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Adobe corporation's flagship product Photoshop has many different applications, from sign making to creating graphics for Web pages. One of the most frequent uses for the program lies in the area of photo retouching. In particular, it is often used to improve the appearance of someone's skin. There are various ways to accomplish this.
Clone Stamp
One often used tool for repairing long or large blemishes like scars or birthmarks is the Clone Stamp tool. The Clone Stamp tool works by using a group of pixels that the user selects from another area of the image to paint over the blemish. This selected point is relative, meaning that as the user paints over the blemish, the program updates the location of the reference point. Sometimes, this is not what you will want. In that case you will have to change the reference point as you work.
Patch
An alternative to the Clone Stamp tool is the Patch tool. This tools works well for things like small moles or pimples. The user first selects the blemish he wants to replace. He can then hold down the left mouse button and drag the select to an area that he would like to use to patch the blemish. As he moves the mouse, he will see a preview of the change. Releasing the mouse button applies the patch.
Blur
Even after you have removed specific blemishes from the image, you can still be left with problems like splotchy or reddish looking skin. Rather than trying to replace all these areas, a better approach is to use the "Surface Blur" function. Blur is often used by professionals to give models on magazine covers the smooth skin that no one has in real life. Be careful when using this effect, since too much will make the face look like a mask.
Using Photoshop to retouch photographs used to be considered cheating by professionals. But it was soon embraced as a tool to make good photographs even better. Retouching photographs can bring out the areas you want viewers to focus on while removing any unwanted elements in the photograph.
Correcting Red Eye
Photoshop has its own red-eye tool, but there are a few tips to make it more effective. First duplicate the main photo's layer. Select the red-eye tool. The best settings to apply for this tool are 50 percent for pupil size and 70 percent for the darken amount. This will perform a basic red-eye correction. Change the copied layer's blending mode to "Difference." Merge all visible layers into one new layer so that you have a total of three layers. Delete the background copy layer. Now set the black and red layer's blending mode to "Difference."
Straightening Photos
There are many occasions when you might want to straighten a photo. Either the photo was taken at an awkward angle or perhaps it was scanned slightly skewed. Straightening in Photoshop CS 5 is extremely straightforward. Open the photo that you need to straighten and crop. Select the ruler tool. Now find a line that should either be straight horizontally or vertically. Click at one end of the line and drag as far to the other side as you can. Photoshop will then straighten the image and crop any left over white space at the corners.
Improving Skin
This is especially good for high-resolution portraits. Duplicate the background layer. Apply a 10-pixel radius to a gaussian blur effect. Open the Blending Options window. In Advanced Blending, disable red and green blending options, leaving only the blue channel. Duplicate the layer again and use the healing brush tool to remove any obvious marks or blemishes. Create a new layer and select all of the skin. Hold "Alt" and deselect the lips, nostrils, eyebrows and eyes. Apply another gaussian blur at 75 percent opacity, this time with a 20-pixel radius. Apply a "High Pass" filter with a radius of four. Activate the linear light blending mode, and set opacity of the active layer to 40 percent.
Reducing Wrinkles
This can be used to remove any wrinkles caused or worsened by bad lighting. Create a new empty layer. Choose the healing brush tool, not to be confused with the spot healing brush tool. Change the tool's layer sampling settings from "Current Layer" to "All Layers." Uncheck the "Aligned" setting. Hold "Alt" and click on an area of skin to sample from. Release "Alt" and use the healing brush to color the wrinkle to be removed. Photoshop will automatically blend the colors.
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful and versatile graphics program. Its vast array of tools, functions and filters can accomplish almost any graphics-related task you might have. Learn your way around Photoshop by designing a watch face, such as you might use in an ad or sign to indicate a store's closing time.
Creating the Face
Start by making the background face of the watch. Select "File" and click "New." In the box the pops up, set the pixel width, height and resolution size to whatever you need graphic to be. For Web projects, a dots-per-inch resolution of 72 is standard. Print projects will require a higher resolution, usually 200 or 300 dpi. For the background, select "Transparent." Name the document "Watch Face." Then click "OK."
Now that you have the document set up, click on the "Foreground" color in the toolbar; in the dialogue box that opens, change the color to white and click "OK." Select the "Elliptical" shape tool. In the options under the tool bar, set it to "Fill." Hold down the "CTRL" key and draw a white circle in the center of the canvas.
Making the Markings
To add the underlying markings to your watch, first change the "Foreground" color back to black. Then select the "Brush" tool; in the options, make the tip small and hard. In the "Paths" panel, right-click on the path you see listed. From the options listed, select "Stroke Path" to create a black outline around your watch face.
