Michael T Ganschow Green: alrighty then so today, we are going to have some more fun in photoshop and then we are going to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The next class, we will play with exporting which would be a little more generic collection than a photoshop one, largely because photoshop export tools have been broadly adopted by other adobe software's including indesign illustrator they include.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Very slightly different versions of these photoshop controls, so when I show you next class will go for both of those as well, but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Today we're going to finish up we're gonna put some text in photoshop we might place in another image do a couple more effects and then we'll be pretty good so today will be a nice short one, I think.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Who knows you never know until you get started on these things so um today today is a momentous occasion for you guys, this is the due date of your first preliminary critique on project, one for one, I can see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In the forum here, there has been quite a lot of activity already i'm looking right here, and we have not just people posting here, let me share this screen, this is really cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Not just people posting, but we also have folks providing feedback already here let's get zoom out of the way for by zoom.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So the project one forum we've already got folks we could all those little red posts going we've already got folks who posted their stuff up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For preliminary critique and even a few of them are sporting replies you guys are talking to each other and giving each other feedback, this is really cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So as a quick reminder for those who have not today's the due date for your preliminary critique on project one now preliminary critique is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is a is very, very straightforward basically what i'm looking for is for you guys to post.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically, a mobile version of phone version of to go through your your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To go through your thumbnails and find a mobile version or fine to good designs and do a mobile version and a computer version of each of those yeah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So, once you have those all done and set well, which you should probably be putting the finishing touches on them because tonight is the due date.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With project one, and then you toss those up on here, plus your to inspirational links and you're good to go on, so one thing that I have seen that I want to make sure that those of you who have not done this yet do do this on is in your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In your user control panel, make sure that you've set yourself up with a signature so again that's in your user control panel here under your profile.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And it's the second tab down on the left side so over here in the in your signature.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Put your name, so that we can identify who is saying what most of you have done this, but I noticed a few of you had not yet added your name.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For your signature, so I wanted to make sure that everybody gets credit for what they've said, and everybody gets critique points so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Please do go in and make sure you're at least your name is in your signature, some of you are putting far more in your signature than just your name, you know who you are so yes feel free to have fun with your signatures as well i'm no problem with that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's it's it's it's good times alright so um again project ones do today, you will have there's like there's probably going to be more than it's probably going to be 2528 you throw in touch but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You guys all have the next sending days to post critique so you have from now until next Tuesday to post critiques okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But the catch is that I want to see everybody posting critiques on everybody else's thread and understand i'm not looking for war and peace here and I want you guys to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The minimum critique i'm looking for from you guys is to identify one thing that that person did well and why and one area where they could stand to do improve and why.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you want to do more if you want to add more feel free but that's entirely up to you the very minimum i'm looking for is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: is just find something they did bell tell us why and find something that could stand to improve and tell us why so you could get away with you know, three or four sentences for your critique.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And set that up, I would prefer if you did more but i'm not going to require you to do more, so again you have between now and next Tuesday, which is the 15th I believe it is the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It is the Tuesday, yes, Tuesday Tuesday the 16th so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know, between now and Tuesday the 16th to provide your two cents to all of your classmates.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So, and again remember don't forget to put a signature up so before I start digging into photoshop and having too much fun, how many okay so because this is an asynchronous online class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: there's no most most of our Cassandra has a great question here for those who don't have the chat up and she's asking how many people are in the class so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For those who have taken traditional graphic design classes that meet physically at the mcc the client says are typically limited by the number of seats in the lab or classroom in which they take place so, for example, this web class typically has a typical captain.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because that's how many computers that are in the 217 lab where it's usually held at TMC see but because this is an asynchronous online class in theory, a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A somewhat self paced fully self learning class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I could buy the letter of the law, not do any lectures.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then they can invite anyone and everyone, so we have the largest GR C 175 class I have ever taught it's happening right now, as we speak, this has 31 people in it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: which should make fatigue fascinating, let me tell you so 31 people officially in the class as of God, want to check rosters last week, so I don't know if there's been any fluctuation since then we haven't added anybody, but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It should make critiques pretty interesting i'm figuring by the percentages of participation i'm guessing of those 31 we're probably going to see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 2425 26 consistently posting stuff for critique particularly early on here so we'll see i'm i'm sure if we get all 31 posting for critique that's awesome I would love that but yeah it's a 31 person class which is really cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm so far it's been it's been it's been good i'm liking, the questions i've been getting the messaging feedback all of that all of that has been very, very good and it's it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's it's it's really kind of gratifying to see you guys engaging at this level already some some Jesse 175 classes i've really had to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: pull teeth to to get student engagement you guys have been very good so far, so I really do appreciate you so I do have other questions project one questions questions about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Any of the design principles we talked about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: anything like that, before I jumped into photoshop and we add in some type another image, a couple of additional fun effects.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then we pretty much wrap up photoshop except for the export and so I think we probably got another I think this class will be done by like 730 maybe last mistake.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So any other questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright cool well um I think it's time to complete our terrible photoshop design here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and add in some navigation.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Some content, maybe some articles i'm not sure i'm kind of kind of going by the seat of our pants here to see what kind of design, we put together, the only thing I know is that it's bad oh um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I got a I got a quote actually a couple of you now have asked why i'm choosing all of these amy colors why i'm having class pick colors and then just using them all.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And why i'm doing a deliberately bad layout I very early on in the Semester, because, as you know, I share this photoshop file, you can you can download the current version, through the class files download here, I had.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I had a student copy my my in class photoshop demonstration, I did a nice, you know very professional order were designed and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Completely copy it and try and pass it off as their own is if I would put the thing together in front of 20 people wouldn't notice this so now just design it deliberately terribly so that none of you are tempted to steal it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Plus it's you know good participation get everybody picking colors we're not going we're not done with that, by the way, when we start building our first html.
Michael T Ganschow Green: websites week from today i'm going to have you guys start start suggesting colors and it's going to be terrible you guys are gonna love it um it's it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's gonna be combinations my classes come up with, I mean already if you take a look at our terrible photoshop file here let's go to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Get that chrome out of the way Thank you soon, thank you for putting your chrome right down in the middle of that brown Thank you that close this up, and we will go to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: GR C 175, which is already full of terrible facts so to reiterate my glc 175 to set up as a root folder so i've got an empty CSS folder for my cascading style sheets, the text files that affect.
Michael T Ganschow Green: How my website looks I have an images folder for everything and anything that I would like to show in the browser that is not directly html code, so all of my imagery illustrations logos downloadable files whatever.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In my scripts folder which would be empty the scripts folder is for behavioral control programming, so we can control our.
Michael T Ganschow Green: websites behavior and then and i'm working graphics is everything that was used to build the website so far that consists entirely of stitch being a little pouty in a Fini disquieting photorealistic manner, and this beautiful wonderful unbelievable like borderline.
