All language subtitles for 8. Creating Additional Looks to Give Your Client Options

K we're getting really close on our poster now.

Now we just need to add those finishing touches of either textures or background elements before we

do that.

Let's just pretend like this poster was exactly what the client asked for.

Or you know this artist or whatever.

But let's say it's not quite what you were feeling and you hate it.

That happens a lot as a graphic designer you might be you know might have to appease somebody else who

wants something specific and let's say purple was his favorite color but it just looks terrible.

And so what I would do in this situation I would go ahead and save where we're at.

And because I've been recording these videos I've been forgetting to save but make sure you save along

the way.

So we save this and then usually what I would do in this situation if I'm happy with one look I would

save it here and just hold on to this file and then I would hit command shift assets or control shift

s on a PC and save the state as something else.

If I LOVE MY something poster and I might put a dash in the two as my second version or another idea

that I had.

So I hit save and now no matter what I do to this I can always go back to this point in time where you

know maybe it's exactly what they wanted.

Again.

It's not my favorite at all.

We've got some work to do.

So let's go ahead and dive in.

One idea I had when I was looking at pixel's dotcom we had this guitar image and we had this was a soundboard

as I looked at it again.

It's actually a deejay turntable so maybe this guy's a deejay and he's not a guitarist at all.

Let's go back to our Photoshop file Amirah click here.

Here's a trick.

Whatever layer you click on.

OK.

I've got my move tool selected and I've got auto select léa turned on so I can click through any layer

and over here it automatically is like that layer.

So I can start you know if I wanted to I can start click on anything and move around it command option

Z.

Remember to throw in that option key to step back multiple steps.

If that was turned off sometimes it's handy if you've got a really obscure player like let's say you

want to move this.

John Singer title behind him but without actually accidentally selecting him saw select my layer and

now no matter where I select on on our board I can move that around behind his head.

So that's a handy trick to know anyway.

So what we're going to do now is learn to play with this a little bit.

I don't like this divider here so I select it.

I don't hit delete.

I can't see my text now.

That's OK we'll fix that here in a second.

I want to fix this gap so that a quick once on him command t will scale scaling up a little bit holding

the shift key down.

OK.

And then let's grab that turn table and I'm going to direct it right into this image.

Now one thing you need to be careful when you download when images whether images or any image in general

make sure it's a high quality it should be a bigger file because you'll notice right now this came in

at full size.

This is a poster snafu that command T and I scale it up.

I run the risk Saigo real big.

I run the risk of this becoming really pixillated if I get really close and you know maybe it's blurry

and it looks bad.

So it's just something you need to pay attention to.

In this case it's big enough for what we're doing.

Can return and let's hit command in the left bracket that key read by letter P to move this letter down

below him.

OK.

Now there's not enough contrast so now we can play with this layer.

We can change your Pasotti right here and you can scrub this down to make that a little bit softer and

whatever layers below will show through.

I can also shortcut for that.

I'll just hit the numbers on my 10 key pad.

If I hit 5 it jumps to 50 percent opacity or maybe 8 for 80 percent opacity.

In this case I want to be a lot more subtle so I hit three to 30 percent.

I don't like that purple background what can we do with that.

Let's play it a little bit.

Let us try maybe blue or something.

OK.

And now his title is kind of getting lost.

Let's bring that above our turntable layer in maybe now that those are darker tones maybe we need to

make it a lighter color so I can with that less likely I'll make it white come in.

Delete to make a white behind him.

I'm going to click on that turntable and just kind of move it around to where maybe where I like the

look of it.

It's just kind of see what we've got here.

Maybe we'll feature that so you can see the turntable a little better or maybe we like the dials it

just totally is your preference your call whatever you want to do case it looks kind of cool.

And then we've got to make this text here legible.

So let's click on that and I'm going to make it align left and let's see here let's make this a little

bit smaller.

People can study this image if they're really interested in this they can look at it and figure out

the details of the concert.

Grab this location.

So what I'm doing now.

I moved over the click in there once command a to highlight the whole thing click on the left aligned

left box and return one and done the interview on done.

And there we go.

Now I'm lining these up.

I've got these visual guides in Photoshop so I can see that these are in line with each other.

I can also select multiple layers at a time and then I get these alignment options so I can align these

so these two rectangles get aligned to the left edge which are the bottom edge or to the center.

So if I click on this center it will align them center with each other or in this case I want them to

align to the left edge of the on line left.

Let's make this just a touch smaller here on this poster and this location.

And I'm really happy with the spacing between here it feels it feels good and balancers about the same

amount of space it bends around that shoulder.

Just pay attention to where things are working on your or in your artwork or on your poster or where

things are falling in line to make sure there's good balance.

All right so that feels pretty good.

So we could call that done so there's another version like command S to save it and let's say for kicks

We want to do one more and well busted our real quick command shift save We'll go to v3 on this.

Now before I do that mix you save it once first.

So you say this currently has version 2 and then command shift save to create another one.

All right so now we're going to do one more version of this thing and let's pretend like they're like

oh we've got to remove this little tattoo on his neck or zoom in real close at the letter L to get my

lasso tool and I'll just draw right around that little tattoo.

Let's pretend it was a temporary tattoo or something and his manager said Oh we got to remove that what

we can do.

Make sure that Larry selected all.

All right click fill in in Photoshop we've got this content where.

Phil what's awesome about it is it looks at all the pixels around it and fills it into match so quick

you can remove blemishes or things like that.

Or let's pretend like on his shirt you wanted to remove let's say it was a brand name and it had to

go away we could select different elements and right click fill content aware and boom it disappears

so that's a fun little tip as we're looking at this.

All right.

So let's do one more version of this thing.

Let's pretend like we want to go more of a subtle texture or random pattern.

I can turn that off and let's add a new layer and I'll get my brush tool out the letter B.

OK.

I'll come over here and open up my brush presets.

If you don't see that go to a window and you can pull down your brush or brush presets and Photoshop

by default has some pretty good options but you can also download some brushes some different texture

brushes and I can provide these in your assets folder for you to look at.

But what we can do now is select your brush and we can hit the bracket key so the same bracket keys

used to move a layer Rhenish letter.

So right bracket or square left bracket means your breast size bigger or smaller.

You can also click up here and scrub left or right to get your brush bigger or smaller.

OK.

So on this layer what I'm gonna do is I select this blue color and click on this chip and make it just

a touch darker and I'm going to make sure you're working on the new layer of BDM a brush tool and now

I can start just kind of clicking anywhere in here and it's a really subtle effect.

But now what I'm doing is adding kind of this little just just a little bit of texture just so it's

not flat.

So again this is where you have to decide how much do you want to put into this piece.

What does it take to make it something that looks cool.

This is going to get the idea crossed so I can turn that on and off if I don't like it.

And at this point you're probably feeling pretty comfortable with Photoshop.

So what we're going to do now we're going to shut down this lesson in the next lesson I'll show you

how to export these files to either send them to your client to view as a proof or to have them printed