Bill Rosener: Oh, this is Dr. Bill. Welcome back in this video we'll be rendering clouds, selecting the inverse and adding a drop shadow. As we recreate the following image, well, now that we know what to do, let's go ahead and I get started. So I'm the 1st step I'm do is open up adobe Photoshop. I'm gonna come right up here to a file. Choose new.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go with, say, 400 pixels
Bill Rosener: on with
Bill Rosener: 300 pixels on the height 72 for the resolution and go ahead and press create.
Bill Rosener: Well, the 1st step we wanted to do was kind of create. Maybe I'll go with like a green and white background to do that, I'm gonna simply go ahead. And right now I press the default foreground background. Icon. I'm gonna get black for the foreground and white
Bill Rosener: for the background. I'm just gonna go ahead and press the foreground color, and maybe I'll come over here and get a shade of cream
Bill Rosener: and press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: So now I've got green and white.
Bill Rosener: So now I'm going to come up here and I'm going to go up to a filter.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna come on down to a render, and I'm gonna choose clouds.
Bill Rosener: and that's going to kind of render some green and white clouds. And if you don't like these well, one thing you can do is come over here and change your foreground color, maybe make it a little darker, possibly add a little green to the background color as well. But you can also come right up here, and you can see the keyboard shortcut is control alt F.
Bill Rosener: So if I didn't like those, I can just con continue to hit control all F and generate new clouds.
Bill Rosener: Okay, taking a look at the next step on. This is, we had a burnt edge around the outside to do that. I'm gonna place that on its own layer.
Bill Rosener: Maybe I'll go ahead and press on the create new layer icon right over here right away, and that's gonna add a blank layer.
Bill Rosener: I'm now going to go ahead and use the lasso tool. I'm gonna set my feather to say, maybe 10 pixels. And I'm just gonna kind of go around the perimeter here.
Bill Rosener: Nothing too exciting. And if you want. You can even actually go outside the image.
Bill Rosener: Okay, what is now selected is everything inside. What I'm gonna do is select what's outside to do that I'm gonna come right up here to select. And I'm gonna select the inverse.
Bill Rosener: And then, since we wanted some black clouds, I'm going to simply press on the default foreground background. Icon, that's going to get black.
Bill Rosener: And then I'm going to come right up here and edit Phil.
Bill Rosener: and choose the foreground color and hit. Ok.
Bill Rosener: At this point I'll go ahead and deselect that
Bill Rosener: just press in control. D,
Bill Rosener: okay, fine. Let's go ahead and add some a text. We're gonna press on. Well, I'm gonna get me get a chance, maybe change the font color.
Bill Rosener: Actually, here's where you really change it. But a lot of times when I change it here, it also changes it up here. So at this point I can see I've got kind of a dark green. I'm just gonna go ahead and add some text.
Bill Rosener: Maybe I'll go ahead and highlight this text. Let's see if I want. If I can get this up to a hundred pixels.
Bill Rosener: and that's looking better. Now use the move tool and reposition that.
Bill Rosener: Okay? And then final last step is we're gonna go ahead and add a drop shadow. And to do that, I can just simply right click
Bill Rosener: on the layer, come down to blendant options.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna choose drop shadow. And then so the 1st time. Select the checkbox, then come over here
Bill Rosener: and and press to display your options and feel free to adjust these a little bit here, maybe, the distance
Bill Rosener: we can see we can increase that. I've got mine.
Bill Rosener: Let me just go with 8 on all of them here.
Bill Rosener: and you can also another thing which you might want to do is adjust. The opacity here, it's at 0. And here it's really kind of at 70%.
Bill Rosener: And finally, press. Okay, so here's kind of the difference with that drop shadow with and without the drop shadow, you can kind of see it kinda jumps off the screen in.
Bill Rosener: So finally, the last step would be to save this and just go up to file.
Bill Rosener: save a copy
Bill Rosener: and just go ahead and call this assignment of 16, I would probably call this one save it as either way, Jpeg. Or Png.
Bill Rosener: and maybe I'll just go with the the Jpeg here
Bill Rosener: and then again, assignment
Bill Rosener: 16
Bill Rosener: and press save.
Bill Rosener: Okay? Well, hopefully, in this video, you learned how to create some clouds.
Bill Rosener: add variations of those, go ahead and select an area, select the inverse. And then finally, we worked with the drop shadow on the text. I'll catch the next video. Thanks a lot. Bye.