Bill Rosener: Oh, so, Dr. Bill, welcome back in this video, you're gonna learn how to create a transparent cube using 2 applications. We'll be using both Microsoft word and adobe Photoshop. What you can find is adobe. Photoshop is the more focuses
Bill Rosener: mainly and works better on raster images where there's some applications like Microsoft word adobe illustrator, inkscape that
Bill Rosener: excel at vector, images. So we'll go ahead and combine these 2 to create this transparent queue.
Bill Rosener: So the very 1st step I'm doing is open up, Microsoft. Word.
Bill Rosener: I'm not going to press right up here to insert.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go to shapes
Bill Rosener: and under rectangles. I'm gonna go ahead and create a little rectangle here.
Bill Rosener: I'm not gonna right. Click on that. That's a right click. I'm gonna go to format shape.
Bill Rosener: And I'm going to come over here and choose no fill.
Bill Rosener: Then, under line.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to choose Black.
Bill Rosener: and if I wanted to, maybe I'll increase them the width to 2.
Bill Rosener: Okay. Now, I want to create a copy of that to create a copy. I can highlight it, press control. C to copy control V to paste. Or if I just simply hold the control button down, see that little plus sign that appears.
Bill Rosener: If that appears, you can just create a copy.
Bill Rosener: And then, since this is kind of creating 3D, this one needs to be just a little bit bigger. So I'm gonna go ahead and drag it out. There.
Bill Rosener: Now, all we need to do is connect some of these points together. To do that I'll come up here to insert. I'll go to shapes. I'll go to lines.
Bill Rosener: and I'll go ahead and
Bill Rosener: grab a couple of these
Bill Rosener: insert shapes
Bill Rosener: and lines
Bill Rosener: and one more.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so I'm kind of been creating some blue lines. Now, what I'm gonna do is hold the shift key down.
Bill Rosener: and that's going to allow me to add to the current selection. So I've got all 4. I can now come over here and change the color to black
Bill Rosener: and the width, maybe 2.
Bill Rosener: Okay. And that's looking great. Okay? So we created a little cube that would have been much more challenging to create that in adobe Photoshop.
Bill Rosener: and it was here. And even here I've got the option, hey? If I want some of these lines dashed no big deal, I can just simply highlight the lines
Bill Rosener: and make some of them dash there.
Bill Rosener: Okay, now, for the next step is, we want to create a copy of this.
Bill Rosener: and this is gonna vary from one keyboard to the next.
Bill Rosener: Not sure if I even show you my keyboard, but
Bill Rosener: there's a print screen button
Bill Rosener: at the top.
Bill Rosener: and in my case I've got to hold the function button down in order to do the print screen. So I'm going to
Bill Rosener: again. Almost every keyboard is going to have a print screen button. So see if you can find the print screen button kind of typically at the top of your keyboard. So I'm gonna hold the function key down and press print screen.
Bill Rosener: I'm not sure if this would even. I'll put it up there. Gives you
Bill Rosener: can see it there.
Bill Rosener: Okay. So now it's in the clipboard. Now I can come back to Adobe Photoshop.
Bill Rosener: And I'm just going to hit file new.
Bill Rosener: And whatever the default size was, I'm just gonna hit correct.
Bill Rosener: And now I'm going to paste
Bill Rosener: and that's going to grab some information that was kind of outside
Bill Rosener: screen recording here. And I'm just gonna go ahead. And I'm I'm right over here.
Bill Rosener: Select this area right here.
Bill Rosener: and then I'm going to crop it, and to do that come right up here to image and crop.
Bill Rosener: and maybe go and zoom in here a little bit.
Bill Rosener: Okay. Now we wanna do is remove the white. And to do that, I'm gonna 1st of all turn the eye off on the background layer.
Bill Rosener: Now, this is my active layer.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna hit control. D make sure nothing selected.
Bill Rosener: But now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come down and I'm gonna choose, select color range
Bill Rosener: hands.
Bill Rosener: This is so either it's white or black, the pixels. For the most part we can maybe a decrease that doesn't us a little bit. There, I'm just going to position. My cursor right here in the white and press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: now, I'm going to press the delete on the keyboard.
Bill Rosener: and just like that, I've removed all the white. And if you see this checkboard pattern that means you're going to have a transparent image. So now what I'm going to do, I'm going to save it. If we take a look I'll save it here in atem. The whole thing in here is a file right now. I'll be opening that up here in a second. But let me come along and save it. I'm going to come to file save a copy.
Bill Rosener: And I'll tell you what I'm gonna actually call this one
Bill Rosener: assignments
Bill Rosener: 36.
Bill Rosener: I was going to just call it queue. But just gonna help you. It's assignment 36. I'm saving it in this directory and I'll press, save
Bill Rosener: and hit. Okay.
Bill Rosener: okay, so I've saved it in the directory you would just simply upload. But now let me show you the fact that it is transparent.
Bill Rosener: So I've got a little
Bill Rosener: file here. Temp, dot. HTML.
Bill Rosener: And I need to actually change this to assignment
Bill Rosener: 36,
Bill Rosener: Todd Kaft.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so I'm now going to save this file
Bill Rosener: file, save.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to right, click on it
Bill Rosener: and open a default, browser.
Bill Rosener: And sure enough, we can see the pink shining through. But if I was to come back here and change this to
Bill Rosener: Say light blue.
Bill Rosener: and save this.
Bill Rosener: then come back to my browser and hit refresh. Sure enough, that image is shining through
Bill Rosener: well, hopefully in this video. You learned how to create a transparent
Bill Rosener: image. And we used a combination of
Bill Rosener: Microsoft word which excels at creating vector images. Then we use Microsoft or adobe Photoshop to remove the white. And then we saved it to create our transparent image. We'll hope in this video again, you learn a little bit about transparency and combining applications. And I'll catch you next. Video. Thanks that, bye.