Automatically Align Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
40. Automatically Align Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
Lessons
Class Introduction
03:24 2Before you get Started with the Photoshop Advanced Course
01:28 3The Easiest Way in the World to Mask a Person in Adobe Photoshop
24:23 4Class Project - Select Subject
01:41 5Select Mask & Changing a Color using Photoshop - Color Range
10:00 6Using Photoshop Selection to Fix Grass & Sky - Color Range
07:20How to Change the Color of Skin in Photoshop - Color Range
08:05 8How to Create an Ink Splash Image Around Text - Color Range
15:02 9Class Project - Color Range in Adobe Photoshop
01:54 10Mask on a Group Rather than each Layer
11:18 11Advanced Masking using a Channels in Adobe Photoshop
14:14 12Class Project - Channel Mask
01:30 13How to Make Selections in Photoshop Based on the Focus Area
22:53 14Class Project - Focus Area
01:11 15Selection Trick Using the Smudge Tool in Photoshop
04:16 16Future of Selections in Photoshop with Adobe Sneaks
07:04 17Quiz - Selection & Masking
18Advanced Preference Changes for Adobe Photoshop
08:36 19How to Speed up Adobe Photoshop if it’s Running Slow
07:48 20Workflow Tips & Tricks Like a Professional in Photoshop
13:45 21Advanced Layer Tricks in Adobe Photoshop CC
05:58 22Automatically Add a Watermark Text or Logo in Photoshop
08:29 23Batch or Image Process Multiple Images at Once in Photoshop
09:05 24How to put Loads of Images into one Photoshop File Quickly
07:04 25Weird Adobe Photoshop Features & Easter Eggs
06:37 26How to Enlarge Images Without Becoming Blurry in Photoshop
06:57 27How to Fix Blurry Images in Photoshop Using Shake Reductions
08:17 28Advanced Color & Tone Correction Using Levels in Photoshop
06:44 29Advanced Curves in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:34 30Quiz - Fixing Images
31How to Reshape Images Without Distorting in Photoshop Content Aware Scale
09:44 32How to use Content Aware Move in Photoshop
08:38 33How to use Content Aware Extend in Adobe Photoshop
07:28 34Removing Objects Using Content Aware Fill in Photoshop
07:01 35Class Project - Content Aware Fill
01:03 36Cropping Tricks Delete Pixel & Reveal Cropped Content in Photoshop
06:11 37Automatically Crop & Rotate Scanned Documents in Photoshop
05:35 38Crop Angled Images to Straighten Perspective Cropping Photoshop
04:42 39How to Trim the White Away from the Edge of an Image in Photoshop
01:52 40Automatically Align Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:38 41How to Reshape Images using the Puppet Warp in Photoshop
18:10 42Class Exercise - Puppet Warp
01:14 43How to Change the Perspective in Photoshop Perspective Warp
05:47 44Quiz - Cropping & Aligning & Distorting
45How to Color Black & White Image in Photoshop
09:42 46How to Create a Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:28 4744. Class Project – Duotone in Adobe Photoshop
02:20 48How to create the Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop
07:01 49Class Project - Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop
00:44 50Color Grading with Orange & Teal Effect in Adobe Photoshop
05:36 51Class Project - Color Grading in Adobe Photoshop
00:49 52Quiz - Color
53Advanced CC Libraries Tricks and Tips Photoshop
19:15 54Advanced Type Trick & Workflows in Adobe Photoshop
19:38 55Photoshop Can Guess your Font Using Match Fonts
10:43 56Quiz - Typography
5752. Adding Artboards to your Photoshop Workflow Properly
05:24 58How to Add Images Correctly to a Photoshop Artboard
08:17 59Using Smart Objects & Relinking Images in Photoshop
04:10 60Advanced Speed Tricks for Updating Artboards in Photoshop
04:09 61Export Artboards as PDF & Separate JPGs in Photoshop
05:38 62Quiz - Artboards
63Advanced Tricks for Healing Brush for Retouching in Photoshop
08:24 64Don’t Forget About Clone Tool Stamp in Photoshop
06:09 65How to use the Patch Tool for Retouching in Photoshop
06:41 66Class Exercise – Retouching in Photoshop
