How to make a sky peeling like fabric revealing background in Photoshop

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93 lessons / 12 hours 20 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan Scott. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) for Photoshop. 

In this course I will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with Photoshop.  

This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge of Photoshop, photography or design. We will start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step. 

You will learn the Photoshop 'secret sauce' whereby we will magically enhance our background and when necessary completely remove people from images.

By the end of this course you'll posess super skills! 
  • Learn the skills to mask anything… including the dreaded hair. 
  • Using your amazing new masking skills, you will be able to clearcut images.
  • You will learn how to make type interactive. 
  • Together we will look at popular current visual styles and learn the tools and tricks necessary to recreate them. 
  • There is a fun section where you will learn how to distort, transform and manipulate images
  • We will create our own graphics using simple techniques from scratch. 
  • I will teach you to retouch photographs like a professional.. 
  • Finally - any good Photoshop user should know how to put an island inside a bottle! 

There are exercise files available to download so that you can follow along with me in the videos. There are lots of assignments I will set so that you can practice the skills you have learned. 

If you have never opened Photoshop before or you have already opened Photoshop and are struggling with the basics, follow me and together we will learn how to make beautiful images using Photoshop.

Course duration 8 hours 35 mins + your study.

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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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Transcript

Hi there, in this video we're going to do a cool kind of sky peel back. We're going to start with this image, and this image, and do this to it. It's really easy, let's get started. 
To make this happen, let's go to 'File', let's go to 'Open'. Then in our '08 Transform' folder open up "Warp 01' and 'Warp 02', and click 'Open'. So we've got a sky that we're going to reveal, and our kind of cloudy background. It's super easy, the one thing we have to do is 'Edit'. Can you see, under 'Transform', not available, it's because this Background Layer is locked, we looked at this earlier. To get rid of the lock, super easy, double click the background, give it a name, 'Landscape'. Now with that Layer selected, we can go to 'Edit', and 'Transform' to life. I'm just going to use Warp, let's click on 'Warp' and grab this top left corner, just drag it so it kind of looks like it overlaps. 
You can start playing around with handles depending on how you want this kind of fabric or paper to feel. For me, I don't know what I'm doing. That looks good. Here we go. Pull back to reveal, let's click 'Enter'. Now go to 'Warp'. Now go to 'Warp 02'. With your 'Move Tool', click, hold, and drag the image. Holding it down, dragging to the tab, then let go down here. Just make sure the layer's underneath. And just move it around until you feel like you've found, like part of the image that-- I don't know works for-- that looks kind of good. Yes, nice. 
Now the one thing you can do to kind of make this feel a little a little bit more real as far as this can get, is you can use the Burn Tool. So what you might do is, let's click on the 'Landscape Layer'. We looked at the Burn Tool when we faked shadows, it's the same thing here, so click on the 'Burn Tool'. Yours might be set to the Dodge tool so click and hold it down until you find the Burn Tool. With the Ranges, let's set it to Mid tones, and let's be at 50%. Brush size, that's a little big. Maybe something like 200. And I'm just going to kind of add a bit of maybe some darkness down here, so it looks like it's kind of, you know curling over on itself, staying away from that edge there to make it look it's casting a shadow. Kind of want to do it to there as well, over this edge. 
Now what you'll find with the Burn Tool is, we're on Mid Tone, so it's only dealing with those kind of Mid Tones. So if there's white, like there is here, can you see, doesn't really adjust it, so I'm going to do it. But it doesn't really get it. So you can switch it between shadows which is the really dark colors, and the highlights. In this case, is what I want. Can you see now, it's affecting the clouds a little better. You might have to switch between these two to give it a bit of dip thin roll. Same with you guys down here, and I kind of make it look like it's casting a shadow. So depending on the image you might have to flick through all three of these to get it kind of right. 
So that is a really kind of quick use of some of those Transform tools. You see it quite a bit. You also see people kind of getting a model that's maybe pulling the edge of this and they cut them out and set them in the image, might be a rope connected to this. Maybe just the big hand. All right, so that is going to be it for this tutorial. Nice quick one, see you in the next video.

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