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Intermediate Photoshop
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Working with Selection Areas
(Open fruit.jpg)
(Open Flower.jpg)           

Selection- an area of an image that is isolated so it can be modified while the rest of the image is protected.

            - Selection Tools

            - Select oval area, Select Menu, feather, adjust contrast/brightness

Selecting Exercise (from Fundamentals)

Masking and Layers

Standard Adjust commands- affects only a single layer- current target layer
Adjustment layer- affects several layers at once or specified layer

Open Clouds.psd file

• Create new layer- practice with painting tools- paint brush, pencil tool- what's the
  difference?
  
• Create new layer- fill with black- use eraser tool to reveal layer below, change active
  layer and continue experimenting with eraser
  
• Create new layer- fill with gradation- practice using cntr key to select radial gradation
  
• Reorder layers
  
• Activate Clouds layer- Create new layer- adjustment layer- reorder adjustment layer
• Experiment with blending modes
  
  

Movable Lens Flare

• Create the Lens flare on a separate layer filled with a black background. (Filter Menu/ Render/ Lens Flare).
• Use the screen mode in the layers palette to make the black disappear.
• Use the move tool to drag the flare around the image.
• Use opacity slider to fine tune the results.
  
  

Making Selections with Quick Mask mode
(work with flower.jpg)

• Color indicates: selected areas
• opacity 100%
• magic want- select flower- grow- still missing areas inside
• click quick mask- use paint brush to select little areas
  
• also try select modify smooth on the flower\
• expand- makes a selection larger by adding specified number of pixels
• contrast- decreases the size of the selection by the number specified
  

Composite Images- Working with Masks
(work with Masks1.jpg)

1. Select the magic wand tool.
2. Click the sky to select that area. Add to the selection by holding the shift key and clicking any main parts of the sky (including the clouds) not yet selected. (Don't worry about leaving some parts of the sky unselected or selecting some parts of the mountains, you'll touch them up later.)
3. Click the Quick Mask button in the tool box to switch to Quick Mask mode.The unselected areas are now masked by a a transparent red overlay.
4. Choose Image > Adjust > Invert to maks the sky and select the mountains. To add to the selected are you'll now erase from the mask.
5. Click the default colors in the tool box to set the colors to black and white.
6. Double click the eraser tool in the toolbox. In the eraser options palette, make sure the opacity slider is set to 100%, paint brush is chosed on the mode menu and no other options are selected.
7. Click the brushes tab and click to select a brush. Drag the eraser tool to erase the mask from the mountains as needed.
8. Select the zoom tool; then click the top of the mountains to zoom in on that area.
9. Select the eraser tool again, then select a small brush in the brushes palette. Continue erasing to remove more of the mask from the edge of the mountain.
10. In case you removed too much of the mask, you can add it now by painting with black. Paint with black to add mask, paint with white to take it away.
11. Click the standard mode button in the toolbox to view the unmasked part of the image as a selection. Then choose Select Menu > Save Selection and click OK.
12. Open image to be inserted into this image. Select all of it- Select Menu > all, Edit Menu copy. Return to the mountains picture. Edit Menu > Paste Into.

Working with gradients for masks
(work with fruit.jpg)

• apply various filters
• save file "fruit2", select all, edit copy
  
• default to black and white colors
  
• open original
  options/ gradation foreground to background
  
• options masking tool- 100%
  
• draw gradient-
  
• go back to regular mode
• edit, past into
  
  

History Palette/ History Brush

Working with Type (Photoshop v. 6)

Entering Type

• Set a type insertion point
• Set type attributions using options bar, character palette or paragraph palette
  
• Entered desired type
• You must commit the type to its type later before you can perform other operations. Click commit button (checkmark) in the options bar.

Editing Type

• Select the type tool and click inside the desired type to set an insertion point or drag to highlight the characters you want to edit.
• Chenge the type content and attributes as desired. Try changing the font and size of the first letter.
• Click the commit button.

 

Warp the shape of the text.

• Use the type tool to click inside the text you want to edit.
• Click the warp icon in the options bar.
• For style, choose a warp effect.
• Specify whether to apply the warp horizontally or vertically, drag the sliders to adjust the intensity of the effect, click ok.
• Type resides on its own layer- try applying layer-specific edits to the type.

Slicing for WebGraphics (Photoshop v. 6)

When you slice an image, each rectangular slice downloads individually so that users can view parts of the image as the downloading progresses.

To slice an image use the slice tool. and drag in the image to define the slice areas. Photoshop automatically generates slices for the remaining areas of the image.

Assigning URL to a slice makes the entire slice a link in the web page to the specified url. Select the slice select tool and double click the desired slice to display the Slice Options dialogue box. Enter the desired URL information.

Optimizing Web Graphics

• Choose File / Save for Web
• View 2 up or 4 up to compare settings
• To use a predefined optimization settings, choose the desired set from the Settings menu.
• You can fine tune the optimization by adjusting individual settings.

• Click OK- For Format choose one of the following

  • Images Only generates only the optimized image files. If you have defined slices in your image, an optimized file is created for each slice.
  • Html and Images generates an HTML file along with optimized image files. If you have defined slices in your image this html file contains code for the table that assembles the slices.

 

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