IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Adobe Photoshop Express Beta
Essential Training. I am your host, Chad Perkins. That's me, this guy,
| | 00:09 | holding the root beer there and I'm going to be your tour
guide through this training series. I'm an Adobe certified
| | 00:15 | instructor, an Adobe certified expert and
a huge fan on top of that of Adobe Photoshop.
| | 00:21 | And on behalf of lynda.com, we're going to be presenting this
training series here and taking you through this amazing program,
| | 00:28 | which is unlike probably most programs you've ever used before.
| | 00:32 | Now I'm super pumped to get started so let's go ahead and jump into
the next movie where we're going to talk about what is Photoshop Express.
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| What is Photoshop Express?| 00:00 | So what is Photoshop Express?
| | 00:02 | Photoshop Express is an online version
of Photoshop. It's all completely free.
| | 00:08 | You sign up for a free account, which I'll
show you how to do later in the training,
| | 00:11 | and then you come in here. You can upload your
images. You can categorize and organize them into albums.
| | 00:18 | You can also edit images very quickly and easily
even if you no background in Photoshop whatsoever.
| | 00:25 | We could correct for things like exposure.
We could reduce it making images darker.
| | 00:29 | We can increase the exposure, making images lighter,
| | 00:32 | and you can see here we have a huge list of things
that we can do to adjust and tweak images.
| | 00:39 | And even if you're not a photography guru, if you really care
about making pictures light or darker, you can still come in
| | 00:44 | to something fun like Distort and just
| | 00:47 | click on a little area to Distort here
and just play around with it and just
| | 00:51 | twist this or make somebody's face large or twisted
or bulging or whatever else you want to do with it.
| | 00:59 | Another thing you can do with images once you've grouped
them into albums is create something called a slideshow.
| | 01:04 | So I click on one of my albums here.
| | 01:06 | And I click on Album Slideshow at the bottom.
| | 01:14 | You see I get this really cool way of looking at my images.
| | 01:19 | I can even change the layout if I wanted to.
I could look at them as a strip.
| | 01:23 | Look at how cool the animation is. As a grid.
| | 01:26 | Ooo and again with the cool animation, or as a ring.
| | 01:30 | How awesome is that?
| | 01:33 | And then I could even use my keyboard shortcuts, the arrows, to
move around these slideshows. What a fun way to look at photos.
| | 01:42 | Once you're done editing, I can share this publicly,
| | 01:45 | or I can share it privately as well. If you're working with
clients and you want to share a particular album with someone,
| | 01:52 | you don't want the world to see it, you can use a private gallery.
| | 01:56 | And also if I let's say go back to the main area here, My Photos,
| | 02:03 | you'll see that there's other sites here. There's great
integration with Facebook, Flickr, Photo Bucket and Picasa.
| | 02:09 | So you can you take your photos from those sites, bring them
back into Photoshop Express, change them and repost them back to
| | 02:16 | those sites.
| | 02:18 | So whether you're just looking for a free place
to store your photos online for safekeeping,
| | 02:22 | or whether you use one of these other social sites or whether
you just want to share them on the Internet or privately
| | 02:27 | or you just want to make corrections,
| | 02:29 | you can do all of that here for free with Photoshop Express.
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| Why use Photoshop Express?| 00:00 | Now in this movie we're going to cover why you should use Photoshop
Express, no matter what your background. First, let's talk about
| | 00:06 | why everyone would want to use Photoshop Express.
First of all, it's completely and totally free.
| | 00:12 | And also you get 2 GB of storage space. That's actually a lot
of room for your images online, all completely free of charge.
| | 00:22 | For amateurs or hobbyists, you'll really love the sharing
capabilities of Photoshop Express, the ability to have
| | 00:29 | cool slideshows, public and private galleries,
| | 00:32 | and also the wonderful image editing features
are so easy to use inside of Photoshop Express.
| | 00:40 | For advanced users you'll love the fact that Photoshop Express
is cross-platform, because it's a web-based application.
| | 00:48 | And also because it's a web-based application you can access
it anywhere. It doesn't have to have anything installed on
| | 00:54 | the machine you're using it on.
| | 00:55 | It also works great to show off your portfolio.
| | 00:59 | So no matter who you are or what your background or experience
level is with images and image editing, Photoshop Express
| | 01:06 | can be of great benefit to you.
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| Using the example files| 00:00 | If you are a premium member of the lynda.com Online Training
Library or if you purchased this tutorial on a disc, then you'll have
| | 00:06 | access to the exercise files that accompany this training.
| | 00:10 | Now they're set up a little bit weird in reference to
other lynda.com titles that you may have learned from.
| | 00:15 | And basically what we've done is dumped all of these images
we're going to be using into different folders and these folders
| | 00:24 | correspond to the albums I'll be using in Photoshop Express.
| | 00:29 | In Chapter 4, when we talk about uploading,
| | 00:31 | I'll actually walk you through the process
of uploading these folders or the images in them
| | 00:37 | to albums onto Photoshop Express.
| | 00:40 | Now, if you're a monthly or an annual
subscriber to the Online Training Library,
| | 00:45 | at lynda.com there,
| | 00:46 | you won't have access to these files necessarily, but
still free to upload your own images to Photoshop Express
| | 00:52 | or just go ahead and watch the training.
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1. Getting Started with Photoshop ExpressSigning up for an account| 00:00 | I'm here now in my web browser at Photoshop Express.com
| | 00:04 | and in the last movie, we looked at basically how to take
a test drive and kind of kick the tires around of Photoshop
| | 00:10 | Express and here we're going to look at actually creating an account
so we can get to work. If you want to follow along with me or even
| | 00:17 | if you want to edit and adjust your own personal images,
you will need to sign up for a Photoshop Express account,
| | 00:23 | but again it's free and the benefits are awesome.
| | 00:27 | So when I first go to Photoshop Express.com,
I get this little Sign In thing.
| | 00:31 | From here, I can select Join Now. In case you've already canceled that,
| | 00:36 | go ahead and hit Cancel here
| | 00:37 | and pretend you're following along with me here.
| | 00:39 | You can click Join Now now here, you can click Join Now
here. Basically Photoshop Express never wants you to be
| | 00:45 | without an opportunity to join now so you'll find these buttons all
over the place. So go ahead and click Join Now. If you've already
| | 00:52 | signed up, if you already joined Photoshop
Express, then click Sign In to register
| | 00:57 | to get that login screen back.
| | 00:59 | For now, I'm just going to click Join Now here so you can see how
this process works. It's very simple, pretty standard for the Internet.
| | 01:05 | Basically, you need to type your first name, last
name, e-mail with a password, that type of thing.
| | 01:10 | And then what's really cool is you get to create your own Photoshop.com
personal sharing URL. This is your own website, for free again,
| | 01:18 | that you get to tell people maybe you have an online gallery
for a demo reel or maybe just to show off your pictures to
| | 01:24 | family and friends. Whatever it may be Photoshop Express allows
you to create a free website address. Mine, for example, and the
| | 01:32 | one that we're going to be using throughout
this training is ChadPerkins.Photoshop.com.
| | 01:36 | Now I have my own website with my own name, things
like that that I use for business and what not.
| | 01:41 | But being able to say ChadPerkins.Photoshop.com, I don't know.
Even though it's free and cheaper than anything else I got going
| | 01:48 | for my business,
| | 01:49 | ChadPerkins.Photoshop.com just sounds really cool.
| | 01:52 | So then you select your birth year, your country and then
you have a little thing called a captcha and basically what
| | 01:57 | this does is prevent spamming so that a bunch of yahoos with
automated computers don't sign up for Photoshop Express and
| | 02:03 | make it all junkie. So basically just in this little box here
| | 02:07 | type the letters that you see here. So in this case,
it would be QYXQB2 and that's all you need to do.
| | 02:14 | Once you hit Continue, you sign up,
you register, and you're good to go.
| | 02:19 | And from this point you'll have your own account, you'll be able
to upload your own images or if you'd like to follow along with
| | 02:24 | this training, you could upload the exercise
files that I've included with the training.
| | 02:29 | Oh and by the way,
| | 02:31 | if you don't want to receive extra e-mails from Adobe,
then uncheck this box and you'll also need to check this box before
| | 02:37 | proceeding as well.
| | 02:39 | And essentially the one other things I want to tell you is that
you know, I've been signed up with the service since day one
| | 02:45 | and I am very particular about getting junk mail.
I hate it, I get it all the time and it drives me nuts.
| | 02:52 | And I've only gotten one e-mail as a result of signing
up for this service and the only e-mail I got just basically
| | 03:00 | said hey, there's some new features to Photoshop Express
that just recently came out and I actually wanted that e-mail. So,
| | 03:06 | you won't get any junk or any spam or anything like that. Adobe's
usually good about that type of thing. It's a very professional company.
| | 03:11 | Now before we leave this chapter on getting started there's one
other thing I want to tell you in the next movie about the nature of
| | 03:17 | Photoshop Express.
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| Understanding web applications (Why can't I right-click anything?)| 00:00 | If you followed along from the last movie you'll be
brought here to this main welcome screen of your account.
| | 00:06 | Of course yours might not say Hello, Chad and yours might not
have this super handsome devil over here with some root beer.
| | 00:12 | Nevertheless, this is your welcome screen.
| | 00:15 | Now I'm going to click on My Photos here
| | 00:17 | to get into my photos.
| | 00:19 | And of course I have all these photos uploaded here. You probably
won't have these. I'll explain how to get these same images
| | 00:25 | into your account a little bit later on in this training.
| | 00:28 | But I wanted to point out something very unique about Photoshop Express,
| | 00:32 | just right here at the outset. It's a very different paradigm
than what you might be used to if you're used to Microsoft Word
| | 00:40 | or regular Photoshop or any other type of desktop application.
| | 00:43 | You see Photoshop Express is a web-based application.
It is an Internet creation and so in most programs you might
| | 00:52 | right-click a lot to find your way around.
| | 00:55 | However, if I right-click on an image,
I get Print Settings and About Adobe Flash Player 9.
| | 01:01 | So no matter where I right-click, I get these
same little pop-ups that aren't any help at all.
| | 01:06 | And that's again because this is a web-based
application and not a regular desktop application.
| | 01:12 | So of course to make this work you'll
need to have the latest Flash Player.
| | 01:16 | And in the future if they make updates to Photoshop Express,
you may need to get updates for the Flash Player.
| | 01:22 | You can get those for free by going to adobe.com.
| | 01:25 | And that way your software- quote, unquote software,
basically your web application- will always work.
| | 01:31 | As the Internet age continues to develop we're going to
see more and more applications like this on the Internet.
| | 01:36 | Adobe has taken a real strong lead at putting really
powerful applications usually reserved for the desktop
| | 01:43 | onto the Web.
| | 01:45 | The benefits are many and I've talk about this a
little bit before but basically they're cross-platform.
| | 01:50 | So even though I'm here on a Mac, you can jump in on Windows
or I can jump in on Windows on any computer that I happen to
| | 01:56 | be on that has the Internet.
| | 01:58 | And again not only is it cross-platform but
as I just mentioned, you can get on any computer.
| | 02:03 | You don't have to have your computer with you
| | 02:05 | that has your software installed on it.
| | 02:08 | So I could be here on my Mac in Seattle,
| | 02:11 | and then go visit a buddy in Minnesota and he might have
a PC and I might check out his PC and from his PC, I can
| | 02:20 | launch Firefox or whatever Internet browser he happens to have
and get to my pictures that I've uploaded and see my work and
| | 02:27 | make changes and all that.
| | 02:29 | This also might explain why sometimes Photoshop Express might
work a little slower than other times. It may not be that it's
| | 02:35 | really having to process that much. It might be that your
Internet connection isn't maybe as fast as it usually is.
| | 02:41 | So this whole web application thing, it's a whole big, new
strange world and I just wanted to get you acquainted with it.
| | 02:47 | So in the next chapter we're going to take a big
overview of the whole entire Photoshop Express process.
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2. Understanding the Whole ProcessPhotoshop Express overview| 00:00 | In this movie I'm going to give you a big sweeping overview
of the entire process of working in Photoshop Express.
| | 00:08 | So if we had to condense this entire training series into the
next couple minutes that's what this movie is. Just so you get familiar
| | 00:14 | with the whole process. Now of course we
go to Photoshop Express.com on the Internet,
| | 00:19 | and then we sign in,
| | 00:22 | and then the next step of course is we have to get
our photos onto the Internet, onto Photoshop Express.
| | 00:29 | The way that we do that is through a process called uploading.
So we click Upload Photos, we navigate to the photos that we
| | 00:36 | want to upload,
| | 00:37 | select them and click Select.
| | 00:40 | More on uploading in the next chapter.
| | 00:43 | For now however I'm just going to select Cancel.
| | 00:45 | Once we've uploaded images, they're stored in our library.
Our library is basically our entire collection of all photographs.
| | 00:54 | Now as you can imagine, that gets pretty
messy pretty quick with a lot of images.
| | 00:59 | So we basically break those up into
little groups, little collections called albums.
| | 01:04 | As you can see here I've grouped my albums
into different categories such as animals,
| | 01:09 | flowers,
| | 01:10 | kids,
| | 01:11 | and Washington, DC.
| | 01:13 | There are also many additional tools for sorting and organizing
images in Photoshop Express. We can rate them based on
| | 01:20 | stars, we can click to add a caption.
| | 01:23 | We can also change how we're viewing and sorting and
organizing our photos with what we're seeing here.
| | 01:29 | With an album selected, let's say for example animals here,
| | 01:32 | I can click at the bottom Album Slideshow
| | 01:35 | to create a slideshow of my images.
| | 01:37 | I can look at a single image.
| | 01:39 | I can go up to the top here and just click
this right arrow to advance to the next slide.
| | 01:44 | Or previous slides.
| | 01:46 | I can also change the layout
| | 01:48 | making a strip of images.
| | 01:51 | Maybe changing the zoom here so I could see
| | 01:54 | my strip of images, which is kind of cool. Also notice
there's some awesome animation here. There's a cool grid.
| | 02:00 | Vroom. Kind of fun. And there's a ring.
| | 02:03 | Whoo. We could also make this 3D so they overlap and
look all super cool and everything. Kind of fun.
| | 02:10 | As we move around,
| | 02:12 | we get some real cool animation.
| | 02:15 | Not too shabby for a web app. It's pretty cool.
| | 02:18 | I'm just going to return to my photos here.
| | 02:21 | And I'm going to go ahead and
| | 02:22 | proceed without saving any changes and
I'm going to go back to flowers here.
| | 02:26 | One of the things that makes
Photoshop Express so powerful and awesome
| | 02:31 | is that it has a lot of great image editing
capabilities taken from its big brother Photoshop.
| | 02:37 | So I'm going to select this image and I just double-click on it and
I'm going to enter editing mode, and there's all sorts of stuff that
| | 02:44 | we can do here. We can change the exposure, the saturation,
we could take away red eye, we could clean up blemishes.
| | 02:51 | One of my favorites is Pop Color. You don't even find this
in the real version of Photoshop so this is especially cool.
| | 02:58 | So you click on this red in this tulip here and everything
else goes black-and-white except for that one tulip.
| | 03:05 | And not only that, but I can come in here
| | 03:07 | and change that color. You can also finetune it. You can
see I'm getting a little bit of red here at the tip of tulip
| | 03:13 | so I can adjust the fuzziness for example and tweak it so that I'm
only getting the red of this particular tulip and then change the
| | 03:20 | color. How awesome is that?
| | 03:22 | There's a lot of great tools. We can view the original
so that we can see the before and after very quickly here.
| | 03:28 | Before, after,
| | 03:29 | before,
| | 03:30 | after and we can save it. We can even do save as. We can make multiple
copies of photos. We don't have to damage the original so we could
| | 03:36 | have this one and this one in our library at the same time.
| | 03:40 | All sorts of really cool stuff. Obviously,
there's Distort here and Distort's just
| | 03:45 | zany and crazy. That'll be a blast to look at.
| | 03:47 | For now, I'm just going to go ahead and hit Cancel here.
| | 03:50 | And I'm just going to select Don't Save.
| | 03:53 | Once we get all our images the way that we want in a certain album,
| | 03:56 | we can share the album. We do that by
creating something called a gallery.
| | 04:01 | Now just like in real life, a gallery's where you go to see
somebody's work. So galleries are the albums that you want to share.
| | 04:09 | When you share your gallery, you can share that on your
Photoshop URL, your website address that we talked about in the
| | 04:15 | last chapter.
| | 04:17 | Mine would be Chad Perkins.Photoshop.com, for example.
| | 04:21 | Or you could share it with other popular
sites. Facebook, Flickr, Photo Bucket, Picasa.
| | 04:25 | We'll even talk about Myspace a little bit later as well.
| | 04:28 | You can even e-mail your photos also.
| | 04:31 | So now that we have a bird's eye view of the entire process,
let's actually jump into this and talk about uploading images and
| | 04:38 | creating albums in the next chapter.
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3. Creating AlbumsUploading images| 00:00 | This chapter is all about creating albums. But before we create
albums of our own images we need to get them onto Photoshop Express.
| | 00:09 | We do that through a process called uploading. Again uploading
| | 00:13 | is the process of getting images from your computer
onto the Internet and into Photoshop Express.
| | 00:19 | So once you've logged in to Photoshop Express,
| | 00:22 | simply click on the Upload Photos button
in the upper left-hand corner of the interface
| | 00:27 | and you're presented with this little dialog box
that says, which photos would you like to upload?
| | 00:33 | So for this example I'm going to go to my Desktop
| | 00:36 | and I'm going to select the Exercise Files folder,
the exercise files that come with this training,
| | 00:40 | and I'm going to navigate over to the Miscellaneous folder.
| | 00:43 | You'll notice that I have these folders organized on my hard
drive here for the exercise files, Animals, Flowers, Kids and
| | 00:49 | Washington, DC.
| | 00:51 | These folders correspond to similar albums here on Photoshop
Express as you can see from looking at the left-hand
| | 00:58 | panel of my interface here.
| | 00:59 | Now you don't have to do this. You don't have to organize
things into folders for this to work at all. For me and for this
| | 01:05 | training series I did that just to
keep things a little bit more orderly.
| | 01:08 | Now in this movie we're going to upload the
images currently in my Miscellaneous folder.
| | 01:12 | But you'll notice that the Animals, Flowers, Kids and Washington,
DC images have already been uploaded so if you'd like to follow
| | 01:17 | along with the rest of the training series then go ahead
and upload those as well, but we won't be doing that in this movie.
| | 01:24 | Now I could click on one image,
| | 01:26 | and then click Select to upload it.
| | 01:28 | Or I can click on one image,
| | 01:31 | and either Cmd-click or Ctrl-click on the PC to select
multiple images that are not next to each other or if
| | 01:38 | I want to select a whole row of images like this, I can select
one and hold the Shift key on both platforms, Mac and PC,
| | 01:44 | Shift-click the one at the end of the list I want to select
and the first one and the last one will be selected as well as
| | 01:50 | everything in between them.
| | 01:52 | So with all of these selected here
I'm going to hit the Select button
| | 01:55 | and then we have the Upload Photos little dialog box here.
| | 01:59 | It tells us at the bottom the total upload size,
1. 3MB for all these images. Not too shabby.
| | 02:05 | Photoshop Express recommends uploading
no more than 100 images at the same time.
| | 02:11 | Now I've previously uploaded this image Chad with root beer.jpg.
