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PHOTOSHOP: Turning a Bored Room into a Board Room #94 - YouTube
Channel: Glyn Dewis
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Hi Folks Glyn here with a video
tutorial for you
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this one is roughly 15 or 16 minutes
long but I think you're going to find it
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really useful because we're going to do
is show you how I research this picture
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when the original out of camera picture
was this one here so i'm gonna show you
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how you can very quickly
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even though you didn't have a gray
seamless background a nice wooden floor
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i'm gonna show you how come very quickly
and very easily turn something as boring
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as the hiss into something like this
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okay before we go on with the
researching just a few things to mention
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the first one make sure you check out
the description part of this video on
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the youtube channel in there I've
included links to three blog post that I
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wrote that explain the whole background
behind this particular corporate photo
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shoot
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so you're gonna get to see how the
images will let any challenges that we
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had how we overcame them
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why we didn't have the gray seamless why
we didn't have the wooden floor but how
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we overcame that so definitely check out
that the other thing is to make sure
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that you haven't already click on the
subscribe button over on the youtube
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rather than going hunting for them or
looking at all different websites you
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get a little modification setup video
has been done and then the last thing is
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always things and always things to do
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for you to do is to make sure that you
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now as well as lots of news and items
are like kind of stuff
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one thing that you do get a newsletter
subscriber is the files to download the
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you actually see me using the videos
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so rather than you sitting there and
watching me go through the tutorial and
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then trying to find a video / father you
can use for doing on you'll have the
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exact same file so that's gotta be the
best way to learn where you can actually
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have the file and follow on step by step
and do exactly the same thing
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there are three things let's get on with
the research in all right so one of the
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first things you need to do when you're
actually going through this kind of
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technique is to make a selection of the
people or the objects that you want to
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actually add into this new background
now with this one here because the
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actual background is quite bright and
it's very very contrasting compared to
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people
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it was very easy to select them but
rather than actually using the quick
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selection tool and drag around the
people are very very quick we're doing
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it was just getting the quick selection
tool and dragging around the background
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and you can see that it does pretty much
pick up that background and not the
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people
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really really simply and then only do
literally just come into all the other
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areas that you would need to select you
can see it's dragging into their no
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problems at all like so let's just take
it off this guy's head just here and
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then once you've got the slaves from the
background just going to select an
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inverse so you can see very very soups
connect and inverse so you can see very
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very simple quick and easy to do now
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of course I've already done that that's
not what this video is about and I've
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already got a selection made so let's
just go to select and load selection i
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will actually call mine cut out and
you'll see there we got the marching
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ants going around all the people and
also includes the floor area as well
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now the first I'm going to do that
obviously want to make it look as if we
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did have a large gray seamless that was
big enough for these people and this
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furniture to be on we didn't have it but
we can actually fake it and it works a
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treat now we're going to do then with
the people selected what I'm gonna do
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first of all is go to the Select menu
and choose inverse so I am now selecting
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the background war well first of all
make the band background will look like
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that gray paper with the background
selected on they're gonna go and get
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something like a levels adjustment layer
and in the properties at the bottom we
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have the outputs a successful bar just
along the bottom here which basically
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tells photoshop what's the gray . the
black . and the white point within the
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image and what we can do with the output
barberries got quite a bright background
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let's grab the bright point which is the
white . i started to drag it in towards
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the center and as we do that you can
start to see we can really bring it down
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to a really nice shade of gray because
it's an adjustment layer if you're not
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happy with the gravy you choose you can
always come back and all to it later on
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that's the magic of working
non-destructively so we'll bring it down
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to somewhere round about there that
would look like the kind of gray that
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would ordinarily have had the on the
people so that's too bad
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ground done we now need to do the floor
so to do that for one who's gonna get my
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quick selection tool and I'm just going
to drag from the right and drag it all
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the way across to the left hand side of
the image and first up is a pretty damn
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good job of selecting just that kind of
floor area there
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there are so many as it picture of that
I don't really want we don't have to be
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too accurate this one because when we
add in the wooden floor it will hide all
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those areas anyway but obviously want to
make this is good as possible so the one
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here i will get rid of it is just on
this guy's and sole of the shoe just
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here
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that's just how hold down the alt or
option key click and drag to get it off
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there as well
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so with the floor selected will do
exactly the same thing as we did with
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the wall
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we're gonna get ourselves a levels
adjustment layer will use those output
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levels the brighter . the white . over
here and we'll drag that in as well so
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we can see now it actually starts to
look like they were on a piece of grey
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seamless paper something around about
there will be good all right now that
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we've done that we can actually treat it
as if we ordinarily would have done with
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that great paper and we can start adding
textures using blend modes like overlay
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and soft light
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so let's just add that nice texture onto
the background
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now I've got one here one is going to
click drag that over on top of my image
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hold down the shift key so it gets
centralized so you can see now that's
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right at the top of the last back on top
of the people
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now there is a little bit of color in
this one and all i wanted to create a
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great texture so let's just be such
right that then image adjustments and
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we'll go to where we desaturate and then