Select the "Pencil" tool and set the width to only a couple of pixels (this will vary depending on the size and resolution of the image). Draw in the minute lines along the edge of the watch face.
Numbers and Hands
The most important parts of the watch face are the numbers and hands. Add the numbers by using the "Text" tool, creating a new layer in the "Layers" panel for each number. Use the "Move" tool to position the numbers where they should be on the watch face. Select the "Custom" shape tool and choose from the options at the top one of the "Arrow" symbols. Draw the hour hand on the canvas to the size and proportion it should be relative to the watch face. Repeat to make the second hand. Use the "Rotate" and "Move" functions to position the hands.
Click on the "FX" icon under the "Layers" panel and select "Drop Shadow." In the dialogue box, change the "Size" and "Angle" until you're happy with the preview. Save your work.
With the world becoming digital at a rapid rate, there are several drawing programs that can be used on a computer. These programs can be used by artists, students or anyone who has an interest in art or graphic design. There are many different programs out there, each with pros and cons. Choosing the right program for your needs is the first step toward finding the best drawing program.
Photoshop
Photoshop is one the most widely used drawing programs. You can pretty much do anything, from manipulating photos to creating personal designs by hand. There are several different Photoshop programs out there, each based on different needs. You can download these programs for free and use them on a trial basis. After the trial is over, you will have enough knowledge of it to decide if it's the best drawing program for your needs. Photoshop is an expensive program, so it is wise to try it before you buy it.
All My Magic Sketching Tool
All My Magic Sketching Tool is a free program that is widely used by graphic designers throughout the world. With this program, the possibilities are endless. You can use the paint feature of the program, which allows you to create paintings digitally though the computer. The program also features a drawing tool. You have access to the program's graphics, and you can upload your photos and add music to your work. It's also easy to share your work on many social networks.
BRUSHster
BRUSHster is an online drawing program that has a wide variety of features. You can use this program to draw pictures, however, it is specially designed for abstract art. BRUSHster provides a tool box of special effects and more than 40 brush options, including many different sizes and strokes. The different tools within this program allow you to blend, blur, smudge and manipulate your drawing into any creation you can think of. BRUSHster can be used by a wide age variety and offers many features such as saving up to eight paintings and printing completed work.
There are a number of uses for a sports logos, including on team gear such as T-shirts, hats, or jerseys. You may also want a logo for your team to use in promotional materials. Creating a sports logo for your hometown team can be a fun project that can be done without a great deal of trouble or without taking up too much of your time. By utilizing a graphics program like Photoshop you can achieve the ideal logo design for your sports team.
Use a Mascot
If your team has a mascot such as a lion, the idea of incorporating an image of a lion into your team's logo design can be a great idea. Using an image or symbol that represents a lion, in this case, can help your team become instantly recognizable with old and new fans alike. But make sure it is not something already in use by another local team.
Clip Art or other Graphics
There are a multitude of websites that offer public domain (free) clip art and photos available for download and use by the public. Always be certain when downloading images or clip art that it is free to use, as there are also sites where you are required to purchase the graphic if you use it beyond whatever limitations they set. It's usually a good idea to find clip art of an image (or something that matches your team's name) and then, taking it into a graphics program of your choice, make aesthetic changes to it by using the tools in the program as well as filters to create the design you have in mind.
Team Name on an Image
You can use a graphics program like Photoshop or the freeware graphics program GIMP to create text by selecting the "Text" tool after creating a new document in the program. You can then combine your text with a graphic and, if desired, apply various effects to create a professional looking logo for your sports team. Or, you may opt to only use text as your logo in which case, after choosing a font style, you can make various changes to your text by selecting "FX" and choosing from the options available such as "Bevel and Emboss" or "Drop Shadow" or you may want to make changes to your logo design by applying filter effects. Remember that when creating your logo in Photoshop or GIMP it is advisable to create your sports logo design on a transparent background.
Computer animation (CGI) in its various forms has come to dominate the animation industry. There are even consumer-level animation programs that amateurs can use to create their own animation. More recently, Adobe corporation introduced the CS3 Extended version of its famous Photoshop application. This program allows users to create animation, but there are certain limitations to the process.
No 3D Animation
Unfortunately, although the extended version of Photoshop CS3 does have the ability to import 3D objects and (to a degree) manipulate them, it does not combine this with the ability to actually pose the figures in a scene. Thus, you cannot in Photoshop create the kind of CGI animation based on 3D models that most people have come to expect when they hear "computer animated."
