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Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Project 7:
House PaintingPreparing the workspaceFilling solid areasPainting with brushesWorking with patternsPainting nature
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Bitmap Images
Line drawing; only black or white
Typically 1200 or 2400 ppi
First convert to grayscale (1:1 ratio)then
Reduce resolution (resample)then
Convert to RGB
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Color Swatches
Access in the Swatches panel
Create new swatches (active foreground color)
Load built-in swatch libraries
Import ASE libraries from other Adobe applications
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Filling Selections
Edit>Fill to fill selection marqueeor entire active layer
Click with Paint Bucket tool – Fill areas within defined
color tolerance
– Contiguous limits the fill to areas that touch the spot where you click
– All Layers bases selection on all visible layers– Use selection marquee to limit the fill area
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Fill Dialog Box
Fill selected area or active layer
Choose specific color or pattern
Define fill blending mode
Define fill opacity
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Painting with Brushes
Brush options:– Size
– Hardness
– Blending mode
– Opacity
– Flow
– Airbrush mode
– Pressure sensitivity
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Painting Tips
Cursor preferences
Layers
Blending mode, opacity
Selection areas
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Painting Tips (cont’d)
Paint Behind mode
Paint Clear mode
Cloning– Selection area– Entire layer
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Creating Strokes
Edit>Stroke– Requires active selection marquee
– Define stroke width, color, location, blending mode, opacity
– Location is relative to marquee
Stroke Path– Requires existing vector path
– Uses existing tool settings (Pencil, etc.)
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Paths panel
Pen tool in Paths mode
Draw a work path
Paths panel Options menu:– Save Path
– Make Selection– Fill Path– Stroke Path
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Patterns
Create a pattern in a separate file
Edit>Define Pattern
Repeated pattern is based on size of original pattern file
Save custom pattern libraries using the Preset Manager
Pattern Stamp tool
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Eraser tools
Eraser tool– Removes pixels
from active layer– Brush size or
standard-size block
Magic Eraser tool– Erases pixels within defined tolerance
Background Eraser tool– Erases pixels while trying to maintain
edges
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
Brush Settings
Access brush libraries in the Brush Preset picker
Access specific brush settings in the Brush panel
“Jitter” allows individual parameters to vary across the brush stroke
Save current brush settings as a preset
Save custom brush libraries in the Preset Manager
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
PDF for Print
Use built-in PDF Presets or define custom settings
Standards – PDF/X
Compatibility – PDF 1.3 flattens
transparency
Adobe Photoshop CC: The Professional Portfolio
PDF for Print (cont’d)
Compression
Downsampling
JPEG = lossy
ZIP = lossless
Higher quality, lower compression