just go to the blend modes of that layer
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changes from normal to something like
over like so now we'll map itself onto
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that gray background wall there so that
really does work really well but
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obviously because we put on top of the
picture is not only on the background
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wall
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it's also on the people and on the floor
so what we'll do now then is we go to
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the Select menu will choose load
selection
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it's just going grab
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select the night and saved earlier on
called put out which is the one that
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goes around the people and the floor as
well
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and then what we'll do is on a hold on
my alt or option key and then click on
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the layer mask icon at the bottom of the
layers panel and when I do that it takes
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the texture off the people and the floor
and just leaves it on the background
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itself
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so now got the texture on the actual
background wall there we need to add in
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the floor area for this picture as well
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no I've got a great texture here this is
a Down looking picture for down facing
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picture of a wooden floor a works an
absolute treat in this i think i got
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this from someone like I stock photo
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this is click drag that over now into
our picture
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hold down the shift key so it gets put
right in the middle and all these are
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just hold down my shift key and with my
move tool click and drag down was to
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drag it straight down and just
reposition it just where the wall and
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the floor meet and just use the up arrow
key somewhere out there looking good
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obviously we're looking from the camera
. of view straight out these people but
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the floor is completely wrong with
looking down on the floor we need to be
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looking across that
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so what we can do here is we can
actually go and come under controlled t
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to get the transform handles and a floor
and optional right click and choose
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perspective and this is where you can
kind of fake the perspective of that
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floor five zoom out and i'm going to
grab the bottom left handle here I could
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choose the bottom right and i want to do
is just dragged out to the left and
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that's going to kind of alter the
perspective of the floor so actually
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looks as if we're looking across it at
the people as it would be in real life
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let's just drag it out just a touch more
now that we've done that we've stretch
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it out
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we need to scale it down as those floor
don't look too big so now in the right
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click and choose scale and we'll just
drag it in was all the way down like so
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this is zoom in now so you can see what
actually done so you can see now is
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change the perspective of the floor we
now need to blend in and just like we
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did with the texture for the back wall
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we can just go over the last panel and
use blend modes so go from north
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all to something like over life and you
can see how it would great job it does
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of mapping onto that now great floor to
look as if they read that really was
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there if we zoom in you can see the
original shadows from the original photo
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shoo are all there as well so it just
looks really realistic
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the only thing that we've got to get rid
of is where we can see the floor
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cutting through the bottom area of these
people's feet and on the furniture will
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do that manually just by adding in a
layer mask getting a brush with a black
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foreground color and i'll just quickly
come in and paint it off these areas
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here obviously are going really quickly
when we do this for real we take out
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time so we get a nice accurate job done
but let's just quickly get rid of that
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just here . and all the way across we
can see just by using something as
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simple as a levels adjustment layer how
we can completely transform picture that
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enables into adding the textures it's a
real cool trick our thing
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not one that I've really seen that much
before but it's a real life saver and it
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certainly was in this particular photo
shoot here for this company
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so let's just go to here and just a
little bit over on this guy's shoes on
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the left hand side
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something like so there we go
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it's just a quick job just to show you
there we've only added in four layers so
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far we've gone from something like
they're which isn't that inspiring to
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hear where there's definitely potential
for us to do something and we can really
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change things are literally just by
diving into camera or so let's dive into
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that now
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now before we do that let's just create
a merged or stamp like the top of the
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last acts so we're going to shift all
command a or shift option control and a
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two-game merged layer just rename that
two merged and then because i want to
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use camera filter what i will do is work
non-destructively will go and change
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that line out to convert for Smart
Filters just so that if we want to we
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can then dive back in afterwards to make
some changes we don't quite like what
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we've done so now we've got that layer
is now a smart filter or smart object
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rather we can go to filter and then can
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roar filter and there is quite a few
things you can do in here
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now I know for the floors just zoom out
just a church actually is something like
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the gradient here let's go for the
gradient filter graduated filter and I
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want to click and drag up from the
bottom of my heart of our shift key to
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keep it straight otherwise it go all
over the place
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the whole shift key we can drag straight
upwards let's get the start . a little
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bit higher something like that and then
i'll just use something like the
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exposure to dark and down the floor so
that your eyes aren't drawn to it
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the one thing that works really well on
the floor i found was clarity because
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it's got that wooden texture but I be
really increasing that clarity slider
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there you can really see how it brings
out all the detail and text within that
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floor looks a lot more realistic than
just being a flat two-dimensional
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picture i think it looks great
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so something like that and i'm actually
use another graduated filter
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we don't need to use the clarity on this
one but I'm sure to click and drag down
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now too dark and down from the topics
that background is just a little bit too
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bright for my liking
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so it goes to me like that we can
actually bring the exposure down just
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the touch
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I had a couple more of these graduated
filters in one from the left just a
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little bit
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let's drag that out like that and one
more from the right as well
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somewhere whoops-a-daisy we don't want
this is co2
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to hear something like that's looking
good let's just drag that out
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I think we're also going to get a radial
