Bill Rosener: Hello, so, Doctor Bill, welcome back in this video, we'll be applying numerous transformations in adobe Photoshop to take the image over here on the left and convert it to the image on the right. One of the 1st steps we're going to do is I go ahead and use AI to give us a little bit more space. We're going to add some of text. Then we'll put changing the brightness contrast to make our text more readable. Then I'll be using the character and paragraph panel to kind of increase the height.
Bill Rosener: and then maybe even throw a little drop shadow underneath house plans. Okay, now that we won't know what we want to do. Let's get started. So the 1st step here want to do is press on assignment, 19 subdirectory. Go ahead and press on birdhouse, and then right click on that and save it. And I've already got mine open so I can just come right over here and start working.
Bill Rosener: So the very 1st step is, let's go ahead and increase the canvas size. Just give us a little bit more room to add some text to do that. I'm gonna go ahead and press on the crop tool. I'll tell you what, before I even do that, let me come up here to window, and I'm gonna choose, make sure the contextual task bar for AI is available there.
Bill Rosener: I'm not going to use the cropping tool grab. This left
Bill Rosener: part of the the image here can drag it to the left a little bit.
Bill Rosener: and I'm going to go ahead and hit, generate, and we'll see what AI can come up with. It. Looks like, just gonna take a few seconds here.
Bill Rosener: You'll have a 3 variations to select from.
Bill Rosener: and that one's looking good.
Bill Rosener: Okay.
Bill Rosener: let me go and minimize that.
Bill Rosener: Okay. Now, next step we want to do is I'm gonna go ahead and kind of change. The brightness contrast had a look kind of
Bill Rosener: make it so. Our text is more readable
Bill Rosener: to do that. I'm going to press on the rectangle marquee. I tell you what, I'm going to merge these 2 layers. I'm just going to right click here.
Bill Rosener: That was on the top layer. I'm going to right click on the top layer. And I'm going to go merge down, or I could actually. And there's only 2 layers I could merge visible as well.
Bill Rosener: Okay, now I'm gonna go ahead and kind of create an area. Right here.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna come up here to image
Bill Rosener: adjustments. Brightness, contrast.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna use legacy. And I'm gonna increase the brightness and decrease the contrast there. Just so my text stands out a little bit more readable and press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: okay, next step we want to do is we want to get a Blue Bird. But notice how we're going to increase the height of that text.
Bill Rosener: To do that. I'm going to go ahead. And 1st of all
Bill Rosener: select the color I want.
Bill Rosener: and up here I'll tell you when I press on the T.
Bill Rosener: This is the font color. Typically when you change over here. It also changes up there. I'm going to go ahead and I use aerial black.
Bill Rosener: Let me just see what about 60
Bill Rosener: where it says.
Bill Rosener: And I'm gonna go ahead and type
Bill Rosener: Blue
Bill Rosener: heard.
Bill Rosener: Okay, mine is already on 150. But let me go ahead and decrease this. I'm gonna come up here. This is part of the exercise here. I'm gonna press on the toggle character and paragraph panels.
Bill Rosener: and you can see mine is at 150, and most likely that is where yours would be.
Bill Rosener: It looks like I need to decrease this font size.
Bill Rosener: Let me see what the 48 does, and that's looking much better there.
Bill Rosener: and maybe I'll use the move tool and move it over.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so most likely when you press the type tool, I've got aerial black. 48.
Bill Rosener: Your
Bill Rosener: vertical scale is that 100, and that's what it looked like. But let's assume we want to get that a little bit higher, maybe 100. 5,070. Someone changed it to 170
Bill Rosener: and increase the height of that text.
Bill Rosener: And while you're here. I'll tell you about Megan. I'll highlight this.
Bill Rosener: Some other things you may want to play around with with would be spacing. Maybe I could much more space between my letters.
Bill Rosener: or maybe even go in the negative direction. But I'll just go with the default of 0.
Bill Rosener: Okay. So, taking a look at the assignment. We want to go ahead and up. We've increased the height and let's go ahead and put a stroke around the outside.
Bill Rosener: To do that I can just simply right click over here on Bluebird on this layer. I'm going to go to blending options.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to choose stroke.
Bill Rosener: And now go ahead and make sure you press the checkbox. Then go ahead and press on stroke, and you're going to get some options so you can see I can increase to let me zoom in on this a little bit here.
Bill Rosener: and maybe not quite so much.
Bill Rosener: Okay, I'm gonna right. Click on this again. I'm gonna go to blend in options.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna choose a stroke
Bill Rosener: and then press over here to make sure you're looking at the options so I can increase the size of the stroke I'm going to go with. Say, 2. But one thing you may want to do is if I go on the outside.
Bill Rosener: it's gonna kind of leave that same thick font. If I go in the center, it's kind of actually almost making the phone a little bit smaller. And then I can actually put that stroke completely on the inside, really making my characters even thunder. There, I'm gonna go with maybe center.
Bill Rosener: Okay? And then the last step here is we're gonna get house plans.
Bill Rosener: So let me go ahead and
Bill Rosener: move this out of the way. Actually, we're finished with the contextual task toolbar. So I can just go ahead and close that I'm not going to go ahead and use the type tool.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to type in
Bill Rosener: house
Bill Rosener: plans.
Bill Rosener: Okay. And right away I can see it's still scaling at that 170. So I'm gonna highlight it.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna change this back to
Bill Rosener: 100.
Bill Rosener: And it looks like I'm gonna need to decrease the font size here.
Bill Rosener: Okay? And that's looking good.
Bill Rosener: Okay? Now let's go ahead. And last step here would be to change the font color. So I'm gonna go ahead and highlight the text.
Bill Rosener: And to do that all I did was just go ahead and press here in the middle. Hit control A, and it will select all the text. I'm not going to go up here and press on the font color.
Bill Rosener: Get a shade of
Bill Rosener: orange and hit. Okay.
Bill Rosener: let me take a look at that. Yep, this one's got a stroke as well and a drop shadow.
Bill Rosener: So now what I'm going to do is simply right. Click on this.
Bill Rosener: Go to blended options.
Bill Rosener: Add a stroke.
Bill Rosener: Maybe I'll just go with a 1 on this one
Bill Rosener: and hit okay.
Bill Rosener: and I'll tell you about while I'm right there. I could have simply right clicked on this again.
Bill Rosener: Blending options.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna come on down here and add a drop shot on.
Bill Rosener: And okay.
Bill Rosener: okay, well, that's gonna kind of finish this video up. So what did we do is, we used AI to kind of increase the canvas size. I then select an area, change the brightness, contrast to make our text a little bit more readable. Then we went through the character and paragraph panel to increase the height of the text, and then finally added a drop shadow. So the last step you'd want to do is I go ahead and save this image, and just simply come up here to a file, save a copy and go ahead and save this one, I'd probably save it as a
Bill Rosener: a Jpeg, and just go ahead and call this assignment 19, and make sure you know where you're saving it and then save a copy there.
Bill Rosener: And okay.
Bill Rosener: well, hopefully, in this video again, you learn a little bit more about a little AI and working with some text, and I'll catch next video. Thanks a lot. Bye.