SIRIUS Photoshop Guides

So What are Megapixels Photoshop for Video

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:04:49 GMT

Start shopping for a digital still camera and you'll be bombarded with megapixels. If you listen to most salespeople, you'll be misled as to what megapixels really are and just how many are needed. You'll need to understand megapixels so you can make smart shooting decisions or instruct those that are acquiring images for your project. A megapixel is a unit of storage and describes the total number of pixels in an image. In the strictest sense, a megapixel is one million pixels. This is a very...

What is the Proper Frame Size to Create Graphics for this System 2 Photoshop for Video

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:28:11 GMT

Depending upon which Avid system you are using and which video standard NTSC or PAL used in your particular country, your graphic size may vary. All graphics should be properly sized before you import them. Improperly sized graphics are prone to distortion and loss of quality. For those working with standard definition video, such as Avid Media Composer, Avid Symphony, and Avid Xpress, use the following sizes. If you are using Photoshop CS or later, you should design using the built-in...

Vanishing Point Photoshop Tutorials 4

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:19:49 GMT

When combining images to create a scene, you might find a need to add texture or a pattern along what is supposed to be a three-dimensional object. You might, for example, add a product box to a photo of a kitchen and need to add a logo to the front of the box. Or maybe you will create a room, perhaps in a castle high on a hill, and you'll need to add a realistic stone texture to the walls. Use the new Photoshop CS2 Vanishing Point feature to map a pattern to angled surfaces, such as walls,...

For Instructors Photoshop for Video

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:29:26 GMT

If you are an instructor, I sincerely hope that you will adapt this book to your specific curriculum. I have designed it to be a great resource for advanced courses in screen graphics or video production. This book is based on techniques that I have taught over the years. I am a college instructor, as well as a frequent speaker at industry conferences and training events. There are several sample files that you can use for demonstration purposes during lessons or lectures. If students own the...

Why Layers Photoshop for Video

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:55:24 GMT

When Photoshop was created, it did not have layers. It was an application that worked extremely well for touching up photos, frames of film, or video stills. The introduction of layers moved Photoshop from image touch-up program to robust graphic tool. The key to being fast in Photoshop is understanding the Layers palette. Think of layers as tracks from a video timeline. The way you build and organize the show affects your end results. With proper organization, you can come back later and...

Curves And Contrast Restoration Retouching

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:40:28 GMT

After you're comfortable working with Levels, Curves is the next tool to add to your Photoshop repertoire. The advantage of Curves is that it can give you 16 points to influence the tonal values of an image, whereas Levels allows you just three highlight, midtone, and shadow points . The Curves dialog box enables you to work with either 0-100 ink percentages or 0-255 tonal values. Click the small triangles circled in figure 2.34 to toggle between the two. From my experience, people with...

Basic technique 3 Blending Modes 2

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:34:33 GMT

1 In the Layers palette, duplicate the original image layer by dragging the background layer onto the Create a new layer icon, or 2 Using the pull-down blending mode menu in the Layers palette or the shortcut Alt Opt-Shift-L, change the duplicate layer's blending mode to Hard and rename it Hard Mix 3 Co to Image gt Adjustments gt Desaturate or use Ctrl Cmd-Shift-U to desaturate the Hard Mix layer it Invert the Hard Mix layer using Ctrl Cmd-I 5 Use Ctrl Cmd-J to duplicate the original image...

Hard Mix Highlights BlendingModes

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:25:30 GMT

Hidden away in Photoshop's Layer Styles are a pair of Blend If sliders. These control how much of the image comes from the current layer and how much from below. Simply by dragging the slider, you can exclude some tones from the composite image. Here's a recipe that has a blurred Hard Mix layer to transform the picture, and then takes advantage of Blend If to restore the original image's shadow tones. Notice how the Hard Mix layer's halo emphasizes the shape of the bridge 1 In the Layers...

Hard Shadows BlendingModes

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:25:18 GMT

Lock J lt i lt a Fill 100 gt l In the Layers palette, duplicate the original image layer by dragging the background layer onto the Create a new layer icon, or use Ctrl Cmd-J 2 Select Image gt Adjustments gt Desaturate to desaturate the new layer, or use Ctrl Cmd-Shift-U Name the layer Desturated 3 In the Layers palette, duplicate the Desaturated layer using Ctrl Cmd-J 4 Using the pull-down blending mode menu in the Layers palette or the shortcut Alt Opt-Shift-L, change the new layer's blending...

Ice Cold BlendingModes

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:19:28 GMT

've called this recipe Ice Cold after the effect it has on the picture of the architecture, right. The effect works especially well when the picture has lots of blues and greens. The first ingredient is a blurred, inverted Luminosity layer that inverts the highlights and shadows, but tends to leave midtones unaffected. A Hard Mix layer at 10-50 fill opacity restores the image's shape and a Screen layer chills the final result. Experiment with inverting or desaturating any or all of the layers,...

Some Exotic Blending Modes PhotographersGuide

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:45:59 GMT

Photoshop's blending modes combine layers or channels in sophisticated ways, as you learned This documentiscreated withtrial version of CHM2PDFPilot2.16.100 uce a weathered, old-timey look to the photograph, taking advantage of the way Exclusion combines pixels. Exclusion mode is closely related to Difference mode. The latter examines the brightness information of each channel, and subtracts one from the other, depending on whichever is brighter. That sounds confusing, but it's not difficult to...

Orthochromatic Film PhotographersGuide

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:23:00 GMT

It hasn't been so long ago that black-and-white films incorporated the term pan in their nomenclature. Tri-X Pan, Verichrome Pan, Plus-X Pan, or even Panchromatic-X were the names of films I used early in my career. The term pan stood for panchromatic all colors and was important because it meant that these black-and-white films were roughly sensitive to red, blue, and green light in equal amounts. As odd as it might seem, that wasn't always the case. In the 40s and 50s, black-and-white films...