Michael T Ganschow Green: visually insulting a photoshop file, but you and I have put together here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I did get some questions, by the way, on my layer naming and, if I have any particular schema for late for naming my layers in photoshop I don't.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I make sure that they conform to web naming conventions, but in terms of names and organizing the layers I do not, I mostly just kind of name them whatever I feel like it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's dig in and work a little bit more on our photoshop before I get started here any questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay let's have some fun here, so we have a nice little colorful navigation area up top here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We have.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A possible secondary navigation area or a blog post area or something like that over here we have a content area here and we have a nice little footer here, so I think i'm going to build some navigation buttons here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Up top for the for the navigation for our website and to do that i'm going to use.
Michael T Ganschow Green: text tools so i'm going to click on my top layer here, so that when I click in and insert text and it generates a new layer that new layer will be above my navigation, by the way, i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: text in photoshop is the only thing that true that generates its own layer automatically.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Otherwise pretty much whatever you're doing on photoshop will be affecting the layer that you have selected in your layer stack so it's it's so you kind of have to be careful when you're when you're doing things in photoshop because sometimes you can you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can be working and working and working and working and realize oh crap i've done everything in a layer that's most everything together and I need to undo everything back out and re save and you've lost, you know you know minutes or hour or even hours work.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To this So be careful with photoshop what layers you have selected if you're doing things in it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A lot of you said you were doing your layouts in indesign illustrator that's perfectly fine i'm going to show you guys export and photoshop next class alright so let's add some navigation in here so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In order to answer navigation i'm going to engage photoshopped type tools and then to do that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I come about three quarters the way down my toolbar over here to my horizontal type tool, right here now, there are a number of different type tools that photoshop offers yep I know it's of course spinning the multicolored wheel, yes, yes indeed.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh yeah because my navigation is all the unknown we turn the effects off, so we have several type tools at our beck and call, here we have a horizontal type tool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A vertical type tool, a vertical type masking tool and a horizontal type masking tool, so the type tools are pretty straightforward.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Horizontal type that's type basically along the line vertical type tool type up and down now these type mass tools are really interesting they make.
Michael T Ganschow Green: marching ants types, so they make type that are selections Okay, and so you can you can use these type tools to like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You want to you want to have like a giant letter T that looks like it's punched out and showing a photo through it, you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: type A huge T on an image and make a marching and cut that T out paste it somewhere else and do like an inner shadow and suddenly have punched in image out of it, so these type mass tools are interesting I actually use them quite a bit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: professionally but, in our case we're going to use a horizontal type tool and so a horizontal type tool is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: is pretty much the most basic type tool that photoshop offers now you notice up here our little properties guy has changed, I have my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I have now us and type selection things I have a font selection area here, I have a basically a font type selection here, you know is that we're looking at the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Bold version, the black version, the Italic version, the lite version, the thin version that medium version that you can select you know, whatever different version, the typeface offers i'm going to sizing here, which is done on points like most adobe programs, they will default to points.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of an anti aliasing control gear.
Michael T Ganschow Green: won't talk too much about that, but that, basically, our controls how jaggy the the pistols the pixels are next to your type so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we'll we'll come back to anti aliasing a little bit when we talk about exploiting tomorrow, but basically what anti aliasing does is it fills in a little bit of color along the edge of the type to kind of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A version of the outside color around the type and a version of the type color and kind of mixing them together to soften the edge of the type a little bit so it's not as jaggy I tend to leave it on sharp so that I don't get any weird like colorblind sometimes it will do that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You also have left Center and right alignment and then over here if you click in here, this is a, this is a color picker it defaults to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I believe, whatever your background color is, in our case, the background color is this lovely sewer brown green that was selected in in the class color picking area or color picking times it's good to chat cool questions there alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you want additional type controls, if these are not enough, and you need more, there is a window.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For this called window character, so you go to the window menu up at the top here, and you go about a quarter of the way down and you click character boop and it will pop up with this little palette notice he's sitting here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In the clothes pallets now pop up with this little pellet right here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That will give you some additional type controls so For those of you who've used other graphics program you might recognize this, because this is very similar to the character palette in illustrator and indesign almost like to me from the same company.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So you have your font.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You have your individual type face here you've got your you have your typeface here your individual font here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your size, here again, in point you're letting, which is the space between lines if you have multiple lines like they're you tracking which is space between letters.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and your excuse me your current space between levels always get you guys i'm going to bear with me for the whole rest of the Semester, because I always get tracking.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Words so sorry about that you're learning space between the letters and you're tracking the overall space in the letters in the word.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You could also vertically stretch your type so stretch armstrong's either higher or lower you can also horizontally stretch your title pull it out, you get super scripting so like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like powers of you know, the little number above your yeah you can you can, or you want to do a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Mark to go look at the bottom of a document you can super script things there's some color selection there and then there's some basic type stuff here, so you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can bold your type in photoshop you can kind of make a fake Italic if an Italic on a bleak version of a particular font does not exist.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can all capture type which basically turns the whole thing and all capital letters will likely do that for navigation, just to make it look Tripoli annoying you can also small capture type where.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You have capital letters that are the size of your lowercase type and then one Capital letter that's bigger at the beginning of everything.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then there's also super scripting putting type slightly above the line and above a letter again use typically for calling out things and papers and subscription kicking it down below the baseline as well, again, a little number.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can also if you want to be especially annoying underline it strike through your type as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So there's a lot of type controls here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Big box to type we have paragraph controls paragraph controls, mostly consists of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Do you want to left right or centerline your paragraph or do you want it to be justified, that is, that yet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The right and left edge pink are are both hard lines, except for the last line which wraps a certain way, in this case the last line will start from the Left on this one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it'll centerline the last line or turn it to the right or it'll say you know what no we're going to break the last line up and we're going to have it cover the entire.
Michael T Ganschow Green: area, however long, that is, and get all sorts of characters broken up, you can also in your paragraph menu set distances from the sides, so you can basically indent your whole paragraph one side or the other.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can also indent just the first line because you want to in your paragraph like line wise we don't do this too much in web design, but we do use.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This kind of inventing stuff and then there is adding a little bit of spacing between paragraphs.