That's the image that you saw as my main profile picture.
| | 02:18 | And so it's telling me here that this is a duplicate. I already have
this on Photoshop Express. So thankfully, I don't want to spend time
| | 02:24 | uploading stuff I don't have to so I'm just
going to click Remove to get rid of that one.
| | 02:28 | If you'd like to upload images from
multiple places on your hard drive,
| | 02:33 | you can simply click the Upload More button to continue
to add to this list so you can upload them all at once.
| | 02:39 | On the left, there are three choices here.
| | 02:41 | By default, images are uploaded to your library meaning that
they're not organized into albums. However, you can click
| | 02:48 | Upload to New Album to create a new album
now that these images will go into
| | 02:53 | or you can upload them to an album you already have existing
in Photoshop Express. So here I have Animals, Flowers, Kids and
| | 02:59 | Washington, DC, my four existing albums.
| | 03:02 | Now technically we're going to talk about creating albums
a little bit later on this chapter, but this is another way to do
| | 03:08 | that now so I'm just going to go ahead and
select Upload to New Album and I'm going to name this
| | 03:13 | Miscellaneous, just like the folder in which I had these images.
| | 03:18 | And I'm going to go ahead and select Upload.
| | 03:23 | And in less than a minute, your photos have successfully uploaded.
| | 03:27 | No big deal.
| | 03:28 | And now if I click Done, I have a new album
with all of the images that I just uploaded.
| | 03:34 | And that's all there is to it. These images are now free for
editing or sharing or whatever else I'd like to do it them in
| | 03:40 | Photoshop Express.
| | 03:42 | Now, what types of file formats
| | 03:44 | does Photoshop Express allow you to upload?
We're going to talk about that in the next movie.
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| Understanding which file formats are acceptable| 00:00 | In this movie we're going to look at which file formats are
acceptable to bring into Photoshop Express. If you're into digital
| | 00:07 | photography you know that there's many formats out there. Each
camera has its own RAW image file format, there's GIFs, there's
| | 00:14 | TIFs and of course there's JPEGs. So the question is then
| | 00:18 | which file formats does Photoshop Express understand?
| | 00:23 | The answer is:
| | 00:25 | well, only JPEGs.
| | 00:27 | So you'll want to make sure that before you try to get your
images into Photoshop Express that you convert them to JPEGs.
| | 00:35 | You can do this using Photoshop
| | 00:37 | or maybe the software that comes with your camera.
| | 00:41 | Now I realize that this is a little limiting but this really is
the most popular file format on the Internet for sharing images.
| | 00:49 | Other file formats, while they do have their advantages, are
simply too big. So Photoshop Express only supports JPEG images.
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| Checking your free storage space| 00:00 | While we're talking about uploading and that
| | 00:02 | sort of thing, I want to tell you a little bit about
the free storage space that Photoshop Express gives you.
| | 00:07 | You have 2 GB of storage space. Now if you're
not a super nerd like me, that's a lot of photos.
| | 00:15 | So after uploading loads of photos, you might be wondering how
much space have I taken up or how much space do I have left?
| | 00:21 | It's kind of tricky to check it. Here's what you do.
| | 00:24 | You click on Your Account and basically
you'll have to retype in your password again.
| | 00:30 | And you'll get to this screen, which has your basic data there,
| | 00:34 | and if you click on this summary here,
this is actually a button. Click on Summary
| | 00:39 | and then it tells you your personal URL and a few other dates,
when you signed up and that type of thing. Now you can see that with
| | 00:45 | all these images I have here, all these albums and all the images
in the albums that we've been looking at, I've still only used up
| | 00:51 | 1/10 of 1 GB of space. So I still have 1.9 out of 2 GB left.
| | 00:58 | Now for me, whenever I have tons of room, whether
it's like on my DVR or whatever, or my hard drive,
| | 01:04 | I find that things get filled up a real quick so it might be good
every once in a while, maybe every couple months or so, just to
| | 01:10 | come here to your account and check to
see how much space you have remaining.
| | 01:14 | Not with all this stuff about uploading and getting set up out
of the way we're not ready to get into albums so we'll talk about what
| | 01:20 | those are the next movie.
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| Understanding albums| 00:00 | Now that we have our images uploaded,
we're ready to talk about albums.
| | 00:04 | But what are albums actually?
Well, that's a really good question.
| | 00:09 | When I first started learning Photoshop Express, I saw albums
basically as a way to organize your photos and nothing more.
| | 00:16 | But in reality, albums are kind of like the hub of Photoshop
Express. If you really want to get the most out of Photoshop
| | 00:24 | Express, you absolutely have to use albums. Now, it goes without
saying that they are used to sort and organize your photos so
| | 00:32 | if I clicked on the word Albums, not one of
these albums themselves but the actual word Albums,
| | 00:37 | I can see these photo albums, kind of
cheesy looking, brown photo album icon.
| | 00:42 | The different categories that I've created,
in other words, the different albums.
| | 00:46 | Let's open up Animals for example. Double-
click Animals to open up the Animals album.
| | 00:50 | And so we see that it is a nice place
to come and have all our animal photos,
| | 00:55 | but
| | 00:56 | we can also do so much more with these albums. When we look
at these really cool slideshows, which we'll talk about later in
| | 01:02 | this training series,
| | 01:03 | we do so through albums.
| | 01:06 | So we don't make slideshows of just a collection of pictures.
We make slideshows of albums. See how it says Album Slideshow
| | 01:12 | down here at the bottom?
| | 01:13 | Also,
| | 01:14 | when you share your photos with the world, you share your
albums through something called galleries, which we'll look at
| | 01:21 | a little bit later on in this training series. So you'd come down
here and click Share Album to share your album with the world.
| | 01:26 | So albums do much more than just organize, as important as organization
is when you're talking about a huge library of photographs.
| | 01:33 | You know there's a whole lot to this world of Photoshop Express and
I intentionally decided to cover important things like sorting and
| | 01:40 | organizing and changing your view of images.
| | 01:43 | I decided to put that after talking albums because albums are just
so critical to everything you do in Photoshop Express. Again, if
| | 01:49 | you want use slideshows, if you want to share your albums
and galleries, you need to have albums and besides all that
| | 01:56 | it's just really nice and orderly to be able to have all these
different categories of images, to be able to jump to Flowers or Kids
| | 02:03 | or Washington, DC. Even this Miscellaneous folder. There's some
great images in here but I'm less likely to browse through the
| | 02:11 | Miscellaneous album because what does miscellaneous mean?
| | 02:14 | So again, in summary, albums are critical
to being successful with Photoshop Express.
| | 02:20 | Next I'm going to show you how to create an album.
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| Creating a new album| 00:00 | Now that we know all about albums, we know how to get images
inside of Photoshop Express, it's time to learn how to make an album.
| | 00:07 | Thankfully, this is probably the easiest possible thing you could ever
do in Photoshop Express. There's about a zillion and a half ways to
| | 00:14 | get the job done when you're trying to make a new album.
| | 00:16 | One of the ways we've already covered,
I'll just cover it again briefly here.
| | 00:19 | If we upload a photo,
| | 00:21 | this is from the Miscellaneous folder, just select trophies here.
| | 00:24 | I'm not actually going to do this, but just to show
you how it's done- I can select Upload to New Album,
| | 00:29 | and instead of just uploading it to my library or to an existing album,
I can have Photoshop Express create new album for me upon import.
| | 00:38 | I can create the name of that album right here.
| | 00:41 | And if I choose to do it this way then it would make a new album
with this name and put the images that I'm uploading now into
| | 00:48 | that new album.
| | 00:50 | I'm just going to go ahead and cancel out of that for now.
| | 00:52 | Another way that we can add an album
| | 00:54 | is by coming over to the left side of the interface
in the Albums area and clicking the plus icon.
| | 00:59 | And once we do that, it gives us this unnamed album and we
could type whatever we want. Chad's new album, let's say.
| | 01:07 | Now what's really cool about this
| | 01:08 | is that we can add photos from our library to new albums
and those photos can exist in multiple albums. So let's say
| | 01:16 | for example, we have All Photos here.
| | 01:18 | And I know that these flowers, this in blue vase image, this
image exists in the Flowers album already, but I can drag and
| | 01:26 | drop it into the Chad's new album album.
| | 01:30 | And now as you can see it's here in the Chad's new album album.
| | 01:34 | And it's also in the Flowers album over here as well.
| | 01:38 | Now if you want to delete an album,
| | 01:40 | I'm going to go and click on Chad's new
album to select it here so it's blue
| | 01:44 | and I'm going to click this X.
| | 01:46 | Now, you notice that again, this flower image is in two albums,
| | 01:50 | but what it's going to do when I delete an album is it's not
going to remove these images from my Photoshop Express Library.
| | 01:57 | It's only going to delete the actual album itself.
| | 02:01 | Let me go ahead and click OK there.
| | 02:03 | Now the album with that blue base image
is gone, but if we click on Flowers,
| | 02:07 | it's still here.
| | 02:08 | Here's another way to create an album that's kind of cool.
| | 02:11 | I can actually drag and drop an image
on top of this little plus icon here.
| | 02:18 | The same one we used to create a new album.
| | 02:20 | When we do that, it's going to create a brand-new album
| | 02:24 | with the image that we dragged and dropped onto the icon.
| | 02:27 | So as you see here the album is already created
and the image that we dragged and dropped here,
| | 02:32 | is here in this album.
| | 02:33 | I'm just going to go ahead and select this album and delete it.
| | 02:37 | Click OK.
| | 02:39 | Now let's say that I'm in the library and I have no images selected.
I will not be able to click this Create Album button, which is
| | 02:46 | another way to create an album.
| | 02:48 | When you create an album this way, you must have an image selected.
| | 02:52 | So you can click on an image to select it, making sure that it has
that light blue highlight around it and then come down here and
| | 02:57 | click Create Album
| | 02:59 | with the selected photos as members of that album.
| | 03:02 | So as you can see, as promised, there are a
zillion and a half ways to create new albums.
| | 03:07 | While you're uploading, you can drag-and-drop to this new
icon, you can simply click this icon or you can select images
| | 03:14 | and then click the Create Album button.
| | 03:16 | So just remember that there's no right
or wrong way to create an album.
| | 03:20 | It's totally your preference.
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| Removing images| 00:00 | In this movie, we are going to look at how to remove
images from your entire library in Photoshop Express.
| | 00:06 | Previously, we've looked at how to remove albums
| | 00:09 | and we've also talked about how when we remove albums,
the images in those albums are still online on Photoshop
| | 00:16 | Express in our library.
| | 00:18 | What if we wanted to completely remove that?
| | 00:20 | That's what we're going to talk about here.
| | 00:22 | So if you're following along with me,
go to the Albums area and select Miscellaneous.
| | 00:27 | As I scroll through this album,
| | 00:29 | I see an image here, nightlight.jpg,
| | 00:32 | and as I select it, after I select that, I get the
blue outline around it letting me know it's selected.
| | 00:37 | I have this button here that says,
| | 00:39 | Remove Photo.
| | 00:40 | As you see from the tooltip, it says "Remove the selected photo
from this album, but not from the Photoshop Express Library."
| | 00:47 | And this is why it's really important to know about albums.
| | 00:49 | If we were to click this Remove Photo button now, being
in the Miscellaneous library, as you can see from its being
| | 00:55 | highlighted on the left-hand side,
| | 00:57 | if we were to select Remove Photo now, it would only
remove it from the album and not from our entire library.
| | 01:03 | However, if we go to the library to
click on All Photos under Library here,
| | 01:08 | we could see that we have the same Remove
Photo button as we did with Miscellaneous.
| | 01:12 | Same exact Remove Photo button.
| | 01:14 | But they do very different things
depending on whether you're in an album
| | 01:19 | or whether you're in your entire library.
| | 01:21 | Since you want to remove an image from your library and not
just an album, completely remove it from your library altogether,
| | 01:28 | then select All Photos under the Library tab on the left-
hand side of the interface and then we can come down here
| | 01:34 | and select nightlight.jpg.
| | 01:36 | And if we were to select Remove Photo now,
| | 01:38 | it would let us know,
| | 01:39 | "Are you sure you want to remove this photo from the library?"
| | 01:42 | If we were to click OK, it would completely
remove the photo from Photoshop Express.
| | 01:47 | Actually I might want to keep this image around
for later so I'm going to go ahead and hit Cancel now.
| | 01:51 | But just be aware, that's how you remove images.
You might want to remove images because you realize that
| | 01:56 | maybe there's something embarrassing that you accidently posted.
| | 01:58 | Or perhaps that you might want to clear up some space as well,
| | 02:02 | as your library in Photoshop Express starts becoming quite large.
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| Creating an album group| 00:00 | If you've been into digital photography for a while, you're probably
a stickler for organization. When you first start, it's kind of like
| | 00:06 | 'Oh, it's fine. Let's just dump everything in one folder.' And
you quickly realize after a few sessions of taking photographs
| | 00:12 | that that just really doesn't work.
| | 00:14 | So if you're a big stickler for organization then you might
want to take advantage of something in Photoshop Express
| | 00:19 | called album groups.
| | 00:21 | Basically it's a way to categorize albums.
| | 00:24 | Let's say for example, you took a big family vacation in
let's say California. You drove the entire length of the state.
| | 00:30 | You might a album for big key points like
Los Angeles or San Francisco or San Diego
| | 00:37 | and so you might create an album for
the photos you took in that particular city.
| | 00:41 | You can then use an album group and dump those albums
from your California vacation into one big group.
| | 00:49 | The way to create an album group is by going to the
left side of the interface and where it says Album,
| | 00:54 | right across from the street from that there is a folder here, and
go ahead and click that folder and that will create a new album group.
| | 01:02 | I'm just going to call this
| | 01:04 | Chad's album group. I'm not feeling super creative this
evening so we're just going to with Chad's album group.
| | 01:12 | Now the way that this works is that we simply drag and drop
albums into the album group. Just click and drag and drop
| | 01:20 | from a blue selected album
| | 01:22 | to the album group and once it's highlighted,
| | 01:25 | it will turn green letting you know that
it understands what you are trying to do
| | 01:29 | and add an album to that group.
| | 01:32 | And as you can see as we click this disclosure triangle we close up
the group and kind of make things a little more neat and tidy here.
| | 01:38 | So you can click to expand
| | 01:40 | or collapse that.
| | 01:42 | And also you can see that this Flowers
album that we added to this album group
| | 01:47 | is indented a little bit.
| | 01:49 | This basically lets you know that the
Flowers album is part of the Chad's album group.
| | 01:54 | Now we talked about how we can remove albums simply by selecting on it
| | 01:59 | and then clicking this little X button.
| | 02:01 | However,
| | 02:02 | if we were to select an album group and click that same X
| | 02:06 | then a warning will pop up letting us know
| | 02:08 | if we remove this album group, it will
remove all albums within that group as well.
| | 02:14 | I'm not sure I like that behavior very much. So I'm going to hit
Cancel here. I definitely don't want to remove the Flowers album.
| | 02:20 | I just want to get rid of this album group.
| | 02:22 | So to do that without harming any of our existing albums
I need to get this Flowers album back out of the album group.
| | 02:30 | So the way we do that is simply click
and drag an album in the album group
| | 02:34 | to the word Albums and again, that turns green.
| | 02:38 | Once you let go of your mouse, the album will no longer be
indented, letting you know that it's now part of the general
| | 02:44 | collection of albums and not a part of the album group.
| | 02:47 | Then you are free to simply select the album group,
| | 02:50 | and click the X to remove it.
| | 02:52 | And click OK here.
| | 02:54 | And that's how to create an album group. Again, we use album groups
to group the albums so that we have even more of a hierarchy,
| | 03:01 | more of a structure of organization.
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4. Organizing Images in an AlbumChanging views| 00:00 | In this chapter, we're going to start really getting comfortable with
the whole interface of Photoshop Express, kind of working our way around.
| | 00:08 | I think this will be a really important chapter for you.
| | 00:10 | In this movie, we're going to take a look at changing our view. I know
that doesn't sound really cool but there's a lot of awesome tricks here.
| | 00:16 | Now I'm here in my Library selecting All Photos.
The first thing I want to cover is this little slider.
| | 00:21 | You hover your mouse over it and basically what it says
is Adjust Thumbnail Size. As I drag this to the left,
| | 00:27 | you can see that I'm shrinking the size
of the thumbnails that I'm looking at here.
| | 00:33 | So I can see more images.
| | 00:34 | AS I drag this to the right,
| | 00:36 | I get a bigger thumbnail so I'm seeing less images.
| | 00:41 | It's kind of a cool animation too, with the way that works.
| | 00:44 | So I'm actually going to drag this over
a little bit so I can see more images.
| | 00:48 | Now to the right of the Thumbnail Size slider,
| | 00:51 | we had the View drop-down,
| | 00:53 | and you can see here there are check marks next to Name,
| | 00:56 | Rating, Date and Caption. If we wanted to,
let's say for example, remove the name,
| | 01:01 | it's checked here so if we click it again, we'll deselect it.
We won't see the names of our photos. So we can uncheck Ratings,
| | 01:08 | Date and Caption to remove those so all we're seeing is our images.
| | 01:13 | It makes things a little bit cleaner and
it makes it so we can see more of our images.
| | 01:16 | I'm going to turn all of these back on. I actually like seeing
| | 01:19 | some information about my images at a glance.
| | 01:22 | But just know that that's here for you if you need it.
| | 01:25 | And again, sometimes people use certain features.
| | 01:29 | For this Rating feature that we'll talk about later on in this chapter.
| | 01:32 | If we don't use it then why have it show up? So we could just
remove just Ratings if we want to and then the Date takes its place.
| | 01:40 | So I'm going to turn back on Rating here,
| | 01:42 | next to the right of that we have different views.
By default, we're looking at a grid of photos.
| | 01:47 | However, you could choose to just look at
one single image, like a film strip view,
| | 01:52 | and basically we have a bunch of images and then one super big one.
| | 01:57 | This is very similar to the Film Strip View in
Adobe Bridge, if you're familiar with that application.
| | 02:02 | I could actually come over here and click
on an image just to make sure it's selected.
| | 02:06 | Once it's selected, we can use the right and left arrow
keys to navigate through these images very quickly.
| | 02:14 | That's kind of cool.
| | 02:15 | Could also use the scrollbar of course,
to scroll through our images very quickly.
| | 02:19 | And on the right side of the default Grid view,
| | 02:23 | we have this Details view.
| | 02:25 | So we can look at a bunch of information about our images at a glance.
| | 02:30 | We can see which album these pictures are in, the names and when it
was taken, when it was posted, the last time it was modified, etc., etc.
| | 02:38 | For me, I like knowing how big my images are so I could see
the width and height in pixels of each images as well, but for
| | 02:46 | most people I don't think that's something that they're
really super concerned about, but if it's there if you need it.
| | 02:50 | Now I'm going to go back to the default Grid view here.
| | 02:53 | And let's make things a little bigger,
back closer to where they are by default.
| | 02:58 | Now let's say we like our images here, but maybe
when we open up our library, we don't want to see
| | 03:04 | this particular order.
| | 03:05 | Now we'll talk about sorting
| | 03:07 | a little bit later on in this chapter, but just be aware
that we can just simply click and drag to rearrange our images.
| | 03:14 | So if we want this tulip guts image
| | 03:17 | to be the second one in our lineup here,
you simply drag and drop in between these two.
| | 03:23 | The in blue base image and the yellow tulip close-up image.
| | 03:26 | And actually that's not working. Oh yeah, I forgot. You can't
actually do this in the library. You actually have to go into
| | 03:33 | the albums and then you can rearrange the images.
| | 03:38 | So if I click and drag on one you can see that I get this
little yellow bar indicating where this image will be once I
| | 03:44 | let go and drag and drop. So if I wanted this
| | 03:47 | little roach image that's kind of gross to be out
of the picture, I could simply click and drag it down.
| | 03:53 | And maybe I really like this cool lion yelling, Get off my lawn!