filter to create a bit of vignettes what
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click in the middle and then dragged out
was quite wide there now one thing I
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don't want to do is dark and down the
floor too much with this vignette
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what kind of use it for the top so for
Christ's a really big lips like that
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then click on that middle point and drag
it downwards
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that should take you off the majority of
the floor so that when i do adjust the
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exposure can see that it's mainly
affecting the top part of the image like
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so something like that's good
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and then I'll get previous not the
adjustment process is just playing
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around now just trying to finesse the
image give it a bit more of an
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interesting look
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we can change the exposure and just had
some different brush drugs here just a
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dark and down add some random shadow
patterns onto that background as well so
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it doesn't look too uniform
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something like that is looking good
again on this rushing through this to
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show you
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so we'll go for that is just click on
the hand tool mounts that we go back to
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the normal basic tab over on the right
hand side here
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that's just desaturate the image just to
touch you a little bit of a boost of the
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old clarity as well as the touch overall
clarity there looking good
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yeah it's just click ok now and come out
of camera roll to see what that's
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actually done there so we can see
there's the before and there's the after
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just with a few non-destructive
adjustments what we can do is quite
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staggering
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now we could stop there but I get up and
asked quite a lot about and how I
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actually do the color grading of my
pictures
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so let's just very very quickly dive
into that now there are lots of ways we
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can do that
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there's lots of options i shop and
change to be honest with you I do like
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to use selective color but one thing I'm
really like in a moment is using the
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Nick color effects pro for plug-in from
google notice it's been discontinued to
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rob there's no support for it but it is
a free plug-in so i will include the
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link to the download so you can get
yourself a copy of that if we haven't
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got it already because it is a really
cool bit of kit
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there is no support they're not going to
make any more and updates for it but
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it's a great one to have their to use as
and when to let me just show you how i
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use that on this particular picture will
go to the filter menu and
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music collection and just using the
color effects pro 4 and it's kind of a
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form of that I go through what I'm doing
this particular kind of color graded and
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i use three of their presets and we tend
to a giant I just I'm just a little bit
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the first one I go to excuse me is the
cross processing on the left hand side
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you will click on the cross processing
when we do that on the right hand side
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then we got all the options of different
kinds of cross processing forms that we
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can use and I tend to stick with the
very very bottom line here
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y is 0 6 and obviously we've got the
strength we can increase or decrease
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depending on how strong we want that
look to be but for my particular formula
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i always start off with this one around
about 30-35 something like that
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we've done that we click add filter so
now we can start to build up a bit of a
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recipe
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once you've done that I go from cross
processing to cross balance
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this is a really good when we got again
what a number of different options here
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. tungsten violent storms into third one
and there's a few different varieties
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but as we just hover over them
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you can see what they're going to give
you and this one there that one the
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fourth one down tungsten to die like one
is the one I really like
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and we just died in the strength for
that and for my particular former quite
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high on that one around about the 65 70
mark something like that
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leave around 66 click add filter so now
we've got two elements in our little
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recipe and then finish things off our
then go to colorize go to the method on
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the right hand side
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see which one by hovering over it is
going to be usable number two for deaf
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and I'm really like in the color field
is given to the image again we can use
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your strength but this one intend to
keep quite low
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such three pass to my recipe here we
have start off with cross processing
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cross balance and then color eyes is a
really great way of actually color
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grading your images when you are either
in a bit of a deadline which one
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experiment is a real cool we're doing it
and it's free so you can go wrong
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we've done that we'll click add filter
and it's just click ok now to send it
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from the color effects pro for plug-in
back into photo
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shop takes a couple of seconds and there
we go so you can see how cool hat looks
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let's just do it another one more little
thing I've got my foreground and
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background colour here black and white
so let's just desaturate again just a
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little bit and rather than using a
plug-in it's just gonna do something
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like a gradient map please great for
doing black and white conversions with a
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black my foreground color just by
clicking on that gradient map adjustment
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layer in the top right hand corner
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straight out of the bag it gives you an
absolutely stunning in black and white
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there's very little that you need to do
with this i find it really is a nice
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little sharp black several great whites
in it but we obviously are not going to
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completely such right it when you want
to
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sorry completely desaturate the image to
black and white we want to have it just
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a little bit of our fate in there and
we'll take it down to maybe about about
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thirty percent or so something like that
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so again lots more that we could do to
this image working on you know finessing
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it working on the skin tone because we
don't have to look a little bit green
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slightly at the moment but this is just
to get to the point to show you how you
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can very simply go from this here to
this here literally just by darkening
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down your backgrounds give it that fake
gray paper look and then you can dive in
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with your textures and just really
quickly and easily add the mean using
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overlay blend mode to soft light or
whatever it's a really cool trick and I
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find that I'm doing this more and more
and more
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in an ideal world you would have a huge
gray background for a group this size
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but we had to go with what we had and
like i said before the start
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check out the blog entry which explains
the whole background behind this
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corporate shoe and why we ended up
having what we did but they go hope
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that's useful and yeah that's it
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I'll see you next time
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