Limited Figure Posing
Even when it comes to simpler 2D figure animation, CS3 lacks any real support for "rigged" figures (of the sort you would see in a program like Aniboom). This means that what you can, with some effort, created grouped figures made up of elements on different layers, each element has to be individually moved to created an overall figures movement. The only alternative to this is to create and sequence "drawings" with each separately drawn to represent the action in a layer. And this is no better than cel drawing.
No Scene Tools
Full-fledged computer animation programs (like Maya or Vue Infinite) have tools and functions designed to help you create the overall scene in which you are placing your animation, such as atmospheric, lighting or terrains tools. Photoshop CS3 has none of this. All this means that while Photoshop CS3 does a good job in creating simple animated graphics, it is no substitute for a real animation program.
Adobe PhotoShop is a graphic editing program designed for bitmap and image manipulation. The Creative Suite offers numerous applications that allow for 3-D models, gradient maps and print-quality rendering. While newer CS products do provide adequate animation and 3-D features, they are no substitute for more effective programs designed specifically for animation. If you want to draw or enhance digital photos, PhotoShop is one-of-a-kind but leave complex animation to platforms like Flash or Aniboom.
3-D Modeling
While some extensions of PhotoShop allow you to import 3-D objects to use in animation frames, the program lacks the ability to manage complex modeling. You cannot pose the imported objects or make meaningful changes per frame. This is limiting when you are creating an animation. Objects designed in PhotoShop may be more flexible, but you lose the complex 3-D aspect for figures.
Posing
With 2-D animation, as you see in Photoshop, posing figures is difficult. To create groups of figures in PhotoShop, the most effective technique involves layering. You create a character on one layer, the next figure on a separate layer and so forth. Animation is about change. To initiate the movement between figures, you must work on each layer individually. With programs like Flash, you may still develop in layers but design movement as a group.
Developing the Environment
Animation design programs, such as Maya, provide tools to create scenes, not just individual objects. You can take advantage of lighting or terrain designs to build environments for your animation. PhotoShop has limited resources when creating scenes. The animation program is designed for ultra basic purposes. It is possible to create a scene with a ball bouncing in the basic animation of this program. PhotoShop has all the requirements to make the ball, and develop the up-and-down motion. What you are lacking is the car driving by while the ball bounces in the street. There is complexity with other programs, clouds moving overhead while children chase the ball and the car honks its horn. These elements would be difficult if not impossible to do in PhotoShop.
When people think of Adobe Photoshop, they generally think about photo editing, retouching and cool graphics effects. But Photoshop has many other uses as well. One of these is in the creation of simple animations. These animations can can used in commercials or as animated graphics and ads for web pages. There are several advantages to using the current version of Photoshop for producing your animation.
Simplicity of Use
While previous versions of Photoshop came with a companion program (ImageReady) for creating animations from Photoshop images, this functionality is now folded into Photoshop itself, which speeds up the process greatly. The Animation function is found under the "Windows" in the menu. When open, it reveals a timeline at the bottom of the screen and simple set of icons and a drop-down menu for controlling aspects of the animation. You can click on "Make Frames From Layers" to turn the layers in the file directly into animation, or you can create duplicate frames and move objects against the background layer.
The Array of Tools
A huge advantage found in using Photoshop when creating animation is the array of tools and and abilities to program provides you with. You can easily add an adjustment layer over the whole animation or just a section of it and applies filters, adjustments and other changes to the frames. Or you can paint in effects (like lightning, for example) frame by frame.
Familiarity
Yet another advantage to creating animation in Photoshop is that if you already own copy, you are likely already familiar with the general layout and controls. For example, if you need resize the image in the timeline, you will probably already know how to do that from working with more conventional images. If you were creating the animation in another program, you would have to learn the functions all over again (even assuming they could be done in the other program).
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most frequently used graphics programs for editing photographs and other images. Sometimes editing is done simply to improve properties of the image, e.g., color, brightness, contrast, etc. Sometimes you'll simply want to trim, or crop, an image in Photoshop. There are several options at your disposal other than the basic crop tool.
Quick Mask
One of the best ways to create a quick trim is to use the "Quick Mask" tool. Start by selecting the "Brush" tool. Set the size to medium and select a hard brush. Now click on the "Quick Mask" icon at the bottom of the toolbar. Paint over the area of the picture you want to keep. For example, you might want to remove the background behind a person, so you would paint over the person. When you click on "Quick Mask" again, the background behind the person becomes "selectable." Hit "Delete," which makes everything behind the person transparent. If you save this as a PNG, you can place it in another document with its transparency intact.
Pen Tool
Another way to trim is to use the "Pen" tool. This tool allows for very exact selections, although it takes time. Select the "Pen" tool from the toolbar. Start clicking along the edges of the image you want to keep, which will place points along the edges. These points will create a path around the object. You close the path by clicking the first point again.The points have to be fairly close together, but you can refine the selection curves by clicking on the points with the "Convert Points" tool and repositioning the "Tangent Bars" that stick out from either side.