Michael T Ganschow Green: From the top of the so from the top of a paragraph to the paragraph above it and then from the bottom of a paragraph to the paragraph below it so pretty straightforward, all things considered, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I we're going to kick us off right here, right now, with some navigation i'm just going to type it in as a single line to get everything going.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So here we go navigation alright so let's get our type tool selected.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Waiting for zoom chrome to pop back up there, we go, so I can actually use this alright, so I have a lot of fonts installed on this computer.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So let's grab something terrible for our navigation something memorable but awful.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's go by the way, if you don't have the same fonts that I have when you download this thing you'll probably have to swap the fonts out Batman forever is a terrible font let's use that are you likely will have to swap.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your fonts out because it will it will give you a preview of them, but it won't show the whole thing photoshop does not embed font information fact most adobe software is done so i'm just going to click somewhere random lakers are going to move the navigation around later.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm going to start inserting some buttons here so i'm going to click all like it's already filling in the line so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm most adobe software's with the recent cce versions now when you either make a text box or start a text line automatically fill themselves up with this fake type called Loren and Loren Epsom is basically pig Latin that fills in your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your type area, and the reason why they do, that is, because if you type in a filler sentence and copy paste it again and again and again and again, it will build patterns lauren Epsom is random, and so it will run all sorts of words through.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and make it look like real tight because it won't you won't get the stalking patterns of the same sentence repeated over and over and over again now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 48 point seems a little bit so i'm going to type in my notice it's already pre highlighted by the way when it clicked it in there, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm going to come in here and i'm going to type in my first button which i'm all good websites as a home button now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I now sewer Brown is a plenty attractive color particularly down here in the footer but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I think we need something a little lighter here so that people can actually see so i'm thinking kind of a nice gentle sort of dirty pond water tan.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Maybe we'll green it up just a little bit yeah we go kind of a dirty pond water green.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now, if I make it any greener it'll mint up on us, and then it might start looking to track and we can't have that in this design so i'll use a nice nice kind of scummy pond water pale green here goes with the idiom it's fun.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So I also want to contract this guy as well, now I can either do that up here in the properties menu or I can do it over here in character, because I don't want.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 48 point type of my navigation, although it does kind of look cool peeking up over the edge like this, so I may shrink it a bit, but not a ton because he my original plan was to shrink it down.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To like that size we'd have nice big fat button text that I could come in here and Center.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But uh you know kind of like the look of slightly bigger text overlapping the top that has kind of a sort of a raw terror to it than I think.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We can use, by the way, i'm using preset sizes, but you can always come in here and type your own size, if you want, so I think i'm going to go I think we're gonna go 30 points.
Michael T Ganschow Green: click off of that so it POPs in 30s a little big let's go 28.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah we want to make this a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's make it like a nice three button navigation, maybe two or three buttons let's we're going to click on the edge of the home here so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In order to select type in photoshop if you have live type and you can tell so because you will see a layer that has either the layer preview as a little T on it, you take your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your type tool and you bring it right over the edge of the type So you see how my just floating type tool here as a little kind of dotted line around it in photoshop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you take your type tool and you hovered over any piece of live type, you will notice that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That lined box or the dotted line disappears, so what you can do is whenever you see that that means you can click in your type and it will insert a flashing insertion point and see the little cursor flashing here so i'm going to add in another button called about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It and how many.
Michael T Ganschow Green: spaces, did I do you want to yeah so we'll do one, two and contact.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so i'll just shrink this down just a tiny bit, but that's that's fine here will shrink it down by the way, i'm clicking in my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: clicking in my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Type sizing here, highlighting the number and I am.
Michael T Ganschow Green: backing off of it ever so slightly with my arrow keys to move it down so you can move these numbers up and down with arrow keys, you can also click on your type and drag it around as you see fit, but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I think this is especially terrible I I really do I, I, like the way it's kind of sticking above things here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I think it's got a whole like like idiom about it that just says this person clearly doesn't know what they're doing, which is awesome.
Michael T Ganschow Green: now live type has another cool party trick that they can do get creative cloud, you can add effects to it so remember all those effects we had fun with.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Little why we go last class well guess what you can do them here too, so we can go, you know what you know what you know what this needs, you know what this needs, I think, just needs a drop shadow.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that the type POPs again so it's still remember my own blue drop shadow to very nice is available, I will tighten this up a little bit and will tighten this up a little bit and just a little more and we go and just to leave.
Michael T Ganschow Green: tops very good sort of satin on top of it to shrink the oh the opacity decent, but we will.
Michael T Ganschow Green: see justice done much of anything here nope we're going to play the size and then to get it kind of metallic.
Michael T Ganschow Green: whoo now now we're getting spooky I go yeah get it metallic get it get it, so it looks like a dirty bronze that hasn't been cleaned in a while there we go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So now we have live type with an effect on it now, what does that mean that means I can come in here and type anything I want, and it will automatically apply that content to it, or that effect to it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That is a single line of type.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now, if you want to change the font you can always highlight any piece of type here and then come in here, and you say you know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Batman forever is pretty pretty decent looking like that's a good first step, but I think we need at least one more type here, let me see did I delete bleeding cowboys in a fit of rage one but let's see here that one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah I think I deleted up there, it is hey we got bleeding cowboys cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: ooh oh that's even better placed look at that much is on fire alright so we're going to make about bleeding cowboys, by the way, if you know the name of your font as well, you can also type it in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And photoshop will search it up for you, that works for any adobe software, by the way, oh yeah look at that look at that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That is just some classy a one navigation right there clipping over the edge we've got we've got the bleeding cowboys is clipping through the middle.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah this is this is this is everything I could have asked for so we're going to Center this and I think we're going to call that some pretty pretty pretty awesome navigation.
Michael T Ganschow Green: They will bring it down just to touch so that bleeding cowboys Arc arcs to the bottom.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go all right, you guys that's that's just i'm going to submit this you guys i'll see you all at the at ease and i'm gonna win an addy with this thing I know it, so our questions about type so far in photoshop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're going to scare too tired to move actually what they're doing right now is they've got my class running in the corner you guys.
Michael T Ganschow Green: watching this and pre recorded everybody who's here live they've got my class running and they're writing commentary to their fellow students and project, one I know they're doing it alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It looks like a pretty good let's hide our guides here view let's hide we're going to want to clear them, I just want to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: hide my God show its go unchecked guide, so we can see how the Oh yes, there we go Yes, this is looking good OK, so now that now that let's let's start adding into body copy so i'm gonna go back to view and put my guides into place let's go to do to do to do view.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's go show show guides.
Michael T Ganschow Green: They are alright so we're going to do is save real quick so that I don't have a crash and lose all of my majestic photoshop design here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're going to put in a little bit of body copy so i've got kind of a body copy area here that I can put copy into, so why not let's go get some body copy so now, I could click using my type tool and well this is going to be terrible.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I could come here click and drag.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and make a nice little box, that it will fill with lauren Epsom or Chad there goes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That looks like it's defaulting to myriad pro or Epsom, but I want to, I want to fill this with a different.
