what is up guys this is mr. ninja boy and today I'm gonna start a new series guiding you guys through Photoshop starting from the very basics and essential to eventually getting into the more advanced stuff in graphic design my goal here is to maintain simplicity in this series and to make it possible for literally anyone to learn to use Photoshop even if you've just started and are already confused just looking at the interface don't worry I can understand it may be daunting the first time you open Photoshop with all these options in fact it can be intimidating at first starting with any new program but my goal here is to show you guys how simple yet powerful Photoshop really is the sky is truly the limit with what you can do with it if you guys don't know this channel isn't only focused on gaming in fact I've started it with tutorials on game development by the way you can check that on on the channel if you want to but I've always really enjoyed teaching you guys my tips and tricks and passing on my knowledge I got in certain programs to newcomers and the people looking to improve so I'm quite excited to start the series later on we're gonna be doing some really exciting stuff like making thumbnails making logos complex graphic art and much more but in this first tutorial we're just going to focus on the very basics of Photoshop this is the perfect guide for someone who has just begun using Photoshop so like any program the best way to familiarize yourself to it at first would be would be to get a hang of the interface and all its features so we're gonna do just that then as we dive deeper into this tutorial I'm gonna show you guys a collection of simple yet essential features that you must learn while first starting all right so let's get started alright so let's get started with learning the interface now um to make sure that we're all on the same page with the interface itself with all its features all the windows everything let's go to window and then workspace and then make sure you're checked on essentials default which is basically gonna ensure that we have all the same features and everything alright so now let's proceed to make our first file our first project you can call it so let's go to new our file and then new and then this is basically the window where we're gonna do all the settings for a project so first of all we can name the project whatever we want I'm just gonna name an example for the tutorials sake and then for the width and height you can later on you can do whatever you want mattering on what what sort of project you want let's say you want to do like a Twitter header or something and then there's certain like dimensions you want to do then you choose that but for now we're gonna do it a standard by dimension for this project and then make sure you're always selected on pixels okay this is important um so for the width and height you want to be on both on the same units essentially but we're gonna be working with pixels because it's the easiest I mean I don't really work with the centimeters or millimeters inches on the computer it just doesn't make sense for me but I mean I guess it matters on what you're doing but for me pixels refer now we're just we're gonna work with pixels for both width and height um and yeah I was gonna say for me it's just the easiest because you know everything is in pixels on the computer so yeah so the just select everything here it doesn't really matter if you what you do for the bit-depth I'm just gonna go -bit and yeah buts that's pretty much it so let's press Continue or okay and then we continue to this screen which gives us the by default we're just gonna have a blank white square so this is as you guys can see um right here to the right this is basically like the layers tab this this shows us all the layers all the elements everything that is included in the project so all we have now this is basically like a very blank project with all we have is this background um white box sort of thing so um to first get started and we're just gonna unlock this layer because by default when you make a new project the first layer is locked so we don't really have a lot of freedom to do like move it around and stuff so what we're gonna do is actually double click on this locked icon or this lock icon and then when we do that as you guys can see we have this like layer option so let's name it background so let's name it background and then we can keep the color we can do it none and then they'll basically be default color or we can choose whatever you want and that'll essentially just make the color of the not essentially the box but that that's like the color here let me do that and let's let's select a color this is this is actually very good for organizing and then we're gonna go over that later so lets us can see the red color that we selected is sort of kind of like marks it with that little red color so later on while you're working you can always assign layers different colors and with that you can kind of organize your project but that's not very important for now we're just gonna learn the interface for now so as you guys can see we have a white background here so the first thing we're actually gonna do is learn the move tool so the first tool that we are actually offered in this column to the left is this move tool so we're gonna select make sure that you go to the right in this layers tab and select our only one and only layer in this project and then we're gonna select the move tool and then we can as you guys can see we can move the box around and what you've seen this background if you see this like sort of checkered background that basically means it's it's transparent because if you if you render out this picture right now it's basically gonna be transparent so all you'd see is this box and then nothing else this background is transparent um so what we're gonna actually do is undo that so you can undo move and then let's say you do a couple actions the best way to undo stuff is to actually go ctrl alt Z because that is the ultimately like you can only undo once see as you guys can see I i undid all the way back to creating the background so let's actually read step forward so if I do ctrl Z um I hold on step forward and that's let's uh let's add like just just for the tutorials sake let's just do like scribbles something like that so let's say I did ctrl Z once and then I did it again as you guys can see it just redid that so the way we go step backwards if you want to keep on undoing more than once is ctrl alt Z or we can go edit and then step backward that's a very important tool you guys must know in the future anyways so now let's add a shape to this project as you guys can see that is like we learned like to use the Move tool which is you know it's it's it's quite straightforward and then what we're gonna we're gonna learn to do more stuff like a rotating so the first thing we're actually gonna do now to learn that is actually go down to this this tool right got you as you guys can see it's like a little squiggly sort of shape so we're gonna right click on that and actually select the rectangle tool so as you guys can see we can cut we kind of have this little crosshair sort of thing so we're gonna select and drag and we're gonna make a rectangle by doing that so we did make a rectangle but as you guys can see it's sort of like a a white rectangle so it's kind of blending in the background all us can see is like the black outline around it kind of indicating that we're selected on it so if we deselect that as you guys can see we can't really see the rectangle so we're gonna we're gonna assign a color to it or a fill color so we're just gonna go to the fill option as you guys can see up here select that and we can choose any color for the rectangle since the background is white anything that isn't white is it's gonna show so let's just make this like a dark grey color I guess that works so now if you want to move the rectangle in the middle of course we can do that by just clicking dragging and if you guys want to move any object in a sort of linear fashion where you don't really if you want it just like a sign like a certain let's say we want to move it like horizontally so we can just like put it there and then if you just hold down shift and then move it it sort of locks to the position where it was if let's say we're moving horizontally now we can't move it left and right we can just move it horizontally because it's locked and then let's say we want to move it left and right there so it that's how that's the way you and then let's say we let go shift as you guys can see it just it does that so we can also do that of course so that's the way you guys you guys can move things linearly where it kind of just locks on to the axis it's on so now let's say we wanted to rotate this rectangle we can go ctrl T and that is basically just our basically the the shortcut for the transform and let's say we wanted to rotate this rectangle we can we can guide our mouse to the sort of corner of the box where we kind of see this little arrow pointing downward and then to the left and once we see that we can click and drag to how we want to rotate this so let's say we want to rotate it like that or like that and you can all you if you guys also can see like this angle sort of thing up here we can do that numerically we can we don't necessarily need to do it visually here but we can also input numbers and do whatever you want with the angles same with the width and width and height on all the dimensions so let's say we wanted to reset that to zero just to you know have a have it like facebook auto liker
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