Thursday, August 25, 2011

Adobe Photoshop and After Effects CS5 - Let's Create a Cool Border With Photoshop's Alpha Channel

When we show our work or customers work, hopefully, we want it to look very, well lit, you want to stand out. Cropping is a good way to highlight the potential of art, but when we want to do with this site, we have some tools to choose from. I just created a display, that is a beautiful tile work. Looks good, works great tiles, great pictures, but needed a little 'of something. I understand that the definition of design, execution, may actually help create it apart from highlighted items.

How could the screen frame chip? What's better than the tile itself ... with an alpha channel support some of Photoshop and the mixed layer in After Effects this should be a fairly easy task. I thought the two presentations, either the presentation of the company's products or just a family album that show very well with this technique, which is definitely worth sharing.

Choose the image you want to be your limit. It will help build the slide show in After Effects first to have a simple "before and after 'contrast to assess your limit. Note size of the composition, as will determine the size of the border you want to create in Photoshop.

Open the image you have chosen your line in Photoshop. In my case, I decided to add the line that I wanted to make the edge of the frame. You can do the same pattern or texture that overlap in Photoshop to create four times up, down, left and right limits the bandwidth, but you could also choose the format that will be the '"alpha" out of the center so that it comes from outside of the frame.

In both cases, when you built your border in Photoshop, create an alpha channel to remove the central part of the images that we will use this as a finished image in After Effects. A simple way to create alpha, using the share is to copy the image layer, scale it down to 90% using the Free Transform tool:. Typing "Ctrl + T" and then enter 90% of the width and height (just below the toolbar) Use this "inside the left image to create the owner of Alpha, the image you want to show through.

Highlight this small part of the image to select reverse. When you create a new channel in Photoshop to create a section of the channel, which is not selected, invert the selection, which is your body. Now the channels tab, click Save Selection as a channel, the second icon from the left channel tab, "Save selection as channel". If you click the eye next to the new channel is the top event of default red to show the region that has been added to this new alpha channel. This is the part that is not visible in the saved file.

Save the selection as a targa file type "TGA", then import the file back into After Effects. Place this new file as the top layer of the composition and see your newly created connection with the underlying layer shows through.

These simple steps to create an alpha transparent area and in this case, create the desired image with a transparent area on the screen. When you import this file into After Effects, placing as the top layer of the entire composition shown below, except in the lower layers will appear in the center, the area of ​​alpha.

This same technique can be used in many applications, mixing images and video with a creative way.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - Guide to Slip Editing

After Effects provides several tools to edit layers and editing layer of time presence is one of the most useful. When we see a typical ad, or even a sequence of film, we see that the overall message is always composed of parts, incomplete parts, which nevertheless add their special part of the message. After Effects provides several tools to modify the window of time in each layer. A very flexible and accommodating is "drop the issue."

When you mix the various resources of your composition, especially different videos, you typically use only parts of them. Exactly how to mix them together, the timing that allows them to work together and editing process that helps you make these decisions, working together to make your compositing the final product that you want it to be.

Generally, when you select the resources you want, choose when you want the "fine tuning" process can be longer. You want your transition to work, you want them to be trouble and you just want good portions of different approaches to make the right contribution to the overall product. This is where the drop editing can be a very valuable tool.

The value of the coupon easy installation offers a choice of two or three videos on the composition, reducing overall time interval and take them to your "best guess" how to work together. When you hover your mouse at the beginning and end of each level, you'll see two arrows to show you can adjust the settings. Please note when you set the start and / or the floor at the end of the bar is now gray area shows that part of the duration of the video is no longer used.

Screen very useful when working with these changes is the same-time information available on the left side of the timeline. Resources under his bed are three icons that displays the information changes: overlapping rectangles to see the change information layer, a circle / square icon control information transfer switch, and a set of devices that display information time for each layer.

This time information is divided into 'In, Out, Time Stretch' time. While most of us do manual changes of our resources," seeing "the changes we make, it is useful to know the exact time, we create our visual adjustments. All events of the layer to maintain synchronization of the total composition in a predetermined time window to use this information accurate.

When you make changes go, this time the information is not changed. This is a useful reminder of what a fitting place. Since After Effects has the double arrow icon when you hover over the start and end of a sequence layer when your have reduced this time, and hover in the gray, you will see these double-headed arrow with two vertical bars at each end. This tells you that you are in edit mode fall.

Note that when you push your time adjustment layers from front to back, your in, out, and the length does not change. You are not changing any of these values. What you are about to change just that part of the cut layers will be displayed.

Imagine that you have completed the exact time a window, which operates in this layer. You know exactly where they should appear (and disappear) in relation to other levels. You also know how long it can be. Slip editing, you can optimize your content and what part will appear in this time window. Having this extra degree of control will help to develop a little 'more, you get to focus on time-sensitive content of each layer.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - Guide To Keyframe Assistant Sequence Layers

After Effects is loaded with assistants and keying is at the heart of motion graphics and animation. A favorite assistant is available under the animation menu, 'keyframe assistant'. There are several options here but one that practically creates an animation for you with only a few steps is the 'sequence layers' option. This assistant does pretty much what is sounds like, it creates keys and transition for the layers you select. Whether a slide show or part of a presentation with a few timed sequences, this a tool you will want to keep nearby.

To get started, choose the images you want to sequence, ideally they are the same size but this is not a requirement. To create your composition, simply drag one of these images from your project panel onto the composition symbol at the bottom of the project panel. This is a quick and easy way to create a comp based on the resource properties. If this was a high definition video, the comp properties would match the video.

In this case we will simply create a composition with my default frame rate of 29.7 and the size of the image used to create the comp. Now drag the remainder of the images into the composition and they will all occupy the complete time window. It should default to the time of the previous composition since a single image does not have a length of time.

When you click on the first image, first layer then hold the shift key while you click on the last, this will choose all the layers at once. You can take this same action by entering 'Ctrl A'. With all layers highlightighted, drag their timeline setting back to the number of frames you want each to appear in this presentation.

Now its time for the assistant. Highlight all your layers, then under the 'Animation' menu, choose 'Animation->Keyframe Assistant->Sequence Layers'. This will open the pop out menu for sequencing with three options: overlap, duration, and transition. The sequence layer assistant is going to sequence your layers based on these three simple options.

If you think about a typical presentation slideshow, the images fade into fade into one another, they 'dissolve' as one releases the stage to the next. Typically they overlap just a bit with a brief moment of both sharing the stage but with decreased opacity so they really are sharing. These three options are just that.

When you click on the overlap checkbox the duration and transition options appear. You choose your duration which will typically be a product of a bit of experimentation. In my simple slideshow, showing some of my artists works, I've set each image to appear for two seconds with an overlap of four frames. When you choose overlap and set your duration you have three options for your transition: none, cross dissolve front layer, cross dissolve front and back layers.

Choosing the dissolve transition options simply tell After Effects to add an opacity fade over the duration window you specify. You can choose none but we usually like to see a fading transition letting our images or video 'share' and hand off the moment as the next takes center stage.

What is a bit funny about describing this assistant is, it really does take longer to describe it than to apply it. Try it out! Choose all your layers, choose the sequence layer assistant, check to overlap, then set duration, and type of transition. An extra benefit about it being so easy is that it is also easy to experiment, trying different durations to get just the overall time and effect you are seeking.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - Having Timeline 'Helpers'

Once you have selected the content of your video After Effects, it is easy to modify the different layers, their time time, add effects, and of course, their relationships to each other edition. This "fine tuning" stage may be the most important and for many of us may be longer. Fortunately, After Effects includes several useful tools here, and a tool of choice, is simply the "slip editing'. Slip editing we can change the start and end in the different layers when editing their presence in your video. After Effects timeline also provides many "assistants" to help with the editing process.

To introduce and experiment with editing or sliding, to select three or four videos you want to merge into a single composition. Place them in different time intervals and using the time setting changes each time is used less than the full video. By placing the mouse on the start or end of a layer, is the "double arrow" indicating that you can slide the time editing the layer of the part of the video is shown first (or last).

If you do not see the double arrows at the end of the video layer, but can extend beyond the time window of its composition. Look at the small bar at the bottom right of the timeline. He has two small icons pyramid on each side. This slider and pyramids allow you to expand (and outside) in parts of your timeline.

This can be useful when you are putting in place, perhaps only a fraction of a second, but also hides the details of the timeline. All the tools, I think we all have experienced some frustration in After Effects, when we follow the directions, but just does not seem right. So ... The two cases do not see the arrow of time to change layers, make sure you are at the beginning or end, be sure to time slider is not always to the left, so exposed to all the timelines, and finally, the layer is viewing may actually be longer than the same composition.

If you've tried everything and still can not see two arrows at the end of your floor, push it inward. Use the mouse to move the entire layer in the Timeline to the end, then when you move the mouse at the end of a piano bar, you'll see two arrows, as well as reducing the end of this video.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - New Roto Brush Tool

One of the additions to After Effects CS5 is their Roto Brush. This tool can be considered their quick shortcut to the tedious process of rotoscoping. How many times you want to extract something or someone in our video, mixing images from various videos. The Roto Brush provides a fast with very impressive results to achieve this goal!

