How to Use Depth Maps in Photoshop Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2023
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Are you tired of flat, lifeless images? Want to add some depth and dimension to your shots? Well, you're in luck! In this tutorial, I'll show you the secret to bringing your images to life: Depth Maps. That's right, with just a few clicks, you can add both atmospheric depth and blur depth to your images using the Blur Depth neural filter, the Lens blur filter, and a depth map. And the best part? We'll even use these techniques in a real-world project to make your subjects stand out from the background.
00:01 - Introduction
00:43 - Getting Started
01:21 - Depth Blur
11:55 - Creating Atmospheric Depth
13:05 - Adding a Curve Layer
16:19 - Fog Lights
18:34 - Reflective highlights
23:19 - Color Grade
24:04 - Project No. 2
26:09 - Selecting Subjects
26:58 - Copying a Shadow
30:06 - Smart Objects
38:30 - Conclusion
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The depth maps are so versatile, and thank you for showing us two different applications in terms of fog and depth blur, and on two different images. So insightful and will help me make better compositions, both easier and faster.
Thanks Rikard.
Very clever stuff Rickard - I especially liked how you used the Neural FiIlter just to create the depth map - and the perfect shadow for the model - which was the icing on the cake!!
Perfect timing. Yesterday, when editing an image, I blurred the background after making a selection of the subject. Closer inspection today revealed an imperfect selection (aren't they all lol). I just used Depth Blur after watching the first part of this tutorial. It worked really great for what I wanted to do. Thank you so much for introducing me to this tool. Another lesson added to the book called "The More I Learn, the More There is to Learn." 🎆
A great example of the value you include in your tuts - all the small tips hidden inside your video make this so much more valuable than one might expect. I highly recommend your packages to anyone that will listen!
Exactly! That's what I love too! Absolutely unique, no one else teaches like this.🤩
Rikard, you are the best. Thank you for making a very complex task easier to understand.
Great tips! Fog will also generally have a bit of texture to it, so I'd also recommend adding a bit of grain to the fog to better sell the composite.
Super stuff as always. A really useful way to use that new neural filter.
Brialliant as always Rikard, many thanks for this tutorial!
Very inspiring and educative tutorial. Thank you!!
Great stuff, always good to add some new tricks to your everyday routine 🎉
Wonderful and informative - full of surprises and new tidbits I never knew, as usual.
I love how you teach, taking your time and talking through everything as you do it. It is during this process that I pick up SOOO MUCH extra information that isn't even the main thing you're demonstrating - it's learning through real-life application, full of little related techniques and experience that go with it - that's where the gold is hidden! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
I love this! I like taking picture in the forest, adding a bit of fog is really cool on those pictures!
Love this video. Thank you for the clear explanation.
This has been really helpful, many thanks! Subscribed 👍
Great tutorial, takes some practice, but it makes a huge difference to the image. Thank you 🙂
Thank you for this tutorial. I've picked up a lot from it. Well put together.
Amazing, thank you, Rikard!
Great tutorial with plentiful useful tricks. Thank you very much.
Nice lens blur
Absolutely brilliant, I really liked this tutorial.
Outstanding! All new to me. Thank You.
This is an excellent tutorial. Thanks so much for creating it.
Great video, well done. Could not be a better way to discover your channel. Thanks
incredible tutorial! Thank you for this one!
As always great tutorial 🙏
Very useful tutorial. Thank you!
Where have you been in my life until now? :)) Wow...advanced tutorials...at last.
I'm just glad we finally found each other :)
Superb tutorial!
Great tutorial, it was very interesting.
God bless you, you explain very well with a lot of patience👌
Total guru - I have learnt so much from Rikard.
Excellent tutorial 👍
Amazing tutorial!!
Thank you so much for this video! Learnt something new
Super helpful. Thanks!
Sooo helpful, Thankyou so much for sharing.
Thank you, great tutorial!
Great tutorial, thanks
Bro you're a master. How come i just found out about this channel??? Thank you!
Excellent explanation ❤
I've never seen your videos until today, but wow now I want to do that to all my photos. Really great info. Yes, I sat transfixed for 39 minutes. The wife just shook her head as I watched giddily.
Awesome! Thank you!
Learn alots ☺️
Thank you so much
Really appreciated
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Awesome video!
Great information - thank you so much! Some maneuvers here that never would have occurred to me.
