Photoshop for Complete Beginners | Lesson 1

by the end of this video Photoshop will never look intimidating to you and if it does I'm gonna give you a hundred percent money back guarantee please refer to these chapters to skip to any section of the video and don't forget to download the practice files in the description so what in the world is Photoshop Photoshop is a program to edit and create images made up of pixels I'm gonna repeat that again for you it's simply a program to edit and create images made up of pixels now you might ask Ganesh what the hell is

a pixel well it's a phone from Google right pixel is a small box with just one color so right here you have one box with just one color right next to it you have another box with a slightly different color right next to it right here at the bottom you have one more box with very similar color so these boxes of similar different or same colors come together to create an image for you so fascinating isn't it when you first open Photoshop you see the home screen think of it this way whenever you're doing something

on your phone you swipe up from the bottom to get get to home or on an Android phone you press the home button to get to home similarly on a car infotainment system let's say you're listening to music there's a home button which if you press it takes you to home now what does the home have in all of these devices well it gives you a bigger picture of all of the apps you have and the apps that you're working on similarly in Photoshop the home screen shows the recent projects that you're working on and

your assets so right now I've not opened anything so if I go here open one of my projects on color grading and just to give you a glimpse this is the before this is the after fantastic isn't it so let's say I made a little change increased the opacity a little bit saved it by pressing Ctrl or command s we're going to get to all of that later and we closed it okay now it begins to show right here whether I open an image it would work the same save it or not it would work

the same this time let's simply drag and drop and we won't even save it let's drag it and drop it into Photoshop we opened by the way this is my project on removing dark circles here's the before here's the after and there's the video on it if you're interested let's close it I'm not even saving it and there you go it shows you your recent projects you can also access your files that you have uploaded to your Creative Cloud and Creative Cloud Storage is something that you get when you buy Photoshop and right here if

you click on your files you will have access to it please ignore them I have uploaded some of the most random stuff if someone else has a Creative Cloud account and he or she has shared a file with you you can click on this button to access them I know this one is a bit scary now just as on a phone we don't actually do anything on the home screen right we open an app whether to work or to satiate our addiction to scrolling memes on Instagram similarly in Photoshop you can open the photoshop application

or the place where you work by simply clicking on the Photoshop icon on the top left once you click on it you move to a place where you work in other words it's called the workspace because it's a space where you work now how do you move back to your home screen just as in other devices we click on the home button can you find the home button right there as you can see it is shaped as a home clicking on it does what it's supposed to do and here you have your home screen I

hope everything is Crystal Clear I highly recommend that you pause the video and just practice opening Photoshop getting to the home screen and then clicking on the Photoshop icon get to your workspace and click on the home button to get back just this when you open up your Photoshop workspace which we did by clicking right here there are lots and lots of buttons and settings and it can be intimidating but trust me there are only three major things that you need to keep in mind it is simple think of it like an artist who paints

what does he have he has his tools like the brushes the erasers the pencils chisels and other tools like that he has this palette where he mixes all the colors and finally he has his canvas where all of the work happens where the painting goes similarly in Photoshop you have all the tools right here like the brush tool for brushing selection tools for selecting and the move tool right here for moving again just like an artist has pallets bowels where all the color mixing happens similarly in Photoshop you have your panels like the layers panel

which maintains the stack of all of the elements for example if you want the red to be above you can bring it on top see now it is on top of the green you have your colors panel which you use to pick the colors let's say I want to paint in this purple color I picked that and I start painting so you have all of these different panels to control different functions and finally we have our canvas where all of the work and the painting goes so right here this is our canvas and you can

see our Masterpiece maybe we'll sell it as an nft for millions of dollars just kidding quick refresher again what are the three major parts of Photoshop workspace you have your tools number one panels number two and number three canvas tools are the tools with which you work panels control different functions and the canvas is where your next Masterpiece will be created and if you love it you're going to do amazing and I can guarantee that now if your workspace doesn't look like mine do not panic it doesn't even look like the one I use either

so to get started on the same page simply go to window workspace and make sure you check Essentials this my friend is the default workspace now even now if things are all over the place for example I move things here and there completely break it up close some of them and this can look like a nightmare to a lot of new people don't worry we'll fix our Photoshop nightmares right now maybe just go to window workspace even right now Essentials is checked so what we want to do is to click on this button called reset