Customizing contrast Blending Modes 2

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:34:40 GMT

This photograph was taken in bright mid-morning light, and This building detail was shot on an overcast morning This the Hard Mix layer's opacity had to be set to under 50 recipe helps to bring out the cold light before any detail became apparent in the walls In this example, the Hard Mix layer's fill opacity worked best at around 50 At 100 it bleached the image Q Q Q F Layers feanneis Hj'ailu Q Q Q F Layers feanneis Hj'ailu

AlignedUnaligned PhotographersGuide

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:12:40 GMT

When the Aligned box is marked, Photoshop copies pixels from the point that you first marked as the source by pressing Alt Option when you clicked to the point in the image where you begin cloning. Then, as you move away from that point, Photoshop uses the distance and direction the cursor moves from the cloning point to determine which pixels to copy. For example, if you move 1 4 inch up and to the left of the first point where you start painting, the Clone tool will copy pixels that are 1 4...

Derek Lea DigitalIllustration

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:32:52 GMT

AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Focal Press is an imprint of Elsevier This eBook does not include ancillary media that was packaged with the printed version of the book. Focal Press is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Copyright 2007, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a...

CIEs Lab Photoshop for Windows

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:00:53 GMT

RGB isn't the only mode that responds quickly and provides a bountiful range of colors. Photoshop's Lab color space comprises all the colors from RGB and CMYK and is every bit as fast as RGB. Many high-end users prefer to work in this mode, and I certainly advocate this if you're brave enough. Whereas the RGB mode is the color model of your luminescent computer screen and the CMYK mode is the color model of the reflective page, Lab is independent of light or pigment. Perhaps you've already...

Faster Access When Switching Applications_ HackingPhotoShop

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:21:10 GMT

When you switch from Photoshop to another application, if there is data on the clipboard, Photoshop can export it to the system clipboard for pasting into the other application. However, because Photoshop files can be extremely large, it can cause a delay while it exports the data on the clipboard. What happens, in fact, is that the data is converted to WMF or PICT format, depending on the OS, and that's what can cause the delay. If you find yourself waiting more often than you actually use the...

UV Unwrapping and Mapping CharacterDesign

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:12:49 GMT

This next phase in character development involves preparing your model to be textured. As I briefly explained earlier, a model consists of a large number of points called vertices, and these points are connected via edges to make up a mesh object. Every vertex in 3D space has an X, Y, and Z Table 1.2 3D Modeling File Types Used by Popular Modeling Software Table 1.2 3D Modeling File Types Used by Popular Modeling Software coordinate that defines its location in that space. When a mesh is...

Lighten 2 BlendingModes

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:39:53 GMT

The next four blending modes Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, and Linear Dodge all lighten the underlying image, and for this reason they are often referred to as the Lighten group. Just as the Darken modes have white as their neutral color, the Lighten group of modes have black as their neutral color, which is why they are also sometimes known as the neutral black group. The Lighten blending mode is the exact opposite of the Darken mode. Both create a new output color by comparing the base and...

Styles in Motion Neon Text Animation and Production Effects

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:28:44 GMT

This project will familiarize you with different layer style options and animating a sequence in ImageReady by only making changes to the layer style settings. Creating neon effects involves two elements the tubing and the light glow. When the light is off, the tubing still has a 3-D surface and casts a shadow if any ambient light is present. When the light is on, it casts a glow but no shadows. Note Intermediate or advanced Photoshop users may want to open the file NeonText.psd on the DVD and...

Organizing an efficient sequence of tasks PhotoshopTutorials

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:37:35 GMT

Most retouching follows these six general steps Checking the scan quality and making sure that the resolution is appropriate for the way you will use the image. Cropping the image to final size and orientation. Adjusting the overall contrast or tonal range of the image. Adjusting the color and tone in specific parts of the image to bring out highlights, midtones, shadows, and desaturated colors. Sharpening the overall focus of the image. Usually, you should complete these processes in the order...

Changing Workspaces and views CameraRaw

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:14:29 GMT

Photographers can be picky I guess it's the nature of an artist who demands perfection down to the slightest detail. Bridge workspaces and views offer enough options to reasonably satisfy the most discerning taste. Okay, maybe most digital photographers don't really get that finicky about Bridge workspaces, but having options sure is nice Metadata Keywords Assigned Keywords Llangolen Metadata Keywords Assigned Keywords Llangolen This list highlights some of the ways you can change the way...

Building your own seamless pattern Photoshop for Windows

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:50:42 GMT

The following steps describe how to change a scanned image into a seamless, repeating pattern. To illustrate how this process works, Figures 7-22 through 7-25 show various stages in a project I completed. You need only two tools to carry out these steps the rectangular marquee tool and the rubber stamp tool. Those of you reading sequentially may notice that these steps involve a few selection and layering techniques I haven't yet discussed. If you become confused, you can find out more about...

Creating layer-specific masks Photoshop for Windows

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:51:27 GMT

In addition to the transparency mask that accompanies every layer except the background , you can add a mask to a layer to make certain pixels in the layer transparent. Now, you might ask, Won't simply erasing portions of a layer make those portions transparent The answer, of course, is yes. And I hasten to add, that was a keen insight on your part. But when you erase, you delete pixels permanently. By creating a layer mask, you instead make pixels temporarily transparent. You can return...

Cloning around with the Clone Stamp tool CameraRaw

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:34:03 GMT

The Clone Stamp tool is the equivalent of a rubber stamp you know press a stamp on an ink pad and then on paper , only it's digital You sample part of an image color, texture, whatever and apply that sample elsewhere in the image. All Brush tips work with the Clone Stamp tool, so it's a great retouching alternative. One of its special versions, the Pattern Stamp tool, re-creates patterns from the cloned selection and applies to another part of the image. Figure 11-9 shows the Clone Stamp tool's...