That's what I decided to call that image. I can simply drag up
| | 04:00 | and maybe put that before the bee. So now when I go into this album
this is the image that I see at the top instead of the dang roach.
| | 04:06 | So again, the rearranging doesn't work in the library
| | 04:10 | as it does in the albums. So as you can see here in summary,
there are so many ways to change the views of your image and
| | 04:17 | you see we have the same controls when we are in the albums
or in the library, although again we can't rearrange the images
| | 04:24 | in the library like we can in the albums. But other than that,
| | 04:26 | we have the same thing where we can resize things here,
| | 04:31 | and you'll notice that when I resize the image here-
let's take these really, really small, as small as they'll go.
| | 04:36 | You notice that when I resize these images in our albums,
| | 04:39 | when we go back to the library,
| | 04:42 | the view is the same, so it's pretty consistent.
| | 04:45 | And that's how we adjust the views of our images in Photoshop Express.
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| Rating images| 00:00 | If organization is your thing,
| | 00:02 | and if albums weren't enough,
| | 00:04 | and album groups on top of that weren't enough,
| | 00:06 | Photoshop Express gives you another way to
organize your images. This time inside of albums.
| | 00:13 | And it does that with a ratings system and that's what these stars
are that you see beneath images inside albums. Now to see these stars,
| | 00:21 | you want to make sure that your view is about medium
| | 00:25 | cause if you take this a little bit too big or too small,
sometimes the view of the stars can get obscured
| | 00:31 | depending on the size of your screen.
| | 00:33 | And you also make sure in this View drop-down that Ratings
has a check mark next to it so you can see the stars.
| | 00:39 | To rate an image just go to the stars
below it and click one of the stars.
| | 00:43 | So if I really like this image from the Calvary Group
| | 00:46 | from the Grant statute in front of the capital building,
| | 00:49 | I can just click on the five stars to give five stars. Maybe
click on three stars to give the capital building three stars.
| | 00:55 | That's for my taxes there. Maybe it'll get four stars next year.
| | 00:58 | Washington Monument.
| | 01:00 | We could give it four stars, and so on and so forth and we could
change it anytime. If I want to go back later and say, actually
| | 01:05 | this is more of a two star image or more of a five
star image we could just click that to change it.
| | 01:09 | If you wan to remove the rating system entirely,
| | 01:12 | just click on the first star,
| | 01:14 | and then click on it again to remove it.
| | 01:17 | Now you can use these stars in really creative ways.
| | 01:20 | Obviously, you can rate the stars on how much
you like the image or the quality of the image
| | 01:25 | but you can also use stars as something like categories.
So let's say, here I have my trip of Washington, DC that I'm rating
| | 01:33 | and let's pretend I'm in the album Washington, DC.
I'm actually in my Library at the moment...
| | 01:38 | but let's say I wanted to give the Washington Monument
| | 01:41 | one star. Kind of looks like the number one anyways. And then
maybe everything with the Lincoln Memorial, give that two stars.
| | 01:47 | Everything with the capital building, three stars, and the White
House, four stars and so on. So if I'm looking for an image I can sort
| | 01:54 | my images, which I'll show you how to do in the next movie.
| | 01:56 | We can sort our images based on the content, not necessarily the quality.
| | 02:01 | So it's up to you about how you want to rate
your images or if you want to rate them at all.
| | 02:06 | we'll talk in the next movie on sorting
| | 02:08 | how to the sort your images based on the star values.
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| Sorting images| 00:00 | In this brief tutorial we're going to look at sorting images
inside of Photoshop Express. This works in albums or in your library.
| | 00:07 | First off, just so we can see more images here I'm going to
reduce the size of the image thumbnail, the little previews here,
| | 00:13 | so we can see more of these images.
| | 00:15 | And also I'm going to add
| | 00:17 | a few just random ratings to some of these images here.
| | 00:22 | Just very quickly. There's no rhyme or reason to what I'm doing here.
| | 00:26 | Just giving a random rating so we could sort by those ratings later.
| | 00:31 | Now to sort images, we go to the View dropdown
| | 00:34 | and actually, what we're seeing here in parentheses
is actually the way that it's sorting our images.
| | 00:40 | So right now it's sorting by the newest date.
| | 00:43 | So of we look at the dates of our images here, this one is from May 15th.
| | 00:48 | And this one is from May 12th, as are the three that follow,
| | 00:52 | and the ones after that are from the 7th
and they get older and older as you go along.
| | 00:57 | Now if we go to this dropdown here,
| | 00:59 | under Sort,
| | 01:00 | we can change to have it sort by the oldest state first,
| | 01:04 | so this is back from July 27, 2006 and
then it gets newer and newer as we go down.
| | 01:09 | And finally the other way we can sort
| | 01:12 | is by rating.
| | 01:13 | So as you see, we start with five stars and they
descend as we get further down the line here.
| | 01:19 | Four stars, three stars, these two do. These two
have two stars and then this one has one star.
| | 01:24 | Also when you sort by rating,
| | 01:26 | the images that you have rated show up first and
those that you have not rated show up after that.
| | 01:33 | And again as we spoke about previously, you can use these
little stars for whatever kind of secret code you want.
| | 01:40 | So as you sort by rating, you can get quick
access to the images that you're looking for.
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| Searching for images| 00:00 | Photoshop Express has a super nifty way to search through huge
categories of images, and it's kind of hard to spot right off
| | 00:08 | the bat. It's in the lower left-hand corner
| | 00:11 | of the Photoshop Express interface.
| | 00:14 | And the way this works is kind of like it does on the Mac platform,
| | 00:18 | where basically you start typing a few letters and you get
instant results before having to finish typing the word or
| | 00:24 | hitting Enter or whatever. So.
| | 00:26 | Let's say I wanted to do a search for photos
of Lincoln, as in Abraham Lincoln. So I type L,
| | 00:32 | I,
| | 00:33 | let's give it a second here,
| | 00:35 | and you'll see I get all the results that have L and I in a row.
| | 00:40 | You'll see that I get tulip because in
tulip there's a L and then I in a row
| | 00:44 | and then I also get Lincoln.
| | 00:46 | However once I add N, the only thing in my library
that has L-I-N in a row are these two images of
| | 00:55 | the Lincoln Memorial.
| | 00:56 | I should probably point out here that as long as
you have these search results in this Search field,
| | 01:01 | those are the only images that you're going to see,
are ones that match your search criteria.
| | 01:06 | So to clear the palette, so to speak, just click this little X here
| | 01:09 | to be able to see all your images again.
| | 01:11 | Also if you find yourself searching for the same images
over and over again, just click this little arrow here
| | 01:17 | and it will have a result of all of your last searches. As you
can see, here, I just have just a few little letters here and there.
| | 01:24 | Letter groups because
| | 01:25 | once you start to type in a few characters, it automatically
| | 01:28 | jumps you pretty much to the images that you're
looking for without too much effort on your part.
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| Adding searchable captions| 00:00 | Now that we know about searching, I want to show you a really
cool trick inside of Photoshop Express and that is adding captions.
| | 00:07 | Now I'm going to go to the Washington, DC album for this. So in
the Albums area, click on Washington, DC if you're following along
| | 00:14 | with me here.
| | 00:15 | And oftentimes when we're sharing images with other people,
| | 00:18 | the name of the image doesn't really
tell the whole story. For example,
| | 00:22 | this image of the Calvary Group here,
| | 00:26 | as I increase the size of this thumbnail, see it's a pretty cool
image. There's a little horsey here and a little dude on it and
| | 00:31 | it really doesn't tell you what's going on with that.
| | 00:34 | So if I was sharing this with someone else, they might not
realize what this is or how significant this image actually is.
| | 00:41 | Perhaps there is something going on the other side of the
camera that was interesting that they might want to know about.
| | 00:47 | And so we can add a caption that adds extra information for this
that really adds to the story that we're trying to tell with
| | 00:54 | our pictures.
| | 00:55 | So I'm going to click in here, as it says, Click to add caption.
| | 00:58 | And I'm going to type in, 'This is a statue called the
| | 01:05 | Calvary Group,
| | 01:08 | which is part of the Grant Memorial.' Whatever.
| | 01:15 | And as I scale this thumbnail down,
| | 01:19 | get this smaller,
| | 01:20 | we can't see all of the caption. Thankfully, as I put my mouse
over this, there's a little pop-up that has the entire caption
| | 01:27 | that I added. Just kind of as a pop-up there,
which is really nice, but even more than that-
| | 01:31 | these captions are searchable.
| | 01:34 | So let's say I go to my Search area and type 'Grant,' for example.
| | 01:38 | Well I don't have any images in my library
that have the word Grant in them.
| | 01:42 | At least not in the names.
| | 01:43 | But what it's actually done is searched through the caption
| | 01:47 | of this calvary group.jpg image. So even though captions may
not seem like the most exciting thing in the world. Again, they
| | 01:53 | really help you tell the stories of your images and also captions make
it easier for you to search and find the images you're looking for.
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| Viewing basic image information| 00:00 | I'm continuing on here from a previous movie. I'm in the
Washington, DC album and I'm working with this Calvary Group image
| | 00:07 | and we've added a caption here.
| | 00:09 | And we know that if we want to see more information about
this image, we can use this Details view, which allows us to
| | 00:17 | see more information. We talked about that already,
| | 00:19 | but there's another place that we can
go to, going back to the Grid view here.
| | 00:23 | There's another place we can go to to see even more information.
| | 00:26 | What I'm going to do is select this image
| | 00:28 | and I'm going to come down here to this
little nondescript circular eye icon.
| | 00:34 | And if we click that button,
| | 00:36 | we'll see properties for the selected image.
| | 00:39 | Now if we have a really long caption,
we'll be able to see the caption here.
| | 00:43 | We also can see when the image was taken,
| | 00:46 | when I posted the image,
| | 00:47 | and also, what's especially cool about this,
| | 00:50 | is that I've never once, even when I took this image from my camera
and put it on my computer initially, did I ever have to specify
| | 00:58 | what camera it was using to take the pictures. It's
just that information was just embedded in the image
| | 01:03 | and also I've taken this image into Photoshop and I've adjusted it a
little bit and then spit back out as a JPEG so it could be a little bit
| | 01:11 | smaller and fit here on the web on Photoshop Express and
still that information is embedded in the image- which camera
| | 01:18 | took the picture.
| | 01:19 | Also in this information here
| | 01:22 | we get a glance at which albums this image is a part of.
| | 01:27 | And right now this image is only a part of the Washington, DC album.
| | 01:30 | Now for those of you that know your way around a camera you know
about shutter speed and aperture and all that kind of stuff you'll
| | 01:36 | really love the advanced information features here in
Photoshop Express and we'll talk about that in the next movie.
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| Viewing advanced image data| 00:00 | Now we've already looked at how to look
at image data for a particular image.
| | 00:05 | We just simply select it. I'm here in the Washington, DC album.
| | 00:09 | Click on the capitol building image just for a change of pace here.
| | 00:12 | And we click the Info button
| | 00:14 | and we see some information about it there.
| | 00:16 | But what if we want to get even more cool details about this image?
| | 00:21 | Those of you that are advanced photographers will love this.
| | 00:25 | Click on the Advanced button here
| | 00:27 | and you'll see a lot more information about this image.
| | 00:30 | The file size, which is kind of cool especially
as your Photoshop Express account becomes
| | 00:35 | quite populated with a lot images. It might be good to know
which behemoths you have taking up too much space inside the
| | 00:41 | Photoshop Express Library.
| | 00:43 | Also the image size in pixels, camera make and model,
| | 00:47 | but then we get to the juicy stuff.
| | 00:49 | Shutter speed,
| | 00:50 | the aperture,
| | 00:51 | the focal length, the exposure and whether the flash fired.
| | 00:55 | Now this is awesome.
| | 00:56 | At a glance, personally I can look at this and
I say, I know exactly which lens I used to take this.
| | 01:02 | And I know to the aperture, I know how quickly the shutter fired.
I know that basically by looking at the shutter speed, I can tell
| | 01:08 | if I blew this up, if I wasn't using a tripod,
| | 01:11 | then I might see a little bit of blur there.
| | 01:13 | All sorts of detail I can get just at a glance here.
If you're new to the world of the DSLR camera
| | 01:19 | and not really familiar with the aperture
or shutter speed and all that kind of stuff,
| | 01:25 | then this could be a good testing ground to take a bunch
images with different settings in your camera and bring them in
| | 01:29 | here and see which ones look the best in different
situations and that type of thing. Like a learning experience.
| | 01:35 | Now those of you that are pretty skilled in photography,
| | 01:37 | are probably thinking I'm a clown right
about now because I have this picture
| | 01:40 | of the capital building, which is actually a massive building,
| | 01:43 | and I took it with a 50 mm lens, which is typically used for
portraits and has a viewing distance of about 1 1/2 feet.
| | 01:52 | Basically that's the equivalent of looking
at the Grand Canyon with a magnifying glass.
| | 01:56 | But just so you know, I was on a trip to Washington, DC and
the only lens I had room for was my 50 mm lens, which is prime,
| | 02:03 | and not adjustable, so...
| | 02:05 | basically we had a rough time trying to take good shots with
my 50 mm camera lense. But nonetheless, things came out well.
| | 02:13 | And I can tell what
| | 02:14 | I did here. I could see my follies as I look in
this Advanced data area inside of Photoshop Express.
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5. Using the My Gallery FeatureAlbums vs. Galleries| 00:00 | In this chapter, we're going look at sharing our photos
with the rest of the world by using the my gallery feature.
| | 00:06 | Now at first, it may seem a little bit confusing
| | 00:08 | with albums and galleries. Often times these terms are used
interchangeably in various programs so I just want to take a little bit
| | 00:15 | of time here
| | 00:16 | and explain to you the difference between these.
| | 00:18 | Albums are as we've talked about these
categories where we group our images together,
| | 00:23 | and the galleries are basically
| | 00:26 | public albums. So if we were to click on
animals for example and open up this album,
| | 00:33 | and you see that once we're in this album,
| | 00:35 | we can click share album,
| | 00:37 | which will allow us to share the album
| | 00:40 | either on my gallery or via e-mail. We'll talk about what
that via e-mail means a little bit later on in this training.
| | 00:46 | So you can see here by the share album button
| | 00:49 | that making images public is a function of the my gallery feature.
| | 00:54 | If we click on my gallery at the top
of the Photoshop Express interface
| | 00:59 | we get to the my gallery area and it says you currently
have no albums shared on your gallery page. So basically again
| | 01:07 | albums are these things that
| | 01:10 | you have in Photoshop Express where you organize your images
| | 01:12 | and your gallery is essentially a collection of your public albums.
| | 01:18 | Next we're going to look at how to
put your albums into your gallery page.
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| Putting an album in your Gallery| 00:00 | As we've talked about previously, sharing your images is a
function of albums. In order for you to make images public
| | 00:08 | they must first go into an album.
| | 00:10 | So the way we share albums, in other words put them into our gallery,
| | 00:15 | is simply to come over here to the Albums
area on the left-hand side of the interface
| | 00:19 | and put a little check mark next to the album you want to share.
| | 00:24 | After doing that this little pop-up comes up here and
says basically that you're going to make this album public.
| | 00:30 | Are you sure you want to let everyone else see this gallery?
| | 00:34 | And I'm going to go and say Yes. Nothing to hide here.
| | 00:38 | And now if we go up to My Gallery at the top of the interface.
| | 00:42 | You'll see that we now have the Animals album here in my gallery.
| | 00:47 | From here, we also have our albums and if we want to share
additional albums and we can just go ahead and click the
| | 00:54 | check mark for those as well.
| | 00:56 | And all these albums will be publicly available.
| | 00:59 | If at any time you'd like to stop sharing a particular album,
| | 01:02 | simply go up to it, either in My Gallery Albums
area in the My Gallery section of Photoshop Express
| | 01:08 | or in the My Photos area of Photoshop
Express and just deselect the arrows.
| | 01:12 | And that's all there is to taking albums out of your gallery.
| | 01:16 | And what I'm going to go ahead and do is
add a check mark next every single one of these
| | 01:22 | so that all of these are from henceforth through this
training, these are all publicly available photos on
| | 01:29 | ChadPerkins.Photoshop.com. So even if you don't have the exercise files,
| | 01:33 | you can go to that website and see what's going
on here and browse these albums on my gallery.
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| Viewing other public Galleries| 00:00 | Another thing you can do with Photoshop Expresses is to
browse the galleries that other people have posted on the Internet.
| | 00:06 | Now, we do that by going up the top here. Now we've been working in this
My Photos area. This is kind of like the main area of Photoshop Express.
| | 00:13 | We've also talked about the My Gallery area where we set up our gallery.
| | 00:17 | But if we click on this Browse button here at the top of interface we
can see other galleries that people have shared on Photoshop Express.
| | 00:24 | Each little spot here represents a different user,
| | 00:27 | and each little square down at the bottom represents
a different album that they are sharing in their gallery.
| | 00:33 | If you want to, you can click directly on one of these
little squares to watch a slideshow of that particular album.
| | 00:39 | Or let's say for me here, I'm posted.
| | 00:42 | I'm going to double-click on my gallery,
| | 00:44 | and then from there, I'll be able to see
all of the albums that I'm currently sharing
| | 00:49 | and from here,
| | 00:50 | you see when I put my cursor over the center
of these albums I get a little play icon.
| | 00:54 | And once I hit that play icon,
| | 00:56 | I will launch a slideshow
| | 00:58 | with all of the images in that album.
| | 01:03 | Hit this right arrow key to advance to the next slide. We'll talk
about slide shows a little bit later. I'm just going to click
| | 01:08 | Return to Browse for right now.
| | 01:10 | But just be aware if you're looking for artistic inspiration
that browsing other people's public gallery can sometimes be
| | 01:16 | very uplifting and be a very creative experience.
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| Picking favorites| 00:00 | I want to share with you here some tips for browsing
galleries. I'm going to go back to the Browse button.
| | 00:06 | Click the Browse button at the top of
the interface to browse other people's galleries.
| | 00:09 | Now if while you're kind of
| | 00:11 | browsing around other people's galleries here, if you find
something pretty cool that you like or maybe a user you
| | 00:17 | think is pretty top notch, you can click on them to select them
and then click the Favorite button to add them to your favorites.
| | 00:25 | And then when you come over here to click Favorite Galleries
and Favorite Albums then you have those selected already.
| | 00:31 | Now also- I'm just going to open up My Gallery here.
| | 00:34 | Not sure whether people have on their
accounts, so I don't want to use those.
| | 00:38 | If select an album, let's say my Animals album here I have selected.
| | 00:41 | Once I have that selected, I get five buttons down here at the bottom.
| | 00:45 | These left three deal with linking and embedding and
e-mailing links to this particular album out to somebody.
| | 00:52 | So let's say I wanted somebody to come follow
a link and get directly to this Animals album.
| | 00:58 | All I have to do is simply click the Link button,
| | 01:00 | and that will copy the link to this exact album
| | 01:04 | to my clipboard.
| | 01:06 | So I could just paste it in an e-mail or whatever, or a blog
maybe and then people can just jump right to this particular album.
| | 01:13 | Embed will actually create a widget for you that you can embed
| | 01:17 | into a webpage or blog or whatever you want to do there.
| | 01:21 | It kind of creates like a little player.
| | 01:24 | Here we can click Favorite to
| | 01:26 | add this album to our favorites, just like we
added galleries to our favorites moments ago,
| | 01:32 | and also if you find something naughty, something that breaks
a copyright rules or is that offensive or hateful or something
| | 01:39 | despicable that shouldn't be on a Photoshop
Express, you can select it and click Report.
| | 01:45 | So there's just a few tips, a few little extra buttons and gizmos
and whatnots to get the most out of your gallery browsing experience.
