Posted by: Millie Patel on: October 22, 2009
When you click in a layer with the magic eraser tool, the tool automatically changes all similar pixels. If you’re working in the background or in a layer with locked transparency, the pixels change to the background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency. You can choose to erase contiguous pixels only or all [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: October 13, 2009
The healing brush tool lets you correct imperfections, causing them to disappear into the surrounding image. Like the cloning tools, you use the healing brush tool to paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern. However, the healing brush tool also matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: October 2, 2009
The crop tool in PhotoShop has an additional option that allows you to transform the perspective in an image. This is very useful when working with images that contain keystone distortion. Keystone distortion occurs when an object is photographed from an angle rather than from a straight-on view. For example, if you take a picture [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: September 28, 2009
I noticed that my blog showed up on lots of searches on wedding cards and how to make them in PhotoShop – I even blogged about it a while back, you can read it here. If you’re thinking of designing a wedding card, it’s very simple. Just get some images and backgrounds from Google Images, [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: September 24, 2009
The Extract command provides a sophisticated way to isolate a foreground object and erase its background on a layer. Even objects with wispy, intricate, or undefinable edges may be clipped from their backgrounds with a minimum of manual work. Note: For simpler cases, you can instead use the background eraser tool. To extract an object, [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: February 11, 2009
Recently a friend of mine who just got married asked me to design her wedding cards. I started off with MS Publisher to design the inside of the card, with all the appropriate text…then for the cover of the card, I managed to create something really good – straight from an idea in my head [...]
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