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

858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 2

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

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858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 2

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- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deke's Techniques. Can you imagine if a dear friend of yours called you up and said "I love you so much, "I am going to give you the best holiday season present "anyone has ever had." And you were like, "What? "How can that possibly be? "I mean, you already gave me this Tesla Roadster "filled with diamonds." And they said, "Today's episode of Deke's Techniques." I know, you're really excited. Me too. That's because we'll be talking about something that I never dreamt would be possible. Remember that poem, the children were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. Something about mama and possibly dad, Adobe made Photoshop for the iPad. They don't write poems like that anymore. Here, let me show you how holiday dreams really can come true. All right, so as you may recall, if you want to follow along with me inside Photoshop running on the iPad, then you need to save your exercise files as cloud documents, and so here I am inside Photoshop 2020 running on a Mac. You could just as easily be running on a PC, at which point I would take this basic composition file, which is our starter document. I would go up to the file menu and choose save as and then I would click on the save to cloud documents button right here and go ahead and save that file to the new portable PSDC format. Now as you can see, I've already done that in advance. We've got this guy right here called base composition, and so I'll just go ahead and cancel out and switch over to Photoshop running on the iPad. And notice in the first row, I have this guy, basic composition. I'm just going to go ahead and tap on it in order to open that file. Notice that I have a tiny version of my layers panel over on the right side of the screen. If I want to see a more detailed version, then I would tap this next icon down in the top right corner and we see that one of my layers is not named. And so I'll just go ahead and tap on its name there and I will call this guy big sky, let's say, and then I'll tap the rename button. And you can also tap on this settings icon right here in order to bring up your layer properties, which include opacity, blend mode, and so forth. And anyway, I'm going to go ahead and hide those guys by tapping on the settings icon again and I'll switch to the small version of the layers panel right there, and I'll go ahead and tap on the top layer. Now if you zoom in on this image, you can see that it's just enormous, this landscape here, because there are the fences for the sheep. They're pretty low fences, but still. And then over here, we have this flag that makes it obvious that this is part of a golf course, which is not what I want. I want to get rid of that flag and I also want to get rid of this glumpy thing in the bottom right corner of the image. And so I'm going to switch to this little bandaid which represents the spot healing brush, and notice we have the settings in this free-floating, independent little panel right here and you can drag that around to any location that you like, incidentally. I'll just go ahead and put it back at the top though, and then you can see that we've got the size value and if you tap on it, then you can make your brush larger, if you want. And now what I could do is grab my Apple pencil because I have things set so that I can only paint with a stylus, and I'll go ahead and paint over this region like so in order to make it go away. So it behaves pretty much just like the spot healing brush inside Photoshop, but if I were to do that, then I would be applying a static modification, so I'm going to undo that brushstroke either by tapping the undo icon in the top right corner of the screen or by two-finger tapping, like so, and I'm going to create a new layer. Notice that little plus sign dead center on the right side of the screen. If I just go ahead and tap on it, I will create a new independent layer like so. At which point, if I paint over this thing, and notice I'm going to cover it entirely and release, it doesn't do any good, and that's because the healing brush is just looking at the contents of the current layer, which is empty and so what you want to do is notice that little floating panel right there. If you tap the three dot ellipsis, it'll bring up this popup panel which includes sample all layers. And now if I were to paint over everything like I've done so many times now, then I would go ahead and get rid of all that junk and I would do so on an independent layer. All right, my painting over this as well. Now let's try our hands at the flag. I'll just go ahead and paint over that flag as well as the pole and then release, and that gets rid of it, but it also leaves this weird kind of blotch which is a telltale sign that we've been monkeying with the image inside Photoshop, so tell you what we're going to do. We're going to switch from the healing brush by pressing and holding on it in order to bring up this little fly out menu and then select the clone stamp tool. And I'll tap its brush size right here and maybe take it up just a little bit like so. Actually, maybe I want it to be a little bit smaller so that I could do more careful work. Now to set the target for this tool, you can tap on that little target icon right there at the bottom of this floating panel, so that's one way to work. Another way to work is to tap and hold on the touch shortcut right there. You don't want to make it big like that because that'll just switch back to clone stamp behavior. You want it to be small and notice up in the top right corner of the screen, it's telling you set source, at which point, I'll tap over here, let's say, to set a source point. See that plus sign on the left hand side of the image? That becomes my source, and now if I just start painting and I goofed up, I went and zoomed out for some darn reason, I'll just go ahead and paint with my stylus once again and that should work beautifully except that I'm not sourcing the right layer. So I need to tap that little ellipsis icon to once again, bring up that popup panel and then I'll tap on the word current and change it to all layers just to be safe and then I'll just go ahead and hide that little panel there and now I will paint on this layer and I think it's not working because I need to set another target point. Let's try and see if that works. I'll go ahead and tap on that target icon right there in the little panel and I'll set my target at this location here in the left side of the image and then I'll just go ahead and paint. And this time, I am having the desired results. More or less. I'm going to try another source point here, so I'll go ahead and grab that guy again and set it right there, let's say, and now I'll paint down here. That was a terribly brushstroke, so I'll go ahead and undo and I will try again and I'll just paint over this region to make sure that all that blurry stuff goes away and I'll paint down into this region of the image, as well. That doesn't look too darn good right there below the rock. So I'll set another target position by tapping on that little target icon and I'll tap up here, let's say, this time, and then I will paint this garbage right here away and now we have something that I think is a lot more credible than what we had before, and so to take in the entire image, I'll just go ahead and double tap in the screen. That's not working and so I'm going to try turning the clone stamp tool off just by tapping on it again so that no tool is selected and I will, once again, double tap and this time, I fit the image on screen. All right, now let's see the difference here. I'll go ahead and turn this layer off. I'll hide it, that is to say, by tapping on the eye icon on the far right side of the screen, and so this is the image as it looked before with the flagpole and that hole down there in the bottom right corner. And also, by the way, if you want to turn off the mask that's associated with that landscape layer right there, then you can tap on it and notice now, we've got a little mask icon with an eyeball. If you tap it, then the mask will disappear, so this is the original image, by the way, and now if I turn that mask back on and then turn on that top layer, as well, this is how it looks now and juts one more step if we want to keep things tidy. I'll go ahead and bring back the full version of the layers panel and I'll go ahead and double tap on the words layer one and I'll go ahead and change the name of this guy to cover up, let's say, and then I'll go ahead and tap rename and once again, hide my layers. And that's how you heal away and clone away undesired details here inside Photoshop running on an iPad. By now, I bet you're thinking, wow, Photoshop for the iPad. It's not half bad. By the end of next week, you're going to think it's half good. Deke's Techniques each and every week. 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