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6. Editing ImagesEntering Edit mode| 00:00 | Now it's time for the good stuff. In this chapter, we're going
to look at editing images, probably the biggest feature of
| | 00:08 | Photoshop Express other than the fact that there is a free 2 GB of storage.
| | 00:12 | But I digress. So I'm going to go over here to the Animals album,
| | 00:16 | and I'm going to select the image "flirting hippo."
| | 00:20 | The reasons why I call this image "flirting hippo"
will be a little bit more obvious in just a second.
| | 00:24 | What we need to do is get into Edit mode. There are a few ways to get here.
| | 00:29 | First of all, I can select an image
| | 00:31 | and then click on the Edit Photo button down at the bottom of the interface.
| | 00:35 | I can also hover my mouse over the bottom of the image until the Photo Options menu pops up.
| | 00:40 | And once we click that pop-up we get this little menu, similar to what we might find in a desktop application if we were to
| | 00:47 | right-click on something.
| | 00:49 | From here we get tons of options, and the top one is Edit Photo. That will also get us into Edit mode.
| | 00:55 | But there is a nice cool secret here, this is the way I prefer to get into Edit mode. Simply double-click on an image.
| | 01:03 | There she is, the flirting hippo. See how her head's turned to the side like she's being coy, like "Hey baby,
| | 01:10 | I'm a hippo."
| | 01:11 | I don't know, it just looks like she's flirting.
| | 01:13 | Anyways,
| | 01:14 | from here you can see this long list
| | 01:17 | of different effects that we can apply to this image.
| | 01:21 | Some of these are quite simple, such as Red-Eye Removal.
| | 01:25 | Other effects here are quite complex, such as Distort, which has many options.
| | 01:30 | So throughout this chapter, we're going to be going through this whole editing area. Notice that there's a bunch of new buttons down
| | 01:35 | here at the bottom. There's also a whole new set of navigation controls that have popped up,
| | 01:40 | and there's just a lot to this super sweet editing area.
| | 01:44 | But it's quick and easy to master, so let's just jump into it and start talking a little bit more about these extra buttons and doohickies
| | 01:50 | in the editing area.
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| Running in Full Screen mode| 00:00 | So before we actually jump in and talk about the
actual edits you can perform in Photoshop Express,
| | 00:05 | I want to give you a couple tips that will help you as you're working.
| | 00:09 | So I basically have my entire library here. I'm going
to double-click this White House image, White House.jpg,
| | 00:15 | to open it up into editing mode here. You can also find this
in the Washington, DC album if it's easier to locate for you there.
| | 00:22 | Now when I'm working on an image, I'm editing,
I like to use as much space as possible.
| | 00:27 | So there's a feature here for that. It's full screen mode.
| | 00:31 | So if we come to the upper right-hand corner
of the interface, we see the Full Screen button.
| | 00:35 | If we click that button,
| | 00:36 | then it basically removes any portion of the
screen that's taken up by the Web browser.
| | 00:41 | Basically Photoshop Express becomes full screen
as if we were using it as a desktop application.
| | 00:46 | A couple pop-ups indicate that if we hit
the Escape key, we'll get out of full screen mode
| | 00:51 | and also keyboard shortcuts are disabled while in full-screen mode.
| | 00:55 | So again in full-screen mode really isn't an edit per se,
| | 00:58 | but it will help you as you are working
with edits to be able to see more of your image.
| | 01:03 | There's also something to keep in mind, if you like to work a little bit
more cleanly and not have your web browser here in front of you as well.
| | 01:10 | And again, to return to your regular mode with the browser,
you just can click this button again, the one that we used to
| | 01:17 | get us to full screen to restore the web browser view again.
| | 01:20 | Or if we are in full screen we can, as it
instructs us to do, we can hit Escape as well.
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| Zooming and panning| 00:00 | As you're editing images being able to zoom in, zoom
out and pan around them will also help you a great deal.
| | 00:08 | So I'm going to go in my library to the Animals album
| | 00:11 | And I'm going to scroll down here to the coolest bird in history
image and I'm going to double-click that to open it in editing mode.
| | 00:19 | Now, it might be your tendency once you know what
the edits do on the left inside the interface here
| | 00:24 | to go ahead and apply them in this view. However, you will
know a lot more about what's really going on in your image
| | 00:31 | if we're zoomed in closer.
| | 00:33 | So the way that we zoom in is by coming down here to the lower
left-hand corner below this image and clicking on this plus icon
| | 00:39 | to zoom in.
| | 00:40 | Photoshop Express is also giving us here with this number
| | 00:43 | a live update of our zoom percentage. So right now
we're only seen this image and 67% of its size.
| | 00:50 | If I keep clicking this plus to 100%, now this image is at
full size and so we're seeing much more closely what's going to
| | 00:57 | happen with our image when we start fiddling with it.
| | 00:59 | We could also click the minus sign to zoom back out again.
| | 01:03 | Now I'm going to keep zooming in. You'll notice that once you start
zooming in a little bit, we get this little box that pops up in the
| | 01:08 | lower left-hand corner of the image.
| | 01:10 | And in that box, there's this kind
of little highlighted little square.
| | 01:14 | And our cursor turns into a hand. So what we can do is click and
drag on this to move this around. It's basically showing us which
| | 01:21 | part of the image we're looking at.
| | 01:23 | So when performing edits, let's say you're going to
change the color of something or change the brightness
| | 01:29 | it's a good idea to zoom in a little bit closer,
| | 01:32 | and then just kind of have move this little thingy around here
so you can see what's happening in all the parts of your image.
| | 01:37 | You can also use the great keyboard shortcut from granddaddy
Photoshop by just holding the spacebar, which will toggle
| | 01:44 | the Hand tool and then you can move it around as you so choose and as
soon as you let go of the spacebar, you're back to the regular black arrow.
| | 01:51 | Now you may or may not want to get this hard core with
your editing. Maybe you're completely happy just using the
| | 01:58 | default view and applying your effects and moving on, and
that's fine. Just keep in mind as we go through this training
| | 02:04 | that with tools, especially like the Touchup tool for example,
| | 02:07 | we're going to be using this zoom in and zoom out quite a bit
so we can really get a handle on what's going on with our image.
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| Cropping and straightening images| 00:00 | Now we're ready to jump and start editing.
| | 00:03 | And we're going to do that by talking about the
first of the edits, cropping and straightening.
| | 00:07 | So what I'd like you do if you're following
along here is go to the Miscellaneous album
| | 00:11 | and go to the dark crooked spotted needle image.
It's a picture of the Space Needle in Seattle.
| | 00:17 | Just go ahead and double-click it to open it up into editing mode
and to enter into the crop and rotate mode go over to the left
| | 00:23 | side of the interface and simply click on Crop and Rotate.
| | 00:27 | Once we do that we've got this cool little box
here that we can use to crop our image,
| | 00:31 | and we do that by just grabbing one of these corner points
| | 00:34 | and just moving around. And you can see I can
resize it horizontally and vertically simultaneously.
| | 00:40 | So I definitely want to get rid of this
black overhang that I got in the shot here.
| | 00:44 | So I might move that over to the left as well.
| | 00:48 | And as you can see here this shot is begging to be centered.
| | 00:51 | The Space Needle's over a little bit
to the left-hand side. Thankfully,
| | 00:55 | we have these little lines
| | 00:56 | in this little gizmo here so we can use this as kind of a
reference as we're trying to straighten our image and also as we're
| | 01:03 | trying to line things up.
| | 01:05 | So I know that I can maybe extend this out a little bit to the left.
| | 01:09 | Maybe bring this one in from the right.
| | 01:12 | So that our Space Needle is a little bit more centered.
| | 01:15 | Now what's kind of cool as well
| | 01:16 | is that it's divided up into thirds here.
| | 01:19 | There's an artistic concept called the rule of thirds that
basically says that when something exists on one of these lines
| | 01:26 | that it's considered artistically balanced. So if you're taking
a picture of one little object on the ground, for example,
| | 01:33 | you might consider placing it on one
of these lines as you're taking the photo
| | 01:38 | or even a intersection of one of these little junctions here.
| | 01:42 | There's just something naturally
pleasing about that to the human eye.
| | 01:45 | Now from this area we can actually do a lot more than just crop
our image. As I walk you through this we're going to see a lot of
| | 01:54 | elements that will be repeating themselves throughout
this entire chapter as we look at all these different edits.
| | 01:59 | Now from here, we can also rotate the image so
| | 02:03 | if we click one of these buttons,
| | 02:05 | we can rotate it a certain direction. I'm happy with it
pointing straight up though so I'm going to leave it as is.
| | 02:10 | We could also straighten out our image.
| | 02:11 | The Space Needle is a little bit crooked.
It's pointing off to the right a little bit.
| | 02:15 | So actually we want to rotate it to the left
so I'm going to go over here this little bar
| | 02:20 | and straighten this little nub here
| | 02:21 | and click and slowly drag to the left.
| | 02:24 | Now thankfully there's a more accurate
grid that pops up when you do that
| | 02:28 | so you can see the result of your changes. But if I go like this,
| | 02:31 | then I know I've gone too far,
| | 02:33 | so I'm going to go very slowly here
| | 02:37 | until I get what looks to be
| | 02:39 | pretty straight up there, about -1.96
seems to be pretty OK. Maybe -1.48,
| | 02:47 | and that looks pretty good.
| | 02:48 | Now I can move this around,
| | 02:51 | once I let go my mouse,
| | 02:52 | and recenter it.
| | 02:54 | Maybe crop a little off the bottom.
| | 02:57 | And by the way,
| | 02:58 | when you put your cursor outside of this
corner you'll get this curved double-sided arrow.
| | 03:03 | Those of you familiar with the regular
version of Photoshop know that we can use this to
| | 03:09 | click and move around and rotate an image as well.
| | 03:12 | But I find that this doesn't work as well as the slider.
It's a little bit more controlled here with the slider so,
| | 03:19 | I'm getting going to go and take this back to,
| | 03:21 | -1.53 will work. I'm getting a little bit of the corner here
and I don't want that. So I'm going to move this down and over.
| | 03:29 | And basically just move it until
you get it right. Now at this point,
| | 03:32 | we're pretty much done with our edits
but we're not completely done yet.
| | 03:36 | We have to either save our changes or cancel them
before Photoshop Express will let us do anything else.
| | 03:42 | So we can come up here the upper right-hand corner
| | 03:45 | and click the check mark to save changes.
| | 03:47 | We can hit this little red X to cancel the changes or
we can come down here and click Save to save our edits,
| | 03:55 | hit Cancel to cancel our edit.
| | 03:57 | So whether you use the check mark or the
Save button, it doesn't matter, same thing.
| | 04:01 | Now a somewhat new feature of Photoshop
Express is the ability to Save As.
| | 04:06 | So maybe I really like this cropped image,
but I might want to go back to the original.
| | 04:11 | So in other words I might want both in my library.
| | 04:14 | This comes in really handy when you're
doing things like making black-and-white
| | 04:18 | images, which we'll talk about later in this chapter or distorting
images. Oftentimes you'll want the original and the one that
| | 04:23 | you've adjusted simultaneously in your library. So that's
where Save As comes in handy. So I'm going to click Save As,
| | 04:29 | and when you click Save As, it gives it an automatic name,
dark crooked spotted needle, and then it puts _edited-1.
| | 04:36 | That's not super descriptive so I'm
actually going to change the name here
| | 04:39 | to dark crooked spotted needle...
| | 04:44 | cropped.
| | 04:45 | I usually put that all in caps so I could see from far away
what's going on. That this isn't actually a copy of the original.
| | 04:52 | And click OK.
| | 04:56 | So we're brought back to our library
here or the album that we were in,
| | 05:00 | and so we have the original, dark crooked spotted
needle, and we also have the cropped version as well.
| | 05:06 | Now one other thing I want to show you here here. I'm
going to double-click this to get back into editing mode
| | 05:11 | and I'll go back to Crop and Rotate. You'll see now that there's
a check mark next this. We'll talk about what that means a little bit
| | 05:16 | later on in this chapter.
| | 05:17 | One other thing I wanted to point out
| | 05:19 | is that if you are playing around with this box and you move
it around and it gets all crazy and you say, you know, I just
| | 05:25 | want to start all over again with this Crop and Rotate thing, you can
just hit this little orange and curvy arrow and basically that'll
| | 05:33 | reset it to the way it was when you very first started it.
| | 05:36 | Basically it's back to the default setting of the edit.
| | 05:39 | I actually don't want to make this change now. I want to
go back to the saved version so I'm going to click Cancel.
| | 05:44 | And then Photoshop Express asks us, Do
you want to save changes to your photo?
| | 05:48 | So we can continue editing,
| | 05:50 | we can save it, we can save as and actually you want to
| | 05:54 | not save it so I'm going to click Don't Save.
| | 05:57 | So again, now we have the original
| | 05:59 | and the edited right next to it in the same album.
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| Previewing images before and after| 00:00 | Now that you know how to perform an edit,
I'm going to show you a really sweet trick
| | 00:04 | as you're working with these images in edit mode. So I'm
going to double click dark crooked spotted needle again.
| | 00:09 | And basically, that's in the Miscellaneous album if
you weren't following along from the last few movies.
| | 00:13 | And I'm going to click on Crop and Rotate
| | 00:16 | and let's say we get things down here and we've
| | 00:19 | moved things around like we did before,
cropping and then straightening a little bit.
| | 00:24 | And let's say we wanted to preview before and after.
| | 00:27 | There's a super sweet button called View
Original. Now in a regular program,
| | 00:32 | like Photoshop for example, we have to undo and redo our images.
Depending on the size of our image that could take a while
| | 00:38 | and it doesn't really give you a good
idea of what's going on before and after.
| | 00:41 | So if you click View Original I can see the
before and the after, really what's going on
| | 00:47 | with my image here.
| | 00:49 | I notice it's a temporary toggle.
| | 00:51 | As I click it then I see original. As I let go,
| | 00:54 | then I see the changes.
| | 00:56 | I'm going to go ahead and cancel this.
| | 00:58 | As we get into other changes, for example exposure, where we're
making significant changes to our image, this will become even more
| | 01:05 | important.
| | 01:06 | So here's the change that I made with the exposure. I can click
and hold View Original. While I'm holding View Original, I could
| | 01:11 | see my initial image, the one that I came into edit mode with. I let
go of View Original and I'm back to the change that I just made to it.
| | 01:20 | So it's a good way to see again, a before and after, to make sure
that the changes you're making aren't too exaggerated and crazy.
| | 01:28 | Often times the people that are new to image editing start
playing around with this, things have a tendency to look a bit too
| | 01:34 | bright, maybe a little bit too saturated
as they try to get the perfect image.
| | 01:38 | So basically as we view the original, it kind of keeps us in check,
it kind of keeps us grounded to make sure that our edits aren't
| | 01:45 | a little bit too over exaggerated and ridiculous.
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| Removing red-eye| 00:00 | In this movie, we're going to look at removing the dreaded red-eye from
an image. Often times when a flash has fired it bounces off the back
| | 00:08 | of the eyes, which has a red glare to it. So if you've ever seen a photo
where somebody has like these red, beady eyes and it looks kind of scary.
| | 00:15 | Well there's a feature in Photoshop Express that
will remove that instantly. It's absolutely amazing.
| | 00:20 | So what we're going to do is actually upload a new
photo for this so I'm going to click on Upload Photos.
| | 00:24 | You'll find this in the Miscellaneous folder of your exercise files,
| | 00:27 | and it's an image called red eye.jpg.
| | 00:30 | So I'm going to select it and go ahead and click Select.
| | 00:34 | And let's upload this
| | 00:36 | to an existing album. Let's upload this to the Miscellaneous album.
| | 00:40 | And let's go ahead and hit Upload.
| | 00:43 | Takes a quick second there.
| | 00:45 | And then Photoshop Express lets us know everything is good.
| | 00:48 | Click Done.
| | 00:49 | And then Photoshop Express automatically takes us to the Miscellaneous
album. Go ahead and double click the red-eye.jpg image.
| | 00:55 | I know we went through that process rather quickly because we've
already covered those steps early on in this training series so if you'd
| | 01:01 | like a refresher, although we just did there rather quickly.
| | 01:04 | Then you can go back to earlier in
this training and watch those movies.
| | 01:07 | So what's I'm going to do here, this little girl has red-eye in her
eyes. So I'm going to click the plus icon down here at the bottom.
| | 01:14 | Now this is a very small photograph as you can
see here. Even though this isn't full screen,
| | 01:19 | we're already looking at 200% of the original image so
| | 01:23 | as we're going to blow this up so we can see what's going on-
| | 01:27 | maybe I'll hit the spacebar to get the Hand tool and pan
this down so we can see her eyes a little bit more clearly.
| | 01:32 | You see that this photo is blown up way bigger than it should be.
| | 01:35 | So Photoshop Express is going to have a more
difficult time when the image is of lower quality.
| | 01:41 | It's kind of one of the unfortunate twists of image editing
that the worse your camera is, then the worse your edits look.
| | 01:48 | It should be the opposite but unfortunately it's not. So basically
I decided to use a worst-case scenario image here and I
| | 01:55 | think you know Photoshop Express is still going to do a great job with
this, even though the image is of really poor quality. It's really
| | 02:00 | grainy, it's obviously very small,
| | 02:02 | but still Photoshop Express is going to do a great job. So.
| | 02:06 | What we're going to do is come over here
to the left side under Basics under the Edit area.
| | 02:10 | Click on Red-Eye Removal,
| | 02:11 | and then all we have to do
| | 02:13 | is just click on where it's red.
| | 02:15 | And see sometimes it misses and this is why I wanted to use
this image and it kind of took away some of the red highlight
| | 02:21 | around the edge of her head because it's having a hard time distinguishing the eye. So I'm just going to go back up here to
| | 02:27 | the upper right-hand corner and click Reset Red-Eye to get rid of that.
| | 02:30 | And I'm come here right on the right edge
| | 02:33 | of the red-eye. Sometimes that works a little bit better over here
on the right side. It's going to be a little bit easier. Just simply
| | 02:40 | click and it goes away.
| | 02:42 | And they look like these big black squares now
because we're zoomed in so closely on this image,
| | 02:48 | and I'm just going to click this minus sign here
and I'm also going to click this Zoom to Fit area.
| | 02:54 | Click that to get rid of that little square
| | 02:56 | and then as we zoom out we see that our image is completely
restored. So when we look at this image at a regular viewing distance,
| | 03:03 | we can even shrink that back down to 100%, it looks fantastic.
| | 03:06 | And again, we know what this button does now so we can view the original,
| | 03:10 | actually let's zoom in a little bit closer.
| | 03:12 | There's the original. (Laughs.)
| | 03:15 | Kind of looks like one of those like toys in the stores
from the 80s where the red-eyes, those LEDs light up.
| | 03:20 | Haha.
| | 03:21 | That's a good time. So anyways, instantly red
eye has been removed thanks to Photoshop Express.
