How to trim the white away from the edge of an image in Photoshop

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107 lessons / 16 hours 21 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Photoshop  - this is the Advanced Photoshop course.

This course is not for people new to Photoshop. This is for people who already know the fundamentals. It is for people who have their own ways of doing things but believe there really is a better, faster way to work. 

We will start by learning the best selection techniques available. I promise, by the end of the first section what took you 30mins to mask will now take you 30 seconds. 

What am I going to get from this course?
  • 13+ Hours of content!
  • 10+ Interactive exercises
  • 68 downloadable resources
  • You'll learn the best selection and masking techniques
  • You'll know how to fix images that look 'hard to fix'
  • You'll master advanced levels and curves tricks, specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colors
  • You'll learn how to enlarge images without distortion and what to do when things go wrong
  • You'll know how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images
  • My favourite: You'll master the ability to distort, bend and reshape images
  • Lets look at how current trending styles are super easy to duplicate
  • You will become a type nerd. We'll use font pairing in Typekit. We'll also use Photoshop's ability to guess fonts
  • Your Artboards skill will be mastered
  • A master of retouching, you will become!
  • You'll learn to edit videos in Photoshop, who'd have thought?
  • We'll also create awesome cinemagraphs, AKA: Moving pictures!
  • You'll learn to master 3D in Photoshop!
  • You'll learn lots about professional, reusable mockups, techniques and shortcuts!

Here's some of the things we'll be doing in this course:
We will correct 'hard to fix' images and learn what to do with blurry images. We will master Advanced Levels & Curves tricks and will work specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colours. 

You will learn how to enlarge images without distorting them and also, what to do when things go wrong. 

We will learn how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images. My personal favourite section will show you how to distort, bend & reshape images.

We will look at how current trending visual styles are easily created, duotones, glitches and orange/teal colour grading.

We get 'type nerdy' and use font pairing in Typekit. We will use Photoshop to identify the fonts used in an image and learn how to work with hidden glyphs & ligatures as well as variable & open type fonts.

You will master artboards while you are learning how to make easily updatable multiple sized social media & ad banner graphics. 

There is a big section on advanced retouching techniques, advanced healing, advanced cloning & patching. 

You will learn how to edit videos in Photoshop. We will also animate static images creating parallax videos plus the very cool cinemagraphs sometimes called 'living pictures' - great for social media. 

You will learn to master 3D in photoshop. We will finish off the course with professional, reusable mockup techniques & shortcuts. 

This course has a strong focus on workflow. We use real world, practical projects and show you the professional techniques and shortcuts which will save you hours using Photoshop. Throughout the course I have many class exercises for you to use in order to practice your skills. 

Who am I? 
As well as being an Officially Certified Expert by Adobe, I’m photoshop guru and user with 18 years Photoshop experience. I make tutorial videos directly for Adobe and will again this year be presenting a seminar on  Photoshop at Adobe’s 20 thousand attendee strong Max Conference.  

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down and went through the updates in Photoshop, let this course be your one stop professional development and upgrade path.   

Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your Photoshop mind. Sign up now!

Course duration 13 hours 45 mins + your study.



Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi there, this video we're going to look at trimming out, say something like this, where there's a scan, there's all this kind of white area that I don't need, and just magically trimming it up right to the edge of the pixels, without messing around with the Crop Tool. Same here, where we open up an Illustrator file, is this kind of mysterious transparency that's appeared here, it's not what I need. It's when I trim it down, so it's right around the outside, ready to go. Let me show you how now. 


To get started let's just open 'Trim1.jpg' by itself first. So this trick is great for scans or anything that's just on a white background. Doesn't really matter what it is, but I do it often. I hand draw stuff with a sketch, bring it into Photoshop, I'll use the levels, just to get that nice strong whites and the blacks. Then I just want to trim it all up. Got all this kind of extra skin junk around. All this kind of extra white stuff around the outside. 


So just go to 'Image', 'Trim'. And what it's going to use, it's going to use whatever the color pixel is, in the top left hand corner, which is white, it's going to use that to trim. If this was on a blue background, it would use blue as its kind of trim color. You can decide to only trim away the top, left, bottom, or right. I'm not sure why you'd ever do that, but let's click 'OK'. It just trims it down to what we've got. Cool, huh? Save it. Nice and clean document. A lot easier than trying to drag out the Crop Tool, and trying to get it in there, and get the edges. 


Let's look at the second example. Let's go to 'File', 'Open'. We keep this separate because it's an AI file, Adobe Illustrator, so 'Trim2'. It's going to leave it all at the defaults, click 'OK'. And because of the way that this is constructed-- this happens to me a lot with logos that I've got from people, you open up in Photoshop, there's this mystery transparent box. Don't know where it came from, but you don't need it. So you want to trim this up, and works the exact same way. So you go to 'Image', 'Trim'. But there's another option here, it says, 'Transparent Pixels'. So I want you to remove all the transparent pixels, please, and get it to a nice tidy shape. Save this maybe as a PNG or JPEG, and you're ready to go. It's a nice simple tip, useful every now and again. All right, next video.

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