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How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

Lesson 33 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

Lesson 33 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

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33. How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

02:36
2

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

01:20

Layers

3

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:56
4

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

07:37
5

Layers - Quiz

Color & Adjustment Layers

6

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

04:03
7

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

03:28
8

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

02:52
9

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
10

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

04:35
11

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

10:57
12

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Shapes

13

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

04:10
14

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

12:01
15

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

06:39
16

Shapes - Quiz

Text

17

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:09
18

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
19

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

13:04
20

Text - Quiz

Layer Styles

21

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

08:17
22

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

02:19
23

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

03:02
24

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

06:35
25

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

04:29

Cropping

26

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:40
27

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:11
28

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

01:55

Selections & Masking

29

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

06:20
30

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

09:35
31

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

10:11
32

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

00:37
33

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:01
34

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:47
35

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

08:57
36

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

04:36
37

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

03:18
38

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

16:24
39

Class Project - Selecting Hair

01:21
40

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:41
41

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

13:15
42

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

01:41
43

Selection & Masking - Quiz

Filters

44

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

04:14
45

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

03:12
46

Class Project – Oil Painting

00:31
47

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

06:42
48

Class exercise - Halftone

00:23
49

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:28
50

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

03:31
51

Filters - Quiz

Smart Objects

52

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:03

Transform & Distort

53

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

07:49
54

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

03:13
55

Class Project - Peeling Sky

00:49
56

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

05:44
57

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

09:17
58

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

00:52

Retouching

59

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

06:56
60

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

02:38
61

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

00:53
62

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

05:22
63

Class Project - Retouching

00:47
64

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:46
65

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:33
66

Retouching

Blending Modes

67

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

04:15
68

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

07:10
69

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

15:14
70

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

02:15

Visual Styles

71

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

05:43
72

Class Project - Duotones

00:20
73

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

06:14
74

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect

00:36
75

How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop

08:40
76

Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo

00:49
77

How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC

12:07
78

Class Project - Paper Cut Effect

00:31

Artboards

79

How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC

20:14

Color Modes & Resolution

80

What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:12
81

How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC

10:38
82

Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz

Brushes

83

Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop

12:22
84

How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:11
85

77. Class Project - Ink Splats

00:54
86

How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop

06:46
87

Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush

00:55
88

How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC

05:50
89

Class Project - Smoke Effect

01:03

Shadows

90

How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

05:26
91

How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop

07:16
92

Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

03:33

Export

93

How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media

10:18

What Next

94

What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class

01:15

Final Quiz

95

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

Hi there in this video, we are going to add some text behind this woman here. Okay, it's super quick, super easy. Let's go and learn how to do it in Photoshop. Alright, first up in your exercise files, open up quick select 07. Okay, so this particular trick is reasonably easy because we can use the quick selection tool which we've learned in the previous video, but also because we're copying and pasting it not to another image where it can be quite obvious, we're placing it back on itself and it's pretty forgiving. So super quick and easy, which is nice, grab your quick selection tool in terms of the brush size. Okay, I'm going to go up to you can see my brush size going up using my square brackets. Okay, change it to about 50 and I'm gonna do a really rough pass. I'm just going to click hold and drag try and get up the middle of the legs. Here we go. Okay. And and here I'm just getting the bulk of it and then I'm going to go and tidy it up when I zoom in curls, looking a cake big bit.

