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

804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream

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

804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream

by pressing Control + Shift + N or Command + Shift + N on a Mac, and I'm just going to call this guy line 2 let's say this time around and then I'll click OK. And then I'll select all the other layers by going up to the Select menu and choosing All Layers, or you can press Control + Alt + A or Command + Option + A on a Mac, and then press the Control key or the Command key on the Mac and click in an empty portion of this layer right here in order to deselect it. So that's a Control or Command + click. And now press the Backspace key or the Delete key on a Mac to get rid of all those other lines. All right, now we need to bring back our center guides, so I'll go to the View menu, choose Show, and then choose Guides, which has the keyboard shortcut of Control + Semicolon or Command + Semicolon on the Mac, and then go ahead and zoom in a little. And this time we're going to paint a freeform brush stroke, so go ahead and grab your Brush Tool, which you can get by pressing the B key. Right-click inside the image window and set the Size value this time to just eight pixels and then Tab down to the Hardness value and set it to 100%. You may want to go to the Window menu and choose Brush Settings in order to confirm that your Spacing value's still 10%, which is very useful by the way. Otherwise you're going to get a lumpy brush stroke. And then go ahead and set the Smoothing value, if it's available to you up here in the options bar, to 50%. All right, now I'm just going to go ahead and drag to create a fairly straight brush stroke. I'm just kind of waving it up and down until I get to the end and notice that it's not quite keeping up with me, because it's trying to be nice and smooth. It doesn't matter actually if it's too lumpy. And I'll just draw something like that, let's say. And then I'll draw another one that goes up here and then let's say one down here. You could even create another one if you like. We're just trying to fill things in. The most important part is you're not starting at the exact center. If you don't, go up to the options bar at the far left hand side and turn on what doesn't even look like a checkbox, but you can turn it on, and then you'll be able to see this guy. And then drag him to the intersection of those two guidelines. You want it to be exactly in line if you can make it. And next go up to the options bar and set this Rotate value right here to 15 degrees And a moment later you'll be returned to your original composition. So here's how things looked without those new lines and here's how things look now. All right, I don't want to see that little Ghostbusters icon, so I'm going to press the M key to switch back to my Rectangular Marquee Tool. And we're going to jump a couple of copies of this new Smart Object by pressing Control + J or Command + J on the Mac and that's going to magnify the effect, as we're seeing right here. But what we want to do is rotate it slightly and so this time around you can choose the Free Transform command or you can just press Control + T or Command + T on the Mac. And you'll probably see this message that's telling you that the Smart Filters are going to be turned off for a moment. Just go ahead and click OK. Just go ahead and click OK. And sure enough, we're not seeing And sure enough, we're not seeing the results of the radial blur filter, the results of the radial blur filter, but that doesn't really matter. but that doesn't really matter. So go up here to the Rotate value once again So go up here to the Rotate value once again and we're going to change it this time around to five degrees. and we're going to change it this time around to five degrees. So 1/3 of 15 degrees. So 1/3 of 15 degrees. And then I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac And then I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac in order to apply that change. in order to apply that change. And a moment later Photoshop will go ahead And a moment later Photoshop will go ahead and reapply radial blur. and reapply radial blur. All right, now jump a copy of this guy All right, now jump a copy of this guy by pressing Control + J or Command + J on a Mac. by pressing Control + J or Command + J on a Mac. Press Control + T or Command + T on a Mac Press Control + T or Command + T on a Mac in order to invoke Free Transform, click OK if necessary. in order to invoke Free Transform, click OK if necessary. The radial blur filter will be turned off for a moment. The radial blur filter will be turned off for a moment. What I want you to do this time is go up to the Rotate value What I want you to do this time is go up to the Rotate value and just change it to negative five degrees and just change it to negative five degrees and then press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac and then press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac a couple of times in order to apply that change. a couple of times in order to apply that change. And a moment later you should see Photoshop And a moment later you should see Photoshop reapply that radial blur filter. reapply that radial blur filter. All right, the final thing I want to do All right, the final thing I want to do is add some more color. is add some more color. And to make that happen I'm going to go to the Layer menu And to make that happen I'm going to go to the Layer menu and choose New Fill Layer, and choose New Fill Layer, followed by Gradient this time around. followed by Gradient this time around. And I'm going to go ahead and rename this guy COVK And I'm going to go ahead and rename this guy COVK after that cyan orange violet black gradient after that cyan orange violet black gradient that we created in the previous movie. that we created in the previous movie. And I'll go ahead and click OK. And I'll go ahead and click OK. This is not the gradient I'm looking for at all. This is not the gradient I'm looking for at all. However, if you went ahead and saved that gradient However, if you went ahead and saved that gradient in the previous movie in the previous movie then you can just click this down pointing arrowhead then you can just click this down pointing arrowhead and choose it from the end of the list. and choose it from the end of the list. And you'll get this effect right here, And you'll get this effect right here, which is exactly what we're looking for by the way. which is exactly what we're looking for by the way. You want the Style to be Linear, You want the Style to be Linear, the Angle should be 90 degrees, the Angle should be 90 degrees, the Scale should be 100%. the Scale should be 100%. And so just go ahead and click OK And so just go ahead and click OK and now to finish things off and now to finish things off go ahead and change the blend mode to Overlay. go ahead and change the blend mode to Overlay. And you can experiment with other blend modes if you like, And you can experiment with other blend modes if you like, but Overlay is probably your best bet in this case. but Overlay is probably your best bet in this case. All right, now to my mind it looks like these 2nd lines All right, now to my mind it looks like these 2nd lines are kind of encroaching on the middle of the image are kind of encroaching on the middle of the image and if you're finding that to be the case too and if you're finding that to be the case too then you can mask those lines altogether then you can mask those lines altogether by clicking on the top one, by clicking on the top one, Shift + clicking on the bottom one, Shift + clicking on the bottom one, so that all the 2nd lines are selected, so that all the 2nd lines are selected, then go to the top right corner of the Layers panel then go to the top right corner of the Layers panel and click on the fly-out menu icon and click on the fly-out menu icon and choose New Group from Layers. And I'm just going to call this guy all 2nd lines let's say. And then I'll click OK. And now I'll give this guy a layer mask by clicking on the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and I'll go ahead and select the Brush Tool, which you can get, once again, by pressing the B key. I'll right-click inside the image window and I'll take the Size value up to let's say 500 pixels and I'll set the Hardness to 50% this time around. And then you want to tap the D key to make sure that you have your default foreground and background colors, which are white and black when you're working inside of a layer mask, then press the X key in order to swap them. We need to bring back the guidelines, so press Control + Semicolon or Command + Semicolon on the Mac, and then I'm going to go ahead and line up that center cross at the middle of my brush cursor and I will click in order to light things up. And now I'll go ahead and press the M key to switch back to the Rectangular Marquee Tool. I'll press Control + Semicolon or Command + Semicolon on a Mac in order to hide those guidelines. And I'll press Shift + F in order to switch to the full screen mode. And so here's the effect that I created inside of this movie. Here's the effect I showed you at the outset of the movie. So as predicted, you're going to get a different effect every time, but no matter what, you should get an effect that delights the senses even if you're wide awake here inside Photoshop.

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