Screen 2 BlendingModes

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:15:48 GMT

Screen, the second of the Lighten group of blend modes, is often likened to projecting multiple transparencies onto the same screen. As Screen's neutral color is black, this blending mode will leave black unchanged. Dark colors marginally brighten the picture, but as the blend color lightens, the image becomes increasingly lighter. This can make certain images look bleached or overexposed. Self-blends and changing the opacity A self-blend simply lightens the image, especially in brighter areas,...

Figure 4.41 CADDrawings

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:10:48 GMT

Copy the diffuse map to the opacity Map. Right now you have an identical copy of the diffuse map in the Opacity channel. You still must change the output of the opacity map to read the alpha channel of the image otherwise, it reads the RGB values by default to determine opacity. 6. Click the M button next to the Opacity channel to enter a deeper level of the material hierarchy. The Bitmap controls appear in the Material Editor. Scroll down and locate the Bitmap Parameters rollout. Click the...

Preface PhotoshopTechniques

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:56:29 GMT

If you are serious about digital photography either as a passionate amateur, money-earning professional photographer or artist, or anywhere in between, and you want to edit your photos digitally with Photoshop 7 this book is for you It is for you regardless of your experience level with Photoshop 7 or other versions. Without a doubt, the more you know about Photoshop 7 or an earlier version of Photoshop, the easier these techniques will be to complete. But, if you are new to Photoshop 7, you...

Creating noise gradients Photoshop for Windows

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:37:22 GMT

Adobe describes a noise gradient as a gradient that contains random components along with the deterministic ones that create the gradient. Allow me to translate Photoshop adds random colors between the defined colors of the selected gradient. Did that help No Then take a look at Figure 6-18, which shows examples of three noise gradients based on a simple black-to-white gradient. You could create these same gradients using the regular Solid gradient controls, of course, but it would take you...

Game Styles CharacterDesign

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:02:12 GMT

The style of game dictates nearly all the components of a character model. One of the most common game styles that use the type of character that we are creating is FPS, meaning that the player views and controls the game-play through the eyes of the player's character. If you have difficulty discerning between the terms first, second, and third in terms of game-play, here's how it works. In first person, you, the player, are actually in the game as if you have taken over the main character's...

Contact Sheet II Photoshop for Video

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:32:10 GMT

A common practice is to send several photos to a client for review. Earlier we explored a dynamic photo gallery let's take a look at a more static option called a contact sheet. Traditionally, it has been a common practice to create a contact sheet from rolls of film. This is done so the photographer or client could select images for printing at full size. This step was done for both convenience and costsavings. A video pro can harness the practice of contact sheets to save time and money. By...

STEPS Brushing to a Parallel Time Line Photoshop for Windows

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:38:09 GMT

1. Open the image you want to warp into the fourth dimension. I begin with a map of Japan Figure 7-34 . Japan is a wacky combination of 17th-century cultural uniformity, 1950's innocence, and 21st-century corporate imperialism, so it strikes me as a perfect subject for my compound-time experiment. 2. Apply a couple of filters. I choose Filter Pixelate Mosaic and set the Cell Size value to 20 pixels. Then I apply Filter Stylize Emboss with a Height of 5 pixels and an Amount of 200 percent....

Why Two Grain Filters PhotographersGuide

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:36:25 GMT

is document is created with trial version of CHM2PDF Pilot 2.16.100. Why does Photoshop include two filters called Film Grain and Grain, rather than one In practice, each operates a little differently than the other, producing different effects, but we can thank the free enterprise system for their existence. Photoshop's current Film Grain filter was originally part of a third-party set of 16 compatible plug-ins called Aldus Gallery Effects, which sold for 199. These filters proved so...

Equalize Photoshop for Video

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:40:11 GMT

If an image appears too dark or washed out, Equalize is the sledgehammer way to pound it into a usable state. The command attempts to redistribute pixels so that they are equally balanced across the entire range of brightness values. You can tell Photoshop to look at the entire image when equalizing, or sample a smaller area that will drive the overall adjustment. The command will take the lightest area and map it to pure white 255 and the darkest area to pure black 0 . Since the equalize...

Physical memory usage Photoshop for Windows

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:14:30 GMT

Windows 95, NT 4, and later offer dynamic memory allocation, which means that each application gets the memory it needs as it needs it. But Photoshop is something of a memory pig and has a habit of using every spare bit of RAM it can get its hands on. Left to its own devices, it might gobble up all the RAM and bleed over into Windows' virtual memory space, which is less efficient than Photoshop's own scratch disk scheme. The Physical Memory Usage option helps you place some limits on...

The Brushes palette Photoshop for Windows

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:00:16 GMT

Unless you were completely asleep at the wheel when you launched Photoshop 6 for the first time, you no doubt noticed the Options bar stretching across the top of the program window. In computer lingo, the Options bar is known as a context-sensitive toolbar, meaning that the options on the bar change depending on what tool you're using. When you work with the paint and edit tools, the Options bar gives you access to a choice of brush shapes. To browse through the available brushes, open the...

The Bold New Layer Styles Photoshop for Windows

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:15:21 GMT

Photoshop 5 introduced a series of layer effects that automate the application of shad ows, glows, and beveled edges. Now, Version 6 takes the metaphor several steps fur ther. In addition to dramatically improving the quality of the existing effects now you won't find yourself cursing at them half the time the new Photoshop adds effects that overlay colors, stroke outlines, and create textures and contours. Plus, you can define exactly how effects are blended with background layers. And you can...

Overlay and Hard Light BlendingModes

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:52:00 GMT

Having looked at groups of modes that either lighten or darken, let's move on to a group of blending modes that both lighten and darken at the same time known as the Contrast group. The first two in the group, Overlay and Hard Light, are so similar that it makes sense to look at them together, but you should also bear in mind that much of what applies to Overlay and Hard Light applies to Soft Light too. All three belong to the contrast-increasing group of blending modes. These darken shadows,...