Michael T Ganschow Green: filler type is giant to it's like 25 points so we're going to shrink it all down we're gonna we're gonna we're going to set it all up in a second so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: First things first is i'm going to change the color from a lovely kind of scummy pond water color to i'm thinking like a nice kind of Burgundy give this web page and class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we're going to go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 10 points to get it nice a trunk notice again there's my text box and we have this nice paragraph here i'm going to shrink it a little further.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah eight yeah yeah i'll shrink it a little further, I heard somebody on in commentary there yeah will shrink it a little further.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Yes, we're shrinking their codes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So there it is OK, so now let me go, let me go show you guys.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so when we start building websites.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you'll need to add a lot of dummy copy and as you're laying out these websites.
Michael T Ganschow Green: so that you can see what its gonna look like, without necessarily having the content or the copy ready to go when you're doing your layouts that's what.
Michael T Ganschow Green: lauren lipson was invented for but we don't have an automated warm up some like dropper inner like photoshop does or indesign does or illustrator does in the world of web design instead.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We use Epsom generators, so one of the Okay, so one of the it's very clearly a basic student programming project, so a number of programming students have done this, they take a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: They take a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: They basically take like dialogue from a movie or a great speeches, or whatever, and they feed it into a randomized there and make it some languages, based on it so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If I pop open a nice little browser window like say i've got the class website and i'm watching people posting on the forum, right now, so you know, being a better yep yep yep we got people posting on the forum right now cool um So if I do a Google search for an Epsom generator.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You get tons and tons and tons there's a website that generates regular old lauren Epsom right but that's I mean that's a square man, so what we got to do is we got to get some fun epson generators here, so there are a number of links out there to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We are the Epsom generators, you can you can you can find a whole bunch of them if you search up Epsom generator lists so so a lot of these students may things here's a pirate Epsom er arm at a cupcake Epsom cheese Epsom.
Michael T Ganschow Green: phil aroma, which is a dialogue from like a whole bunch of like futurama doctor who and and Monty Python and whole bunch of nerds shows there's kip system.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Which is a hipster dialogue generator that also just smashes together random forward thinking words.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There is a office Epsom, which is all of the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Those of you guys who work in offices, you know how you know the terrible way you basically will end up writing emails about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know let's put a pin in this and circle back on these action items and all of that stuff yeah it's an income generated that there's an Epsom generator for Carl Sagan there's zombie Epsom we can make zombies.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Which is basically just a series of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: zombie dialogue from famous movies, which is cool and dialogue from zombie movies there's cat Epsom where you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's basically said a cat names fan into a into a speech to text.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Blue tip some ancient alien Epsom the Aliens mean guy it's like all the interviews he's ever done somebody threw that in a generator.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Legal him some just legally is all over the place, literary have some monocle Epsom online dating Epsom where somebody somebody did a database dump on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On several different online dating places and put their the various people's profiles in Epsom generators, there are a ton of these one my students, especially love to use one of my students that 10 years ago, eight years ago found this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: is called Samuel l Epsom and it is a constantly updating Samuel l Jackson Epsom generator where you can turn on it off profanity and it will generate a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: warm up some type based on Samuel l Jackson dialogue and he constantly.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The programmer who builds this constantly updated whenever Samuel l Jackson has a new movie out it gets the script and the data dumps it in here so there's all kinds of stuff.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can have it clean or or not um my very favorite one, and the one that I will be using throughout class you guys can use your own, or if you're feeling like you just want to throw some stuff in you can use regular old warm up some one that I use is bacon if some.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now don't let the name fool you and includes other meat products other than bacon.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But, and all of them pretty much work this way you tell them how many paragraphs you want some of them have adjusters in this case.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With bacon Epsom you can add meat or meat and fillings.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you can start with bacon Epsom as it starts, or you can have it not start with bacon Epsom and you can make it spicy put in US spices in here, and then, once you're done with your paragraphs, you can mash give me bacon and boom here is the copy paste text Samuel l m some.
Michael T Ganschow Green: works let's see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I P let's find there it is let some Sammy LM some works very similarly you can say I like five paragraphs of Sammy i'll have some it'll give you some tags to you can add some html tags and this one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then, and you can generate it and there's the code any copy paste that as well um I as much as I love Samuel l m I probably wouldn't use it in any client presentations just you know saying.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so let's grab some bacon Epsom here i'll grab a couple of paragraphs worth dude dude dude do i'm going to edit copy them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then we're going to go into photoshop and going to highlight this drill normal Laura lipson.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we're going to paste in some bacon, so I think I got room for Liner to more of bacon Epsom so you know what i'm gonna go grab a line or two more of bacon excellent so let's go grab like the first two lines of this paragraph, I think that'll get us a nice chunk of bacon episode so.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: go in, I think I can come back here and we will and we go, then I can think this ever so slightly longer oh I just only need the one line dona.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All right, well then we're going to take this line out and we are like dad yeah that's some good that is good good yep some text right there so um once you have a paragraph box like this in photoshop these paragraph boxes behave a little bit like text boxes in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In indesign illustrator where once you have where if you've got the type tool selected and you click in the box you get a grabbers at the corners.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And at the corners and basically at Center points vertically and horizontally, and so what you can do is you can resize this box and it will re flow, the type as needed so like if I want to give myself a little more.
Michael T Ganschow Green: margin over here on my right side, I can just come over and I hover over the little grabber point until it gives me a double sided arrow and then I can start.
Michael T Ganschow Green: dragging this back and forth to resize I want to resize the whole thing I simply come to a corner till It gives me a double sided arrow and then I roll this up like this and it will resize the text box.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's these guys have hard returns in between the paragraphs I don't tend to as rule, what type like to use hard returns between paragraphs okay I tend to with my stuff in photoshop and really within any other graphic software I tend to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Stick my paragraphs next to each other and then use paragraph spacing to give me my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My Nice.
Michael T Ganschow Green: oops little farther my nice yeah so oops, no, no, no, I would like you to be right there, thank you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you go so i've done a little kind of mash together, but you can kind of see where each of the paragraph ends and I can come in how about the paragraphs.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Go to my paragraph guy right here, and I can either come in here and play with the margins on the paragraph usually what I do is uh.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is I actually mess around with these typically in the text box unless i've got like a drop quote or something.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then I can come in here, and I can pick either one of these either distance from the top or distance from the bottom and I just start adding in distance in my paragraphs like So there we go, so I don't have an extra character being taken up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So there is my text.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now photoshop does not have an automated drop CAP so those of you who want to do a drop CAP will have to manually do it yourselves by say highlighting the first character in the paragraph, and maybe say going and finding another terrible font dude do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We go let's see ah let's do a ooh ooh phosphate yes let's do that will make this Nice and big too.
