Sample Images for Demo

• Woman's Face (healing brush)
• Cuzco (patch brush)
• Iranian Missles (clone stamp)

More on Brushes...

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  Brush Presets
  • More than 60
  • Taken from Corel Painter
  • Infinite variety = time-vacuum

Blur/Sharpen/Smudge

• Blur
• Sharpen
• Smudge

Dodge/Burn/Sponge

Traditional darkroom tools

• Dodge - Decreases contrast
• Burn - Increases contrast
• Sponge - Sucks out saturation

Pens

• Shape Layers vs. Paths
  • 
    Set with the control panel
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    Use as selection method with the Paths Panel and the Mask Panel
• Direct selection with command key

Text/Text Mask

• Horizontal Text
• Vertical Text
• Horizontal Text Mask
  • Useful for making text which is filled with an image or texture.
  • Use with
    • "Paste Into" from the Edit menu
    • Adjustments from the Image menu
    • Filters
• Vertical Text Mask

Select

In a strange location in the UI. Should be under the Pen tool or within the Pen tool

• Select Path
• Direct Select

 

Shapes

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  Set fills and strokes in Control Panel
• Rectangle
• Rounded Rectangle
• Elipse
• Polygon
• Line
• Custom
  
  

3D

I know pretty much nothing about these...

Palette menu

• Bottom Menus
  • Link
  • Fx
    • Really powerful !
  • Add Mask
  • Add Fill/Adjustment Layer
    • Also really powerful !
  • Create Group
  • Create New Layer
  • Delete Layer

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

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• 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"
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• Blur/Gaussian Blur
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  Add Noise/Despeckle/Dust & Scratches
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  Others:Offset
• Remember that you can limit the effect with a selection

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

• Levels
• Hue/Saturation
• Curves