Bill Rosener: This is Doctor Bill. Welcome back in this video, you're going to learn some more essential Photoshop skills. We'll also be reviewing some skills we looked at as we take this calendar and convert it into this image. Notice, we kind of got a border kind of a green
Bill Rosener: background with a kind of a Belvin and boss background we're gonna skew the calendar.
Bill Rosener: add a little text, maybe even a drop shouted to the text. So 1st step you'd want to do is I press on the assignment 37 subdirectory. Go ahead and press on, Calendar, and let's save that file.
Bill Rosener: Okay, at this point go ahead and open that up into adobe, Photoshop.
Bill Rosener: and that's where we are.
Bill Rosener: But the very 1st step I see is that this file is an index format. So I can't create layers, and there's a lot of other options that are grayed out.
Bill Rosener: So the 1st step I'd want to do is I come up here to image mode and go to RGB, color, red, green, blue.
Bill Rosener: Okay, maybe at this point let's go ahead and increase. So we have.
Bill Rosener: Take a look here, I wanna be able to put a little border around the outside.
Bill Rosener: So I'm just going to come up here and come to image.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go to a canvas size.
Bill Rosener: and let's just add
Bill Rosener: 20.
Bill Rosener: That's gonna add 10
Bill Rosener: around all the slides there.
Bill Rosener: So notice I've got this centered.
Bill Rosener: If it was over here. It'd be like adding 20 on one side if I positioned here. It's going to add 10 all the way around the outside and then press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: okay, now, I'm gonna go ahead and create a copy of this layer.
Bill Rosener: I can
Bill Rosener: control J, or I can drag this down to the create new layer icon, or if I want, I can just right click and duplicate. But I've got a copy now. So anyway, I'm going to go ahead and turn this eye off momentarily.
Bill Rosener: and if we take a look
Bill Rosener: kind of let's say somewhere going with the shade of green, I'm gonna go ahead. Maybe I'll press this off first.st
Bill Rosener: Now I'm gonna press on the foreground background. Icon, you open my color picker window, get a light shade of green, get something that you can go both, maybe lighter and darker and then press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: so I've got the background copy is my active layer. I'm now going to simply come up here and select all or hit control. A,
Bill Rosener: okay? Then I'm gonna come right up here and edit. I'm gonna go fill
Bill Rosener: foreground color normal 100% and press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: And now I'm going to deselect that
Bill Rosener: either control D or come up here and deselect that.
Bill Rosener: Okay. Now want to add a Belvin and boss. But what you're going to find is if I right click over here, my blended options aren't available.
Bill Rosener: So I'm just gonna
Bill Rosener: duplicate this layer
Bill Rosener: again. I can just simply right click on it, duplicate
Bill Rosener: and create a copy.
Bill Rosener: Now, what I can do is right. Click here. And sure enough, the blended options are available on this layer.
Bill Rosener: Okay? And what I'm gonna do is I come over here to bevel and boss
Bill Rosener: and we'll kind of create.
Bill Rosener: Ow.
Bill Rosener: I press on that, check it and then press over here, and I've got mine and about well, maybe I should do 10,
Bill Rosener: because that's how much, I added
Bill Rosener: on the extra canvas. Then press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: okay, at this point I'm gonna go and turn this eye on. But what you find is when we increase the canvas size. It wouldn't put some white here. So we need to remove that. So I'm gonna make sure the background copy is my active layer. I'm gonna go and choose the magic wand.
Bill Rosener: I've got my tolerance way down at one. I'm just gonna highlight the white and press delete.
Bill Rosener: and if you ever want, just come along. And if you get these layers mixed up just double click right here or click and type calendar.
Bill Rosener: Okay.
Bill Rosener: now, what we're going to do is kind of skew this image. We're going to take the top over, and we're going to take this corner and go over and down.
Bill Rosener: So, making sure the calendars. Your active layer come right up here to edit.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go to a transform and then up to skew.
Bill Rosener: edit, transform skew.
Bill Rosener: So I'm gonna take this corner and just drag it simply to the right.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to take this corner, drag it to the left a little bit, then turn around and drag it on down
Bill Rosener: at this point. I'm just gonna go ahead and press anywhere
Bill Rosener: to
Bill Rosener: Deselect that.
Bill Rosener: Okay, maybe one optional step is I think over here. I actually added a little kind of some lighting effects. An easy way to maybe add some lighting effects is I'm gonna go ahead and highlight this press control. J. Well, create a copy. However, you do that.
Bill Rosener: Duplicate the layer that with I mess up. If I want to decrease the piston I can.
Bill Rosener: So now I'm gonna come right up here and I'm gonna go to filter, render. And I could choose a lens flare. I could also do a gradient film using a radio white to black. I'm just using lens flare, and I'll go ahead and kind of press over here. You can kind of. See wherever I click.
Bill Rosener: it's going to.
Bill Rosener: had kind of a lens flare.
Bill Rosener: and we could write that up quite a bit.
Bill Rosener: Pick different lens, type, etc. And I'm just going to press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: okay, that is really brighten that up. So now, what I'm gonna do is simply decrease the paste on this layer.
Bill Rosener: So here's that 100%
Bill Rosener: here, it's at nothing.
Bill Rosener: and maybe I'll just go ahead and ever so slightly add a little bit kind of to lighten up this corner here.
Bill Rosener: Okay, the next step and the final step is just add some text calendar and events.
Bill Rosener: So I'm going to go ahead and press on the type tool.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna type, a calendar
Bill Rosener: lowercase
Bill Rosener: and events.
Bill Rosener: Okay, maybe I'll use the move tool position that over here a little bit. Just so it all fits on
Bill Rosener: calendar. Okay. Finally, last step here is, let's come up here to right click on that realist like this text. Jump out. I'm gonna go down to up to blending options right? Click, blending options.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna come down here and choose, drop shadow
Bill Rosener: and
Bill Rosener: feel free to play around with some of these, you can change some, maybe the angle
Bill Rosener: where it's coming from, etc, there and press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: okay, well, final step would be to save this image. And this is assignment 37. So just come right up here to file, save as
Bill Rosener: I'd call this. Maybe a Png, actually save a copy.
Bill Rosener: Try that again. File.
Bill Rosener: save a copy.
Bill Rosener: choose the Png
Bill Rosener: and
Bill Rosener: assignment
Bill Rosener: 37,
Bill Rosener: and save.
Bill Rosener: And okay.
Bill Rosener: okay, then that image is saved and ready for you to upload it. And I'll catch the next video. Thanks. Everyone.