Essentials and this is what you should see now your workspace is something that is absolutely personal to you and your workspace might be completely different from mine and that is absolutely fine and that is how it should be because it's customized to how you work and the kind of projects you work in as you begin to learn Photoshop and understand what each panels do you'll start to customize your workspace according to your needs so here's how I create my personal workspace I keep it simple clean and only include the things that I need for example

I don't like my tools in one line I like it in two lines for quick access so you can click on this button that way they are in two lines also I don't need any of these panels so I drag out the entire group and simply close it properties sometimes I need it sometimes I don't but I'm just gonna keep it I don't need adjustments I also don't need libraries and in Photoshop I use actions all the time now what are actions just know that it's a way to automate certain functions but right here we

don't see the actions panel so how do we bring a panel that we do not see just go to window find that panel and click on it for example I was looking for the actions panel click on that and the actions panel show up so I like to keep it right here attached maybe in the same line okay also for the properties I keep it docked right here so you can dock it so whenever you need properties you can click on right here and the properties will open up so only these are the panels I

mostly need layers channels paths actions history and properties and these tools right here you don't have to understand the functions of each panel right now but absolutely feel free to use it as a starting point once you have created your workspace you might want to save it go to window workspace and then create new workspace by clicking on new workspace I'm just gonna name it minimal also you can choose whether to save the keyboard shortcuts if you had customized them and the menus and the toolbar if you had customized them more on that later you

don't have to worry about it right now click on Save now in go to window workspace you will see your minimal workspace right there so even if you mess up mess things up close things down you can go to window workspace minimal is still checked but you can click on reset minimal and it's reset to how it was you can switch between different workspaces you have a workspace for painting and all of the painting panels will show up and the tools accordingly will show up so these are the presets Adobe has created for you and

then you have a workspace for photography as well and then if you want to switch back to the workspace you created go to window workspace and minimal and there you have it before we move on there are three more little things we need to keep in mind the first one being the status bar the status bar is right here at the bottom and it gives you the status of the image let's say we zoom in a little more so this 50 turns into 66.67 percent which means that we are zoomed in 66.67 percent zoom in

even more by pressing Ctrl or command plus now we are zoomed in at 100 let's zoom out a few times now we are zoomed out at 25 so that is the zoom level which you also see at the document tab right here right next to it you have different parameters of the image so right now we are looking at the document Dimensions so if we click on the Arrow right here you can choose what you're seeing if we check document Dimensions it's simply saying that the resolution of the document is 4706 by 3137 which means

that you have 4706 pixels along the width and 3137 pixels along the height we will understand pixels and resolutions in later lessons for now you can also look at other properties for example here is a thumbnail that I've been working on and by the way this video is already published if you want to take a look at the number of layers in this document you can click on this Arrow right here and choose layer count and it shows you 19 layers and four groups if I create one more layer at the top by clicking on

this button it creates a layer now we have 20 layers another interesting one is the current two so right now the move tool is selected so it shows that so if I select any other random tool see the history brush is selected right now the pen tool is selected so that my friend is the status bar in a nutshell it is a bar and it shows the status that is why it's called the status bar I usually keep it at document Dimensions it gives you an idea about how big or small the document is what

is the resolution it always keeps it in check the next one is the menu bar think of it this way whenever you go to a restaurant you get the menu you can pick whatever you want in the menu and order the waiter whatever you want and if the chef is good you'll get exactly what you want similarly in Photoshop you have the menu bar at the top and you can order it to carry out specific functions for example you want to create a new file you go to file new again we'll take a look at

it later you want to blur the image go to filter blur choose any one of these blurs gaussian blur and there you go you want to see the layers panel which you just cannot see and you accidentally closed it you will go to window and make sure layers is checked and it will show it right there so the menu bar which is at the top is the master menu of Photoshop it controls how Photoshop looks how it works and carries out different functions the next one is the options bar which is right over here right

