Great video! A couple of friendly advises: 1. Use adjustments (curves, levels etc) as adjustment layers instead of directly applying them to your original photo. That way, any adjustments you make can be fine tuned and undone later as necessary, non destructively. Also, using adjustment layers gives you the ability to mask out desired portion of the image. 2. After selecting out an area (In this case, the shoe), right click on it and go to "refine edges" option. You can slightly blur out the edges (what you did with a brush tool here) in one click.
This is the 38th video I have watched on this specific topic in the past month. Yours is by far THE BEST. Thank you for an actually comprehensive guide that doesn't go too fast or whip out secret photoshop spells without addressing the keystrokes. Awesome.
Great tutorial! One suggestion, though: Instead of going around the product and manually blurring the edges, you can instead set up the blur tool's settings, then right-click your original path and stroke the path with the blur tool. Saves some time and ensures the tool is run directly on the edge, so the intensity of the blur is consistent.
Dylan Grinder Can you explain what you mean by set up the Blur tool settings and stroke the path? I'm trying to follow this tutorial and think your blurring tip will make it a lot easier! I'm pretty new to photoshop so trying to learn what I can.
yeoldgreat1 After you've followed the steps to outline the subject with a path, select the blur tool and set up the brush settings how you like (probably somewhat small with lowered hardness). Make a new layer, and make sure you have "sample all layers" checked (this setting should be right next to the blur tool's "strength" option). This will allow you to create the blurred pixels on a new layer without affecting subject layer itself. Then go to the paths panel (which you can find by going to window>path if you don't already have it open), right click the path and select "stroke path". Simply pick "blur" in the tool dropdown and voila! It should run the tool along the path. This technique is useful for softening the edges of things you already have a vector path for, like vector shapes or objects you've already outlined, and can be used for things like creating smooth curves (draw a curved path) and applying narrowing lines to them (set the "size jitter" control to "fade" in the shape dynamics section of the brush panel).
Dylan Grinder Dansky I have even faster method which creates same effect. After you make a clipping path and make the selection out of it I contract the selection by 1 or 2 pixels (depending on the pixel size of the image). After contracting I give feather of 1 or 2 pixels. As you know feather blurs the image and in this case it slightly blurs the edges of a product. Try it out. it works fine for me.
Thank you Dansky. Recently I've been following your tutorials, learning both Ai and Ps. You taught me quite a lot tiny knacks. Really really thank you, and I'll move on.
thank you so much - I have just spent hours searching the internet for exactly this! everyone did speak, didn't explain tools or anything - but this is perfect! legend!
Thanks Dansky, this helped me a lot. Ps: I googled how you resized the brush quickly, it's done with "[" and "]" keys on Windows for anyone that's curious too.
thank you dansky. I have been researching how to shoot better photo for my shoes, but turns out what i need is some retouching in photoshop rather than spend hefty sum of money on building mini studio. Thank you
+William Gunawan Aha yea it's funny. I'm definitely not a professional photographer by any means, but as I've worked professionally as a retoucher, if you can get the lighting half decent (as I think that's the hardest bit to cheat), the rest can largely be retouched in Photoshop :)
Hey Lisa, new videos go up every week day. Sometimes things can be pretty hectic with work and stuff, but I always aim for 5 videos per week, even if they're a little late going up sometimes ;)
By the way, do you have any tips how to add a gloss effect? My product is made of black plastic and I want to make it stand out more:) Thanks AGAIN! Will have a look at the other videos as well.
That was very helpful. I'm going to follow it through again and again tomorrow, oh it is tomorrow and how time flies watching someone doing a very good job. I'm believe it or not editing my stock pics of shoes, yes shoes and this tutorial will come in very handy. Thanks an awful lot, really appreciate your time.
Great tutorial. The gold here for me was how to retain the shadows from the original product image. You mentioned Photoshop has several ways to perform a single task, where you retouched the outline of the product using the 'blur tool' what are some other methods we can use? Will selecting the path and applying a feather mask achieve a similar result?
Excellent video! Any reason for using pen tool over the quick selection tool? I normally have PS select my subject for me then I use the quick selection tool to add/subtract from it.
I am having an issue with the path selection. After I draw out the path, I attempt to make a new layer and do a test as you've mentioned with the paint bucket tool. The path I have selected is not filled in, rather the background is filled with color. In your case, the thumbnail of your path shows the object with a path around it as white, whilst the background is grey. In my case, after I draw out the path around my object, the object shows as grey whilst the background in the thumbnail is white. Opposite of what your screen suggests it should be. Maybe this will help identify what I am doing wrong. I am using the same Photoshop program as yourself in this video.
