PHOTOSHOP TOOLS
Photoshop provides various powerful tools for editing and retouching photos. You can enliven your drawings with Paint tools. Let us study Paint, Shapes tools in this chapter.
Painting Tools_
Paint with the Brush Tool_
. Choose a brush from the Brush Presets picker.
. Set tool options for mode, opacity, and so on, in the Context menu.
Do one or more of the following:
Drag in the image to paint.
To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift key and click an ending point. When using the Brush tool as an airbrush, hold down the mouse button without dragging to build up color.
Paint with the Pencil Tool_
The Pencil tool, creates hard-edged lines.
Color Replacement Tool_
The Color Replacement tool replaces specific colours in your image. You
can paint over a specific color with a correct colour.
• Select the Color Replacement tool.
• Choose a brush tip in the options bar. Generally, you should keep
the blending mode set to Color. For the Sampling option, choose one of the following:
Continuous Samples: colours continuously as you drag. Once: Replaces the targeted colour only in areas containing the color that you first click
Background Swatch: Replaces only areas containing the current background colour.
For tolerance, enter a percentage value (ranging from 0 to 255) or drag the slider. Choose a low percentage to replace colours very similar to the pixel you click or raise the percentage to replace a broader range of colours.
- To define a smooth edge in the corrected areas, select Anti-aliased.
- Choose a foreground colour to replace the unwanted colour.
- click the colour you want to replace in the image.
- Drag in the image to replace the specific colour.
Spot Heading Brush Tool_
The Healing Brush tool. allows you to correct imperfections like dark spots, scratches etc.
These imperfections disappear into the surrounding image.
The repaired pixels blend into the rest of the image with perfection.
- Open the image.
- Select the Spot Healing Brush tool.
- Choose the brush size from the Context menu.
- Click the colour you want to replace in the image.
- Click and drag over the spots to repair them.
Healing Brush Tool_
Healing Brush tool and Spot Healing Brush tool are almost similar with one difference.
The main difference between Spot Healing Brush tool and the Standard Healing Brush tool is that the spot healing brush requires no source point. You simply click on the blemishes you want to get rid of (or drag with the tool to paint over the larger areas you wish to repair). in Spot Healing Brush tool, you have to define a source point. Source point can be defined by pressing Alt key and clicking on the image.
Clone Stamp Tool_
The Clone Stamp tool is useful for duplicating objects or removing a defect in an image.
Clone Stamp tool & paints one part of an image over another part of the same image. You can also paint part of one layer over another layer. Altering an image with the Clone Stamp tool:
. Select the Clone Stamp tool.
• Choose a brush tip and set brush options for the blending mode, opacity, and flow in the options bar.
Set the sampling point by positioning the pointer in any open
image and Alt-clicking. You can set up to five different sampling sources. The Clone Source
palette saves the sampled sources until you close the document. • Drag over the area of the image you want to correct.
Pattern Stamp Tool_
The Pattern Stamp tool paints with a pattern. You can select a pattern from the pattern libraries or create your own patterns.
- Select the Pattern Stamp tool.
Choose a brush from the Brush Presets picker.
• Select a pattern from the Pattern pop-up palette in the options bar.
Drag in the image to paint it with the pattern
Path Type and Shape Tools_
There are various shapes and path tools in the toolbox.
- Path Selection Tools.
- Type Tools.
- Pen/Path Tools.
- Shape/Line Tools.
Type Tool_
The tool T is used to add text in an image.
- Select the Horizontal Type tool T or the Vertical Type tool T.
- Select Font type, Font Size, Color, Bold, Underline, Italics from the Context menu.
- Click on the image where you have to add the text.
- Type the text.
- Click the checkmark button on the Context menu to end text editing.
Shape Tools_
Shape tools are used for drawing filled and unfilled shapes, rectangles, ellipses, polygons etc.
Selecting a shape tool changes the available options in the options bar. To access shape tool options , click the inverted arrow next to the shape button in the Context menu.