After Effects CS5 includes Mocha, which is a far more ambitious follow-up, but the basic cuts and isolation of specific regulation of the objects that you will like the Roto Brush tool. Select the video, which is a good candidate for you. Choose something that you want to isolate the object of this exercise, and we will do something, something to distinguish it from the rest of the video processing. You can change the colors or apply a color effect, changing the tone, but choose something that is easy to work and influence, which is easy to distinguish.

There are many ways you can put Roto Brush tool to work for you, but we want this operation to show how it works in order to better understand the possibilities. Once the composition has created a short video, one of the comfortable isolation of the candidate, to copy the video, so you can apply this new effect of a single copy. Think of this as the effect of the mask, a smarter mobile, depending on the area selected mask.

Double-click to bring your copy in the window layer, which is where you apply the brush effect. Looking at your Tools menu in the right side, just left of the Puppet Pin tool, you will see the Roto Brush. It is easy to use and you basically just paint the inside of the object you want to isolate. In my case, I wear a black hat, I will paint the inside of the hat to "choose" it.

As you begin to apply with a brush, you will notice that the mouse pointer diagonally to adjust its size by making the brush size to large and small by choosing your destination. When choosing your theme, highlighted with a pink color scheme that shows what will be included. Like many other similar tools, ie the ratio of pixels used to make your choice, you can expand and improve its selection. If you have a domain you want to delete the selection, hold down the "alt" will move to a "subtractive" mode which allows you to highlight what you want to delete.

Once you are satisfied with the outline of your brush in the mask, the opinion of the "freeze" on the calendar in the layers panel. This will capture the selection. Also note the number of images selected in the timeline. You can drag this selection to the right or left to increase the presence of time your mask.

With the tent and the time you want to go back to your compose window and apply our selection to illustrate how something can be treated just the part that you have captured with your exercise Roto Brush. Remember that began with a copy of our original video and one for the application of this effect. In my case, I have isolated my black hat, and return in the composition, the effect applied to fill the "effects produce" turn the red hat. Applied to fill, now my black hat turned red with the length of time window was frozen "in the layers panel. Make sure the layer is applied and a Roto brush to apply this effect to Again, it is at the top of the copied layer. You want this to stand out. does not apply to the area selected for its Roto-brush, but appears only if the above the double layer.

Like all effects, which require more than understanding the impact Roto definitely requires some practice. By selecting "the most likely candidate" with a beautiful color and light is easy to distinguish the definition of the model will be of great help. In practice, this is a small tool, the new CS5 can go a long way to the flexibility of mixing and, in particular by applying a special treatment in some parts of the video.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - How To Edit Layers

After Effects CS5 provides several tools for editing layers, a number of shortcuts, and features made for popular uses. Animated series for all levels and the tools to help you with this can be a considerable saving of time and helps to hone your presentation, at the same time.

You'll almost always trim the layers blending to create a "big picture" and the message you're doing. There are several ways to cut the layers within the composition or the movie of a special editor where you can focus on a resource for editing.

Within a composition, select the layer you want to cut, to choose the moment within the timeline of the mixture occurs, the mouse, hover over the start or end of the level to be shortened. You can see the arrow icon to show the other party must be cut / edit mode versus simply moving this layer. You want to do both things in different contexts, but simply moving sheet repositioning in relation to other resources, you have a layer of composition. You almost always want to do it, feeling a bit 'and make the test screens with the "mixed layer" to decide how to use them together, just the right time to be first in line at one time and for how long.

These decisions are important and are often simply the difference of a few seconds of animation, but in a short video, a few seconds ... a long time. Move the layer changes its position, but once you feel comfortable with their sequence in time to change, you can shorten your coat, by editing the start time, end time, or both.

If you want the layer to edit their own films, double-click the resource in the project area. This will open the resource, a video, for example, the video editor. Here you can focus on this unique resource, but again, After Effects offers two useful editions called an "overlay edit" and "ola change."

The concept is pretty simple. In the editor records you look at your resources, the time window may change, and then select an editing overlay. This will add this resource as a new layer where your flag is now set on your composition. It will "overlay" is the top layer and "covering" any underlying layer, which sometimes overlap. If you do this, but "Change ripple" Selecting it will add this new resource as a new layer will be added as top layer, but with publishing training, in all strata occupy a "space" at the same time will be cut. Your new resource will be inserted between the two, so that none of the existing layers are stacked or attached to. With a Ripple editing, layers separated, the new resource held, so the composition continues with the same action as before.

The testing of these different techniques is simple and shows a clear difference. Different situations require that both approaches, so having used these tools, the choice is yours

Adobe After Effects CS5 - How To Trim Layers

After Effects provides tools to modify layers. Trimming layers might be important, because the truth, because we are mixing a variety of resources into the whole statement that rarely use any resources without trimming a little '. This can be a part of "the nature of the Web" in our opinion, but a mixture of pictures and outtakes of resources allows us to be creative in how the mix of our message.

If the message is an advertisement or a catchy website video just the right pieces, and just the right time can be the most important part of its character. When you start working with layers, to decide how they blend together and which parts you need, you should see the windows of "In / Out / Duration 'to see the time values ​​of its own layer. This option video is available at the bottom left of the timeline, showing braces against "{}".

You can also change the timeline pane, right-click on the column heading and choose what it seems. The shear layer is very simple. When you move the mouse to the beginning or the end of the floor, a white pointer arrow changes to two arrows pointing opposite'<->' this cut. Simply click on the layer and move the beginning or the end is visually adjust the tempo. Please note that you must manually decorate your coat ", in, out, the duration of" values ​​change accordingly. This mixture of visual changes with the exact timing of the information is useful in a combination of design.

These timing information will be useful, but there is a piece that can be misleading. If you adjust the length of a numeric display, you're forcing you to layer a new length of time, significantly speed up or slow down the playback speed. Way to adjust the length of the plan is to cut it. Also note that you can move the layers in the timeline in relation to other levels. Here you can not change his overall time of the game, but if it is determined in relation to other parts of the presentation.

Often you want to process the same layer in different ways. You can adjust the color of the former, but not late. It is easy to copy and paste a layer, then use cut to adjust the length. Even easier, After Effects has an option "layer of division" in the Edit menu. Here it suffices to place the clock you want to separate the layer and select "Edit Layer-Split", After Effects will create the layer split second in which they put the time indicator.

You can find all these shortcuts and commands for the positioning of the cut, and when you first start using this combination of tools and information that you will spend less time in the toolbox, and more time on your designs.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - How To Modify Layers

After Effects provides several tools for the modifying layers. Layers stacking, sliding, and trimming are among the basic tools for mixing the different resources in your project with the layer structure. These tools are easy to use, but even within groups there are several levels of options and tools to get more of its resources and its project.

When we compare our layers we set a priority display with the upper layer seen above all others. There are several things we can do here, including scaling of a layer, so more than one layer is visible, adjust the opacity as a layer has a degree of transparency to allow other layers to show through, and the sliding of the layers along timelline they are considered sequentially as the animation plays.

All these changes are fairly easy to layer in the timeline with the tools presented. Pick three resources that you want to experiment, perhaps one or two photos and a short film. First, drag resources from the project panel in its composition. If you choose one of these resources, such as film, and drag the icon of the composition in the bottom of your tools project, will create a new composition, which will default to the preset aspect ratio and pixel film, and duration of the film. This is a quick and easy to create a composition with the supported configuration by simply dragging a resource and the creation of the first layer, at the same time.

Dragging layers as they are simply placing their "window" in the timeline. If you have several images you want this sequence is a great way to create a slideshow. Add images to your membership and to scroll left and right on the timeline for the sequence in which they appear.

The images have a single piece of information, the image, so when you drag them back, you are alone, as the picture. Notice when you hold your arrow at the end of the band of color that represents your image in the timeline, the arrow becomes a'<->' two crossed arrows indicating that you can resize this layer. When the size of a layer are basically set the time that the layer appears. If you do not see the arrow symbol of the Cross at the beginning of your image layer, it is possible to slide a bit to make sure you see the beginning. Practice a little until you are sure to be increasing and decreasing the size of this layer present in the timeline.

Set the duration of an image is displayed, and how the sequence with others is a part of your design, but when the size of the layers of a video editing, you remove some of your videos by shortening its length from the beginning or end. You will make two types of changes, but they are very different. In one case, you do not want your image to be displayed in a certain period, but in the latter case, you are cutting a portion of your video, simply by using your mouse and manually move the beginning or end of video layers.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - Options for Timeline Layer

Timeline of options in After Effects adds special effect to project management skills. Even if you manually change the layer in the timeline using the duration of life / traction control panel allows you to make precise changes. If you want to synchronize layers, or set the exact date, using this feature is a customizable control for selection.