Great tutorial! I did two photos perfect but do you know why the control + path makes my picture transparant and not my background? I hope you can help me!
Hi :) Fast question: Is it better to do a retouch first or masking? .. I am retouching some portraits here and I am struggling with this order as I want to make changes sometimes, but I cannot as the object is masked (to do this I put all layers into one). Can someone help me please? Thank you
Hey there! Right click the layer and make it a smart object. Apply the mask to the smart object as you normally would, but the difference is that you can also double click the thumbnail of the layer and go inside the smart object to reveal the full image - do your retouching and colour correction work here. Once you’re done save and close the smart object document to return to the main psd file. Smart objects are like files inside of files ✌️
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Great video! A couple of friendly advises:
1. Use adjustments (curves, levels etc) as adjustment layers instead of directly applying them to your original photo. That way, any adjustments you make can be fine tuned and undone later as necessary, non destructively. Also, using adjustment layers gives you the ability to mask out desired portion of the image.
2. After selecting out an area (In this case, the shoe), right click on it and go to "refine edges" option. You can slightly blur out the edges (what you did with a brush tool here) in one click.
same with mask instead of cut-out.
This is the 38th video I have watched on this specific topic in the past month. Yours is by far THE BEST. Thank you for an actually comprehensive guide that doesn't go too fast or whip out secret photoshop spells without addressing the keystrokes. Awesome.
Thanks so much Samuel - glad it was helpful :)
I heard your voice and had to close my eyes, it hit my soul.
thank god. someone with a nice voice.
Lauren Adkins Haha thanks Lauren! I always think that I sound a bit weird hearing myself back, but glad you appreciate it :)
Lauren Adkins good
👍
actually.....
Amen!
You have made my product photography attempts a lot easier, thank you so much!
Cheers from Egypt!
Thats awesome to hear, thanks Mohamed!
Is CS6 still good enough in 2020??
Amazing! The blurring of the edges really made the extracted image in my work subtly more natural. Thanks for the tip and the vid!
ivanaishere Hey thanks ivanaishere, great to know that the video was helpful!
ivanaishere You're very welcome! :)
This was freaking perfect!!! Right what I was looking for! Couldn't find any other tutorial that showed that and you did it perfectly! Thanks man!!
Wow....being looking for months how to cut out shadow from its object and keeping things real....million thumbs up Dansky! :)
Hey that's awesome! You're welcome Nat :)
Great tutorial! One suggestion, though: Instead of going around the product and manually blurring the edges, you can instead set up the blur tool's settings, then right-click your original path and stroke the path with the blur tool. Saves some time and ensures the tool is run directly on the edge, so the intensity of the blur is consistent.
Dylan Grinder Ah brilliant - thank you Dylan!
Dylan Grinder Can you explain what you mean by set up the Blur tool settings and stroke the path? I'm trying to follow this tutorial and think your blurring tip will make it a lot easier! I'm pretty new to photoshop so trying to learn what I can.
yeoldgreat1 After you've followed the steps to outline the subject with a path, select the blur tool and set up the brush settings how you like (probably somewhat small with lowered hardness). Make a new layer, and make sure you have "sample all layers" checked (this setting should be right next to the blur tool's "strength" option). This will allow you to create the blurred pixels on a new layer without affecting subject layer itself. Then go to the paths panel (which you can find by going to window>path if you don't already have it open), right click the path and select "stroke path". Simply pick "blur" in the tool dropdown and voila! It should run the tool along the path.
This technique is useful for softening the edges of things you already have a vector path for, like vector shapes or objects you've already outlined, and can be used for things like creating smooth curves (draw a curved path) and applying narrowing lines to them (set the "size jitter" control to "fade" in the shape dynamics section of the brush panel).
Dylan Grinder Dansky I have even faster method which creates same effect. After you make a clipping path and make the selection out of it I contract the selection by 1 or 2 pixels (depending on the pixel size of the image). After contracting I give feather of 1 or 2 pixels. As you know feather blurs the image and in this case it slightly blurs the edges of a product. Try it out. it works fine for me.
I have been looking for this kind of tutorial for a long time. Thank you.
You are such a great teacher, thanks to you and all your tutorials I can use photoshop and illustrator like a pro.