Kern characters Photoshop Tutorials 2

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:49:57 GMT

Click the World Atlas type layer on the Layers palette if it is not already selected . Click the Horizontal Type Tool T, on the Click the Toggle the Character and Paragraph palettes button Q on the options bar to open the Character palette. TIP You can close the Character palette by clicking the Close button in the upper-right corner of its title bar or by clicking the Toggle the Character and Paragraph palettes button. Click between o and r in the word World. TIP You can drag the Character...

Rearranging Brushes in the Brushes Palette HackingPhotoShop

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:21:29 GMT

Unfortunately, you cannot rearrange the brush tip shapes or the brush presets in the Brushes palette or in the pop-up Brushes palette. Although it would be nice to be able to do so directly in the Brushes palette, all is not lost. Select the Preset Manager from the Brush palette menu or call it from the Edit menu. If you select it from the palette menu, it will open showing the brush presets window Figure 3-3 . You can move the presets one by one or by selecting them in multiples.To rearrange,...

Creating a metallic coating Photoshop for Windows

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:07:44 GMT

The edge-tracing filters are especially fun to use in combination with Edit Fade. I became interested in playing with these filters after trying out the Chrome filter included with the first Gallery Effects collection. Now included with Photoshop as Filter Sketch Chrome, this filter turns an image into a melted pile of metallic goo. No matter how you apply Chrome, it completely wipes out your image and leaves a ton of jagged color transitions in its wake. It's really only useful with color...

Gamut Warning Photoshop for Windows

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:39:01 GMT

If Photoshop can display a color on screen but can't accurately print the color, the color is said to be out of gamut. You can choose View Gamut Warning to coat all out-of-gamut colors with gray. I'm not a big fan of this command View Proof Colors Ctrl Y is much more useful but if you use View Gamut Warning, you don't have to accept gray as the out-of-gamut coating. Change the color by clicking the Gamut Warning Color swatch, and lower the Opacity value to request a translucent coating.

Softening selection outlines Photoshop for Windows

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:03:30 GMT

You can soften a selection in two ways. The first method is antialiasing, introduced in Chapter 5. Antialiasing is an intelligent and automatic softening algorithm that mimics the appearance of edges you'd expect to see in a sharply focused photograph. Note Where did the term antialias originate Anytime you try to fit the digital equivalent of a square peg into a round hole say, by printing a high resolution image to a low resolution printer the data gets revised during the process. This...

CHAPTER l PHOTOSHOP 7 FUNDAMENTALS l PhotoshopTechniques

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:36:48 GMT

Step 2 Choose screen resolution and color quality settings 4 Step 3 Check for and install updates 5 Step 4 Restore preferences to their default settings 5 Step 5 Set preferences 6 Step 6 Reset tools and palettes 10 Step 7 Organize and control your palettes 10 Step 8 Personalize your workspace 12 Step 9 Select status bar type 14 Step 2 Size Photoshop application window 16 Step 5 Organize document windows 17 Step 6 Viewing just want you want to view 18 Step 7 Displaying multiple views of the same...

Adjustment Layer Photoshop Tutorials 2

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:24:01 GMT

In this lesson, you'll create an adjustment layer, choose Brightness Contrast as the type of adjustment layer, adjust brightness and contrast settings for the layer, and then use the Layers palette to change the blending mode of the adjustment layer. An adjustment layer is a special layer that acts as a color filter for a single layer or for all the layers beneath it. Just as you can use a layer mask to edit the layer content without permanently deleting pixels on the image, you can create an...

Transferring Layers with Style Effects Animation and Production Effects

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:15:56 GMT

After Effects doesn't utilize layer styles the way Photoshop does, so it's important to know how to transfer layers and keep the applied effects in place. In most cases, merely merging the layer with the style effect applied to a new blank layer will do the trick. Although they are not editable in After Effects, there are only four layer styles that will transfer correctly visually Drop Shadow, Bevel And Emboss, Color Overlay, and Inner Shadow Figure 2.4 . When the layers are transferred to...

Introducing the Digital Negative DNG CameraRaw

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:15:21 GMT

Up to this point in the digital-photography era, raw file formats haven't been uniform. Each digital camera manufacturer that offers raw in its digital cameras maintains a proprietary format. Imagine what it would have been like if all camera makers designed their cameras only to work with their own proprietary film. Or how about driving cars that only run on one brand of fuel You get the idea. Unfortunately, due to a lack of industry standards, camera manufacturers are forced to offer their...

Free-form outlines Photoshop for Windows

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:53:07 GMT

In comparison to the rectangular and elliptical marquee tools, the lasso tool provides a rather limited range of options. Generally speaking, you drag in a free-form path around the image you want to select. The few special considerations are as follows Feathering and antialiasing Just as you can feather rectangular and elliptical marquees, you can feather selections drawn with the lasso tool by selecting the Feather check box on the Options bar. To soften the edges of a lasso outline, select...

Defining Image-Editing Software Photoshop Tutorials 2

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:04:28 GMT

Photoshop is an image-editing program. An image-editing program allows you to manipulate graphic images so that they can be reproduced by professional printers using full-color processes. Using windows, various tools, menus, and a variety of techniques, you can modify a Photoshop image by rotating it, resizing it, changing its colors, or adding text to it. You can also use Photoshop to create and open different kinds of file formats, which enables you to create your own images, import them from...

3. Turn on Gamut Warning. CameraRaw

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:08:07 GMT

Pressing Shift Ctrl Y Shift Y on a Mac turns on Gamut Warning, allowing you to preview areas of your image that are considered out of gamut for the device selected in the Customize Proof Condition window. Areas out of gamut will be highlighted in gray, as shown in the photo in Figure 10-5. Figure 10-5 Gamut Warning shows the out-of-gamut areas in an image. Figure 10-5 Gamut Warning shows the out-of-gamut areas in an image. When areas of your image are out of gamut, it means they're beyond the...