Michael T Ganschow Green: so that you can set your very own drop CAP.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just like so there's just just get rid of all that type below since the drop CAP is kicked it out, we didn't we weren't not needing that spare type it all go, so I what I did to do that, by the way, is I just stretched my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My text box down far enough, that I could see the text that have been clipped off on the bottom of it deleted the text and put it back so make this a nice bright red yes to SS sucks there we go there's that OK, so now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We are all set with our body copy.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So Questions there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And anything type related.
pop the chat up in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This just keeps looking better.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A scratched yes oh okay so did you so photoshop through your scratch desk window Cassandra.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Typically, what that means is that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Unless it's something new, but typically What it means is that a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your photoshop is running into what's called a scratch desk limit, so what happens is photoshopped stores, a little bit of its.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's Ram essentially it's what what's active and opening on your hard drive as a set of files it deletes and reopens every time it opens up well if it's using a lot of that space and a lot of your Ram sometimes you can get you can run into hard limits with photoshop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As far as I know you can go into the properties.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is for windows course, but you can go into your properties.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and check and see and check um do you have this is all windows troubleshooting You can check and see how much scratch desk it's using.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I get them a lot on like my port work computer, which has got an almost full hard drive on it, I get them from time to time, so I have to go in and adjust it um let's see here, I can get a good tutorial for you guys now dump it in the thing here so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh yeah here we go um so what so yeah here's a few different things that that will help with that so um you can also delete your temp files so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You you basically can search your hard drive these little tmp files are actually what photoshop is storing it's information on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And so you can go in and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Clear them out Oh, here we go also if you were if you want to delete temp files and photoshop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Here we go photoshop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you go photoshop let's see where did they say it was purge i'm actually use the purge inside photoshop so we're going to see your photoshop CC purge all.
Michael T Ganschow Green: purging cash oh yeah you do lose your unused, by the way, so uh so be aware of that, so I believe it's the said purge the preferences now I don't see a purge here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So we'll have to see when do works alright so we're going to go purge.
Michael T Ganschow Green: See really moved it to oh there it is purge is a very nice it's now an edit so I you know to edit purge.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you can clear all of your I basically clears out all the files photoshop is saved and frees up space on your hard drive so um I wouldn't do it unless you're getting performance issues with your photoshop relating to your Dr Cassandra.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see what it but, when it does happen, go ahead and purge it here, so you just go edit purge.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And it will pop up by the way, when I just did there you guys if you know what okay so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: adobe in their infinite wisdom likes to move a lot of the tools menu items around whenever they release a new update for photoshop so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With each major update it's a bit like relearning the interface again so if you're lost if you've got a if you know the name and your tool right but you're but you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But you don't know where they moved it to I got to help up top here and type in the name of the tool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And it will give you all the menus and, as you go through it will show you, it will highlight it through the menus where they are really, really handy in photoshop saved my butt good God I don't know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So you know if you want to do when they took the paragraph tools, while they go boom there's up there's had open up your paragraph menu styling paragraphs all sorts of panels, etc, etc, etc, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Very handy if you lose something in photoshop go up to help search the name of the tool boom the program will tell you where it is it's really nice.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um let's see heather type something earlier here let's see this just keeps looking better, yes, yes, it does, I believe this is a great masterpiece of mine, I think that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I believe that one of you guys is going to save this PSD file and long after i'm gone and perhaps after i'm famous you're going to put this up as a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like a prime example of my work that'll be a framed copy of your print out in a museum somewhere, perhaps next to my greets the pipe so or it's not a pipe does it now alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And by the way, if your body copy if you feel that your body copy needs a little extra says, you can put some effects on that too, like I think my body copy needs an outer glow yo.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So you know what let's outer glow red is just not no we're not going to do, read who does read for an outer glow come on now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're going to do a nice white outer glow so it looks like it's just sort of gently glowing oh on our background look at that God that looks awful fantastic.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is just this is just more than I could ever dream of you guys, thank you for coming along in this ride alright So there we go that's Nice and terrible looking now, so it makes it a monitor look slightly over sharpen very good people like what have you done alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's note that pen tool let's drop in one more image I think i'm going to drop in an image over here and put a nice little text caption underneath it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It kind of show you guys some additional copy pasting in images and then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh there's an effect, I want to show you how to do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In photoshop that a lot of people like to do on their website roughs so For those of you who I know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Several of you asked about how to do this, how to make notches in files i'ma show you how to make notches visually and then I think that'll cover it for pretty much for how to make things look good and bad in photoshop so let's see what else what other image and I put in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I oh I don't want image uploaded here hang on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: hang on hang on I know what the job.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so let's go and get.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A sense and that's simply just terrible, this is the kind of image, that is, people like here's an area is alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're going to we're going to drop in a little photorealistic Homer here, because this one terrifies everyone so grab always nice and tiny too, so we can throw them in here so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: By the way, I got a lot of questions on dpi and what you need to worry about if you're pulling images from the Internet well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In terms of dpi um you got a lot of room for forgiveness monitors i'm pretty much anything 10 ATP and lower resolution is not going to see anything or it's not going to notice any image degradation.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If the image is 70 is above 72 dpi usually for 10 ATP the recommended range of somewhere between 72 dpi and 96 dpi a dpi is a measurement.
Michael T Ganschow Green: means dots per inch on a monitor the more technical term is pixels per inch or ppi.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Effectively, the same thing, though, and I use dpi because I was trained as a print guy first so therefore I speak, a lot of print lingo so i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Low so 72 to 96 dpi is your range of playing with you're dealing with 10 ATP if you're dealing the retina which is two K.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The you're dealing with like 144 dpi for retina if you're going to deal with 4k you want it about 288 really close to print but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Since i'm not building this thing for retina really you know what i'm going to get a tear or this one's actually little better aspect ratio.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm gonna get a terrifying the photorealistic Homer Simpson here awesome finger to and i'm going to put him in in my sidebar with a nice little caption on him.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then i'm going to show you guys how to do some effect was pretty much photoshop Q amp a time so let's grab Homer here hi we're going to go open.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A new tab so For those of you who remember back in the day, Google images used to have a little button where you'd click and it would open up the image all on its lonesome.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Well getty images sued them for that thing and one in court, people were using it apparently to steal getty images and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And so, getting images one in court and Google had to take that feature out so if you want to replicate that same feature, with a little button, all you gotta do is draw a click or right click if you're on a mouse.
Michael T Ganschow Green: or command click actually no control click on on on both a MAC and a PC This is one thing, where the share commands and it'll pull up a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Little fly out menu, and you just say open the image in a new tab and suddenly suddenly I go suddenly photorealistic Homer staring into your soul.
