Photoshop CS6 Unlocked: 101 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Language: English
Pages: 350
ISBN: 0987247875
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Photoshop CS6 Unlocked is a full-color question-and-answer book for web designers who want to use Photoshop to create better looking websites.
Completely updated for Photoshop CS6, this comprehensive book covers:
- Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts
- Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more
- Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors
- Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds
- Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more
- Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images, and more
- Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce, and more
- Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more
- Advanced techniques: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions, and more
used #ebeef0) and use the Pencil Tool (B) to draw left-hand and top borders on the rectangle button layer. Select a dark gray (I’ve used #515a60) and draw bottom and right-hand borders onto the button layer, as shown in Figure 3.50. Remember to keep your lines straight by holding down Shift as you’re drawing them. Figure 3.50. Drawing borders Sure, we could use the button as is, but I’d like to make a few more tweaks to it. First, we’re going to apply a noise filter to our button. Before
and the outer edges (which won’t)—this is the case in Figure 4.30. Crop your document to eliminate the outer edges. Figure 4.30. Cropping badly blurred edges Duplicate the layer in the Layers panel using Command-J (Ctrl-J on Windows) and apply the offset filter as shown in Figure 4.31 (and as described in the solution in the section called “Making a Seamless Tiling Background”) to the duplicated layer. Let’s call this the offset layer. Figure 4.31. Applying the offset filter Click on
colors. This is the photo on which I want to base the lighting and color tones of the target image, so we’ll call this photo the “source” image. Figure 6.58. Our target and source images Click on the document window of the target image and select Image > Adjustments > Match Color…. In the Match Color dialog box that appears, use the Source drop-down to select the source image file name, as shown Figure 6.59. Move the Match Color dialog box so that you can see the photo underneath. The color
(Ctrl-V). Use the Move Tool (V) to position the selection to the side, so that it slightly overlaps the product image, as shown Figure 7.112. (You might need to move your product image to the opposite side to make room for the detail image.) Figure 7.112. Pasting the selection near the image In the Layers panel, select the product image layer and click on the Add a layer style button at the bottom of the panel. Select Drop Shadow… from the menu that appears to add a drop shadow to the
well as make the boundaries larger than the canvas area very easily. Drawing and Painting Tools Apart from its extraordinary photo-editing abilities, the multi-talented Photoshop also provides a multitude of drawing and painting tools (as indicated in Figure 1.22) that allow you to create your own shapes and backgrounds. Figure 1.22. Drawing and painting tools Let’s look at some of the main options: Brush The Brush Tool (B) is suitable for soft-edged painting or drawing. Draw