Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P6

Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P6: This book rocks! It is not just a revised version; this is a brand new edition.So much has changed in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 that it is practically a whole new program,and Mikkel Aaland has completed quite an amazing undertaking with PhotoshopElements 3 Solutions.
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Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P6134 BETTER PRODUCT SHOTS ■ Figure 5.26: Just by applying Levels to the background, the image was improved (left). Applying a Gaussian blur made the background less distracting (right). 3. This helped, but to give the picture more depth I applied a Gaussian blur to the background (Filter Blur Gaussian Blur). I set the Radius at 13.5 pixels. 5: CHAPTER 4. The label still needs selective burning and dodging, and the reflections at the top of the bottles are too harsh. I’ll fix the harsh reflections later in the chapter, but as you can see on the right in Figure 5.26, simplifying the background already has significantly improved this shot. Creating New Backgrounds After you have isolated a product from its background, there is no reason why you can’t insert any background you want. Backgrounds can come from another photo- graph or purely from selective Photoshop Elements’ effects and a little imagination. Some of the most effective backgrounds are a combination of a real photograph and a Photoshop Elements filter or effect. In Figure 5.27, you’ll see an example of a background created using a combina- tion of a gradient fill adjustment layer and an effect.Figure 5.27: This background was quickly created using a gradient fill and an effect. Here’s what I did to create the new background:1. Starting with the car that I worked on previously, I selected and removed the previous background titled Color Fill 1 (Layer Delete Layer) and made a new gradient background by clicking the Create Adjustment Layer icon ( ) at the top of the Layers palette and choosing Gradient from the pop-up menu. (You can also select Layer New Fill Layer Gradient from the menu bar.)2. From the various Gradient options, I chose the settings you see on the left in 135 ■ IMPROVING THE BACKGROUND Figure 5.28. To find the Silver gradient, I started by clicking the drop-down arrow adjacent to the word Gradient in the Gradient Fill dialog box. Then, when another palette of options opened, I clicked the arrow pointing to the right. This brought up a drop-down menu with various options. I selected the one called Metals. This loaded several icons into the palette. I chose the one named Silver (the third one from the left—the name appears only when the cur- sor is placed on top of the icon).Figure 5.28: I chose the Silver gradient with the settings you see in the dialog box (left).The Layers palette (right). 3. I clicked and dragged the gradient adjustment layer to the bottom of the Layers palette. 4. Making sure that the Citroen layer was active, I applied Colorful Center from the Styles and Effects palette (choose Effects and then Image Effects from the pop-up menus). You can see on the right in Figure 5.28 that the Colorful Center effect created a duplicate layer and left the Citroen layer intact. The great thing about creating backgrounds this way is that they are totally changeable. I can go back at any time and adjust the gradient adjustment layer or remove an effect ( “All about Layers” in the appendix). My original image remains unchanged. Figure 5.29 illustrates how easy it is to go back and change a background creat- ed this way. I simply selected the first layer in Figure 5.28 called Gradient Fill; then in the Styles and Effects palette I selected Layer Styles from the pop-up menu and Complex from the other pop-up menu. Next I clicked the layer style called Rainbow. The Layers palette for this new image is shown on the right in Figure 5.29.136 BETTER PRODUCT SHOTS ■ 5: CHAPTER Figure 5.29: It’s easy to change or add to a background if it is created with an adjustment layer (left). This is the Layers palette for the image (right).Modifying an Existing BackgroundThe imag ...