Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One
But layers come at a price. Because they are actually independent images, each layer consumes space both in memory and on your h ...
Arranging and Modifying Layers The most basic use for layers is to keep objects separated from each other so you can modify thei ...
Figure 5-4. Figure 5-5. Open a preliminary composition file. Start by open- ing Base layers.psd in the Lesson 05 folder inside ...
You can see in the panel in Figure 5-6 that the document already has five layers: the martini glass image, a layer full of color ...
Figure 5-8. Adding a Background layer is a two-step process: Click the icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to create a new l ...
Set the guidelines to the final image boundary. In Photoshop files, the boundaries of any individual layer are not necessarily ...
Figure 5-11. Reveal the entire contents of the layer. Now that we’ve left some digital breadcrumbs in the form of guides, we ca ...
Remove the unnecessary content in the Glass 1 layer. Press the F key twice (to change to Standard View mode), so you can view y ...
After cropping, you can reset your Layers panel thumbnails to reflect the current document boundaries by right-clicking a blank ...
In the options bar, change the W value to 68 percent and click the icon next to the W value to keep the scale pro- portional. I ...
Figure 5-15. Magically make a third copy. Rather than making you repeat the entire procedure in Step 12, Photoshop gives you a ...
Zoom in on the area between the green and yellow glasses. Press and hold the Z key (to get the zoom tool on-the-fly) and click ...
Figure 5-18. Figure 5-19. Sample the green color. Press the I key to get the eyedropper tool, and click anywhere that is alread ...
Fill the selected area with green. Press Alt+Backspace (or Op- tion-Delete) to fill your selection with the foreground color an ...
Create an Invert adjustment layer. To make this image stand out on my Web site, I want to change it so that the bright colors a ...
Change the opacity of several layers at once. New to Photo- shop CS5 is the simple, convenient ability to adjust the opac- ity ...
Figure 5-26. Add the Stars layer. Open the Stars.psd file in the Lesson 05 folder inside Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1. We’re going t ...
Figure 5-27. Figure 5-28. Turn off the Colors layer. Now that I see the composition with the stars and the text and the glasswa ...
Figure 5-29. Figure 5-30. Drag that file directly from the desktop, the Finder, or the Ex- plorer window to your Photoshop compo ...
Type the name “Dark gradient” and click OK. Next, you see the Gradient Fill dialog box. Open the gradient color. The gradient ...
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