 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to add water or a wet look to clothing and or sweat. Basically you want to make the stock footage which I have here. I've got a stock photo of a guy working out. I want to make it look more realistic and I want to add in like he's been exercising type of look and I've gone ahead and done that here. This is a rough cut so it's not 100% perfect but it's the technique that counts. I'm going to show you step by step so let's just go ahead and take that off and I'm going to create this step by step starting here. The first step of course is you want to drag and drop the image that you're going to be working with into Photoshop. So I'm going to start from scratch and do it again. I'm going to open it and boom, there's the image kind of pretty close. There we go. We got the guy's got a Spartan shirt on. He's rolling the next step here is you're going to see the lock button over underneath the panel here. Left click because this layer is partially locked. Just unlock it just like that. Now the next step is I'm going to go down to the bottom here and actually you know what? Before I do that I'm going to duplicate this layer. It's better to do it this way. So just so that we're working non-destructively. So I'm going to left click on the layer. I'm going to drag and drop it on that plus sign and that creates a layer creates a duplicate layer. Pardon me. So I'm going to turn the bottom layer off. We're going to work on the top layer. So we have something to compare it to as well. The next step making sure you're selected top layer. You want to create a filler adjustment layer. So left click on this little button down at the bottom here. The half circle, so to speak. And we're going to go and select the brightness and contrast option. Now you want to dial this in like I dial it into. I want the brightness to go to about minus 80. So we're going to reduce the brightness considerably. I'm going to dial it in minus 80. And then for the contrast, I want the contrast to go way up to 80. So this is because we're going to be working with masks next and I want to have this type of look. So there we go. We've got our adjustment layer. We're on our way. The next step and this is a very important one is you want to invert the mask. We want it to go from the white mask, which is the default to a black mask. And the way to do that is to hit command if you're on a Mac or control if you're on a PC and hit the I button or the I letter. Boom. Now it's a black mask. Perfect. The next step, making sure you're still selected on this mask is we're going to now brush in the wetness or the sweat or the discoloration, so to speak. So left click on your brush tool like this. And for me, for this type of work, I work with a soft round brush. So I'm just going to drag this out a little bit. It's under general brushes, soft round. So you can always select that if you're following along with me. Also, I leave the opacity at 100% as you can see up top here, but I reduce the flow down to 40% because it allows me to be a little bit more precise and I'd rather paint a couple times and get it just right as opposed to painting once and well, hoping it's right. So those are the key attributes that we're going to work with. Let's carry on. The next step here is we're going to go ahead and now brush in the color. So making sure that you have white selected. So when you're brushing, the foreground color is set to white. We're going to now brush in some of the sweat and some of the wet look. So I'm just left-clicking on it and I'm just adding it in. So again, this all depends on the type of work you're doing and the type of discoloration you're looking for. But I'm going to go a little darker on this side over here because it's already darkened and I'm going to add some in here and then I'm going to add a little bit in here, maybe a little more down in that area. And then at the top, I want to paint in, you know, maybe he's been, he's got some sweat going on up here kind of thing. Again, this is totally up to you, how you guys do it. But this is just to show you the technique and yeah, let's go with something like that. What do you think guys? Little darker, little darker, maybe a little bit of sweat down here somewhere. He's been training and I don't know, something like that, right? Like let's go, let's try and make it believable, right? Like he's just been training hard and he's got some bits and pieces. All right, so we've added in some, some of the coloring that we're looking for. Perfect. Now, let's go ahead and make a few more adjustments. Right clicking on the layer here, I'm going to right click and you're going to see something called blending options. Make sure in case you don't see this, if you right click over top of the mask or you right click over the layer thumbnail, you might not see it. So make sure you're right clicking outside of that. Click on blending options. All right. Now, I'm going to move this out of the way so you guys can see a little better what I'm doing here. But on the underlying layer over here on the white side, you can actually separate this indicator. So I'm going to hold down the alt key or the option key if you're on a Mac and I'm going to move this a little bit. So I'm just dialing it in just to get it a little bit closer. This is not a necessary step but this is just something that I like to do just to give it a little bit more of an organic feel. Again, not a necessary step. I'm going to now left click on okay and we are on our way. Okay guys, so we can make a few more things here. The next step is we're going to duplicate the layer at the bottom here. So I'm going to take this second layer here. The one that we're working on, I'm going to duplicate it. I'm going to drag and drop it on top of the plus sign. So now we've got another layer on top. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to convert this into a smart object and there's a couple ways to do it. I like to right click on the layer, drag it down, convert to smart object and you'll know it's a smart object because you're going to see the little objecty, smart objecty thing in the bottom right of the thumbnail. I really should increase the size of my thumbnails but we'll do that in a future video. Okay, so now the next step, making sure you're on the top layer here, we're going to go to filter. We're going to go to filter gallery and we're actually going to apply a filter to it. Now there's two that work well. One is called plastic wrap and the other one is like kind of like a watercolor. So I'm going to go with, well, do we want to do watercolor first or not? Let's see here, I'm going to zoom out. Let's go with watercolor first. I'm going to left click on okay and it is going to apply a little bit of a strange little watercolor filter. Not to worry, we're still good. We're going to go ahead now and we're going to go back to the filter here. So I'm going to left click on the filter and I'm going to paint a little bit more. Not too much. It's not doing a whole lot here, if I'm being honest, but we've got that water filter look perfect. I'm going to reduce the opacity of this layer down to about 30%. And now we're starting to get a little bit of a nice looking look here. So it's not, it doesn't look like it's been painted on. It's looked like it's natural and that's what we're going for. Okay, perfect. The final step here is I'm going to apply a second filter. I'm going to go to the filter gallery again and this one is the one we talked about earlier, the plastic wrap. Now the plastic wrap, again, it's just to give it a little bit more of an organic look. I'm going to reduce down the look here to 12 detail for smoothness for and I'm going to hit okay on that. That basically just adds in a little bit of a look to it. Now I'm going to go ahead and yeah, I'm going to go ahead and add in a little bit more here. I'm going to go and take a look at deeper look in here and see, okay, look, look at his body. You're going to see here that it's got a little bit more striations. It's got a few things inside the pick or inside the the watery component or the sweat component. And from there guys, that's how you add in that type of look using Photoshop 2021. I hope this tutorial helped you out. I got a lot more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.