Go to the "Paths" tab and right-click on the path you created. From "Options," choose "Make Selection." Click on "Select" and click "Inverse." Then hit "Delete" and save your file.
Feathering
Another trick you can use when trimming is to use feathering. Select the "Circular" tool. In the tool options at the top, set the "Feather" to about 20. The exact number will depend on the size of the image and the amount of feathering you want; experiment with higher and lower numbers so you get a feel for they affect your image. Select, or draw out a circle around, the part of the image you want to keep. Then "Inverse" the selection and hit "Delete." This produces a trimmed image with a faded border. Don't forget to save your work.
Adobe's Photoshop is a powerful image editing program. It comes as part of the Creative Suite bundle, or it can be purchased separately. Photoshop goes beyond simple editing tools such as cropping and resizing. The program gives you complete control over your images, allowing you to change light effects, add shapes and textures and even combine the elements of several pictures into one, using layers.
The Psychic Blast
Add a psychic blast effect to your image for a superhero or villain look. All you need is a background image, a picture of the person and something to be pushed away by the blast. Use the lasso to select the outline of the person, and import the image into the background. You can use the "Shadow" tools to add more depth to the person and match the light conditions of the background image.
To create the psychic blast, use the "Ellipse" tool to make a bubble. Then add layers of different color for the blast. This can be faded with the "Transparency" tool until it is only slightly visible. To finish the picture effect, add the image of the object to be pushed away, such as a truck or some other large object. Angle the image with the "Rotation" tool, to give the effect of it flying through the air.
Displacement and Shimmer
Add a shimmering background to your portrait by using Photoshop's filters and adding shapes to the image. With light filters and shadow effects, it is possible to add sparkling orbs around your image as well as streaks of light. The "Displacement" tool allows you to blend your image into the background. This gives it a unique shimmering effect, and you can merge the streaks of light with the displacement to give the effect that you are turning into light.
When using these filters to create this effect, your imagination is the limit. Keep adding effects and filters until you achieve a look you desire. If you do not like the look of something you have added, use Photoshop's "Undo" button, located on the top toolbar.
Add a Rainbow
Capturing a rainbow on camera takes a lot of patience and being in the right location and just the right time. With Photoshop, it is possible to add a rainbow effect into any picture.
Take your landscape image and create a layer on top of it. In this new layer, use the "Gradient" tool from the toolbar. In the "Special Effects" menu, choose the option to select gradient colors. After inserting all the colors of the rainbow, you can draw the rainbow onto your image layer, using the "Draw" and "Curve" tools. The "Transparency" tool will allow you to fade the rainbow to make it more realistic.
Photoshop's graphics software allows you to take even the most flat, gray image and transform it with the program's tools, filters and palettes, all with a few quick clicks. No longer are photographers held fast to the lighting of the camera's flash or speed of the shutter; everything may be tweaked, altered and improved with Photoshop tricks and techniques.
Lighting
Through a variety of tricks in Photoshop, it is possible to lighten an image taken in a dark room, change a blue, sunny sky to a dark, ominous one or even create a beam of spotlight on a product, person or item in the picture. Photoshop's tools for lighting include the "Brightness/Contrast" and "Levels" slider bars and the "Hue/Saturation" menu, which also has a brightness slider bar. With these features, users can brighten a picture while still maintaining good contrast (through Photoshop's selection tools such as the "Lasso," users can pinpoint the exact area to lighten instead of doing the entire picture). Users can even take lighting tricks to the next level by choosing spot areas on an image to lighten to a bright, neon quality, making pictures look like bold cartoon drawings.
Distortion
Photoshop offers a number of graphic tricks to distort images. It may sound counterintuitive to want to distort an image, but the abilities Photoshop provides may come in handy. For example, Photoshop's "Blur" and "Smudge" tools allow you to run your cursor over an object's edge to remove some of the sharpness; you may want to use this to make an object look far away, out of focus or steamy. Photoshop's "Transformation" tools allow you to not only flip an object or entire picture vertically or side to side, but also to warp and twist it as if you're wringing out a towel. You can grab a corner of something in a photo or the entire image, then push or pull on it, creating an entirely different view of the item.
Color
With a few of Photoshop's tools, you can change an entire group of peoples' shirts to the same color, remove all color from an image to transform it into black and white, change colors such as someone's eyes or hair or transform an image to make it look as if it is a bright, neon Las Vegas sign. Color tricks are a huge part of Photoshop. Through the program, you can select a small area, then use the "Hue/Saturation" tool to add, remove or change color to just that area. You can also use tools such as the "Fill" bucket to add large amounts of color in a single click or the "Sponge" tool to "soak up" color and lighten areas.
