, so I just put a big piece of paper over the top of it so that there wasn't all this black in behind it. So scanners still have their value cameras into the same thing. But anything like this that's flat is another piece of potential resource that can be used in lots of different ways. And I could said even ones where you're you bring it in and going. That's not quite what I expected. It still has some pretty interesting possibilities. Okay, Now, I also want to mention one other thing, and I'm gonna go over this fairly quickly because I don't want to get into the hole Apple Android thing. That always happens when this comes up. Um, so don't shoot the messenger. Okay, Well, it's mostly because adobe introduce a really interesting technology, but it's only available on the IOS right now. Not on Android. So I don't know why. I don't know when they're going to bring an android version. Yes, I wish there was one right now today, but so that covers that part. But it's we haven't up until now, I haven't really mentioned the words creative cloud except to say I'm using the version that cc 2014. But I personally like the idea of creative cloud cause I use multiple applications. I love the fact I'm always getting updates, but it's this kind of direction that Dobie is doing about to show you. Next, I think, is what's really exciting about this technology is they brought out an app for my phone is called Brush CC. So I'm walking around somewhere and I see just randomly, you know, little watch gear sitting on a table because that might happen. You just happen to be somewhere and there's little gears on the table and don't have a scanner with me. I have my smartphone so I could take a photo of it, traditionally, with the things we were to say traditionally with a smartphone. But anyway, you know what I mean. Used the camera on my smartphone. But this app called Adobe Brush what it does, uh, will be brush. Here we go. It's very simple. It has a little plus sign at the bottom. It says I would like to make a brush out of something. So I press that button and says, I'm going to use my camera and I just position it above these gears here and I take a photo when I look at and say, Yeah, that looks okay. This will get much more interesting when I get to the next phase, because I know you can all see my phone. It allows me to make a brush for photo shop or illustrator, and then I go in, and I can do things like cropping it and changing the way it's gonna interact with things like that. But I'm just going to quickly say this. Call it gears 27 just so you can see I'm making unique name and this works because this app that's on my phone I have previously logged into my creative cloud account. So if it was just a standalone thing to becoming okay so you can make something on your phone. But when I hit save, we should have started a shows that start the clock to see how long this takes in theory. Now, with all these years that way, I'm deliberately wasting a couple of seconds here of valuable time. If I now go back to photo shop in my library panel, Here's when I did earlier. Let me waste more time by getting a document open again. So what's happening is this app on my phone is communicating with my creative cloud account. It's up loading the thing I just captured on here, and then within a couple of minutes it will be showing up in my library so I don't have to take a photo and develop it. I don't have to, you know, plug in my scanner just shows up. So course, because I wanted to show up right away. Normally it happens within like, a minute, and today it's gonna take, like, seven minutes just because we're all watching anxiously awaiting. But this is what my library panel looks like. This is the one thing in this whole three day course that is Photoshopped CC 2014. Everything else we've been talking about is Photoshopped. This is a C C 2014 function, the introduced called libraries, which is beneficial for lots of different reasons. While we're waiting, I'll just use one of the others is when I did this morning just to tested before we started to make sure is gonna work. You can see it's in my library. Click on it and I would say, You know, there's a little gear that I painted with, and I can do whatever I want with it, depending on my brush settings. So probably by tomorrow it will actually show up in there. I'm not sure why it's taken quite so long, cause usually it's much faster, but it's like just because I want to show you how fast it is. It's taken a while. But as I look through here, here's Ah, an example of Ah, a brush that I, um I thought I would make out of material. Just It was kind of a little cool design. So this I was walking through that same store. I bought all the supplies I talked about and see if I can show you here, will come back and see that brush actually ever shows up here. Where did I say that? Trumpian here. Okay, Somewhere in here I have. Anyway, I basically I was in Walmart and went into the material department where they have all those big swatches of material you buy too. So things. And I thought there's all kinds of interesting patterns in here, so I just unrolled one little bit of material and use this little app to take a picture of one little part of this material. And suddenly I had another interesting brush to create, so I don't get it. I want to spend a lot of time more time on this. But that's where Creative Cloud is heading is not just, you know, a subscription where you get updates your software. They're trying to incorporate mobile technology. There's also one that's called adobe shape that could make vector shapes out of things to take photographs. And it's really quite a remarkable concept to me that it's that fast and by fast I mean much faster than it is today because that's still not it. So eventually it will catch up with us. But I wanted to mention that concept is that's another way. Now, if you don't have creative cloud or you don't have the IOS, don't fret, because you could always just take a photo on your smartphone and then hook it up to photo shop and make a brush the traditional way. This just happens to be a nice little added bonus, but it's to expand on that thought process of every everywhere you are. Everything you see is another possibility of turning into a one of these little resources you can use in Photoshopped Gears 27. So it took a minute, but there's my little gear brush that I just made a second ago, so, you know, kind of interesting that it didn't require me to do a whole bunch of steps that just showed up and eventually. So as I look through here, I was in, like, ah, hotel recently and saw they had on the wall this interesting thing that was like artwork of, like, architectural drawings of building. So anything you see, that's that's out. There is another possibility, and again we can do it ourselves as well as doing it this way. So anyway, that's another option for you. So think about anything that's three dimensional has. I wouldn't try and put like a tennis ball on my scanner Actually did dry that once. It was actually kind of interesting, didn't quite quite what I expected, but the texture of the bottom part of the tennis ball certainly was captured by the scanner on Android. But that's an app that people can use on their IPhones and IPad as well. Yes, of the IPad and IPad, it has a camera built in. I mean, the I shouldn't say that because the app itself you can take something from a camera roll or from some other thing. But it is the IOS at the moment, and I don't I don't know that they've made any further announcements as to when that might changed to become all smartphone things. I'm in the android bandwagon, too, so I could believe, get. And I think it's a shame that Adobe is. I understand where companies say, Let's bring it out on IOS first or whatever, but then follow it up fairly quickly. But it's been out for a little while now, so I think people are justifiably getting a little anxious to know when can I use that as well?

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For 25 years, Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their Adobe software. Since 1987, Dave has taught Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe InDesign® to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of

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Scanning Objects

Scanning Objects

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12. Scanning Objects

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Course Intro

Layer Masks

Adjustment Layers

Clipping Masks

Intro to Groups & Smart Objects

Quick Mask

Defining & Creating a Brush

Smart Objects & Filters

Smart Objects from Adobe Camera Raw & Lightroom

'Blend If' Sliders & Blend Mode Shortcuts

Photographing & Scanning Textures