AiriPan 33.16 Foolproof Photobashing

 33 Lesson 6 - Foolproof Photobashing Part 1 - Photobashing 201 - Values

P33 - 00:01照片处理201. 

Hello, honored guests. Welcome back to the event where we will now take this piece to a complete finish. And I'm not just gonna take this piece to one finish. Oh, no. I'm gonna take this piece to multiply it finish. And I'm not just gonna take this piece to one finnish. Oh, no, I'm gonna take this piece to multiple finishes. Oh, yeah. How is that for a bang- for-your- buck, That is a deal of a lifetime.  

P33 - 00:37一次到位学到家，划算交易。 

Essentially what I'm going to do is instead of simply taking this piece to one particular finish of color, I'm going to show you also how to do different times of day. 

P33 - 00:49如何展示一天什么时间点。 

But right now, at this moment, there's something very crucially wrong with this piece, something that makes it feel very flat. Very boring. 

P33 - 00:56什么原因导致图片平平无奇？ 

Where the house feels like it's on the same level as the rocks in the front. 

P33 - 01:04房子像是和岩石一个层面？ 

And. Like the mountains in the back. this mountains here are feeling really, really close. 

P33 - 01:09为何远山如此逼近？ 

Like an avalanche is going to happen any time now. And it's just going to kill little red and sweep her away before the big bad wolf could ever get to her.  

P33 - 01:19雪崩在大灰狼来前席卷小红帽？ 

And the snow bank here feels like it's like the same as a snow bank here. 

P33 - 01:26到处的雪堆貌似一个模样。 

Like there's no depth, there is no atmosphere right now. That's why everything looks so flat. 

P33 - 01:30没有景深和氛围，所以平平无奇。 

And that's the first thing that we need to fix before anything else. 

P33 - 01:35这是首要解决的问题。 

My biggest recommendation before you do anything else is you go into your photo bash piece. So here it is. It's a thing that I have and you name every single individual item.  

P33 - 01:49重命名右侧的单个元素。 

So for example, this is the front of my bank. And you can see that as soon as I take it away, you can see all the ugly photographs that are underneath it. But that's okay. 

P33 - 01:57这是前面的雪堆，移开暴露下面，不忍直视。 

Because as long as we turn on the final image, only you will ever know what was underneath it. 

P33 - 02:06没关系只有你知道过程。 

So I have my bricks over here. There's little red riding hood. We take that for a tongue twister. We got a little red, we got her mule. And we can even just screw this up into one big group. It's gonna call it little red. 

P33 - 02:20把骡子帽子等重组命名为小红帽。 

We've got the fence, we've got the snow banks, we got logs, we got everything, we got the entire party. 

P33 - 02:26有篱笆 雪堆 缘木。 

But you see how I went through here and I completely named every single layer. This is gonna make your life a lot easier. 

P33 - 02:35这就是单独命名带来的便捷。 

I'm not saying you have to nearly every single time, but for your clarity and my clarity and my sanity. I'm definitely going to go through name every single layer, make sure that they are completely separated from each other and they're clean and good to go. 

P33 - 02:48分开命名容易重新排列组合。 

A really important part of photo bashing, because don't forget, it's basically a collage. 

P33 - 02:53本质是拼图。 

You need all of these separate pieces intact, so that you can move it, you can change it, you can edit it. 

P33 - 02:59移动 替换 重组这样接触。  

And also you can select it easily by clicking. So remember, if you hold CTRL, hold it down. You'll be able to select whatever item is on that specific layer. 

P33 - 03:09按ctrl挑选你需要的图层。 

This this is the key. This is going to save your life. And this is going to save you so much time. This is why you definitely should put everything on to different layers.  

P33 - 03:20不同图层不同名字节约时间。 

If you don't, if you merge everything together, you will hate yourself later. So please don't skip this step. 

P33 - 03:25否则，你思路会乱如麻。 

Now, even though previously I already went through and I did a lot of cleanup, there's still a few additional places that I want to completely touch up. 

P33 - 03:35还有一些细节有待清理。 

For example, you can see right here, there's still a little bit of splatter and this ugly photo of stuff that's going on.  

P33 - 03:41比如这里飞溅的需要被清理的。 

So I'm going to take a moment, just go through and do a little bit more fine tuning clean up. 

P33 - 03:48需要再次微调清理润色。 

All right. Cool. Let's check out some of the things that was bothering me. Obviously, there's still a few items that I should go in to clean up. But this is pretty clean. I would say, if you're going to turn this image in, unless they literally take their magnifying glass and go zoom, then they're probably not going to see it.  

P33 - 04:28放大镜才能看到瑕疵可以不理会。 

However, if you're able to see any abnormalities at this size, then yes, you probably want to go in and clean it up. 

