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Welcome, everyone.

This video is just going to be an introduction to navigating around Photoshop.

We're going to combine these three images all into this lovely little collage here.

We're going to move them around,

we're going to resize them,

we're going to practice zooming in and out and navigating.

No, not super exciting but super fundamental.

Let's get into it now in Photoshop.

First thing we're going to do is we're going to open up a bunch of files.

Let's go to File and go to Open.

What I'd like you to do is, in your Exercise Files there is

a folder called 01 layers, double-click that.

Inside of there we want navigation,

and we want Navigation 1, 2, 3, and 4.

These are the images we're going to combine.

Now, you can open them individually by selecting them and clicking "Open",

but that can get a bit tedious.

So what we're going to do is click this first one at the top here,

and then hold down Shift on my keyboard and click the last one,

and it should highlight them all,

or open them up individually, whatever works.

Let's click "Open". In Photoshop,

when you've got more than one document open,

they transpose them into these tabs along the top here.

So I click on the tabs just to get used to it.

Those are all the images that I've got open, four of them.

What I'd like to do is combine them all into this first image here.

We're going to start with Navigation 2,

that's the one that I want to move into this Navigation 1 document.

Now, there are lots of ways of copying images into files and moving them around,

but I'm going to show you the way that,

I guess it's just future bulletproof.

It just works with later on when we get into

slightly more complicated things like layer mask and adjustment layers,

this technique is still going to work.

The technique is pretty simple,

use the Move tool,

which is the first tool in your toolbar here.

All you do is click, hold,

drag your mouse, clicking, dragging, drag.

Hover above this tab for a second and then it switches.

I've still got my mouse down,

still holding, let go.

It's a bit weird, I know,

I promise. I totally understand.

Let's give it another practice though.

Let's go to Navigation 3.

Same thing, I'm going to get my Move tool, click, hold, drag.

I'm holding my mouse down,

holding my left mouse key down,

holding, hovering above the tab, and then letting go.

That is the technique.

It's weird but it's going to prove future proof later on.

Let's go to the last one here, the last one here.

Click, hold, drag, hold, let go.

We've got a slight problem with this one, it's a different size.

Now, I've resized these first ones just to make life easy,

and then fit it in here perfectly,

but more often than not,

you're going to be combining images,

and they're going to be really different sizes.

Sometimes they could be really big,

if you've taken them on quite a high-end digital camera,

they can be really, really big.

It's going to bring us into some more of

the navigation things we need to learn throughout this course.

I'm going to pile them all into here.

Don't worry if you're like, "Oh man,

these shortcuts, there's too many."

We're going to reiterate these all the way through the course.

You'll find that the ones we cover right now in this video are

going to be the ones that you'll use forever in Photoshop,

at least the ones you use the most.

A couple of things I want to do now is I want to transform this guy here, just too big.

What I can do is, I've got it selected.

I know it's selected because over here on my layers,

it's got that gray highlight and I can turn the eye on and off,

so I know it's the right one.

Then go Edit and let's go to Transform,

and let's go to this one that's called Scale.

This one you are going to use really often,

Edit, Transform, and Scale.

What I like to do is,

now depending on your screen,

you might have to zoom out,

especially if it's a really big image.

We're going to learn one about first shortcuts for navigation.

We'll learn a couple in this course.

A really common one is, if you're on a Mac,

hold down the Command key and tap the Minus on your keyboard,

it's up the top there near your numbers.

You'll see that zooms out. If you're on a PC,

hold down the Control key and tap the Minus.

So minus zooms out and plus zooms in.

Give a practice with that,

hold down Command on a Mac,

Control on PC, and just tap Plus zoom in, Minus to zoom out.

Minusing is going to allow us to see the edges

of this transform box we've got here when we're scaling.

Now, what we're going to do now is you can move it around by clicking the center.

Avoid this little crosshairs in the middle,

it's just the center of rotations

and it's not something we want to mess with for the moment.

