Bill Rosener: Hello, Doctor Bill, welcome back in this video you learn some essential Photoshop skills and review some other skills already covered. As we take these 2 images and create this image, maybe a little more detail. What to remove the background around the flower, that green, maybe even throw a drop shadow. We'll take the leaf, maybe rotate a little bit, desaturate the top, add some gradient, fill text, and place that on an image kind of with the blue.
Bill Rosener: the top, 2 thirds blue and the bottom 3rd black. Okay. The 1st step we want to do is get some images. So maybe you want to press on the assignment. 33. Subdirectory if you're using images, provided I click on Flower dot jpeg
Bill Rosener: and leave and save those 2 images.
Bill Rosener: I've already got these 2 images open. So the very 1st step I'd want to do is
Bill Rosener: open up adobe Photoshop, and I'm ready to go here.
Bill Rosener: So the 1st step here is a Florida Jpeg. When you're going to remove the screen, I'll show you a couple of ways of doing that. But before I do that I want to get a layer below there, and the easiest way to do that is to create a new layer, and I could press control J on windows. I could go ahead and drag this down to the create new layer icon, or I can simply right click and duplicate the layer
Bill Rosener: and press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: now, I'm going to turn the eye up on the background, so my active layer
Bill Rosener: is the background copy. And now what I could do is use them
Bill Rosener: quick selection tool.
Bill Rosener: So your chance yours might be on the magic wand to simply press and hold. Choose the quick selection tool, and we could go around the outside.
Bill Rosener: just like so.
Bill Rosener: And then I can press a delete on the keyboard to remove that.
Bill Rosener: And I'm gonna deselect that control tape. And if you wanted to. If you.
Bill Rosener: when is get used little AI, you could simply have selected that image and remove the background as well.
Bill Rosener: Oops. Let me. I'll go ahead and
Bill Rosener: turn that off.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so now I've got the flower on its own layer. Now we're gonna do is increase the height of this image. To do that. I can come up here to image. I'm gonna go to a canvas size
Bill Rosener: currently set 1 50. Let's go with 350 pixels
Bill Rosener: and by pressing this icon, the new image is gonna appear below. So I'll press. Okay, and now I've got this.
Bill Rosener: Okay. Now, what I'm gonna do is come here to the background.
Bill Rosener: Make that my active layer.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go ahead and I'll change that to black. Momentarily I'm gonna press on the foreground color.
Bill Rosener: maybe get a light shade of blue
Bill Rosener: press. Ok, I'm now going to highlight the top 2 thirds
Bill Rosener: make sure I'm on the background.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna come up here to edit fill.
Bill Rosener: and I'm going to choose the foreground color. Make sure your blended mode is set to normal and press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: Then I can select the bottom, and I can either select that or I can just simply come up here and go select inverse.
Bill Rosener: Get that back to Black
Bill Rosener: and choose edits.
Bill Rosener: Phil.
Bill Rosener: foreground color. And okay.
Bill Rosener: And this point, I'm going to hit that control. D, to deselect that.
Bill Rosener: Okay? So taking a look,
Bill Rosener: back here to what we're trying to do. Maybe I'll throw that little drop shadow in there
Bill Rosener: just simply right click on.
Bill Rosener: It's the background copy. If you ever want. You can double click on that and just call this flower, for example.
Bill Rosener: So I'm gonna go ahead and right click on this image, I'm gonna go to blending options.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to choose drop Shadow.
Bill Rosener: And then, if I want, I could come press right over here next to drop Shadow, and I can specify
Bill Rosener: where I want the light source to come from.
Bill Rosener: At that point I'll press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: okay. So now we've got the flower. Next step is to get that leaf.
Bill Rosener: and I'll go ahead and open it up. And again we could use AI. But the 1st step I want to do is I create a copy of that. So I'm gonna right. Click, I'm gonna duplicate the layer.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to turn it off.
Bill Rosener: And in this case, maybe I could have written using the magic wand
Bill Rosener: I'm just going to, or the quick selection to. I'm going to use the magic wand, and I'll tell you what. Let me start off with a low value, say 10,
Bill Rosener: and you can see if I do that. I'm going to get a lot of white in addition to the green.
Bill Rosener: but if I go too high
Bill Rosener: and I almost need to zoom in. But you can see right now I'm not. I'm losing part of my stem.
Bill Rosener: So maybe let's see what 100 looks like.
Bill Rosener: And I'm gonna call that good. So what I've done is I used the magic wand tolerance at 100.
Bill Rosener: I'm on this layer here. I can now just simply press the delete key on the keyboard.
Bill Rosener: Now, I'm gonna turn around and hit control a to select. Okay? And on keyboard. Shortcut, some select all.
Bill Rosener: Now I'm going to copy this edit and copy.
Bill Rosener: Then I'm going to come right back here to my flower.
Bill Rosener: and I'm going to paste.
Bill Rosener: Then I'll go ahead and use the move tool, maybe drag that on down a little bit.
Bill Rosener: Then, as I mentioned, we're gonna take that leaf and rotate a little bit.
Bill Rosener: So I'm just going to come up here to edit.
Bill Rosener: transform, rotate.
Bill Rosener: and we'll go ahead and take the leaf and rotate a little bit.
Bill Rosener: Then I'm gonna put to apply the transformation. Just press on any to. I'll press on the rectangle marquee.
Bill Rosener: The next step is, maybe we'll go ahead and desaturate that remove a little color at the top.
Bill Rosener: So make sure that's your active layer. I'm going to highlight that portion in the blue.
Bill Rosener: Come right up here to image adjustments.
Bill Rosener: and I'll choose desaturate.
Bill Rosener: Okay, I think the last step is to add some text looks like a great, and fill from white to black on some text, and go ahead and put your maybe your 1st name last name here.
Bill Rosener: So now I'm going to use. The
Bill Rosener: here's maybe on the regular tax.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to press and hold and use the horizontal
Bill Rosener: type mass tool.
Bill Rosener: I've got aerial black 50 points.
Bill Rosener: I'm just going to go ahead and press.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna type in tax.
Bill Rosener: Now, what I do is I'm going to press on
Bill Rosener: the rectangle marquee tool.
Bill Rosener: If that is pressed. I can now use the arrows on my keyboard
Bill Rosener: to reposition that tax.
Bill Rosener: and right now I can see I've got black to white.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go ahead and press on the gradient fill.
Bill Rosener: and if I went this direction
Bill Rosener: I could go white to black, or if I wanted to go this direction.
Bill Rosener: I can go
Bill Rosener: start at the bottom and go on up.
Bill Rosener: and I think that's looking pretty good. Let me take a look here if I wanted to. It looks like the leap is actually on top of the text.
Bill Rosener: Let me drive the text up a little bit, so it's clearly obvious
Bill Rosener: it is on top.
Bill Rosener: but if I simply take layer one and drag it above.
Bill Rosener: now the leap is on top of the tax, and in effect covering up a little portion of it, and maybe what I could do is highlight
Bill Rosener: the text.
Bill Rosener: and I've got my move tool selected, and I can move that on down a little bit there.
Bill Rosener: Okay, I'm gonna call that good. So in this video, we did several transformations there as we took these 2 images, and we created this one, and then the final step would be to save it and just go up to a file, save a copy.
Bill Rosener: and just call this assignment
Bill Rosener: 30, 33
Bill Rosener: dot Jpeg
Bill Rosener: and save.
Bill Rosener: okay, then you'll upload that to your website so hopefully that wraps this one up and I'll catch the next video. Thanks a lot.