All language subtitles for 2. Gathering Assets

In this lesson what we're going to do is pull in some of the photography we want to use and start building

our general layout.

So first things first.

What I typically do is open up Safari or chrome or whatever happens to be the browser of choice for

that week.

And I'll usually do a google search.

So in this case is going to pre-ban poster and then I'll choose images up here on the top.

So I just want to see all the images available and you can see right away that there are a ton of really

creative band posters which is part of the reason why we're doing this in our first exercise.

It's something fun.

It's something that will teach you how to use brushes textures type biography photography and use all

these different pieces to create something fun that you enjoy.

So what we're going to do right now is just briefly look at some different ideas that might be inspiring

.

And when I look at poster ideas or any idea for anything that I'm trying to research I usually am looking

at either fonts that inspire me or I'm looking at color schemes that I like or lay out designs that

I like.

So for example looking at this real quick.

I like that it's not just straight horizontal text on this waterfront poster it's got kind of a not

quite a 45 degree angle but you know it's at an angle which adds some visual interest as Lincoln Park

poster.

I like the color and I like that the guys are kind of cut out.

So what I'm going to do is things that I want to find that they are like I either do one of a couple

of things left or right click and I will save the image too like an ideas folder.

So if I come in here and I'll make a new folder and I called ideas I'd save or what I can do is I can

click in just drag an image straight over the Photoshop icon in my dock hover until it comes up.

It comes back there and then let go and I dropped it right in an open space.

Now in Photoshop the way you can scale things up the shortcut is command T or control t on a PC.

So the way you would find that if you forget it's up under Edit and we're looking for free transform

and that shortcut right there is command.

So what it does is it gives me these little handles that I can start to drag this up larger.

And Photoshop will let you skew an image right.

So we want to keep it proportionate so it reduces hold down the Shift key.

And now when I click and drag it stays in the right perspective here.

So when I get it where I want it I can hit the enter key or I can hit this little checkmark up here

to finish my transform and I'm just going to start building in a bunch of layers here into this poster

file just to start getting some ideas and things I can work with.

So I'll come back over here to Safari and that's just kind of see what else we've got here.

Things that inspire me this Mumford and Sons.

I kind of like how they've got this illustrate give instead of a you know a photographic poster or like

the illustration behind it some of the reichlich or save image as an author wrote in that ideas folders

I can refer to it later usually I'd work one way or the other I'd either save it into that folder or

I would click and drag and drop it right into Photoshop for me to work with later and I let go too soon

.

Let me try it one more time.

Click and drag hold.

Bring it back.

OK.

So we could spend a lot of time researching and grabbing a lot of things.

So what's best practice at least for me is almost to literally set a timer for maybe 10 minutes.

Otherwise you can start to get overwhelmed with the possibilities in what you could do.

And all of a sudden you lose your entire day just looking for images or just trying to find inspiration

for different things.

There's one I saw earlier.

Oh here it is.

I really like this.

I don't know I just that was really cool.

So I'm going to click on that right click

save him Jazz out it that folder so I can refer to it later if I need to.

And in this case I'm going to throw it right into Photoshop.

There is no t in that I'm holding down the Shift key.

And I'm also in the old key by holding down the key.

Let's see if I just hold down the Shift key.

It anchors it to the top left but have a hold on the old key.

It scales out from the center so just it's just faster.

That helps me scale up faster.

I return actually in this case my in Turkey Day and you can see on the right I've got my layers I'm

going to shift click.

So right now there are three selected.

Hold down shift and I'll click down there one and it will slide to everything in between.

And then when I hit this little folder icon down here and what that's going to do is put it into a folder

.

I could have also hit command G on a Mac control G on a PC and I've got my group and I can click on

this and I'll just give it a name it's really good to keep your file organized.

We'll call it ideas game.

And then that's a really good time to save.

So command less control S on a PC always save your work.

It should be like a nervous twitch that just happens so you don't lose anything.

All right so the reasons why I like these.

This blue color was inspiring.

I also liked the idea I don't know the organic nature of this is creative.

There's Mumford and Sons again.

I liked how the high contrast of this darker illustration against the white background and this Linkin

Park image here I'm going to drag this up a little bit so I can see it.

I liked that.

They've got this and if you look closer at the guy.

So this blue triangle that kind of interacts is layers merge together to kind of color them.

And I think we're going to probably take that approach on this poster.

So what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to turn out that ideas and we're going to pretend you have this

this photo in your in your in your assets file that I'll provide for you but I'm just going to drag

this image we're going to pretend like this is an artist it's coming to a venue here we've got to make

a poster for him.

You can find this image in your downloads or this is on a Web site called pectorals dot com.

So p x d l s dot com.

And he's right here.

So what we can do is click on it and then click free download and it'll bring to when you like it right

click and then save image to downloads.

OK.

So how about that one.

And then about a couple of other voters that I found in Texas dotcom that were inspiring that might

work for this project.

We've got some guitars and then we've got this soundboard here.

So what am I to do with these.

Same deal.

Right click save image to downloads.

Click on this one right click save image to downloads.

So I'm starting to gather all my assets OK.

So we've brought him into our workspace and now what we're going to do is in the next lesson we're going

to cut him out or isolate this photo still crop him out.

And that's one of the moat between the layers using layers and Photoshop and making really good selections

.

Those are the two probably most critical skills you'll learn in Photoshop because once you master those

you can really do just about anything and composite anything together.

So we're going to go ahead and shut this down for this is core for this lesson in the next lesson we'll

dive into making selections and starting to work with all these assets we've started to collect.