welcome everyone. This video is just going to be an introduction to navigating around Photoshop. We're going to combine these three images. Okay, all into this lovely little collage here. We're going to move around. We're going to resize them. We're going to practice zooming in and out and navigating. No, not super exciting but super fundamental. Let's get into it now in Photoshop. Alright, so first thing we're gonna do is we're going to open up a bunch of files. So let's go to file and go to open And what I'd like you to do is in your exercise files there is a folder called 01 layers, double click that inside of there. We want navigation and we want navigation 123 and four. These are the images we're going to combine. Now you can open them individually by selecting them and clicking open, but that can get a bit tedious. So what we're going to do is click this first one at the top here. Okay? And then hold down shift on my keyboard. Ok? And click the last one and it should highlight th...

em all or open them up individually. Whatever works. Let's click open. Alright, so in Photoshop, when you've got more than one document open, they transfers them into these tabs along the top here. So click on the tabs, just get used to it. Okay, so those are all the images that I've got open. Four of them. And what I'd like to do is combine them all into this first image here. So we're gonna start with navigation too. That's the one that I want to move into. This navigation one document. Now there are lots of ways of kind of copying images into files and moving them around but I'm going to show you the way that I guess it's just kind of future bulletproof. It just works with later on when we get into slightly more complicated things like layer masks and adjustment layers. This technique is still going to work and the technique is pretty simple. Okay and use the move tool. Okay which is the first tool in your tool bar here and all you do is click hold drag your mouse, clicking, dragging. Okay drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, hover above this tab for like a second and then it switches I've still got my mouse down still holding holding holding holding lego. Okay it's a bit weird. I know I promise. Okay I totally understand and so let's go let's give it another practice though. Let's go to navigation three same thing. Okay I'm gonna get my move tool, click hold drag. I'm holding my mouse down, holding my left mouse key down holding holding holding hovering above the tab and then let it go. That is the technique. It's kind of weird but yeah it's going to prove future proof later on let's go to the last one here. The last one here click hold drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag hold hold hold hold hold let go. Ah Okay we've got a slight problem with this one is a different size. Now I've resized these first ones just to make life easy and they fit in here perfectly. But more often than not, you're going to be kind of combining images and they're going to be really different sizes. Sometimes they could be really big gay if you've taken them on a quite a high end digital camera that can be really, really big. So it's going to bring us into some more of the navigation things we need to learn throughout this course. Okay, I'm going to pile them all into here. Don't worry if you're like, oh man, these shortcuts, there's too many and we're going to kind of reiterate these all the way through the course and you'll find that the ones we cover right now in this video, we're going to be the ones that you use forever in Photoshop at least the ones you use the most. Okay, so a couple of things I want to do now is I want to transform this guy here. Okay, just too big. So what I can do is I I've got it selected. I know it's selected because over here in my layers. Okay, it's got that great highlight and I can turn the eye on and off. So I know it's the right one, then go up to edit, let's go to transform and let's go to this one that's called scale this one you're going to use really often edit transform and scale. And what I'd like to do is now, depending on your screen, you might have to zoom out. Okay, especially if it's a really big image. So we're going to learn one of our first shortcuts for navigation. We'll learn a couple in this course and the really common one is if you're on a Mac, hold down the command key and tap the minus on your keyboard. It's kind of up the top there near your numbers, you'll see that zooms out if you're on a pc, hold down the control key and tap the minus. Okay, so minor zooms out and plus zooms in so give a practice with that. Hold down command on a Mac control and Pc and just tap plus to zoom in minus to zoom out. So my nursing is going to allow us to see the edges of this transformed box we've got here when we're scaling now, what we're going to do now is you can move it around by clicking the center, avoid this little crosshairs in the middle, it's just the center of rotations, it's not something we want to mess with for the moment, anywhere inside of here moves it around and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna kind of like line it up, Photoshop is a really cool tool that's on by default called smart guides and it just says, hey, did you mean lining up with this guy and you're like yeah, that's exactly what it meant if yours isn't kind of snapping to the edges, like mine go into view and just check that and show down here. You've got a tick next to smart guides that'll just make sure that's on. Okay. So what I want to do now is a resize. I'm gonna grab this bottom corner, just drag it and what you'll notice is that if I just drag it and it's gonna potentially distort it, you could drag it and kind of hopefully get it there. But a nice little trick is while you're dragging it, okay, before you let go is hold down the shift key. Okay, so let's see if yours has all gone a bit wrong. Let's hit escape on your keyboard. That's the, I didn't mean it button. Okay, hit escape, let's go edit transform, go to scale. Now when I'm dragging this corner here, hold down the shift key, sit down on your keyboard, hold shift, grab the corner and what you'll notice is that locks the height and width and we're not looking for perfection, You're just getting kind of close to these other ones. We'll look at doing it perfectly later on, but getting kind of close to the right size and last thing you need to do when you're using scale is that you need to hit the enter key on your keyboard. Otherwise it's kind of halfway through something. So all these dots on the side, it means, hey, I'm busy doing scaling now, you can't do anything else because if you go up to your panels along the top here, you see they're all great out. It just means you can't do anything until you hit enter or return. Alright, so let's zoom in, you know what the shortcut is. Now remember it is command plus on a Mac or control plus on a Pc and I want you to go in nice and tight because I want to show you one more shortcut before we go and that is kind of moving around. Once you're in this sort of kind of really close, you have to be zoomed right in so that the image goes off the edges and say I want to go over here to the right, okay, you can use these little sliders, okay, this is the caveman way. If you feel like you want to be cavemen, you can just drag these little scrubbing things up and down. That totally works because you might feel a little overloaded with shortcuts already. So, but if you aren't going to give you one of the really common navigation shortcuts is that you just need to hold down the space bar key. So space bar on your keyboard, you can see my little cursor changes from that little move tool to the little hand and then just click hold the mouse and kind of drag it across. Okay, that's gonna be it for the basic navigation for Photoshop. We're obviously going to build on these skills later on so if you feel like man, I'm not going to get every single one of those. Don't worry, we'll cover them again and again as we move through the course. So just to recap, whenever you need to move one image to another. Okay, click on it, grab the move tool, click hold, drag, wait, wait, wait, drag it down, let go. You often need to resize okay. And it's under edit transform scale but to make sure the height and width doesn't get all distorted. You hold down which key was it? It's a test set in your head. Yeah shift OK, shift. Just means that the height and width won't get distorted remember when you're finished, you've got to hit the return key other ways. Life doesn't work. The couple other shortcuts that I jumped too. There was the zooming in and out which is command plus and minus on a mac or control plus and minus on a pc and holding down the space bar allows you to click hold and drag and move around. Alright, that is going to be it for this video. We're going to get into doing some actual photoshopping in the next video. I promise. So yep, let's finish it there. I will see you in the next one

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Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

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4. Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

Lessons

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

Layers - Quiz

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

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

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

Shapes - Quiz

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

Text - Quiz

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

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Selecting Hair

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

Selection & Masking - Quiz

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project – Oil Painting

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

Class exercise - Halftone

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

Filters - Quiz

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

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

Class Project - Peeling Sky

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Retouching

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

Retouching

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

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Duotones

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

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect