INTRODUCTION
Adobe photoshop provides a large range of facilities by which image can be retouched and edited so that it can make improvement of pictures by many aspects. Now we will learn about some more features of photoshop such as copying images, transforming object, drawing tools, painting tools and type tools, etc.
COPYING IMAGE IN PHOTOSHOP
Many a times it is required to use the part of some image. Here's are the steps to copy images.
- Open the concerned image to some another location in same image using given steps.
- Select an area using marquee or the Lasso tool.
- Select the Move Tool from the tools panel.
- Press ALT key and drag the selected part with holded key. Selected part will be copied to another location.
You can copy the part of image by using the following steps.
- Open the image from where selected part has to be copied.
- Select a part of image using marquee or lasso Tool.
- Do copy using the EDIT > COPY command.
- Open the destination image file where the selected part has to be copied.
- Do paste using the Edit > Paste command.
An image can be transformed in Photoshop so that it may appear attractive. You can rotate, scale, skew, distort and apply a perspective to the image.
You should follow these steps to transform an object.
- Open an image where transformation has to be done. Select a part of image or whole image.
- Now give the command using Edit > Transformation menu option. Do any of the given points.
- ROTATE - You can rotate an image at the desired angle. for this, you will be needed to select the rotate option. Take the mouse over a corner handle, it will be converted into the shape of a curved two-sided arrow. Now you can rotate your image.
- SCALE - You can scale the image using Transformation > Scale sub menu option. the cursor becomes a double arrow pointer. and now you can scale your image. Press the Shift key as you drag a corner handle, if you want to scale the image proportionally.
- SKEW - You can skew the image using Transformation > Skew sub-menu option. drag a side handle to skew the image.
- DISTORT - You can distort an image using Transformation > distort sub-menu option . Drag a corner handle to stretch the image.
- PERSPECTIVE - You can apply a perspective to an image using Transformation > perspective sub-menu option. Drag a corner handle to apply a perspective to the image.
We are required to make rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line and custom shapes, etc. many times in a file for various purposes. Adobe photoshop have the drawing tools to create such shapes.
SHAPE TOOLS
Photoshop Shape Tool allow you to draw vector shape inside Photoshop. They are so good, you don’t have to switch its counterpart, Adobe Illustrator, to draw vector unless there is specific feature you need. This tutorial for beginner will show you how to use the shape tool from scratch.
- Select the desire shape tool from tools panel.
- Select the appropriate Fill colour, stroke colour, stroke width and stroke type in the context menu.
- Click and drag the mouse to draw the required shape.
Often we are required such shapes that are used in regular ways for various purposes such as trick mark, scissor, copyright symbol and animal paw, etc. these are drawn using Custom shape tool in the form of preset shapes. you should follow given steps to use the custom shape tool.
- Select the custom shape tool from the tools panel.
- click on down arrow of shape on context menu. select the desired shape from appeared pop-up menu.
- click and drag the mouse to draw the selected shape.
Colourful objects are prepared when we fill these from innerside. painting tools are used for this purpose. Available tools in photoshop are Brush tool, pencil tool, color replacement tool, history brush tool, paint bucket tool and gradient tool. let us learn about these tool starting with brush tool.
BRUSH TOOL
Smooth strokes of colour are created by the brush tool. It works like an ordinary brush.
When Brush Tool is selected, context menu display the following option.
Brush Preset Picker; It changes the master diameter of the brush. The master diameter determines the size of the brush.
You can change the size either by dragging the master diameter slider or by selecting a present brush at the bottom of the menu .
MODE; It set the painting mode, such as darken and lighten, when applying the brush strokes.
Opacity; It set the level of transparency when applying brush strokes.
Decreasing the opacity makes your brush more transparent, while increasing the opacity makes it less transparent.
Flow; It allow you to specify how quickly the paint will be applied.
you should given steps to use the Brush Tool.
- Open the image where brush has to be used.
- Select the Brush Tool and you can set the various related options of the brush from context menu such as brush size, mode, opacity and flow.
- Drag the mouse to do paint strokes.
You can select a foreground and background colour using colour picker tool. Upper box shows the currently selected background colour while lower box displays the background colour. You should follow given steps for using the Colour picker tool.
- Click on the upper box or the lower box of the colour picker in the tools panel.
- The colour picker dialog box appears. Select the colour.
- Click on the OK button.
This tool replaces the colour of an object with the foreground colour. You can select the various options and set these to control the behaviour of colour replacement tool from context menu.
Tolerance : It decides that how closely colours should be matched for sampling. when a lower value is specified it determines and selects colour which are much similar to the clicked pixel.
Limits : It sets the criteria whether colour of adjacent pixels containing the sample colour should be replaced or non-adjacent pixels should also be replaced.
GRADIENT TOOL
A gradient uses two colour's mixing for making a blend and fill this in object as a colour. Gradient tool fills gradient in a part of object as selected or complete layer. Gradient types are linear, radical, angle, reflected or the diamond.
You should follow given steps to use Gradient tool.
- Open image file where you have to use the gradient tool for gradient fill.
- Select the area of image where you have to use the gradient fill by using an selection tool.
- Select the gradient tool.
- Click on gradient sample box in the context menu. the gradient editor dialog box will be appeared.
- You can use a readymade gradient by selecting a preset gradient fill or you can create a new gradient fill in the gradient editor dialog box.
- Click on the OK button. now you have created or accessed a gradient fill to use.
- Select the desired gradient type in the context menu.
- Now take mouse over the selected area and place it where you want to set.
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