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Titling & Graphics: Working With Photoshop

How many people can use Photoshop a little bit? Okay, it's a a popular tool amongst photographers. It's as scary to people who've never opened Photoshop. When they open Premiere, you guys get scared. Video guys open Photoshop are equally as petrified so I want you to know it's a common world. So instead of starting in Photoshop and trying to figure out what the parameters is of my size and do I need a transparent background, and then have to bring it in. Inside of Premiere, I have the luxury of creating a new Photoshop file, and when I do this it's going to make this Photoshop file the exact size of my sequence so I don't have to worry about it fitting and not fitting. Everything is good I'm going to hit okay. It's gonna ask me to name it and where I wanna put it 'cause you are creating new media. I am going to break a rule and throw it on my desktop so I can easily find it while I'm teaching but we'll call this test title photo. That should clear it up and I hit save. It opens up Phot...

oshop, now I can go ahead and do whatever I want. So maybe I just wanna create a bar for a lower third because it can be prettier. So I'm gonna go ahead, I'm going to grab hopefully the right tool. Remember I am a video guy but I play in Photoshop a little bit so I have that. I'm gonna go ahead and fill that in with a paint bucket. Let's not go black, let's go pretty blue here we go. So now I have the bar, if I wanna go ahead and modify that maybe I want to put a little bit of a bevel on it. Put a little bit of height. Okay, that's nice I can do whatever I want. Maybe I'll give it a little bit of a drop shadow, adjust the drop shadow, give it a little more depth. So I've created this, it's a single layer and if that's all I want because I wanna use this over and over again. I'm gonna go ahead, I hit save. I could close it, I don't need to. I've saved it already. When I jump back into Premiere, there is my Photoshop document that it has created test file photo PSD. And works like clip, I can bring it in. It already has the alpha channel of transparency information. If we jump back here, do you notice how we have that gray grid that tells me there's transparency. And when I created drop shadow in one of the selection areas. It's like what's the opacity of the drop shadow so we'll respect that so when I jump back in and I throw this. Just wants to make itself known that air point title. I throw it down onto my timeline, there's my bar okay. I can position is around if I need to so I can use the same thing over and over again. We learned when we were in motion, I can go into effects controls. Another way to position it but this is also where I can go ahead and I can play with the opacity if I wanted to. So maybe I wanted to be a little bit translucent so you can very easily create something very, very pretty. And it's a lot easier than starting in Photoshop, seem that seem pretty cut and dry? You can use this. I like this making lower thirds. You can type text or you can do your text if you're creative and you wanna draw you can do that. You have quite a bit of power so that's creating a Photoshop from within Premiere but you're gonna be given Photoshop documents sometimes. And when you ingest them, when you bring them in, you have some choices on how Premiere will interpret them. We saw this document and it was a single layer but in some cases, you might have a Photoshop document that has multiple layers. Somebody gives it to you, it might the background, it might have the text, it might have an image. And let's take a look at what happens when we import one of those and what some of our choices are. Now you can import if it's a layered file. It will probably be a Photoshop document or a TIFF document and can have transparency. Okay it will bring a fourth. If somebody gave you an image that's saved as a JPEG. JPEGs don't have that transparency information so it'll have a solid background. If it was transparent, it would probably be white okay. So if you're gonna bring something in that you create in Photoshop to start with, you wanna make sure that you save it as a TIFF file or as a PNG Portable Network Graphics or as a Photoshop document. We're gonna work with Photoshop documents so let me go ahead and I'm gonna clear this off delete that. We learned we could drag this stuff so I'm gonna show you the difference between dragging this in and not dragging this. 'Cause a Photoshop documents work differently so I'm gonna remember where it is. As a matter fact, I'm gonna throw it onto my desktop because that's where I find things. It's called other yellow guy PSD. I built this last night, it's very serious. So I'm gonna drag this in, if you drag in a Photoshop document, it will automatically bring it in and actually it will give you some options here. This is the single layer Photoshop document so it will say merge all the layers and you can bring it in. I won't actually bring in the layered ones, so let me go ahead and find that layered one that I had. Found it, other yellow guy PSD is on my desktop. Premiere lesson nine titles and graphics. Exactly where it should have been in titles and graphics. So I actually created one Abba cartoon layers PSD. So we're gonna bring that in. Throw it to the desktop, we'll bring it in a nice media manager way. Here we go, so a Photoshop document. You can see image