Michael T Ganschow Green: judging you now Homer didn't judge anybody, but he's staring into your soul, taking the way to measure of you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can look in that for a second, while I download this we're gonna go save image you bet let's save it to where do I want to save it I know where I want to save it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're going to save it to my desktop we're going to go into GR C 175 and it's a working graphic right So there we go, so now we're going to call this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: One call this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is the end.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we'll say save.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Right so there's over so let's go crack them open in photoshop shall we are going to bang, it was my dad Nice and open areas still downloading apparently.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Interesting I thought it was downloaded here boom okay so maybe the previews having issues will find that we're going to bring this back up we're going to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: jump out of working graphics jump back and yeah can there cuz it was some kind of refresh issue all right, they want to open up this is the end right here in photoshop and we're gonna stick them on the sidebar over there, why, because we can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Do to do so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: goes, we are colored wheeling about there we go alright, so this is a nice big image this thing is over 1400 pixels tall.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So when you copy and paste this guy and paste them into our composition here because, why not all right so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: paste them right in bang now notice that he is bleeding off the edge of my image and I need to resize him in order to make him fit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So in that case, I have to use photoshop transform tools to resize him now, you can access as tools by either going to edit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Free transform right here and basically draws a box around whatever you're free transforming and i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and puts a bunch of grabbers typically grabbers at the corners and then grabbers at Center point vertically and horizontally, so that you can resize the thing, as you need.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So you can do that there's also preset transforms you can play with in photoshop to do all sorts of terrible things happen with that, but in my case i'm mostly just going to do a nice for re transform So here we go now oh.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Wait a minute the image is so large it's going off of my art board and it's gone down below my screen now, you will have this happens, sometimes when you copy based things so in photoshop if this happens to you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All you have to do is back out of the file shrink the art board so that you see the art you basically pushed out your file or push yourself away from the file, depending on how you want to look at it, so that the file.
Michael T Ganschow Green: looks a little smaller and the art board in photoshop, that is if you're on a MAC command plus and command minus if you're on a PC control plus and control minus so plus zooms you in zoom's you in in minus backs you out so now, I can grab.
Michael T Ganschow Green: One of my little grabbers on the corner and I can move this thing now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you've worked in any other graphic software any other graphic software, you know that, in order to grab something and scale it change the size of it evenly you have to hold down the shift key.
Michael T Ganschow Green: photoshop decided to mess with that a little bit so a few versions ago in photoshop CC they decided no it's going to scale everything normally by default.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But if you hold down the shift key night won't scale evenly at all right, so you have to be careful with your instincts it trips me up so many times you guys so many times so many times.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We see there he goes no, you have to not hold down the shift key was just the impulse to hold down the shift key now, you should be small enough.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We can put in a Homer now with your transform still on you can of course moving image around while you're transforming you know Homer clip over the edge a little bit that was horrified.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go there, he is there, he is you guys very as well i'm i'm Center like right on the H H, is for Homer there we go, so now he's over the top, and I think.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I think he looks a little flat on our background, so I think first of all, you just look at this you guys why didn't anyone you tell me a hand named by layer after I pasted him in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just let me hang out in the breeze here, look at this all right fine i'll go in and rename my layer we're going to be Homer in all lowercase letters want to go Homer.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And all lowercase letters right there and, by the way, I got that rename or by double clicking on the name right there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I know I think Homer could use a little facts will just put I going to put our good old fashioned buddy the drop shadow on him, just like that, oh no wait wait wait I got a better one let's just break the human eye a little bit let's throw an inner shadow on him.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go, so now it looks like he's Connor out he's punched out, yes, yes, look at that Homer has been sliced out and punched in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You guys had the right idea there that's beautiful.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so have questions on image handling and photoshop we've had a lot of fun there Well, now we play around with image optimization next class so it's been a little a little bit of a caption on Homer a smaller piece of text and then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We are going to add we're going to i'm going to show you how to make notches a bunch of you asked about you were sending me.
Michael T Ganschow Green: designs and you were showing things about where they put little notches in between navigation or articles or things like that, and how to set that up and, fortunately, we have a tool for that it is called the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: single column marquee tool there's also a single row one for vertical slices as well for horizontal slices as well all right first things first that we need to Homer a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: nice little caption here so we're going to come over here and we're gonna come we're going to down here and click in here it's probably going to be too big not there, it is sorry lauren Epsom it's kind of an offensive color we may try one fig 3.2.
Michael T Ganschow Green: kind of captured should I put just what the heck is going on year.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A tree here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: will then there we go alright so let's let's do will do a nice classy color here, because I know you guys love it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's go and I think it's time to talk to them or orange banana this has kind of been an orange free zone all day today so let's bring in some orange needs it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's go and grab an ugly Funk face is married to Nice, no, no, no, no, no, no let's go have a lot of horrendous joke fonts we could do one that's not even like readable that's just like dinosaurs are some.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh, here we go digital, no, no, no that's not even readable either let's go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Further again all these same fonts same fonts let's go now we don't have a Mano type core siva Michael that's so basic let's go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Over Russell oblique, why not so it looks like someone's frantically sketching desperately asking.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Why their sanity is drying up and then we're going to shrink it down another point size so it's Nice and centered ass yes now we're getting some nice terrible vapor wave trapper keeper aesthetic going on here very good just what the heck is going on here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Well, I think, maybe I you know what i'm going to put a little type in the footer too.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So let's go let's add a little bit of teeny type in the footer as well, why not well we're here, well, we got this design laid out and then we'll play with selection tools.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm gonna put a nice little thing over on the side over here as well, just a little fun piece of type so we're going to go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This has gone on long enough.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh didn't type in all of you, thank you photoshop this has gone on long enough exclamation point.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're gonna make this in a white so it's bright and stand out he we're going to need a big bold font Russell oblique is not big and bold enough, I could do impact, but everybody does impact again basic i'll go banks knees, will do that and make it bigger.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A little bit so that the edge shares an edge with that guy and it'll throw a quick drop shadow on it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: throw a quick drop shadow on it.
Did you do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: OK OK so here is this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so now we've got this has gone on long enough we're now all set and ready to add some fun little notches in lines So while I do that, though questions on anything relating to photoshop hear about chat here see what you guys got.
Michael T Ganschow Green: or questions on anything else that needs last minute sudden project one questions.
Heather Amistani: So I posted my thing already, but I was wondering, do we need to put two website, I know, we need to put two websites that inspired us, but we also need to put two websites that we learned something from.
Michael T Ganschow Green: know the two websites that you learn something from our for the final post.
Heather Amistani: Okay yeah.
Heather Amistani: So that's the yeah it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's I wanted to, I wanted to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Start you off with the with the with the creativity first so so yeah just just the inspirational ones.