01:15 67How to Retouch in Photoshop Using Face Aware in Liquify
06:50 68How to Use Vanishing Point to Mocking up Designs in Photoshop
12:19 69Vanishing Point - Cloning & Healing at an Angle in Photoshop
11:19 7064. Class Exercise - Vanishing Point in Photoshop
00:51 71Fixing & Retouching Skin Tone in Adobe Photoshop
06:01 72Retouching Eyes by Enhancing in Adobe Photoshop
08:00 73Retouching Eyes with a Little Bit of Fakery in Photoshop
09:00 74Fully Faking Believable Eyes in Adobe Photoshop
06:45 75Class Project – Eyes in Photoshop
00:51 7670. How to Realistically Whiten Teeth in Adobe Photoshop
11:44 77Class Project – Teeth in Photoshop
00:57 78Quiz - Retouching
79Difference Between Place Linked vs Place Embedded in Photoshop
08:22 80What is the Difference Between Fill & Opacity in Layer
01:11 81How to Use & Export Layer Comps in Adobe Photoshop
03:27 8275. How to Create a Double Exposure in Adobe Photoshop
11:07 83Class Project - Double Exposure in Photoshop
01:17 84How to Create a Watercolor Painting Effect in Photoshop
09:23 85Class Project – Watercolor in Photoshop
00:32 86How to Decay Pixel Explosion Dispersion Method in Photoshop
13:47 87How to Make Exploding Shoe Effect in Adobe Photoshop
10:49 88Class Project – Decay in Photoshop
00:51 89Quiz - Visual Styles & Effects
90How to Edit Video in Adobe Photoshop
25:42 91Parallax Effect to Make Photos Move in Photoshop
13:22 92Class Project – Parallax in Photoshop
01:15 93How to Create Live Images - Cinemagraphs in Photoshop
13:19 94Class Project – Cinemagraph in Photoshop
01:35 95How to Setup a File Ready for Web and UI Design in Photoshop
09:32 96How to Export Your Web Design UI Project for Dreamweaver
07:57 97How to Make 3D Text & 3D Logos in Photoshop
11:52 98How to Add and Change 3D Materials & Textures in Photoshop
08:42 99Using Cameras & Depth of Field in 3D Photoshop
05:12 100Adding Lights & Casting Shadows Using Photoshop 3D
10:01 101How to Export a High Quality 3D Image from Photoshop
04:42 102Class Project – 3D in Photoshop
01:08 103How to Create Fake 3D Lines & Type in Photoshop
09:33 104Fake 2.5D Gradient Effect with Paths in Photoshop
07:10 105Class Project - Fake 3D in Photoshop
00:46 106Using Free Templates & Adobe Market to Mockup in Photoshop
11:07 107How Make a Reusable Mockup in Photoshop Using Smart Objects
06:40 108Mockup Poster Against a Wall Using Photoshop
08:16 109How to Make a Simple UI App Web Design Mockup Using Photoshop
06:06 110Class Project – Mockups in Photoshop
01:00 111How to Proofing Colors in Adobe Photoshop Ready for Print
04:04 112How to Tidy Up your Photoshop Files Before Sending Them Out
10:21 113How to Package Your Photoshop File to Include Linked Images
07:22 1143 Kinds of File Export for Photoshop Social Media Web & Print
12:59 115Quiz - Exporting
116What’s Next After Your Photoshop Advanced Course
01:05 117Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Automatically Align Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
Hi there in this video, we're going to look at aligning images. Why am I doing it in this case I photographed my desk and I need the exposure level for my desk so I can see all my weird sound boards that I use to help make the sound on this microphone nicer. But because of that exposure level, I can't see anything on the screen. So I had to change my exposure so I can see the screen, but then the backgrounds too dark. What do I do? I mask one out and blend them together. But because they don't align, I shot these handheld, you can see they don't line up. I'll show you how in this exercise how to magically line them up. So they're perfect with a click of a button and we can mask out the lower exposure with the higher exposure and the world is a beautiful place. Alright, let's get started. Alright, so there's two ways of doing this. There's the caveman way which will do first. Okay, so we're going to go to file, open, open up the auto align one and two and then I'll show you another way.
