Hello, Dr. Bill, welcome back in this video. We're gonna take a navigation button, maybe one pink one pointed to the right and we're gonna change it to a blue arrow pointing up. And this is kind of a common operation where you maybe have got some navigation buttons.
And you want some, maybe point in various directions. There.
Okay? So very 1st step you want to do is press on the 17 Sub Directory. You'd go ahead and click on right gift and save that.
I've already got mine open, Photoshop, and maybe in this case, the very 1st up, it's kind of a small image, but 1st up I might want to do is just go ahead and zoom in here a little bit.
And there we go.
And as soon as I look at this I can see that this is an index format. It's a get format, an index. A lot of operations are not available. I cannot create layers. So the 1st step I'm gonna do is come up here to image, mode and change this to RGB color.
Now, I can actually work with.
So if I want to get this, haven't maybe changed the color and also change the direction. So it's now a blue arrow pointing up.
One thing you might be inclined to do as well. Let me just come right over here.
I'm gonna go to image rotation, and I'm gonna go.
Counterclockwise.
But what you're gonna find is not only did it.
Shift.
Rotate the arrow, but it also shifted the background as well. Kind of that board around the outside.
And let's assume we want to leave that border alone.
So at this point, what I'm gonna do is go ahead and use the rectangle marquee. I'm just gonna highlight an area around this.
And that's gonna copy it.
Edit.
Copy, and then turn around and edits, paste.
And now I've got that on its own layer.
So now, what I'm gonna do is turn this off. I'll come back here to the background.
And I'm actually go ahead and remove it from the background. So I'll just highlight an area around the Arrow.
I'll go ahead and use my magic wand.
Come right over here and press.
Sample that color, and then I'll come right up here and hit edit.
And Phil.
And okay.
And then I'll go ahead and deselect that.
So now what I've got.
Is the arrow on its own, the arrow on its own layer. And then I've got this as well.
And if you wanted to, you could come and actually clean this up a little bit, I could use the magic wand. I could highlight oops, your active layer.
Highlights. Kind of this gray.
And just press Delete on the keyboard.
Remove that.
So now I've got the background, and I've got the arrow.
So maybe maybe at this point I'd want to. I'll go ahead and put this back on.
And then I can come right up here. You can see I've got the arrow as my active layer. I come right up here to
Edits.
I can come down to transform.
I could choose counterclockwise, or if I want, I could come up here and choose rotate.
This is, gonna allow me to specify any angle I want. But in this case I am going to put that negative 90 degrees. There.
Okay. At this point, if I wanted to change the color, I could go ahead and use the magic wand.
I can highlight kind of this pink.
I could go ahead and press on my foreground. Icon.
Pick my new shade of color.
Hand.
I usually use the keyboard shortcut all backspace. But just go ahead and come up here to where you can come up here and go edit.
Fill.
Foreground color and press. Okay.
And control. D.
And there we go.
So we now have.
This.
Arrow pointing up, and it's blue, and if you ever want you'd come over here and merge these 2 down if you wanted to. If you knew you weren't gonna touch this again.
Go ahead, merge that back into a single layer. You could then actually save it. Index, format.
Typically, I'm gonna go ahead and save this as a gift file, and that'd be the last step there. One thing you kind of noticed is, maybe when zoomed in kind of looks
And kind of see the stair step approach, but.
When I zoom back out it's gonna look pretty well normal again.
Okay, fine again. The last step would be to cut a file, save a copy.
And you could save it as a gif, or maybe as a Png, I'd probably go with the Png.
And.
Assignment.
17. Png.
And save it.
Well, hopefully, in this video, you learned how to take a navigation button. In this case an arrow.
Point in one direction we reverse or change the direction, and then we change the color.
And I'll catch next video. Thanks.