below the menu bar now what is the options bar it is absolutely directly related to tools so whatever tool you choose for example if we pick the brush tool a set of options for that tool will show up in a bar and that my friend is the options bar so for the brush tool you have these set of options for example controlling the brush size so right now we have a smaller brush and right now we have a bigger brush controlling the hardness choosing different types of brush tips all in all you see the options

for that tool and that is why it is called the options bar which is simply the options or the settings for a particular tool for example if we choose the grade into we have the options for different gradients right here we can choose different colors of gradients right here we can reverse the gradient so just as a refresher whatever tool you choose a set of options for that tool is going to show up in a bar at the top and that my friend is called the options bar but when you first open Photoshop it didn't

look like this right it looked something like this by the way if you go to your workspace it looked like this so the canvas is not really going to show up unless you open anything and this brings us to a very important part of the lesson and something you should learn first whenever you are learning any software or program and that is the OCS of the software now what is OCS OCS is simply learning how to open a file create a file and save a file by the way don't look for it online you probably

won't find anything for OCS I came up with it so how do you open a file the answer is in the question let me rephrase that for you we are opening a file right so where do we need to go file and what are we doing opening so click on open that's how you do it let's say you want to open this image click on it select it and click on open there you go that's how to open a file now is this the way I personally open files not most of the time and this

is the shortcut so all you do to open a file is just find that file in your finder or file explorer just drag it and drop it into Photoshop that also opens the file now when we are opening a second file with drag and drop we have to be a little careful let's say I also want to open this image right here if I simply drag it and drop it inside of Photoshop over the canvas right here it will open as a layer on top and not as a separate document as I wanted by the

way if this is something you wanted drop it on the canvas however the right way to drop it if you want to open it as a different document here's how you do it you simply drag it and drop it not on the canvas but right here it opens as a separate document now how do we create a new file again the answer is in the question we are creating a new file so what are we creating a file and a new file so simply go to new by the way for each function the keyboard shortcut

will be listed on the right hand side so you can also press Ctrl n or command n on a Mac so click on new and right here you have lots of presets you can choose from you have your photo presets like the ones for landscape if you click on view all presets you have portraits you have presets for art and illustration print like A4 A5 and all of those different sizes and you can customize the dimensions right here let's say we want to create a new document let me name it piximperfect and we want the

width to be about 6000 pixels not inches so you can choose the units right here click on the drop down and choose pixels and this should be 6000 and I want the height to be 4000 pixel so let's type that in right now know that we are customizing our document if you click on this preset again it resets according to that preset all right let's set it to how it was resolution right here doesn't matter much because it's pixels per inch and we are giving our units in pixels so inches don't come here but again

there are certain scenarios where it's important and you don't have to worry about any of that this is advanced stuff I'll cover it later for right now let's set the width and height in pixels and you want to make sure that the color profile is srgb for now more on color profile later srgb is a good standard to get started background should be white 8-bit is fine for now click on Create and there you have your new document now how do you save a file and this is where it gets a little tricky but don't

worry you're gonna get it absolutely hundred percent so this is the piximperfect document that we created let's say we paint something over it and we want to save it so again what are we saving a file and what are we doing with it saving so let's go to file and save you can also use the shortcut Ctrl or command s now since this is a brand new document which has not been previously saved it does not really exist as of now so when you choose file save it creates a new document for you so right

here you have the option to save it on the cloud if you want to save it on your computer click on this button now you can choose whatever file name you want but it defaults to the file name that you chose when you are creating the document so right where we went to file new and when we were setting up the properties we typed in piximperfect right so that is why the default here is piximperfect already you can of course change it to whatever you want so I'm going to name it test1 so right beneath

it is an important setting and that is the file format if you click on the drop down you have lots of file formats to choose from you have your regular jpeg you have your PNG and the Photoshop document or in other words photo shop document PST file format now since this image has only one layer right here and we didn't really add additional layers all of these options show up however there will be a challenge so you can choose whatever format you want and click on save to save it but watch this let's hit cancel

