From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop

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- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to "Deke's Techniques". Today I'll show you how to take artwork that you create in Adobe Photoshop Sketch on an iPad or other device and open that artwork with all of its layers intact inside the real Photoshop running on a Mac or a PC. Why, why do such a thing? Because while Adobe Sketch is quite capable, especially by device standards, it's no substitute for the most powerful pixel-based image editor that there is, Photoshop. For example, Photoshop is better at naming layers, it lets you scale and rotate layers nondestructively, it lets you select, isolate, group and move layers till your heart's content, but seriously enough blather already. Here, let me show you exactly how it works. All right, so here I am looking at Adobe Photoshop Sketch running on an iPad Pro, but it could just as easily be an Android device, and I'm looking at my Joan Miro project and I'm going to go ahead and tap, in my case, on the third document in, in order to open that file from last week. And now I'm going to export it as a layered Photoshop file by tapping on this rectangle with an up-pointing arrow up there in the top right corner of the screen, and then I'll select this option, Creative Cloud Files as PSD. And now notice, once again in the top right corner that we're seeing a rotating circle, which is telling us that Adobe Sketch is actively saving the file. And a moment later, we'll see this message that says Sent, and that tells you the file has been successfully saved to your Creative Cloud's folder. All right so, I'll go ahead and switch over to my Macintosh Finder, but you could just as easily be working on the PC, and you should see your Creative Cloud Files folder. If you don't, then go ahead and bring up your Creative Cloud application and switch over here to Files and then click on the Open Folder button, which will open that folder as we're seeing here. All right, now notice that my files are listed in the order of date modified with the most recent file on top, and so I'll just go ahead and double click on that file in order to open it up inside Photoshop like so. All right, now notice my Layers panel over here on the right side of the screen. I'm going to go ahead and scroll to the bottom of the panel, at which point I can see my flat background along with a bunch of layers all of which are called Sketch Layer. Naturally I don't want that, so I'm going to go ahead and rename each of these layers by double clicking on that first guy there and changing it to blue Field let's say, and then I'll press Shift + Tab in order to advance to the next layer up and I'll just go ahead and call this guy white, and I'll press Shift + Tab in order to select the next one and I'll change it to black. And the reason I'm pressing Shift + Tab is because if you press the Tab key you're going to move down the stack, if you press Shift + Tab you're going to move up the stack. All right, now switch to this guy right here, by once again pressing Shift + Tab, and let's say I don't know quite what it is. I'll go ahead and turn that layer off and I can see these little scratches inside the guy's tummy disappear and so I'll go ahead and turn it back on. That tells me that this is the graphite layer and so I'll go ahead and name it accordingly, and I'll press Shift + Tab in order to rename the next layer up and I'll change this guy to squares and press Shift + Tab once again. I have no idea what this is so I'll just go ahead and turn it off, that's my tiny little signature right there. So I'll go ahead and turn it back on and rename this guy tiny sig let's say, and that tells me that this next guy down, right there at this location, is the larger signature, so I'll go ahead and call it big sig let's say. All right so, that's one of the things you could do with your layered composition here inside Photoshop, not necessarily the most entertaining thing however. And so what I'm going to do is take my signature right here, I'll go ahead and zoom in on it, and let's say I want to reduce it to the size of this little signature, however, I want to do so nondestructively. Then I'll take the big sig layer and armed with my Rectangular Marquee Tool, which you can see is selected up here at the top of the tool box, I'll right click inside the image window and I'll choose Convert to Smart Object, which will allow me to apply nondestructive transformations which I can do by going up to the Edit menu and choosing Free Transform. And now I'll just go ahead and reduce the size of this image, and notice nowadays when you drag any handle you're going to resize your smart object proportionally. And you can see that the width and height values are locked down up here inside the Options bar, I'm going to change the width value to 84% and that's going to change the height value in kind, and then I'll Tab over to the rotate value and change it to 10 degrees let's say. And then I'll press the Return key, or the Enter key on the PC, a couple of times to apply that change. And of course the great thing about transforming a smart object is that you can modify your scale and rotate values any time you'd like just by pressing Command + T here on a Mac or Control + T on the PC, at which point you can see that my width and height values are still 84%. If I wanted to restore the original signature I would just change either one of them to 100% and then Tab over to the rotate value and change it to zero degrees like so, and then apply that change. I don't want that however, so I'll go ahead and press Command + Z, or Control + Z on the PC, to undo that change. All right, now I'll go ahead and press Command + Zero, or Control + Zero on the PC, to center my zoom and let's say that I want to move a couple of items here. For example, I'll go ahead and switch to the squares layer, I want to move this right square over to the right and so I'll just generally select it like so using my Rectangular Marquee Tool and then I'll switch to the Move Tool up here at the top of the tool box, which you can get by pressing the V key, and I'll just go ahead and drag this guy to a different location like so. And then I want to use this layer to darken the ones below it, and so I'll just go ahead and change the blend mode to Multiply, which you can do in Adobe Sketch. However, in Photoshop nowadays you can preview the blend modes as you apply them. Anyway, I'm looking for Multiply so I'll go ahead and apply that guy. And now, let's say I want to move this black circle along with its white border, well then I could just go ahead and press the M key to switch back to my Rectangular Marquee Tool right there and then I could go ahead and generally select that black circle, and now switch to its layer, which is called black, and I'll jump that guy to its own layer by pressing Command + Shift + J, that'd be Control + Shift + J on the PC, unless you'd want to name the layer as you create it in which case Command + Shift + Option + J here on a Mac, that's Control + Shift + Alt + J on the PC, and I'll just go ahead and call this guy orb let's say and click OK. And that goes ahead and moves that guy independently, can you see that over here in the Layers panel? Notice that the orb layer contains the circle while the black layer no longer does. All right, now I'm going to grab its border from the white layer, so I'll go ahead and select that layer, and I'll have an easier time selecting it because it's already pretty close rectangularity wise to the rest of the white stuff. So, I'll go ahead and switch to the Lasso Tool and then I'll draw a big lasso around this general region like so, and I'll jump it to its own layer by once again pressing Command + Shift + Option + J, that's Control + Shift + Alt + J on the PC, and I'll just call this guy border or something like that. And I'll move it up so it's directly below the orb layer and then I'll Shift + click on the orb layer so that they're both selected, and I'll click on the flyout menu icon in the top right corner of the Layers panel in order to bring up this menu here and I'll choose New Group from Layers. And I'll go ahead and call this guy orb even though that exactly matches the name of this layer here, I don't care, I'll just go ahead and click OK. And now we have an orb group, which is not something you can create in Adobe Sketch. And now I'll press the Command key here on the Mac, that would be the Control key on the PC, in order to temporarily switch to the Black Arrow Tool which will allow me to drag this guy to a different location like so. And then once you finish working on the document you would presumably want to save it, which you can do by going up to the File menu and choosing the Save command, or if you'd like to give it a different name and save it in a different location then choose Save As instead. And that's how you take a layered composition created inside Adobe Sketch running on an iPad for example, or an Android device, and enhance it using the much more powerful full version of Photoshop. Now if you're a member of LinkedIn Learning I have a follow-up movie in which I'll take this wee little piece of artwork, scarcely 5 1/2 million pixels in all, and I'll scale it inside Photoshop to create this whopping piece of poster art. If you're looking forward to next week, it's getting to be that spooky time of year again, which is why we're going to take our Miro skills so far and we're going to turn 'em into this horrifying scene from the hit movie "Us". "Deke's Techniques" each and every week, keep watching.

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