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

859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 3

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

859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 3

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deke's Techniques. Last week we were talking about that classic holiday poem, the one by Clement Clarke Moore, oh you know it. "When, what to my wondering eyes should appear," that one. You know it, come on, but a miniature sleigh and eight dope engineers all laden with apps that were so very rad, including a Photoshop for the iPad. Oh, how I wish that childhood poem would come true, a Photoshop for the iPad that lets you clean up a layer mask and add an adjustment layer. What is that? I think I just heard an iPad get its wings. 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 the exercise file as a cloud document, which means here inside Photoshop 2020 running either on the Mac or the PC you go up to the file menu and choose save as, and then click on this button, save to cloud documents, and go ahead and save off that file, which I've already done in advance, so I'm going to cancel out and switch over to Photoshop running on the iPad, and notice here, for me at least, in the second row I have this file called Healed & Cloned. I'm going to go ahead and tap on it in order to open it up inside Photoshop on the iMac once again, and let's take a very close look at the mask that we've created around the mountaintop right here, and as you may notice it's a little bit rough, and part of the problem is that it kind of sticks up too high and so what I'm going to do after I just get done kind of looking in a few different spots, I want to find a place that's really going to show things off. What I'm going to do is bring up my abbreviated layers panel by tapping on the second icon in the top right corner of the screen so that we can see this guy right here. That little half-circle badge next to the second layer down, that tells us that there's a layer mask and to switch to it just go ahead and drag it to the left, and then what we want to do is not take that guy and imagine I switch to the move tool, which is located in the top left corner of the screen, and I start dragging this guy. Well, then I'm going to move the layer and its mask at the same time. So I'll undo that by tapping on the undo icon in the top right corner of the screen. What I want to do is unlock the mask from the layer, and so notice this little masking icon over on the right hand side of the screen with a chain on it. Go ahead and tap it in order to turn the chain off, and that's going to go ahead and break the link, at which point you can drag the mask independently. Now if you don't have a keyboard, that's what you're going to have to do is just kind of drag this mask around a little bit, or I'll undo that change. If you do have a keyboard attached to your iPad then you can nudge it. So long as the move tool's selected by pressing, in my case, the down arrow key three times let's say, in order to move things like so, and then I'll tap on the move tool icon in the top left corner of the screen to turn it off so I don't end up messing up anything. All right, now I'll go over to this section, this is on the far left side of the image, and you can see that this is a problem. It doesn't work out so well because now the mask is drooping below that ledge, and so what I'm going to do is tap and hold on the selection tools over here, and I'm going to switch over to the rectangular marquee tool. It's going to work out best, that guy right there, and then I'll just go ahead and marquee a region, and by the way, even if you have it set so you can only paint with the stylus, you can still create selections with your finger, and so I'll just go ahead and select this region right here, let's say, and now I want to duplicate it as well as move it, so I'll switch back to the move tool here and then I'll touch my shortcut circle right there, and notice in the top right corner it's telling me that I'm going to move constrained if I'm just holding the center. So you're constraining your drag to vertical or horizontal. I want to drag outward here, watch that touch circle. Notice that it's growing bigger, and then in the top right corner of the screen I'm seeing the word 'duplicate,' which allows me to duplicate this guy as I drag it to a different location, and if I don't get it in exactly the right place then I can press the arrow keys a few times in order to nudge it around, or I can drag it a little bit as well. And notice that it is a floating selection, by the way. So when I drag it over here you can really tell. It's a little bit more difficult to tell when I go this way, but still it is, and so I'll go ahead and drag that guy into position and hope for the best, and it works out pretty nicely. At which point notice the word 'deselect' down here at the bottom of the screen. Just tap on it in order to deselect that portion of the image, and if things still feel a little sharp, a little jagged where the mask is concerned you can blur it by tapping on this little lightning icon over on the far right side of the screen, and it's just going to give you a few options. These options, I'm sure, are going to grow over time, but you can see that you can