P33 - 04:35但是看到差强人意的一定去处理。 

And the first thing I'm gonna do before anything else is, do you remember when we talked about our foreground, mid ground and background? 

P33 - 04:43检查前景 中景 背景。 

Well, that's exactly going to apply here as well. So quickly, I'm going to turn this into black and white, 

P33 - 04:50切换到黑白图。 

you can see that oh, my god. values are absolutely everywhere. This is a complete mess now, because I turn everything into black and white, I can't draw with actual color. But you see how like there's this black stuff here. There's black stuff here. here, this black stuff. here, this black stuff here is a good value here, the mountains. But the mule is really dark. This is really dark. This is just a complete mess. 

P33 - 05:16乱成一团了。 

If you had to do a film study of this, you'd probably wring your hands through your hair. Because this will be a complete nightmare to try and separate into just three values.33 - 05:28头皮发麻如何分辨黑白灰三色？  

P33 - 05:28头皮发麻如何分辨黑白灰三色？ 

Yeah, I know this is the reason why everything looks so flat. Why everything looks so messy? because we don't have that clear foreground mid ground and background distinction.  

P33 - 05:43平淡无奇因为前中后背景分不清。 

Now very quickly, turning it back to color. The first thing i'd recommend is to do a very simple value study. So this is kind of more in the direction of where I want my piece to go. 

P33 - 05:58切回彩色，绘制黑白灰对比图。 

You can see the the donkey in little red here, very interestingly shaped. But the point is I want to get it to somewhere more like here, where there's a very strong foreground. So the riverbank here is going to be a foreground. 

P33 - 06:14河床作为前景。 

And we have some rocks that also act as some nice strong anchors. Little red is really silhouette against the snow, as you can see here. She's already a little bit silhouette, but I want it to be crystal clear that she is the focal point. 

P33 - 06:28小红帽是聚焦点。 

And then the mountains really fade into the background here to the point where they're almost basically white, to be quite honest. 

P33 - 06:34远山几乎发白。 

And actually, because I do have a river, it would be really nice if I could get like a little hint of white right here. 

P33 - 06:44河流做白色区域。 

Not only do I get to highlight little red out that way, but because it's you know a lake, it's a river. If we have some reflections, it will look really nice.  

P33 - 06:55湖面可以倒映小红帽。 

So that is our game plan. We need to get over there. Let me quickly put this into a group, call it my value study. 

P33 - 07:04打组命名为阈值研究。 

by far the easiest step, among all of them would be to lighten our mountains, so that they can go more towards the back. 

P33 - 07:13点亮远山，群山后退。与阴影形成对比。 

So I go to my mountain layer, as you can see, our mountains. I go to my image adjustments levels and I just bring up the mountains a little bit. 

P33 - 07:24调节图层，提高山的亮度。 

I'm not going to bring it up too much however, because they have this tree bank in the back here and I don't want these trees to get too light. So kind of a medium place will do. 

P33 - 07:34山前一排树不需要颜色太深。 

immediately my mountains feel like they're getting pushed back. No more avalanche going on to little red. Thank god.  

P33 - 07:43远山后退，没有雪崩危险系数，小红帽现在安全了。 

Now the next step would be I put everything into a big group, as you can see, there's my sketch. Can you believe it? Wow. This is where we started from. But all of my pieces are now in this giant group. So I'm going to call this a niche. 

P33 - 08:00草稿拼凑的打组命名小单元。 

Now I take a levels layer right here, and I make it lighter, to show you how I got here again, gonna delete this real quick. Go down to this half moon, go to levels, causes an adjustment layer. And now you can drag this up. And make it more pale. Track it up, up, up. just like that. Now it's the pillar. 

P33 - 08:29半月调节层级，变白。 

So why did we make this pillar? What is the point of making a pillar? Just like we saw on our bird demo by making it pillar, then we can go in and add our own shadows. And we can also set the stage for actually putting on a color because we put on color, it makes the entire piece darker. 

P33 - 08:47可以加入阴影，加入颜色就加深。 

So by making it lighter to begin with, then we may get darker. There's not that much harm done.  

P33 - 08:53从亮色开始，逐渐加深。  

And now what I'm going to do, is I'm going to select these two layers together right here and control J. Or you can do copy paste. It's basically the same thing. So I'm gonna do CTRL j. There you go.  

P33 - 09:08选中两个图层快捷键J. 

Now I have two of them. And for this one, instead of going light, I'm gonna go the opposite direction. 

P33 - 09:15其中一图层亮，另一图层暗。 

I'm going to go super dark. So I put this back and I take this slider and I drag it down super dark. Roughly, I would say around there.  

P33 - 09:29调节到这种黑暗度。 

So now the question is why did I do that? Why do you want everything to be as dark as night? 

P33 - 09:36为什么调节暗如午夜？  

Well, if you remember from our bird demo, this is going to serve as the basis for our shadows. 

