All language subtitles for 03 How to use layers in Adobe Photoshop CC.en

Hi there and welcome to the first video.

In this video we're going to look at how layers work in Photoshop.

It's quite fundamental.

As a bonus, we'll learn the super-quick auto fixing photo features in Photoshop.

They're called Auto Tone contrast and color,

and what it'll do is it'll help us really understand layers properly.

You can see my layers over here and you can see my super awesome adjustments.

Let's go and do that now in Photoshop.

First thing to do is open the file we're going to be working with.

We can do that under File and go to Open.

What you're looking for is the exercise files you've downloaded.

Then find a folder called O1 layers.

Open that up and inside of there,

it should be one called layers.jpg.

Click on that and then click "Open".

Remember, this video's going to do a couple of things.

It's going to show us how to use layers which is quite fundamental to Photoshop,

but it's also going to introduce one of

the easiest photo adjustments you can do in Photoshop.

It's using the automatic features.

We're going to learn both of those.

The first thing we need to do is we need to make sure we can see our Layers panel.

If you can't see it, go to Window and make sure there's a little techniques

to layers even. I can't see it, there it is.

Make sure he's open and you'll see background and

what I'd like to do is instead of just like changing this version here,

I'd like to create a duplicate of that layer so that I can make an adjustment and then

kind of see the difference between the original and the updated version.

That's a really common thing to do in Photoshop.

To do that, you right-click the word where it says Background and say Duplicate Layer.

This window appears and what we'll do is we'll give this a name.

We're going to call this Auto Tone,

and let's click "Okay". What's happened here?

Can you see down here my Layers panel,

nothing really visually has changed on our screen,

but you can see down here I have two layers,

one called Background and one called Auto Tone.

They're both looking the same.

What I want to do is do this automatic adjustment

and you can tell which one you've got selected.

It goes to a lighter gray.

Have that selected and go up to image,

and we're going to use Auto Tone.

Cool hack. It's one of the really quick,

easy things you can do.

Open up an image and like our original there,

after lights and shadows and the mid tones aren't all quite nice,

this automatic feature will go and adjust them.

That's Auto Tone.

What we really came here though is to learn about layers.

You can see at the top here it's a little higher because it's small,

but you can see Auto Tone you can see the icon or

the thumb here now has changed to this newer version.

But you can also see that the background has that faded out version.

What we can do imagine when you're looking at layers,

you see the top one first,

you imagine you're a bird flying above and you see

this one first and it's blocking out the guy underneath.

To turn this top one off and make it invisible to see the background,

so this little icon here, just click on him.

That one's completely transparent and you can see the background underneath,

and it's just a good way to turn this on and off to see

whether you've made a good adjustment or a bad adjustments.

You can go back to the original,

[inaudible] the original either.

You can always go back to it if you like.

Next thing I want to do is let's turn off the eyeball on Auto Tone.

Let's click the background layer.

It goes this lighter gray,

and let's duplicate it again.

Right-click, got to Duplicate Layer and let's call this one Auto Contrast.

We looked to Automatic Tones,

that's one of the automatic features and we're going to

go through the other two that are quite useful,

real quick and easy as well.

We've got this kind of faded out version.

Let's go to image.

You can see we've done tone.

Let's do Auto Contrast.

Now this effect is definitely better than the original,

but probably wasn't as good as Auto Tone.

You can see over here in my Layers panel,

I've got Auto Contrast.

Let's turn the eyeball off on it so we can compare it with the original.

You can see this layer,

this one's invisible so I can't see it.

I can turn on to contrast off to see the background.

But if I turn Auto Tone back on I'm like for me personally, it's hard to see,

I guess when you're watching these videos because color depends on your screen,

but you probably notice Auto Tones are nicer one.

Let's look at the last option and compare which automatic feature we like.

All the walls getting use to layers.

I'm going to turn the top eyeball off and have the background selected. Right-click it.

Duplicate Layer. This one is called Auto Color. Okay, let's click "Okay".

Go up to Image,

go to Auto Color and pretty good.

It looks pretty close to Auto Tone,

If I turn Auto tone on and off,

depending on what resolution you're watching this video in,

you might not see very much of a difference.

There's a little slight difference and

just maybe tone orange ones but more Auto Tone that

got a warmer feel to it and Auto Color has just a tiny green tinge to it.

A couple of things we've learned is,

let's finish off layers and then we'll talk

about these adjustments and what they are good for.

In terms of the layers, what I'd like you to do is practice turning on.