Anywhere inside of here moves it around.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to line it up.

Photoshop has a really cool tool that's on by default,

it's called Smart Guides, and it just says,

"Hey, did you mean lining up with this guy?"

and you're like, "Yeah, that's exactly what I meant."

If yours isn't snapping to the edges like mine,

go into View and just check that under Show,

down here you've got a tick next to Smart Guides.

That'll just make sure that it's on.

What I want to do now is resize that.

I'm going to grab this bottom corner, just drag it.

What you'll notice is that if I just drag it,

and it's going to potentially distort it,

you could drag it and hopefully get it there,

but a nice little trick is,

while you're dragging it,

before you let go, is hold down the Shift key.

I'm just going to pause the video here real quickly to explain

one small update that's happened in the latest version of Photoshop.

Even though I just said in this very video,

hold down the Shift key while you're resizing,

Photoshop has gone and change that.

You do not have to hold down the Shift key anymore.

It's a small change and it's actually easier

for you because you don't have to remember that Shift shortcut,

but you should take a note of this.

Write it down, whenever Dan says hold Shift while resizing, don't do that anymore.

There's a couple of times throughout this course,

not many, that I'll say hold Shift while you're resizing,

but you know better now, don't hold Shift,

don't do anything, just drag the edges and it will resize fine.

That's it. Let's get started back in the tutorial.

If yours is all gone a bit wrong,

let's hit Escape on your keyboard,

that's the I didn't mean it button, hit Escape.

Let's go Edit, Transform, go to Scale.

Now, when I'm dragging this corner here,

hold down the Shift key, so down on your keyboard hold Shift, grab the corner.

What you'll notice is it locks the height and width.

We're not looking for perfection here,

just get it close to these other ones.

We'll look at doing it perfectly later on but get it close to the right size.

Last thing you need to do when you're using

Scale is that you need to hit the Enter key on your keyboard.

Otherwise, it's halfway through something. See all these dots on the side?

It means, "Hey, I'm busy doing scaling now,

you can't do anything else."

Because if you've got to your panels along the top here, you see they're all grayed out,

it just means you can't do anything until you hit Enter or Return. Let's zoom in.

You know what the shortcut is now, remember it

is Command Plus on a Mac or Control Plus on a PC.

I want you to go in nice and tight because I want

to show you one more shortcut before we go.

That is moving around once you're really close.

You have to be zoomed right in so that the image goes off the edges.

Say I want to go over here to the right,

you can use these little sliders.

This is the caveman way.

If you feel you want to be cavemen,

you can just drag these little scrubbing things up and down and that totally

works because you might feel a little overloaded with shortcuts already.

But if you aren't,

I'm going to give you one of the really common navigation shortcuts,

is that you just need to hold down the Spacebar key.

Spacebar on your keyboard,

you can see my little cursor changes from that little Move tool to the little hand,

and then just click, hold the mouse, drag it across.

That's going to be it for the basic navigation Photoshop.

We're obviously going to build on these skills later on so if you feel like, "Man,

I didn't get every single one of those," don't worry,

we'll cover them again and again as we move through the course.

Just to recap, whenever you need to move one image to another,

click on it, grab the Move tool, click, hold,

drag, wait, drag it down, let go.

You often need to resize,

and it's under Edit, Transform,

Scale, but to make sure the height and width doesn't get all distorted,

you hold down, which key was it?

It's a test, say it in your head, it's Shift.

Shift just means that the height and width won't get distorted.

Remember, when you're finished, you've got to hit the Return key,

otherwise life doesn't work.

The couple other shortcuts that I jumped to there was the zooming in and out,

which is Command Plus and Minus on a Mac, or Control Plus and Minus on a PC,

and holding down the spacebar allows you to click,

hold, and drag and move around.

That is going to be it for this video.

We're going to get into doing some actual Photoshopping in the next video, I promise.

So let's finish it there.

I will see you in the next one.