Click on any phrase to play the video from that point.
[♪♪] [ADOBE TV Presents]
[Russell Preston Brown in..]
[The Russell Brown Show]
In this incredible episode, brought to you by The Russell Brown Show,
I'm going to be demonstrating how to combine 2 images together
here inside of Adobe Photoshop Touch.
And in this presentation I'm using version 1.3 with some great new features.
In this project I'm going to combine this base image you see here
with this second image here.
As you can see, there's a strong line between the 2 that I want to adjust
so that the finished results look like this:
a seamless blending of the 2 images together.
And in this new version I'm going to use a great new feature--
in fact, a new brush--to blend these together.
In this new version there's also a new support for the retina display on the iPad 3.
Also there's an increased resolution capability in this new version
so you can use much larger file sizes.
Okay, let's get this project started.
Right over here under my Tool panel, if I click here and drag down,
you can see my new Effects Paint Tool right here.
There's also the standard Paint Tool, but this is new.
I can select this, then click over here to select the different effects right here.
And in this project I want to use Curves.
Check this out.
When I click on Curves, it immediately brings up the Curves dialog.
And in this project I want to click here in the center and drag down.
Watch the shade of the background image change
so that the 2 sections of grass now have the same tone.
That's what I want to have inside my brush when I'm painting.
I want to have that tone value.
I'm now going to click OK.
It's going to dismiss those corrections to the image,
but they're contained within my brush.
Let's take a look at the brush and my settings I'm using in this project.
I'm going to tap here right on the brush, right there.
You can see I have set my size, I set the hardness of my brush,
but what's critical is the opacity.
I like to set the opacity down a bit so it slowly blends into my background.
And in this case I'm setting it to 60%.
Now let's go ahead and tap on Brushes again to dismiss that dialog.
Now, making sure that I have the correct layer targeted,
let's go in and start to paint.
Check this out.
I'm starting to blend the 2 images together, and I'm using my Curves adjustments
that I made earlier to make this adjustment.
So the Curves adjustments is right in this brush.
That was my first pass. Let's take a second pass and blend this together.
You can see why I chose the 60% setting so that I can slowly go through
with multiple taps on my screen to then blend the 2 images together like this.
It gives a much more natural feel to the blend
when you use an opacity setting that's less than 100
to slowly blend the 2 images together, as you see here.
So there you have it,
a great new feature found here under the Tool panel,
the Effects Paint Tool,
and in this new version also the support for the retina display and the increased file size.
Give this technique a try the next time you're blending 2 images together
here inside of Photoshop Touch.
[♪♪] [Executive Producer - Bob Donlon] [Producer - Karl Miller]
[Director - Kush Amerasinghe] [Post-Production - Erik Espera]
[ADOBE TV Productions - tv.adobe.com]
