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[Tips & Tricks on Photoshop & Digital Imaging]
Welcome, and welcome to this section of the Design for Impact session.
Wherever you are out there today, thank you for joining us.
My name is Michael Stoddart, and I'm going to be showing you some tips and techniques
for Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Okay, so let's get started and see what we've got.
As a matter of fact, what I'm going to do is I'm going to start with 5 tips in 5 minutes.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to start with 5 dont's. Okay?
So we are going to have a look at cropping.
Now when you crop in Photoshop, it's permanent. If it's cropped, it stays cropped.
But I'm going to show you how if you use Camera Roll, so right mouse click in Bridge,
open in Camera Roll, and you can do nondestructive cropping using Camera Roll.
So I can pick out the Crop tool, and I [no audio] underneath the Crop tool we have
these aspect ratios, and more and more as you design work for
tablet devices and as we'll see later video,
you're going to need to worry more about the aspect ratio than about necessarily the pixels,
so one of the great things I've got here because soon I will be going to my tablet,
is the 9:16 aspect ratio.
So you may think, well Michael, I can do that in normal Photoshop,
why would I want to crop in Camera Roll?
Well let me do that. Save it, and actually when I do that, I'll click Done,
and it's now cropped, but still I can then open it back up in Camera Roll--it's still editable,
so you don't have to save lots and lots and lots of different versions
of your image because you've got different crops. Okay?
So I can bring it down, crop it right down there, select Done,
and that re-crops it.
So now you don't have to worry about having 5 different images with 5 different crops.
It's just 1 image, and you used Camera Roll to crop it. Okay.
So that will speed you up.
Another don't--my favorite don't. Don't use the Pen tool, okay?
Photoshop is extraordinarily bad at selecting based on shapes, okay?
There is no select Hair tool in Photoshop, as much as you'd like it.
There is no select Bottle tool in Photoshop because Photoshop doesn't know the shape.
So what a lot of people do is they'll use the Pen tool after getting Photoshop CS5,
they'll use the Pen tool, and laboriously go around and draw out the shape because
Photoshop doesn't know the shape, okay?
So I'm going to tell you something a little better.
We have a whole selection system based on color.
If you select based on color, and Photoshop is really good at selecting based on color,
you're going to get a better result.
But I'm also going to show you something that has been neglected for a long time,
and this here is the Background Eraser Tool.
Now I know what you are thinking, dont use the Background Eraser Tool.
It's rubbish. Okay?
It used to be, but the engineers have really improved the Background Erasure Tool,
and the reason why is you've got to press this button here first.
Okay? It starts up with this--Continuous. Press this button, move over and
Protect Foreground Color because Protect Foreground Color means that
because it's now a brush, and I can then use the Alt key to pick
the foreground color. Very quickly I can then remove the background.
Now, I'm going to do this very rapidly, and I know what you are thinking--
you're going oh yeah, see there's some fringing happening around there.
So let me just zoom out a bit. I'll just move it up.
We'll keep going, and I am protecting that foreground color,
but I haven't had to worry about using or selecting the shape,
I've just selected the color.
So now what I do is I use part of Photoshop's selection engine,
and I use Refine Edge.
Grab any selection tool, but once you've got the start of the selection,
whether it be hair or smoke or flame or anything,
use the Refine Edge tool, and very rapidly--I'm not going to go through all the tools--
but very rapidly, I'm going to use Smart Radius to turn that on, click OK,
and there you deselect that, and there you have it--a bit of work,
and that's going to be much, much faster than trying to do it with the Pen tool.
Not the least of which, it's going to enable you to do this where there is no edge.
You can't use the Pen tool to select those fillers,
so techniques using Refine Edge will help you get a better selection.
Here's another thing--don't use Unsharp Mask.
Unsharp Mask is the way everybody uses in order to--I'll go to 100%--
in order to sharpen up an image.
But the trouble is is that it applies the same values across the entire image.
Well, again our engineers came back to a tool that has been neglected for some time,
and in Photoshop CS5, the new Sharpen Tool has a brand new setting called
Protect Detail. So turn that on--Protect Detail.
This is a brand new algorithm, best in the business,
and if you don't have Protect Detail on, what used to happen was this.
That's why noone uses the Sharpen tool, but it's better now in Photoshop CS5.
I'm going to undo that, turn on Protect Detail, and now I can sharpen specific areas
of my image without having to rely on masks, without having to rely on layers,
without having to do all that extra work, and it's the best sharpening algorithm out there,
in my humble opinion.
So again all of these tips and techniques--these hidden gems--that will enable you to
speed up your work with Photoshop CS5.
Now one of the big features of Photoshop CS5 was the Content-Aware Fill.
Great feature! Content-Aware Fill enables you to rapidly improve your retouching
but most of the time, it's being used as a selection--you have to select something.
So again, it's great, but if I then bring up Content-Aware Fill--press that--it's good,
but I have to go through that selection process first.