Both ways are useful. This one here's got my low exposure for my screen and this one's got my high exposure and all I'm going to do is go select all copy, move to this one and paste it so we've got them on top of each other but they don't line up because I was hand holding this and while I adjusted my exposure it. We're good around. So the auto align feature is select the top one, hold shift, click the last one. We're just doing it with two. You can do it with 1000. Actually, probably not, Photoshop would freak out, but you can do it with 10 or 100. Maybe select all the images you want to align, Go up to edit and there's one down here called auto. Align layers. Leave it at auto, seems to always work at auto. Let's click OK, magically turn the top one off the one underneath. You can see the screens lined up. Perfect. Now we'll mask these two to join them up in a second. I want to show you the other way. So there's the Caveman way and if there's just a couple of images, that's what you need to do. There's another way under file, let's go to scripts and we looked at this earlier on. Remember we looked at loading lots of stuff into a stack. The cool thing about it is they want to load auto align one and two but let's say there is 100. You definitely want to use this automatic feature. Okay, what do align? But also attempt to align them as well. So it's just going to do both processes in one go. It's going to put them all into one file instead of our copy and paste and it's going to try and align them. Kick back, relax. So with just two images, it doesn't really matter which way you go. But with loads of them, it's easier using that script. Now we're using it for exposure levels. It could just be that you have to kind of move around to get the entire front of a building, let's say. Or instead of doing exposure, you're doing kind of like focal length, you're trying to get different kind of focuses along however way you got here. What I need to do is I need to, I'm gonna put this one at the top um, the dark one and I'm going to grab my because what I want to do is actually have the screen, which I can see in this one, but it's too dark back here appear on this image because this one I can see all the background. So I need to combine them to, so with auto align to selected, I'm going to grab my quick selection tool, I'm going to drag a box around here. Pretty good job I'm going to click in here as well. Did a pretty good job. I'm going to go in there's a little bit here that probably needs a little bit of love. So I'm holding down my option key on a Mac OK on a pc just to kind of fix that up. You could use the lasso tool, The polygonal lasso tool, which has a straight edge, however you do selection. I'm going to add a mask and hey presto kind of both combined, the top one is just the screens. This bottom one here kind of fills out the outside. This top one here. What I might do that's it. That's the end of the tutorial. I'm just going to go through now and show you what I do. When I'm trying to blend the two. I'm going to add levels just to the little arrow. This is just to the layer underneath and now I'm going to kind of try and make it look more believable that were too dark, there's too much details and just kind of finding fine tuning what looks real but still legible. Whereas before member totally eligible, exact same screen, different exposure. I can see more. All right. A couple of last little things I want to do to touch it up but you can go now. This is just me missing about to fix this up. So the easy way would be to grab the crop tool and just kind of like shrinking in their crop. All those kind of transparent pixels out and nobody would know except for that. But, but let's experiment with our cool new tools. I'm going to use the lasso tool like you saw me earlier on using the magic wand tool to grab the edges over here and you probably noticed little white bits appeared in the corner and I kind of ignored it. I shouldn't have come here to repent and show you a better way we're going to use the lasso tool. Okay, the polygonal lasso tool, which is the straight edge version and I'm going to draw. I'm just gonna kind of manually do it. So I'm gonna click once, click twice and I'm making sure I overlap it in a reasonable amount, click once, come all the way back to the beginning and when it gets close to the beginning, you see that little circle appears. That means it's a complete selection now to add to the selection. I'm going to hold down the shift key. I'm going to maybe start down here once you've started adding, you can let go of shift because if you don't really wants to do straight lines, so just shift to get it going, okay, click around here, we'll do it one more time. It's a bit of a weird one, that one. So shift to get going, it's gonna click once, then let go of shift. So it is adding, but it's not trying to do straight lines, you can see how overlapping I am there. Um shift, get started, any which way you like to do a selection. Okay, And then we're going to go to edit fill and I have no idea how good or bad this is going to be. Let's just see Not bad ish a pretty good job though. Like that's pretty crazy. Like my white board has now just got magically bigger. It's reusing some of the numbers. My microphone got a little bigger. The desk is not too bad. It's a little bit weird perspective. This is good. Something weird's happening down here, the blanket that I've got pinned to my white board. Why? Because if I don't that whiteboard somehow vibrates so on the microphone instead of me sounding crystal clear, I sound like I'm recording in the like bathroom. Alright, I missed a bit there. Get the idea. The last thing I want to do is maybe the edges here is a little bit white, you can kind of see it coming through here. The cool thing. Remember we've got our sweet new trick when we slept on the mask, select and mask. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to shift the edge and we've always gone in, okay, I'm going to get out just to kind of expand it out a little bit and up here. Let's have a look at it on the layers. The original, it just expanded a bit more. Might even feather it haven't feathered it. I haven't heard anything a long time. Ah There we go quick. Okay, got rid of that kind of really strong edge there. Alright, that is not a particularly good photo. I shot it right now. This is the desk I'm sitting at just as an example. I want to tidy up these, these cables Now I made this desk and while it looks kind of cool. I like it. I made it, I made a big ridge exactly where the mouse goes, which doesn't make it useless. But it makes it a terrible desk for anybody using a computer. Anyway, auto align. You might be thinking in your head. I can think of other good ways in my situation to be using it. I use this for exposure. It could be focused links, it could just be, you've got images, you just need to line up some people do it where you've got like a staff picture and you say, Okay, everybody say Jesus and most of them look except for Sandra. Sandra's not looking at the camera, but in the next photograph Sandra's looking. But Dave isn't I don't know who these people are. So what you can do is you can line them up and then mask out Sandra's face on one of them and have it. So both Dave and Sandra are looking at the same time. Alright, my friends, that is going to be it. Let's get into the next video
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Shah Nawaz
Amazing experience but it is little old. You should update with latest version of PS
Uli N
Great class, but outdated PS version. It was confusing sometimes. Some tools are not in PS anymore and more tools have been added which is not included in the course.
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