Let's say I wanted to just see Auto Contrast.

I turn this top one off.

Let's say one of the things I guess I'd like to ask my classes when they're live is like,

" Hey guys, I'm turning Auto Color on and off.

Why is nothing changing?"

Everybody goes," Yeah, we know Dan," and eventually somebody

says it's because this one's on top.

We're just getting used to this. We're getting started.

If you can play around with all of these guys underneath and nothing's going to

happen because this guy's on top and he's blocking the view of the other things.

Now, two other things before we move on from

layers is that you can change the order of them.

Let's say that you want Auto Color at the top.

What you can do is grab Auto Color by clicking,

holding and dragging the texts here, drag, drag, drag.

It turns into like a little fist like he's grabbing it and then

you'll see a little blue line appear, there it is.

That'll drag it just above contrast.

If I keep going another little blue line up here.

If you'd go crazy, it gets lost.

You just got to drag and just keep an eye out for those blue lines.

At the top there,

it means Auto Color on top.

Let's say I want Auto Tone on top.

Let's say Auto Contrast on top.

You get into something that you can drag it down.

You can drag it up just looking for those blue lines.

The last thing I'd like to mention about layers before we move on is Background.

Background is special. When you open up a JPEG or PNG,

often it's called background and one of the big things is that it's locked.

The trouble with that is it won't do it, okay?

It doesn't like it. What we need to do is we need to give it a name.

That's the best way to kind of play around with the lock here or remove the lock.

You can double-click the word Background,

and up here you can give it a name.

I'm just going to call mine Original.

The cool thing about that is that the lock has been removed.

I've never in my life,

"Man, I wish that lock was on there.

It's always just the pain."

If you're finding like this it is a bit weird.

I don't know. It's just one of the Photoshop things.

Call it Original, now I can move to the top and do what I like with it.

You bring it up here because it's going to come more

and more important as we go through the course.

It's something that you just can't do the background because it's locked.

You could lock it again by clicking this lock icon. We never want to.

But that is it for layers.

Now what I will do is let's turn off the original is these three here.

I don't want you to leave this class thinking Auto Tone's always better.

It's not always, this is kind of doing.

Later on in the course, you will look at levels.

This is what this is trying to do.

Auto Color is dealing with the hue and saturation that is doing it automatically.

The thing is, if this was a different image,

you might find, because in this case,

Auto Contrast didn't do a great job, right?

You might find that it's actually absolutely perfect for the job that you are doing.

I find the auto feature is really good when I don't want to do amazing photo retouching.

I just wanted to be better.

Let's say I'm uploading photos to my Facebook

or business whip gallery and I just want them to be better.

Okay, so I'm going to open up Photoshop,

smash away at Auto Tone because I figured out that was the best one

for my photo shoot and then just keep doing it and saving them.

I don't have to go through and do any kind of

high core adjustments that we're going to do a bit later.

Just quick and easy, but don't think Auto Tone is better than Auto Contrast.

It really depends on your images.

Last thing we'll do is we're going to save this file.

Okay, so we're going to go to File and hit

"Save" and something strange is going to happen.

It's not going to save it.

It was called Layers.jpg.

You can see it in the top left here.

But because we've added layers,

this is a specific Photoshop feature.

JPEGs can't have layers,

so it needs to be saved as a different format.

In Photoshop's clearance is you need to be a PSD.

Now if you're on a Mac like me,

yours might look like this and that's fine,

but see this little icon here just better if it's opened up.

I'm going to make mine a little bit smaller as well.

If you're on a PC, it's already open.

On a Mac, just click that to open it up.

You don't need to change anything.

We're going to call it Layers.psd

and all it means is it's going to be very similar to the last one,

except it's got this little bit here.

The file size is going to be a bit bigger,

but it's great because it's got all this layers

that we can go and turn on and off latter on.

Let's save this Layers.psd and click "Save".

Now this pops up, [inaudible] cover this here, Maximize compatibility.

This is always on.

It just means that this is likely to all open in older versions of Photoshop.

See if you're sending this to somebody who has CS6 or CS5,

it's more than likely going to open.

The file size gets a tiny bit bigger,

but it's not worth turning that off to save the file size

because it just means somebody might not be able to open that up.

You can click "Don't show again" icon because I am

a trainer and I need to show you this to everybody that's new. It's a pain in the month.

Okay, but let's just click "Okay" and ignore that.

I'm not going to mention it again for the course.

Let's go to File Close and move on to our next video.