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| Auto-correcting images| 00:00 | In this movie, we're going to look at the Auto Correct edit.
| | 00:03 | And what we're going to do is open up in
the editing mode this in blue face image.
| | 00:08 | You might find it the top of the library or if you're not
finding it you can go to the Flowers album and once you find it,
| | 00:13 | double click it to open it in editing mode. Now Auto Correct is probably
one of the less awesome, to put it nicely, edits in Photoshop Express.
| | 00:24 | But we're still going to learn a lot in this process because this
is going to be the first regular edit that we're to be looking at.
| | 00:29 | Crop and Rotate and Red-Eye are a little bit peculiar.
| | 00:33 | So click on Auto Correct,
| | 00:35 | and we see that we have a bunch of squares here at
the top, a bunch of different versions of our image.
| | 00:42 | And as we move our mouse over them, we see some drastic changes
| | 00:47 | and this is very similar to what we'll see throughout the editing
process in Photoshop Express. If we click on Exposure we see
| | 00:54 | these squares. If we click on Saturation, we see these
squares. If we click on Fill Light, we see these squares.
| | 01:01 | So this is more in harmony with the standard
process of editing images in Photoshop Express.
| | 01:08 | Now, what Auto Correct attempts to do
| | 01:11 | it attempts to basically balance for warmth and coolness so if
you have an image that's a little bit warm and this image is a
| | 01:19 | little bit warm, in other words, the areas that are supposed
to be pure whites have a little bit of a yellowish, maybe
| | 01:25 | orangish, maybe reddish tint to them.
| | 01:27 | That's considered warm
| | 01:28 | and then colder colors would be like your greens, purples and blues.
| | 01:33 | And so Auto Correct basically attempts to adjust for that,
but it does so in a nonprofessional way. I think a lot of the
| | 01:40 | other adjustments here in Photoshop Express end up looking fantastic.
| | 01:43 | But Auto Correct, honestly, this is the only image
I could find were the results were even acceptable.
| | 01:49 | So basically we can move our mouse over these
images, so we can maybe cool it down here,
| | 01:54 | or warm it up a little bit more
| | 01:58 | by just putting our mouse over it and if we find a version of
our image that we're happy with- for example, I like this one.
| | 02:03 | So here's before,
| | 02:04 | and after. Before and after. I actually like what this is doing.
I can go ahead and click it and that becomes the new state
| | 02:10 | of my image.
| | 02:11 | And now that we've selected a state,
I could come down here to View Original,
| | 02:14 | and I can see the before and after as well.
| | 02:17 | So again, Auto Correct isn't the most
powerful effect, it's not the most useful
| | 02:23 | but if you do need to color adjust your images, this is one way to do it.
| | 02:27 | But we've also learned
| | 02:29 | basically the overall workflow of adjusting images in
Photoshop Express. That we mouse over these different variations
| | 02:36 | to see what our images look like and this works in
real time, which is just amazing how quickly this works.
| | 02:41 | Now you'll notice if you're watching the movies
on Crop and Rotate and Red-Eye Removal,
| | 02:45 | that there's a little orange curved circle
here that allows you to reset back the original.
| | 02:50 | Well in editing modes
| | 02:52 | that have these little squares that we're looking at
| | 02:55 | the left most square
| | 02:57 | is the Reset to original and you can see that little icon right
here's. So if we want to go back to the original, just click the icon.
| | 03:04 | However, I actually like this version better than my
original so I'm going to click it to select it and click Save.
| | 03:12 | And then once we're completed, we can see a
new version of our image here in our library.
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| Adjusting brightness| 00:00 | We're now going to look at a few different ways to adjust the brightness
of your image. There's a couple gotchas, a couple little tips and tricks
| | 00:06 | here. So this is going to be a good one.
| | 00:08 | Now let's scroll down in our Library, or you
can just go back to the Miscellaneous album.
| | 00:13 | And if you're following along, we're going to work on the edited
version of our dark spotted needle, the one that we've cropped and
| | 00:18 | rotated. Not the original,
| | 00:20 | but the good one.
| | 00:21 | We're going to keep referring back to this image
as kind of an ongoing project throughout this chapter.
| | 00:26 | There are three basic ways to adjust the brightness.
| | 00:31 | We can use Exposure,
| | 00:33 | Highlight, or Fill Light.
| | 00:35 | First of all, let's go to Exposure.
| | 00:37 | Exposure is probably the most powerful
| | 00:39 | of all of the editing tools here for brightness.
| | 00:43 | What's really cool is that it puts the original in the center.
| | 00:47 | As we go to the left, we reduce the exposure,
and as we go to the right, we increase the exposure.
| | 00:53 | Now what's really powerful about Exposure, as opposed to
Highlight and Fill Light, that we'll be looking at in a moment,
| | 00:59 | is that it tends to keep your shadow areas rich and dark.
| | 01:04 | So this one on the right here is far
brighter than the one in the center,
| | 01:09 | but the dark areas, the deep shadows,
for example the post in the Space Needle,
| | 01:14 | are still very dark. That's good.
We want to keep our brightest brights
| | 01:20 | bright, and we want to keep our darkest darks dark.
| | 01:23 | Exposure allows us to do that.
| | 01:26 | Now one of the things that we have here in Exposure that we'll
see often throughout the editing process, that we didn't have with
| | 01:31 | Auto Correct or any of the editing tools
we've looked at so far in this chapter,
| | 01:34 | is this super sweet little bar here at the bottom.
| | 01:38 | So if we want to go somewhere in between
these two, we can click on this little nub here,
| | 01:44 | and just drag ever so slightly.
| | 01:48 | As you can see, we're now gradually moving up,
| | 01:51 | and as we start moving this little nub here,
| | 01:55 | then the boxes change automatically based on where we are.
| | 02:00 | So as soon as we go from this range
| | 02:02 | to this range, it automatically jumps over to the next preset.
| | 02:07 | So if you're brand-new to image editing, you might want to
take one of the presets that Photoshop Express offers you.
| | 02:14 | However, if you're looking for a little bit more
control over your image, again use this slider to get
| | 02:20 | much more fine control.
| | 02:22 | Now this image is really dark, so I'm going to go ahead and click
on this last image, the brightest one, and I'm going to click OK,
| | 02:29 | click the check mark to save my changes.
| | 02:31 | As you can see,
| | 02:32 | the Crop edit that we performed before is still here, with a little
check mark. Again, we're going to talk about this a little later in
| | 02:37 | this chapter.
| | 02:38 | And now we have a check mark next to Exposure, letting us
know that an Exposure effect has been added to this as well.
| | 02:44 | Now let's go down to Fill Light, click on the words Fill Light.
| | 02:47 | Now a fill light in the real world --
let's say you're working on a photo shoot --
| | 02:51 | a fill light would be just an extra light that would
come in and fill the whole scene with white light.
| | 02:57 | Whereas exposure is a function of the camera,
so the whites stay bright and the darks stay dark,
| | 03:02 | fill light is not like that. It's basically
just like dumping extra light into the scene.
| | 03:07 | As you can see
| | 03:09 | as you drag your cursor over here, Fill Light
| | 03:11 | is a way to make things much lighter.
| | 03:13 | And this definitely is much lighter than what we could get
with Exposure. However, you start to notice that our dark
| | 03:19 | area start getting light as well.
| | 03:22 | Also, generally speaking, Fill Light has a tendency to lose
details in certain areas. So if I move my cursor away,
| | 03:30 | originally you could see all the great texture we're seeing in
these beautiful clouds in the background. And as I put my mouse over
| | 03:35 | this one with the Fill Light, all that detail is
gone, and our image looks a little bit fake I guess.
| | 03:40 | Let's look at Fill Light with another image.
I'm going to go ahead and cancel out of this
| | 03:44 | and go back to My Photos.
| | 03:45 | I actually do want to save my changes to this,
so I'm going to click on Save.
| | 03:52 | I'm now going to go over to the Washington DC album
| | 03:54 | and double-click this "monument at sunset" image.
| | 03:59 | This will make it a little bit easier
to see what's going on with Fill Light.
| | 04:02 | Go ahead and click on Fill Light.
| | 04:05 | Now you'll see that the first preset over actually darkens it,
| | 04:10 | which actually makes things look pretty cool in this instance,
I think. It looks better than the original, I think.
| | 04:14 | But the ones after it will
| | 04:17 | lighten, basically add more fill light, as if this were a
photo shoot and we added more light, just kind of flooding the
| | 04:23 | scene here.
| | 04:24 | So here's before
| | 04:25 | and after.
| | 04:27 | That's not too shabby just yet, but as we start moving
| | 04:29 | to the right, we start to lose all of our
shadow details. So all of the rich shadows,
| | 04:36 | the depths and the darkness in the bottom of these trees,
| | 04:39 | just all gone right away with Fill Light. So you want to be
really prudent when using Fill Light. You don't want to get
| | 04:45 | rid of shadow areas and that type of thing. You want to make
sure there's good contrast in your image, or at least for most
| | 04:51 | images anyway.
| | 04:52 | I suppose there are exceptions to every rule.
| | 04:56 | I'm actually not going to apply anything here
though. I'm going to go now to Highlight.
| | 04:59 | What Highlight does is adjust the brightness
of just the highlights of your image.
| | 05:06 | So we have this really bright flare here from the sun
on the right-hand side. This image was taken at sunset,
| | 05:13 | and the sun is here, very bright.
| | 05:15 | As we go to the left,
| | 05:16 | you'll see that the area around that highlight
| | 05:20 | gets darker.
| | 05:22 | So pretty much most of the image
| | 05:24 | is staying very similar,
| | 05:26 | but the highlights are what are getting darkened here.
| | 05:29 | As we go to the right, we see that the
| | 05:32 | areas around the highlights are getting brighter here.
| | 05:35 | But only the highlighted areas.
| | 05:37 | We're also seeing some differences in the
bright streaks going across the sky,
| | 05:42 | also the reflection of the sun in the water.
So again, this is only to adjust the highlights.
| | 05:47 | So there you have it, folks. Three different
ways to adjust brightness in your image.
| | 05:52 | Exposure being my personal favorite,
| | 05:54 | and also Highlight and Fill Light as well.
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| Adjusting color| 00:00 | In addition to adjusting brightness, one of the things you'll
find yourself doing all the time is adjusting the colors
| | 00:06 | in an image. And just like brightness, there are many ways to
do this. Actually, with color there's even more ways to do this.
| | 00:13 | So we're going to start with the ongoing project we've been
looking at a lot, this dark crooked spotted needle that we've
| | 00:18 | edited. So I'm going to double-click that to get into Edit mode.
| | 00:22 | The four color adjustments that we're going
to touch on in this movie are Saturation,
| | 00:27 | White Balance,
| | 00:28 | Hue,
| | 00:29 | and Tint.
| | 00:31 | First let's talk about Saturation.
| | 00:33 | Saturation basically refers to the intensity of a color.
| | 00:37 | Go ahead and click on Saturation to get into Saturation Edit mode.
| | 00:41 | And you can see that we have our normal version here, our original.
| | 00:44 | And as we move to the left, the colors get desaturated.
In other words, they get closer to gray, less colorful.
| | 00:51 | And as we move towards the right, the colors get more vibrant.
| | 00:55 | Avoid the tendency to use the rightmost saturation example.
| | 01:00 | Usually this preset is way overblown.
| | 01:03 | I like something that's probably in between
the first preset and the second preset.
| | 01:08 | So what we can do is click on the first one
| | 01:11 | and then fine-tune it by dragging the slider a little bit more
towards the right. Now if we go so far that the next preset
| | 01:18 | is selected, then we've gone too far.
| | 01:20 | So what we need to do is just back this off a little bit.
| | 01:22 | Somewhere around there looks pretty good.
| | 01:26 | Now we can hover our mouse over the original,
| | 01:29 | and we can see the before and the after. So this is the before,
| | 01:33 | and here's after a little bit of saturation.
| | 01:35 | Now granted it is a subtle difference,
| | 01:37 | but it does make a big change in the way
that you feel when you look at this image.
| | 01:42 | There is a little option here that is very cool, called Preserve Skin
Tones, thankfully by default it's selected. I want to show you
| | 01:48 | what that does.
| | 01:49 | So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to
click the green check mark to save my changes,
| | 01:53 | then we can safely go back to My Photos and get another image here.
| | 01:57 | And yes, I do want to save changes to my photo.
| | 02:02 | In case you're wondering why we had that little pop-up
asking if we want to save the image when we've just saved it,
| | 02:08 | the first save was basically telling Photoshop Express
that we want to accept the Saturation changes.
| | 02:14 | And then the next save was to make sure that we want
to make all those changes we've made part of our image.
| | 02:21 | So that way you could actually go into Edit mode and experiment
and play around with different images and add multiple
| | 02:26 | effects and things like that,
| | 02:28 | and then just hit Cancel when it's all said
and done and not apply anything to your image.
| | 02:31 | I'm actually going to come down here in the search area,
| | 02:34 | and I'm going to type omg.
| | 02:39 | The image "OMG" should pop up.
| | 02:41 | I'm going to double-click this to open it up for editing.
| | 02:44 | Probably one of my favorite images of all time.
| | 02:47 | Let's go back to Saturation here on the left-hand side.
| | 02:50 | You'll notice that as we saturate this,
| | 02:53 | the one on the far right still is little bit overdone, and the
one on the far left is a little bit too desaturated for most uses.
| | 03:00 | But look at the difference when we uncheck Preserve Skin
Tones. This is what a regular old non-Photoshopesque
| | 03:07 | program would do when you're dealing with saturation.
| | 03:09 | You can see that
| | 03:11 | it quickly just gets ridiculous. This looks terrible, and as we desaturate, we get to closer black and white. So if we select Preserve
| | 03:18 | Skin Tones, when we desaturate we get this
nice kind of antiqued look that's very classy.
| | 03:24 | And then when we saturate, we're actually kind of preserving
the colors, so they don't get all overblown and look really
| | 03:30 | terrible.
| | 03:31 | That, my friends, is a great feature of Photoshop Express.
| | 03:36 | Now I'll go go back here to Photos. I'm going
to not make any changes to that image there.
| | 03:41 | Now I'll go back to the Kids album. I'm actually going to hit the
little X in the search field to get rid of my search results, so I can
| | 03:49 | see all the images in this album.
| | 03:50 | I'm going to open up this image, "sisterly love."
Go ahead and double-click that for editing.
| | 03:55 | Let's look at one of the more complicated
| | 03:57 | editing features of Photoshop Express, and that is White Balance. Go
ahead and click on White Balance to get into the White Balance Edit mode.
| | 04:05 | If you're new to image editing, the term "white balance"
might have a tendency to throw you off a little bit.
| | 04:10 | It kind of sounds like it would deal with
brightness. However, it deals with color.
| | 04:14 | You see, when we have pure white in an image,
| | 04:17 | we want that pure white to be completely white. We don't want it to have
a little bit of yellow or a little bit of green or a little bit of blue.
| | 04:23 | We want those
| | 04:25 | colors to be balanced. Now if we examine the whites, and find that
the whites are a little bit too yellow or a little bit too blue,
| | 04:31 | the image is said to have a color cast, meaning
that there's basically a tint to the entire image.
| | 04:37 | And so white balance attempts to take the white and use the
white as a guide to adjust the color in the entire image.
| | 04:46 | Now you tend to get a color cast when you're shooting in lighting
conditions that have a big amount of color. So if you're shooting
| | 04:53 | at sunset, for example, everything's going
to tend to have an orangeish color cast.
| | 04:57 | That might be something that you want, in which case
you wouldn't have to worry about white balance, but
| | 05:01 | sometimes, and often, you'll want to remove that color cast.
| | 05:05 | Oftentimes you're taking pictures, maybe in the office
or something as well, and you have fluorescent lighting,
| | 05:10 | and that can have like a greenish or a bluish
tint to it that's not very flattering as well.
| | 05:14 | As a matter of fact, Photoshop Express has a bunch of presets here
| | 05:18 | specifically for certain lighting conditions.
| | 05:20 | First of all, we could select Full Auto,
in which Photoshop will try to guesstimate
| | 05:25 | what's going on with your image and then attempt to compensate.
And I think that's actually a pretty good balance there. Here's
| | 05:30 | the original,
| | 05:31 | and you can see there's
| | 05:33 | a little bit of a yellowish tint to the image. When I put
my cursor over Full Auto, that yellowish tint goes away, and
| | 05:38 | it looks a little bit more balanced.
| | 05:40 | The only thing I don't like about this Full Auto is
that it's attempting to overdo things a little bit.
| | 05:45 | If I were to select this Auto,
| | 05:47 | you can see here that there's little bit of what's
called posterization. In other words, in the original
| | 05:52 | we have all these different gradations of color here, and
| | 05:56 | there's really not too much posterization.
It's a smooth transition from color to color.
| | 06:01 | When we go to Full Auto, we have this really hard,
jagged line that makes this whole area black,
| | 06:07 | and I'm not too down with that.
| | 06:09 | So I probably wouldn't end up
selecting this in a real-world situation,
| | 06:13 | but it looks pretty good as far as colors go.
| | 06:16 | There's also presets to correct for sunlit conditions
| | 06:20 | and for cloudy conditions, shady conditions,
incandescent lighting, fluorescent lighting, and also
| | 06:27 | another important one, flash lighting.
| | 06:30 | You see, when you add a flash, it's like brightening with Fill Light,
which we talked about in the segment on adjusting brightness.
| | 06:37 | When you fill an area with color,
| | 06:39 | it tends to diminish the contrast.
| | 06:42 | The dark just aren't quite as dark.
| | 06:45 | Now I'm going to click on the original.
| | 06:46 | As I mouse over the flash, you can see the difference.
| | 06:49 | Not too much of a change in color,
| | 06:52 | but a big change in contrast.
| | 06:54 | Unfortunately, there's no fine-tuning here,
because these presets are great, but a lot of times
| | 06:59 | we're seeing the same posterization with the flash as we
did with the auto. There's kind of this hard edge here I get,
| | 07:05 | I'm not really liking that very much. If I could just tone that
down, this actually would be a really worthwhile preset for me.
| | 07:11 | But then again, you may not get that in every image that you
use White Balance on. So definitely try out your options here.
| | 07:17 | I'm going to go ahead and cancel out the changes
here. Still using this "sisterly love" image.
| | 07:22 | The next effect in our color editing hit list is Hue.
| | 07:26 | But we're actually going to skip over that for now
and jump over to Tint. So go ahead and click Tint.
| | 07:31 | Basically what Tint does is it creates a black-and-white
image and then adds a color tint to the whole thing.
| | 07:38 | Now, the first preset is the standard sepia tone, which always looks
cool. There's also green, and different shades of blue, and purples
| | 07:45 | and pinks and whatnot.
| | 07:47 | And we also have the fine-tuning slider here.
So if you like something in the middle of sepia tone
| | 07:52 | and green, you can use the fine-tune slider to get
| | 07:55 | exactly what you're looking for. Now remember what's going
on here with Tint before we jump over into Hue. Remember that
| | 08:01 | it turns everything black-and-white and
then adds a single color over the top of it.
| | 08:06 | Now let's go ahead and cancel out of this,
| | 08:08 | jump back in to our photos,
| | 08:12 | and let's go to the Animals album.
| | 08:14 | For the last little example here, let's go
ahead and double-click on "butterfly eating."
| | 08:19 | Another one of my favorite pictures here.
| | 08:21 | By the way, in case you're wondering,
this was taken with something called a macro lens.
| | 08:25 | It's like 15 bucks on Amazon.com, super cheap, it allows
you to take super close-up pictures like this. Kind of cool.
| | 08:31 | So I'm going to click on Hue.
| | 08:32 | And basically what Hue does is it shifts all of the color values around.
| | 08:39 | With some images, this might look like Tint,
| | 08:42 | but it's not converting everything to black-and-white.
Everything still retains its original color,
| | 08:46 | but it's just shifting along proportionately along the color wheel.
| | 08:51 | So these colors you see, all the colors, are radically changing.
| | 08:56 | Kind of interesting for some wacky effects.
| | 08:59 | Another thing that you can use Hue for
| | 09:01 | is just gradually shifting all the colors of
your image in one way or another. For example,
| | 09:06 | this stalk, this green, it's kind of a yellowish green.
| | 09:11 | And the opposite of yellow is blue.
| | 09:14 | So if we want this green to feel more vibrant and
lifelike, we can actually add some blue to it with Hue.
| | 09:21 | So if we click the little fine-tune slider
and drag it to the right just a little bit,
| | 09:25 | we don't want that first preset, that's a little bit too exaggerated,
| | 09:28 | as we drag this to the right a little bit,
| | 09:30 | you can see that we actually have a beautiful green now
| | 09:34 | on this stalk or this flower that the butterfly is resting on.
| | 09:38 | Now the downside of this of course is that
the beautiful red has kind of shifted to a muddy orange.
| | 09:44 | But that might be something that we're
willing to live with. So here's the original,
| | 09:47 | and then here's what we changed it to.
| | 09:48 | Original.
| | 09:50 | What we changed it to.
| | 09:51 | And also these flowers go from being violetish blue
| | 09:55 | to more purple.
| | 09:57 | So before
| | 09:58 | and after.
| | 09:59 | Kind of cool.
| | 10:00 | So there you have it, folks.
| | 10:02 | Several ways to adjust color. Saturation,
| | 10:05 | White Balance,
| | 10:06 | Hue, and Tint.
