Author: David Peters -
Source: articledashboard.com
There is no photo editing or graphic design project that you cannot accomplish using Adobe Photoshop if you are thoroughly familiar with the tools available.
The tool that seems to be necessary for nearly every application in Photoshop is the selection tool.
The selection tool isolates objects for the purpose of editing specific areas of your image without effecting the entire image.
The selection tool in Photoshop is actually four tools depending on your particular task. The selection tool includes the Rectangular Marquee Tool, the Elliptical Marquee Tool, the Single Row Marquee Tool and the Single Column Marquee Tool.
What can you do with the selection tool in Photoshop? The following are just a few examples of projects or applications you might being doing in Photoshop and how the selection tool can make your life easier.
Cropping
Cropping images requires that you use the selection tool to designate the section of the image to be removed or cropped.
Adding Text to Images
If you plan to add text to an image or graphic design you can also designate the area to add the text using the selection tool.
Isolated Color Work
Let's say you want to adjust the saturation or hue of a particular object in a photography. The selection tool will allow you to isolate the object and then adjust the color as needed.
You can adjust the entire selected area or isolated color channels.
These examples are obviously a very small sample of the ways you might use the selection tool in Photoshop. In fact, the selection tool is used for hundreds of different photo editing projects or more.
The selection tool in Adobe Photoshop is probably one of the most important tools that you will use in your photo editing and graphic logo design work.
As you learn Photoshop be sure to develop a solid grounding in the use of the selection tool.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Merging Two Or More Images In Photoshop - First Things First
Author: David Peters -
Source: articledashboard.com
Have you ever noticed how magazines, newspapers and some web designers are able to combine multiple photographs together to create cool collages of merged images? Merging two or more images into one image has become the standard. Everywhere you look you will see examples. Whether you are a web designer, graphic artists, or photographer you can benefit from the ability to merge photographs. Photo merging techniques will allow you to create original logos, advertisements, backgrounds for web sites, and much more.
If you have Adobe Photoshop then you already have everything you need to create amazing digital collages from multiple photos. Photoshop is the professional's choice for digital photographic editing and manipulation.
Before you start merging two or more photographs to make a digital collage it is important that you spend a little time planning your final image. While technical knowledge in how to use Adobe Photoshop to merge photographs is essential don't downplay the importance of planning your final image before you even start working in Photoshop. With that being said, the layers function in Photoshop is perfect for allowing you to experiment with different options.
The following are areas to consider when planning a photo collage image.
Choosing Photographs
The most important part of merging multiple photographs is as simple as choosing the right photographs for your photo collage. The photographs you choose can compliment each other in terms of a general theme or color scheme. Try using the eyedropper in Photoshop to check colors and look for complimentary colors.
Composition
Once you have chosen the right photographs for your photo collage it is time to think about your composition. Browse the Internet and look for example of digital photo collages and look for images that you feel are particularly effective in relaying the message intended by the advertiser or artist. Pay attention to the composition of the images. Consider what makes the images blend well together.
The great thing about Adobe Photoshop is that you can work in multiple layers which will allow you to play around with your composition before permanent placement.
Source: articledashboard.com
Have you ever noticed how magazines, newspapers and some web designers are able to combine multiple photographs together to create cool collages of merged images? Merging two or more images into one image has become the standard. Everywhere you look you will see examples. Whether you are a web designer, graphic artists, or photographer you can benefit from the ability to merge photographs. Photo merging techniques will allow you to create original logos, advertisements, backgrounds for web sites, and much more.
If you have Adobe Photoshop then you already have everything you need to create amazing digital collages from multiple photos. Photoshop is the professional's choice for digital photographic editing and manipulation.
Before you start merging two or more photographs to make a digital collage it is important that you spend a little time planning your final image. While technical knowledge in how to use Adobe Photoshop to merge photographs is essential don't downplay the importance of planning your final image before you even start working in Photoshop. With that being said, the layers function in Photoshop is perfect for allowing you to experiment with different options.
The following are areas to consider when planning a photo collage image.
Choosing Photographs
The most important part of merging multiple photographs is as simple as choosing the right photographs for your photo collage. The photographs you choose can compliment each other in terms of a general theme or color scheme. Try using the eyedropper in Photoshop to check colors and look for complimentary colors.
