I'd probably go like like six hundred percent on the zoom and then just do like very pixel by pixel making it really really sharp but anyways now that we've done that we can zoom back out to look at the full image and go fifty percent and as you guys can see there we've selected that now before we duplicate it let's do the same thing or this background and double click on this lock icon so once we do that a we can basically lay in the layer two whatever we want so let's name it McLaren and then once we've named it MacLaren's press Enter or click OK and then as you guys can see there we've got the image unlocked and the next thing to do is to make sure that you selected on that on that layer and then we're gonna go control-c or command-c matters if you're on Mac or PC it doesn't really matter but yeah so just ctrl C and then control V so once we've done that as you guys can see now we have two layers and if we hide this layer we can hide layers by clicking on this little eye icon which indicates layer visibility as it says there so we click on that as you guys can see we have just an outline of the McLaren itself and then the background is just transparent as I guess totally as I told you guys before um this checker sort of thing is indicates that the background is transparent so let's just bring the background back and now as you guys can see we have this McLaren here so we can click in using the move tool that I showed you guys earlier we can click and drag and move it to where wherever we want on this project let's say we want this McLaren facing this McLaren so sort of switching the the direction it's going so we can go ctrl T which is short for transform the shortcut and we can go to height and just add a little minus symbol or Nova that makes it upside-down let's let's do it on the with actually so let's go minus a hundred percent it's it's still maintaining the same dimensions however it's negative on the width making it on the going to other direction so we can also do that by clicking and dragging like that but the easiest way to maintain the proportions is to just do it like that so once we choose a spot where we want that Maclaren we can press ok or we can even do the rotation like I showed you guys earlier and that looks pretty cool just to little McLaren's facing each other off so what are we gonna do now we can do some effects let's say like a drop shadow and that looks alright let's make it a little bigger we can do outer glow that looks cool and then we can increase the size as yes and see that looks pretty cool so yeah I just showed you guys everything else that you know it's quite straightforward for the effect but now we're actually gonna do is to actually make a adjustment layer and basically we're gonna mess around with the color correction the exposure everything to make this image look as nice as possible so the way we're gonna do this is we're gonna go to layer and then new or sorry no we're gonna go to layer new adjustment layer and then the first thing we're going to do is to add a brightness / contrast layer so we're just gonna click OK you can name that whatever you want you can even color code it just like I showed you guys earlier too for it you know for a better organization but we're just gonna leave that alone for now so as you guys can see this is the first adjustment layer now adjustment layers basically are just like editing layers they're not visible they're not necessarily like solid items but or objects in the scene or in the and you know in the project and the oh and all the elements but they're basically just to just the the visual aspect of this project so we're gonna go to contrast we're actually gonna increase the contrast as you guess and see if we decrease the contrast it it looks a lot more like washed up or if we increase it it looks a lot more like like vivid so we're gonna make it let's say looks good yeah that looks pretty good and then we can increase the brightness a little decrease it that looks pretty nice if we decrease the brightness a bit there too much brightness doesn't look very good in my opinion let's go actually - I thought I'd actually go more brightness but a little lower brightness looks a lot better so now that looks that's how it looked before the first adjustment layer and then after that's how it looks so it you know but as you guys can see it already looks pretty cool just like that so we're gonna add another adjustment layer by going layer new adjustment layer and then we're gonna go to levels now we're just click OK just like everything else and then levels we can there's a lot of presets so you can mess with that yourself here but we're gonna actually select their preset on the level so you can click darker whoo that looks really cool and then there's increased contrast and you know so this is basically like a easy way to make your project look a certain way so let's just me let's just select let's see and let's see increased contrast that's a little too much contrast one darker that's a little too dark mid-tones brighter mid-tones darker I think that looks pretty damn cool and now since it's quite dark we can actually go back to this and double click on that icon and increase the brightness a bit because it is quite dark all right that looks pretty cool now so next thing we're gonna add is actually a let's see a layer and the new adjustment layer we can add a let's see exposure and then once we add exposure you can mess around with that we're actually gonna decrease the exposure a bit and then the offset you can mess around with that and then we're actually gonna increase that a bit just to bring out the color that dark color is a bit and then the gamma correction you can mess around with that as well that is starting to look really cool so that is how the project are like it's initially looked and then after all these correct correction layers this is how it's looking right now so let's add one more just for the sake of you know showing you guys how all this works it's all the same you know it's all the same concept you just have to tweak it and then play with all these settings everything just to get the perf look of the project that he want so let's go to layer new adjustment layer and then let's add a let's see color lookup now color lookups are are basically like a correction color layer and and these are quite tricky to work with because you can you can you can basically load up files that are called LUT files and I might actually do that later in like different tutorials and show you guys how to make those LUT different color um color correction files so for now we're gonna go with something that is default that it looks pretty cool so we're gonna go in let's see turquoise sepia but as you guys can see these are basically like filters um that make your project look a certain way let's see that looks cool so if we're happy with that we can just leave that on yeah so that's basically like the UM you know all the adjustment layers alright so let's say it wanted to add some text now to this project it's actually really straightforward in Photoshop there's this icon with a T on it one of the tools and that actually allows us to add text so let's actually select that and then anywhere on the project that we want to act actually I add the text box or the text itself we can just click so let's say what we wanted to add a