FEATUR ES YOU’VE NEVER USED I N PHOTOSHOP
broad compatibility with modern browsers. Upload to your
website and you’re good to go! Check out some examples
on the Zoomify site.
NOTES
Notes are somewhat enigmatic in Photoshop. Using the
Note tool (nested under the Eyedropper tool [I] or with
the extra tools found by clicking on the three dots near
the bottom of the Toolbar), it’s easy to mark up areas
of an image for later work, especially for collaboration
and review. To see the notes, just open the Notes panel
(Window>Notes). While more traditional approaches
include using the Brush tool or Type tool on a layer
to describe changes or edits, the Notes tool allows
easier and less obtrusive comments to be written out
more thoroughly.
There’s also an import option for bringing notes in from
a flattened PDF file, allowing anyone without Photo shop to
make notes on an image and send them back to the artist.
For this to work, you’d send reviewers a flat version of your
image in PDF format, and they add their notes in Acrobat.
When they send the PDF back, you can simply import the
notes to your layered working document (File>Import>Notes)
and have them appear in the correct place. Note: Be sure to
send a full-size flattened version so everything lines up.
You can show or hide notes using View >Show >Notes.
I’d better not hear stories of people hiding jokes in their
PSD files....
PACKAGE
One of the great uses for smart objects is to distribute
work to team members, or to help organize stock image
assets without duplicating files everywhere. This is espe-
cially handy for developing branding or media collateral
that may change from time to time; however, if you need
to gather those resources into a single folder, it could be
challenging to track them all down. Photoshop’s Package
command (File>Package) goes out to look for those linked
assets in your file and bring them all together into the main
document folder.
Photoshop will preserve absolute links to resources, and
when you use Package it will start looking in the last-known
place. When you use the command, Photoshop creates a
folder called “Links” in the same place you saved your main
document. Try this out with shared Libraries!
APPLY IMAGE
AND CALCULATIONS
Apply Image and Calculations are two things you’ve prob-
ably heard of, even if you haven’t used them. Apply Image
is kind of a shortcut for blending the current layer with any
other layer, including individual channels or masks from
other layers. It then returns the result as a replacement for
the current layer.
Most people who are familiar with Apply Image use it
in the context of frequency separation, where it’s used to...
you know...separate frequencies. The trick is in setting
up layers for specific results, which takes some practice.
To remove the hazy color cast from this scene, I dupli-
cated the Background layer and ran Filter>Blur>Average
to get a solid-filled layer of the average color, and then
inverted the color (Command-I [PC: Ctrl-I]). Finally, I went
to Image>Apply Image and applied the Background layer
to the image, with the blending mode set to Vivid Light. It’s
a little crunchy, but some Blend If goodness (in the Layer
Style’s Blending Options) will clear that right up.> KELBY ONE.COM
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