So now I'm just gonna zoom in and just work out these parts here. Now what you'll find is that this image works reasonably well because everything is in focus except for these shoes, they're a bit of the pain part but it's still, there's enough contrast with it in the background. If you're working on a separate image and it's just never grabbing it and just like what's wrong. It's just sometimes it just can't do it like see here it's just the gray of the shoe and the background here are very close. There is still enough contrast that I can keep clicking in here and get it and if it goes too far I can come back out of it. Remember holding down the option key on a Mac or Kiana P. C. Minuses. So if it goes out too far you can minus it back. Okay like that was going to undo because I just wrecked mine. So now I'm just going to kind of slowly work around it. You can speed up now because it's just a lot of this and like I said it's pretty forgiving. Can you see how this is like the very like the colors we humans know that the shoe ends there. But the computer has to kind of try and read pixels and colors and they can't really see the difference again this is pretty forgiving. So I'm not worried anymore about that. Okay it's good across the back a little bit there. I'm gonna minus off. So I'm holding down the option key on a Mac old key on a pc across here. I'm not worried too much about the here. In this case we're gonna look at a better technique for that later on holding on the altar just clicking in here and it's been a pretty good job. Lost the nose. I'm gonna make a nice tiny brush. Get in there wrong brush, hold on, halt and clicking there to remove the mask. This can be a little confusing when you are looking at negative selections, you're like, oh man, it's a bit of a brain bender because I've got this selected but also the background. So I want to get rid of it. So I'm going to use minus to get rid of these holes here and again. That is good enough for our little project. Okay, so I'm gonna zoom out. So I've got a good enough selection. The other thing to know is that if yours is if it's out of focus becomes very hard if it's the same color as the background. Very hard. She was wearing gray like a light gray running gear. That would be tough. Also note that this image is quite large. So image image size, it is quite a few pixels across like 5000. That's kind of typical of a good high res image from a DSLR camera if you've got one and it's only like check yours if it's going badly and it's only like 500 or 1000. There's just it's just not a very big image and there's not a lot of detail in it for Photoshop to work out the edges, see if you can get a larger version of the image. If not you just have to do your best and potentially look at some of the other masking techniques later in this class. All right. A lot of talking. I've got a selection and what I want to do now is copy and paste it. So I'm going to go to edit copy and edit paste. And the cool thing about Photoshop does is that it paste it back exactly where it got it. So you'll see now. I have two layers. Okay, so I've got this bottom layer and now this top layer, both sitting on top. Now we need to do is slide the image or the graphic or the text in our case, in between these two layers. So I'm gonna grab my type tool. I'm gonna click once I used the word soul. So um font that I'm using, I'm using I'm using Roboto, which is a free one you can download online. The one that google uses for Youtube. Okay, I'm using the condensed one because I wanted a nice tall font to kind of poke out from behind. Okay, so I'm gonna grab my move tool and you can see now not working. So it's all about the layer structure, grab soul, click hold, drag, drag, drag the word and you'll see this little blue line appear in between them and there you go. Now it's a matter of this layer selected, I'm going to use I could change my font size but I'm gonna use my shortcut, which is command t on a Mac or control D on a Pc and I'm just going to make it super big and I'm going to make it look like it's sitting on that line just happens to be a good kind of spot for it. Like it like that kind of interacts with the background and you can still tell what the word is, that sometimes the hard but you have to pick a font and pick a size that makes the fine actually legible and doesn't turn it into a strange word or becomes eligible. Alright. And that could be you. I'm going to do one last thing before I leave as I'm going out with the Solar, I'm going to add a bit of a gradient to make it try and match the background. I know it's fake but um yeah, a little bit of background integration wouldn't go astray in this case. So I am going to with the Solar, I'm going to go down to my effects and I'm going to go to gradient overlay and in here it's remember the last thing I did. So um depending on what yours is set to click on this color bar here anywhere now the first house double click it. Okay. And I, this bottom one here, I just went through and picked a great, so I'm dragging this around and I drag it all the way over here and picked a kind of a darker gray and you can kind of see it adjusting in the background here. You can pick colors from the document which is actually probably a nicer thing to do, but I want to kind of a warmer color. Not quite that steely gray now, I'm just missing about click OK. This top one here. I'm going to keep as white. You can use any color you like click OK, click OK. You might play around with adding a drop shadow that's ugly. Five five angles. Okay. I'm not going to just missing about now. I don't like the job shadow at all. So I'm gonna cancel that. Cool. So I'd like you to go through practice. I want you to use your own text. Okay? You can use Soul. That's fine. Um just send me your example. Maybe pick a different text. Could be your name and experiment with the gradient and drop shadow. All right. Let's get on to the next video.

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