Bill Rosener: This is Doctor Bill. Welcome back in this video you learn how to focus attention on a subject, and this refers to any technique or method used to ensure that the viewer's attention is drawn to the main subject of the photograph. Numerous techniques can be used, such as the depth of field composition, lighting, color, contrast.
Bill Rosener: focus, sharpness, isolation, etc. We'll go ahead and take a look at a couple of different approaches here to kind of focus attention on the subject. Well, the 1st step you need to do is get some images. You could use your own images download some. But let's just go ahead and I'm gonna go walk, use the images here on the assignment. 26 subdirectory. So 1st up I'm gonna do. I would do is come here and press on guitar. Save this image.
Bill Rosener: lady
Bill Rosener: and photographer.
Bill Rosener: So 1st step is, get some images, and then second step is this, get those images loaded into adobe Photoshop. Let's go ahead and start with a guitar. Let's assume we're selling guitars. We really want the attention focused on the guitar and not the blue jeans or the sky. So the very 1st step we can do is just come right over here and press and use the
Bill Rosener: quick selection tool. And so, if yours is on something, maybe on the magic one, just press and hold, and we're gonna use the quick selection tool
Bill Rosener: I would want in this case. You'd make sure I've got this set to, plus and your brush size, I'll let you play around with it. I've got mine at 8
Bill Rosener: again. The images, the quality of these images are really poor here. So they're not
Bill Rosener: to just kind of save space on your hard drive there. So quick selection tool plus a I'm just gonna go ahead and start pressing over here on the guitar.
Bill Rosener: and
Bill Rosener: I don't have to do the best. Let me see if I got most of it. Here.
Bill Rosener: Come on up.
Bill Rosener: Okay, that's looking pretty good. But I really was particular. I could go ahead and maybe use the minus over here. Come ahead. I can see I had a little grass selected. But the bottom line, though, is, I'm just gonna press a control. C,
Bill Rosener: the copy edit copy. Now I'm gonna turn right around and hit edit and paste.
Bill Rosener: And I've got this on its own layer. And I tell you what I'm gonna go, do is create a copy of this. Just so I can emerge these 2. So I'm gonna highlight the background layer
Bill Rosener: and drag it down to the create new layer icon. So now I've got 2 copies of the background and layer one. And now what I'm gonna do is come to the background copy, and I'm gonna come right up here and I'm gonna give them an image adjustments. And what we're gonna do is desaturate. That kind of making that black and white everything but the guitar.
Bill Rosener: So
Bill Rosener: At this point, since I create this copy, I can go ahead and right click on this just this way. I can quickly show you merge down.
Bill Rosener: So now I can, just by toggling this one eye. I can show you that here is the before, and here is the after again, just trying to draw maybe attention to the guitar.
Bill Rosener: Let's do something almost identical. This with a photographer photographer, dot Jpeg, and let's just assume we want to draw attention to the the red dress here.
Bill Rosener: So the very 1st step I would maybe do is this create a copy of the background? So I'm just gonna drag this on down to the create new layer icon, create a copy of it just like before I'm gonna use the quick selection tool. I'm gonna change this to plus quick selection tool plus. I still got my feather at 8 and just
Bill Rosener: press around there just for a few seconds. And sure enough, I've got the dress, so now I can just press some.
Bill Rosener: I'll use it on keyboard shortcuts, so copy
Bill Rosener: and paste.
Bill Rosener: Now, if I take a look to my layers window. I've got that dress on its own layer. I could come back to the background copy.
Bill Rosener: I could come right up here, image, adjust
Bill Rosener: adjustments and choose a desaturate
Bill Rosener: and just, I can quickly show you the before and after. I'm going to right click on this and merge down. And so here was the before. And here was the after.
Bill Rosener: Okay. Finally, one more on this walk through this one here. And this thing, we want to draw focus attention on the lady. This 1st of all, I'm gonna show you the Non AI approach. I'm gonna create a copy of the background.
Bill Rosener: Then I would use the quick selection tool I could use the plus.
Bill Rosener: I could try and grab. Either I can either grab the background, or I could try to grab the lady, either one. This one you're gonna see is a little challenging, though, because
Bill Rosener: There's so much in the background. If the background is all one color. This would be a lot easier.
Bill Rosener: Okay.
Bill Rosener: I can see. I grabbed way too much, and now would come along and I would use the minus tool.
Bill Rosener: and I would try and
Bill Rosener: subtract a little bit, and then it's like, well, now, I subtracted too much.
Bill Rosener: Then I would come along and try and add to the current selection, and eventually I could either get the woman selected or the background, and then I'd be ready to go. But let's see what AI can do.
Bill Rosener: So the very 1st step that you want to do, if this is not visible, come up here to window.
Bill Rosener: And I'm gonna turn the contextual task bar on. So I just turn mine off momentarily, and I would come right up here. If yours is not there, come on down window contextual task bar and turn that on. And then I'm just gonna press on the select subject.
Bill Rosener: And this can take, you know, 1020 seconds or so.
Bill Rosener: But you found the Non AI approach when you're using the quick selection tool, and you're trying to add and then subtract can also take a little while. Take take a little time as well.
Bill Rosener: Okay, looks great looking great. So just like that, AI was able to select the subject. So at this point. I'm just going to create a copy of it. We come right up here to edit copy.
Bill Rosener: And then I'm gonna choose edit and paste.
Bill Rosener: And so now I've got the lady on her layer, and so now I can come to the background copy
Bill Rosener: and make sure nothing selected. So if you got the rectangle marking. Just press over here and make sure nothing is selected and a couple of options here. One we could desaturate that or this in this case. Let's go ahead and have a little B blur. So I'm gonna come up here. So make sure you can see I'm on
Bill Rosener: the middle layer here. I'm gonna come up here to filter.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to choose blur and calcium blur.
Bill Rosener: and I'll just I'll just go with the floor. You could feel free to really blur that, or hardly at all. But maybe I'll just put a value of 4 in there. And okay.
Bill Rosener: So again, here was the before a lot of detail in the background. Now we've kinda blurred that a little bit.
Bill Rosener: Another thing you could even maybe even do is add, possibly even graded fill if you wanted to, and I'm gonna go ahead and press on the curricular icon create a blank there
Bill Rosener: and then I'm gonna press on. So I've got a black and white right now I'm gonna press on. The gradient film. Got a gradient. I've got a radio film and I could even do something along these lines here.
Bill Rosener: and that right now is way too dark.
Bill Rosener: So what I could do is come along. If I want some of the background, it's just slightly decrease. The opacity there until I get something that I am happy with.
Bill Rosener: Well, hopefully, in this video, I would kind of well, the final step here would be to save this. Just come up here to file, save a copy, and then this would be an assignment
Bill Rosener: 26.
Bill Rosener: That Jpeg there.
Bill Rosener: Okay? Well, hopefully, in this video, we learned how to kind of focus attention on the subject. Whether that was the guitar or
Bill Rosener: the photographer folks tend to on the dress or in this last one here, the lady. But anyway, I'll catch you next. Video. Thanks a lot, Matt.