- Open a new file.
- Click on drop-down arrow of Rectangle tool.
- From the pop-up menu, select Custom Shape tool.
- Select the shape from the options.
- Select colour of your choice from the Context menu to fill the colour in shape.
- Drag the mouse to draw the selected shape and after adjusting the size release the mouse button.
Using Image Menu_
Adjust Hue and Saturation_
The Hue/Saturation command lets you adjust the hue, saturation and brightness of a specific colour component in an image or simultaneously adjust all the colours in an image.
You can save setting in the Hue/Saturation dialog box and load them for reuse in other images.
- Open any image.
- Choose Image > Adjustments> Hue/Saturation.
- Adjust the following setting in the dialog box :
> Saturation
> Lightness
For adjusting these three things, you can make use of the slider for each option.
Apply the Variations Command_
The Variations command lets you adjust the colour balance, contrast and saturation of an image by showing you thumbnails of alternatives.
This command is most useful for average-key images that do not
require precise colour adjustments. It does not work on indexed-colour
images or 16-bit-per-channel images.
• Open any image.
• Choose Image>Adjustments> Variations.
The two thumbnails at the top of the dialog box show the original selection (Original) and the selection with its currently selected adjustments (Current Pick). When you first open the dialog box, these two images are the same. As you make adjustments, the Current Pick image changes to reflect your choices.
Select the Show Clipping option if you want to display a preview of areas in the image that will be clipped-converted to pure white or pure black-by the adjustment. Clipping can result in undesirable colour shifts, as distinct colours in the original image are mapped to the same colour. Clipping does not occur when you adjust midtones.
Select what to adjust in the image:
Shadows, Midtones or Highlights Adjusts the dark, middle, or light areas.
Saturation Changes the degree of hue in the image. If you exceed the maximum saturation for a colour, it may be clipped. Drag the Fine/Coarse slider to determine the amount of each adjustment. Moving the slider one tick mark doubles the adjustment amount.
Adjust the color and Brightness_
To add a colour to the image, click the appropriate colour thumbnail.
To subtract a colour, click the thumbnail for its opposite colour.
To adjust brightness, click a thumbnail on the right side of the dialog box.
The effects of clicking the thumbnails are cumulative. For example, clicking the More Red thumbnail twice applies the adjustment twice. Each time you click a thumbnail, the other thumbnails change. The three Current Pick thumbnails always reflect the current choices.
You can also save the settings you make in the Variations dialog box for reuse on other images.
Layers_
Layers are the building blocks of many image creation workflows. You may not need to work with layers if you are doing simple image adjustments, but layers help you work
efficiently and are essential to most nondestructive image editing.
Photoshop layers are like sheets of stacked acetate. You can see through transparent areas of a layer to the layers below. You move a layer to position the content on the layer, like sliding a sheet of acetate in a stack. You can also change the opacity of a layer to make content partially transparent.
Creating a New Layer_
A new layer appears either above the selected layer or within the selected group in the Layers palette. • To create a new layer or group using default options, click the New Layer button in the Layers palette.
OR
Choose Layer > New > Layer or choose Layer> New >Group.
The New Layer dialog box appears
*Give name in the Name text box.
*Click OK button.
Rename a Layer_
As you add layers to an image, it is helpful to give them names that reflect their content. Descriptive names make layers easy to identify in the palette.
⚫ Double-click the layer name or group name in the Layers palette and enter a new name.
Delete a Layer_
- Select one or more layers or groups from the Layers palette.
- To delete with a confirmation message, click the Delete icon. Alternatively, choose Layers>Delete> Layer or Delete Layer or Delete Group from the Layers palette menu.
- To delete the layer or group without confirmation, drag it to the Delete icon, Alt-click the Delete icon, or click the Delete key with the Move tool active.
- To delete hidden layers, choose Layers > Delete > Hidden Layers.
- To delete linked layers ,select a linked layer, choice Layer > Select Linked Layers and then delete the layers.
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