Thanks so much Noemi 😊
Is CS6 still good enough in 2020??
love you man, im a beginner in the design world and this is VERY helpful. keep on the good work!!!
Thank you Dansky. Recently I've been following your tutorials, learning both Ai and Ps. You taught me quite a lot tiny knacks. Really really thank you, and I'll move on.
Awesome, thanks so much Bruce :)
thank you so much - I have just spent hours searching the internet for exactly this! everyone did speak, didn't explain tools or anything - but this is perfect! legend!
This is amazing. i realized again, that the photoshop is glorious. and your hands are too! thank you, Dansky
Thanks Dansky, this helped me a lot.
Ps: I googled how you resized the brush quickly, it's done with "[" and "]" keys on Windows for anyone that's curious too.
Thanks a ton for posting this video. I reference it all the time and have forwarded it to others. Great video!
+Neil M That's great - thanks for sharing too Neil :)
thank you dansky. I have been researching how to shoot better photo for my shoes, but turns out what i need is some retouching in photoshop rather than spend hefty sum of money on building mini studio. Thank you
+William Gunawan Aha yea it's funny. I'm definitely not a professional photographer by any means, but as I've worked professionally as a retoucher, if you can get the lighting half decent (as I think that's the hardest bit to cheat), the rest can largely be retouched in Photoshop :)
just wow..how skilled you are
AWESOME!!....i was getting some "Bob Ross" vibes while you were talking...very calm. I can watch this vid a million times over. great work
Thankyou Dansky. Thankyou so much.
This kind of Video I was searching from weeks ✌️
Amazing. Have always been curious about these commercial effects. Thanks! Keep up the great work!
+Lisa Doherty Hey thanks very much Lisa :)
Yeah! Immediately subscribed. Btw how often do you put out new stuff?
Hey Lisa, new videos go up every week day. Sometimes things can be pretty hectic with work and stuff, but I always aim for 5 videos per week, even if they're a little late going up sometimes ;)
Great. Good to hear : )
Best video on this topic I have ever seen. Thank you.
Blurring the edges was a clever idea. Thanks for the tutorial, Densky 👍🏻
Best pen tool tutorial!
thankyou verymuch Dansky just you are king of master photoshop
Excellent video, a lot of people could learn from you.
+Memorable Moments Photography Thanks very much - hopefully it all helps :)
Exactly
All praise once again, Dansky!
Cool Video, Very good for start ups... Great Job
+NANDA KUMAR You're welcome Nanda!
Great video. I'd love to see more content like this. There's not so much detailed videos about product retouching.
Brilliant. Good pace, clear guide. Just what I was looking for. Thanks
You're welcome :)
Idk why but I love your voice... it sounds so soothing lol
Aha thanks Jason!
Great work.
This tutorial is fabulous! Thank you!
You're very welcome Liezel :)
It was JUST what I was looking for, thank you for a wonderful video!!!
You're very welcome Hannah :)
By the way, do you have any tips how to add a gloss effect? My product is made of black plastic and I want to make it stand out more:) Thanks AGAIN! Will have a look at the other videos as well.
Really great tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to explain things in such great detail in a way that is easy to understand.
You're welcome, hopefully it was helpful 😋
Really nice techniques giving a very static image some subtle life. Thanks so much...
Awesome video, explained really well. Made my life that much easier. Thank you
Happy to help Joanna :D
Very good tutorial!! I already know how to clip with the pencil, but i have discovered some tips to improved it with this video. Thanks!!
Super helpful. Thanks, Dansky!
LOVED THE TUTORIAL! Thanks mate!
YES! Exactly what I was looking for and thank you so much for takin the time to explain how to use the tool correctly. Can't wait to try!
wow cool, so clean
That was very helpful. I'm going to follow it through again and again tomorrow, oh it is tomorrow and how time flies watching someone doing a very good job. I'm believe it or not editing my stock pics of shoes, yes shoes and this tutorial will come in very handy. Thanks an awful lot, really appreciate your time.
Found the video to be very helpful. Thank you!!
Awesome video exactly what I needed!
thanks dansky for this video
love the channel 📸
you are very cool bro lots of love for you..good luck for your future endeavours
Exactly what I am looking for! Thanks a lot for sharing!
awesome tutorial!
+Danish Raza Thanks Danish :)
Strange way of doing this sorta thing but great results so who cares! Just shows how personal Photoshop is. And finally a nice voice!
Very nice tutorial!
Very useful tutorial, thank U.
