Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One
As you can see in Figure 10-17, this image by photographer Stas Perov, from the Fotolia.com image library, presents a couple of ...
Survey the color channels. Go to the Channels panel and click the individual channel names Red, Green, and Blue. Or press the k ...
Accordingly: Make sure the Source 1 and Source 2 pop-up menus are set to Hair Assault.jpg. This is a single-layer document, so ...
Change the Blending mode. If the Add blend mode is creating very little difference, it makes sense to try its opposite. From th ...
Figure 10-23. Figure 10-24. Name the new channel. Double-click the new Alpha 1 item at the bottom of the Channels panel and ren ...
Select the path. When you activate the path in the panel, you’ll see a solid outline appear around the arms and torso. Press th ...
Test drive the white arrow tool. Switch to the white arrow tool by pressing the A key (or Shift+A if you skipped the Preface). ...
Set up the pen tool. Get the pen tool by clicking the icon in the toolbox (as in Figure 10-27) or by pressing the P key. Then c ...
Reposition the upper control handle. As we try to make that curve around the crook of her elbow, the upper control handle will ...
PeaRl Of WISDOm Inevitably, every path drawn with the pen tool is constructed differently. As you set the control handles and an ...
Make another point and lop off the lower control handle. Make your next anchor at the point where the dress material juts out f ...
Draw a simple series of straight segments. Click (without drag- ging) to make a series of straight segments around her sash, as ...
Turn the completed path into a selection outline. Now that we have a completed shape, grab the black arrow tool and click the p ...
Finessing a Mask with Overlay Brushing In the previous two exercises, we made significant progress in iso- lating our model and ...
Obtain the brush tool. We’ll start by using the brush tool in its normal free-form painting capacity. Make sure your foreground ...
Paint the dark areas with black. Press the X key to switch your foreground and background colors, so that you’re painting with ...
Lasso the earring. That one stubborn area near her face is her earring, which is going to remain dark no matter how often you p ...
Save the mask. Now that you’ve gone to all the trouble to get the mask to this stage, take my word for it and save the file. Yo ...
Open another image Press Ctrl-O (�-O) and navigate to the Blue sky with clouds.jpg image in the Lesson 10 folder of the Les- so ...
Figure 10-47. Refine the mask. In the Layers panel, click the layer mask to make it active. Then right-click and choose Refine ...
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