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.
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. 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 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 :)
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!
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 ;)
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.
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.
Thank you for this video! 5 years later and it's still freaking good. Still, I would love an update (I know this video gets highly ranked on google already) but please, do this time with a white background.
Oh, sorry, I found this video threw another video from google, but yours was so much better (update your video) Looking at your channel, I might have to look through all your videos, being relatively new to adobe photoshop...
Very nice tutorial! Maby the Orbitvu Alphashot is something for you! a beautiful 2D of 360 degrees detached product picture in just a few clicks on the button!
Please explain what button you touch on your keyboard to change every mode you do to tool you use. Anyway, your tutorial is very helpful for me. Thank you.
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 :)
Hey everyone! Be sure to check out the follow-up video to this tutorial here:
ua-cam.com/video/pNGiRZJq8zE/v-deo.html
I heard your voice and had to close my eyes, it hit my soul.
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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. 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 :)
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??
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 :)
love you man, im a beginner in the design world and this is VERY helpful. keep on the good work!!!
Great video. I'd love to see more content like this. There's not so much detailed videos about product retouching.
just wow..how skilled you are
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!
thankyou verymuch Dansky just you are king of master photoshop
Blurring the edges was a clever idea. Thanks for the tutorial, Densky 👍🏻
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 :)
Found the video to be very helpful. Thank you!!
This is amazing. i realized again, that the photoshop is glorious. and your hands are too! thank you, Dansky
Thank you so much
Cool Video, Very good for start ups... Great Job
+NANDA KUMAR You're welcome Nanda!
Strange way of doing this sorta thing but great results so who cares! Just shows how personal Photoshop is. And finally a nice voice!
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 : )
Thank you very much!! It's very helpful 🙂
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 😋
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!!
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.
Brilliant. Good pace, clear guide. Just what I was looking for. Thanks
You're welcome :)
you are very cool bro lots of love for you..good luck for your future endeavours
Really nice techniques giving a very static image some subtle life. Thanks so much...
thanks dansky for this video
Awesome video, explained really well. Made my life that much easier. Thank you
Happy to help Joanna :D
Best video on this topic I have ever seen. Thank you.
Thanks a lot, the tutorial was so helpful!
Watching the 'blurring the edges' part thought of a quicker way of apllying filter-gaussian blur
Very useful tutorial, thank U.
You're most welcome Vincent :)
Looking forward to your new turorials !
Really thanks it was soooo helpFul🤩🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼from iran
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!
Super helpful. Thanks, Dansky!
Great work.
This kind of Video I was searching from weeks ✌️
Very nice tutorial!
Very very useful and timely. Thanks a lot Dansky
wow cool, so clean
love the channel 📸
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.
This tutorial is fabulous! Thank you!
You're very welcome Liezel :)
All praise once again, Dansky!
thanks for teaching us your video is really helpful and great.
You're welcome John :)
Thank you!
You're welcome Alex!
Ever seen my best video that I looking for my product video
Thank you for this video! 5 years later and it's still freaking good. Still, I would love an update (I know this video gets highly ranked on google already) but please, do this time with a white background.
Oh, sorry, I found this video threw another video from google, but yours was so much better (update your video) Looking at your channel, I might have to look through all your videos, being relatively new to adobe photoshop...
Beautiful clear video. Leaen somthihg all the time. Easy on the eara too lol.
Thanks. I've avoided that pen tool for a very long time. Hopefully I can start using it more confidently now. Amazing work.
Amazing bro! Thx👍🏽👍🏽
LOVED THE TUTORIAL! Thanks mate!
Very helpful, also very soothing listening you work :)
Cheers Terry, much appreciated :)
Exactly what I am looking for! Thanks a lot for sharing!
Very nice tutorial! Maby the Orbitvu Alphashot is something for you! a beautiful 2D of 360 degrees detached product picture in just a few clicks on the button!
Excellent video, a lot of people could learn from you.
+Memorable Moments Photography Thanks very much - hopefully it all helps :)
Exactly
Try non-destructive editing with adjustment layers.
thanks you
Best pen tool tutorial!
Please explain what button you touch on your keyboard to change every mode you do to tool you use. Anyway, your tutorial is very helpful for me. Thank you.
Great tutorial. I feel inspired to finally conquer the pen tool 🤣🤣
Awesome video exactly what I needed!
Very helpful!! Thank you for doing this tutorial!!!! Thumbs up!
Holly Wood You're welcome thanks Holly :)
Excellent. Thank you
Thanks for the great tutorial. Clean and concise.
Thanks for the tips mate! Very well done!
Cheers thanks, glad you liked the video!
Loved this! Exactly what i was looking for, thanks!
You're welcome! :D
amazing! will photograph my shoes soon hahaha
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Very nice, thanks!
very helpful and easily explained... thank you...
Very helpful! And also it's easy to understand! (I speak Spanish and I'm not so good at listening jaja)
Very helpful, thank you for sharing
SOO GOOD!!
NICE✨
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks Dansky, awesome tutorial very informative.
Great video!
great tutorial
At 5.19 is "Exclude overlapping shapes", than make selection, than Ctrl+Shift+I to select the shoe!!! At least this is how it works on my computer!!
Idk why but I love your voice... it sounds so soothing lol
Aha thanks Jason!
Superb video👌very helpful👍tanku so much for this information
You're welcome ruchika!
Im proud to see i'm working the same way like you did in the tutorial. :)
AWESOME VIDEO!!! THANK YOU!! :))
Glad you liked it!
awesome tutorial!
+Danish Raza Thanks Danish :)
Thank you so much! I learned something new today. :)
+ßerenice Calderón-García Awesome, glad to hear it ßerenice :)
Thank so much!
Thanks for the awesome tutorial.
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!
You're welcome John!
Very much helpful
Fantastic! Thank you! Just what I needed!