How many of the changes in After Effects, hand tools are provided so you can make these changes visually. However, if you look at the panel in the lower left of tools for the timeline, you will see three icons which we will visit later, but now the third icon on the right side shows a pair of enclosed in brackets '{}'. This option opens and closes the 'duration, the section of "boxes. This screen shows from start to finish, and duration of the layer in the timeline. And' the fourth column, after" in, out, their duration ", the "Stretch." This shows the percentage of "stretch" so if you stretch or shrink your coat, you change the time. This is the same screen presents Suitable for these parameters, so it might be easier to adapt and provide access exact settings, if you want the video to appear at the exact moment, or run a certain length. This tool is indispensable if you want to synchronize your floors will appear at the same time or stagger with the exact offset.

All of these controls, it is easier for you to manage your layers, and especially their temporal relationships. Being able to define the exact time sequence and exactly where it comes and goes is a powerful tool. As they begin to experiment with mixing and blending of layers of different resources, the layer management tools increasingly useful and important.

There may be a message with pictures and videos with many different topics and a very different landscape. As your online message is displayed, combining these different points of view and the normal transition from one to another with little overlap, fading in the past that the image of the new applications center stage for your message. Using the calendar command lets you change the duration of the images and define specific transition windows.

You can even use the management tools as a design tool. Say you have two layers, which begins the film with a video version of introduction to the next video. If you open the duration / stretch panel on your calendar, you can see the time repeatedly shown that you manually set the second layer. Whether it should be a little longer, you can adjust the value of stretching, and simultaneously see how long how long "in your layers.

In this sense, the monitoring tools an information tool for you so you can make visual changes while it shows exactly what time your adjustments are made. These tools are an excellent addition to your manual changes, you mix your resources together to create exactly the presentation you want.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - The Transforming Sets of Animation

One of the things that make After Effects animation a bit easier is that the design of the areas of five basic characteristics of a "transform" set is all that is common to all After Effects items. It is this common foundation makes the field a little more familiar and help you plan your design.

Each object in After Effects has the same set of attributes in the group to "transform": ". Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation and Opacity." All of these attributes are displayed with the stopwatch icon to the left which means they can all be animated as you discover new attributes, it is a visual instant message, and it is if you see a clock on the left of an attribute can be animated!

Some may surprise you. For example, when you add new text and see the clock next to the original text, which is why it can be animated. If you type "Hello" at the beginning of the timeline, then 3 seconds into the film to change the text to say "goodbye", this change in the text is animated.

After Effects has many tools, wizards and many shortcut keys. For me, like driving a car, many will become familiar with the use, but fortunately for this basic set, the shortcut key is the first character of the attribute: 'A' for 'Anchor', 'r' for 'Rotation' and so further. These keys are not case sensitive. There is an exception in this group and it is "opacity" if the shortcut is 't'. You need this often, and if you enter one of these "P" for the position, this attribute will be open this attribute. Even if you have opened several others, enter the shortcut key for an attribute to open one.

If you have an attribute is displayed, then enter the keyboard shortcut for a second while holding the shift key ', will both be displayed. Adobe offers an index of all their shortcuts, but your memory will store the ones you use a lot, and you can watch this index when you want to know about the others.

All these attributes have the value displayed in a manner familiar to you clearly said that can be accessed with a click of the mouse. An excellent introduction is simply to change the values ​​and see the evolution of the objects it manipulates. Choose the "opacity" and drag up and down while watching the object and disappear from existence. Its range is always between 0 and 100%. Select "Position" and move the object side of the stage and get an idea of ​​the values ​​of proximity. The position values ​​based on the size of your composition, size of the scene.

After Effects has a rich collection of effects, readings and special songs, but when it comes to moving in "Motion Graphics", you will spend much time with the "Transformers" set of values.

Adobe After Effects CS5 - Finding Your Way Around Town

Finding your way around the city in After Effects CS5 can be a bit scary, but then so as you found your way around the city. Start with the main roads, take a little detour now and then. Use your GPS. It gets easier daily.

One of the puzzling things to me is that the layout is configurable to your advantage. You can choose between the panels and the tools to make you want to see. You can choose where they are. You can resize all, you can "unplug" and put the part where the panel is still available, but far from the main line of vision.

I say confusion to your advantage?. When you look at the online demos and tutorials, layout will not always look the same. There are several predefined layouts designed to fit a predefined task that animation or motion tracking. This can be a bit confusing. As you start using all signs and more important than your day job is more appropriate for a particular layout, this flexibility to help you with the tools and attitudes you need at your fingertips.

In this overview, I will be with the workspace by default, the start and I always use the most. If you look at the options menu at the top of your workspace with the "File" on the far left, the "Window" menu at the end of the extreme right will present your work opportunities, the first option under the window. Just look at the various provisions of what they offer and how they differ, is an instructive exercise.

The standard of work you see your project panel in the upper left corner sharing with the control panel power. I like that. The panel project is your project, the star of the show and it's all the resources of children. Here you can place the captured video and images, here you can create folders to manage your resources. It is common to use a composition to another, you will see all the compositions belonging to your project here.

Below is the project panel on the timeline panel. Here, "at work". Here you can create and drop the level, which are the contents of the film. It 'an intelligent search system between the layer of objects, and the panel design, you can follow.

Above your calendar is good for your control panel of your project composition. This is where you will see your project in its expression. In this panel, you can see a preview screening of your project, you can choose to display portions, or zoom in for more details. If you "double click" on a video in your project panel, a "film" window open in the composition window that allows you to view this resource.

On the right side you'll see information panel that shows the colors and the composition of the coordination of information. When you move the mouse off the road, you see the "x, y 'coordinates for data visualization. Right below is a preview control is used a lot. Just as a preview of the film you can see the composition of the work for reproduction improving back and forth, jump to the beginning or end.

Below a preview of the "effects and preset" panel panel, After Effects names. Here you can see all the effects, including effects pre-finished detail and animation for all of you. The effects are presented in class folders, you can pick and choose. Typically, the distribution of this panel or placed under a "sign" of the panel used to create and stylize the entire text.

There are many tools and lots of "hacker tool" in After Effects, but from a composition by adding some resources, then create the animation is much easier than you think. Soon you'll find your way around the city easily and safely run on some sights to discover your community to share with After Effects.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Make Fun Photos In Adobe Photoshop

We've all been there ... you look at your photos of your friend, and you feel you fall asleep out of boredom. Fortunately, Adobe Photoshop allows us to take these photos and create fun boring. You can even take these photos that everyone yawns and create gifts wonder people will surely love.

While Photoshop has been considered as the tool for professional photographers who you might be surprised that if you take a little time to learn the program quickly will be able to turn your photos into masterpieces. While learning the most difficult, you can always count on tools that are easy and fun way to provide what you need to edit your photos.

Photoshop comes with hundreds of tools to edit and manipulate your photos, below are just some of what you can expect to find. So at the moment the best solution to find the most important tools to begin, we must learn by watching video tutorials for Adobe Photoshop

Have you ever wondered why all the professional models look so great?

Photoshop comes with deformation tools that allow you to manipulate your photos and when it is under control, you can add or subtract the weight of your subject, among other things. If you want 12-pack abs, but do not want to go to the gym all you have to do is to find this wonderful tool, and you'll fool even your mother.

Another tool often used by professional photographers, the Smudge tool. Want perfect skin? If you have a close up picture of your face or the face, and there are gaps in the face such as scars, pimples and wrinkles, you can remove them with the Smudge tool.

This will make the subject's face appear smoother and younger.

Want to remove or replace objects in the background picture? Lasso to select a specific part of the image and then delete it. For example, if you're standing in your garden, you can easily select the lasso tool and cut the body out of the picture.

You can then paste the object you are cutting back on other, and that behind the Arc de Triomphe in France behind the windmills in the Netherlands.

Dreams to transform your photo into a watercolor? All you need do is to use Photoshop filters and built in your photo is transformed instantly to whatever you choose. Some options include watercolor, charcoal, drawing, etc.

Easily add text or captions on your photos using the text tool. Now you'll never forget standing next to you during your university degree or a retirement party.

Recently divorced but does not want to throw the picture out the window? Easily remove unwanted objects, and you can keep all your photos, less unwanted objects or people.

This is a small part of the amazing things you can do with Adobe Photoshop. Once you master the basics and dive deeper into the program, you will see that I have only scratched the surface of this powerful program.

Take your time and learn how you can convert your normal photographs into extraordinary works of art.

Adobe Photoshop Courses - A Variety Of Ways To Master Lessons Photoshop Faster

When it comes to tutorials people will think that if someone show them how to make animal feed. In today's world, there are different ways on how to offer tutorials. The oldest form of tutorial is a tutorial-type class. But this method still works for over Adobe.

People want someone who can talk and ask if they are confused. Taking advantage of the type of classroom exercises you can easily teach someone what to do.

Although, with the help of technology there are different ways for you to learn about Adobe Photoshop. Book online or e-books is one of them can play online or just download it.