You're most welcome Vincent :)
Looking forward to your new turorials !
Can you select the blur tool and then select the work path and select run along the work path? I saw my teacher doing that once
Very helpful, also very soothing listening you work :)
Cheers Terry, much appreciated :)
Thanks for the tips mate! Very well done!
Cheers thanks, glad you liked the video!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Hey everyone! Be sure to check out the follow-up video to this tutorial here:
th-cam.com/video/pNGiRZJq8zE/w-d-xo.html
Very helpful!! Thank you for doing this tutorial!!!! Thumbs up!
Holly Wood You're welcome thanks Holly :)
thanks for teaching us your video is really helpful and great.
You're welcome John :)
Loved this! Exactly what i was looking for, thanks!
You're welcome! :D
great! loved your work man
Great tutorial. The gold here for me was how to retain the shadows from the original product image.
You mentioned Photoshop has several ways to perform a single task, where you retouched the outline of the product using the 'blur tool' what are some other methods we can use? Will selecting the path and applying a feather mask achieve a similar result?
Perfect video man!
Thanks Bruno!
Thanks for the great tutorial. Clean and concise.
Great tutorial. I feel inspired to finally conquer the pen tool 🤣🤣
Dansky always best
Aha thanks Azad, I try :)
hello at 6:16, how did you fill it in black and turn off the background? thanks!
Absolute top tutorial. Thank you.
+David Croft You're very welcome David.
+Dansky Do you this same technqiue for t-shirts, jeans, etc that are photographed on a white background? - typical e-commerce setup
Thanks Dansky, awesome tutorial very informative.
Excellent video! Any reason for using pen tool over the quick selection tool? I normally have PS select my subject for me then I use the quick selection tool to add/subtract from it.
I am having an issue with the path selection. After I draw out the path, I attempt to make a new layer and do a test as you've mentioned with the paint bucket tool. The path I have selected is not filled in, rather the background is filled with color. In your case, the thumbnail of your path shows the object with a path around it as white, whilst the background is grey. In my case, after I draw out the path around my object, the object shows as grey whilst the background in the thumbnail is white. Opposite of what your screen suggests it should be. Maybe this will help identify what I am doing wrong. I am using the same Photoshop program as yourself in this video.
Select > Invert
or just use Ctrl + Shift + i for that
good luck mate
how to fix banding when I use the brush to create the gradient in the background? Thanks
Beautiful clear video. Leaen somthihg all the time. Easy on the eara too lol.
very helpful and easily explained... thank you...
Love your videos!
Cheers Jack!
AWESOME VIDEO!!! THANK YOU!! :))
Glad you liked it!
Thanks. I've avoided that pen tool for a very long time. Hopefully I can start using it more confidently now. Amazing work.
Any tips on ways to achieving this lighting in the photograph?
Very good video. And helpful. ☺
Fredoen Cheers Fredoen :)
Im proud to see i'm working the same way like you did in the tutorial. :)
How did you move the shoe down at 10:50 without moving the whole image?
Dear Danksy your videos are amazing,what camera do you use?
Thanks for the awesome tutorial.
Great Work !!!
Would it be OK to use TRACE tool? then copy and paste it into a new file?
Great tutorial! I did two photos perfect but do you know why the control + path makes my picture transparant and not my background? I hope you can help me!
Loved this!
amazing! will photograph my shoes soon hahaha
Very helpful, thank you for sharing
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!
You're welcome John!
how about when we want a white background.. is it the same way to retain the shadows in that case?
Brilliant tutorial , thank you
Hi :)
Fast question: Is it better to do a retouch first or masking?
.. I am retouching some portraits here and I am struggling with this order as I want to make changes sometimes, but I cannot as the object is masked (to do this I put all layers into one). Can someone help me please? Thank you
Hey there! Right click the layer and make it a smart object. Apply the mask to the smart object as you normally would, but the difference is that you can also double click the thumbnail of the layer and go inside the smart object to reveal the full image - do your retouching and colour correction work here. Once you’re done save and close the smart object document to return to the main psd file. Smart objects are like files inside of files ✌️
@@ForeverDansky thank you so much !!
This tutorial is amazing. Do you by any chance offer photography and photoshop editing services for clients?
Thanks bro, that was awesome
Thanks Bilal :)
Fantastic! Thank you! Just what I needed!
Thank you so much! I learned something new today. :)
+ßerenice Calderón-García Awesome, glad to hear it ßerenice :)