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| Getting rid of blemishes| 00:00 | Alright folks, buckle up and hold on tight. In this movie, we're
going to look at the amazing Touchup tool and features inside of
| | 00:08 | the edit area
| | 00:10 | of Photoshop Express. So what I'm going to do it over to the
Miscellaneous album and I'm going to show you how you use this tool
| | 00:16 | on a very simple basic level
| | 00:18 | and then I'm going to give you another example where
we look at some advanced features of the tool as well.
| | 00:22 | So I'm going to double click our dark,
| | 00:25 | crooked spotted needle cropped,
the one that we've been adjusting here.
| | 00:29 | And I'm going to double click to open that
| | 00:31 | for editing.
| | 00:31 | And as we zoom in on this image, let's make it 100% here.
| | 00:36 | We can see that there's actually a lot of these blemishes. It
was kind of a rainy day. I got a few raindrops my camera probably
| | 00:42 | guessing that's what that is,
| | 00:44 | but regardless these blemishes are making my
image less cool and I want to get rid of them.
| | 00:48 | Watch how easy and amazing this process is.
I'm going to click on Touchup.
| | 00:53 | Then all I have to do is click and drag out
| | 00:58 | an area that that's as big as the blemish
| | 01:01 | and let go.
| | 01:02 | And it's gone,
| | 01:03 | just that quick.
| | 01:05 | And there's another little blemish.
| | 01:08 | Do the same thing, click and drag away.
| | 01:10 | There's another little blemish, click and drag away
and I keep doing this until all my blemishes are gone.
| | 01:16 | Another one.
| | 01:17 | Click and drag away,
| | 01:19 | and there you go.
| | 01:20 | Ba-da-bing.
| | 01:21 | So people have blemishes on their face,
if there's spots, whatever it is, if there's
| | 01:25 | a little mark somewhere you need to clean up,
the Touchup tool is remarkable.
| | 01:30 | Basically what it's doing is it's taking data,
information in the image, around the blemish
| | 01:36 | and blending it into where the blemish is.
| | 01:39 | Now I'm going to save this image
| | 01:40 | and then go back into my photos to show
you a more complex and powerful example.
| | 01:47 | And I do want to save my changes, so I'm going to click Save here.
| | 01:54 | What I've gone ahead and done is uploaded this
Potomac.jpg image of the Potomac River in Washington, DC
| | 02:01 | and I've uploaded that to the Miscellaneous album, if you'd like
to follow along. You'll find it in the Miscellaneous folder of the
| | 02:07 | exercise files.
| | 02:08 | And so I'm going to double-click Potomac to open this up.
| | 02:11 | Removing spots in a big sea of blue is one thing,
| | 02:15 | but removing cars from an image where there's a little bit
of a street and a river with texture and grass with texture
| | 02:22 | and we're going to remove this sign and this person on a bike here.
We're going to take all this stuff out. This is a little bit more complex.
| | 02:29 | So let's go ahead and enter the Touchup
edit mode by clicking Touchup here.
| | 02:32 | We'll probably get better results if we zoom in just a little bit,
| | 02:36 | about 67% or so is good. So we can
zoom in to really see what we're doing.
| | 02:41 | And actually I'm going to use the Hand tool, hold the
spacebar down to move this out of the way so we're
| | 02:46 | out of the way of this box in the corner.
| | 02:48 | Now here's what's going on when you retouch.
I'm going to click and drag a circle around the car,
| | 02:54 | And at first we'll see less than desirable results.
| | 02:59 | Basically what's going on here again, is that Photoshop
Express is trying to use data around the blemish
| | 03:06 | to blend into where the blemish is.
| | 03:09 | The green circle indicates the the area
the you're trying to retouch or fix.
| | 03:15 | The red circle indicates where it's pulling the data from.
| | 03:18 | We have total control over these two areas.
| | 03:21 | So let's say I got the green circle in the wrong spot.
| | 03:25 | I could come in here to the green circle and move
this around and get it exactly where I want it.
| | 03:29 | I want to make sure and include all of the blemish here.
| | 03:32 | Now if I made this circle too big,
| | 03:34 | I come up here to the Retouch Size slider
at the top of the interface, and I could
| | 03:39 | click this down to make this smaller
| | 03:41 | or click it up to make it bigger.
| | 03:44 | And this way I could actually see exactly how big I need it.
| | 03:47 | Basically again, you don't want to make
it too much bigger then you need,
| | 03:51 | but you do want to encompass the entire blemish.
| | 03:54 | So I make this a little bit smaller,
| | 03:56 | and move this over,
| | 03:58 | a little bit bigger here.
| | 04:01 | There we go.
| | 04:04 | Now let's go over here to the red circle
and click and drag that to an area
| | 04:09 | that will mostly look like the area
that we're trying to blend it into.
| | 04:13 | So this area with some more grass and
| | 04:17 | asphalt and river looks pretty good so I let go of the mouse-
| | 04:20 | and actually I'm a little bit off balance here
so what I need to do is I need to raise this up a little bit,
| | 04:26 | a little bit more,
| | 04:28 | and that looks about right. I take my mouse away,
| | 04:31 | and hey-hey-hey! Look at that.
| | 04:33 | Looks pretty awesome.
| | 04:34 | Let's go over here to the right side of the image and do
this same thing with this sign and person on a bike here.
| | 04:39 | And just for some more practice I'm going to click and drag up
| | 04:43 | and that's about the right size.
| | 04:45 | So I'm actually going to let go my mouse and move this over
| | 04:49 | and let's go ahead and click the red circle. This time there's
not really any areas right next to the green circle to fix it
| | 04:56 | so we're going to have to borrow an area from over here.
| | 04:59 | That's totally legal so just go ahead and drag it over.
| | 05:02 | And just keep twiddling with it until it gets
| | 05:05 | about the right spot.
| | 05:07 | And because this is a little bit farther over
chances are the lighting is not to be the same
| | 05:11 | and we're not going to have the same textures and patterns to pull from so
it's going to be a little bit more blatant in this example that we faked it.
| | 05:18 | As we pull the mouse away you can see that it's not too bad of a forgery.
| | 05:22 | Now there are some problems here. There's this little line in the
water that is kind of a giveaway that this isn't really a perfect job.
| | 05:29 | But to most people this will be a believable image.
| | 05:31 | So if I click View Original,
| | 05:33 | look at that.
| | 05:34 | There's the car and sign,
| | 05:36 | person on the bike,
| | 05:37 | let go.
| | 05:38 | Boom.
| | 05:39 | Gone, cleared out.
| | 05:40 | Pretty amazing tool for a free application, you got to admit.
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| Creating a black-and-white image| 00:00 | I don't know if I've ever seen a program that
deals with images that doesn't have some means
| | 00:05 | to convert the image to black and white.
| | 00:08 | Even like a cheapie video camera will have the ability to turn
your video to black and white, I mean it's very easy to do.
| | 00:15 | But the black-and-white conversion features in Photoshop
Express are much better than just converting it to
| | 00:22 | black and white and leaving it alone.
| | 00:24 | Let's take a look at this.
| | 00:25 | In the Flowers album, or in the Library,
you'll find this "in blue vase" image.
| | 00:30 | Go ahead and double-click that to open it up for editing.
| | 00:33 | Let's click on Black & White.
| | 00:36 | As you can see here, there are variations
of black and white. You might say,
| | 00:41 | "Well, why would you ever want to do that?"
| | 00:43 | Let's say that as I a convert this to black and white
| | 00:46 | -- and this first preset here is a good example of just
kind of the default conversion to black and white.
| | 00:52 | The dark blue vase is still dark,
these light flowers are still light,
| | 00:56 | and so on.
| | 00:57 | But let's look at this variation for example.
| | 01:01 | In this variation, the reds are much darker.
| | 01:04 | And how much more striking is that, having
these flowers super light and this red in here
| | 01:10 | much darker. So here's the original default black and white,
| | 01:14 | and there it is with the red popping a little bit more.
| | 01:17 | Very cool. Now what about this one?
| | 01:19 | In this one, yellow is darker, and so the
yellow of the flowers is significantly darker.
| | 01:25 | And also, the blue is lighter.
| | 01:27 | So this dark blue vase that was
| | 01:30 | seemingly very difficult to even see through,
has now come out looking as if it were originally clear.
| | 01:37 | So as you can see here, there are many variations of what we can
do and change when we're converting something to black and white.
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| Creating a soft focus effect| 00:00 | In this movie, we're going to look at creating a
soft focus effect, essentially a light amount of blur.
| | 00:06 | So in the Washington, DC album, we've been following along, we're going to use this monument at sunset image. So I'm going to double-click that
| | 00:12 | to open that up for editing.
| | 00:14 | And for me, to really
| | 00:15 | get the benefit of soft focus, to really see what's going on, we need
to zoom in a little bit. So I'm going to come down here in the lower
| | 00:21 | left corner of the screen and click the plus button to zoom in.
| | 00:24 | Let's go over these trees.
| | 00:26 | These trees are really good indicator of
how much we're really softening this thing.
| | 00:30 | So I'm going to go here in the Tuning area,
| | 00:32 | click on Soft Focus.
| | 00:34 | Now when you first go into the Soft Focus edit
| | 00:37 | and you look up here the presets basically
what you're seeing here is a swatch
| | 00:42 | of a zoomed in piece of your image here.
| | 00:46 | So if I want to change that, what I
need to do is find the little gizmo.
| | 00:51 | It's basically like a little, uh,
| | 00:52 | actually, like let me zoom back out here.
| | 00:55 | We can see this little blue box here.
| | 00:57 | And this is what indicates what we're seeing as far as a close-up.
| | 01:01 | I'm actually put this on
| | 01:03 | these trees right here,
| | 01:04 | although I find if you're zoomed in super close
that little square doesn't really mean quite as much.
| | 01:10 | I'll zoom in here- actually 100% looks pretty good.
| | 01:13 | You can see these trees. There's a lot of detail
in these trees and so what soft focus tends to do
| | 01:18 | is just add a little bit of blur, just kind of soften things
up a little bit. It's a very subtle effects, so the first
| | 01:23 | couple presets might not even be super visible
especially if you're zoomed out to this much.
| | 01:29 | If you're zoomed in like 300% in this image then you'd probably
be able to see a difference, but not too much of a difference
| | 01:34 | here just yet. As a matter of fact, let's
go ahead and zoom in a little bit closer.
| | 01:37 | Just so we can get a sense of what's going on.
| | 01:42 | And you'll see there's a-
| | 01:44 | what's called JPEG artifacts. When you create a JPEG file,
| | 01:48 | it basically creates these little artifacts sometimes,
especially after it's been compressed a few times.
| | 01:53 | So that's what we're seeing here,
| | 01:55 | and the Soft Focus effect can help us get rid of those.
You'll see as we start moving towards the right on these presets,
| | 02:00 | adding more soft focus, those blemishes start going away.
| | 02:04 | But you see that by the time we get to the last preset, the one
with the most soft focus, that we start to lose a lot of details in
| | 02:11 | the car and other parts of our image as well.
| | 02:14 | So I'm going to use my little navigation area here.
| | 02:17 | I'll go up to the top of these trees,
| | 02:19 | and let's zoom back out maybe to 300% and as we add blur,
| | 02:23 | basically it's softening these trees so they're not as pronounced.
| | 02:27 | I think this one that's second from the end is pretty good.
| | 02:30 | As we back out here to 100%,
we can see that the Washington Monument
| | 02:35 | is still pretty focused. Looks pretty good, pretty sharp.
| | 02:39 | And these trees have softened quite a bit. They're not as distracting.
| | 02:42 | So here's the original,
| | 02:44 | and here's after the soft focus. Before
| | 02:46 | and after.
| | 02:47 | It's very subtle hence the name Soft Focus.
| | 02:50 | But if you want to kind of smooth things out just a
little bit, Soft Focus can be a great tool for that purpose.
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| Sharpening an image| 00:00 | In this movie, we're going to look at sharpening, which is
the opposite of soft focus. Let's go to the Washington DC album
| | 00:07 | and double-click the image "cavalry group" to open that up for editing.
| | 00:12 | As you can see by the icons,
| | 00:14 | we start with something sharp and then go blurry for Soft Focus,
but with Sharpen, we start with something blurry and get
| | 00:20 | a little sharper.
| | 00:22 | Now it's much easier to take detail and destroy
it and smooth it out, but it's much harder
| | 00:27 | to try to get detail where none exists.
| | 00:30 | Essentially what sharpen does is just kind
of exaggerate details in an image. But
| | 00:34 | if you have something blurry, say for example this
| | 00:37 | person riding the horse in the statue,
| | 00:39 | we can't make that person sharp and in focus with
sharpening. That's just not how sharpening works.
| | 00:45 | Let's go over on the left-hand side, click
on Sharpen to enter the Sharpen Edit mode.
| | 00:50 | Just like with Soft Focus, we have this little blue square that
indicates which area is being shown here in the preset area at the top.
| | 00:59 | And, like Soft Focus, I like to zoom in a
little bit closer so I can see what's going on.
| | 01:05 | I'm actually not going to worry about this little square
here, because we're going to be able to see the details
| | 01:09 | right here on the horse.
| | 01:11 | So zoom in pretty close. I'm at 100% here.
| | 01:14 | And I start moving my mouse over.
| | 01:16 | You'll slowly start to see details really pop here.
| | 01:21 | By the time we get to the end, it's a little bit exaggerated.
| | 01:23 | But basically, if I click on that last
one to select it and hit View Original,
| | 01:27 | you can really see a big difference there. So there's the original,
| | 01:30 | looked pretty good initially, and then we sharpen
it, and it really brings out those details.
| | 01:35 | And maybe on the web, to you, when you're watching this movie,
it looks pretty good to you, but this is a little bit exaggerated.
| | 01:40 | So you might want to go with something a little bit more tame,
| | 01:42 | such as this one here.
| | 01:44 | Now we can view the original.
| | 01:46 | There we go, that's much better,
| | 01:47 | much more believable. So there's the original,
| | 01:49 | a little bit more clear with sharpening.
| | 01:51 | As we see other areas of this image,
especially the top of the horse,
| | 01:55 | in the area where there's contrast,
| | 01:58 | like so, if we greatly exaggerate it,
| | 02:01 | it tends to not look so hot. So there's the original,
| | 02:04 | nice and soft and smooth, and sharpened. That's a little overkill.
| | 02:08 | So we can take that down to about there, and it looks pretty good.
So again, sharpening is basically for bringing out the details of
| | 02:15 | an object, but not really taking it from out of focus to in focus.
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| Making one color “pop”| 00:00 | I am super pumped to be able to share this movie with you,
folks. We get to talk about and add it called Pop Color.
| | 00:06 | And this is one of my favorite parts of Photoshop Express.
There's nothing like it in Photoshop, there's no way to do this
| | 00:13 | in Photoshop so quickly and so easily, and it's absolutely remarkable.
| | 00:17 | So in the Flowers album, if you'd like to follow along,
I'm going to be using this hanging yellow tulips.
| | 00:22 | By the way, I realize this is plural. Hanging yellow tulips because
this was actually cropped from a bigger image with many tulips.
| | 00:28 | Let's go ahead and double-click on that.
| | 00:30 | Open it up for editing here.
| | 00:32 | And let's go under the Effects area in the
left-hand side of the interface to select Pop Color.
| | 00:37 | Now the purpose of this effect,
| | 00:40 | is to make one color standout.
| | 00:44 | That seems pretty simple, but in actuality,
this is a pretty powerful tool here.
| | 00:48 | Now when you first start out,
| | 00:49 | it says Select a Color to Pop.
| | 00:51 | And basically what it does is it looks at the
image and tries to look at the big subject matter.
| | 00:57 | So it looks and says OK, there's some blue in the background.
| | 01:01 | So if I wanted that blue in the background to pop and make
everything else black-and-white- that's basically how we get that pop
| | 01:07 | that it's talking about it. It's that basically
everything else is completely desaturated.
| | 01:11 | Just roll our mouse over that blue,
| | 01:13 | and now everything is faded, everything
is black-and-white except for the blue.
| | 01:18 | Now Photoshop Express, being the genius that it is,
| | 01:21 | also detects that there's another substantial object in the scene.
| | 01:25 | Whose colors range from red to
| | 01:27 | to orange to yellow to green.
| | 01:30 | And that's this tulip.
| | 01:31 | So if we wanted just the tulip to be in color and everything
else to be in black-and-white, we could click this button.
| | 01:37 | It gets even better though. We can have
even more control over what's going on.
| | 01:41 | So we can click and lets say we wanted this little
red area in here to pops a basically all of the red
| | 01:47 | all over the tulip to pop and everything else to be in
black-and-white. So we'd come over here and click this
| | 01:52 | and voila!
| | 01:53 | Now that is the only color showing. Everything
else is in black and white. But chances are
| | 01:59 | sometimes you'll select a color and
it won't quite get all of the color.
| | 02:03 | Maybe they'll be a portion of the color,
a lighter portion of the color that's not picking up
| | 02:07 | So you can come over here to the Fuzziness slider and increase the
Fuzziness so that it picks up more of that color, basically expanding
| | 02:14 | the range of the color that you select.
| | 02:17 | If you only want a particular color, if it's select too much color,
| | 02:21 | then you can take down Fuzziness. As you can see here, when you get
down to the bottom only the the exact color of pixels that we selected
| | 02:28 | remain in color.
| | 02:30 | So basically we want all of the red selected and not too much
extra of the flower. That looks pretty good right about there.
| | 02:37 | Usually the default guess is actually pretty accurate.
| | 02:40 | Now it gets even better.
| | 02:42 | Photoshop Express also allows you to
change the one color that you pop,
| | 02:46 | and it gives you a bunch of options here.
| | 02:48 | So there's green,
| | 02:49 | or blues,
| | 02:51 | purples and pinks,
| | 02:53 | orange, which we kind of already had,
| | 02:55 | and also we can use the Finetune slider here.
| | 02:58 | And so basically what we can do is to select a color
| | 03:02 | that's maybe in between two colors. So maybe I don't want
this green and I don't want this blue, but maybe I want something
| | 03:08 | kind of in between, so I'll click on blue
| | 03:11 | and go to the left.
| | 03:12 | And now I've got kind of like this cool turquoise.
| | 03:15 | I know you're probably thinking, "Ooh, Chad! Chad, easy. I got so much cool
stuff coming at me. What's with this movie with this one Pop Color effect?
| | 03:24 | I don't even know if I can take it anymore." And I'm going
to say to you, "You're going to have to endure some more,"
| | 03:28 | because it gets even cooler.
| | 03:30 | There's another feature.
| | 03:31 | And it's this little button. Once you've selected the color to pop,
| | 03:34 | this shows up, this Show All Colors. Once we
select this, then all the original colors return.
| | 03:41 | So everything's the same, right?
| | 03:42 | Not exactly.
| | 03:44 | The color that we popped, we now have the ability to change.
| | 03:47 | So you see as I move this slider,
| | 03:49 | the one color that we popped is changing
and everything else is staying the same.
| | 03:54 | So if you want to change an exact color. For
example, let's say somebody's wearing a green T-shirt
| | 04:00 | and you'd like to make it blue.
| | 04:02 | You could come in here, make it pop, show all colors and just
change their color of T-shirt. And again, even if you were to buy
| | 04:09 | the big, ol' honking expensive Photoshop, there's not a feature
like this in Photoshop. You can't do this so quickly and so
| | 04:15 | easily with just a simple click of a button.
| | 04:18 | The Pop Color effect is without a doubt
| | 04:21 | one of my favorite features in Photoshop Express.