After reading a chapter you can apply what you read, you know how it works in real context.

Another way to master Photoshop faster, with video tutorials are designed for beginners adobe. For some, this is by far the most convenient way for them to learn the software.

All they have to do is watch and listen, and they can also follow what the speaker says. Another method is to use audio books. As the word suggests listening to the speaker and the listener can use what the speaker is to educate.

Adobe Courses are available today due to the availability of the Internet. The tools you need are all on the Internet and you get some free and some are paid.

Photoshop Guide - Basic Adobe Photoshop Curriculum - Learning Photoshop Is Not As Difficult As You Think!

The advantage of Adobe Photoshop online courses is that you can learn at their own pace. The lessons are strategically created in such a way that students can easily master the basics of Photoshop, and apply the previous lesson to the next. This is the difference between an online course and only a guide in Photoshop can be found on the Internet.

Obviously the first consideration you have to make the choice of the online course will take place is, of course, his version of Adobe Photoshop. Although a higher percentage of these lessons apply in all versions, there are tips and techniques that are only available in later versions of Photoshop. If a technique is considered so important, try to find first if you can do in the version of Photoshop you have.

Other than that, navigation and version of the interface can be different from one another. However, there are online courses that cover all versions of Photoshop. In these courses, which is labeled a technique that applies only to a single version. There are step by step instructions that are prepared for each different version as well.

The first lesson on the guide most about Adobe navigate the interface. In these lessons, students become familiar with the menu bar work area, status bar, the toolbox and palette.

Once you are aware of the different parts of the workplace, learn to work with a simple document. This makes it easy to learn the basics of Photoshop fast. Students will be guided by the use of the palette, hand tools, image tools, and other bases.

Once you get the hang of the interface of Adobe Photoshop, it would be much easier for you to perform simple tasks, responsible for the following guide to Photoshop. And because you work at your pace, you can stay in one lesson, as you need.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Video Tutorials - The Best Way To Master Photoshop CS2 Basics Faster!

Learning Adobe Photoshop CS2 is not an easy task, especially if you just have a lot of tips, step by step guides on hand.

Graphic design skills can hardly be controlled only by the theory. You must apply what you've read about the current software. In fact, most professionals recommend Adobe Photoshop CS2 video tutorials for you to get a glimpse of what the interface is like training just before practice.

Thanks to the wonders of Web 2.0, there are plenty of websites now that offer free video tutorials for Adobe Photoshop CS2. If you do not have the budget, but it is time for all the world to learn, you can also visit these sites for free video streaming.

Most of these sites presents a collection of tips and tricks, not only with Photoshop CS2, but other versions of Photoshop as well.

Most of those who use these free web tutorials are also invited to update their software when they are already dominated by a smaller version and I'd like to try the techniques that earlier versions are not. Adobe Online offers discounts for students at the Adobe Education Store If you are currently in schools.

Now the real question that comes to mind is the reason why those who have had prior knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, you need to learn Adobe Photoshop CS2 as well.

The user interface of Adobe Photoshop CS2 is very different from other versions. Menu, keyboard shortcuts and the layer palette has changed.

Most professionals still prefer that you take courses online began to study with free online tutorials.

Although the two tutorials using Adobe Photoshop CS2 video, they have courses you will pay for programs proven safe can make you a Photoshop expert in no time.

Photoshop Elements Tutorials - How To Quick Fix A Digital Graphic

Each time you do not want to mess with the actual details, maybe when he realizes an image just wants a little tweaking, but you have to control some things in the alteration, it Just use the quick fix options that comes with Photoshop Elements will soon find this new selection of tutorials.

Photoshop Elements is a sophisticated image manager, which allows anyone to make changes that the image would have been impossible in recent years. But now not only be an expert in graphics, and the team will do the work for you, looking at the pictures and instantly correct the functions of Photoshop Elements quick fix.

Therefore, the first of our tutorials Photoshop Elements will look at changes in Quick Fix, which is part of the workspace editor and gives you a little more control buttons in the Fix pane.

Therefore, to edit photos in Quick Fix, you must:

1) Open the file in Photoshop Elements, then select the Edit drop-down menu, click the Edit workspace request for Quick Fix

2) Advice on how to set options for: - Browse the menus below the image, choose whether you want to see the real end result (after only), the first (front only), or a layout of assessment (before and after all options)

3) Use the zoom window and zoom slider will determine how you want it to end. In Before and after the show, the zoom ratio with two editions. When you zoom or even a hand tool is active, you can also click on the actual pixels, screen printing Fit Size or control keys to change the zoom scale.

4) It is in no way hurts to play with the cursor Smart Fix. Fix Smart Set lighting, color, sharpness and also according to its calculations. In some cases this may be the change you need.

Once you have finished editing the image, make sure you save a new data file, in case you decide you want to change the first image again.

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Mastering Photoshop CS5 - New Healing Properties

Adobe Photoshop CS5 recently released the latest version of Photoshop that can do much more than previous generations. Although it has a slightly different format, making it a little confusing to the previous Photoshop users, it has a number of useful tools that are more powerful than ever. Here are some healing tools that can help you file your photos of these ugly spots, whether for a professional portfolio or a family album.

He has been using Photoshop for almost the beginning. Introduced in CS2, the Spot Healing Brush helps to problem areas in the image, which is especially important when taking pictures of models. As a tool, is strong, powerful and fast. He does what he says with an immediate response, allowing you to edit images quickly. To the ends of Photoshop, the Spot Healing Brush has required no entry because it is an automated tool. It is a blind instrument because it works by looking for a color tone close to random, then fill the area selected for you, however, this is a problem in large areas as it seems. Nor is it good that the color chosen by the tool is very different because you can make your image look artificial.

While this tool has improved CS5 reorganization by making it more precise and accurate. Although still automatically, instead of seeking proximity to the nearest color wise, it seems the closest color and texture compared to the selected location. The intelligent search for what seems best, rather than what is the closest option. Photoshop has renamed it gives a name more accurate and appropriate. Now known as Content-Aware-healing function, it does what it says it heals by taking into account the content, allowing for more accurate corrections.

This tool is best for much smaller areas in the image, allowing you to remove the picture to the smallest unsightly blemishes. However, it is suitable for larger spaces. As Adobe has also reached a similar tool for larger spaces. Content-Aware filling works in exactly the same way that the smallest element, the only difference is that it works on a selection of large regions.

Photo Editing - How Does The Future Hold?

There is a change in the air in the photo editing software. For the first time in over a decade, Photoshop, which dominates the photo editing so that his name is synonymous with alterations, be vulnerable to new competitors. How is this possible? Photoshop dominates high end photo editing because it is the industry standard, around which users, educators and gurus gather to form a vast network of knowledge about software. The intellectual investment of millions of users, it is difficult for other software to locate.

So much, in fact, it would take a new and much easier and better things to do before a standard like Photoshop could be challenged at all. Photoshop, and correspond to the traditional image editing programs like Paint Shop Pro has grown into a complex of large collections. And 'where the complexity of the entire industry, and Photoshop "how to" papers, tutorial sites, books, etc., has grown around the software.

This is both strength and weakness in Photoshop. The tool set is large and powerful, so nearly all the power is possible, but, and this is a very large, but only if the user has the knowledge, expertise and, especially, the time required for the effect he wants. In addition, most Photoshop tools are essentially electronic versions of traditional stencils, brushes, etc. that artists have always used. Like a brush is useless unless its owner has the technical competence to know how to use it, so are the tools of Photoshop useless without extensive technical training.

But the software does not need to be complicated and stupid. In fact, just as the artists of the past had human assistants, so that the software is properly trained, can also help artists in their work. For example, the software Portrait Professional has been designed to automatically beautify faces in photographs. To achieve this, the software is actually "trained" in human beauty, with many hundreds of portraits. So the software has learned what is usually statistically faces are more or less beautiful. This is very different than the typical photo editing tools that do not have a built-in concept of beauty at all.

So how does it work in practice? After the user has scored five key points on the face, the software analyzes the face has to be improved, and compares it with its statistical beauty model. Based on the difference between the face and the model, the software creates a slider to adjust as the various aspects of the face as needed. For example, a slider to adjust the jaw line. The effect of this control in the jaw can vary depending on the jaw that looks like: bulking it if it is low or reduced if there is a double chin. In the sense that the software "knows" how to help button up artist to enhance the image.

This approach provides an intelligent program that creates 'custom' tools depending on the needs of specific topics is a radical change in image editing software. As software becomes more intelligent, the requirement of a purely technical skills, and reduces the focus is shifting from just a vision. This in turn will impact on photography and graphics as a whole. Just as digital cameras, time has reduced the need for specialist photographers, as well as a huge increase in the number of actual photos taken, so photo editing software to be more intelligent and easier to use, more photographers and designers to make their own tinker with, and the need for professional retouching artists will decrease.

And in all this is a good thing. We will move from a world where the mastery of complex technical skills is a prerequisite for photo editing in a world were the technical stuff is easy, and where what matters is the quality of vision of the photographer. And freedom to tinker and endless tutorials Photoshop techniques can only be a good thing.

