High there in this video we're going to do two things we're going to take this image and turn it into
black and white image then we're going to do some cool stuff with colors and blending with the background
you can see a few different options there.
So let's go and do that now in Adobe Illustrator.
All right to get started you can open up a file you know exercise files called blending modes.
Black and white dot i k and they're just kind of put in some basic stuff to get us going.
Phase one is to bring in an image and make it black and white.
So we're going to get a file We're going to go to place and we're going to find an image in a cool gray
scale.
There he is grayscale to pick took place I'm going to drag it.
So it kind of fits in my background here.
It's a little bit too big we should trim it up.
I'm not going to bother.
Now I also want to send it to the back so command shift and square bracket will control shift square
breaker on a PC and now we need to make it black and white so black and white an illustrator is selected
with my black eram.
I go to it and I go down to it it colors and I've got convert to greyscale and it's black and white.
Now that's fine.
And this one looks fine and I find that illustrator does one option right.
It's pretty kind of just take it or leave it.
So what I tend to do is alter the same image in something like Photoshop.
And it's not a photoshop class but mostly be.
Them even if you've never used it.
Do this particular thing and what you want to do is with it open to adjustments.
There's an option here this like on here is the black and white K does a similar sort of thing.
Have a look.
It's slightly different where it gets different in Photoshop though as you get to adjust the colors.
So when he used to say what you did with the Reds so you get a bit of control so you can see read rather
than just kind of leave in one of the deep folders you can.
Actually I want to do some other stuff with it maybe ducking them up.
OK so this gives you a lot more control about how this thing gets converted to black and white which
I love there's no green in the image so these guys do a bit of sign in his pocket turns out robot blue
in a shirt case you get to kind of have a bit more control.
Another cool thing about this in Photoshop is this guy here.
It's got to Tier One name.
The on out modifier saying OK but give it a click and all it does is means that you get to click and
drag.
I've turned it on you know it's active because it's dark.
And over here I get to say hey his cheeks need a bit of work.
I can click hold drag left and right.
So instead of just trying to guess over here what colors are affecting things you get to say this but
the chicken shit when my brother does.
OK so it's just a real kind of tactile pocket.
I need to kind of like dark and down sides because here it's quite bright when I get it down.
The Fins here can bring it up down.
OK so just click hold and drag and the other thing you know you might not want black and white you might
want to tint is a tint option here.
OK.
Got it by default.
It's got a kind of spear ish kind of tone.
So yeah there is the black and white too in Photoshop.
Now you save it out maybe it's a piece maybe the J pick and bring it into Illustrator.
I'm not going to but if you want to do more with Photoshop.
Tips and Tricks like this.
I've got a photoshop course.
Check out either the essentials of the fonts one of that.
All right back into Illustrator.
Now what we want to do now is get this kind of like coloration and directing with a background lace
or at the beginning it's quite easy.
So more color blending like we did in early advertorial.
So Black Arrow got this red box selected good rapacity on the way to Pasotti normal.
And then just play around until you find one that works ok.
I like multiply it looks pretty good.
OK they all got different kind of effects now.
And also I know that if you use a different color.
I've used a kind of rich red and that's going to work this way with multiply but if you have a different
color you'll find that some of these options will be quite different only that multiply.
Because I like it and move on to the next one so we're going to do in the next bit.
So we're going to grab our board to just make a duplicate.
OK so our board to hold down the option key on a Mac or on a PC conversion second version and then this
one what I want to do is not only kind of colorize is actually an interesting aspect the black.
I like when used to be black.
OK.
And it didn't really matter with multiply K can be a normal multiple I believe.
They're both look the same but I'd like to do is I had these kind of guys up here grab these three Hey
I'm going to just make them nice big stretch in the mountain and rotate them and all I really want to
do is.
And at the Leya order is kind of important kind of important it's very important.
OK so I'm going to get them.
What I can do is overlap this other document.
OK.
So I'm going to my left move this guy cross with my board.
So there's a bit more space with me.
All right.
And so with these selected I'm going to send them to the back and bring them forward so they are kind
of just one like just part of the gray but not of this takes because I don't want this collecting that
now.
Exactly same thing.
I'm going to go through stroke and see where it is a pastie and pick another one of these.
OK so you can do some really cool stuff with like different colors cakes.
What does this color mode.
It's quite cool.
It's like too much just one of the boxes.
And this one here is multiply.
OK.
And it's pretty cool.
Calvin Litan like Calvin it's kind of cool kind of insta Grammy look and what we might do as well is
draw a rectangle to crop these guys and something to make you sick.
You and I you know it's like if all these boxes plus that image in the background kind of Graben hard
to grab on Daniel professional grandma gettable.
So everything selected this image.
These boxes this sky here because this guy's up front I can hit command button on my keyboard control
7 on a PC.
OK just kind of.
You know you do kind of crop them all and still live in a select on this and move it to the back so
I can see my text.
All right one last thing I'll show you and you sort of the beginning there I'm going to grab my iPod
to shift over and I'm going to hold down the key option key and I'm going to reichlich release clipping
mask.
I don't want you guys anymore.
Thank you very much.
You got it.
Two things one is the kind of posterized him.
It's called halftone.
Kind of a coup an exaggeration of old school printing nautical printing actual printing but we're going
to blow it up to look quite cool.
So we're going to select them.
We're going to go to a fix.
And then is going to try and remember which one this is an I guess a pixelate Coloe halftone.
That's what I'm after.
And I just leave all the poults and that's going to be our result.
And what we might do is well just to kind of give it a little I don't know that is and if Affleck show
it's what does it.
It's making emitter gay.
I love that series anyway and that's what we're going for anyway.
We're going to go for a ridge and then we're going to go and play with the Pasotti.
And actually we're playing with the blending mode inside of a Pasotti And here we're going to pick one
of these right kind of simple Kalib in it.
So that kind of look to it.
Maybe I'm making that up.
But you the idea right.
And you can play around with obviously color halftone you can drag that off.
Click on the sky and update it in here and decide kind of max radius channels 1 2 and 3 just kind of
it is that this looks quite different and when you walk in with a colored image because we only have
one channel being used.
OK so play around with the colored image might look quite cool as well.
All right my friends.
That is how to work with black and white images and do some cool stuff with color blending modes.
All right.
Lol see in the next video.