for now and let's create a new layer right here by clicking on this plus icon here we have layer 1 let us choose a different color by clicking right here and then choose whatever color you want and paint on layer 1. now we have two layers the background layer and layer one now when we go to file save or press the shortcut Ctrl or command s and choose to save it on our computer if you click on the file format drop down you don't have those options you know why because file formats like jpegs or

pngs do not support layers and the only format that support layers show up for example the Photoshop document or PSD Photoshop document now I do understand you have a lot of questions in your mind about saving it as jpegs and other formats and wait for it all of them will be cleared so when you save a document as a PSD file or any of these formats we'll talk about it in detail in later lessons let's save it as PSD for now and this is piximperfect PST let's click on save you want to make sure maximize

compatibility is checked hit OK let's close it now of course your recent and projects are gonna show up right here but you can also open your file directly from the folder so this is piximperfect PST let's open that and it opens exactly the way it was with all the layers intact now once you have saved a particular file the save function just updates it just as with any other program so right here I have a composite let's open that and all I want to do is to update this link right here so I double click

on the T or the text layer and change it now when I go to file and save the dialog box to choose the location and the format does not show up but what it does is that it updates the current document so let's close it so if you reopen the same document double click on it and there you have it it is now updated now if you do want to create a new document and you don't want to disturb this current one which is composite.psd you can go to file save as instead of save let's

click on it now this dialog box shows up you can set the name to composite to for example and click on Save and you continue working on composite two maybe you wanted to create two versions of it and this is one of the ways now you might ask Umesh that is all right even if you go to save as right now you don't have all the options right here and you don't have them by the way this is a change in the later versions of Photoshop so I highly recommend that you're following along with the

latest version you don't have the formats that do not support layers or other functions of Photoshop so what if you just wanted to create a copy of this in jpeg or PNG for social media let's hit cancel go to file and choose save a copy this does not disturb the current document you continue to work on composite 2 that you're working on right now and it saves the copy in whatever format you choose so right here automatically the name comes out to be composite to copy and you can choose whatever format you want even jpeg

so for now let's choose JPEG and save it you have the option to choose the quality pick what you want hit OK and now when you open the folder you have composite to copy dot shapeclick if you want to learn more and delve deep into the differences between save save as and save a copy you can watch this video these were recent changes to photoshop let us do a quick refresher when you open Photoshop what do you see the home screen and when you click on the Photoshop icon where do you go the workspace how

do you switch between the home screen and the workspace by clicking on the home button right here and the Photoshop icon right here that's how you switch now what are the three major things inside of a workspace well you have your tools you have your panels and on the center stage where the work happens where the painting goes in other words you have your canvas apart from these three major things what are some other things we see in the workspace at the top we see the menu bar these are the main controls of Photoshop right

below it we have the options bar now who is the options bar related to the options bar is directly related to tools so whatever tool you choose for example you choose the brush tool a set of options for the brush tool it's going to show up in a bar at the top and that bar is my friend called the options bar so for example we choose the text tool a set of options for the text tool is going to show up for example the font the alignment the font size so on and so forth and

at the bottom you have the status bar right here it shows the zoom percentage so we are zoomed in at about 33 percent and right here we have the document Dimensions you can choose to see different properties for example if you click on the arrow and choose layer count it's going to show the number of layers in this document and it shows 6 and we do have six right here now it is time for us to take a look at the three major things in detail what are the three major things again tools panels and

canvas let's start with tools we just learned that whatever tool we choose the options for that too will show up at the top and that bar is called the options bar also there are tools that are hidden inside of a group whenever you see a small arrow on the right corner the right button if you click and hold you will find other tools in that group for example you want to choose the blur tool you go to the blur tool and you let go instead of the rectangular Marquee 2 you want the elliptical Marquee 2

you click and hold you choose that so similar tools are grouped together let us learn about the four most important Tools in Photoshop starting with the move tool the move tool as the name suggests is for moving stuff so let's say you want to move this text choose that layer and then you can move it however you want let's say you want to move this text choose that layer so this is the text layer that we were choosing by the way right next to it is the cutout that is putting the text behind if we

