Photoshop Tips and Tricks
Graphic Design
12th Sep 2009
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Photoshop is a multipurpose software, which is leading the graphical and designing industry as the software incorporates thousands of effects, has range of functions and facilities and can be use to create razor-sharp images and eye-catching graphical illustrations. Further more Photoshop is designed to be very user friendly and beginners will not find the software too hard and complex to master. Professional designer readily make use of Photoshop for proficient designing and illustrations. Photoshop has colossal capabilities and you can use it to create business cards, greeting cards, and posters, screen savers, web pages templates and for an assortment of other designing purposes. To get you acquainted with the use of this tool the following Photoshop tips and tricks are very useful. Not only the following tips and tricks are easy to implement but they will also help you to understand the essential logistics of using Photoshop.
Create a bold, dramatic text effect
Using the following tip you can create simple text effects, which can be deployed on websites and presentations.
·Open a new file in Photoshop (file-> new). Create simple text by using the type tool. Right click on the “T” icon in the layer palette and select the render option. Select the transparency checkbox before applying the gradient. Now double click on the gradient tools option. Make sure that you change the background color to black and the foreground color to gray. Double click on the option palette, which would take you to the option palette. Set the type of gradient to liner and select the gradient to background. Apply the gradient from top to bottom of the text choice while holding down the Shift key. Using the Shift key with the Gradient tool restrict the gradient to an even upright blend. Now you need to duplicate the layer. Select the duplicate layer options and drag this duplicated layer vertically to 3 or 4 pixels using the arrow key on your keypad. Make sure that the transparency text box is selected on. You would get a dramatic text effect and further more you can use this same tip for clip arts as well!
Online Photoshop Tutorials And Tips For Photographers
Graphic Design
6th Sep 2009
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hs help you preserve those precious moments and events literally for a lifetime. Nothing can be more heartwarming than to sit down with your family and friends as you go through different photos that take you back to that memorable event in your lives. Thanks to advancements in technology, we are now able to keep the memories fresh and the photos as bright and as vibrant as they were taken years before. Sadly, this is not the case with the print photographs that we used to get which are developed from negatives. Over time, the quality of the images deteriorates as the colors fade and marks begin to develop on the photographs.
Fortunately, there are now software programs that you can use to edit digital and scanned photographs taken the old-fashioned way to preserve your memories minus any of the flaws. The most popular of these computer software programs remains to be Photoshop which is developed by Adobe. Utilized by professional photographers, Photoshop contains a variety of different tools which they use to bring out those high quality photo images just the way that you like them to bring out the best in your photographs, but best explained in online Photoshop tutorials or with the assistance of Photoshop forums found online.
You do not have to be a professional photographer to be able to use Photoshop to edit your photos whether these were taken through the use of a digital camera or with standard film cameras. Here are some simple but really useful online Photoshop tips to help you edit your photographs to make sure that you get the quality that you are exactly looking for.
Red Eye Reduction – One of the common eyesores in many photographs take is the tendency for everyone to look like aliens due to the red eyes they get. This is extremely common especially when you take pictures at night with the use of a flash, even when you put your digital camera on its red eye reduction setting. Photoshop has a red eye reduction tool that allows you to edit the photographs, allowing the sparkle in your eyes to shine forth. Simply zoom in the image so that you can easily maneuver the red eye reduction tool icon to the center of the eye and click.
Faded Colors Pictures that have been taken through the use of standard film cameras tend to fade after a long period of time. To bring back the colors back into its original vibrancy, use the color balance tool located in the Balance submenu of the Image menu in Photoshop. You can either choose to select the auto balance which would allow the program to calculate the saturation of the colors on the picture or manually adjust the color saturation to your liking.
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