From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to flip an image in Camera Raw, and we'll also go ahead and add a signature to the file inside Photoshop. All right, I'm going to start off by opening this image right here. And notice that it's a DNG file, and so if I double-click on it, it's going to open automatically inside Camera Raw, which is being hosted by Photoshop. All right, now let's say I go up and select my Crop tool from the horizontal tool bar, which I can get by pressing the C key. I want you to notice, if I click and hold here, that the aspect ratio is set to two to three, and the thing is I decided I wanted to get rid of this stuff in the top right corner here, and so notice as I drag this top right corner in, that thanks to the fact that I've applied some post-crop vignetting, that goes ahead and brings the vignette inward, and it covers up that distracting detail right there. You can also see that I end up cropping away the crab's legs, but I'd rather do that than have that extra stuff. All right, now I want to crop it in like so, but if I do, then the vignette becomes a problem, because it starts to affect the crab itself. That's not what I'm looking for at all, so I'll go ahead and press Control Z, or Command Z on the Mac. If you want to crop without vignetting, you have to do that inside Photoshop. All right, now notice if I move my cursor outside the crop boundary, that I can rotate the crab as much as I like. I don't want to do that, he was fine as is, so I'll just go ahead and press Control Z, or Command Z on the Mac, to undo that change. We also have these two rotate controls up here, which rotate the image 90 degrees. Now notice if I press and hold the Alt key, that's going to be the Option key on the Mac, that those two options change to flip icons, and so if I Alt click or Option click this guy right here, I'll end up flipping the crab horizontally. Now I want to open the image in Photoshop, without changing that original DNG file, and you can do that by dropping down to the Open Image button here, and then, instead of clicking on it, and the best way to do that is to switch to the Channels panel, which you can also get by going to the Window menu and choosing the Channels command. And then you just want to press the Control key, or the Command key on a Mac. Notice my pointing finger changes to a finger with the selection outline, and then just go ahead and click on any one of these channels, it doesn't matter. and click on any one of these channels, it doesn't matter. So I just Control or Command clicked on the RGB composite. So I just Control or Command clicked on the RGB composite. That ends up selecting the white stuff. That ends up selecting the white stuff. I want to select the signature instead, I want to select the signature instead, so we'll go up to the Select menu so we'll go up to the Select menu and choose the Inverse command, or you have that keyboard shortcut of Control Shift I. All right, now we want to move the signature into the other file, and you do that just by moving your cursor into the selection like so, so that you can see this arrowhead, and again, you want the rectangular marquee, or one of the other selection tools to be active, and then go ahead and drag this guy up to the Title tab, and then once you switch to the other image, go ahead and move your cursor back into the image window and then drop it into place like so, and we now have a selection outline in the shape of my signature. All right, I'm going to switch back to the Layers panel and create a new layer by pressing Control Shift N, or Command Shift N on the Mac, and I'll just call this guy Sig, let's say. Now I want to change my foreground color, so I'll go ahead and click on the foreground color swatch down here at the bottom of the tool box, down here at the bottom of the tool box, in order to bring up the Color Picker Dialogue Box. in order to bring up the Color Picker Dialogue Box. And then I'll go ahead and click on his claw right here, And then I'll go ahead and click on his claw right here, in order to lift that bright shade of orange. in order to lift that bright shade of orange. That's almost the color I'm looking for. That's almost the color I'm looking for. I'm going to take the hue down to 25 degrees. I'm going to take the hue down to 25 degrees. A saturation of 100% is great, and then I'll take A saturation of 100% is great, and then I'll take the brightness value down to 80% and click okay. the brightness value down to 80% and click okay. Now I want to fill that selection outline with Now I want to fill that selection outline with the foreground color, and you do that by pressing the foreground color, and you do that by pressing Alt Backspace here on the PC. Alt Backspace here on the PC. That's Option Delete on the Mac. That's Option Delete on the Mac. Now I'll press Control D or Command D on the Mac, in order to deselect the image. I'll press the Control key or the Command key on the Mac to temporarily access my move tool. And actually, you know what? I'm going to go ahead and select the move tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of V. It's up here at the top of the tool box. Because I want to make sure that the Autoselect Because I want to make sure that the Autoselect checkbox is turned off. checkbox is turned off. Otherwise, it's very likely you'll end up moving Otherwise, it's very likely you'll end up moving the crab instead of the signature. the crab instead of the signature. And then I'll just go ahead and drag this guy And then I'll just go ahead and drag this guy down to about here, let's say. down to about here, let's say. And I ended up changing the blend mode And I ended up changing the blend mode to the brightest mode there is, to the brightest mode there is, which is Linear Dodge add, and notice here which is Linear Dodge add, and notice here in the most recent version of Photoshop in the most recent version of Photoshop that you can preview those blend modes on the fly, that you can preview those blend modes on the fly, which is totally awesome. which is totally awesome. All right, linear dodge is one of eight blend modes All right, linear dodge is one of eight blend modes that responds differently to the opacity that responds differently to the opacity and fill opacity values. and fill opacity values. So notice, if I were to go ahead and tap the five key, So notice, if I were to go ahead and tap the five key, to take the opacity down to 50%, to take the opacity down to 50%, that we end up with a kind of dull effect here; that we end up with a kind of dull effect here; whereas, if I undo that change by pressing Control Z, whereas, if I undo that change by pressing Control Z, or Command Z on the Mac, or Command Z on the Mac, and instead I pressed Shift five, which sets the fill value to 50%, we get a more colorful effect. So it's a subtle difference, but it's there. Now I'll press Shift F to fill the screen with the image. And that's how you flip an image inside Camera Raw and apply a bit of additional cropping inside Photoshop.

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