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Photoshop In Depth

Photoshop As Image Creation Tool

Pencil vs. Brushes

  • Remember anti-aliasing?

Modification Keys

  • Shift to constrain
  • Option to pick color
  • Command to move layer
  • Control for popup menu of brushes
  • "[" and "]" increases/decreases bursh size
  • "," and "." moves through brush palette

Brushes

  • Opacity
    • It's not like reality
    • Won't overlap on a single mouseDown
  • Flow
    • Allows overlap on a single mouseDown
  • Blending Mode
    • Key modes
      • Normal
      • Darken/Lighten
      • Difference
      • Hue, Saturation
  • Brush Palette
    • More than 60
    • Taken from Corel Painter
    • Infinite variety = time-vacuum

Eraser

Paint Bucket/Gradient

Blur/Sharpen/Smudge

Pen & Direct Selection Tool

  • Shape Layers vs. Paths
  • Direct selection through gestures

Text/Text Mask

Layers

Palette menu

  • New, Duplicate, Delete
  • Blending Options
  • Grouping
  • Layer Masks from selection

Filters

Too many to cover, but here's a few important ones

  • Artistic
    • Easiest to just enter the Filters window with any Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize, or Texture filter
    • Add filters with "New effect layer"
    • Beware of creating images that look like "out of the box photoshop"
  • Blur/Gaussian Blur
  • Add Noise/Despeckle/Dust & Scratches
  • Others:Offset
  • Remember that you can limit the effect with a selection

Edit:Transform

  • Scale, Rotate, Flip
  • Skew, Perspective, Distort, Perspective
  • Warp

Edit: Fade Last Process

Wow, Cool!

Image: Adjustments

  • Levels
  • Hue/Saturation

Retouching

  • Spot Healing/Healing/Patch/Redeye
  • Clone & Pattern Stamps
  • History Brush
    • Restore the past
    • Set the source in the history palette
  • Art History Brush

Workflow

  • History palette
    • Snapshot
    • Options
    • Linear vs. non-linear history
      • Trash can icon delets individual action in non-linear history
  • Actions
    • Default actions
    • Build your own

Not enough time

Assignment 4

Create a Mask

Part A

  • Take this Photoshop file, take the "Mask Me" layer, and separate it from it’s background so the background "Reveal Me" layer shows through nice and clean.
  • Your choice on selection method, but try a few and see which one works best

Part B

  • Take this Photoshop file, take the "Mask Me" layer, and separate it from it’s background so the background "Reveal Me" layer shows through nice and clean.
  • Use the Extract Filter