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

857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad

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

857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deke's Techniques. Last month, Adobe introduced the world to Photoshop for the iPad, which is, I think Adobe has been careful to say not actually the full version of Photoshop. Whether you use it on a Mac or PC, Photoshop 2020, as it is now known, offers a total of 33 panels, yes, I counted them, or 35 if you include Tools and Options. Photoshop for the iPad offers one: Layers. Well, it also has a Toolbox, so I guess that's two panels, which is just a smattering of Photoshop's full power, but it's a really great place to start. Save a file from Photoshop 2020 as what's known as a cloud document, bring it into Photoshop for the iPad, and go to town. What's going to be our project? Well it all starts with an island called Vestmannaeyjar, which I guess is Icelandic for Westman Islands. It's a very pretty place, but we're going to make it prettier still. All right, so I'm going to start things off here inside Photoshop running on the Mac. It could just as easily be Photoshop for Windows, but you'll need Photoshop 2020, or I presume later. And so what we're going to do is we're going to take this landscape and combine it with this unremarkable sky in order to create this vivid composition right here, and if you want to work along with me, then you need to take these exercise files and turn them into cloud documents. Now, in my case, the first two already are cloud documents, as indicated by the little clouds up here in the title tab, but the last one is not, so what you're going to need to do with all three of these images, again, if you want to work along with me, is go up to the File menu and choose Save As, and then switch away from this folder here by clicking Save to Cloud Documents, so click on that button, after which point, you will no longer have control over the file format. You're going to automatically save the file in a new format, called PSDC, by the way, and so all you have to do is give this file a name if you like, and then click the Save button in order to save this file as an online cloud document. All right, so here I am now finally inside Photoshop for the iPad, and I'm going to go ahead and scroll down to this file right here. It's the last one alphabetically in my case. It is called Vestmannaeyjar, I'm sure I'm totally making a mess of it, but it's a little island off of Iceland. And so I'll just go ahead and tap on that thumbnail in order to open the image, once again, inside Photoshop on the iPad. Now, it might take a moment or two to open up, at which point, notice that we don't really have all of Photoshop, it's not the full version of the program. It's a work in progress, so remember that this is definitely a 1.0 piece of software, and so we have the tools on the left-hand side in a vertical toolbox, and then we have this kind of panel column over on the right-hand side that is almost entirely devoted to layers, and so I want you to notice this icon in the top right corner that looks like a couple of diamond shaped layers. If I tap on it, I make those layers disappear, and if I tap on it again, I'll bring 'em back, at which point you can see that we have a single locked layer. I want to unlock it by tapping on the dot-dot-dot icon down here, the ellipsis, and tapping Unlock Layer, and that will go ahead and turn that guy into an independent layer. The reason why is this started out as a JPEG file, so it was flat, it just had a locked background. All right, now notice that your default tool is the Move tool in the top left corner of the screen, and so if you start draggin' this guy around, you're going to move it, which presumably is not something you want to do, and so you have a couple of different ways to Undo inside this program. One is to tap the Undo icon in the top right corner of the screen, this guy right here. I'll just go ahead and Redo things so I can show you the other way to work, which is to tap with two fingers, just a single tap with two fingers will Undo. A single tap with three fingers will Redo, all right, I want to Undo, so I'll double finger-tap, and so another thing you should know is you can pinch, you probably predicted that, I would imagine, but let's say you want to zoom to 100%, then just double-tap inside the image, and if you double-tap again, you're going to zoom all the way into 100%, so one double tap is to fit the image in screen, the other is to zoom to 100%. All right, another thing that's worth knowing here is that you can deselect all tools if you want to just by tapping on that Move Tool icon in the top left corner of the screen once again, and that way, you won't accidentally harm the image as you navigate your way around. All right, now let's say I want to introduce that sky into the image. There's a couple of ways to introduce images inside of a layered file. One is to tap this little picture icon below the Type tool, below the T right there, and then I could load an image from my Camera Roll here on my iPad, or from my Files, from my Cloud Files, that is Apple's cloud service, or from a library that you created inside the Libraries panel inside Photoshop for the desktop, but I'm going to do somethin' different here. I'll just go ahead and tap on the little Home button in the top left corner of the screen in order to close that file, and I'll go ahead and open the big Iceland sky, but before I do, I'm going to tap the gear icon in the top right corner of the screen in order to bring up my App Settings right here, and then I'm going to tap on Input, just because I want you to see that there's a bunch of touch toggles right there, and to see 'em, you'll have to have Touch twirled open like so, and the Touch Indicator allows you to see where I'm touching as I move my finger around inside the program. Touch Shortcut is this circle that's onscreen, I'll show it to you in just a moment, and it allows you to change the tool's behavior. Stylus Double-tap allows you to double-tap with the stylus in order to zoom in and out, and then we've got Stylus Only Painting. By default, that's turned off. I like to have it turned on, and this assumes, by the way, that you have a stylus, such as an Apple Pencil, and that way you don't actually paint with your finger, so I've got all these options on. All right, so I'm going to close out of that guy, and