title here at the top so we can just click there and type something so I'm just gonna say example since this is a tutorial so as you can see we just typed a text there but um it's not visible because it's like half cut off because you know it's not positioned correctly so if we just move like anywhere out of the actual text box itself we can still see the the move position before we click the check mark for the transform tool so there as you can as you can see it says example but it actually is quite big this text so let's make it a bit smaller let's go to let's say you can change the the the font and everything from here let's say we wanted to change the font so it's about some select something else and that one that's not a really nice font there we go that's a pretty good font and then um we also need to tone down the the actual the the font size so here we there's like a drop-down menu that only goes to point but that's obviously way too small so we can input our own number here to make the text a lot bigger so let's say I'm yeah that's good so that's our example text as you can see there so that looks pretty cool and then we can also mess around with some of the settings for the actual text itself like effects so we can go to FX and then blending options and then from here we can go to let's say overlay blend mode and then blend mode is basically what it does it's like there's different blend modes that do different things like difference is basically like it it does opposite colors and then you can do exclusion which is essentially does the same thing darken that that it doesn't really work there but you you can basically just mess around with that and different different settings different backgrounds there's different effects that work better than others so for this one we're actually gonna go difference that actually looks really cool and then if we just move around you guys can see it kinda does like an x-ray sort of filter on the background itself on what it's um you know on what it's on so that looks really cool you can still see the clouds and everything in the actual background it's basically just the like polar opposite of what the colors are so yeah that's it's really simple to add text and photoshop you can also do other effects like drop shadow or everything else that we learned in the effects panel okay so now let's say I wanted to erase a part of the McLaren so we can actually use the eraser tool which is also very straightforward to use so there's this little tool like this little eraser icon that we can select here once we selected that we're gonna go up to here and actually select the size so let's go a hundred around
pixels and then we're gonna actually decrease if you have a hardness on like percent by default just decrease it down to let's say we're just gonna go to % for now actually and then I'll show you guys the different when you actually increased the hardness of the eraser so now we're gonna select the the duplicated Maclaren layer and then we're gonna start erasing so as you guys can see you can erase parts of the of this layer using this simple eraser tool and now let's say we go step backward and then we go to the hardness and we increase it's a hundred percent just to show you guys the complete opposite so let's select the Maclaren layer again and then we can actually just erase it directly and as you guys can see it's a lot different it's a lot like crisper and then I can show you guys a side-by-side by decreasing the hardness and then going back and as you guys can see here it's a lot softer like the way it's it erases them they're just crisp it's a crisp line so that's essentially the difference between you know and then you can also select a different like brushes for the eraser so that's like sort of like a a nice little um a pen sort of brush or like a a paint brush sort of not a pen a paint brush sort of style to the eraser so you can do lots of cool Styles with that actually but um let's for now let's just go control Z first step backward step backward and just go back to where it was so um yeah that's basically the eraser tool and I wanted to show you guys one more thing before I end this first essentials sort of like basics tutorial is I'm gonna show you guys the pen tool now the pen tool is something that is sort of like how you make logos how you make like objects how you make the shapes and stuff on in in Photoshop and this is a very essential tool that you must learn so let's go let's make another new project a blank project so let's go by or we can actually just go back to this one I actually forget that so let's just delete that and then we have a back the white background here oh we don't really have to delete it we can just click on the visibility icon and just hide it so let's make a shape so let's say we want it to make a a a letter Z so we can start by selecting a point here and then let's say we wanted to make a another point here so letters that look something like that right but that that's not necessarily straight so we go controller fault see for step backward and then we can we can keep this Anchor Point here however when we select the second point we can hold shift down which basically makes it straight see as you guys can see this a perfect straight line now to do diagonally we can also do this shift tool you use the shift tool then if you want to move this we can select control and then shift or it sorry not shift just control and then and then now once you've dragged it to where you want we can click shift and as you guys can see there it's straight so let's put it right there that looks good and then we can also select the third point by clicking shift and right there so now we're gonna actually make it like three-dimensional and there we go you can press control to edit that one point and then let's bring it up to here click shift to make it straight and then add another point by clicking shift and make it straight of force and then finishing this object once you once you're finished and then you want to like close the object you guys can see that little circle icon bus besides lay beside like the pen tool and then once you click that it basically makes it a shape and then you know we can right-click create a let's let's define a custom shape actually and let's name it Z so and then we can click enter and so let's actually go to this rectangle icon and then select custom shape tool and then from here there's a little drop-down menu we can select all the custom shapes that we have and the most recent ones are on the bottom so your icon that you probably just made is on the bottom and we can click anywhere on the screen and then have this is like the default width and height I guess so make sure you're always on preserve proportions if you want to look exactly how you made it and then you you can adjust the height and width but I'm just gonna leave it like that for now so this is the shape that we have and as you guys can see you can't really see it it's probably because it's white so we're gonna go to the effects and then we're gonna go to color overlay and then yeah we can change the color to whatever you want let's just make it black I guess cuz you know it's white in the background it's easy to see and then we can we can do everything else like that I taught you guys like outer glow let's make it I don't know red and size