didn't have the cutout it would look like this don't worry about it now for now just choose the text so select the T right here and then you can move this by the way if you're trying to move this text and something else moves it just means that Auto Select is turned on turn it off we'll learn about it in a while but for right now just turn it off as default now let's say you wanted to Center this text so first of all select that text layer and the move tool of course has a

lot of options and where would we find it in the options bar so we want to center it according to the canvas so click on the three dots and choose align to Canvas right here now you have different options right here right here as well so you can Center it this way you can align it to the side the right side Center it vertically horizontally you have all of the different options so I'm just going to place it right here and make sure it is centered by clicking this button now let's talk about Auto Select

so this is a brand new document I'm going to create a new layer by clicking on this button let's choose a brush and let's dab once let's create one more layer and this time let's choose a different color like this dab one more time let's create one more layer and with a different color like this dab one more time so we have layer 1 layer 2 and layer 3. now if we select the move tool and keep in mind Auto Select is not checked if layer 3 which is the blue circle is selected no matter

what we do no matter where we click only that moves if layer 2 is selected only layer 2 moves if layer 1 is selected only that moves however if you check Auto Select even if layer 1 is selected which is the green circle and you click on the blue circle that automatically gets selected and that moves if you click on layer 2 Circle that moves automatically gets selected layer 1 Circle that moves now the problem with Auto Select is that when things are overlapping or too close to each other it selects the wrong layer and

that is why I usually keep it unchecked but when you need it when things are very distinct you can hold the Ctrl key on Windows or command on a Mac and Auto Select will be temporarily checked so right now if I want to do any of the auto selections I can do it if if I let go of the control or command Auto Select is not checked anymore and finally I want you to remember this shortcut for eternity and that is the letter V for the move to you don't always go and find the move

tool and select it use the shortcut yes every tool has a shortcut for example you're working with the brush tool by the way the shortcut of the brush tool is b b for brush but move tool is not M it's V so press V the move tool is selected now let's move to the brush tool what is the shortcut to the brush tool B shortcut to the move tool V so let's Press B to select the brush tool now the brush tool to keep it simple is used for brushing let's create a new layer by

clicking on this button and with the brush we can paint that's something you already know now along with the brush of course you have lots of options for the brush that show up in the options bar so right here you can choose the type of the brush so there's fun ones like the charcoal brush right here by the way you're seeing pressure sensitive brushes and this shape will only show up if you're using a pressure sensitive graphic tablet if you're using a mouse you won't see the corners around the edge it just means that when

you press softly the brush would be smaller if you press harder you will have a bigger brush and of course you can choose whatever brush tip you want for example there's this charcoal one and it paints like a charcoal there's a splatter brush which paints splatter like this now there's one more important thing let us first choose the hard run brush and let's say we want to paint in Blue by the way you can switch between these colors the foreground color and the background color by pressing X don't worry about all of this right now

whatever color you want to paint with just make sure the top square has that color you can click on it to choose whatever color you want so right now this is the brush size now of course you can go here and change the brush size you can decrease it now this is a smaller brush you can increase it now you have a bigger brush you can decrease the hardness now you have a soft brush you can increase the hardness you have a harder brush but there has to be a shortcut for it right yes of

course so you can use the bracket Keys the right bracket key to increase the brush size and the left bracket key to decrease the brush size also on a Windows you can hold the ALT key and the right Mouse button click and drag to the right to increase the brush size click and drag to the left to decrease it if you drag it to the top it makes it softer drag it to the bottom it makes it harder and on a Mac you would be pressing option and Ctrl and then clicking and drag with the

mouse now let's talk about the text tool what is the shortcut for the move tool by the way V shortcut for the brush tool B shortcut for the text to T shortcut for the move tool V just reminding you now the text tool is pretty simple it's very similar to other programs like word so with the text tool selected if you just click lorem ipsum is going to show up just to show you how the text is going to look like now you can type whatever text you want text and just like other programs you