P33 - 09:42这是阴影的基础。 

to make it a little bit simpler for both your brain and my brain to understand. If I put these two layers together and group them. This is my lights. If I take two these two layers and group them. These are my darks.  

P33 - 10:02分成两组，命名为光与影。 

So Lights, darks, lights, darks. It's kind of like someone turning on like a light switch, kind of fun.  

P33 - 10:14如同白昼交替，或，开灯关灯。 

Now I go in here to do a layer mask and remember anything that I draw in black, I get to show off. 

P33 - 10:23阴影绘制的是为了展示。 

So essentially what I'm going to do is I'm gonna start off by completely filling this entire layer mask in black. 

P33 - 10:34图层蒙版涂满黑色。 

Now whatever I draw in white, is going to be much darker, as you can see like this. 

P33 - 10:42我在白色绘制的都变成黑色。 

So essentially, what you are able to do, if you take your soft brush here, you can go in and just gently press through, make this darker, make this darker, give little red a shadow, give this a shadow. And soon enough you will be able to add values to your piece, just like that, without having able to touch or harm any of the photos underneath it. 

P33 - 11:08把想变黑的涂黑，不影响原图。 

But using a brush is really annoying, because it kind of touches over everything. This is why you kept everything into those specific layers.  

P33 - 11:19软刷影响万物，需要万物万图层。 

Go down here. You can select your front bank, go to your adjustment layer, use white. 

P33 - 11:32选择前河床，调整图层，选白色。 

Boom! Look at that. Immediately. You put all of this into a shadow, without having to touch any of these items here. It was fast. It was easy. And it was simple super quickly, before I move on to anything else, I noticed something. 

P33 - 11:47只影响河床，不影响其它的。 

It's that little red is on a lake right now, but she doesn't have a reflection on the lake just yet. Very quickly. I'm just gonna take a little red copy and flip vertical and place her around right there. 

P33 - 12:04小红帽复制垂直翻转，水中倒影。 

Because that's her reflection. I'm going to keep this for later. So I'm going to name this little red reflection, this kind of stuff we can do later. We don't need to do this right now.  

P33 - 12:15命名为倒影，可以稍后做。 

Our main concern is going to be getting our values correct. 

P33 - 12:19重点是黑白灰比例要对。  

So just keep us in the back of your mind that we have this right here. I'm gonna drag this all the way up above all of my other layers, Little red reflection. Turn it off, so that it goes away. And we don't think about it. 

P33 - 12:32倒影放在图层之首，关闭。暂时不用去想。 

We will do reflections overall later because there's a lot of reflection to get to. That's the hard and really fun part about lakes. When you have reflections on there, they feel so much more accurate and so much more powerful. All right.  

P33 - 12:47湖中其它物体倒影让照片逼真。 

Now what I'm gonna do is go inside and take my darks to a finish. 

P33 - 12:55继续完成加深任务。 

Now let me explain some of my brain thoughts as we go through this. The most important rules that I adhere to when I'm coloring in the shadows, as I ask myself, is this further away? Or is this closer? The closer an item is the darker I make it. The further away an item is the dot darker. I make it, or the lighter I make it. 

P33 - 13:21远处的亮一些，近处的暗一些。 

So I simply don't touch the shadows. as you can see the riverbank here, All the rocks are closer to us than they are to the house or to the mountains in the background. Therefore I'm going to make them darker. 

P33 - 13:32比如河床岩石比房和山近点黑点。 

I also added the shadows for the rocks, the trees, the logs, parts of the house, because they need to have the number one, they cast shadows. 

P33 - 13:49万物需要投射阴影。 

And also number two, because I want to give a little bit of a hint of that ambient occlusion that we talked about. Do you remember that's the secret sauce, that makes things feel realistic. 

P33 - 13:59环境遮蔽增加保真度。 

And i'll just take a chill pill, hang out with me, and let's just watch a fun time lapse.  

P33 - 14:06操作过程是享受过程。 

And that is looking so much better. Look at that. Now the mountains feel a little bit further away. 

P33 - 15:36远山若隐若现远一些。 

The snow bank here definitely feels closer to us now. 

P33 - 15:42雪堆近了一些。 

little red is very much silhouette against the white. 

P33 - 15:44红帽在白雪中很醒目。  

The house actually has a little bit of light coming through. 

P33 - 15:47房子有灯射出来。 

Things are looking so much better. And he might be looking at it going like, huh, what's the difference?  

P33 - 15:53你会问，区别是什么？ 

Let me show you the difference. Turn this off. Wow! Look at that. That is so flat. You turn it on, feeling so much better. So yeah, when you compare it to our little value study, things are looking a lot more like they're in place, but not a hundred percent in place yet.  

P33 - 16:12好一些，接下来走完最后一步。 

We’re going to go the extra Mile or we put in some color like, come on, that's whatever.