invert the mask, or we have one filter at this point, Gaussian blur, and so I'll go ahead and tap on Gaussian blur, and then you can define the blur amount. For example, I could just blur the heck out of that mask if I wanted to, but I'm just going to take it up to let's say 0.5 is usually a good softening value. And then I'll tap the word 'done' in the top right corner of the screen. All right, now I'll turn off the move tool by tapping on it in the top left corner, and I'll double-tap inside the image window in order to zoom out. All right, now what I want to do is make the grass look really super vibrant. It's going to be an over-the-top effect, by the way, so I'm going to tap on the top layer right there, and then I will tap and hold on that plus icon on the far right side of the screen, and I will tap adjustment layer, and then I will create a vibrance layer by tapping on vibrance, and I'm going to go ahead and take the vibrance value up to 50 let's say. I'm trying to nail it right there at 50, I think I can get it, and then I'm looking for a saturation value of 22. Why am I being so exacting? I can't help myself, I swear. All right, now this is an adjustment layer that's affecting everything below it, and also it's got a mask, by the way, and you can see that's the case by tapping the settings icon near the top right corner of the screen in order to hide the numerical settings, and then you want to tap the third icon down, again top right corner of the screen, so you can see that we have a vibrance layer with a layer mask. If you don't want that layer mask go ahead and make sure it's active. Then tap the dot dot dot icon down here toward the bottom of the column, and tap delete mask, might as well get rid of it, and then I'm just going to go ahead and rename this layer by tapping on it, and I'm just going to call it 'vibe up' or something like that, and then I'll tap rename. All right, now I want to clip this adjustment layer so it doesn't affect the sky, however if I go over here to the right side of the screen notice that little right-angle arrow icon? That will clip the adjustment layer. Notice that it now has a little clip icon up there in the top right corner of the screen, so right next to the layer thumbnail, but that means that it's clipped inside of the coverup that we created last week using the healing brush along with the clone stamp tool. That's not what we want. Instead we want to clip it inside everything but the sky, and so here's what you do. We're going to select two layers and group them by tapping on the coverup layer, then tapping that shortcut circle over there, just press and hold it, and then tap on the landscape layer in order to add it to the selection, like so. And so anytime you press and hold that shortcut circle you're able to select multiple layers or even multiple groups, but with multiple layers selected notice we now have a folder icon over here on the right side of the screen. Tap it in order to create a new group, and it went and included the adjustment layer, I think. I'll just go ahead and tap that guy open. Sure enough, so let me see if I can grab this vibe up layer and drag it and drop it above the group. I can, that worked out beautifully, so now I'll double-tap on the name of the group, 'group 1,' and I'll just go ahead and call it 'all land' or something like that so I know what it is, then tap the rename button, and then select vibe up once again and tap on that little clipping icon over on the far right side of the screen, and you can see now that we're not affecting the sky. All right, I want to affect the sky independently, so I'll tap on that big sky layer, and then I'll tap on my settings icon in order to bring up my layer properties down toward the bottom of the screen, and I'll tap on that button, add clipped adjustment, and that will allow me to add an adjustment layer that's clipped inside the big sky layer, and I'm going to make this layer a hue saturation layer, and let's just say I want to colorize the sky so it's colored uniformly, instead of having those dark, colorless shadows. And so I'll just go ahead and turn on the colorize toggle below the various slider bars, and I don't want a red sky, so I'll crank the hue value up, let's say to 220 is what I'm looking for, and I'll take the saturation value up to 33%, like so. And now if I go ahead and hide those settings notice that my hue saturation layer has a mask which is selected. I don't need it, I don't want it, so I'll tap on the dot dot dot icon and tap 'delete mask' to get rid of it, and then I'll double-tap on that layer name to rename it, and I'll just go ahead and call this guy 'blueness' let's say, and tap rename, and we end up with this effect here. All right, so now I'll tap the layer icon in the top right corner of the screen to hide those layers so that we can see the final version of the composition. And that wraps up part three of my three-part look of the brand new Photoshop running on an iPad. Whoever you are and wherever you live, my absolute best for the holiday season. Remember, as long as you think good thoughts, and more important do good deeds, good things will catch up with you. 2020 is going to be the best year ever, I just know it. This is Deke McClelland, I'll catch up with you then.

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