then I'll tap on Big Iceland Sky in order to load it all up, and now what I'm going to do is unlock that layer once again by tapping on the dot-dot-dot icon, and tapping Unlock Layer, and then, you want to tap on the dot-dot-dot again, and tap Copy, which, if you have a keyboard attached to your iPad, has a familiar keyboard shortcut of Command+C. All right, so I'll just go ahead and tap Copy right there, that's all there is to that, and now, I'll go back to the previous image by tapping on the Home icon in order to reveal all of my cloud documents, and then I'll go ahead and load up that landscape image. All right, now at this point, I want to mask away the sky, and I'm going to do so by selecting those craggy mountains right there, and so notice this tool, three tools down, the Lasso. If you tap and hold on it, you'll see some other selection tools, including the second guy in, which is basically the Quick Selection brush, and now, I can just go ahead and paint inside of my image, but first, I'm going to increase the size of my brush by tapping on that little number right there, and then I'll go ahead and grab my Apple Pencil, because after all, I turned on that setting that prohibits me from accidentally painting with my finger, and then I'll just go ahead and paint up into this area, and it actually works out pretty nicely where this image is concerned. Notice that I'm easily selecting all of this stuff, and then, if you want to paint some more, then you're going to add to the selection, just as when painting with the Quick Selection tool inside of Photoshop, and I want you to notice right here, see this circle that I'm kind of poking inside of right now? That circle is a shortcut that's going to allow you to access other features, so notice when I press and hold on it, we see the words subtract from selection in the top right corner of the screen, at which point, if I do start painting, I am going to subtract from the selection instead of adding to it. That's not what I want to do, so I'll just do a two-finger tap in order to undo that change, but I just want you to know early on what that circle is there for, it is a shortcut. All right, now I want to turn this selection into a mask, and notice basically dead-center on the right side of the screen we have that familiar mask icon, so just go ahead and tap on it, and you will end up with a mask. Now, notice the mask is currently active, which means I could paint it with the Brush tool, which is the next tool down right here. Don't really want to do that, however, but I just want you to see that's possible, but let's say you want to switch back and forth between the mask, which is active right now, and the image itself. See that little half-circle doohickey next to the mask on the left-hand side? That's a badge, and what it's going to allow you to do is drag back and forth to switch emphasis on the mask or on the image itself. Another thing you can do if you want to see a more conventional version of the Layers panel is go up to the top right corner of the screen, and notice the third icon down, the one that looks like a couple of diamonds with three lines, tap on it, and you will now see something more closely resembling the standard Layers panel. All right, so I'm going to double-click on this layer name right here in order to rename it, and then I'll just go ahead and call this Landscape, let's say, just by typing away, now I'm going to tap Rename, the Rename button there in order to rename that layer. All right, so this version of the Layers panel takes up too much room, so I'm going to tap that second icon down in the top right corner just so that we're seeing that tiny Layer thumbnail, and now what I want to do is paste that sky image by tapping on the little dot-dot-dot icon down there near the bottom of the right column, and tapping Paste, or if you've got a keyboard attached to your iPad, then you've got that standard shortcut of Command+V, and so I'll go ahead and tap on Paste now. It might take a moment or two for this to occur, by the way, but eventually, you should see that sky, All right, I'm going to pinch out here so that I'm seeing all of the image at a time, and then I want to move the sky behind the landscape by tapping and holding it for a moment, and then dragging it down like so, and you will have a new sky. Of course, it looks terrible, but here's what you do about that. Notice the second tool down below the Move tool right there is this guy, it's the Transform tool, and it allows you to scale, and rotate, and all that stuff. It's modeled after the Free Transform command under the Edit menu in the standard version of Photoshop, and so now notice if I drag one of these handles here that I am scaling proportionally. If you don't want to scale proportionally, if you want to stretch the image, then what you do is you tap and hold on that little touch shortcut right there, see that? And then, you can drag a handle, and that will allow you to scale non-proportionally like so. I'm just going to go ahead and undo that guy by tapping on the Undo icon. The other thing you can do is tap and hold on that touch circle right there and scoot out. Notice the words in the top right corner of the screen switched to scale centered, and that allows you to scale with respect to the center, and we are once again scaling proportionally, by the way. So this touch circle here often provides some sort of primary purpose, and then other times, with about half the tools, it has a secondary purpose, and you switch between 'em just by dragging out, like so. All right, so I'm going to now move this guy upward to let's say right about this location here, and then I'll tap the Done button in the top right corner of the screen in order to accept that modification. All right, so I'll just go ahead and double-tap inside the image once again to fit it onscreen, and that, while it's not everything I want to do, is my brief introduction to working with Photoshop 1.0 running on an iPad. Okay, so Photoshop for the iPad doesn't entirely live up to the capabilities of Photoshop 2020 for the desktop, but I mean, how could it? Photoshop 2020, that's like the 30th anniversary of the software, but I like it, Photoshop for the iPad, that is, which is why we're going to spend more time in the app next week, and the week after that. Think of it as a holiday treat from me to you. Deke's Techniques each and every week, keep watching.

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