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with a general understanding of how a
tablet works to truly appreciate what he
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can do for you and your workflow we're
gonna take a look at some practical
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examples
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well its first asked the question what
exactly are photographers doing to their
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images
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well in many cases they're doing very
little things and in some pretty drastic
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manipulations what we mean by that well
we're just exposure contrast color are
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leading a viewer's eye toward certain
portions of the image or perhaps work
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compositing multiple exposures are
multiple images together well I'm gonna
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show you a couple of ways in which
pressure sensitivity and the pen on the
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tablet can enhance your workflow in his
first example we've got a landscape
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image that could use a little bit of
adjustment in exposure and I'd also like
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to warm it up a bit to reflect the Sun
that was kinda behind the clouds at the
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time that I capture the image so to do
that what I'm gonna do is duplicate my
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image I'm gonna do so by hitting command
or control J on my keyboard that's
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duplicating my image and I'm gonna
change the blend mode from normal to
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screen this is going to lighten the
scene up considerably now I like what's
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happening here
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up underneath these this crevice right
here this shelf I can see light kind of
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added a little bit of fill light there
but I'm obviously blowing out detail in
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many other portions of the image so what
I'm going to do is I'm going to add a
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layer mask layer masks for some can be
somewhat complex or somewhat taboo some
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cases but they're actually really
powerful and their the basis for a lot
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of things that I do in Photoshop and
that I incorporate when I'm using my
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tablet what it's going to enable me to
do is going to selectively apply the
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version of this layer that I just
created here so I'm gonna start by
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filling it with black I'm going at it
and I'm gonna fill the contents using
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black their egos and now it's basically
matched out of the lighter version that
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we just created I want you to think
about it this way as if we had two
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different exposures a dark and a light
so right now the black leather mask is
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concealing what's on this layer that is
the later version I'm gonna make sure
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that I have white in the foreground I
can reset my colors by hitting the D key
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on the keyboard to reset my colors but I
want white in the foreground and I want
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to select my paintbrush tool in the
toolbox next I'm gonna open up my brush
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pen
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and make sure that I have the brush that
I want I'm going to click on Brush
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Presets within brushes and I'm going to
like this very first brush right up here
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this is a soft round brush now
incidentally is a look at my options bar
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I have this little icon right up here
this is a pressure control icon or a
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tablet control icon that toggles opacity
on and off to be affected by pen
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pressure so I turned that off for a
moment I'll come back to that I want to
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make sure that I have a soft round brush
selected and you'll notice in the brush
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preview window that has a nice soft
feather edge there's no pressure turned
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on here just yet
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rather it's just a soft round brush even
in opacity from left to right if I were
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to click on transfer and reveal the
options on the right hand side you'll
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see that control can be set to pen
pressure to now I'm gonna get a nice
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little fade from light to dark and back
to light again alright let's go in
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close-up Brush Presets and our brush
panel and I'm going to increase the size
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of my brush so that it got a very large
brush here and I'm gonna paint with
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white on a couple of the areas that I
wish to lighten up now I'm barely
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touching my pen to the tablet at the
moment because I'm applying what I call
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kind of general settings are just kind
of a general exposure adjustment so
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right there you can already see that we
are selectively applying it meaning I'm
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applying the lighter version to my image
only in the areas that I want I'm gonna
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just my brush size I can do so by using
the left or right bracket keys on the
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keyboard or I can also do so by using
one of the features on the tablet
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something we call it bring a touch ring
is basically a heat-sensitive ring that
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when you run your finger around it it
will increase or decrease the size of
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your brush will also perform a couple of
other functions that we're going to
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discuss in another chapter though
alright so now basically what I've done
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here is I have lightened up the image
Polian there is that I want and we're
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gonna find you in this in just a moment
but before I move on I'm gonna hold on
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my option or Alt key and I'm gonna tap
on the layer mask thumbnail itself in a
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bid to reveal kind of what we painted
here so I know this kinda looks like a
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little bit of a UFO but basically with
the layer mask what is happening is
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black is concealing went on that later
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white is revealing it and all of these
different shades of grey which were
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applied based on how hard it
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personally offended the tablet are
revealing that the Lite version of the
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image so if I hold my option or Alt key
down and simultaneously tap on that
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layer mask you can once again go back to
the image I'm going to talk to the
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visibility of this layer on and off for
a moment so you can see what we've done
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so not bad they're fairly large brush
there wasn't a whole lot of heavy
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lifting their we used pressure
sensitivity with the layer mask to
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selectively reveal or concealed portions
of one layer and let the other one show
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through alright so I think that looks
pretty good I'm leaving my viewers eye
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towards towards the lower right hand
corner this image but i wanna take a
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little step further so I'm gonna go
ahead and continue to use that layer
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mask this time kind of painting with
light and accentuating the highlights