Fuzziness Photoshop for Windows

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:55:29 GMT

The problem with hiding and forcing colors with the slider bars is that you achieve some pretty harsh color transitions. Both Figures 13-19 and 13-20 bear witness to this fact. Talk about your jagged edges Luckily, you can soften the color transitions by abandoning and forcing pixels gradually over a fuzziness range, which works much like the Fuzziness value in the Color range dialog box, leaving some pixels opaque and tapering others off into transparency. To taper the opacity of pixels in...

Step 4 Apply Unsharp Mask PhotoshopTechniques

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:57:49 GMT

Now we get to this seemingly misnamed filter the Unsharp mask. If you are one who has not ever used the Unsharp Mask because you always want to sharpen an image when you select the Sharpen menu, not un-sharpen your image you are not the first to not use the most valuable tool for sharpening images The name comes from a pre-digital darkroom technique where a blurry version of the contact negative was layered with the original contact negative. The result of combining these two layers was a...

Selecting with the magnetic lasso PhotoshopTutorials

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:22:18 GMT

You can use the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop to make freehand selections of areas with high-contrast edges. When you draw with the magnetic lasso, the border automatically snaps to the edge you are tracing. You can also control the direction of the tool's path by clicking the mouse to place occasional fastening points in the selection border. There is no magnetic lasso tool in ImageReady. You'll now move the padlock to the center of the black oval you placed on the book cover earlier in...

Step 2 Unwrap the Legs CharacterDesign

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:57:03 GMT

Next we'll move onto the legs and the pelvis region. The legs are symmetrical, but the items around Hick's utility belt are different on each side, so we'll need to create a separate mapping for the pelvis region. Let's start by getting the legs unfolded and stashed away. Here we have the option of symmetrically stacking the legs for texturing or texturing each one separately. For this character and Hicks' utility belt, we'll keep the legs separate. This uses up some of the precious texture...

Coloring A Digital PhotoshopTechniques

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:39:26 GMT

Olive Oil Bottles Canon D30 digital camera, 28-70mm f 2.8, ISO 100, Extrafine RAW setting, f 16 1 40 original 2160 x 1440 pixel image edited, cropped, and up-sampled 2x to a 2400 x 1920 pixel 8-bit, 13.8MB .tif As a line drawing is generally the first of a progression of steps taken to create most artwork, it seems reasonable to spend a few pages of this book on several different techniques for creating line drawings. A line drawing created from a digital photograph can be used for many...

Step 4 Use Clone Stamp Tool To Fix Beard And Fold In Coat PhotoshopTechniques

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:16:29 GMT

Using the Clone Stamp tool and a smaller brush size, clone the beard without ink over the beard where there are ink lines until all of the ink lines are gone. While you have the Clone Stamp tool selected, carefully select your clone source and clone out the rest of the vertical fold in the right shoulder. If you set your clone source carefully, you can perfectly match the shadow lines caused by the fold in the man's coat. You will get the best results by clicking often and rarely dragging the...

Smoothing the edges of a stroke PhotoshopTutorials

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:20:53 GMT

Now you'll use the blur tool to soften the edges of your paint strokes, smoothing out the color transitions between the brown shadows, the underlying bark, and the bright highlights. 1 In the toolbox, select the blur tool . Then, in the Brushes palette, select a small brush, such as the Soft Round 21 brush you used earlier. Make sure that tool options bar is set with Mode at Normal and Strength at 50 . Mode Normal t Strength 50M I gt I Use All Layers 2 Make sure that the Highlight layer is...

Sharpening and Blurring CADDrawings

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:33:25 GMT

Sharpen and blur at the end of your digital darkroom work flow because they can significantly alter image data. Correct the tone, balance the color, and retouch before sharpening and blurring to minimize banding and data loss due to overmanipulation. Sharpening and blurring are opposites one clarifies, and the other obscures. You use both tools to your advantage in Photoshop. You sharpen images to make the edges more visually defined. We prefer images with distinct edges because they resonate...

The State of Type in Photoshop 6 Photoshop for Windows

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:17:18 GMT

Photoshop 5 gave us something you don't see often editable bitmapped type. Long after you created a line or two of text, you had the option of changing the words, typeface, size, leading, kerning, and so on, just as you could in other graphics and electronic publishing programs. You could also mix and match formatting attributes inside a single text block, something you couldn't do in Version 4 and earlier. In only one upgrade cycle, Photoshop made a quantum leap from grim Stone Age letter...

Step 2 Convert To Duotone PhotoshopTechniques

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:04:47 GMT

As you cannot directly convert an RGB image into a Duotone, choose Image Mode gt -Grayscale. Then choose Image Mode gt -Duotone to get the Duotone Options dialog box, which should look similar to the one shown in Figure 25.3. Click in the Type box and select Duotone. To select the first color, click the color sample box for Ink 1 to get the Color Picker dialog box shown in Figure 25.4. To set black as the first color, type 0 in the boxes next to R, G, and B alternatively, you can click in the...

Creating a reference window Photoshop for Windows

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:55:30 GMT

In the ancient days, paint programs provided a cropped view of your image at the actual-pixels view size to serve as a reference when you worked in a magnified view. Because it's so doggone modern, Photoshop does not, but you can easily create a second view of your image by choosing View New View, as in Figure 2-12. Use one window to maintain a 100-percent view of your image while you zoom and edit inside the other window. Both windows track the changes to the image. Figure 2-12 You can create...

Green Screen Materials Animation and Production Effects

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:50:50 GMT

Several types of screen materials, from cloth to special paint and assorted papers, are available. If you need portability, a cloth screen on a stand might meet your needs. This lt will give you the flexibility to position the background anywhere that's convenient, and u many pro lighting equipment and supply houses will rent them to you by the day. With a little research online at regional supplier sites, or on eBay, you'll be able to find backdrop starter kits complete with stands and lights....