Composition
Once you have chosen the right photographs for your photo collage it is time to think about your composition. Browse the Internet and look for example of digital photo collages and look for images that you feel are particularly effective in relaying the message intended by the advertiser or artist. Pay attention to the composition of the images. Consider what makes the images blend well together.
The great thing about Adobe Photoshop is that you can work in multiple layers which will allow you to play around with your composition before permanent placement.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Exporting Raster Images from ZWCAD
Author: Jonathan Tang
Source: articlerich.com
There may be cases where you might need to export DWG drawings as raster images so that others can only view them, but not edit them. Formats like JPEG and TIFF are used in this case.
ZWCAD allows you to convert drawings to raster images easily enough with the Export command. We might not, however, find it sufficient when special settings are required. For instance, when you print drawings, we typically set the plot area, plot style, drawing orientation, and so on; these parameters contribute to professional-look printouts. If you want to make exported raster images take on the same appearance, how do you manage it? The answer is to plot it in the same way.
In the Plot dialog box, click the Printer/Plotter Name droplist, and then notice the entry named "Add-A-Plotter Wizard." This guides you through the steps in setting up specific printer configuration.
There are two types of printers available with the wizard, virtual printers and physical ones. The virtual printers are what you need, because they are capable of exporting drawings as raster files in any of the following formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF, MNG, ICOCUR, TGA, PCX, WBMP, JP2, JPC, PGX, RAS, PNM, and SKA.
Some of the more commonly-used formats include the following:
* JPEG - used by digital cameras and for images in Web sites.
* TIFF - used in desktop publishing.
* PNG - royalty-free replacement for JPEG files.
* BMP - Windows format used for icons and desktop backgrounds.
* GIF - used for creating simple animations in Web sites.
If you just need to create JPEG images, then you only need to configure a JPEG virtual printer. Its configuration will be added into the Printer/Plotter Name droplist and then can be used whenever you need it. In a similar manner, any other available type of raster format can be configured as a virtual printer for exporting drawings.
Remember: Printing CAD drawings doesn't just mean "exporting" them to pieces of paper, but also means converting them to raster images for viewing on the screen. In addition to the Export command integrated into ZWCAD, you can also try printing CAD drawings with virtual printers as raster images.
About ZWCAD
As the flagship product of ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd., ZWCAD is a powerful CAD solution, which is highly compatible with DWG format. ZWCAD meets the needs of broad-based target groups of 2D/3D design industry, including architecture, engineering, construction, mechanics, manufacturing and electronics. So far it has become the leading brand in China's CAD industry and now it is competing successfully in over 75 other countries, with more than 150,000 users throughout the world.
For more information, please visit www.zwcad.org or contact ZWCAD team at sales@zwcad.com.
(C) Copyright 2009 ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
Jonathan Tang is author of article written on ZWCAD. He is Technical Engineer of ZWSOFT Overseas Department. For more information, please visit: www.zwcad.org http://www.zwcad.org.
Source: articlerich.com
There may be cases where you might need to export DWG drawings as raster images so that others can only view them, but not edit them. Formats like JPEG and TIFF are used in this case.
ZWCAD allows you to convert drawings to raster images easily enough with the Export command. We might not, however, find it sufficient when special settings are required. For instance, when you print drawings, we typically set the plot area, plot style, drawing orientation, and so on; these parameters contribute to professional-look printouts. If you want to make exported raster images take on the same appearance, how do you manage it? The answer is to plot it in the same way.
In the Plot dialog box, click the Printer/Plotter Name droplist, and then notice the entry named "Add-A-Plotter Wizard." This guides you through the steps in setting up specific printer configuration.
There are two types of printers available with the wizard, virtual printers and physical ones. The virtual printers are what you need, because they are capable of exporting drawings as raster files in any of the following formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF, MNG, ICOCUR, TGA, PCX, WBMP, JP2, JPC, PGX, RAS, PNM, and SKA.
Some of the more commonly-used formats include the following:
* JPEG - used by digital cameras and for images in Web sites.
* TIFF - used in desktop publishing.
* PNG - royalty-free replacement for JPEG files.
* BMP - Windows format used for icons and desktop backgrounds.
* GIF - used for creating simple animations in Web sites.
If you just need to create JPEG images, then you only need to configure a JPEG virtual printer. Its configuration will be added into the Printer/Plotter Name droplist and then can be used whenever you need it. In a similar manner, any other available type of raster format can be configured as a virtual printer for exporting drawings.