can select the text change the font to whatever you want you can change the size to whatever you want so these are the different sizes you can also type in your size so I'm going to type in 500 PX and there we have it if you want more properties you can click right here here you can control the gap between two lines control the gap between each letter if you increase it there you go there's a lot of space in there also there's another way to add text is if you select the text tool if

you click and drag you can create a text box and you can type in that text box so I'm going to set the size to about 100 now there's a gap between all of these lines so we can go to this setting right here and just decrease the Gap so I'm going to set it to about 48 pixels or even more you can also hold the shift key and use the up and down arrow keys to increase the Gap and the text continues in this text box you can align it to the left to the

right it's up to you to the center exactly like Google Docs Microsoft Word Pages or whatever you use and if you want to mod the 5 a text you just double click on the T of the text layer and modify it and this is the absolute correct spelling of mod D5 look it up now let's talk about the zoom tool we don't need to remember the shortcut for it there's a reason for it by the way what is the shortcut for the move tool V brush tool B text tool T so you have never seen

me particularly select the zoom tool to zoom in yes you can select the zoom tool click and drag on the right to zoom in click and drag on the left to zoom out by the way if you have scrubby Zoom checked off you cannot drag left or right if you try to do that it allows you to create a section and when you let go it zooms in to that section so I highly recommend that you always keep this checked on so we don't really need to go to the zoom too you can be on

any two like the brush tool the move tool let's go to the move tool and all you have to remember is this shortcut hold the control and spacebar on a Mac command and spacebar click and drag on the right to zoom in click and drag on the left to zoom out and when you let go you're in the same tool that you were working on for example even with the selection tool this is by the way the lasso 2 zoom in zoom out move around how are we moving around if you just hold the space

bar the tool momentarily changes to the hand tool and you can click and drag to move around so this is how we navigate around the canvas hold the controller command and the spacebar drag right and left to zoom and zoom out if you let go of the control or command and just keep the spacebar pressed in you can move around now once you have zoomed in if you want to fit the image to the canvas what do you do yes you can zoom out and try to fit it but there's a shortcut for it let's

say you're zoomed in right here you can press Ctrl or command 0 to fit it to the screen let's try one more time we are zoomed in right here Ctrl or command 0. by the way there's another shortcut let's say you were removing blemishes so I'm going to choose the spot healing brush tool it is the simplest one I don't use it all the time but for Simplicity let's say we were using that to remove all of these blemishes now you want to move to other section of the portrait you have zoomed in too much

you have to drag in now instead of doing that you can also hold the H key click and hold it gives you a bird's eye view of the image let's say you want to zoom in right here once you go right here and you let go it zooms into that area now it's time for us to check out panels why because it's one of those three major things what's the first one tools second panels and the third one canvas let's talk about panels now the most important panel which you might have guessed is the layers

panel the layers panel maintains a stack of all of your elements for example here is your background here is the black and white effect keeping the subject in color here is the text here is some contrast here's a rectangle gradient at the bottom so that when the next layer which is a text shows up the text needs to Stand Out by the way you also might have noticed up until now you can turn off and on or hide and show a particular layer by clicking on the I button so when the eye is not showing

up that layer is turned off and when the I shows up that layer shows up so let's say we create a new layer and create a red blob on layer 1 we create one more layer and this is a green blob let's create it green blob okay now you can change the order of less you can take layer 1 at the top or layer 2 at the top see how layers maintain a stack all also here's another basic function if you decrease the opacity it increases the transparency of that layer the more you decrease the

opacity the more this layer which is layer 2 green blob becomes transparent so right now it's very transparent if the opacity is at 100 it's not transparent at all let us talk about the most important function and a panel related to it and that is the history panel if the history panel doesn't show up for you by the way this is the one you can go to window and click on History just to be sure there you go it keeps the track of all of your steps for example if we create a new layer it

says we created a new layer and if we take a brush and let's choose the color to Blue and we paint one stroke it records that another stroke another stroke another stroke and you can use this tool to go back in steps alright and speaking of going back in steps it is very essential that you understand how undo and redo Works in Photoshop so press controller command Z or Z however you pronounce it to go back and Ctrl shift Z command shift Z to go forward in steps so the shortcut to go back is controller