HueSaturation and Desaturate Photoshop for Video

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:32:02 GMT

These two commands are incredibly important for video graphics. If colors are too saturated, you will need to tone them down. Otherwise, you will get bleeding onscreen with color data spreading from its original areas into other parts of your graphic. This can severely impact readability and is distracting to the viewer. Fixing saturation problems can be very tricky. See the video tutorial on the DVD-ROM. Fixing saturation problems can be very tricky. See the video tutorial on the DVD-ROM....

Combining paths into a filled shape PhotoshopTutorials

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:10:06 GMT

Your next task is to define the two circles as a single element, so that you can add a colored fill. 1 Using the path selection tool 0, select one of your circles, and then hold down Shift and select the second circle. Both paths are now selected. 2 In the tool options bar, click the Combine button. The Combine button is now dimmed because the two paths are now treated as one shape. 3 In the toolbar, click the Default Foreground And Background Colors button , which is to the lower left of the...

Layouts Photoshop Tutorials 2

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:39:18 GMT

With all the choices available for creating different variations of your images, you might get the idea that keeping track of all these choices is time-consuming or difficult. Not so to facilitate the task, Photoshop lets you generate several types of multiple-image layouts. Multiple-image layouts are useful when you need to gather one or more Photoshop images in a variety of sizes for a variety of uses. For example, if you create an advertisement, you might want to have multiple image layouts...

Coloring The Rough Marker Sketch PhotoshopTechniques

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:27:38 GMT

So far in this technique you have looked at three different ways to create black and white line, or ink drawings from photographs. You also looked at a number of ways to modify the character of those lines and have converted one of them into a markerlike sketch. Now you are going to paint in color on the dark stroke sketch you just created. While it is not difficult to set up this painting technique, it must be done correctly and you need to have a good understanding of why there are three...

Rendering in VIZ CADDrawings

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:39:19 GMT

You'll be making several renderings of the 3D model in VIZ to ultimately integrate into the illustration project for work in Photoshop. All the renderings made in this chapter will be generated from exactly the same point of view, although each will contain different forms of image data. Although the rendering process presented here has some similarities to the compositing process presented in Chapter 7, there are important differences. Instead of rendering each object as a separate image,...

Actual pixels Photoshop for Windows

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:24:22 GMT

Photoshop calls the 100-percent zoom ratio the actual-pixels view. This is the most accurate view size because you can see the image as it really is. Reduced view sizes drop pixels magnified view sizes stretch pixels. Only the actual-pixels view displays each pixel without a trace of screen distortion. You can switch to this most accurate of view sizes at any time using one of the following techniques Choose View Actual Pixels. Press Ctrl Alt 0. That's a zero, not the letter O. Double click the...

Gravity The Freefall Animation and Production Effects

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:48:30 GMT

A study in gravity is more than just dropping objects off the Tower of Pisa. In animation, it involves several other factors that include velocity and wind drag but ultimately, all objects in the natural world will find their way down. Falling objects need smooth motion. Don't use a sharp turn unless there's a clear reason for it, such as an outside force that changes the object's direction. A smartly placed blur will help sell the motion. The first project we'll create in our study of gravity...

Creating Walk and Run Cycles with Biped CharacterDesign

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:13:10 GMT

Now that you have a feel for keyframe animation, it's time to get a little more complex. A simple walk cycle seems easy enough just put one foot in front of the other but you need to remember to swing the opposite arm, and there's a lot of secondary motion involved in a walk cycle that makes the walk believable, like swinging of the hips and raising and lowering of the shoulders. Another key benefit to using Max's biped is that it understands all these complex secondary motions and can...

Toolbox overview 1 of 3 Adobe Photoshop Help

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:27:33 GMT

make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections. make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections. freehand, polygonal straight-edged , and magnetic snap-to selections. The move tool moves The lasso tools make The slice selection tool selects slices. The slice selection tool selects slices. The healing brush tool paints with a sample or pattern to repairs imperfections in a image. The healing brush tool paints with a sample or pattern to repairs...

Using the Info bar PhotoshopTutorials

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:12:18 GMT

In Photoshop, the Info bar is positioned at the lower border of the application window Windows or the lower border of the image window Mac OS . This area displays the current magnification, an area for specific choices of information types, and context-sensitive information about the currently selected tool. In ImageReady, the Info bar appears at the lower border of the image window. You can click an arrow button on the Info bar to open a pop-up menu of different categories of information. Your...

Distorting an image inside out Photoshop for Windows

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:00:46 GMT

The following exercise describes how to achieve a sizzling Parting of the Red Sea effect. Although it incorporates several distortion filters, the star of the effect is the Polar Coordinates filter, which is used to turn the image inside out and then convert it back to polar coordinates after flipping it upside down. No scanned image or artistic talent is required. Rumor has it that Moses puts in a guest appearance in the final image. This effect is the brainchild of Mark Collen, easily the...

Getting started 3 PhotoshopTutorials

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:48:29 GMT

Before beginning this lesson, restore the default application settings for Adobe Photoshop. See Restoring default preferences on page 5. You'll start the lesson by viewing the finished lesson file to see the image that you'll create as you explore the selection tools in Photoshop. If a notice appears asking whether you want to customize your color settings, click No. 2 Choose File gt Open, and open the 04End.psd file, located in the Lessons Lesson04 folder on your hard drive. The project is a...

Reordering layers Photoshop for Windows

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:32:33 GMT

What good are layers if you can't periodically change what's on the top and what's on the bottom You can reorder layers in two ways. First, you can drag a layer name up or down in the scrolling list to move it forward or backward in layering order. The only trick is to make sure that the black bar appears at the point where you want to move the layer before you release the mouse button, as illustrated in Figure 12-11. Figure 12-11 Drag a layer between two other layers to make the all-important...

