3 Photoshop HACKS That You Probably DON'T Know Video Lecture | Mastering Adobe Photoshop CC 2017: Step by Step Tutorials - Design

Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial
here at the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find
me in Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you 3
Photoshop Hacks that you probably don't know.
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The first Photoshop Hack is creating templates.
I have this file here, which is a PSD--the
default Photoshop format--and it's a template
that I use to create my daily Photoshop tip
and it's an image that ends up on Pinterest.
So, I'm going to open it up so you could see
it.
There it is.
I just changed the text and saved it as a
JPG, and this is a template file that I use.
And a lot of people have template Photoshop
files that they use for repetitive tasks.
It doesn't have to be social media posts.
It could be anything.
Now, I want you to notice one thing.
On the tab, you'll see the name of the file
"Photoshop tip 2017 xxx.psd" and if I make
a change to this template and close it, Photoshop
is going to ask me to save this original template
file.
And if I accidentally clicked on Yes, then
I will have made changes to the template.
And that's not something that you always want
to do because if you adjust the template,
then you have to fix it next time you open
it, so that can become a problem.
So, instead, what I recommend doing is going
into your PSD that you use as a template and
rename it and add a different file extension.
Instead of PSD, we're going to use a psdt.
You just add that letter on there.
Your operating system will ask you if you
want to change the file extension.
Click on Yes.
Notice that the icon changes.
If we open it up now, it's going to look exactly
the same, but the one difference is that it's
no longer that same file.
Now it's an untitled file.
So, that's what a PSDT does.
It opens an untitled new version of the document
that you're working with so you can never
overwrite that original template.
This is actually the same format that Adobe
Stock templates use, so you never work with
the original.
You always work with a new untitled instance.
This is the file format that I recommend using
if you use Photoshop PSD's as templates.
In Hack #2, I'm going to show you how to use
a Custom Plugins Folder with Photoshop CC.
Actually, in older versions of Photoshop,
Adobe allows you to use a Custom Plugins Folder
to install all of your plugins.
Unfortunately, starting with CC, that's no
longer the case.
But, there is a hack to get around that.
I'm here in my Programs folder.
If I go into the Adobe folder, you'll see
all the Adobe applications that I have installed.
I'm going to open up my Photoshop CC 2017
folder and I'm going to go into the plugins
folder.
You'll see that I have a plug-in from Google
called Nik Collection.
Now, this is not specific to this particular
plug-in.
It will work with any plug-ins, but the only
one I have installed currently is Nik Collection.
And if I open it up, you'll see there's a
whole bunch of files that make up the plug-in.
Now, if I uninstall Photoshop, then the files
will also be uninstalled.
If I upgrade to a newer version of Photoshop,
then the files will be in this installation,
not the new one.
So, sometimes, it's best to have a custom
folder where you put all your plug-ins.
What you need to do is just delete the files
that are in this folder because we don't need
them anymore.
I'm going to go into a folder where I have
the plug-ins.
Here we are.
And just to be clear, you will have to copy
over the files from the Photoshop folder on
to a different location, but I did it before
recording the video, but here it is in this
folder, which is not in the Adobe Photoshop
folder, as you can see here.
And I can just simply create a shortcut or
an alias if you're using a Mac.
And there's my shortcut here.
Now, I'm going to go back to the Adobe Plug-ins
folder and I'm going to click and drag that
shortcut on to it.
There it is.
I have Photoshop closed and I'm opening that
up now.
I'm going to create a new document and click
on Create, and there it is.
And if I go into Filter, you will see my Nik
Collection plug-ins are here and I can select
that and it turns on, and as you can see,
it's working.
Obviously, I have a white background; it's
not really doing much, but the plug-in works
and all we're using is a shortcut to that
folder.
If I were to upgrade to a new version of Photoshop,
all I need to do is create another shortcut
and drag it on to the new plug-ins folder
or just copy this shortcut on to there.
But the plug-ins will always be there on that
separate folder.
So, once again, if you're working on an older
version than Photoshop CC, you don't have
to worry about this because there is an option
in the Preferences panel that allows you to
select a custom plug-ins folder.
In Hack #3, I'm going to show you how to get
more Lookup Tables and what I mean by that
is if you create a new Color Lookup Adjustment
Layer, you have these LUT files that you can
select to apply a different look on to the
image, so we can select Edgy Amber or any
of the other LUT files that we have.
If you're a member of the Creative Cloud,
you can take advantage of extra LUT files
that are included in those other applications.
I'm going to minimize Photoshop and here I
am in the Adobe folder that contains all the
different Adobe applications that I have installed
in this computer.
If I go into Premiere Pro, then select Lemetri,
inside of that, we have a LUTs folder.
We have three different folders.
We can try Legacy, for example, sort them
by type.
Cube are the ones that we're going to be able
to take on to Photoshop so we can do something
like this one here.
I can do them all, but I'm just going to copy
one so that you can see how it works.
So I'm going to copy that, go back into my
Adobe folder, open Photoshop, and under Presets,
there is a 3D LUT folder and you can paste
that in there, and here it is.
Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to
rename it and I'm just going to add "z hyphen"
so that it moves to the bottom of the list.
Then, I'm going to need to close Photoshop
and I need to open it up again.
And the image that I was using was in my Libraries
panel so I'm going to open that up and we'll
use the same image that we were using before.
I'm going to double click on it to open it,
then I'm going to go into Color Lookup, click
on the dropdown, and notice here at the very
bottom, we have this z-panalog4_to_linear.cube.
That's a different effect that that LUT file
creates and you can come back into that Adobe
folder and you can look at Adobe Premiere
Pro once again and select any of the other
files found in the Lemetri LUT folder.
Once again, not all the files would work,
but if you're using Cube files, they should
work in Photoshop.
And I have an extra bonus hack for you.
This one deals with Layer Masks.
I'm going to click on the Quick Selection
Tool and I'm going to click and drag to make
a selection around the sky.
As you know, in Photoshop CC, you have the
Select and Mask workspace.
You can click on this button here to bring
that up and you can adjust the edge of your
selection with these sliders.
The Select and Mask workspace was introduced
in Photoshop CC 2015 and many people prefer
the old Refine Edge Dialogue.
If you prefer to work with it, you can actually
bring it back.
Go into Select, hold Shift, then click on
Select and Mask, and that brings up the old
Refine Edge dialogue box.
So, if you prefer to work with it, this is
how you can bring it back.
And that's it for this tutorial.
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