Bill Rosener: Listen, Doctor Bell, welcome back in this video we'll be looking at the difference between changing an image size and the canvas size along with working with the horizontal type mass tool and the gradient tool. As we take this image over here and convert it to this image, the very 1st step I do is I press on this assignment 10 subdirector. Here, go ahead and press on. Tile one right click on this image and save it
Bill Rosener: this point. You're gonna go ahead and open it up into adobe Photoshop. And there I am right here. I'm gonna walk through this 2 ways. 1st is kind of the old approach. Then we'll go ahead and use some AI and show you an easier way to increase the width of the image here.
Bill Rosener: So what you might be thinking what you might want to do is just simply come up here to image.
Bill Rosener: Go to image size.
Bill Rosener: Here's the current again. Most of these images here. I've got them really the low quality here. Just so they're not taking a bunch of space up on your hard drive. Let's assume we just wanted to increase it to a 400
Bill Rosener: and press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: yeah, it's now 100 pixels by 400. But we literally stretched it, and what I'd rather have is kind of tiled rather than being stretched. So I'm just gonna hit that control Z, and then do it.
Bill Rosener: So here's how you would have done this in the past, you would simply come up here to image, go to canvas size.
Bill Rosener: and I would then press on this little icon here. Now the new image is going to appear to the right. I'd go ahead and change the width to 400 and press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: At this point I would go ahead and use my rectangle marquee. I would highlight.
Bill Rosener: go ahead and copy
Bill Rosener: control C,
Bill Rosener: and then turn right around and paste
Bill Rosener: control V,
Bill Rosener: and then I would go ahead and
Bill Rosener: use my arrow keys on the keyboard, and I'd maybe march that on over to look kind of good. And then I repeat this. And since it's in the clipboard, I could just hit control. V again, use 0 keys on the keyboard to reposition that.
Bill Rosener: and maybe one last time control V
Bill Rosener: and slide that on over.
Bill Rosener: Okay, at this point I really don't need all this on these individual layers, so I could at this point come right up here and merge visible, and that's gonna merge all the layers into one. So I just got one layer. Okay, well, let me show you how AI can help you with this in the future, and so go ahead and file revert.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so now I'm back to my original image here, and what I can do as well. The 1st step I want to do is get my AI contextual task bar
Bill Rosener: visible. So I'm gonna press on window textual task bar.
Bill Rosener: and if you want, you can drag this down a little bit here. And now I'm going to go ahead and press on the cropping tool.
Bill Rosener: and I'm just gonna go ahead and grab this right corner.
Bill Rosener: And I can see about 400 right there. 399, 400. Okay, that's fine.
Bill Rosener: And then I can just press generate
Bill Rosener: and give it a few seconds here.
Bill Rosener: and it'll create some variations.
Bill Rosener: Okay? And then one of these is probably fine. Let me just go with that one right there. Okay.
Bill Rosener: at this point the next step we need to do is I'll tell you I'm gonna go ahead and turn off this window.
Bill Rosener: and maybe even minimize that. The next step we want to do is we've now increased
Bill Rosener: kind of the width of the image. We want to add some text, and then we want to do a gradient fill from red to white, and then maybe we throw a drop shot on there as well.
Bill Rosener: Okay, to add the text, I'm gonna go ahead and press on this little plus icon. So if you ever lose your layers.
Bill Rosener: Just press some window
Bill Rosener: and layers there, and way down at the bottom is a little plus icon. I'm gonna go and press on that. And that's gonna create a new layer.
Bill Rosener: And then I'm gonna go ahead. Mine's already here. But so again, I think maybe mentioned, if there's a little triangle there, that means there's more options. So press and hold, press and hold. And I'm gonna use the horizontal type mask tool.
Bill Rosener: Then I'm gonna get a nice thick, thick font size, aerial black.
Bill Rosener: and I'm gonna go with 100 on the pixel size. So aerial black 100.
Bill Rosener: And I'm just going to press right there
Bill Rosener: and then. I'm going to type text.
Bill Rosener: Now, what I'm do is I'm going to press the move icon or the rectangle marquee, rectangle marquee icon.
Bill Rosener: Now I can use the arrows on my keyboard
Bill Rosener: to kind of march that into position. Kind of get that center there.
Bill Rosener: Okay, now, we wanna do is the gradient fill.
Bill Rosener: and maybe the 1st step I would do is pick a shade of red
Bill Rosener: or whatever color I want and press. Ok, so I've got red to White, and that's kind of what I'm doing here. I'm going red to white.
Bill Rosener: Now. I'm going to go ahead and press on the gradient tool
Bill Rosener: and maybe go ahead, and if yours may not be set correctly here. But go ahead. Maybe a right click.
Bill Rosener: So press on the gradient tool. Come right up here and right click, and maybe hit reset on this tool just in case it's some set to something else. Now, I'm going to simply press over here on the T
Bill Rosener: and kind of drag off to the right to create a gradient from red to white, at which point I'm just gonna ahead and press on the rectangle marquee.
Bill Rosener: And now I'll tell you what, I'm going to go ahead and
Bill Rosener: right click on this and rasterize it.
Bill Rosener: Now it's just a collection of pixels, and once I've done that I can now go ahead and right click again. Go to blending options.
Bill Rosener: and I can throw a drop shadow in there
Bill Rosener: and then to click 1st of all, click the checkbox, then come over here and you can see we can change how bright it is.
Bill Rosener: And then even the distance.
Bill Rosener: And maybe I'm just going to go like maybe 5 or so on the distance.
Bill Rosener: and if you want that, you can play play around with some of these other parameters as well
Bill Rosener: hand hit. Okay.
Bill Rosener: so that's gonna kind of wrap it up here. So in this video, we kind of took an image.
Bill Rosener: we resized it, increasing kind of in width. And did a gradient actually use the horizontal time mass tool to add some text, and did a gradient fill, and even a drop shadow to kind of recreate that.
Bill Rosener: But the final final step in again is going to be to save your work
Bill Rosener: and to do that just simply come right up here to file. I just simply go to save a copy
Bill Rosener: this one could be. I'd maybe even use the Png here and just simply call this one assignment 10
Bill Rosener: and hit, save and make sure you know where you're saving it at.
Bill Rosener: And this point, you'll be ready to upload that to your website. So hopefully, that kind of wraps up this video. And I'll catch you next. Video. Thanks, Matt.