So many interesting times for Adobe Photoshop and image editing facility. Photoshop will evolve or die? Whatever the future, the emergence of easy to use, cheaper alternatives to Photoshop such as Portrait Professional can only be good news for photographers and creative throughout.

Learn Photoshop Elements By Controlling The Layers

In my opinion, absolutely the very best feature of photo modifying software programs like Photoshop Elements would be the Layers Color palette. Working with layers offers you so much flexibility to use different elements on your layout design without inadvertently ruining some other part of the digital graphic.
So in case you are only becoming familiar with layers, here are the Ideas to learn Photoshop Elements by mastering layers.

At all times create a copy of your initial layer just before altering it. Then if you do not really like the way it has ended up you are able to dispose of it as well as easily begin anew on yet another backup of the original.

To produce a fresh empty layer, click on the New Layer symbol towards the top left of the layers colour palette. A new layer will show up directly over the layer you currently have on the go.

To copy a layer, initialize the layer by clicking on it within the layers color palette and drag to the new layer image at the very top left in the palette.

To view or conceal your layers, just click on the eye icon beside the layer thumbnail inside the layers palette. This is handy if you’re attempting to make decisions about the merits of varying components on your layout. You are able to simply toggle their visibility and invisibility so you can very easily examine the appearance of diverse selections.

Make use of the Layers Styles and Effects color palette, and is typically found above the Layers Color scheme, and is the perfect tool to apply diverse styles, for example drop shadows or even special effects with photographic properties to change photos to sepia or you can even add a colored shade).

In order to rotate the layer but not the entire graphic be sure you make use of the layers control part at the bottom of the Image – Rotate menus.

Maintain each individual element on a separate layer. Each time you drag a new element in to your layout Photoshop Elements will instantly put it on a fresh layer. But when you add your own elements (for example. using the Select tool to make a journal box that you can load with coloring before incorporating your textual content) be sure you do so on a brand new layer. That means you can transfer them around the page as well as re-size them without affecting other elements.

Attempt making your own personal backgrounds through placing two different backgrounds on top of each other within the layers palette. Then using the top one active , click the blending modes pop up menu (top left in the layers color palette) and play with the different choices inside the menu. You are able to create some great effects in this way. Don’t forget you can lessen the opacity as well to manage how much of the top layer dominates the general effect.

In case you are planning to alter color and or contrast use an Adjustment Layer. Open the layer you want to adjust (click on it within the layers palette), then click on the black and white circle symbol next to the New layer icon at the top of the layers color palette. Select the type of adjustment you want to make (such as hue/saturation) and then make your adjustment inside the adjustment layer. This will take effect on the layer beneath. But the wonderful part about doing your adjustments in this way is that your adjustment settings are stored and you can easily change them, even after you’ve stored and reloaded your file.

Photoshop Cutouts and Artwork For Adobe Photoshop Beginners

Use Photoshop to make cuts art image is probably the most desired skill beginners Adobe Photoshop (Adobe Photoshop Elements and beginners). Beginners in the program, or people who have never used Adobe Photoshop wants to create photo art by combining several images to create graphics, collages, or just for fun. Using Photoshop for carving images are not only the desired skills, but it is necessary for most of this art-based photography.

If you are a beginner in Adobe Photoshop, there's good news! Learn to use Photoshop to crop pictures is not very difficult to learn, and with a little practice you can control to help you customize your photos and illustrations. If you have tried the hand-cut images, you may be wondering what tips and tricks to get rid of irregular corners and rough edges of cut images. Why do images of the artwork of professional photos look so soft?

For beginners in Adobe Photoshop (Photoshop Elements included), let's start with the basics - and certainly there are enough basic tips to help you go without ultra-advanced techniques. Photoshop for cuts - as a person - from an image, you want to use the lasso tool. It is a basic lasso tool, the Magnetic Lasso tool and the Polygonal Lasso tool. For specific examples of photo cuts, which will ignore the link basic tools and focus only on the magnetic lasso and polygon. I use the polygonal lasso, but the high magnetic, if the image has very defined borders (in context) and if you do not want to spend much time to crop images. That will attract what you can see the edge of your favorite picture of court on the basis of contrasting colors and shapes.

So you're ready to do the works of art techniques in Photoshop image crop? When an image is selected, the zoom range of about 150-300%, so you can clearly see the image there is a gap. Select the Polygonal Lasso tool and take the time to choose the points at the edges of the image. For example, a person take longer around the face, ears, fingers, etc. Once you understand all the way around, connect the last point with the first point until the hole is selected. This is where many people are left jagged edges of their works. Right-clicking will give you many different options, and "Layer via copy" will create a new layer in Photoshop Aperture exactly what the installation hole (usually a few rough edges.) Instead of a simple way to create a smooth opening photos is a technique with fringes.

By selecting the Pen will show an option for the number of pixels you want pen - or disguise - the topic of your choice. How exactly you want your image and cut the size of the image will determine how many pixels you want to choose and experience will help you learn (remember that you can undo any act fast). Once you have feathers, you can use "Layer via copy" action. If you are a beginner Photoshop, try this technique and use a thinning of about 2-10 pixels and see the result. Chances are it will be a smooth cut that can be part of your collage, new design, a photo or illustration.

The draft is an integral part of the skills needed for beginners and Adobe Photoshop can be used for cutting, combining images, and combining images. This basic technique to master the essential contours of Photoshop is very simple and can be complemented with a variety of techniques that can be explored at will. Once you know the basic principles of photos cut and feathers, you will learn to have all kinds of art to create funny images in Photoshop!

Professional Standard Way To Master Adobe Photoshop - Mastering Dimensions And Resolution Of An Image

Adobe Photoshop has the unique ability to help you change the size and resolution of an image. Mastering Adobe Photoshop will help you achieve professional results standards for printing or the Web. This tutorial will allow you to be able to save images in different formats, adjust specific areas of the image, apply special effects and be on hand with layers.

You can expand a little ', this tutorial in Adobe Photoshop allows you to view and edit the image size, canvas resize, crop the image, to repeal and redo commands, use the history palette, make a snap-shot and use the history brush.

The finer you keep the resolution of an image, the image will be produced. When an image is displayed on a computer screen, its best to bring the resolution to 72 dpi for maximum clarity. For you to change the image size and resolution you need to select the image size menu image. Otherwise, you can right-click the title bar of the window of the image and select Image Size. You can change the image size and resolution remain constant, you must select the correct resolution resampling of the image size. The second option is for you to select the "Constrain Proportions" checkbox to ensure that the image proportions will remain unchanged.

Changing the properties of an image, causing it to deform. Every so often you will see that the image is the right size, but there is little space around it, leaving you with no room to work with. In such a scenario, you can increase the size of the canvas of the image. Where does the file size magnification without affecting the components of the image. The extra space will come out of the background color of the image. To do this, select the size of the canvas from the Image menu, or select the size of the canvas by right-clicking the title bar image window. This will display the dialog box canvas size. Choose one of the boxes in the docking area to define how the extra space to add. Fill the new dimensions of the canvas in the Width and Height and click OK. Here is the canvas size is increased.

Cropping a picture has to do with the removal of redundant parts of the image if you are left with the part that is relevant. To crop an image - click the Crop tool in the toolbox, or select Crop from the Image menu. The mouse cursor to the crop tool, the mold is placed over the image. Click and drag the image to mark the area to be preserved. Now, to crop the image you have to press enter or cancel the order by pressing the Esc key.

We can see that Photoshop is a useful application and allows you to have a lot of fun to work with photos. It allows you to create images of a professional level and in the process that makes you better informed about the art of photography.

Photoshop - Need Help With Layers?

Well, now you have Photoshop, now just have to know how to use this to start with photoshop layers.This help businesses can be so confusing. This is a broad subject and there are just so powerful and flexible element of the layers can provide. Mastering Photoshop does not come overnight. The more time and effort spent playing with this element, rather than seeing the potential and understand.

Layers were first introduced in Photoshop 3.0. This unique addition revolutionized Photoshop. For the first time, you could do complex compositions easily, that a professional would be proud. A layer in Photoshop is just one image on top of each other. I imagine a piece of paper that is blue. Then take a piece of clear plastic and painting a ship on it and put it on paper. Now, take a second clear plastic and paint a few words about her, was now on top of the ship. You now have a background (blue) and two layers (the ship and the words).

Photoshop layers pallet you can do this with images.If you have more than one, usually called composition.Photoshop 's a very powerful application platform, that can do many things to the pictures.

Here is a list of commands.

Layer effects (styles): added special effects to your image layer. Illustrated by the small f. Each effect will be added to the list, and the effects you can use several at once.

Type Layer: The same as an image layer, unless it has the type that can be edited (you can change the font, size, character, etc.)

Background: It is always locked, can not be moved or added effects. The padlock icon on the right indicates that it is locked.

Thumbnail: a small image content layers.