Step 3 Use Quick Mask PhotoshopTechniques

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:19:33 GMT

No doubt about it the easiest and most frequently used filter effect for those new to any of the Photoshop family of products is the Poster Edges filter. If you use it, odds are good someone will look at your work and say, Oh, you used the Poster Edges filter If you don't mind this and I sometimes don't because I admit to liking the Poster Edges filter as there are times and places where it is okay to use it. You can use this filter to make some wonderful inkjet prints when a fine-art paper is...

Flattening a layered image PhotoshopTutorials

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:27:02 GMT

If you plan to send a file out for proofs, it's also a good idea to save two versions of the file one containing all the layers so that you can edit the file if necessary, and one flattened version to send to the print shop. When you flatten a file, all layers are merged into a single background, greatly reducing the size of the file. 1 First, note the values in the lower-left corner of the application window Windows or the 11Start.psd image window Mac OS . If the display does not show the file...

Motion blurring Photoshop for Windows

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:02:39 GMT

The Motion Blur filter makes an image appear as if either the image or camera was moving when you shot the photo. When you choose Filter Blur Motion Blur, Photoshop displays the dialog box shown in Figure 10-23. You enter the angle of movement into the Angle option box. Alternatively, you can indicate the angle by dragging the straight line inside the circle on the right side of the dialog box, as shown in the figure. Notice that the arrow cursor actually appears outside the circle. Once you...

Inertia and Friction What a Drag Animation and Production Effects

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:37:48 GMT

Simulating friction and drag in an animation is all about the timing. Think about some simple practical situations you may encounter in everyday life, such as rolling a chair across different floor surfaces or the difference between running on land and running in a swimming pool. Not only does friction increase the force needed for movement, it also slows down the speed at which the motion is made. This project is a simple exercise in creating motion drag a principle that can be easily applied...

Using Grain Surgery To Remove Digital Noise PhotoshopTechniques

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:51:41 GMT

Great Horned Owl Canon EOS D30, f 2.8 300mm IS, ISO 800, f 3.2 1 125, 16-bit RAW setting, 1440 x 2160 pixels converted to 9.3MB 8-bit .tif, iCorrect Professional and Photoshop 7 Levels have been applied Unwanted digital noise or grain in a digital image can be a gigantic stumbling block to making a digital photo look as good as if the nasty stuff weren't there at all Besides appearing as variegated spots of color in a color image, the noise usually becomes even more pronounced when the image...

Experimentation PhotoshopTechniques

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:06:50 GMT

any classic photographic effects can be reproduced or simulated by using new digital tools, such as Photoshop 7. With good techniques, the intent of the original classic photographic effects can be taken even further and doing them digitally often allows more variations, or control over the effect. In this chapter, you find out how to digitally hand-color a black and white image without all the mess and fuss of using photographic paints. Technique 21 shows how you can create a...

Methods 4 VBScript Scripting Reference

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:53:47 GMT

Adjusts the brightness -100 - 100 and contrast -100 - 100 . Shadows , Midtones , Highlights , PreserveLuminosity array of Numbers array of Numbers array of Numbers Boolean Adjusts the color balance of the layer's component channels. For Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights, the array must include three values -100 - 100 , which represent cyan or red, magenta or green, and yellow or blue, when the document mode is CMYK or RGB. Note See mode in the Properties table of the Document object. Array of...

Step 3 Find Darkest And Lightest Points PhotoshopTechniques

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:26:09 GMT

From our work in the prior step, we know that we have a color cast to remove. As the eagle's white feathers is the best place to check for and remove the color cast, place an eyedropper point on one of the feathers. Doing this allows you to continuously monitor the colors or lack of color in the white feathers as you do the editing. To be precise when doing color corrections, you can do your work by the numbers by using the Color and Info palettes. If they are not showing, choose Window Color...

E Snapshots Photoshop Tutorials 2

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:00:31 GMT

In this lesson, you'll create a snapshot on the History palette, edit an image, then use the snapshot to view the image as it existed prior to making changes. As mentioned earlier in this chapter, it is a good work habit to make a copy of an original layer to help you avoid losing any of the original image information. Creating a snapshot is like creating that new copy. The History palette can only record a maximum of 20 tasks, or states, that you perform. When the History palette reaches its...

Removing Chroma Spill from Details Animation and Production Effects

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:30:46 GMT

When you have a chroma key shot that has a lot of background color bleed or spill into the details and edges of the subject, the shot will require a bit more than just the simple click to remove it. Keylight can remove spill from fine hair or separate reflections from glass with only a few adjustments. In this first example, the figure was lit very lightly against a dark blue-screen background, which was composited against a scenic background Figure 9.2 . The problem was that her fine, wavy...

01 Importing Photos Into Bridge Photoshop Tutorials 3

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:54:31 GMT

From camera or card reader Standard Version Bridge 2.0 See Adobe Photo Downloader Select the From Camera or Card Reader option from the File menu, or select the Bridge option from the pop-up dialog that is displayed when the card reader is connected to the computer. Choose the Standard dialog. After finding and selecting the source of the pictures adjust the Import Settings. Browse for the folder where you want the photographs to be stored and if you want to use a subfolder select the way that...

Fixing UVs Add a Checkerboard Map CharacterDesign

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:11:01 GMT

Even though you did a careful and neat job of unwrapping and organizing the UVs, there's still a chance that the isolated UV portions of the texture map are inverted like looking in a mirror or that texture coordinates are crossed resulting in smearing , overlapped causing a duplication of texture , or not properly relaxed causing bloating or shrinking of the texture . I can almost guarantee that at least one of the aforementioned scenarios exists in your setup, but it's not a huge ordeal it...

Print-Worthy Frame Grabs Photoshop for Video

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:58:55 GMT

I One of the most common requests I hear is the desire to take frame grabs from video and format them for use in print, j Unfortunately, the mediums just don't mix very well. Remember, in order to capture between 24 to 30 frames per second, a small image is grabbed. Depending on your format, you end up with around 640x480 square pixels of information. If you condense these pixels to a print resolution of say 300 ppi, you get a print size of about 2x1.5 inches slightly larger than a postage...

