Adobe Photoshop 6
Intermediate Level Course
Resizing
• When resizing an image for printing, a higher resolution will translate into a sharper image with a much greater clarity.
Rotating
• Rotate your image clockwise, counter-clockwise, spin around or enter a specific value to position your image after scanning.
Flipping
• Flip your image horizontally or vertically to position as required.
Selection Transformations
• The Free Transform submenu allows you to scale, flip, rotate, slant, distort and move a selection or layer in one continuous operation.
Liquify
• The Liquify command allows you to paint and erase distortions inside a separate window. The image can be dragged to warp, shift, twirl, expand, contract and even copy pixels.
Applying Masks
• A With a mask, you can create free-form selections, select areas of color and generate precise selections.
Quick Mask
• The Quick Mask mode is the fastest and most straightforward environment for creating a mask.
Layer Masks
• Layers offer special masking options in their own regard.
Manipulating Type
• Type cannot only be filled with color, but also with pictures.
Creating Paths
• Regular pen tool, a path is built by creating individual anchor points.
Editing Paths
• After creating a path, it can be selected or edited by using the Path component selection tool (black arrow) or the Direct selection tool (white arrow) .
Using Paths
• Various other options allow you to use Paths by turning them into selections, Filling and Stroking them with color and shading once they have been created.
Sharpen Filters
• Sharpen, Sharpen Edges and Sharpen More filters allow you focus blurry images to improve the image clarity.
Blur Filters
• Six different Blurring Filters allow you to apply various degrees and techniques of blurring: Blur, Blur More, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur and Smart Blur filters.
Artistic Filters
• Various Artistic Filters allow you to achieve a feeling of a natural painting, or apply a special effect to an image.
Brush Stroke Filters
• Brush Stroke Filters allow you to apply various brush and ink stroke effects to give your image a painterly or fine-arts look.
Sketch Filters
• Various Sketch Filters are used to add texture to images, often for a 3D effect.
Distort Filters
• Various Distort Filters are used to distort an image, to create 3D or
other reshaping effects.
Pixelate Filters
• Various Pixelate Filters are used to sharply define a selection by clumping pixels of similar color values in cells.
Stylize Filters
• Various Stylize filters produce a painted or impressionistic effect on a selection by displacing pixels and by finding and heightening contrast in an image.
Preparing the Image
• From the main menu, choose Edit > Color Settings to open the Color Settings dialog box.
Printing the Image
• The Pint dialog box allows you to prepare your printer to for printing.
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