Photoshop CS5

1. Photoshop CS5

2. Quick Mask Mode In Quick Mask mode, you create a 50% red, semi-transparent overlay. This overlay represents the protected area of the image. Quick Mask mode is particularly useful, because you can see both the image and the mask as you create and fine-tune the mask.

3. To create a quick mask, click the Edit in Quick Mask Mode button in the Tool panel. Make sure that the default foreground and background colors are black and white, respectively Show the Brushes panel and choose a brush size . Use a hard-edged brush to create selections with a clearly defined edge. Use a soft-edged brush to create selections that are slightly softer along the edge. Select the a pointing tool and drag across your image to “paint” in the mask. Painting with black adds to the mask. Although you see through the 50% red mask, the pixels covered by the mask are completely protected. To remove areas from the mask, you can use the Eraser tool, or paint with white. When you are satisfied with you mask, click the Edit in Standard mode button. This turns the areas of the image that were not part of you quick mask into a selection. You can now make changes to the selected areas, leaving the areas that were the quick mask unchanged.

4. Type Effects Photoshop provides a variety of creative techniques for producing interesting effects with type.

5. Type Effects • Type on Path – You can create type the follows a path, created using the Pen tool or a shape tool. • Select the Horizontal or Vertical Type tool. Position your cursor on the path. It is important to place the baseline indicator on the path. Click on the path. Begin typing at the text insertion point. Click the Commit/Cancel button in the Options bar to accept/discard changes. When you commit type on a path, the type appears on a new layer in the Layers panel.

6. Type Effects • To reposition type along the path, select the Path Selection, or Direct Selection tool. Position your cursor at the beginning of the type. When the cursor changes, click and drag to move the type along the path.

7. Pasting Into Selections • Create a selection in the destination window. • Open the source document, then make the selection you want to paste into the destination document. Choose Edit>Copy to copy the selection to the clipboard. • Click in the destination image window. The selection should still be active. Choose Edit>Paste Special>Paste Into, to paste the clipboard selection into the selected area.

8. Pasting Into Selections • Use the Move tool to reposition the pasted selection relative to the original selection. • The Paste Into command creates a layer mask. The layer is active, indicated by the highlight border on the thumbnail in the Layers panel, which means that you can edit the layer. To edit the mask, click the Mask icon in the Layers panel. The highlight border appears on the mask, to indicate that the layer mask is selected.

9. Slicing Images Slices are rectangular areas of an image that can be saved as separate, independent images, which can be used on the web or in multimedia applications. An image initially consists of a single slice, by default, comprising the complete image. This becomes apparent when you select the Slice tool – a gray auto-slice icon appears in the top left corner of the image. When you create a new slice, the remainder of the image is automatically divided into further slices.

10. Slicing Images • To create a slice using the Slice tool, click on the tool to select it. Position your cursor on the image, then drag to define the area of the slice. The slice you define is a User-slice. • When you release the mouse, Photoshop automatically generates additional slices for the remaining areas of the image, which are not defined as User-slices. The additional slices are Auto-slices.

11. Slices From Guides • Drag in ruler guides to indicate where you want to create slices. • Select the Slice tool, then click the Slices From Guides button in the options bar. The slices appear in the image. Each slice is numbered. Slices created from guides are User-slices.