Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers- P5

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers- P5: In 1996, a group of self-proclaimed ‘digital’ photographers met together at IanMcKinnell’s studio in Holborn, London, to discuss the formation of a DigitalImaging Group. At first, this was a small gathering of professional photographers.The one thing we all had in common was a shared interest in using computers andtheir potential as a photographic medium of the future.
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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers- P5 Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers This is a book about Photoshop and photography. A rich variety of text effects can be achieved in Photoshop and designers who work in print and multimedia often mainly use the program for this purpose. Since there are plenty of other Photoshop books devoted mainly to the needs of graphic designers, I am going to concentrate on the needs of image makers. But you will find more information on using the type tools contained in Chapter Fifteen. Shape tools Photoshop can let you create shapes that can be in the form of a filled layer with a vector mask (formerly referred to as a layer clipping path), a solid fill, or a path outline. You can define polygon shapes and also import custom shapes from EPS graphics, such as a regularly used company logo, and store these as Shape presets using the Preset Manager. The shape tools are a recently added crossover feature from ImageReady. Single pixel or wider lines can be drawn with the line shape tool. To constrain the drawing angle by 45 degree increments, hold down the Shift key (this applies to all the painting tools as well). Arrowheads can be added to the line either at the start or finish of the line. Click the Shape... button in line tool Options to customize the appearance of the arrowhead proportions. Annotation tools You can add text or sound notes to a file in Photoshop. Documents that are annotated in this way can be saved in the Photoshop, PDF or TIFF formats. To annotate an open document, select the text note tool and click inside the image window. A note icon is placed together with an open text window. Enter text inside the window – for example, this can be a short description of the retouching which needs to be carried 180Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The work space out on this part of the picture. After completing the text entry, close the text window. The text note will remain as a small icon floating above the actual image. Although viewable in Photoshop, these notes will not be visible when you actually come to print the image. If you save a copy of an image as a PDF and send this to a client, they will be able to open it in Acrobat, add notes in Acrobat and export a Notes file for you to import back into the original Photoshop image. To delete a note or delete all notes, Control/right mouse-click on a note icon. The contextual menu will offer you the choice of deleting that note or all notes in the current document. If you want to append a sound note to a file, check in your System Control Panels that the computer’s built-in microphone is selected as the incoming sound source. When you click in the window with the sound note tool a small sound recording dialog appears. Press the record button and record your spoken instructions. When finished, press Stop. The sound message will be stored in the document when saved in the above file formats. Eyedropper/color sampler The eyedropper samples pixel color values from any open image window and makes that the foreground color. The sample area can be set to Point, 3 × 3 Average, 5 × 5 Average. The Point option will sample a single pixel color value only and this may not be truly representative of the color you are trying to sample. You might quite easily be clicking on a ‘noisy’ pixel or some other pixel artifact. A 3 × 3 average, 5 × 5 average sample area will usually provide a better indication of the color value of the pixels in the area you are clicking. If you hold down the Option/Alt key, the sample becomes the background color (but when working with any of the following tools – brush, pencil, type, line, gradient or bucket – holding down the Option/Alt key will create a new foreground color). The sampler tool provides persistent pixel value readouts in the Info palette from up to four points in the image. The sample point readouts will remain visible all the time in the Info palette. The sample points themselves are only visible whenever the color sampler tool is selected. The great value of the color sampler tool is having the ability to monitor pixel color values at fixed points in an image. To see what I mean, take a look at the tutorial in Chapter Eight, which demonstrates how the combination of plac ...