spread let's actually just make the background transparent so yeah as you guys can see there that's the outer glow right there so yeah that's that's basically all I wanted to show you guys in this essentials tutorial I feel as though it covered everything that is that is very essential to learn when you first start using Photoshop from the interface to the you know the essential tools that you must learn and from there it's not very hard like everything else is really straightforward just like this it's basically just more detailed has more features you know there's more features to cover for sure and that's definitely why I want to continue this series and yeah that's gonna be it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed this essentials tutorial for Photoshop and yeah I'll definitely be continuing this and stay tuned and I figure if you're new around here make sure you subscribe and because I will definitely be doing them of course a lot more tutorials get notified when I do upload and yeah if you guys enjoy this I'd love to hear you guys have feedback what you guys would like to see in the next tutorial and yeah that's gonna be it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it as I said this has been mr. Nimoy and I will see you guys in the next one
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pixels and then we're gonna actually decrease if you have a hardness on like percent by default just decrease it down to let's say we're just gonna go to % for now actually and then I'll show you guys the different when you actually increased the hardness of the eraser so now we're gonna select the the duplicated Maclaren layer and then we're gonna start erasing so as you guys can see you can erase parts of the of this layer using this simple eraser tool and now let's say we go step backward and then we go to the hardness and we increase it's a hundred percent just to show you guys the complete opposite so let's select the Maclaren layer again and then we can actually just erase it directly and as you guys can see it's a lot different it's a lot like crisper and then I can show you guys a side-by-side by decreasing the hardness and then going back and as you guys can see here it's a lot softer like the way it's it erases them they're just crisp it's a crisp line so that's essentially the difference between you know and then you can also select a different like brushes for the eraser so that's like sort of like a a nice little um a pen sort of brush or like a a paint brush sort of not a pen a paint brush sort of style to the eraser so you can do lots of cool Styles with that actually but um let's for now let's just go control Z first step backward step backward and just go back to where it was so um yeah that's basically the eraser tool and I wanted to show you guys one more thing before I end this first essentials sort of like basics tutorial is I'm gonna show you guys the pen tool now the pen tool is something that is sort of like how you make logos how you make like objects how you make the shapes and stuff on in in Photoshop and this is a very essential tool that you must learn so let's go let's make another new project a blank project so let's go by or we can actually just go back to this one I actually forget that so let's just delete that and then we have a back the white background here oh we don't really have to delete it we can just click on the visibility icon and just hide it so let's make a shape so let's say we want it to make a a a letter Z so we can start by selecting a point here and then let's say we wanted to make a another point here so letters that look something like that right but that that's not necessarily straight so we go controller fault see for step backward and then we can we can keep this Anchor Point here however when we select the second point we can hold shift down which basically makes it straight see as you guys can see this a perfect straight line now to do diagonally we can also do this shift tool you use the shift tool then if you want to move this we can select control and then shift or it sorry not shift just control and then and then now once you've dragged it to where you want we can click shift and as you guys can see there it's straight so let's put it right there that looks good and then we can also select the third point by clicking shift and right there so now we're gonna actually make it like three-dimensional and there we go you can press control to edit that one point and then let's bring it up to here click shift to make it straight and then add another point by clicking shift and make it straight of force and then finishing this object once you once you're finished and then you want to like close the object you guys can see that little circle icon bus besides lay beside like the pen tool and then once you click that it basically makes it a shape and then you know we can right-click create a let's let's define a custom shape actually and let's name it Z so and then we can click enter and so let's actually go to this rectangle icon and then select custom shape tool and then from here there's a little drop-down menu we can select all the custom shapes that we have and the most recent ones are on the bottom so your icon that you probably just made is on the bottom and we can click anywhere on the screen and then have this is like the default width and height I guess so make sure you're always on preserve proportions if you want to look exactly how you made it and then you you can adjust the height and width but I'm just gonna leave it like that for now so this is the shape that we have and as you guys can see you can't really see it it's probably because it's white so we're gonna go to the effects and then we're gonna go to color overlay and then yeah we can change the color to whatever you want let's just make it black I guess cuz you know it's white in the background it's easy to see and then we can we can do everything else like that I taught you guys like outer glow let's make it I don't know red and size spread let's actually just make the background transparent so yeah as you guys can see there that's the outer glow right there so yeah that's that's basically all I wanted to show you guys in this essentials tutorial I feel as though it covered everything that is that is very essential to learn when you first start using Photoshop from the interface to the you know the essential tools that you must learn and from there it's not very hard like everything else is really straightforward just like this it's basically just more detailed has more features you know there's more features to cover for sure and that's definitely why I want to continue this series and yeah that's gonna be it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed this essentials tutorial for Photoshop and yeah I'll definitely be continuing this and stay tuned and I figure if you're new around here make sure you subscribe and because I will definitely be doing them of course a lot more tutorials get notified when I do upload and yeah if you guys enjoy this I'd love to hear you guys have feedback what you guys would like to see in the next tutorial and yeah that's gonna be it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it as I said this has been mr. Nimoy and I will see you guys in the next one
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