Show / Hide icon: If the eye is the element that shows that the layer is open and visible. Click the eye and will always be there, but invisible until you click the eye again.

The most common functions of the layers

Blending Mode: Changes the way the layers work with each other.Play with different modes to give you some ideas on what is available.

Layer Opacity: Adjust how each level is transparent. 0 is completely transparent, 100 is completely opaque.

Lock all: If the box is checked the image is protected from editing.

Lock Position: You can make any changes, except to move the image.

Lock image pixels: You can not draw the image if it is activated.

Lock transparent: You can paint on that part, but not when it is transparent.

Delete: Deletes an entire layer.

New Layer: Click Add a new blank page. Or you can drag to create a small overlap.

New Adjustment: allows non-destructive testing of colors. (It may be recalled at any time, even after closing the document)

Create a new set: You can organize layers into folders.

Mask: allows you to scrub away parts of your layers without damaging the original image.

Styles: special effects for the levels. (You can do some pretty cool things with no problems)

Advanced Photoshop Masking Secrets Revealed!

Part of the secret of the popularity of the company is updating with the latest trends. This always gives a professional edge to the team. The last to hit the market in the manuscript CS5. It converts the standard for CS5 Smart Object layer. Camera Raw tools are used to get the right tool to edit levels. This software can be downloaded for Mac or even iPhone. It comes with a tutorial easy to use. Amateurs should not buy a version of the risk, if you are not familiar with basic masking techniques in Photoshop. But the senior designers, it is worth investing in gold. Another secret of emphasis on a mixture of techniques. Piled in different images that are stacked can be used as the final piece of the composite. CS5 is also creatively without masking masking (useful for a lot of photos), removal of green screen (used for paints), and clone-based paint. A useful technique is that the trick to escape. You can use the content to fill a mixture of conscious state.

This is a new tool, which can be a trendsetter for some types of images that need a line of flight. If the image is poorly exposed, can be treated with the ACR and the instruments being intelligent. See a virtual change in the quality and structure of the final product. Want to give the grass a little 'greener? And 'non-destructive method. Set blend mode color can do wonders for the image and change the shape of a better color correction. Panoramic image can look fabulous. Lens Correction tool can be used easily. High image quality and stunning appearance looks real. The basic option is also useful additional merge pixels. It helps the entire resolution of the final image.

Today, to beat the competition photographers click images unusual. Thus, these images are purchased on editing table to be unique with advanced masking in Photoshop. These techniques require crazy pictures too. The CS5 is a masking solution to increase the visibility perfect. An addition of a grain is a small change. But it changes the outlook for the object. Advanced solutions such as action shooting star and the opacity support the adaptation of several layers. Advanced digital cameras have their own problems. When the pictures come out, there is an opportunity for the correction of the lens and also noise reduction. ACR can be used to correct multiple images. Pro also has the advantage of understanding the image optimization, toning with HDR tools, databases and advanced masking, motion blur, content aware designs. Last minute changes as the spot healing, removal of son, the rotation of conscious contents, packaging and flat puppet animation images can be useful.

Business skills always help publishing companies offshore to provide the highest quality work for their clients. They are able to do the work skillfully at a lower cost too. Traditional tools are now trading at more advanced devices. It can be seen from the nature of the images that appear now online. Being in the business reputation of companies need to take stock and move forward with such tools. After all one day these mysteries will one day open air and not a surprise it is today.

Photoshop - Selections Among File Sharing

As you become familiar with the options, create and store chains to share this with different files is a great to add to your toolbox. We talked about the choice to provide methods to add to your image and become an integral part of the design process. When you can share and mix the choice between different folders, it will broaden your horizons.

We have seen in previous lessons how easy it is to save a selection as a channel. You do this by selecting the "Select-> Save Selections" option. This opens the Save Selection pop-up menu that offers opportunities to record a new channel that crosses a driveway, to add or subtract an existing channel.

All these options are the channel into the existing document. If you have another open document, the document is presented with the option of a menu that allows you to store your selection in another document. This document must have the same width in pixels of exact height, but is very easy to adjust if it is not.

As always the best way to see how this works, try it! Pick a few documents with different foreground and background. You can choose an image with a house or a friend, something that can easily stand out.

Be sure that these two documents are the same size in pixels. If not, just choose Image-> Image Size "and the first option for the pixel dimensions, height and width adjustment. Now go to your source image, the one with the house or the person you want to select. Make this choice with the appropriate selection tool, select Save Selection Select '> Save Selections ", but this time by opening the document pull down and choose our second document. This will store your selection in the second document that you use for this exercise.

When you go to "number two" of the document, you will not see anything immediately, but if you click the channel you will see your selection, the channel that you copied into your new document. Now you can treat it as a choice that you have done here.

With your copy highlighted channel, as you must click on a layer of the mouse at the bottom of the range of channels, click the leftmost "load channel as selection '. You can also get to choose the menu and choose "Select> Load Selection." This will be the selection of strains with the channel pop newly copied as a selection option. There are two ways to do the same, loading your saved selection, station registered as a selection.

When this option is active, you can do whatever you want. Fill out the color of your choice of paint bucket tool, fill your selection model. You are not copying the contents of your choice, but by copying the exact choice of the border so you can stay in a second image.

This opens up ideas for the shadow, the mirror symmetry and the many creative opportunities when you can copy the exact shape and contour from one image to another.

Photoshop - Selections and Masks

We examined a selection of channels and how these features of Photoshop to add so much creative potential. Mixing of these tools to masks to open a second in the world all its own. Masks, you can combine objects and move objects. Your friend may be permanent in the Himalayas, the product can sit on the presidential desk.

Masks do just that. The "mask" a portion of your image is simple enough, but with layers of Photoshop, it is very easy to make other things in your image. Of course, as you mix them in an intelligent way, you can create your own scenarios, and the ability to create much of the magic of the mask.

We would like to implement simple exercises that focus on the basics of how to use a new tool. Once you're familiar with how it works, you can move on to more complex applications and creative. To apply a mask, a playground is very similar to our models of selection. We'll select an image in a particular context, then the mask, 'Hide' in the background, then another layer appears. You can use two images, one as your foreground object, then copy each other in the first as a layer. This mask works by exposing the images from another hidden layers so that you can think of these two images, these two layers, as your two scenarios.

For example, you can have a picture with the candle on the table, but the second photo is an outdoor scene. When we apply the mask to the selected item is different in the background so you could have your pet on the patio, then apply the mask, which put him on top of a mountain.

Once you select the two images to work, make sure your have placed in the same image, in the same file, but in two different layers. If you are unsure about this, just copy your complete 'second' image, return to his first, create a second layer, selecting the icon of the extreme right in the bottom panel layers, along away, and then copy the second image in the new layer. You want to be in the context of the slide beneath the first layer and the first layer is the only visible. Only when a mask is applied to the second part of your image to show through.

Now create a selection of objects that appear in both images. I will use a candle to the rest of this exercise, I will turn my sail. I will make a selection of my sailing, but now I will add a layer mask of the selection, select the third icon from the left in the bottom of the Layers palette. This option is like an empty circle placed inside a square. Clicking on this option, a layer mask is created for you with its selection as part of the definition of the layer mask.

When you create a mask, you'll see the rest of the images will be lost. In my case, only the candle remains, but I see that I copied the image on the second layer. This is pretty close to instant gratification! You can apply the mask, and as soon as you are now in a different background!

With what we have learned about choices and channels, there must be a new channel at work here ... and there is. If you go to the tab of your system, you will see the creation of layer mask created a new channel. This understanding of how the information is kept and stored, is useful because you get more creative with your designs and return to the previous ones.

Knowing this newly created "mask" is actually a channel means that you can do all the things we've learned so far: You can load the channel as a selection of reuse, you can record the channel with a new name and can save the channel to a different file.

Photoshop For Graphic Design Students

Competition for jobs is difficult for new graduates in graphic design. The candidates qualified manpower for coveted jobs, and it is worth noting the crowd. Students studying graphic design improve your chances of career success if you are familiar with the standard software used in areas related to yours. Effective control of Photoshop can help ensure success in any field of design related.

Photo manipulation is not only a part of all basic skills, graphic designers develop. Normally, designers use tools that are best suited for layout and presentation. Yet it is rare for a graphic designer for a project without having to edit a photo, so it can be better integrated into their design.

Whether the design of logos, layout, advertising campaigns or packaging, the talented designers to use Photoshop's ability to ensure a polished final result.

Employers often require that their employees are familiar with Photoshop. This familiarity will help keep large projects on time and on budget. Small design firms can do everything you want to photograph their manipulation, and they are not allowed to hire someone specifically to do work in Photoshop. In this case, designers are required to wear many hats. Students who think that you would like to work as a freelancer is the most flexible of all.

Many schools recognize the importance of teaching students how to use Photoshop, and offering courses on the subject. Often, at least one course that has the photo manipulation is needed to become a graduate. If there are no required courses, is a good idea for students to seek out classes or make use of online resources.

