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Notes from Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, presented by Bert Monroy. (9/24/04):

• Double click on zoom tool: view image at 100%
• Option-Click Between layers makes them clipping group. Bottom shape masks the top. (Think “Paste Inside” in Freehand)
• Double Click on a layer to bring up Layer Style. Click on word, not check box to bring up more option.
• There are two Opacity: Fill and Regular under Blending Options.
• Adjustment Layer: click on half black half white icon (third from right) on layer panel. It will affect layers below it. This will keep the original image. (image > Adjustment will not)
• Apple(command)-click on Layer, Channel or Path to turn them as a selection
• Watch for “Use Global Light” check box when applying bevel and emboss layer effect.
• Color Channel: Red - contrast, Green - detail, Blue - where the mess is. Apply Filter > Noise > Despeckle to Blue channel to get rid of film grain. Watch for blue lines when purchasing scanner.
• Use Calculations (image > calculations) for creating black and white, use green and red channels (Normal, Darken, Lighten or Soft Light blending works). Forget blue channel.
• Likewise, when selecting Alpha channels, using calculations with Subtract Blending does neat things. Example. Select area, save selection, dupe channel, Gaussian Blur the duped, move the blurred channel slightly up and left, calculations subtract the two and you will get nice mask (selection) where bevel shadow is.
• Tiled image: Make selection, Edit > Define Pattern, New document, Edit > Fill > Use Pattern.
• Blue Screen Concept: Use 100% Blue 0% Red color (#0000ff) to paint something (such as in Pattern), then do Calculation > Difference (Of Red and Blue)to create alpha channel. Select the channel and apply changes.
• Texture Maps are commonly used for 3D rendering/Animation programs. Which is created in Photoshop
• Extract: Quick way to shilouett something. First Image > Duplicate. Filter > Extract. User Edge High lighter tool to roughly mark edges. Fill the area you want to extract with Fill tool. OK. Put extracted on the new back ground. Now Zoom in to some area very closely on both original and new images so that you can identify the pixel. Use Clone tool (make sure “align” is checked) select the exact pixels. start filling in the lost area.
• Custom Brush: Using Black and White, create shape. Select. Edit > Define Brush.
• Brush Engine: Brushes panel. Adjust the following (and more) and have fun. Tip Shape > Spacing, Shape Dynamics (Angle > Direction), Color Dynamics (Fade).
• You can select Path, right click “Stroke Path” to apply the brush on Path.
• Play Nice with Illustrator: In Illustrator Preference > Clipboard > Click on “AICB” (Adobe Illustrator Clip Board)
• Use Grid (View > Show > Grid, Edit > Preferences > Guides, Grid and Slices) when creating interlocking patterns such as bricks or holes in metal sheet.
• “Screen” Mode on layer option (next to opacity) will give nice effect on colors below
• Picky way to sharpen: New Channel. Filter > Stylize > Find Edges. Select. Apply Unsharpen Mask.
• Wood look: Add Noise, Motion Blur. Liquify.
• Waving Flag trick: You need to make “Map File”. Open file with Flag. Create new layer. Fill > 50% Gray. Using brush of black and white, add Shadow and highlight. (Adjust layer opacity so you can see flag layer). bring Opacity to 100% and Save As (copy.psd). Select Flag Layer. Filter > Distort > Displace. Clip the Map (shadow) layer to Flag layer (Option-click between). Adjust opacity and mode of the shadow layer.
• Text Layer: besides Free Transform(you can still edit after), there is a tool for text. Layer > Type > Wrap Text.

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