So let me show you a much better way to use Content-Aware Fill
that will give you precision as well as a great result,
and I'm going to use Content-Aware Fill, not as a selection but as a brush.
How do you get Content-Aware Fill to work as a brush?
Well I use the Spot Healing Brush, and right up here is Content-Aware.
The Healing Brush is Content-Aware.
Now because it's Content-Aware, I can define it as a brush very, very small precise brush,
and because it's a very, very small precise brush, I'm going to use the paths
to draw a path and here, I can make that brush exactly the size I want.
Let's make it a little smaller.
So it's much more precise and much more accurate,
and now by using the Pen tool for its proper process of creating paths,
I can stroke that, and it is much more precise and it gets rid of all of that--
need to adjust that there.
So what it does is it enables me to use Content-Aware Fill
much more accurately as a brush along paths.
Great for removing wires. Great for removing any line work in an image.
The last thing I'm going to show you is when we do compositing.
Now everybody knows how to create a photomerge.
Get all your images up--there's the Photomerge there.
So what I'm going to do though is select that background.
This is something you've seen before. Select all the transparent pixels--
just inverse that--
and increase that selection a little bit, modify, so I'm going to expand all those,
so I get a little bit of the image, and then use Content-Aware Fill to fill in that background.
But there's still a problem with that--that's something you've seen a number of times--
that seems to be the NAS Photoshop CS5,
and there it is there, a great way to expand your photo merges.
Trouble is though there is still a lot of distortion in that image.
So I'm going to go to the Filter menu and use Lens Correction as the first step,
and because the Photomerge has stripped out the metadata,
I'm going start to the Custom--let's move to Custom--and I'm going to remove
some of that distortion by using this, and what I'm trying to do here is straighten up
both the verticals and that horizontal line there.
So I'm going to need some of the horizontal perspective as well--to move that--
and some of the vertical perspective here as well--oops, going the wrong way.
So it's getting rid of some of that distortion, but it's still not there.
I need to do something else to this--click OK--and that is I need to just subtly
re-image that. This is where Puppet Warp comes in.
Now Puppet Warp is not just for manipulating people as if they're puppets.
I'm going to use Puppet Warp, and I'm going to click and pin the corners,
so a nice hidden gem here is to pin down the corners of your image first,
and then I'm just going to do this roughly for the purposes of time. I'm just going to distort
that a little, and you can see that by manipulating using Puppet Warp,
I'm able to get that line there horizontal and fix up my imagery.
So use Puppet Warp not just for individual elements on an image,
but the entire image as well.
So there's 5 Don'ts for Photoshop CS5 that will improve your work,
and some tips and techniques there--a couple of hidden gems to get you through.
So the other thing that I want to talk to you about in Photoshop CS5
is the fact that everybody has a camera these days.
Now it may just be you've got a camera in a mobile phone,
or you may have a DSLR camera,
but everybody is taking video.
As a Photoshop user, more and more you're going to be asked to work with video.
It's images, isn't it? It's just Photoshop, but can you do anything with it?
Well, the answer of course is yes. With Photoshop CS5 Extended,
part of the Design Premium in our other suites, we can take video
and work with it directly in Photoshop,
and the best thing about this is that anything that I'm used to doing in Photoshop,
I can do on video.
So what I'm going to do is simply change this to my Motion workspace,
and this is actually a piece of video.
Now I've just kept it short for the moment, so that's a piece of video there.
So this was shot with a Canon 5D.
So what I need to do though is it has the same
distortion of the lens that we saw with the still image.
Now something that you can't even do in Premier or After Effects is use Photoshop
to correct video lens distortion.
Using exactly the same tools that you saw me there,
except this time, I'm actually going to manually--
with a great support of ours, Canon--
I'm going to say that it's a Canon--let's see--5D Mark II--
and the lens I'm going to use--this one here,
and that has corrected the lens distortion of my video, of my dear DSLR.
Something that not even Premier or After Effects can do yet.
So I'm going to cancel there.
The other thing I want to show you is because we are using video,
and we want to be creative is that we can apply filters to video
in the same way that we apply filters to still images in Photoshop.
So what I need to do is--let me first of all--I'm going to swap back to Essentials here--
so it's a piece of video.
I'm going to go to the Filter menu, and I'm going to use a new set of filters
called Pixel Bender.
Now these are really cool filters that you can download from labs.adobe.com.
Go here, and download Pixel Bender,
and they're really fast filters that let you work in Photoshop
using the GPU of your computer.
So again, Filter, Pixel Bender, and I'm going to do the one everybody does.
Let's just do it very quickly, and we're going to make this an Oilpaint. So there is that.
Click OK. Now you can do any filter, and the first time you do this
if you're doing it right now,
if you're following along with me at home or in the office, you'll see that
when I go back and select my Motion is that it only does 1 frame,
and you go that didn't work! Why did that not work?
The secret--the tip and technique to working with video in Photoshop is
to make sure that you turn the video into--or the video layer--into a Smart Object.