okay. You can choose whether you want the yellow version of me. I will not take the brand or the non yellow version of me but this is a PNG document. So a PSD and a PNG, they'll have transparent background, it looks black here. This has three layers there's actually a blue background. There's my Twitter account and then there's me nonetheless or it could be Chuck Norris as I am told. So when I go to import this, I'm gonna click on the import. I'm gonna import it several times 'cause I want you to see the different ways that it actually comes in. You'll see that there's options here when I bring it in and there's four of those. There's merge all layers, there's merge layers. There's individual layers in this sequence. What does this mean? If I say merge all layers, it will come in as basically a flat picture document where I can't control any of the elements. So it just will look exactly like it looked on the image and it would be if I had flatten it in Photoshop or saved it as a JPEG or as a TIFF. If I choose to go merge layers, it's still gonna look flat or work as a flat document but I can say you know what. I don't want the background to come in. I was just gonna bring in this layer and this layer so then go ahead and do that. And we'll do that for the first round. It doesn't change the original Photoshop document by the way. It's just how Premiere is interpreting all the layers. So okay, non-destructive. Go back here, project file Abba cartoon. We'll double click to load that in and so I'm getting really big for myself there. I'm gonna go ahead and throw that onto the timeline and because I didn't bring in the background there's transparency and of course this is larger than my space. So we go back here, we go set to frame size and now I have this nice transparent background, and it's a single element. Okay so I choose not to bring in the background. But what if choose to bring it in another way? We'll jump back over here. I'm going to right click bring it in again. You can import the same object multiple times with different parameters and instead of merging all layers or merge layers. I can set individual layers and if I set individual layers, it will bring each of these in as like a separate picked file. So now maybe somebody gives me a Photoshop document with 20 lower thirds of people's name. I can bring it in and say instead of bringing as one big stack thing that I have to deal with. Bring it in as separate pic files that I can drag in. I'll show you this as an example. I'm gonna hit okay, we go back to here. We look in our folder. Zoom in so you can see well. It says Abba cartoon layers. It puts it inside of a folder. Let me step into that folder, I'm gonna show this as icons. There's the Abba text, there's my face. Three elements so I could go in and I can say you know what I wanna do it without the text. I wanna just use the text okay. I don't want to use background so it gives you a lot of control. It brings in three elements. And this is where it gets really cool and then we're going to finish up with this 'cause I like to finish big. We're gonna go ahead and bring it in another way and again right click on it. Say import, zoom in, we're going to choose this option that says bring it in as a sequence. Now we kind of reference to the sequences within sequences in previous lessons so I'm going to say okay. And I can also choose which elements I want to bring in and I'm gonna bring them all in. So I'm gonna go ahead and say okay we'll look over here. We'll see that it brought it in a folder by looking in that folder, I'm gonna go ahead and click double click. I have four elements. I have each of the individual items and this here is actually a sequence and I know that, that's not a sequence. That's the sequence okay because this icon is a little different. It looks like a sequence. So what happens if I throw this sequence into my timeline. It looks just like a clip. As a matter of fact let me scale that down so it fits. So I have this but because it's a sequence, I can step inside. We've done this before once in the previous where we created that nest and we stepped inside. And I can go, oh I wanna just turn off this background. So live turn off and then you see it updates without the background. Oh my God, I'm on top on myself. Here we go, I have proved myself to be redundant so we have that but this is where it gets really cool. Instead of just turn things on and off, I can reposition things so if I wanted to choose and move myself to a certain spot. I can do that and I can literally anime this as an opening or I could have Abba fly in with the motion paths we've learned. So that flies in from the right and I can do it in the time that we have and then I could go ahead and then have my face. Let's go back here and close this so we can go right to the effects control. That is selected and click in a little box and so I could fly myself in. And I could sneak up from the top and animate this and then what happens is when I have it in the main area, all of this animation would happen. So the take away from this is you can bring in Photoshop document as individual layers to use them separately or as a sequence that you could then animate the different pieces to create a motion graphic with the skills we learned in the animation section that we did in the previous lesson. So that some really cool stuff that you can do with titling and Photoshop in Adobe Premiere.