Design Gallery-Adobe--part-4

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Adobe-Part--4

Working with the Healing Brush and Patch tool

With the Rubber Stamp tool, you can clone pixels from a sampled area and apply them to an area needing correction. However, it does not take care of the shadows and highlights of the flawed area. The new Healing Brush tool clones by using the texture from the sampled area, and then uses the colours around the brush stroke, as you paint over the flaw. You can sample and heal between two images, but you need to make sure they are in the same colour mode.
The Patch tool is similar to the Healing Brush tool, but, instead of painting with brush strokes, you select the flawed area and then apply the patch to that selection. It can be useful for selecting larger flawed areas.
Note that when working with the Patch tool, you need not make your initial selection with it. Instead, make a selection any tool, and drag it using the Patch tool, to the portion you want to clone.

Creating Gradients from Photos

You can use combinational backgrounds images in your own creations. Open the image and select the Gradient tool. In the Gradient Options bar, click on the gradient sample to bring up the Gradient Editor. Click on the Color Stop button, move the cursor onto the image and click on the first colour that you want in your gradient. Your Color Stop will take on this colour. Add another Color Stop by clicking to the right of the first stop, under the gradient bar.
Sample the next colour, and keep adding stops and sampling colours, until you have the desired gradient effect.
Supply a name in the Name field, and click on the New button to add this to the Gradient picker for easy access.

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Erasing back to your original image

When editing an image, using the File > Revert option will revert to the original image. If you want to revert to an earlier stage, then select the Eraser tool. Keep the [Alt] key pressed, and start erasing the areas you don't want to keep. The Eraser tool erases the image, but when the [Alt] key is used, it acts like a History Eraser.

Changing colour and luminosity effects

Open an RGB image, and make a copy of it. Now press [Ctrl] + [I], to invert your image in the new layer. Go to the Layers palette and change the blend mode from Normal to Difference. Now, make a copy of the original background layer and place it above the inverted layer. Finally, change the layer blend mode from Normal to Luminosity.

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Kerning text

The kerning effect is used to crunch or expand words, while retaining even spacing between letters. Just select the word you want to kern and press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + the left or right arrow key. This will increase, or decrease the spacing by 100 points. On pressing [Ctrl] + [Alt] + the up or down arrow keys, the leading increases or decreases by 10 points. To increase or decrease the font size, press [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [>] or [<].

Moving type in Edit mode

Photoshop 7 has improved the edit mode. Earlier, as soon as you took the mouse away from the text, it would change into the Move tool. Now, as soon as you bring the mouse close to the text, the text editing cursor starts blinking again.

Enter only once

In the edit mode, when you press [Enter], the cursor goes to a new line. When you finish editing, press [Enter] on the numeric keypad. This will end the editing task, and the cursor will turn into a Move tool.

Metal and chrome effect

In order to create a metallic effect, create a new file in RGB mode, and type in 'Steel'. Hold down [Ctrl] and click on the Type layer to put a selection around the text. Now, go to Select > Save Selection and name it, say, Steel. Press [Ctrl] + [D] to deselect the layer, and then delete it.
Now, go to the Channels palette and click on Steel. Next, under Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, enter 1 pixel.
Select the background layer and go to Filter > Render > Lightning Effects > Texture Channel, choose Steel and click OK.
Now, press [Ctrl] + [A] to select all, then [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [J] to put this entire image on its own layer. Go to Image > Adjust > Choose Curves, and create a curve similar to the one in the example, by clicking on the lower left hand side of the curve and dragging upwards. Release the mouse button, click on the right-hand side and drag downward to give it a chrome effect. Once you get a curve similar to the one in the figure, click OK. Now choose Load Selection from the Select menu. Make sure Steel is selected under the Channel popup. From the Select menu, choose Modify > Expand. Here you need to evaluate how many pixels to put in, so that it will select all of the text. Press [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [I] to invert the selection, and press [Delete] to get rid of extra pixels. Press [Ctrl] + [D] to deselect. Add a soft drop shadow, by choosing Drop Shadow from the Layer Style, and your metallic effect is ready.

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