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| Creating a hand-drawn look| 00:00 | In this movie, we're going to cover the Sketch effect,
which kind of creates a hand-drawn, artistic look.
| | 00:07 | To be honest, it's not really my favorite effect,
| | 00:09 | but even if you don't like it as well,
I'm going to show you a cool trick
| | 00:12 | to use with the Sketch effect. Let's go to the
Kids album here, and double-click "child in shock."
| | 00:19 | Let's go ahead and click on Sketch
| | 00:22 | in the bottom left-hand corner of all of our effects.
| | 00:25 | As you can see here, this is basically what it's doing, making kind
of like an artistic look out of our image, and basically the way
| | 00:31 | this look is that the leftmost preset
| | 00:33 | uses the least amount of color.
So it's the most blocky and choppy.
| | 00:37 | And as we go on to the right end of the spectrum,
we have a lot more detail to work out,
| | 00:43 | and things have generally more of a black outline around them.
| | 00:46 | Now keep in mind that you can also
use the good old fine-tune slider here.
| | 00:50 | And if we just move it to the right a little bit, you'll
see that that's the lowest amount of colors that we can use.
| | 00:55 | As we drag to the right,
| | 00:57 | we slowly get more and more colors.
| | 01:00 | With this effect, you kind of have to wait till it
| | 01:02 | updates there. It doesn't work in real
time like some of the other effects do.
| | 01:06 | So that's the sketch effect. Now, again, it's not
my favorite. But let me show you a cool trick with it.
| | 01:11 | If you're looking for kind of like an edgy look to your photograph,
here's a cool way to do it. I'm going to close this out.
| | 01:16 | Hit the X button, or you can hit Cancel down here at the bottom.
| | 01:20 | Then I'm going to go over here to Black & White,
| | 01:22 | and I'm going to choose a high-contrast version of my image.
| | 01:27 | This looks pretty good right here.
| | 01:29 | Now it's bringing out a lot of noise, but for this
example, I think that's actually going to work for me.
| | 01:35 | So I'm going to go over here to the green check mark, or
| | 01:37 | down here at the bottom and click Save.
| | 01:40 | There we go.
| | 01:41 | And now let's go over to Sketch,
| | 01:44 | and you can see that we have
| | 01:46 | this really cool kind of Pop Art, edgy graphic.
Looks a lot better with black and white, a little edgy.
| | 01:52 | There we go.
| | 01:53 | So again, it's not really its intended purpose to be meant
for lo-fi graphics and this kind of edgy, grungy look,
| | 01:59 | but we can get there with Black & White and
extra contrast in combination with Sketch as well.
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| Distorting parts of a photo| 00:00 | OK, folks, this movie is actually going to be really fun
for me to record. Hopefully it will be almost as fun for
| | 00:07 | you to watch it, if not as much so.
| | 00:10 | Basically what we're going to do is talk about the distort
capabilities of Photoshop Express, and these are just goofy
| | 00:16 | and zany. It's like the twelve-year-old boy
inside of me just loves doing this stuff.
| | 00:20 | I'm going to go into the Washington DC album, and I'm going to get this
treasury image or you can get it from the Library. If you're following along,
| | 00:26 | double-click to open it into the edit area.
| | 00:29 | And this is not going to be as much fun. We're just going to use this
in a utilitarian sense, because there's a lot of straight lines here.
| | 00:36 | So as we start distorting it, it will be much more obvious what's
happening, and then we'll have a little bit more fun and play with a
| | 00:43 | photo of a person, it's going to be a good time. So go over
to the bottom left-hand side here. Click Distort to get the
| | 00:50 | distort area.
| | 00:51 | Kind of like Pop Color, there's a lot going on here.
| | 00:54 | There's actually five different types of distortion.
| | 00:57 | To see what they look like, I'm just going to
click and drag to create an area to distort.
| | 01:02 | Now after I've created the distortion area,
| | 01:05 | I can put my cursor inside the area, and it turns into a hand,
meaning that I can move it around. So I can click and drag, and you
| | 01:12 | can see that we're now twirling this area,
| | 01:15 | and that is the first type of distortion, the twirl distort.
| | 01:19 | And I can adjust angle
| | 01:21 | to determine how much or in which direction
| | 01:25 | these pixels are swirling around.
| | 01:27 | If I click on the next type of distortion, stretch,
| | 01:30 | we will now see a stretch here in
the selection area instead of a twirl.
| | 01:35 | We can play with the angle of the stretch,
| | 01:39 | and also the amount of stretching.
| | 01:42 | We can actually even take it to a negative number,
| | 01:45 | and have it pinch instead of poof out.
| | 01:48 | The next type of distortion,
| | 01:50 | third from the left here,
| | 01:51 | is bulge.
| | 01:53 | And bulge just kind of makes it look like there's something inside
| | 01:56 | that's trying to get out.
| | 01:59 | And, like stretch, you can take it into negative values
to make it look like something is sucking that in.
| | 02:05 | So if it's a negative value, it's sucking it in,
| | 02:08 | positive value, poofing it out.
| | 02:11 | Next is ball,
| | 02:13 | which basically will create a ball-shaped sphere
| | 02:16 | out of whatever's going around it. So say you had a photo of
a holiday ornament, or something else where you wanted to
| | 02:23 | make it look like it was in a crystal
ball, snow globe, that type of thing,
| | 02:26 | the ball shape's good for that.
| | 02:27 | And also, if you want to blur something out,
| | 02:30 | there is this mosaic thing that fuzzes out the details, just turns
everything into little squares. And you can take this to the left to make
| | 02:37 | those little squares smaller,
| | 02:38 | take it to the right to make those squares bigger.
| | 02:41 | Again, this is good for blurring out details. Maybe you have a photo
of your friends at the beach, and there's also other people's
| | 02:47 | faces in there. You don't have permission
to post photos of them on the internet,
| | 02:51 | and you want to just kind of
| | 02:52 | blur them out a little bit, or use this
to distort it so people can't see their faces.
| | 02:57 | And of course if someone's doing something naughty,
| | 02:59 | and you'd rather not have people to see it on your gallery,
| | 03:02 | you can use this Distort filter
| | 03:04 | to fuzz out the details by making a little mosaic
pattern here. Now what's cool about this, is that
| | 03:11 | notice that as I'm clicking through these different distort
types, basically my little distortion area is changing.
| | 03:17 | So let's say we have this part distorted,
| | 03:19 | and maybe you want to distort out this statue over here,
| | 03:23 | we can just simply click and drag it
to create a new area of distortion.
| | 03:27 | This is good for not only creating
multiple areas of distortion in your image,
| | 03:32 | but also for having multiple types of
distortion simultaneously in your image as well.
| | 03:36 | So let's say I take this last selected area to twirl.
| | 03:41 | Now I have twirl
| | 03:43 | and two areas of fuzzed-out detail.
| | 03:47 | So again, you can have as many of these areas
| | 03:49 | as you'd like. Beware that it's going to
start to slow things down a little bit,
| | 03:52 | as Photoshop Express has to process
| | 03:55 | all of what's going on here with all these
different selection areas, and it can slow it down.
| | 03:59 | So now that we know these different types of distortion areas, let's
have some fun. I'm going to click cancel on this, that little red X,
| | 04:04 | go back to My Photos,
| | 04:07 | and let's do a search for root beer.
| | 04:11 | And in your Miscellaneous folder of your exercise
files, you'll find "chad with root beer.jpg."
| | 04:17 | Go ahead and double-click to open that.
| | 04:20 | It's a photo of me swilling some delicious root beer.
| | 04:23 | It's a place called XXX Root Beer in Issaquah, Washington.
| | 04:27 | They make their own root beer, and it's
amazing. So I'm sitting there looking smug,
| | 04:32 | like I own the place, and so we are going to
absolutely humiliate and desecrate my face here. So,
| | 04:38 | in the bottom left let's go back to Distort,
| | 04:41 | and let's go ahead and create a distort area
| | 04:45 | around my mouth here.
| | 04:48 | Oh yeah, there we go.
| | 04:50 | And so now we can twist and completely
destroy my face. That's just fantastic.
| | 04:58 | I can also play with the eyes,
the eyes are a good one to mess with.
| | 05:03 | I try to be super cool with my eyebrows, so let's exaggerate that.
| | 05:10 | Always a good time.
| | 05:11 | And of course the traditional stretch would
be really good here, stretching out that eye.
| | 05:18 | I think that's actually pretty good as is, but we might want to
| | 05:22 | play with the amount of stretching.
| | 05:24 | If we take that to a negative amount. Ah, this is awesome.
| | 05:30 | Next is bulge. Noses are good for bulging.
| | 05:33 | Oops, let me try to get to a new area here.
| | 05:37 | It's got a lot of traffic going on
with all the different distortions.
| | 05:40 | So I'll select this, go over to the bulge,
| | 05:44 | increase the size of my proboscis there,
| | 05:47 | and so on and so forth. So go down here to View Original,
| | 05:52 | and unfortunately it's not that much different.
| | 05:54 | So there we go. Using the Distort filter is for fun and enjoyment,
| | 05:59 | and also for tweaking things and moving things around a
little bit. But really these Distort filters are mostly just
| | 06:04 | for playing around and having a good time.
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7. Fixing MistakesUndoing mistakes immediately| 00:00 | In this chapter, we're going to look at ways to undo mistakes.
| | 00:04 | If you're like me,
| | 00:05 | when I first open a computer program, the first
thing I want to know is where I go to undo stuff.
| | 00:10 | And whenever I can't undo something,
I start freaking out and going crazy.
| | 00:13 | So you want to make sure that you know how to undo the changes
that you've made. Thankfully, Photoshop Express makes that
| | 00:20 | really really easy to do.
| | 00:22 | So even though there's no Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z, and no Edit
menu to go to and back up and undo your mistakes, there
| | 00:29 | are plenty of options for getting yourself out of trouble.
| | 00:32 | I'm going to go into the Animals album here,
and I'll double-click the "lion.jpg" image,
| | 00:36 | and let's add a few weird effects. Let's add Crop & Rotate,
| | 00:40 | and let's put our cursor outside the corner here,
| | 00:43 | and we'll go ahead and accept that, that's kind of screwy.
| | 00:46 | And let's go ahead and saturate this too much,
| | 00:51 | and click OK there to save it.
| | 00:53 | And let's go to Hue
| | 00:56 | and give ourselves a nice blue lion.
| | 01:01 | Now we talked previously
| | 01:02 | about how to uncheck these effects to temporarily remove them.
| | 01:08 | But if you actually want to remove the effect,
| | 01:10 | it's a little bit more of a hassle. You actually have to go back to the
effect, click on Reset to Original, save the changes, blah blah blah.
| | 01:16 | There's an easier way to do that.
| | 01:18 | If you come down here to the bottom, these two little
| | 01:21 | arrows here, these curved arrows,
| | 01:23 | are the Undo and Redo arrows.
| | 01:26 | So if I click this last one, as the tooltip
pop-up indicates, I'll step backwards.
| | 01:31 | Thankfully,
| | 01:32 | when we hover our mouse over one of
those arrows, it tells us right here,
| | 01:38 | to the right of that,
| | 01:39 | which step we're going to be undoing. So this is telling me
that if I were to click on this arrow, I would undo the Hue.
| | 01:45 | So click on that, and I undo Hue. Click on
it again, as it says, I'll undo Saturation.
| | 01:50 | Click on it again, and as it says, I will undo Rotate.
| | 01:53 | Redo works the same way. If you decide, you know what,
actually I do like that crazy crooked oversaturated blue lion,
| | 02:00 | I can click this Redo arrow to
| | 02:02 | redo the rotation.
| | 02:04 | Click it again to redo the Saturation,
| | 02:06 | and redo again to do the Hue.
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| Undoing old mistakes| 00:00 | Here I'm going to show you another brief
tip for undoing what you've already done.
| | 00:05 | Let's say for example the Space Needle project we've been working on during this training series, I'm going to open that up for editing
| | 00:10 | here by double-clicking on it.
| | 00:12 | Again, you could find that in the Miscellaneous album.
| | 00:15 | So we have all these little check marks here. We talked
about how we can remove them in the chapter on editing.
| | 00:21 | But one of the things I didn't talk about
was how you can click the Reset All button
| | 00:26 | and instantly remove all effects at once
| | 00:30 | that you have applied in the entire history that
you've been using this image in Photoshop Express.
| | 00:35 | Now obviously you'd want to be careful with this, because a lot of times
those effects take a long time to set up. I definitely would not want to
| | 00:41 | accept these changes now, because
| | 00:43 | I took a long time
| | 00:44 | getting this image perfectly right- all of the blemish touching up
and the straightening we did, and the cropping we did, and the
| | 00:50 | saturating we did- all that gone with one click of a button.
| | 00:53 | But if you find yourself in a situation where you've completely
ruined an image and you've just kind of mucked it up and played
| | 00:59 | around with it so much that you'd really like to have your
original image back, that Reset All button is there for you.
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| Viewing history states| 00:00 | If you are familiar with Photoshop,
especially the History palette in Photoshop,
| | 00:05 | then you'll be glad to know that a similar
History panel exists here in Photoshop Express,
| | 00:09 | although it's kind of tough to spot on your own.
| | 00:11 | So I'm going to use the same old Space Needle project, and I'm using
that only because there are so many effects already applied, and chances
| | 00:18 | are that if you've been following along
you'll have the same effects applied.
| | 00:21 | And because this is an ongoing project, we've actually had many steps
| | 00:26 | as we've gone through trying to perfect our image here.
| | 00:28 | To see them and shuffle through them,
| | 00:31 | you can click this little arrow right here in between Undo and Redo.
| | 00:35 | Doesn't seem like it does very much,
it's just kind of hanging out here,
| | 00:38 | but it's actually very important. So click that,
| | 00:40 | and we can see all the various states
| | 00:42 | of our image, from its history. So if we keep going back and back
and back, then we'll see where I was showing you how to rotate
| | 00:49 | the image and everything else here.
| | 00:53 | It's almost like baby photos. Aw, this is when
our little Space Needle photo was just a wee baby.
| | 00:57 | So as we click these states, then we actually jump to
that space and time when that's the way our image looked.
| | 01:04 | So if we go back, let's start from scratch here.
| | 01:07 | This is the final state of our image.
| | 01:09 | The last thing we did
| | 01:11 | was that we adjusted some of the blemishes inside of this image.
| | 01:15 | So if I were to click on this state, the little tool
pop-up here tells me that I will be undoing a Blemish edit.
| | 01:23 | So I click this,
| | 01:24 | and there the blemish comes back.
| | 01:26 | If I click on the original state again, the state we just came from,
| | 01:29 | you see that it says Redo Blemish Edit.
| | 01:32 | That's going to remove that blemish again.
| | 01:34 | So as we go back in time, we're going to undo steps,
| | 01:38 | and if we go all the way back to very beginning here,
| | 01:41 | everything else will be redoing those steps.
| | 01:45 | So at any point in the editing process,
| | 01:48 | even after you've already saved your changes and exited Editing mode,
you can come back here and selectively decide which point in
| | 01:55 | time, or in other words at which state
your image was in, that you'd like to go with.
| | 02:00 | So yes this is a cool little hidden trick almost, but also it's
| | 02:04 | basically a license to go crazy and have fun and play as much
as you want, because you know you can't really hurt anything.
| | 02:11 | Even if you had some great settings a while back, and you've
lost them, the history state is still here for you, and you can
| | 02:18 | change it at any time.
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8. Creating SlideshowsAbout slideshows| 00:00 | This chapter is all about slideshows, and as you can see here,
slideshows are just a super cool way to browse through an album,
| | 00:08 | whether it's your album or someone else's album.
| | 00:12 | There are so many tricks to this, so many different ways
to customize the views that you're looking at, it's
| | 00:17 | just going to be a great experience. So let's jump in to talking
a little bit more about slide shows- how to view them, how
| | 00:24 | to customize your viewing settings, and more.
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| Viewing an album slideshow| 00:00 | In this movie, we're going to talk about a
couple different ways to view slideshows.
| | 00:04 | Now remember that slideshows are functions of albums.
| | 00:09 | So while you're in your Library here, there's nothing
that really says "launch slideshow" or whatever.
| | 00:14 | However,
| | 00:14 | if we go into, let's say, the Miscellaneous category,
| | 00:17 | you can see that we have Album Slideshow as a button down here.
| | 00:21 | Remember, you also have access to albums
in your gallery. So if you go to My Gallery,
| | 00:26 | you'll see your albums that you're sharing in your gallery.
| | 00:29 | There'll be a little play icon
| | 00:31 | over your albums, and if you'd like to play the images in
that album as a slideshow, simply click this play button.
| | 00:39 | So it takes just a minute to load up there,
| | 00:41 | and now we have our slideshows.
| | 00:44 | It plays by itself.
| | 00:45 | After just a second, the top and bottom and sides just disappear,
they fade away so you can see just the images in your slideshow.
| | 00:53 | Now while it's playing, you can use your left and right arrow keys
| | 00:56 | to go back and forth through the slideshow. So right now I'm hitting
the right arrow key to advance the images. I hit the left arrow key
| | 01:03 | to go back images as well.
| | 01:06 | Now if I put my mouse up at the top of the screen,
| | 01:08 | then I get this bar back that gives me some controls here,
and from here we can click play to play the slideshow, or we
| | 01:15 | can advance slides as well with these arrows.
| | 01:19 | Now,
| | 01:20 | if what I've shown you so far was all you could do with a slideshow,
| | 01:25 | I probably wouldn't even talk about it here.
It's not something spectacular so far.
| | 01:29 | But things get really cool really fast, and
we'll see that as we go through this chapter.
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| Customizing the slideshow| 00:00 | Now that we know how to play back slideshows, I'm going to show
you how to customize the slideshow experience. It goes without
| | 00:06 | saying that just looking at a single image at a time like we looked
at in the last movie is a pretty boring way to look at slideshows.
| | 00:13 | Basically what I've done here is I've gone to My Gallery, and
I'm looking at the Miscellaneous album in my slideshow here.
| | 00:21 | So let's customize this. I'm going to go
down to the bottom right-hand corner
| | 00:24 | of the interface. Now what you might need to do is go to the top
| | 00:27 | to make the options display, and then click Settings. This is kind
of an awkward interface. It disappears so that you can see the
| | 00:34 | slideshow, which is great, but then you
don't see your mouse, you can't really tell
| | 00:37 | where you are, which is kind of frustrating sometimes.
| | 00:40 | So once we click on Settings- and by the way, you can do that either
by clicking the wrench or the word Settings, they both achieve
| | 00:45 | the same result-
| | 00:46 | and go over here to Layout.
| | 00:48 | The default is the Single, which means
we're looking at one image at a time,
| | 00:51 | but these other three are infinitely cooler
than just the Single layout. I'll click on Strip,
| | 00:57 | and now we're looking at a strip.
| | 00:59 | So if I go to the next image,
| | 01:02 | you can see that we're now seeing a cool big strip.
| | 01:05 | And if I were to play this slideshow,
| | 01:07 | then as the images go from one to the next,
| | 01:11 | then they just kind of slide into place there, which is really cool.
| | 01:16 | I go back up here, and now there's the Grid view,
| | 01:19 | love that animation.
| | 01:22 | As we go back to the Strip,
| | 01:23 | meow,
| | 01:25 | go back to the Grid, meow.
| | 01:27 | Good times. Love it.
| | 01:29 | There's also this cool Ring view.
| | 01:34 | The keyboard shortcuts I taught you in the last movie on viewing
a slideshow- the left and right arrows to navigate to the
| | 01:40 | next slide or the previous slide-
| | 01:42 | those are pretty cool.
| | 01:43 | There's also additional shortcuts when you're not using
the Single view, when you're using Strip, Grid, or Ring.
| | 01:49 | You can also use the up and down arrow keys to zoom in and zoom
out of a slideshow. You could also use this little slider here
| | 01:57 | to click and drag and zoom in, and as you click
and drag to the right or click and drag to the left
| | 02:02 | to zoom out.
| | 02:04 | Now a little word of warning about those keyboard shortcuts.
