In this lesson you'll learn how to place photos or graphics into a project that you've created from
scratch.
So I've gone ahead and closed out those other projects that we started and just have this social post
1000 by 1000 pixel project.
There's lots of different ways to add a photo to this project.
Probably one of the easiest is if you open up your documents or your finder and you find a photo and
on a Mac.
I can select this photo for example and then just tab back over to Photoshop which for a mac is command
tab and then you can go through for a P.C. it's probably a control tab and then I'm still am clicking
in holding that image and I can just drop it into my project like so.
So now that that photo is in my project it's still in sort of a temporary place mode.
It's wanting me to actually drop it somewhere so I can move it around with the move tool I can re size
it.
So if I take these corners and move it up and down at re sizes or the in any of these sort of handles
on the corners or in the center click and move it around only until I press the return key on my keyboard.
Does it actually place it and kind of like drop it into the project so you'll see when I press return.
There it's now on my project and I can then go about editing it or adding other layers or photos.
Another way you can place an image is going to the file place linked option click Place linked.
Go to your folder you can find another photo and then click Place and again it adds it to the project
and you see that it automatically sizes it as close as possible to the project or the canvas that you've
started so you can see that it matches the width and height of this project.
If you want it smaller bigger again you can kind of move it around and just press the return key to
place it because now you can see if I'm kind of moving around and I try to go to the bird for example.
It's not going to let me you see that my mouse turns into this rotate option where I can rotate this
image if I want and this happens when I hover outside of the image I can press command Z to undo anything
the other thing you might want to know is there are a couple keyboard shortcuts that are handy.
So if you are rotating if you hold the shift key down it kind of locks it to some specific rotations
and you can see the degree of rotation hovering next to my mouse as I do this.
See it's 15 goes back to zero negative 15 etc. it locks it to those it's I guess every 15 degrees instead
of just a free for all.
So that's gonna help especially if you have an image and you want to rotate it exactly 90 degrees.
Another keyboard shortcut to know is the shift button if you click any of the handles which are these
little blocks around the edge that you use to resize an image.
It allows you to stretch and skew this image.
If I'm not holding the shift button it locks it to that aspect ratio and you can see that after I kind
of squished it and then I undo the shift button and now locks it to that aspect and you can still resize
it but I'm going to undo that because I don't want to mess with the aspect of this.
A couple more are the option or all key so if you're clicking any of these button these handles and
if you hold the option on a Mac or on a P.C. see how it scales from the center.
That's a super handy one to note if you hold the command button on a P.C. that would be control and
you click any of these edges it warps just that handle or from that corner or whatever so you can get
super funky with this.
It does the whole side or top if you click the center handle but if you do click the corner with the
command button selected it locks the other handles and allows you just to warp that sort of side or
that corner of the image.
So again killing you can get creative with that.
The one that I use the most is the option key that allows me to scale from the center.
And then finally press return.
To put this photo and can I actually place it into this project you'll notice as I do that outer layer
panel starts to get filled up.
There's a complete section coming up on the layers panel on how to how to use this but you can kind
of start to see what's happening the bird is below our boy and a quick sneak peek is you can move these
layers up and down.
So now we have our bird on top of our boy.
Cool so that's pretty much how you place photos and graphics.
This is the same if you're adding any sort of logos or PMG graphics with transparent backgrounds it's
the same process of just placing it in the project.
Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next lesson.