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10 Basic Photoshop Tutorials-PDF Format PDF
10 Basic Photoshop Tutorials-PDF Format PDF
9/9/04
Record an Action
Discover the Healing Brush
Modifying Selections: Part I
Modifying Selections: Part II
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When making selections youll most often want to select the easiest way
and use the tools together to get a selection. It all depends on the circumstances. With difcult backgrounds sometimes there is no easy way. The
art of the selection will be covered in depth in the upcoming AdvancedPhotoshop.com.
Go to the moVe tool in the upper right corner of the toolbar and drag this
selection into the new document. Here in the layers palette you can see
that I have both of the separate selections on their own layers. To fully
understand layers you may want to read about the Basic Photoshop full
training here.
In this case the sunset was appear behind the main subject so if this happens to you remember that
you have your transform options under the Edit menu. Go ahead and ip it horizontally. Now the
sunset appears on the other side where there is breathing room for it to be. This is good common
design sense which you probably have, its just good to know the tools to how to do it!
Here you can see in the layers palette Ive turned off
the layer and you can see the selection that weve
made.
Go back in
History to
move her
back. You can
also use Edit:
Undo Move.
Now lets do something else. Once you have a selection you can save it a few ways. One of the ways is
by right clicking (when on the appropriate tool such
as lasso) and choosing Make Work Path...
Under the Paths palette you can see the work path that
youve now created. You can see the hard edged line
around your subject.
It will be up to you as the master of Photoshop and its tools to decide what parts to
blend in where. Because the skin tone is
generally consistent you can sample from
a good part of it to heal a worse part; vs.
sample from his hair to heal skin.
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To erase the background simply move the background eraser around. It is the
crosshairs in the middle that determine the point of what is going to be erased of
everything that is within the circle of the brush. What is actually erased and to
what degree is determined by the tolerance % level.
In this case of varying greens on the grass Im probably going to have to adjust
the tolerance a bit. Its best to use a regular eraser for vast expanses of background that need to be erased and use the background eraser when you want to
erase close to your foreground subject that hopefully has a distinct color difference than the background (once again tolerance comes into play).
A higher tolerance will erase pixels that are more and more different in color
range from the original (or continuous) sample point of the crosshairs (see the
sampling menu).
To ll an entire layer youll want to Select: Deselect (Ctrl/Cmd D) the selection and then ll otherwise youll ll the selected area on a new layer. Make
sure that layer is beneath the foreground layer in the layers palette.
Grab a large regular eraser and just clean up the spots or pixel dust that is
left behind on the layer of your foreground subject.
Change the color if you want to, swipe a gradient, pull in a different background image with the
moVe tool, add some text, etc. and youre ready for
print.
In this case I want you to know I didnt spend the time cleaning up the rest of the foreground layer. Hopefully the designer in you is cringing and thinking what is that ugly red
background doing with this nice family?...good youre thinking. (I was in a hurry making
60 of these tutorials in a few days) Now pull in a background picture that would work nice
in my other tutorials. I would also recommend a background if you want to keep any grass
that would complement the foreground layer and which you could do some radial gradient
layer masking to get a perfect blend (zhooommmm).
The more I look at this photo the more I wonder what I was thinking. But hopefully you
learned the background eraser tool and much more in this tutorial. Check out many more
Photoshop tutorials here; theres lots to learn!
This is pretty standard procedure and not that hard to master but its another important concept to understand and use
in practicum. Now that its on its own layer you can grab
the moVe tool in the upper right corner of the toolbar and
move the layer around (weeee).
Youve basically duplicated a part of the image that you
wanted to by selecting it (in this case with the polygonal
lasso tool) and put it on its own space. The polygonal
obviously works well with nice straight lines and corners
which need to be selected (such as architecture).
If you hide the background original layer then you can see the oriental
lattice oating in midspace.
Once you have closed off your newly created work path. You can view it in the Paths palette.
When you click off of the Work Path and onto the grey area the Path you made will be de-selected.