Convert the video layer to a Smart Object,
and then you can apply those filters and fix over the top of it.
So that's what I'm going to do.
The video is now a Smart Object,
and I'm going to do exactly the same thing and simply go to Filter, Pixel Bender--
pick anyone you like. I'm going to do Oilpaint. We'll really increase this.
Rough it up. You get the idea. Click OK,
and now Photoshop will go through and render all that,
and you can even render out that video
back and use it for online, for tablet publishing, and so on.
So that's a bit of video work with Photoshop CS55 Extended.
Now the last couple of minutes, I want to show you something really, really special
that we announced just last week at Adobe Max.
This is the Creative Cloud that you heard Vicki Skit mention
at the beginning of the session,
and it's not public yet, it's not released, but I'm going to just show it to you
because here I've uploaded to My Storage Space on Creative Cloud
a couple of images.
Now why would I want to do that?
Well because I could take my laptop with me, or if I have a desktop
I couldn't even take it with me.
But I will always have my tablet,
whether it be an iPad or a Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet.
I want to be at work with Photoshop file on a tablet,
and what's the best product to work with on a tablet with Photoshop,
why it's Photoshop Touch.
This is what you've been waiting for. This is Photoshop Touch.
It's Photoshop--let me zoom in here--on a tablet.
So I'll position that just right. I'm going to focus that in, and here we are.
This is Photoshop on a tablet.
So the first thing I'm going to do is
I'm going to get some new images from the Creative Cloud,
so what you saw on my Mac, what you saw on my PC,
is always going to be synced to the Creative Cloud, so I'm going to pick up
that same image.
Let's bring up Sacro Cuore,
and let's bring up the Landscape, add that one,
and I'm going to bring the 2 together.
Now this isn't some small low-cal version of Photoshop.
This is Photoshop on a tablet.
sophisticated tools that are valuable inside Photoshop Touch.
This is bringing it down directly from the Creative Cloud, so anywhere I am
as long as I'm connected, I can start to work with Photoshop.
Before I get to that, let me show you some of the--I'm not going to save that--
let me show you some of the other things.
So a number of the things you do in Photoshop--you select, you layer,
you composite--all of these things we do in Photoshop, we can do in Photoshop Touch.
One of the main things we do--here are the tool bars.
These are all my tools--across here, down here.
These are my other commands. Across here, I have adjustment layers.
I have a Fix. I have everything else you could want to use,
but what I'm going to use is a particular tool that is used constantly in Photoshop,
and that is the Clone Stamp Tool.
So the full power of the Clone Stamp Tool is here in Photoshop Touch.
I select my source, click there, select my brush. Change the brush size and shape.
Add this softness and so on, and over here, I use the Clone Stamp Tool to do
retouching on the fly when I'm sitting on the park bench at my customer's office.
Wherever I am, I have access to Photoshop.
So it's full version of--it's as powerful as Photoshop, but it's on a tablet.
Let's go back to what I was doing before, and we want to save that,
and I'm going to again get that Creative Cloud one. Let's just see.
Bring it down if it's still here,
and Sacro Cuore--add that. It's going to bring it down again,
but much more rapidly this time.
It's cached, so what I'm going to is [defetch], clear cut,
remove the background from this image.
So I'm going to change tools here, and I'm simply going to go down and select
not the Magic Wand tool that everyone knows,
but what we call the Scribble Selection Tool.
So the Scribble Selection tool allows me to select what I want to keep
and what I want to remove. So I'm going to pick the Remove, and I just simply--
and I'm going to do this very, very, very quickly,
and you'd probably spend a little more time
on this yourself, but for the purposes of the presentation, I am just going to do this.
So this is all what I want to remove. What I want to keep is this, and I can zoom in,
and everything that you'd expect,
but it's got the power of Photoshop on a tablet device, and I'm working this on my
Lenovo touchpad tablet device,
and when I do that, there's the selection. I zoom in to refine it, but what I'm going to do
very quickly here is simply Extract, and there I have Sacro Cuore in the background.
So what I want to do is add another layer, and that layer that I want to be will be from
Photo Layer, and we'll bring that in from the Creative Cloud anywhere I am.
Pick that up, add that one, it comes down, and I'm going to slide that in
underneath the image, so again when I'm finished with this on my tablet,
I can take it back to Photoshop and work with it there as well,
so backwards and forwards from Photoshop to the tablet,
and we'll wait for that to come down just a little while,
and I'll be able to slide that image underneath it,
so again, we can use our fingers or are able to use the stylus that comes
with the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, and of course, it will be also available for iOS,
and at the moment, it's up on the website. That's done. I'll put that there.
I need to rearrange these tablets. Bring it to the back. Here they are,
one on top of the other.
Let's double click one, and you can see that they are in fact layers,
so I can work with that.
That's Photoshop Touch. That's a few hidden gems for Photoshop.
Thank you. We've got a lot more to come for the rest of the presentation,
and we'll be back soon.