command Z and the shortcut to move forward in steps Ctrl or command shift Z Now moving on to the final one where the work happens and that is the canvas let's open up three images in Photoshop so I'm going to select the set of three open that in Photoshop now they show up as different tabs right here now these are different documents and each document of course has a canvas now besides keeping them as tabs you can also pull it out so there you go there you are so you can work like this if you

wish to if you want to set them as tabs again you would go to window arrange and again consolidate All To tabs now they're back to tabs and finally if you want to compare all of them let's say you want to pick one for social media you can go to window arrange and since there are three we're gonna choose three up horizontal or vertical let us choose the vertical one and now we have all three of them side by side by the way if I zoom out these ones zoom out too and how is that

happening if you select the zoom tool if you check Zoom all windows all the windows will be zoomed in and if you hold the space bar of course this moves but if you hold shift along with the space bar all of them move together now here's the most important tip about canvases you want to take a look at how your image looks in different backgrounds for example this is a YouTube thumbnail and YouTube in regular mode is a little off-white in color so we want to see how this image is going to look like when

uploaded as a YouTube thumbnail so here's how you change change your canvas background color you right click on the canvas background and you can choose whatever color you want for example black dark gray medium gray light gray but if you want a custom color first of all right click and set a custom color by clicking on select custom color you can set it to whatever you want so let's see your website has a light blue background for some reason so let us choose light blue hit OK and whenever you choose custom it will be light

blue it's going to give you an idea of how this image is going to look in your website for YouTube I usually set it to a little off-white you can also pick the color from YouTube hit OK and now you have the YouTube color so this is the default this is the black and when you choose custom the color will be set to whatever color you had selected when you chose select custom color now it is time for us to discuss one of the most important parts of Photoshop and that is transform and this is

where it all starts so here we have a background I want to put a b in it so I have a picture of a b with a transparent background and again what did we learn before if you click and drag right here it will open as a different document but if you click and drag and drop over the canvas it will be on the same document as a separate layer let's hit enter for now so that we can bring up transform the way to bring up transform is pressing Ctrl or command T another long way

of doing that is by going to edit and then transform and then you can choose the regular transform or different kinds of transform for now choose scale and it shows up now you can use these points to make it bigger or smaller from any of these points but right now it maintains the aspect ratio if you want to squish it or stretch it you would hold the shift key and now when you do it you can squish it stretch it this way that way whatever way you want once you want to apply it hit enter

or return there you have it now let's press Ctrl or command Z to get back this is not how we wanted it to be and B that worked well now to rotate it you would of course have to be on the transform Zone again press Ctrl or command T when you take the cursor outside a Bent Arrow shows up so you click and drag to rotate there you go here's another trick if you hold the shift key and then do it it will rotate by 15 degrees so right now it's 0 15 30 45 you

see that another important setting you should know is flipping once you are in controller command D you can right click on it and choose to flip it horizontally or vertically of course we don't want that so let's flip it again and this is a nice flip also let us not forget the anchor points now what does an anchor point do it simply anchors the graphic from that point so if you press Ctrl or command D you see this point right here in the middle that is the Anchor Point if you don't see it make sure

this checkbox is checked if it's unchecked you won't see it check it you will see it now you must have noticed that whenever you rotate it rotates from that point if you hold the ALT key or the option key and then when you resize it resizes from that point however you can move the point so I can move the point right here and now when you hold the ALT key or the option key and try to resize it resizes from that point you can also hold the shift key to let go of the aspect ratios

and still it resizes from that point as an anchor if you try to rotate it it rotates from that point so that is the flexibility you get with the anchor points now you can hold the ALT key or the option key and click anywhere to move the Anchor Point there you can also have the Anchor Point outside now when you rotate it it rotates from that point another quick tip you also have presets so if you click on this one it sets to this corner if you click on this one now you have this corner

