Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P8

Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P8: 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- P8186 Part II / Creating Artwork and LogosWorking with Numbers To create numbers in Photoshop, just use the keyboard to type them in as you would any text. Then, highlight the numbers and choose different fonts to find the one that you want. Figure 9-15 shows some examples. Adding numbers is done exactly the same way as adding text. Figure 9-15: Adding numbers is just like adding text Printing Numbers There are several ways to work with numbers, and if you print a lot of them you might want to invest in a numbering press. These presses have screens on them that are permanently set up, so it’s easy to screen print numbers when necessary. The drawback of these presses is that a client might want a specific style or font. (Take a look at the numbers on the football jerseys of professional teams; each team has a different “style” of number.) I don’t screen print numbers because I don’t get a huge call for that, but if you do, creating screens and saving them for those jobs is best. When I get a job requiring numbers, I use the heat transfer machine. Chapter 9 / Working with Text and Numbers 187Summary In this chapter you learned practically everything there is to know about adding text in Photoshop. Adding text is probably the thing you’ll do most often, as it is necessary to denote a team name, company name, product, or business. In Photoshop, you can choose from several type tools, including vertical and horizontal options. Type masks can be used to cre- ate type from an underlying image or to remove pixels from the image in the form of type. The options bar offers several ways to configure the text, and text can be molded to fit different shapes, even a circle. Filters and warp options can be used to further manipulate text and together offer an unlimited number of options.This page intentionally left blank.Chapter 10 Erasing There are three eraser tools in the toolbox: the Eraser tool, the Back- ground Eraser tool, and the Magic Eraser tool. Each tool does something different, although all do some sort of erasing, of course! You can access them from the toolbox or by pressing E on the keyboard or Shift+E to toggle through all three. Two other items, the Auto Erase option and the History Brush tool, can also be used to erase and will be discussed in this chapter. Before we get too deep into erasing, let’s make sure you understand a couple of things. First, the eraser tools either erase to “transparency” or to the background color or, in the case of the Magic Eraser, erase pix- els of similar color. Erasing to transparency means that they erase completely, all the way to nothing. When you erase to transparency, you erase all the way to the checkered background, which means there’s nothing on the page where you’ve erased. This is great for screen print- ers, because we can erase parts of an image we don’t want on the screen. When erasing to the background color, the eraser works to erase to what- ever the background color is in an image. The eraser tools aren’t just for correcting mistakes or erasing parts of an image you don’t want, though; you can also use the eraser tools to apply effects and correct flaws in an image or design. For instance, you can use the Magic Eraser tool to erase pixels of similar color on a layer and erase to a background image layer such as a photo. In this chapter, you’ll learn all of these tips and tricks! 189190 Part II / Creating Artwork and LogosThe Eraser Tool The Eraser tool is the most basic of erasers. To use this tool you simply click and drag, kind of like using a pencil eraser. If you are working on a normal layer and there’s nothing underneath where you are erasing, it erases to transparency. If you are working on the background layer or on a layer with locked transparency, it’ll erase to the background color. If you are working on a file with multiple layers, the Eraser tool erases items on the selected layer and will not erase anything from the area underneath on other layers. In the following project, you’ll do each of these kinds of erasing. Project 10-1: Using the Eraser Tool to Create a Sign or Logo In this project, you’ll learn how to use the Eraser tool, and also learn what happens when you use the tool on a file that has one layer as well as one with multiple layers. We’ll start with a single photo of a plate with a fish design painted on it. This picture came from a client who had painted the plate and wanted it in a new logo for a sign she wanted printed for her storefront. We use the Eraser tool to erase to transparency, and then we move the fish to another file, which creates a new file with two lay- ers. We clean up the image by using the Eraser tool again. By the time you work through this project, you’ll be an expert on the Eraser tool! 1. Open the file Plate.jpg from the Chapter 10 folder on the companion CD. 2. Open the Layers palette from Window>Layers. Notice in the Lay- ers palette that the layer is locked and is named Background. 3. Choose the Eraser tool from the toolbox. 4. From the foreground and background color area of the toolbox, click the black and white squares to change the colors to their default col- ors of black and white. Remember, when erasing on a background layer or a locked layer, the Eraser tool will erase to the background color. Chapter 10 / Erasing 1915. From the options ...