Photoshop is a bit expensive software for students. References and training can increase the cost. However, in the future, designers have learned their way around Photoshop more than recover the initial investment. Even a little knowledge of Photoshop can lead to jobs and opportunities. It's hard to know what will trigger a successful career, but all the work is an opportunity to impress potential employers or clients.

The best way to manage a piece of software is to use it so it would be a good idea for students going to buy your copy of Photoshop to give it a try. Students should also be aware that through the network, which offers huge discounts on software such as Photoshop Extended Edition, students and teachers. Students who are particularly interested in finding out how they need to become familiar with Photoshop can do a little research to find out what skills are currently in demand. They can be useful to browse the job ads similar to those that are looking for when they have finished their studies. One way to obtain information on the current market is to look for established designers to interview questions about specific skills they use to do their job. This information can help students focus on what is necessary for success, when they are training.

Photoshop How To For Graphic Design Students

Competition for jobs is difficult for new graduates in graphic design. The candidates qualified manpower for coveted jobs, and it is worth noting the crowd. Students studying graphic design improve your chances of career success if you are familiar with the standard software used in areas related to yours. Effective control of Photoshop can help ensure success in any field of design related.

Photo manipulation is not only a part of all basic skills, graphic designers develop. Normally, designers use tools that are best suited for layout and presentation. Yet it is rare for a graphic designer for a project without having to edit a photo, so it can be better integrated into their design.

Whether the design of logos, layout, advertising campaigns or packaging, the talented designers to use Photoshop's ability to ensure a polished final result.

Employers often require that their employees are familiar with Photoshop. This familiarity will help keep large projects on time and on budget. Small design firms can do everything you want to photograph their manipulation, and they are not allowed to hire someone specifically to do work in Photoshop. In this case, designers are required to wear many hats. Students who think that you would like to work as a freelancer is the most flexible of all.

Many schools recognize the importance of teaching students how to use Photoshop, and offering courses on the subject. Often, at least one course that has the photo manipulation is needed to become a graduate. If there are no required courses, is a good idea for students to seek out classes or make use of online resources.

Photoshop is a bit expensive software for students. References and training can increase the cost. However, in the future, designers have learned their way around Photoshop more than recover the initial investment. Even a little knowledge of Photoshop can lead to jobs and opportunities. It's hard to know what will trigger a successful career, but all the work is an opportunity to impress potential employers or clients.

The best way to manage a piece of software is to use it so it would be a good idea for students going to buy your copy of Photoshop to give it a try. Students should also be aware that through the network, which offers huge discounts on software such as Photoshop Extended Edition, students and teachers. Students who are particularly interested in finding out how they need to become familiar with Photoshop can do a little research to find out what skills are currently in demand. They can be useful to browse the job ads similar to those that are looking for when they have finished their studies. One way to obtain information on the current market is to look for established designers to interview questions about specific skills they use to do their job. This information can help students focus on what is necessary for success, when they are training.

Moving Selections For Photoshop

Generally, when we begin to make choices, we want to change our existing image, to "clean up" a little or give a different context. A new world of possibilities opens up when we start to use the right choices, even for new materials and creative ways to develop our image source.

The first step, and the lesson begins to understand that once you make a selection, you can fix it and "dressed" in the other layer. It's much more. You can duplicate an image. You can duplicate an image, but showing a little color contrast ago. You can even create patterns in other layers from the original image and the selection you choose.

What if you have two files that you want to connect having part of the background image is visible through the "top"? I am a beautiful rainbow and a full moon shining. I want the moon in the background shows through the merger of the top image with it. It 'easy to create options and move them, transfer the contents inside the box. The most important reminder to pay attention to what has been selected level, and also a small icon in the state of your choice is

In my case, I'm going to create a selection that allows the moon to shine through. You can be sure to choose the right area, I first turn off the visibility of the surface layer of my rainbow. Now I'm going to create a selection of my moonbeam. When you make this selection, I see the selection of an icon appears to indicate some point selection mode. In this mode, I can move the selection to the limit of development, which will be selected. However, this option is enabled, if I decide to move the instrument back to the toolbar and go over my selection, I see a pair of scissors instead of a little show I'm going to move the content selection is not the border.

This is a good exercise, because the little details like this and posts, in this case, Photoshop offers a selection mode, make a difference in speed compared to a simple change to wonder why it does not work at all. You can move the selection limit of the arrows of the keyboard, too.

When you feel that you have the part you want to show through, turn your top layer again and choose the top layer of the mouse. Now select the move tool and move the contents from afar! You have created a small window where the background image behind the show through their photographs mixed together.

You can have fun with this exercise. You can even import into After Effects and animate this opening the eye. Remember that "clear" indicates your choice "Ctrl D" from the keyboard and the "back" what you have done, type "Alt + Ctrl + Z" and choose the editing options of Directors change the order in the toolbar superior.

In my experience, rarely create the exact image I want to try first, but keep these simple "visual reminder of" the sense that, certainly the level of dialogue and active backup and tuning to make it fun and easy to use.

The Debate Continues For Gimp Vs Photoshop

Both are image manipulation software that are widely used around the world by amateurs and professionals. Gimp and Photoshop are two types of software used in the process of improving or editing images, whether to change the image or distort, add items to it, and even save the image in other accessible formats. There is no clear difference between GIMP and Photoshop, because both are more or less the same in most ways. You can not say which one is more user friendly, as both seem to have the same characteristics, except that Photoshop is a software most common and are better known. In addition, Photoshop CS4 comes with standard and extended, where the basic version, all previous CS3 features, while the extended version has some advanced features like 3D rendering, which is perfect for those who use AutoCAD , Maya or Rhino software before.

In other words, Adobe Photoshop CS4 extended version is a suite of software ranging from image manipulation software, animation software [Flash] and 3D rendering software (CAD). Of course, the extended version will be more expensive to buy, but those who bought the basic version can update their software to the extended version for a reasonable price. Today, Adobe Photoshop CS3 is about $ 599 each, while the costs of CS4 is $ 699 and its expanded version sells for $ 999 each.

GIMP On the other hand, has been recently introduced. Well, not really new since it first made its debut in 1996, but most of the people, GIMP is almost unknown. What is a good Photoshop, GIMP, as well as everything? As for Linux, GIMP, is free and still need to improve day after day. Yes, GIMP is open source and free software can be downloaded for free from its website. Although initially the GIMP is built on the Linux operating system, but now it is a version or a patch that makes it useful for Windows and Macintosh [Apple] operating systems. Yet, because Photoshop is widely used and created its own format like.psd,. Pdf and so on, many organizations rely heavily on these formats and want to save projects in these forms, so Photoshop is the choice not to. GIMP can not save projects in these formats, because they are already patented by Adobe and can not be used for other programs. Not to worry, but GIMP can not save the format, the GIMP can not open or read files, but save it in other forms.

Photoshop is years and years of history sit thus increasing the integrity and credibility. Just look at the published versions of the previous version of CS4 when one until the new GMP when the stable version is 2.6.8. If the choice is made, the majority opts for Photoshop, but do not let the GIMP, try before you buy expensive. GIMP is free and does not hurt to try a dime, and the pilot. As noted above, even Photoshop can be saved as part of the PSD and PDF Though not as gimp, GIMP, you can still save projects as widely adopted in other formats gif, jpg or gif or png. What is the look, the GIMP and Photoshop seems almost the same thing. Features that the basic version of Photoshop is also available as an anti-GIMP, layers, brushes, image distortion, brightness, etc.

Those who hunt for quality should be aimed at the Photoshop, GIMP as a reduced bit depth of up to 8-bits is basically an unlikely choice for professional use. Photoshop is the first to the 64-bit, while others are still 32-bit version, which not only the first choice for professional use, but also that it is compatible with the new generation of computers. However, it is important to note that if adjustments are made in layers, limiting eight bit less obvious, because it leads to corrections that are stacked almost as good as Photoshop.

Gimp seems to disadvantage when compared with Photoshop, trivial things like the layout of the menu of most serious problems, like missing the fact that the function of color management and does not provide levels of control. If you want to improve the GIMP, the availability of extensions such as extensions, add-ons and plug-in allows you to add new functions, which are necessary for their specific needs. This makes it useful to the user of the GIMP, because they can use it, or reconfigured to suit different types of settings, making it easier. GIMP seems to grow a favorite, but an avid amateur photographers who want to use the software to improve their work while maintaining simplicity. GIMP manual allows the user to get the help they need with ease.

What does it mean that personal preferences will ultimately simple, skills and budget is the main problem in coming to choose the software.

Performing An Upgrade To Photoshop To Enjoy More Features

The latest version of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop CS5 is full of fascinating and innovative features of interest not only for experts but also a number of people who use it. The benefits of Photoshop CS5 can be summarized as follows: Photoshop CS5 leads to important needs of industry, increases the overall flexibility of the user interface easier to use, uses the video card GPU and therefore there is an improvement in overall performance and facilitates Photoshop CS5 unlimited memory and 64-bit Microsoft Windows and Mac 64-bit PCs.