now it rotates from there you can set it in the middle by simply clicking right here now it's in the middle now transform doesn't end there there are so many options that you can work with so many settings and that calls for a whole different lesson we are moving towards the end of the tutorial and let's move away from all of the concepts and the hard things and let's do a fun project you can follow along the project files are in the description so here we have a subject and a new background what we want

to do is to change the background so let's bring in the subject into Photoshop let's drag it and drop it right over here now since we want to change the background we have to have a new background so let's go to our finder or Explorer and click and drag this background on top of the canvas right here now the background needs to be at the back right so first of all let's adjust the size hold the ALT key of the option key click and drag from one of the corners to make sure it becomes larger

from The Anchor Point from the middle right here let's make it this large hit enter or return now the background needs to be at the back but if we try to take it at the back it's not going you know why because the subject layer right here is locked so how do we unlock a layer by simply clicking on this button now when you try it it goes back how do we name a layer just double click on the text and type whatever you want so I'm gonna type in subject now we cannot see the

new background you know why because we already have the old background right here by the way to make the thumbnails bigger right click on an empty space click on large thumbnails and now you have bigger ones now to remove the background watch how hard Photoshop is all you have to do is to go to properties right here and if you scroll down you have the option to remove the background just click on it see how challenging that was and the background is gone and now we see through the new background but there's still a problem

with that here's the old background it was blurred out when we see the new background it is dark sharp so it needs to be a little blurred too so to do anything to anything we have to first select it so we need to blur the new background so make sure you select the new background and then what is blurring it's simply a filter so where are we gonna find it inside of filter let's go to filter blur and there are lots of blurs that you can try for now let's go to gaussian Blue now this

is too much you can increase or decrease the amount for now I'm gonna set it to about 16 pixels hit OK it's looking fantastic but if you look closely there's still a problem around the edges the edges don't look good you know why the edges soak in the color or the light from the previous background since the previous background was too bright it took in that color so one of the ways to fix it is simply smudging the cutout a little bit towards the inside so right here you we have the subject image and on

the right hand side of that this is the cutout white are the areas which show up black are the areas which don't show up and that is why you don't see the original background so these things right here are called masks and we're gonna cover it later but right now think of it like cut out where White shows up and black hides so now let's zoom in and we have to smudge the cut out inside and for that we have to make sure that cutout is selected not the main layer cut out now since we

have to smudge it we have to use the smudge tool right here strength at 50 is fine let's make the brush a little larger how are we changing the brush size bracket Keys let's not forget it and simply push it down there you go fixed push it down right here push it down right here right here as well you see the edge just push there you go so easy and it looks fantastic now as we move towards the end of the lesson I want to congratulate you because now you know more Photoshop than most people

and I'm so proud of you for taking the first step I just hope that by now the kingdom of photoshopia looks familiar to you and you know the lay of the land just as you saw Photoshop is super easy Once you understand the concepts and I'm gonna give you two steps to mastering Photoshop step one understand the concepts Step 2 don't memorize the steps once you get the concepts you don't ever have to think about any steps you will do it yourself besides the concept there is one ingredient to gain absolute Mastery of Photoshop and

that ingredient is curiosity to get you started with being curious let me give you a little homework that you can play with you will love this feature let's say you want to remove something from a photo and in this photo I'm going to remove this person right here how do we do that select the object selection tool and make sure object finder is turned on now when you hover through it it gives you an indication of every object so as I hover through this lady it highlights that you can click on it and simply press

the shortcut in the later versions of Photoshop and that is shift backspace on Windows shift delete on a Mac and once you do that there you go it's gone if you want to remove her click on that if shift backspace doesn't work you can right click on it and choose delete and fill selection it also goes away didn't do a pretty good job so you can select something like the lasso tool you can make a selection of the bad areas and try to do it again right click on it and choose delete and fill selection

also you can use a shortcut but this is a nice tool to play with if you still don't have Photoshop check the links in the description to try it seven days absolutely for free the offers keep changing so I'm Gonna Keep It updated in the description thank you so much for watching this video and if I don't get too lazy there will hopefully be lesson number two maybe all I ask is for one favor if you learned something from this video or any upcoming videos and if you find someone struggling with Photoshop please help them

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