Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P6

Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P6: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find thetools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. Fromthe toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools,Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printeror graphic artist needs.
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Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P6126 Part II / Creating Artwork and Logos] Tip: Depending on what you’re copying, the system could seem to hang for a minute, especially if you are running low on RAM or copying a large amount of data. Be patient! Edit>Paste and Edit>Paste Into Pasting is done after a selection has been cut or copied to the clipboard. Pasting is putting what’s in memory and stored on the clipboard into the active file. The Paste command pastes the selection into another part of the image or into a new image as a new layer. The Paste Into command pastes a selection into another part of the image or into a new image as a new layer, and the destination’s selection border is converted into a layer mask. You can then decide if you want to apply the mask or discard it. Understand that when a selection is cut or copied from a file of a spe- cific resolution and then pasted into a file or image that is of another resolution, the pasted selection will look a little out of scale. If you are cutting, copying, and pasting under these circumstances, make sure you resize the image first so that the pasted image will fit appropriately into the new one. After completing the paste action, choose Edit>Purge>Clipboard to remove the selection from the clipboard, especially if the data or image pasted is quite large. Keeping an unnecessary amount of data stored on the clipboard when it isn’t needed can slow down the computer and cause your next cut or copy to be placed on the virtual RAM portion of the hard drive. Retrieving information from the hard drive instead of RAM takes quite a bit longer and can cause unnecessary slowdowns.] Tip: Dragging a selection to a new file or image or another area of the same image can be done instead of using the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands. Dragging saves system resources since the clipboard isn’t used in the move. Chapter 7 / Getting Creative 127 Edit>Clear The Clear command enables you to delete a selection without placing that selection on the clipboard. It’s similar to the Cut command. Make sure that if there are multiple layers in an image, you’ve selected the layer you want to work with from the Layers palette. Edit>Check Spelling The Check Spelling command checks the spelling in a document. You’ll only be able to check spelling for words that you input using the type tools; you won’t be able to check the spelling on a file that has been flat- tened or saved as a JPEG or GIF or anything similar. Use this command after you’ve added text and are still working on the type layer itself.Experimenting with Brushes You’ll use brushes a lot with Photoshop. Brushes can be configured when using many of the tools, including the standard Brush, Healing Brush, Art History Brush, Pencil, History Brush, Eraser, Dodge, Smudge, Sharpen, Blur, Clone Stamp, Patch, and more. You’ve already been intro- duced to the Brushes palette, appending or replacing brush libraries, and viewing the brushes, but you have yet to really apply those techniques using a brush. In the following sections, we get our hands dirty and do some painting! The Brush Tool The Brush tool is used for painting with the foreground color onto a layer or selection. You can use the Brush tool to brush over parts of an image that need tweaking, add an airbrush quality to an image, or paint any area with color.128 Part II / Creating Artwork and Logos Some uses for the brushes include: n To paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern to cover up flaws in photographs or artwork n To change a regular photograph into another style of art by brushing with stylized strokes such as watercolor, sponge, oil, pastel, chalk, and others n To airbrush or spatter paint onto an image for use as graffiti, to soften the edges of an image, to create artwork for motorcycle gas tanks, trucks, or similar work, or to create caricatures n To write using a calligraphic brush for artwork that will be printed for invitations or other special events n To add noise to an image for the purpose of covering up flaws in the image itself or to make the image easier to print n To accent edges, add texture, or distort an area of an image n To erase any part of an image using any eraser tool n To smudge or focus in on an area of an image n To clone an area of an image Thus, using brushes is necessary when performing many common tasks. In the following example, you can experiment with applying some of the brushes while using various tools. While working, think about how you could incorporate this into your own fields. Project 7-2: Using the Brush Tool Perform this exercise to become familiar with using brushes: 1. Open a new document with a white background, RGB Color, and the default preset size. 2. Click on the foreground color, and choose a bright color that will show well against the white background. 3. Select the Brush tool from the toolbox. 4. From the options bar, click on the down arrow next to Brush to open the pop-up palette and show the brush presets. From the additional options, choose Reset Brushes, as shown in Figure 7-6. Click OK when prompted. Chapter 7 / Getting Creative 129 Figure 7-6: Working with brushes ...