Glad you learned some new tricks!
you're a great teacher 👍
Good example for create depth maps.
Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Bonne formation! Merci. Great Tutorial! Thanks.
Impressive! Thanks
so good learned so much amazing thank you
wow this is awesome. you can also use depth maps created by ps to create 3d/faux 3d effects on your photos/illustrations in other applications, much the same way that the iphone does it
Thank you great video
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Thanks for the tutorial Rikard ... just one question though. When you create the gradients for the lights, how do you create multiple gradients on one layer? Every time I try this the gradient applies to the whole layer and it is almost impossible to adjust. If I try a second gradient, it simply overrides the first one. Any suggestions?
Make sure your gradient is set to "foreground to transparent" and, if you are using Photoshop 2023, also make sure you switch from "gradient" to "classic gradient"
Nice tutorial sir
thank you for this
Wow! A master class. Well done, sir. I learned so much. Consider me subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
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Oh, Depth Blur - "we've temporarily disabled this filter because of an error". I guess I'll have to wait, really wanted to try this. But thank you!
EDIT: restarted PS, all working. Thank you, I've learnt a lot!
Thanx for the clip, another way to use Depth Maps is to wrap textures on top of objects in 3D.
The girls looks huge in the second example, BTW 😅
Keep up the good work!
Excellent tutorial as usual 👍
I need to fill a selection which has varing Pixel opacity to Fully Opaque.
You showed a technique in a one your tutorials that I cannot find.
I have tried Layer Mask >From Transparency then adjustment threshold 1 for selection creation. Was that the same technique you use?
Not sure. But you could also right-mouse-click > select pixels and then activate the quickmask. From there, go to image adjustments > curves. Then take the top of the curve and move it to the left to where the histogram is flat. From there, deactivate the quickmask and fill in your selection. It will be 100% opaque.
I like the way manage the fog creation in this video. I find it hard to remember all these useful video these video tips. Any suggestions on how I can remember various PS tips?
Practice each one with your own images. Once you've actually used it to improve your own image, it will be easier to remember as you can associate it with something you've done.
Excellent tutorial. BTW, in the newer version of Photoshop, how do you generate a depth map to 3D, as you could do in the older versions of Photoshop since they've discontinued the 3D features in Photoshop.
V22.2 is still available in the list of 'Other Versions', so you might want to install that while it is still available.
@Nucly Great tutorial, thank you! ONE question:
@ 8.53 you are using the lens blur tool, which allows you to select a focus distance.
But how can I chose the dept of field? (like you can in the AI tool itself)
Thanks!
The "Radius" slider adjusts the strength of the Depth of field.
@@nuclylearn Ah, I overlooked, but I see its working. Though the range is far less than I would like. In the max. setting everything is blurrier than I like!
But there are ways around that. Thanks for answering!
Hi Ikard, I have been using PS for many years, but I found your tutorial is very useful and cover lot of information there. Just subscribed. I'm thinking to update my Photoshop version, but not sure Elements version is good enough or not. What I heard is there is no big difference if I don't plan to print any professional products. What is your opinion?
I haven't used Elements enough to give a good comparison of the two. The last time I used the program, it wasn't near as robust as Photoshop and comparing the two would be silly. But I know Elements added some basic layer functionality and other tools which make it closer to Photoshop. It's something I intend to explore in the new year.
Thank you for describing and illustrating these tools. My one hesitation with following the techniques exactly would be that the resulting histogram in your first example was massively ruined. Since digital images are confined to the histogram (and the cloud can't replace image information just yet) for any output other than older displays, these images would not reproduce very well. I guess it comes down to intent - if the intent is to faithfully reproduce an image with as little degradation as possible for the widest amount of output possibilities or if the intent is to have the image shown as a small size on digital displays only. At that point it is more about editing techniques rather than the Depth Map you were illustrating. In any case, thanks again for showing the tool.
awesome tutorial , i have 2 questions // when you create the fog switch the depth map to screen which looks amazing then use a clipped curve like you have , what i want to know is there a way to make the fog more murky and darker without makeing the actuall image darker or losing the fog ? like i want to use this technique with dark woodlands/forest but i have no idea how to make the fog darker murky like to fit the look of the image ??? // question 2 when you creat a depth map for a forest scene but the tree closest to you has a branch with alot of leaves and the depth map really struggles to deal with this and creates like this weird block around the leaves as its not filling in the gaps properly , so is there a way to fill in the gaps of leaves with the fog so it looks seamless and none of that weirdness you get ??? / ive tried all sorts of ways to do this but no luck , hoping you can help me out here / awesome channel btw love your content
To answer your first question, the way to color your fog would be to first make it a transparent layer so that you don't have to use the screen blend mode. You can do this by selecting your channel thumbnail while holding command and then fill in your selection with white on a new layer. From there, you can adjust the color and opacity to your liking. For your second question, unfortunately there's not a great solution here. As you point out, the neural filter is not great at fine detail. So the only way I can think to do it, would be to use smart selections and hand paint your depth map in the detailed areas.