Remember: Printing CAD drawings doesn't just mean "exporting" them to pieces of paper, but also means converting them to raster images for viewing on the screen. In addition to the Export command integrated into ZWCAD, you can also try printing CAD drawings with virtual printers as raster images.
About ZWCAD
As the flagship product of ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd., ZWCAD is a powerful CAD solution, which is highly compatible with DWG format. ZWCAD meets the needs of broad-based target groups of 2D/3D design industry, including architecture, engineering, construction, mechanics, manufacturing and electronics. So far it has become the leading brand in China's CAD industry and now it is competing successfully in over 75 other countries, with more than 150,000 users throughout the world.
For more information, please visit www.zwcad.org or contact ZWCAD team at sales@zwcad.com.
(C) Copyright 2009 ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
Jonathan Tang is author of article written on ZWCAD. He is Technical Engineer of ZWSOFT Overseas Department. For more information, please visit: www.zwcad.org http://www.zwcad.org.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Learning Photoshop: Learn The Difference Between Canvas And Image Size
Author: David Peters -
Source: articledashboard.com
What happens if I change the canvas size? I wish to book my photo as a 5x7 print. Should I change the angel admeasurement or the canvas size?
These are accepted questions a part of beginners who are just acquirements to use Photoshop. Abounding who are just acquirements to use Adobe Photoshop generally are abashed by the differences in the canvas admeasurement and angel admeasurement functions.
The adeptness to acclimatize the canvas admeasurement is just one of the abounding appearance accessible in Adobe Photoshop that puts the user in ascendancy of every aspect of the agenda angel alteration process.
While there is abundant added too it, alteration the canvas admeasurement about creates added plan amplitude by abacus added pixels to the absolute image. There are abounding means you can use the canvas and angel admeasurement functions to accomplish your agenda angel alteration plan easier.
Not alone can you change the admeasurement of the canvas but you can aswell change the canvas color. This action can be acclimated to actualize frames or borders about your images. In addition, there are abounding added added avant-garde techniques for using the canvas admeasurement and angel admeasurement functions.
As with all of the appearance and functions of Photoshop, the a lot of important affair to accumulate in apperception is that you yield the time to apprentice how to appropriately use Photoshop's angel and canvas admeasurement functions afore you jump into a photo-editing project.
Photoshop is not about as difficult to apprentice as abounding ability anticipate but it does crave that you apprentice able techniques. While with abounding bottom superior photo alteration programs you can sometimes get by with balloon and error, Photoshop is not that simple to just jump in and actualize able superior clear plan after some knowledge.
With that getting said, already you apprentice Photoshop there will be no limitations to what you can create.
Source: articledashboard.com
What happens if I change the canvas size? I wish to book my photo as a 5x7 print. Should I change the angel admeasurement or the canvas size?
These are accepted questions a part of beginners who are just acquirements to use Photoshop. Abounding who are just acquirements to use Adobe Photoshop generally are abashed by the differences in the canvas admeasurement and angel admeasurement functions.
The adeptness to acclimatize the canvas admeasurement is just one of the abounding appearance accessible in Adobe Photoshop that puts the user in ascendancy of every aspect of the agenda angel alteration process.
While there is abundant added too it, alteration the canvas admeasurement about creates added plan amplitude by abacus added pixels to the absolute image. There are abounding means you can use the canvas and angel admeasurement functions to accomplish your agenda angel alteration plan easier.
Not alone can you change the admeasurement of the canvas but you can aswell change the canvas color. This action can be acclimated to actualize frames or borders about your images. In addition, there are abounding added added avant-garde techniques for using the canvas admeasurement and angel admeasurement functions.
As with all of the appearance and functions of Photoshop, the a lot of important affair to accumulate in apperception is that you yield the time to apprentice how to appropriately use Photoshop's angel and canvas admeasurement functions afore you jump into a photo-editing project.
Photoshop is not about as difficult to apprentice as abounding ability anticipate but it does crave that you apprentice able techniques. While with abounding bottom superior photo alteration programs you can sometimes get by with balloon and error, Photoshop is not that simple to just jump in and actualize able superior clear plan after some knowledge.
With that getting said, already you apprentice Photoshop there will be no limitations to what you can create.
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