You can always come back to the Paths palette to turn on or off the different paths for display or editing.
Here you can see that the Path is highlighted in the paths
palette and that Ive Ctrl Clicked on the layer icon to create a
selection. Smaller marching ants...
Now that youve used the pen tool to make your very rst pen
tool selection, go to the layer you need to be on in the layers
palette and switch to the moVe tool. Use the move tool to
move the selection around then undo it in the history palette.
Now you know the basics of the pen tool.
Here is the Move tool moving the path turned selection. Now
you could do something like layer via copy to put it onto its
own layer and work with (for graphic design or adjusting).
Under the Pen tool there are some more options. You can
Add an anchor point anywhere along the path itself. This is
the same as clicking with the pen tool when you were originally making the path and its anchor points.
You can also use the Convert Point Tool. This converts regular
anchor points into more exible anchor points allowing you to
move handles around and to create elliptical parts of paths. This
is what really takes a while to...get a handle on.
With the navigator you can also grab within the rectangle box and move it around to move the entire
image. It looks really cool on a high res image when youre zoomed in..try it out.
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Record an Action
Its fairly easy to record your own action. To start off, go to
the actions palette now click on the folder icon. This will
create your own set.
Give it a name in the pop up window.
You can further edit your selection in process (the quick mask becomes a temporary channel in the Channels palette and is gone when
you exit the mode) by a number of ways including selection and lling
(combined), gradient and using the brush tool (most common). Select
the brush tool while you are in quick mask mode.
Now just take your brush with black as the foreground color and ll in the rest of the sky carefully. The rubylith
just shows you the actual job that you are doing. Feel free to lower the size of the brush to get into smaller areas
(use the bracket keys [ ] to make the brush size larger or smaller).
If you accidentally (or purposefully) spillover and deselect an area with red use the shortcuts of D,X to switch
and get white as your new foreground color. With white remember you are buying back pixels, or preserving
them in the ultimate selection, so just eraser the red rubylith to where it spills over into your mountain or selection object.
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What you are going to do is simply hide pixels by using the layer mask; theyre
still there just hidden. By hiding some of the pixels on this layer you can let the
layer beneath blend into this layer.
Now simply drag up with the gradient tool from the bottom at a slight angle
towards the top (about 3 screen inches worth). Because you are on the layer
mask, these pixels will now be hidden.
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In case you didnt know it you are now learning my secret weapon
(gradient layer masking). This is the #1 technique that professionals
use in graphic design. Its used in 90% of all movie posters (so that
should say something). Any beginner can create professional results
by mastering this process.
Go to the channels palette and view the grayscale layer mask. Once
again you can see the black area is the area that you have masked or
hidden and the white is the area that is left. The red you see is the
rubylith. You can click on and off with the \ key. Or you can turn the
eye off in the channels palette to turn the rubylith on and off.
Choose a darker
spot with your
eyedropper tool.
Now select the ll layer in the layers palette to make it the active layer. Press alt backspace to ll this
layer with your new chosen color.
Now were getting into design which Im trying to keep strictly for photoshopdesigner.com and photoshopdesign.net but by combining different techniques here you can get a feel for how easy it is to create
some nice work (where youre headed).
Grab your type tool and just enter
some complimentary text that you
think would t with the image
youve chosen. I have 100s of
images from Photos.com that are
personal picks (being a visual person) and are of the highest quality.
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You can have all kinds of fun playing around with these shapes but its
really cool when you deliberately
start to put together a design. Its
then that the individual components
start adding up.
Remember that it will ll with your foreground color. If you want to change the color of the shape
layer just click the color picker on the upper right in the options bar.
Remember that you have lots of tools at your disposal. Go to Edit: Free Transform. Now hold the
Ctrl key and angle your object in to the center as shown.
Here is the result of just a few of these basic Photoshop skills put together. The fun has only just
begin. It gets exciting when YOU start harnessing
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creativity and new knowledge of Photoshop. Just
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