Geometric selection outlines Photoshop for Windows

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:21:31 GMT

Tools for creating simple geometric selection outlines occupy the very first slot in the Photoshop toolbox. By default, the rectangular marquee tool has the stage. You select the elliptical, single-row, and single-column marquee tools from the flyout menu that appears when you drag from the marquee tool icon. Tip Press M to select the tool that's currently visible in the toolbox. Press M again to toggle between the rectangular and elliptical marquee tools. Alternatively Alt click jF the tool...

20 Recrlating Motion Photoshop Tutorials 3

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:37:25 GMT

Menu Image gt Mode gt RGB Shortcut - OS Mac, Windows Version 6.0, 7.0, CS, See Color blending mode CS2, CS3 also Most black and white photographs will need to be changed to RGB mode for this technique Image gt Mode gt RGB Color . Now click on the foreground swatch in the toolbox and select a color appropriate for your picture. Here I chose a dark green for the leaves. Select the Brush tool from the toolbox and adjust its size and edge softness using the settings in the options bar. Change the...

Basic 3-D Layers in Motion Animation and Production Effects

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:09:26 GMT

Setting up a basic 3-D animation in After Effects requires having some basic knowledge of multiple views, moving layers in three-dimensional space, and using the X-, Y-, and Z-axes. It's really much easier than it sounds, and this project will introduce you to some of those basic controls. You may want to follow along with the completed After Effects file, 3-DText.aep, on the DVD. 1. Start a new project file in After Effects and import two single-layer Photoshop files, FilmReel.psd and...

Rendering Templates 2 CharacterDesign

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:30:20 GMT

3ds Max includes a feature that renders the UV template to a bitmap that you can open into Photoshop. This is really handy and gives you the chance to draw directly on the template showing all the UV edges. To render a UV template, select the Tools, Render UV Template command from the Edit UVWs window. This opens the Render UVs dialog box see Figure 6.17 . From this dialog box, you can specify the bitmap's dimensions and the size and colors of the edges and base. 1. Select the torso object and...

Step 3 Use Blend Mode To Unify Color And Texture PhotoshopTechniques

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:23:43 GMT

If you look at the 17 images that are available in folder 27, you will find that they are quite different in terms of color, focus, texture, and tonal range. To avoid having to make a multitude of adjustments on each image so that they can all be combined to look like they are part of the same building, a blend mode will be used to pick up color and texture from the background.jpg image. To blend image2.jpg with the background.jpg image so that it picks up the color of the background.jpg image,...

The Navigator palette Photoshop for Windows

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:23:10 GMT

I saved the best for last. Shown in Figure 2-13, the Navigator palette is the best thing to happen to zooming and scrolling since Photoshop was first introduced. If you routinely work on large images that extend beyond the confines of your relatively tiny screen, you'll want to get up and running with this palette as soon as possible. Figure 2-13 The Navigator palette is the best thing to happen to zooming and scrolling since Photoshop 1.0. Figure 2-13 The Navigator palette is the best thing to...

To use Levels to adjust color balance Adobe Photoshop Help

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:12:26 GMT

1 Place a color sampler on an area of neutral gray in the image. 2 Open the Levels dialog box. See Making color adjustments on page 132. Double-click the eyedropper tool in the Levels dialog box to display the Color Picker. Enter the values you want to assign to the neutral gray, and click OK. Then click the color sampler in the image. Click Options in the Levels dialog box. Click the Midtones color swatch to display the Color Picker. Enter the values you want to assign to the neutral gray, and...

Kinematics Human Figure Character Animation Animation and Production Effects

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:49:03 GMT

Kinematics, in computer graphics language, is motion created by the force of another material body in motion usually something that's attached, as a hand is to an arm. If the arm is moved, then the hand must go with it, even though the hand is still free to move on its own. This is something usually practiced by 3-D character modelers who create video games and animated motion pictures. Fortunately, After Effects gives us some pretty powerful tools to accomplish kinematic motion on...

Specifying Default Resolution for New Preset Documents HackingPhotoShop

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:06:28 GMT

When you create a new preset for a custom document size in the File New dialog box, Photoshop uses the resolution values set in the Units amp Rulers screen in the Preferences dialog box. The default resolution is 300 ppi for print and 72 ppi for screen. These settings affect all presets that you select from the Preset pop-up menu in the New dialog box. If you find yourself constantly changing the resolution, you can customize the settings. To take advantage of this opportunity, open the...

The mainstream formats Photoshop for Windows

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:08:58 GMT

The formats discussed so far are mighty interesting and they all fulfill their own niche purposes. But two formats JPEG and TIFF are the all-stars of digital imagery. You'll use these formats the most because of their outstanding compression capabilities and almost universal support among graphics applications. The JPEG format is named after the folks who designed it, the Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG is the most efficient and essential compression format currently available and is...

Reducing Digital Noise BlendingModes

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:03:43 GMT

lIn the Layers palette, duplicate the original image layer by dragging the background layer onto the Create a new layer icon, or use Ctrl Cmd-J 2 Using either the pulldown blending mode menu in the Layers palette or the shortcut Alt Opt-Shift-L, change the duplicate layer's blending mode to Color and rename it Color. 3 Zoom in to ioo using View gt Actual Pixels or Ctrl Cmd-Alt Option-Zero and move around the screen to an area where the digital noise is clearly visible 4 Apply some Gaussian Blur...

Understanding interpolation CameraRaw

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:20:28 GMT

Interpolation is the process of increasing the resolution of an image or a section of an image when cropping to increase the number of pixels per inch. A 6-megapixel digital camera should be able to produce 8x10 prints without a problem, even if you have to do some cropping. If you print large prints say, 11x14, or 13x19 your digital camera can produce more resolution without interpolation, and that's a better result. Larger prints require a larger amount of image information, however for...