Michael T Ganschow Green: righty then excellent That was good question other questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: cool all right well let's see we've got we've got all the type we could ever want if I go on a Heidi.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're going to hide my guides again.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah that's a ensure is man, I think we need a divider here between a Homer and the type like some nice little maybe a vertical line or I can move home or in the type A little little closer together.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm not sure i'm gonna put in a vertical divider just to show you guys how it's done, and then I think i'm going to add in some of those need visual shorthand slots right here in between my buttons so it looks like there's actual some kind of demarcation between my buttons.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'll use that as to show you guys layer grouping which is always fun and photoshop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So why jump in any other questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Well alright.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's jump in let's put in a vertical line somewhere in here in between the image and the type a little bit so i'm gonna make a brand new layer brand new layer call it a content divider.
Michael T Ganschow Green: boo yeah alright so putting in these little lines is actually surprisingly straightforward it just using a couple of of your selection tools to paint in a vertical line and then using additional selection tools to clip pieces of the vertical line out yeah so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um what up here directly underneath the direct selection tool or the excuse me, the direct selection tool that's illustrators black arrow Michael the black arrow in photoshop is called move.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Remember your programs been working in illustrator all day so i'm kind of an illustrator frame of mind so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would come down here to the marquee tools and instead of using the rectangular murky tool we are going to use a single column murky tool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And what does the single column marquee tool do well What it does is it selects one column of pixels in your document so i'm going to come somewhere here kind of in the middle.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like i'm out there, if you want to move it around feel free you can arrow your little line around boo boo boo boo boom i'm going to make sure I have my content divider layer selected.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'm going to insert a color in the middle here so again, you guys like your vibrant colors we've been using reds.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For like highlighting things in the type of got a little orange here, so I think between the random the orange we're going to do a divider that's a blue green why because i'm feeling it let's see what do you think a little yeah go ago not quite full 90s, to turn.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go kind of a mixed here will do will demand gen and when they get as bright as possible, why not yeah so set that as our foreground color and remember all of our selection tool filling that we actually built the structure of the website with we will go edit bill.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For ground color and suddenly it looks like my monitor has a dead pixel in it, oh no oh snap there's a line going through the middle of it, what have I done what have I done, what can I do, what is it possible to do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Do here we go alright, so we got our divider it's actually in place here on if you guys want to do a thicker divider.
Michael T Ganschow Green: there's divider if you guys want to do a thicker divider you can always SCO rid of the color you select always take your rectangular murky tool and just draw a super thin box as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that's another way to do it now, the reason why i'm doing it this way is because I want to show you guys using these single grow and single column tools we're gonna do a single column tools again to make separator between the buttons here okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So we'll come back to your book, we got a nice little separator going there that goes and then we're going to fill it with that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The Teal and it filled with the to if you guys want to make it a little bigger you can then we're going to do, select it i'm using a command deal, though, you can always go to select D select as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I basically just need to trim my little divider so i'm going to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: trim off basically everything that's in the nav everything that's in the top bar everything that's in the footer and maybe just a little bit up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A little bit down from the menu and a little bit up from the footer into the content to give us a little bit of margin.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In order to do that i'm just going to take a rectangular murky tool select this thing about as far down as I want to take it hit delete and that will delete that out and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: select up about that far we hit delete.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now i've got a little divider in place, I probably in retrospect, should have used the darker color so it's more obvious.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In fact, you know what i'm going to do i'm going to mix and change the color so we're gonna come in here this tlc bright, we need a darker tlc you guys can see it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So there we go i'm put a darker Teal in here and i'm going to change the color but coming down here and holding down the command key control on a PC, as I said, i'm over here my layers palette i'm going to come to the layers preview right here i'm gonna hold down like command key.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And click in the layer preview now you know you have it right before you click when the little pointer finger that usually shows when you hold over that when you hold over that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That window there you hold down the command and when you're down the command key a little dotted box will appear basically at the wrist on that little pointer finger.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you do that click and it fills in so now i'm going to go, you know what we need to do we need to fill this edit fill with this new foreground color.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now we've got whoo now we've got a nice little line right there just just just very, very thin I probably would thicken it up a little bit in fact I might do that by you know, maybe just drop shadowing it poof now we won't do that we're going to put a stroke on it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're going to go in here and we're going to put a stroke on it, why not, why not, because I can, because I can think of that coming right out there we're going to throw like two points stroke on it and name up, we need.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Outside side let's go one point picking it up there, we go, so we have a nice little divider line here, I might even be tempted to trim it a little further like maybe come in here and just kind of mo it just a little bit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like that using rectangular marquee tools and, if you like, the placement of it cool If not you can move it around with arrows to get it all set up so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Vertical columns are pretty easy, you can either use this single row selection tool or single column selection tool, or you can use a rectangular murky tool to draw a very thin rectangle.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so questions on that questions on anything before we start cutting notches into our navigation.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so I just designs great um, by the way, none of you told me to save my file i've been running unsafe to your for like 20 minutes, I mean I thought I knew what I was doing, but no apparently not apparently just flagrantly running around and saved here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now let's that's not just here, so a bunch of you commented and and a couple of you send me pictures of websites where they've basically it looks like they've taken the nav bar and they've cut little marks into it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So it looks like a chisel the little notch in it now, this is actually.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A super straightforward thing to do in photoshop, believe it or not, so enough for you've asked, I figured, why not let's feature it in the class so let's pretend I don't know, maybe that these buttons were.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Properly proportion, you know actually hang on one second i'm going to go take my buttons here and i'm going to add a little outer glow with them, so that we can see him against stitch there so i'm going to go hi Hello need your outer glow Thank you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that we can see, maybe not scream you know you know what yep yep red reds good alright, so now i'm gonna come in here and i'm going to build one of these little notches and i'm going to demonstrate a couple other things you can do with layers like duplicating layers and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And grouping layers in photoshop because typically with a lot of photoshop files you wind up with some very.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Wonderful files, with a lot of layers in them and grouping and organizing your layers becomes very important I don't know probably your web layout to have so many layers but some of yours might so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: here's a good here's some good layer organization stuff along with a little bit on how to do these notches yeah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So the notches are basically two one pixel columns Okay, so you kick where your light source is okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And one column is a white highlight and one column is a black shadow and based on where your light source is and where the light is shining in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That chooses which side is which so in our case i'm going to get stitches light source which is also kind of homers light source where it's coming in, basically diagonally from the top, from the top left for me so i'm going to come in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'm going to make a new layer
Michael T Ganschow Green: My new layer is called highlight.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's going to be called notch highlights.
notch highlight.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You to do to do alright, so not highlight.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So for this highlight what i'm gonna do is i'm going to come over to my single column or key tool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Thinking i'm going to click in right in the middle, here I don't need to get an exact because we can move it around later, once we get it properly set and what i'm going to do is come in here and i'm going to go edit feel.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: White in the field, and what does this do is draws a white line straight down through our document seeing right.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now, because my light sourcing is coming this way I take my single pixel selection notice I haven't closed it yet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I move my single pixel selection with my arrow key over one pixel so right now my single So you can see right now it's on top of it we just placed at the end if I move it over I can move it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If I just touch my keyboard right there I can move it over I think this is one pixel day I might have gone a little farther you guys oh oh it's too far, so we need to move it back one So if you just not yet over one pressing your arrow it puts it next to it yeah now I can go edit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: feel with black hang on actually no yeah we're going to do another we're new layer new layer notch shadow.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now my not shadow is going to get an edit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: phil.
select black boom.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So now, I have two little lines right next to right next to each other.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Sitting C D select basically cutting this little notch into our navigation, so there is my highlight.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You actually already kind of see how it looks like a notch right there's my highlight because the sun is shining in this way, the light source is coming this way and then there's my shadow being cast by the light hitting one edge of the notch yeah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So now I just need to trim the notch down a little bit.
