Photoshop Secrets – Part. 4
Painting In Photoshop
Techniques Used In Painting
You can also create or change images in Photoshop with paint brushes and colors. The brushes can also be used as a healing brush and to erase things that you don’t want or need.
Select Edit, Preferences, and Displays & Cursors in order to adjust the display. This will allow you to see the various painting tool sizes while you use them for your image. Choose the brush size you need for your image.
Select an area that you wish to paint and mark it. You have to do this because it prevents the part that is not selected from being painted. However, if you decide to paint the whole thing, then nothing should be selected.
Black is the default color for the foreground and white is the default color for the background. When you use the paint brushes in Photoshop, they will use the current foreground color. To change foreground and background colors, you can type the letter X or select the double sided arrow. If you want the black and white colors, type the letter D. You can also choose a new color by selecting the foreground color from the tool box.
Another way to choose colors is by using the swatches palette or the color bar. You can also choose the Eyedropper tool. Any of these can be use to change the colors to what you want for your image.
Painting Tools
Paintbrush – Select the paintbrush picture from the toolbox. If you need to, use the other options to change the size of the paintbrush. Use the drag method for the image or part of the image that will be painted. If you want to create straight lines, as you’re dragging, hold down the Shift key.
Eraser – The eraser gets rid of the background color if the process is done on the background layer. There are several types of erasers to use from the Eraser tool. You can choose pencil, airbrush, paintbrush or block. When you need to erase, use the dragging method on the image. It’s a good idea to have a copy of your work in the event you accidentally erase something you shouldn’t have.
Paint Bucket – The Paint Bucket is used to fill in areas that are close to where you have selected pixels. If you don’t want to have transparent spots filled, make sure that “Preserve Transparency” is checked. Select the Paint Bucket tool and in the Options bar, choose a tolerance value. Select the part of the image that will be filled with the Paint Bucket.
Photoshop Brushes
When using brushes in Photoshop, you can paint and draw on images. This is one of the main parts of graphic design with this software. When you are learning how to use brushes, the skill is not something that you can catch on to overnight. It will take some work and some practice to get it the way it’s supposed to be. Once you get the hang of it, using the brushes will become a piece of cake.
Using a photo in Photoshop, select Layer from the menu and choose New Layer. When you are implementing different elements to each photo, you should always use a new layer. Doing this can make it easier for you as far as editing is concerned.
In the main tool menu, select the Brush icon and choose Brush Tool. Select the paintbrush icon and choose one of three components (Airbrush, Paintbrush or Spray Paint). Depending on what effect you want, choose Airbrush for a light brush effect, choose Paintbrush for a solid brush effect and Spray Paint for a spray paint brush effect.
Choose the brush size you need by selecting Brush Size in the pull down menu. You will also need to choose the type of stroke that you will use. Choose the style that you want by selecting the Mode menu. A good suggestion is to use “Normal” because that is what most people use. Photoshop provides plenty of brushes for you to use. However, if you need more, there are plenty of websites that offer them.
In order to determine how dark you want your brushstrokes to be, you will need to use the “Opacity” arrow. You will use the sliding control to choose between 0 to 100%. There is also a sliding control to determine how much flow in regard to using your brushstrokes for color.
In order to use the eyedropper, select the Color Box. You can use the color scale until you get the color that you want. To use the color with your brush, use the left click on your mouse. When you need to add another element, you will need to add a new layer. See how it looks and if you don’t like it, you can always delete the layer.
Pictures In Photoshop
Picture Layout – How To Use It
Implementing the picture layout is simple and doesn’t take a lot of time. You can put images together or change the way the picture looks. Make sure that your layout is already in place if you are putting pictures together. Here are some steps to take in order to make your picture layout look professional.
Open two photo files in Photoshop.
Select the Marquee tool and choose the part of the picture that will be copied. Using the paste function, place the first picture on top of the other one.
Select the Edit function in the Copy menu. You will copy the area.
Use the Paste function and choose the second photo. Part of the first photo should be placed on top of the second photo.
Using the Magnifier, zoom into the portion of the photo that is pasted.
In order to move the images around, use the hand tool. During this time, your file is still in the zoom phase.
If you need to make adjustments to the photo that is pasted, select the move tool.
Cropping Pictures In Photoshop
When you are cropping part of a picture, that usually signals that you don’t want that part to be there. It may be a portion of something that should not be there, or something that you just don’t care to see. So, you will attempt to crop or cut it off. When you do that, what is left is what you want on the picture. Here are some steps you can take to get rid of portions that you don’t want.
After you’ve opened the graphics software, find the image that you want to change.
Choose the crop tool which is located in the Photoshop toolbox.
Go to one of the corners to where you want to crop off the image and start there.
Drag the image down until you have what you want to crop.
Using the resizing handles, adjust the area that is to be cropped. You can also do this by clicking and dragging the selection. Whatever is outside of the square will be cropped, while the remaining part of the image will stay.
Select the green check mark that is located at the top of the screen in the toolbar. This will signal that you are giving permission for that area to be cropped. After the action has taken place, you will only have the portion that you opted to keep.
Using Picture Effects
If you want to make your pictures come alive, using picture effects in Photoshop can help you do just that. Using this component of Photoshop is simple to do. The only thing that is required of you other than following the directions is that you should have some type of imagination.
Photoshop has plenty of picture effects that you can use and these instructions will show you how to apply a double image and make that image into something that you may never have thought of.
Open a picture from Photoshop. You will see a layer called “Background”. Using the right-click button on your mouse, open it and choose the command “Duplicate Layer”.
The actual duplicate layer should be named something else. After you have saved the new file, you should see two layers in your layer palette. If for some reason the layers palette does not open in Photoshop, select “Window” and choose “Layers”. Or you can try using the F7 key at the top of your keyboard.
Using the Move tool, you will find a spot and click on the newly created duplicate layer. Drag the picture in whatever direction you choose. Keep dragging it and under the duplicate one, you will see the first picture.
Select the “Free Transform” command from the Edit menu. If you need to change the second picture into different shapes and sizes, this is what you would use to do that. Doing that would also require using the Move tool in order to get the picture to where you want it.
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