The disadvantages associated with Photoshop CS5 tend to be, it has a high learning curve, removing some features and add-ons heritage, expensive, customers must choose either to abandon old skills or pay much more for a edit additional demands on the computer hardware graphics card GPU is higher and Open GL functions.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 follow the criteria. Using the browser, Adobe Bridge, you may have a query, find, organize and manage files. Use tools for drawing, painting, with notes, images, and making the kind of work. Photoshop CS5 can also be a matter of routine responsibilities of the queue, edit images. The tools can be used in website design, video production, graphic design and photography. Photoshop CS5 software also offers a variant long, which provides tools for TV and film, science, medicine, architecture, engineering and production areas.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 is simply the best and offers the best solution for flexibility and the potential of the graphics. By using this software jobs can be done easily. He offers creative really are very modern and attractive to end users. Tools like string puppets, sensitive to filler content may be time for the conservation and use of Photoshop CS5 board by posting competition.

Photoshop CS5 is also a new feature of the painting that allows photographers to exhibit their works in a unique way. This software was created by integrating ratchet convenient mini-bridge. In addition, Adobe Photoshop CS5 includes notable features of the new brand.

Individuals are also Adobe has given users and tirelessly for many users wanted improvements. Capacity Photoshop CS5 support 64-bit, Microsoft Windows and Mac and allows you to experience the infinite RAM if the hardware supports it.

The Photoshop CS5 has numerous advantages over the early years of the variations. This explains the high cost that comes with it. Adobe Photoshop CS5 is very important update for all users regardless of the cost factor. Using Photoshop CS5, which will undoubtedly contribute to price.

Monday, August 22, 2011

New and Powerful Photoshop CS5 Features

Photoshop CS5 Content-Aware Check this new feature in the Content-Aware Fill helps to eliminate unwanted areas of a given image, it is able to do so by filling the space left by using the pixels that surround it. It will even match the tone light and noise. This is a welcome feature for beginners or novices and do not require extensive knowledge of Photoshop or graphic design. All you have to do is hit Shift and Delete with finished.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 PatchMatch patches to match a randomized algorithm for matching structural imaging. It offers tools for image reconstruction and image and the image is complete reallocation of each operation is controlled through a user specified constraints. It also includes tools for interactive image broke up. It has a fast algorithm to find a patch for the equivalence of two arbitrary regions of the image. It can be used in a wide range of patches for new and existing programs on the basis of image processing enables new workflows for structural imaging. It can be useful for many other applications in the media and the synthesis of the analysis.

The selection and composition of hair in Photoshop CS5 CS5 Adobe Photoshop has a new option called edge detection, which finally allows you to quickly make selections of images with hard edges and soft. He obtained an advantage over previously used tools as a tool for quick selection, which tends to go wrong around the soft edges.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 All New Painting Tools: They includes bristle tips, which are a series of new tips, you now have the option to use. You have a dynamic point, which becomes the basis of how it is affected and touched the canvas. Each brush has a wide range of expressive characters, there was no Photoshop in the past. There are a number of controls and tips, which is available here.

Mixer brush: This feature allows you to merge and mix the colors together, just like the colors wet. It gives an amazing simulation of multimedia tools for natural

Sample all layers: It 'features in the property bar of the mixer brush. It helps to make the image look more like paintings.

Online Photo Backup Help For Adobe Elements

It could be the classic manual processing of digital photos now, you still have the software to make effective changes in the type of images you want? It 'really something to improve the overall color or to correct minor deficiencies, but Adobe wants to go further. Listed here, five additional features associated with warm Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Photo Backup scheduled

What exactly you can do with 20 GB (or more) of online storage with Photoshop.com? Adobe Elements introduced a new feature Welcome New: automatic online backup of your images.

Every time you build a new album (or modify), you have the opportunity to make a backup / synchronization check box. Almost all the photographs, the album will be copied to your Photoshop.com account in the background. (Apparently, you'll want a good broadband connection to use this function.) When you change the photo in Photoshop Elements, a modified version of reality is synchronized with Photoshop.com. Exactly the same applies the other way, too: to make online changes are synchronized with its collection of items.

The interface is user friendly, and you can see the photos that have been copied or are not even back up. When concerned about the performance of the network, you can right-click Back-up/Synchronization Agent Task Bar, where the backups only work when the connection is dry, or you can stop them altogether.

This feature is currently only works with an album-by-album basis. If you want to support everything in the library can produce a new album, and also add all the images, unfortunately, smart albums can not be sustained, it would be the best, not just the new images of the backups.

But the fact that Adobe Elements is to provide a good way to back up your important pictures is a good element, and it will help you all at once. Everyone knows they should backup their own data, but often the point not to hit home until a hard drive can fail or the computer is stolen and all your photo memories are permanently deleted.

Online Courses For Photographers, Graphic Designers And Illustrators

Photography is more than just capturing an image. Professional photographers need to learn to use the camera tools and other photography as well as their own creative vision to produce images that communicate the desired message or feeling.

The graphic designer takes verbal ideas from the client and create images of different types of media, written materials and advertisements to capture the information and the feeling that the production tries to show. Illustrators create illustrations that represent an idea or story through images in two dimensions and three dimensions using different mediums, from pencil and paint, to digital systems.

Illustrators may do drawings for printed materials, publications, or other commercial products such as textiles, greeting cards, calendars, etc., so get an education or training in photography, graphics and illustration can help you develop your creative abilities and to succeed in this highly competitive and creative.

Most professionals use a range of very complex computer programs in their daily work. Adobe Photoshop is an extremely valuable tool for the trade at that time. This software features the best up and online tutorials to help them learn easily.

There are many good places to start learning the basics of Adobe Photoshop, and there when it comes to curriculum programs that will help you truly understand the basics of Adobe Photoshop. These lessons will help you become a professional artist and make your mark on the hi-tech era. These lessons can be viewed for free at no cost, so there is no loss, but only to gain.

Adobe Photoshop for Photographers: Photoshop lets you do many things, including adding or removing items from your photos. You can add a sunny blue sky on a cloudy day with Adobe Photoshop. Imperfections can all be easily removed. Scars, wrinkles and even touching the buttons can be far from the model covers all look perfect. You can even make people who are overweight look like the sexiest people on earth. Using your computer, you can use any regular camera and make a picture in the middle of a masterpiece with a few mouse clicks.

Adobe Photoshop for graphics: Aside from just edit digital photos, Photoshop can be used to create logos, design of affiliated Web sites, e-book covers, CD covers, turn photos into paintings and more. Photoshopguides will teach how to design logos and other graphics in Adobe. With practice, you can make the vision of your wildest imagination come true.

Adobe Photoshop for illustrators: As an illustrator, you can use Adobe Photoshop in magazines, newspapers, books and editing software, manufacturing, or work with different types of electronic media. You can also take advantage of Adobe Photoshop in film and video and computer game design as well.

Finally, we can say Mastering Photoshop is one of the first steps you can take to become a professional designer.

Adobe Photoshop Basics - The First Steps To Start Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop has become one of the best tools available to the days when it comes to photo editing and web design. While there may be a lot of tools involved in software, is also one of those who give the best performance when it comes to design.

To help you start learning this powerful software, you must start with the basics of Adobe Photoshop to learn and master the tools and avoid the frustration in your work, yes, a little patience to learn the tools and support based To keep your enthusiasm and interest in learning and use in your projects. Here are some basic tools that you can do to start using Adobe Photoshop.

Understanding the interface

Of course, before you start, you must understand the work area where work in Photoshop. In the workspace Adobe Photoshop, you will see your tool box is located on the left side of your workspace. Contains the tools used for editing and design, but you can still find a lot of tools in the menu bar and the options bar, located just below the menu bar, you already know.

These tools can be represented by icons pencils, small arrows, and many other drops that will help you take note of their duties.

On the right side of the workspace, you can find other options of colors and provide important information about the document that you have a workspace, such as its colors, as well as changes to the image or document.

Understanding the tools

If this is your first time with the program, you can be overwhelmed by the many icons in the toolbox, and you can be overwhelmed by what to use when. For beginners, it is important to understand the basics. You can group these tools by function to make them easier to remember.

Adobe Photoshop tools include tools that let you select, like Marquee, Lasso and Magic Wand. You can find them at the top of the toolbox, which is represented by a dotted rectangle, a polygon of irregular shape and a magic wand, respectively, and are used depending on the size or shape of the object or image that you select in your document.

You can find the brush, which is one of the basic tools you use, the eraser, blur, or sharpen the tool and, in particular, the clone stamp. Clone Stamp was one of the many important tools Photo Shop, you'll find that surprising, especially because copy the picture in picture, and a useful, if you want to create more trees or to remove someone in the background.

You can also make use of drawing tools and tools that allow you to copy the existing colors in your image. Mastery of these two are the foundation for Adobe Photoshop, so before getting too excited to learn about your project, these tools are going to learn and master their function.