Photoshop Tips: Magic Erasers and Transparent GIF’s
Hello, all welcome to photoshop tutorial. In this tutorial, you will get best photoshop tips. You will also se how to deal with various kinds of eraser tools in this video. In this video, magic erasers and transparent GIFs are introduced.
Welcome back, ahmm tonight’s tutorial is a photoshop tutorial, and what I am gonna do is going over few things, one of this is dealing with different types of eraser tool and other thing is saving things as a transparent GIF. For example, if you are put it on a webpage, if I was to take this duck and then save it for the web here, come on, on my desktop and I just call it ducky and I want to stick it on my webpage out here. I can insert the pictures from file ducky; you see it has that real white backgrounds.
All right, so one of the cool functions of photoshop is this tool if you hold down the eraser and pull out to the background eraser. You can see I have really very large brush; I can use my right and left brackets to make it larger or smaller. And I can just click somewhere in the white, I don’t want to click on yellow. If I click on white you will see how I can actually take the background out. Okay and I am gonna keep going around, okay and hopefully that will get along. And now, if I go and file, save for web now, the last time okay now see I was trying to save it as a JPEG. Alright, basically it’s mixture okay image mode. Okay I am gonna do a file save for web and instead of JPEG I am gonna choose GIF. You see I am back to the checkers, the checkers means it’s transparent. So, I am gonna go ahead and do save and I am gonna call this ducky duck GIF. Now GIF’s can be transparent and JPEG’s cannot.
So, I am gonna back over here to my document and next to this I am gonna click, actually I will delete this one so you can see it better. Then you click insert picture from file and I am gonna do ducky duck GIF, now they look the same here okay. So, you can see that I have my ducky, I can resize my ducky.
But you still see there some little bits of I guess jacket edges. Now there are some things that you can do about that, one is to you know to stroke around it, you know there are other things that you can try. But overall that’s how you get the background erased and a transparent GIF. Now another one, this one you see if I was to actually paint on this, you see how this is the different shade of white and this is really kind of a peach kind of white. But if I was to go and erase this I would first want to go adjustments levels and bring my white up.
Okay, that way we have got a little bit better stuff to work here and I go in again erase my background. And work with it that way, alright now it’s have it set right now you can see where it take you us. But, but that means is if there is a eraser I can hear or some where else there not touching, they won’t be touched.
All right, so anyway, that’s another example and it can be useful for things like this logo. Now you see here that’s saying that’s its index, some graphics that you are gonna work with are gonna be index files. So, you have to make sure you go from image mode index to image mode RGB color and then when you go into lead okay. Now you see there really chopped out that grey, well I need to drop my column down because it is pretty sharpely defined white and orange and grey. So, I can do this and I am gonna do file, save for web and going to save K-12HSM. Okay now we are back to my little program over here and insert picture from file K-12HSM .Now obviously this needs some work, now sometimes you get away, we are going back to photoshop and doing some things like layer, layer style, drop shadow.
But sometimes the drop shadows and the strokes and things like that actually make the things little bit worse. Amm because that has got the jacket edges around, you can experiment and there is lots of tutorials on the web for proving it, I am just trying to give the basics here. This is the another one that, I think is good and that is being able to take pictures like frames and you know put around the picture into it. All right the other type of eraser that we have is the magic eraser what that does is again we have index here so we can put that to RGB color. And i can just click here and take out all of the white that is touching and here I can do same thing and again so you know its may not as smooth as you’ll want but there are times when you might just want to erase the whole big section like this. All right, and this case it may actually be looking better then we did with our magic eraser. If I was to do save for web, ya it actually got a quiet a big. So I am gonna save this and I am gonna do good face GIF, go back to my page here, insert picture from file good face GIF. Okay so it has a little bit of work that it needs.
Okay so that’s the basics of doing ammm transparent GIF’s and using different eraser tools. And I hope this helps and let me know if it does or if you want me to go into depth on some of these. Ahmm thanks for watching.
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