@@nuclylearn ahhh you absolute legend this murky fog effect has been a nightmare to figure out but you sir are a total boss thank you - bit gutted about the detailed leafs though but hoping in time the depth mapping will improve on this / thanks again bud much love from England UK🙏
Great tutorial- but wouldn’t it be helpful to make the image (or layer) into a smart object so the blur effects could be changed/adjusted later?
Certainly an option, but it will increase your file size quite a bit. Good tip!
@@nuclylearn Thanks for the reply! I'm in the "I'd rather larger file size but leave everything adjustable" camp, but to each their own, as long as they know it's an option. Storage is super cheap now, but having to re-do something because a filter is baked in wastes time doing it over again.
Still great video tho!
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Possible link download image city png and depth map ?
Hi, I have Photoshop CS6. I take it I cannot use depth maps etc in this version?
Unfortunately, the CREATION of depth maps is something Adobe introduced in Photoshop CC 2021 with neural filters. But if you already have a depth map (any 3D program will render them) you can use them as shown. I have, on a few occasions, also created my own depth map from images to use with the Lens Blur filter, but it is quite time consuming.
Man I was really hoping to follow along but for some reason when I click on my depth blur it does not do anything. I'm in PS 24.7.0.
Unfortunately it looks like Adobe broke the filter. I tried the filter on the identical image in the newest version of Photoshop and the result is terrible. I'll get in touch with Adobe and see what happened.
@@nuclylearn Wow, thank you for confirming the issue. I'm relieved it is not user error.
The output layer isn't black and white, it has all three colour channels. How did yours get to be B+W?
Any B&W layer in an RGB file will have all three channels. But you can turn that information into a single alpha or spot channel as described around the 5:46 mark in the video. If you want it as a greyscale image, you can also duplicate your file, flatten it, change your color space to greyscale and save it that way.
@@nuclylearn Thanks for replying. The depth map I created from neural filters looks B+W, like yours, but the channels are RGB on mine, whereas they are B+W in your video
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@@auricgoldfingers Go to your preferences and under "Interface" toward the bottom you'll see a checkmark "Show channels in colors." Turn this off.
@@nuclylearn Thanks! I had the same issue.
How does one add multiple gradients to a layer instead creating separate layers for each gradient?
Change your gradient from "Gradient" to "Classic Gradient" in the tool options bar.
@@nuclylearn 🙏
Please do some tutorials on affinity. Photoshop is outdated now 😂
Tried to download the assets photos, but nothing happened when I Clicked the downloading link.
Help here will be highly appreciated. Many thanks, Ori
Try this link: www.nucly.com/how-to-use-depth-maps
@@nuclylearn
Didn't help. This link "loops" me back to signing in for the assets. Did that 3 times already...
Check your email. You will have received an email with the subject "Your Nucly tutorial assets." In there you'll find a direct download link for the zip file of assets. I just tried it myself and got the email within a few seconds of filling out the form.
Why does he sling shot his head like that 🤣 0:40
that is one tall woman in the picture of vienna.. she must be at least 3 meters tall ^^
you guys need to have a basement to store stuff
Please convert to smart object before scaling 😭
"Nucly" is also a word in Hindi which means "Fake".
Lol. Is that true?!
toooo long
Nice tutorial...but just a suggestion for you...PLEASE stop wiggling your pen/cursor while you are talking and not doing any adjustment. Constantly moving cursors are really annoying to watch!
I'll try my best!
Turn off those irritating red circles from the cursor 😡
It looked better before.
good vid but you don’t need to exhaustively talk about every single thing. doesn’t need to be a 40min video
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Remake this video and make it 10 minutes long... you belabor every point way way way too much
Looking forward to applying this HAC k 🤌🏽 gotta have stuff to out create AI lol……