Photoshop, a graphics software program sold as part of the Adobe company's Creative Suite (now on its fifth version, CS5), puts control back into the hands of photographers, artists and designers. Photoshop comes with an artillery of filters, tools, palettes and colors, all which may be used to transform images and photos. Although it may seem like a trick or an illusion, the details Photoshop allows work to blend into an image as if they were really photographed or drawn that way.
Disappearing Act
Photoshop has the ability to perform tricks and illusions. For example, with its "Clone" tool, Photoshop can fix areas of a model's face which may be tarnished with acne, scars or even too much tanning cream. Photoshop can make more than just a blemish disappear; it can remove an errant stranger from a family portrait, take a single fluffy cloud out of a bright blue sky and settle a flyaway wisp of hair back onto the head, all with a few quick clicks and a seamless transition so the photo doesn't look at all altered.
Quick Change Color
By using two of Photoshop's "magical" tools---the "Lasso" and the "Hue" slider bar---you can perform a quick change illusion of color in your photographs. The "Lasso" works as a selection tool. You outline an area in the photograph, such as a cat, someone's shirt or a flower, then move the "Hue" slider bar. This works to completely change the color of the selected area, but in a realistic way. It doesn't fill with paint or go opaque; the color just transforms as if it was the original. For example, if you're working on a family group photo, you can use these tools to change everyone's t-shirt color to the same hue, giving the group a uniform look. You can also change the color of a dark, cloudy sky to a bright, sunny day or change a friend's too-fake tan down to a more realistic shade within minutes.
Optical Art Illusions
You may have spent a few seconds taking a photograph, but with Photoshop, you can trick your viewer into thinking you spent days or even weeks creating an intricate piece of art. Photoshop's filters are a collection of tools that render your image into something else. For example, the "Watercolor" filter will take your photo and change its hard edges and lines so it looks like a pastel version on canvas (you control how much color and thick the paint looks). In the same vein, you can also transform a flat photo so it looks like it was taken underwater, completed with mosaic tile pieces, built into a neon-tubed Las Vegas sign or even embossed, all without you having to purchase hefty art and construction supplies to do so.
When you take a photograph, you're at the mercy of your backdrop, lighting and even the temperature and time of day, all of which can cast shadows and reflections onto the face of your model. The Photoshop graphics software program, available in the Adobe Creative Suite, can help you edit your photos, bring out subjects' features, erase blemishes and add enhancements, all with a few quick clicks of your mouse.
Makeover
Photoshop has quite a few tricks to make over a model's face. By using the program's "Lasso" tool to outline just a specific area, you can enhance the picture by whitening someone's teeth (using the "Brightness" slider bar), add lipstick, eyeliner and eye shadow (using the "Hue" slider bar) and even change hair color (using the "Levels" slider bar). To perform other cosmetic effects in Photoshop, you can use tools such as the "Clone" tool to add hair to where a subject may be losing or experiencing patchiness or streamline a double-chin and under-eye shadows. Acne blemishes may be erased, gray hair turned to its original color and wrinkles faded back into the skin so they become unnoticeable. A trained Photoshop artist can perform actions such as removing scars or freckles, smoothing errant eyebrow hairs, adding eyelashes and closing a gap in someone's teeth.
Lighting
Whether your flash overexposed the subjects' faces in your picture or the overcast day made models take on a gray skin tone, in Photoshop, you can change the palest person to deeply tanned or remove color to fade back a too-orange skin tone. The "Lasso" tool is effective here; it is used to select a small area of skin, then the "Hue/Saturation" slider bars can control the skin tone back down to the required level. One benefit of these tools is it allows the artist to control subjects' skin tone; by adjusting the numbers in the "Hue/Saturation" slider bars, you can turn everyone the same color with just a few quick clicks, no matter how they started out.
Virtual Reality
Photoshop may be used as a trial run for someone considering colored contact lenses, a hair change, a spray tan or even a fake tattoo. Tools within Photoshop can apply all of these changes to a photo, where users can experiment with a new identity in their images. Photoshop users may also perform actions such as adding weight to a model's face to show before and after photos or age the subject to track the process of time. By pasting jewelry from another photo onto the model, the subject can sport earrings or an eyebrow ring without actually having the long-term effects of a piercing. Photoshop offers tools such as the "Lasso," "Paint Bucket" and "Magic Wand" to perform virtual reality-style tricks; users may also take advantage of working with the "Layers" palette to add and remove items from images.