It's really the coolest way to navigate around a slideshow,
| | 02:10 | but oftentimes those keyboard shortcuts
just stop working for whatever reason.
| | 02:15 | Often I find if I just go back to My Gallery
and just come back into my slideshow,
| | 02:19 | the keyboard shortcuts work just fine. But for whatever reason,
sometimes after fiddling with the settings they just stop working.
| | 02:25 | Nevertheless, just be aware that we can zoom in and out with this slider.
| | 02:28 | We can also have multiple different types of layouts-
| | 02:32 | Single, Strip,
| | 02:33 | Grid,
| | 02:34 | and Ring.
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9. Customizing Photoshop ExpressChanging your profile image| 00:00 | In this chapter, we're going to look at
customizing Photoshop Express, making it your own.
| | 00:05 | In this movie specifically, we're going to
be looking at changing your profile image.
| | 00:09 | We're going to start by clicking the upper left-hand corner, this
Adobe Photoshop Express button here, to get to the Welcome screen.
| | 00:16 | You can see it says "Hello, Chad" and there's this picture of me.
That picture is called a profile image. You notice oftentimes
| | 00:22 | as you're browsing through communities of albums, people don't always
have a profile image. I'm going to show you how to do that, so you don't
| | 00:28 | have to have this generic nothing silhouette there for
your image. You can actually have a photo of yourself or
| | 00:33 | whatever else you want there.
| | 00:35 | I'm going to click on My Photos to enter into my photos.
| | 00:38 | All you have to do to use an image
| | 00:41 | for your profile image
| | 00:42 | is to find the image in your Library or in an album
that you want to use for your profile picture.
| | 00:48 | Hover your mouse over it until you get this little pop-up. Click
that at the bottom of the image, so you get this drop-down menu,
| | 00:54 | and then come down here and select Use as
Profile Image. And that's all there is to it.
| | 00:58 | Now you might have noticed that in my Miscellaneous album here...
| | 01:03 | Is that where it's at? Actually I think it's in
the Library here. If I do a search on root beer,
| | 01:11 | there's two images that match root beer.
This is the actual photo that was taken.
| | 01:16 | Now I'm going to go to this drop-down
again, the Photo Options drop-down,
| | 01:19 | and select Use as Profile Image.
| | 01:23 | You'll see that when I go back to Photoshop Express,
| | 01:26 | that this is what happened. It kind of cropped it in a weird way,
so the top of my head was chopped off, and basically the root
| | 01:32 | beer was the focus. As much as I love that root beer,
I kind of want to show my face off more than the root beer,
| | 01:37 | so I'm going to go back to My Photos
| | 01:40 | and show you that basically what I did here is I took this
into Photoshop Express, and I cropped it and made this image, and
| | 01:47 | then I used this as my profile picture.
| | 01:50 | So again, remember that you can do this as well.
| | 01:53 | Go back to your title page, and now this fits much more snugly
with the cropped image. So if you have one that's not quite
| | 02:00 | fitting just yet,
| | 02:01 | then go and edit the one that you want, crop it, and then
do a Save As function in the editing area. So that way
| | 02:08 | you have both the original
| | 02:10 | and the copy for your profile image.
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| Changing an album cover| 00:00 | In this tutorial, we're going to talk about changing the album cover.
| | 00:03 | An album cover- if we go over to My Gallery here-
| | 00:06 | the album cover is basically kind of like the poster image. It's the
image that's on the front of your albums that represents that album.
| | 00:14 | It may not seem like it's that important,
| | 00:16 | but when you're actually browsing other people's galleries,
| | 00:19 | the album cover is actually the only thing that you
see as a representative of that particular album.
| | 00:25 | So you want to make sure, again, that the album cover
accurately represents the rest of the content in the album.
| | 00:31 | So let's talk about changing the album cover. If I go to My Gallery,
| | 00:34 | scroll down a little bit here,
| | 00:36 | you'll see this album of Washington DC.
| | 00:39 | Now this Cavalry Group statue at the Grant Memorial
is absolutely not the most popular attraction in
| | 00:48 | Washington, DC. It's definitely not known for the Cavalry Group
statue in any way, shape, or form. So let's change this album
| | 00:55 | cover to something a little bit more representative of the sights
of Washington, DC. So I'll click in My Photos here at the top,
| | 01:02 | and I don't know,
| | 01:03 | maybe the Capitol Building. That looks pretty Washington DC-ish.
At the bottom of the image I get the Photo Options pop-up,
| | 01:10 | click that to get the menu,
and from here, select Use as Album Cover.
| | 01:15 | And now that is the album cover for the Washington, DC album.
| | 01:19 | Note that if we're in the Library here,
| | 01:21 | and we click Photo Options, we cannot select Use as Album Cover.
It's grayed out, because which album is it going to be the cover of?
| | 01:30 | So in order to get that option, you need to
actually be in an album on the left-hand side.
| | 01:35 | And now if we go and click in My Gallery
| | 01:38 | and scroll down here, there's Washington, DC, and the representative
image for the album cover is the US Capitol Building,
| | 01:46 | which makes a little bit more sense than the Cavalry Group statue.
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| Changing the Gallery background| 00:00 | Another way we can customize Photoshop Express
is to add a background to our gallery.
| | 00:05 | By default it's just this plain old gray,
| | 00:07 | but we can add an image, just kind of faded back there,
if we'd like to. So I'm going to go to My Photos here,
| | 00:15 | and if you're following along, I'm looking for this treasury
steps image. You can find it either in the Library or in
| | 00:21 | the Washington DC album.
| | 00:23 | So what I'm going to do is go to the Photo Options drop-down we've been
using extensively in this chapter, and click this menu drop-down and
| | 00:29 | select Use as Gallery Background.
| | 00:32 | And now, when we go over to My Gallery,
| | 00:35 | we have this nice cool little treasury steps background,
| | 00:38 | and actually I kind of like that.
| | 00:40 | Just make sure that when you're using a gallery background
that your orientation is landscape, in other words it's
| | 00:47 | bigger horizontally than vertically,
| | 00:50 | and not portrait.
| | 00:51 | If you tried to use an image like this one, which has
a vertical orientation, or portrait in other words,
| | 00:57 | then what it's going to do is it's going to stretch it
| | 00:59 | the width of this background, and it's going to look a really terrible.
| | 01:04 | So that's my first bit of advice for gallery background. My
second bit of advice is make sure that you have an image that
| | 01:09 | has a resolution high enough so that it can stretch big enough
to fill your entire background and still look really quality.
| | 01:15 | If you decide that you don't want a
background image for your gallery anymore,
| | 01:18 | simply come over here in the My Gallery area and click
Clear Background Image to take this back to gray.
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10. Sharing Your ImagesSaving images as files| 00:00 | Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're winding down here towards the end
of the training series. We've pretty much covered all the main
| | 00:06 | features of Photoshop Express, and now it's
time to share our images with the rest of the world.
| | 00:11 | The first thing we're going to cover in this movie is saving
out images inside Photoshop Express as files on your computer.
| | 00:19 | This is particularly helpful for those of
you that don't have Photoshop on your computer.
| | 00:23 | So if you want to add edits and make changes,
| | 00:26 | and then save them out as new files on your
computer, you could almost use Photoshop Express
| | 00:30 | as actually an online Photoshop.
| | 00:32 | So as our last official act to our dark, crooked, spotted,
| | 00:37 | Needle crooked image,
| | 00:39 | we've cropped it, straightened it, we've brightened it, we've
saturated it, and now it's finally time to spit it back out to our
| | 00:47 | computer. Actually I need to double-click it,
I want to go back to My Photos here.
| | 00:51 | There's a drop-down when our cursor's over the menu here,
| | 00:55 | and make this menu pop-up that we've been using.
| | 00:58 | And come down to the middle and select Download Photo.
| | 01:02 | Now upload, as we learned at the beginning of this training
series, is the process of getting all our files from our computer
| | 01:08 | up to the internet.
| | 01:10 | When we download something, again that's the process of
getting something down from the internet back to our computer.
| | 01:16 | So if we select Download Photo,
| | 01:18 | we have a few options here. We can choose the
original size, or variations of the original size.
| | 01:23 | Maybe we want to put this on our cell phone, so we want
it extra small, 190 x 256 might be a good choice for that.
| | 01:29 | 762 x 1024 is about the size of the average desktop.
| | 01:33 | I'm just going to go ahead and leave
this as the original size for now.
| | 01:36 | And once we click Download, we get a little
pop-up saying, "Where would you like to save it?"
| | 01:40 | So we just determine where on our computer
we would like to save this file and hit Save.
| | 01:45 | And so that's how easy it is to get images
| | 01:47 | from Photoshop Express down to your local computer, your machine.
| | 01:51 | And that way you can burn them to CDs or DVDs, put them on your
iPod, put them on your cell phone, or whatever else you want to do
| | 01:57 | with your images.
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| Sharing a Gallery privately| 00:00 | Earlier in this training series, when we talked
about galleries, we mentioned that that's the way
| | 00:04 | that we can share albums publicly.
| | 00:07 | But what if you want to share photos or albums
privately and not with the rest of the world?
| | 00:11 | That's what I'm going to show you how to do in this movie,
| | 00:13 | and actually it's a pretty cool process.
| | 00:16 | You can set up an address book, and all
sorts of stuff I'll show you how to do.
| | 00:19 | First we're going to talk about how to just email a photo.
| | 00:22 | To do that, simply come to your Library or
an album, select a photo, and click E-mail Photo.
| | 00:28 | Type the e-mail address of the person you'd like to send the image to.
| | 00:34 | Actually you can click this little person here, this little icon,
| | 00:37 | and you can actually create an address book here.
| | 00:40 | You click New Contact to create a new contact. You can
even create groups and put contacts in those groups.
| | 00:46 | That's pretty sweet. I'll hit Cancel here.
| | 00:48 | You can type a message in the email,
| | 00:50 | and what this will do is it will email somebody
a private invitation to see your photo.
| | 00:55 | It will be this really cool graphic that has a thumbnail of
the image as part of it, and it'll basically say this is
| | 01:02 | Photoshop Express, click on this button to see the image.
And then when they click on the link, they're not taken to
| | 01:07 | Photoshop Express, the image itself opens up in a new window
and at full size. So it's a very discreet way to share an image.
| | 01:16 | I'll go ahead and hit Cancel here.
| | 01:18 | Let's go over to our albums.
| | 01:20 | Now all of these albums are already being shared publicly in My Gallery.
| | 01:25 | But what we can do also, whether it's being
shared in our gallery or not, is click Share Album.
| | 01:30 | And here it's going to say "The album has
already been shared publicly on My Gallery.
| | 01:34 | You can also e-mail it to your friends."
| | 01:37 | So if it wasn't being shared publicly, we could create an e-mail here
| | 01:41 | that would be sent to whoever we wanted.
We also have the address book option here.
| | 01:45 | And we could put in a message. And basically we'd create
a link to this album. This is a private way to send images in
| | 01:51 | case you don't really want the whole World Wide Web
taking a look at your personal photos.
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| Sharing photos with other sites| 00:00 | Perhaps one of the biggest selling points of Photoshop Express- I guess there
actually isn't any selling points because it's free, but you get my drift-
| | 00:06 | one of the biggest things they're trying to advertise here is
that they integrate really well with all sorts of other sites.
| | 00:12 | Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa,
you name it and there's integration here.
| | 00:18 | So that's what we're going to talk about in
this movie. Now the integration is actually
| | 00:21 | very remarkable, and I'll show you how deep it gets.
| | 00:24 | You can see here that there's Login, Login, Login next to all of
these big famous websites. So what I've gone ahead and done as
| | 00:32 | example is I've logged into my Facebook.
| | 00:34 | I went ahead and just clicked Login next to Facebook,
| | 00:37 | and what it does is it opens up a new window
| | 00:40 | with the Facebook login,
| | 00:43 | and then once you put in your login information, it says OK,
you're all logged in, go back to Photoshop Express. So you come
| | 00:50 | back to Photoshop Express, click OK,
| | 00:52 | and then instantly your Facebook photos
show up here in Photoshop Express.
| | 00:57 | Now over here, if I go to my Facebook account, you can see
I don't have any albums yet. I don't have any images or anything.
| | 01:04 | I've got my little profile picture
here, but nothing really spectacular.
| | 01:08 | So what I can do is go back to Photoshop Express,
| | 01:10 | and go to All Photos,
| | 01:13 | and I can drag and drop an image next to the plus
icon next to Facebook here. Once I let go of that,
| | 01:20 | it's going to say well, you actually have to have an album
in Facebook in order to put a picture in it. So I'll call this
| | 01:26 | flowers I guess. And then I'll click OK.
| | 01:32 | And this little plus with the little outline
around it indicates that it's uploading.
| | 01:36 | And now
| | 01:37 | here is this image from my Facebook account,
showing up in Photoshop Express.
| | 01:42 | Now if I were to go back to my Facebook account and refresh the page,
| | 01:47 | du du duh! There is the flowers image, uploaded from
Photoshop Express. It shows up directly in my Facebook account.
| | 01:55 | So when Adobe claims that it integrates with Facebook
or Flickr or Photobucket or Picasa or whatever,
| | 02:00 | you know that that integration is airtight. It's
absolutely amazing to be able to work with your account
| | 02:07 | from some other social networking site or
photo sharing site, right here in Photoshop Express.
| | 02:12 | Now thankfully there's not a way to delete
your images from your Facebook account or whatever
| | 02:17 | from Photoshop Express. You actually have to go back to your
social networking site or your photo sharing site or whatever and
| | 02:24 | delete it there. So in this case I'd actually have to to go back into
Facebook and delete the picture there. I can't do it from Photoshop Express.
| | 02:30 | It's kind of just like a safety net so
| | 02:33 | that you don't actually delete the images from Photoshop Express.
| | 02:35 | Also be aware that there might be a little bit of a security issue
here because you have both accounts open. So Photoshop Express
| | 02:41 | recommends that before you
| | 02:43 | leave your session, you log out of the account you're logged in to.
So in this case I would log out of Facebook and then close my browser
| | 02:50 | window once I'm done with my session here.
| | 02:52 | And there you have it. How remarkable is that, to be able to take
images from Facebook into Photoshop Express? I can edit them
| | 02:59 | as I normally would, I get the Photo Options drop-down, I can edit
this photo, I could link it, embed it, downloaded it, play with it,
| | 03:06 | send it back to Facebook.
| | 03:08 | And I can do that with Flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa as well.
Just remarkable integration with these awesome websites.
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11. Examining Other Free Creative Tools from AdobePhotoshop Album Starter Edition| 00:00 | Photoshop Express has got to be one of the coolest secrets of all time.
It's like this free version of Photoshop, it's online, it's amazing.
| | 00:07 | But that's not the end of the story,
| | 00:09 | and it's actually not the first free product that Adobe has offered.
| | 00:13 | Adobe actually has a few great free products out there that you may or
may not be aware of. One of them, the one I'm going to be talking to
| | 00:19 | you about in this movie,
| | 00:20 | is Photoshop Album Starter Edition.
| | 00:23 | In a sense, this is almost like having
Photoshop Express as a computer program
| | 00:29 | that you have on your computer all the time,
even when you're not hooked up to the internet.
| | 00:33 | You'll also find with Photoshop Album Starter Edition that
| | 00:36 | the ways to organize and sort images are very similar,
and the fixes, the ways to fix images are very similar.
| | 00:42 | But it's not online, so when you share stuff, you share
things in different ways with Photoshop Album Starter Edition.
| | 00:49 | But what you can do, and what you can't do with Photoshop Express,
is you can use Photoshop Album Starter Edition to create
| | 00:55 | books and cards and all sorts of cool stuff in print.
| | 00:59 | Unfortunately, Photoshop Album Starter Edition is only
for Windows. I think Adobe figured that Mac users have
| | 01:05 | iPhoto and don't really need Photoshop Album Starter Edition. So
if you're on Windows, and you're looking for a free application
| | 01:12 | that you can keep on your desktop to organize and sort
and make adjustments to and share your images on your PC,
| | 01:19 | you might want to look in to Photoshop Album Starter Edition.
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| Premiere Express| 00:00 | Another phenomenal free application from Adobe
that I just discovered a few months ago
| | 00:05 | is Adobe Premiere Express. If you've never used Adobe Premiere Pro or
Adobe Premiere Elements, basically they are video editing applications.
| | 00:14 | And so what Photoshop Express is to Photoshop, Premiere
Express is to Premiere. So basically it's a free online video
| | 00:22 | editing service. Currently it's available
through Photobucket and through MTV.
| | 00:27 | MTV has this really interesting version of Premiere Express on
this website, I think it's remix.MTV.com or something like that.
| | 00:35 | Basically they have songs from some really popular
artists, like Death Cab for Cutie or whatever,
| | 00:41 | and then a bunch of clips of the band and photos of the
band, and it allows you basically remix a video and make
| | 00:47 | your own music video of some popular bands out there.
| | 00:50 | And Premiere Express is actually quite like Premier Elements,
which is an amazing video application, costs around $100 or so.
| | 00:58 | So, if you're looking to add a little motion to your photos, and maybe
a little audio as well, some cool effects and that type of thing,
| | 01:05 | then you might want to check out Premiere Express,
another free application from Adobe.
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ConclusionWhere do I go from here?| 00:00 | If you're new to image editing in general, Photoshop Express
might stir something within you, where you want to take
| | 00:06 | things the next level. Maybe you want to learn a little bit more
about image editing and get access to more advanced features. Well,
| | 00:13 | I might recommend you go to lynda.com, which is actually
the best place I've ever seen for Photoshop training.
| | 00:19 | If you go to this Product drop-down here and scroll all the way
down here, basically these are the products that lynda.com
| | 00:26 | offers training on,
| | 00:27 | you scroll down here till you to the Ps.
You'll see that for Photoshop,
| | 00:32 | they have training for all different
versions of Photoshop, and also
| | 00:36 | Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom.
| | 00:39 | Photoshop Elements is geared towards hobbyist users. It's a
cheaper application, less than $100, and offers you much more in
| | 00:46 | the way of editing, much more in the way
of organizing and sharing and that type of thing.
| | 00:52 | Photoshop Lightroom is a little bit more pricey
and is geared towards the professional photographer.
| | 00:57 | A lot of highly professional features from Photoshop are
actually here in Lightroom, at a much discounted price.
| | 01:04 | So again,
| | 01:05 | when you're wanting to take your skills to the next level,
| | 01:09 | just remember that there are levels, there are increments,
you don't have to jump up to Big Daddy Photoshop to go to the next
| | 01:15 | level. There are several steps, whether you're a hobbyist and
just kind of want to play more, share more, then you could use
| | 01:21 | Elements, or whether you wanted to get more into pro photography
with Photoshop Lightroom. Training's here for you on lynda.com.
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| Goodbye| 00:00 | Well folks, thanks so much for joining me on this tour through
Photoshop Express. I've had a blast. What an amazing application,
| | 00:07 | and all of it for free.
| | 00:09 | On behalf of lynda.com, I am Chad Perkins.
Thank you so much for watching.
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