Do that real quick here bye.
Michael T Ganschow Green: By using a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Little far by, by the way you notice i've been magnifying and in and out with my command plus here and command minus so i'm going to use rectangular marquee tools to come in here, and I am going to start trimming so i'm going to come in here, first, to my knowledge, shadow.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Coming a little bit so you guys can see what it's doing there's my not shadow.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'm going to highlight this in this top area here to clip off noticing clipping a little into my navigation and we're going to clip my shadow off first and i'm going to come down here to my highlights i'm clicking on these two in my layers and i'm going to clip my highlight.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now then we're going to back out again and then add another one of these rectangular murky tools, right here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As I so.
It is wrapping around it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then i've already got my highlighted layer selected so i'll just decent like that or i'll just delete that guy there i'll come up to my not shadow and delete that guy there, so now, I have made.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like 90% of one of these little notches that is used to separate buttons all the time and web design here's one right here clipping through these guys now there's just a couple more things to go, but before I do them do we have any questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's um organize these layers shall we.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so i've got this not shadow in this notch highlight layer, and I want to move them together so, then I can universally modify them duplicate them move them around.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And so, in order to do that, first, I saved my document, then I come down here to the bottom of my layers palette okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And about 12345 icons over is the layer group icon looks like a little folder Okay, but it's called a layer group icon and if I click on it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It drops a little folder into my document that layer groups are pretty much exactly what their icon says their little folders in your photoshop file.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then you can then come in and add layers into and it groups them together and function, and you can kind of universally modify and move them with this group, so if I come in here into my group and I call my group notch.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then I come down here and I click on my not shadow layer and I drag it right over top notch until a little blue box gets drawn all the way around my notch.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My notch layer group okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now to do the same, a notch highlight boom soon as it goes over top I let go and it drops it in, so I have my know just learn to spell Michael H Ai fl I ght let me go okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay cool alright, so now that i've mine my highlight and my shadow in this group on close it up and click on this little guy and close it up like we can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: close up our effects when we have multiples of them I can open this guy up, and I can do things like I don't know if i'm feeling it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I can add effects to this guy so then come in here and and go yeah sure we can put an outer glow and everything sure why not notice the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: line is a little bit small for things like our clothes, but that never stopped Michael so there's an outer glow you can apply to both layers in my group.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now what i'm going to do in this case is something we haven't talked about before, and that is opacity i'm gonna make it slightly opaque so that my navigation colors shine through and it looks like it's cut into my navigation.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So to do that i'm going to come over if you go right above your layers but still in the layers palette.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you'll see that you have a an opacity and a field here or about to feel right now but we're we're going to do is we're going to click on this opacity and we can drag the number down a little bit.
More.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And the colors underneath them show through so it looks like it's not is cut into our navigation now I can also move the knocked around, by the way, with the move tool all i'm going to do is make sure that not just highlighted, and I can arrow it around if I want set that up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now let's say I want one of these between each of my buttons so a notch here and our cheer one here and even one here Okay, so I want to duplicate this layer group well that's easy enough.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All I have to do in order to duplicate a group or even duplicate a layer this works either way is a highlight what I want to duplicate.
Michael T Ganschow Green: down here in my layers palette and I go to my layers palette options, right here and I go and I can duplicate group, if you have a layer highlighted was a duplicate layer here, let me I like to layer
Michael T Ganschow Green: It will say duplicate layer, but I cannot write this group, and I can duplicate it so i'm going to duplicate group yep.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go, so now it makes a notch and it makes another version of your group, but it puts us space and the word copy on the end so i'm going to call this one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: notch to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And all I gotta do now that that's there is, I can take my move tool, make sure my notch to is selected think i'm right across.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There and separate those two buttons boom right there like that, so now I got to do this guy we just duplicate it again duplicate group and call this notch three.
Michael T Ganschow Green: boop and then I just take this no not that auto selected.
Michael T Ganschow Green: By not three highlighted, I can click this and it just go nope Okay, so when you have this happen when you're trying to select a layer underneath to move it but photoshopped on a selection to selecting wow.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When you have the move tool selected up here in the properties up top there's a little checkbox right up over here in the very.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Top right called auto select and what it will do is it will auto select whatever is the top most thing you're clicking on right now keeps clicking on my bloody navigation so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I have my not three highlighted i'm going to turn off auto select so that now, I can take this notch three and move it across like so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That button.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we're going to duplicate one more we're going to go duplicate group and we're gonna make a notch four.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And now we're going to going to take that and we're going to move it over here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: thing now I don't like it over top of Homer so what i'm going to do here is i'm going to reposition Homer and my layer order.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So he is right here, with its effects on them we're going to close up these effects guys here, so our layer palette is a little more visible, for you in the band and then we're going to take home and we're going to move him to the top.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So i'm just dragging him up until I hit the very top, and there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So questions on anything i've gone through in the photoshop lecture this is sort of a kind of a GR a web focused like 118 photoshop over the course of a few days, so do we have any photoshop questions.
file see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All right.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That being said, ultimate 730, just as I thought so that being said, i'm i'm going to go ahead and leave it off there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Next class we're going to go over how to export things on photoshop both.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This guy to teach you guys how to how to extract them very nicely in photoshop which is cool I generate them as knows what's going to generate them in photoshop and i'm also going to teach you guys how to export individual images and individual image types and what they're good for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So I i'm going to give you guys i'm going to hang out for another hour here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'm going to give you guys the next hour as a open lab Q amp a So if you want to ask me questions if you want to you know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Whatever you want to you want to ask me this is this is kind of open lab time, so if you have questions or you have comments or you have anything you want to share.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Go feel free i'm going to pause the recording, though, and if the question is important is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I think is is important, I may re record it for the people who watch this recording so for those who, for those who are watching this in the recording possibly goodbye, we will see i'm going to pause the recording and come back to it in a little bit.