Both the Doctor Bill. Welcome back. In this video, you'll learn how to focus attention on a subject.
Maybe on your website, you're going to be a song guitars and you want to make sure that you're focusing attention on the guitar, as opposed to the person
Or maybe, in this case, I'm going to draw attention to this lady. And then finally, I'll maybe I'll show you a third one.
Right here shortly. The third image here, I want to focus attention on that girl in the red dress there. Let me go ahead and start off with this picture of this lady that gap.
And as I mentioned that you should find these images in the same area as you found a link to this video.
Well, what you're going to find is, regardless of how you're going to focus on the subject of this person or guitar. The first thing you need to do is get that subject on its own layer.
And before I even do that I'm going to create a copy of this layer and then that way.
A bad layer. I can adjust and then also I can turn the eye on or off show you the difference there. So the first step. I'm just create a copy of this layer so simply drag this layer.
To the Create New Layer icon which is just to the left of the trash camp. Okay, now what I need to do is get this person on
Her own layer. To do that, I'm going to come along and use the Quick Selection Tool yours could be on the magical and I'm gonna use the Quick Selection Tool. And initially, I'll be adding to it. Now I've got my brush at about eight
And what you're going to find is this red shirt. It's going to be really easy to grab is I just moved up instantly grabs it all.
Same thing over here with the arm, what you're going to find is, as we get definitely with hair. It's kind of like, okay, there's not much difference.
Right here between her hair in the background, you kind of see the same thing over here. So that's when it's going to get a little tricky here let me kind of see if I can come up here.
And her face was really easy. Again, as I get out here just a little bit further and see if it's
In that in there. But that's fine actually was almost hoping it would do that because now I can show you how to add, subtract, so I was adding now use the subtract and I'm going to go ahead and simply track some of these extra information, which I don't need there.
And you can see, sometimes it's you kind of gotta go back and forth. Now, many years the plus sign and see if I can add a little bit more back and out the longest minus and see what I can do over here on on this side and I don't have to be too perfect here.
And there we go. I'm going to call that perfect. I know it's not in a way, at this point, I'm going to go ahead and copy
Them appear to Edit, Copy in turn right around and paste edit and paste
And now what I've got is the subject on our own layer. So if I started playing around with the background. It's not going to affect her because she's on her own layer on the top layer there. Okay, let me show you a couple ways to
Kind of focus attention on this subject. One is I can go ahead and press right here on. That's the Create new film or adjustment layer.
And they could look at the shed and then come right along and choose great in before done. So you take a look up at black and white from my foreground and background color.
And maybe let me go ahead and choose a radio and I can see now it's kind of dark around her and then it gets lighter. Let me see what the reverse of that does
And that would be one option here and then I could even let me just go ahead and press OK. I can even adjust the pasty on that layer to kind of
So there's not too dark in the background. So here was, there was the before and there was the after. Okay, let me show you one more way to turn this off and I'm going to do in this case is simply blur the background.
So I'm going to simply make you can see what layer them on notice she's on her own layer. So it's not going to learn the subject. It's like a blur the background. So this case simply come right up here to filter. I'm going to go to a blur. Let me use a Gaussian Blur.
And feel free to adjust. If I went way out. I could really get it's a blurry. And I just wanted a little bit. Maybe I'll do about two or three here.
And I'll press OK. OK, so here was another way here was the before here was the after I kind of learned the background of hopefully to kind of help draw a little more
focused a little bit more attention on the subject, or in this case, and actually this is using the combination of the two. I use the gradient, though.
Okay, let me go ahead and come back over here. Let's take a look at this guitar. I'll do the exact same thing with it. Again, a lot of times, let me go ahead and create a copy of this, the background so you can see the before and the after.
I'm gonna go ahead and use again my quick selection, Tom.
And I probably should have a little bit larger brush slides here.
And I'm not going to be a very particular on this one.
Yeah, I'm just going to kind of add on up there and let's call it good. Okay, so I've got the guitar. I'm not going to go ahead and select the guitar. I'm not going to come along, I copy that.
And then turn right around and paste and in this case Ottoman do is highlights the background copy X. I've got two copies to this where I can kind of
Turn the eye on and off. And so I can show you the difference there are some highlights. I can see this is my active layer. I'm going to do is come up here to Image, Adjustments and come on down to the saturate there.
And here it is. Here was the before and here's the after and by kind of the saturating the background. I've hopefully draw more attention to the guitar. And then finally, one more here. This one, let me just show you here will create them red dress. I can use in the Quick Selection Tool.
Well, that one was easy. Grab them. The red dress all at once. And I tell you what, let me hit to control the for someone to create a copy of this layer.
I just simply be selected that I'm going to go ahead and now use the Quick Selection Tool. Grab the red dress. I'm going to come along and copy that.
And turn around and paste. Okay. Now, just like we did a second ago. I'm in. Come back here to this case. That's my top background layer.
Let me just go ahead and come up here to Image, Adjustments and the saturate
In there we go. So here was either before a lot of green and some other colors if I really wanted to draw attention. I'm sure you've seen many commercials like this.
With the cars, etc, where they really want to focus attention on to your kind of everything else is kind of
Blurry or doesn't stand out. And this is an easy ways to kind of be saturate that so in this case going color really left us out in her red dress. Well, hopefully. In this video, you'll learn how to focus attention on stuff on a subject. I'll catch the next video. Thank you.