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[Russell Preston Brown, Sr Creative Director:] Hello. My name is Russell Preston Brown
from Adobe Systems, and these are my six favorite PhotoShop CS6 Extended features
here today in this tutorial.
Okay, let's get started.
Of course it's going to start with 3D, one of the features found in PhotoShop CS6 Extended.
What I love about this is the easy way in which I can address a 3D object
and, in this case, a 3D, extruded text object.
Check this out. I can select the exact sides of this 3D object and interactively move it
in a much easier way from the past. But check this out.
I'm going to go ahead and hide my current view of this
and go over to my 3D preferences and select on my light sources.
Now, I've always wanted the ability to click directly on the shadow and interact with it
just like this--so fantastic.
A really great way to design with text and shadows.
Next, speaking of text, let's go over to my text tool and go in here,
and you can see that I can go in and select my text, and up here in my options bar,
I now have the ability to warp this live 3D text.
Here are the defaults. I'm going to go in an add an arc. Check it out.
My 3D text is now warping I can still move it. I can still move the shadow. Let's click OK.
Then let's go right up here, and we can continue this process of working with text,
because I can bring in my text dialogue here,
and I can go in and change the actual font that I'm using.
In this case, I'm going to switch to Rochwell standard.
I still have the ability to edit this text in every way and move its shadow. Moving on.
Let's go right here to my next favorite feature, and that has to do with Camera RAW support.
We're now using Adobe Camera RAW 7.0.
I'm going to double click on this smart object here that I've placed inside of PhotoShop CS6
to reveal my Camera RAW controls.
We have a new support here--2012 support for processing images.
I'm going to go ahead and apply my camera RAW settings that I worked on earlier--just like that.
So I went from this overexposed image to this image, where I've recovered the highlight and shadow detail.
Check this out. I love the ability to go into this new version of Adobe Camera RAW
and adjust the highlights separated from the shadows
in a really almost HDR-like effects on this.
Take your old images and make them come to life again with these great new magical features.
I also love the ability to go in and address localized controls.
I can now go in and brush in the sharpness and noise reduction across the image.
All new, all fantastic. Okay. Let's move on.
I'm going to move to Adaptive Wide Angle.
Now, you've had wide-angle images in the past,
and you could apply a default set of adjustments, a profile,
over this wide-angle image, but this is fantastic.
I can go up here to the filter menu, and now down to adaptive wide angle, right here.
Bringing this open allows me to address just the areas that I want to work on,
and it lets me straighten curved lines.
When I brought this image in, it immediately identified that this was a fish-eye 15 mm lens
from my 5D Mark 2.
So it's looking at the metadata.
It then addresses and applies all of the necessary presets and profiles for that lens.
I can draw this line and instantly straighten it.
Not only that, I can assign that as a perfect horizontal line,
and then, once again, go back in and assign other horizontal lines to really start to straighten it like this.
I still have that great quality of the the 3D lens, but I can go in and control these lines.
For example, this line looks a little bit too curved.
I can straighten that up.
I can go in here and assign just the areas I want to but still leaving some of that 3D quality
of the scene that comes about with that lens. Unbelievable.
Amazing controls with adaptive wide-angle support.
Then to finish this off, scale this up just like this, and maybe go in with some content-aware fill
to correct this area up above.
Okay. My next great feature here in PhotoShop CS6 has to be Blur Gallery.
Now let's take this image, and let's do some really great blur techniques to it.
Here under my filter menu and down to "Blur," I have my "Blur Gallery"--
field blur, which has multiple points of blur, iris, which then comes in from a center point
like an iris, and then tilt-shift, my favorite.
Let's apply a tilt-shift here.
You can see it instantly applies the tilt-shift, and I can go in here and instantly adjust
with these great new controls the amount of blur.
Not only that, I can go in and adjust the range of the blur right here.
But this is the best--let's hide this, and you can see this miniature Italian town taking place right here.
Great, great effect.
I can see this in a preview model like this, still within this dialogue.
I can also see and preview the mask, as you see here,
and I can control the mask of the blurred region interactively while I'm viewing it
and then go back here and see the results. Fantastic.
But of course, there's more.
Over here under "Blur Effects," many times I want to add some of the effects that happen
with lenses, like the bokeh effect that will happen specular highlights.
I can go in and enhance that and colorize it, as you can see here.
I'm going to really move this over to the right.
You can see the specular highlights and how they behave--
so a really great simulation of how lenses behave in a situation like this. Cool.
Let's cancel from this and go to my next favorite PhotoShop CS6 feature,
content-aware move.
If I go over here and select my content-aware move tool, new to these set of tools--right here,
I can then move an object in a scene. Now, there are no layers.
Nothing up this sleeve. Nothing up that sleeve.
A single-layered file, and I want to move the tree a little bit to the left.
I don't want to go through the trouble of cloning behind the tree.
I just want to slide it over to the left and automatically have it fill in where the tree was.
Now check this out--I'm going to go over here and select this watermark
from the iStockphoto library right here.
Say, for example, you've placed your watermark into your image.
It's in the left-hand corner, and you've flattened your image, but you need to move it.
At the last minute-quickly, use the content-aware move tool.
You slide it over here. It doesn't get better than this.
When it fills in where the logo was and moves your logo to the new position--unbelievable.
Okay. To close this all off--this great presentation, let's talk about video support.
Now, video support is now inside of PhotoShop CS6.
It has moved from PhotoShop CS6 extended, right into everybody's reach
here inside of PhotoShop CS6.
Okay. Let's take a look at this.
I'm going to bring up my timeline right here.
Now, I've imported all of my video clips here ahead of time, and I've also imported sound.
If you cast your eyes right here, one of the features I really like
is the fact that sound is on its own track now.
I have the ability to view this in a similar way that I'd see it in
Adobe Premiere or even After Effects--my own track for audio.
Also over here under my layers, you'll notice that all of my video tracks
are contained within a new set of items called a "Video Group."
Okay. Let's get right down to the basics here.
If I click on a video clip--I'd like to edit that clip.
I click and hold, and I can now preview the exact edit location within this clip and then stop.
But did you see that also? My end point automatically moved to the exact new end point.
It's thinking along with me and resets that.
I can also go in and right-click and set up an exact
time limit for this, hit my enter key just like that.
Now I'm going to finish this off with the ultimate--right here, the greatest feature
has to be the new ability to drag and drop fade effects.
I'm going to select a cross fade right here
and simply drag it on top of the intersection between two of my video clips.
It automatically adds a fade right into that position.
I'll continue adding a fade to my other clips just like this,
and let's finish off with a fade-to-black at the end. You always have to have a fade-to-black.
There we have it.
Now all I do is play this video so we have our sound.
We have our transitions that you saw there. All three of my transitions happening in this.
Then the final bit will then fade to black at the end of my video.
Wow. Look at that. Fantastic support for video here inside of PhotoShop CS6.
Great features that you just saw. Those are just a few of my favorite features.
There's a lot more. Take a look. Give them a try.
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