What's New in Photoshop CS5 & PSE 9
- Content Aware Fill
- Puppet Warp
- Content Aware Scale (Re-compose in PSE 8)
- HDR Pro
- HDR Toning
- Refine edge (quick Select)
- Lens Correction
- 3D Repouse Selection (extended)
- Image process
- Mixer Brush
- Camera Raw
- Demosaic, sharpen, Noise, Vingette
- Lens Correction
see Animation (Project #6).
On-line Media Resources
Recommended Books
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book
By Adobe Creative Team.
Published by Adobe Press.
Series: Classroom in a Book.
Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual
By Lesa Snider
Publisher:O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press
1. Post Cards and Greeting Cards
The Post Card
We use a Clipping Mask to make a "vacation spot" post card.
Greeting Cards
The layout is probably the hardest part of making a greeting card, especially if you are printing an "inside" message. This is a simple layout for a one-sided (Right Click to Download) (1/2) x 7" x 10" Greeting Card For our demo, here's the (Right Click to Download) lily painting
There are many "paper" companies, one that I like is "Red River Paper." They also have some video tutorials for Photoshop Elements and Photoshop on how to set up printing guides for Canon, Epson and HP printers. You'll find that web page here.
About.com has an excellent step-by-step tutorial on how to set up and make a 4 sided card.
2. Wanted Poster and Magazine Covers
Wanted Poster
What you need...1. A "Western" font and 2. A "Mug" Shot! 3. Parchment paper for the background. (it's on the class disk)
You can never have enough fonts! But, in this case we need a "Western" Font. The closest version already installed is called 66Rodeo. You can find 12 more Western Styled Fonts here...
The Parchment Paper...
Burn or make the edges ragged... How? Use the polygon selection tool to make an irregular edge. Then use the smooth tool to soften the edge. Then use the burn tool to darken the edges! Try it, you can find some ideas here!
The Mug Shot...
Turn the photo into a line drawing. You'll find instructions using one of many methods to achieve this... on the class blog!
Magazine Covers
Find the font, match colors, add the Photo(s)
Use the samples on the class disk as a template for your version!
3. Montages, Collages and Mixed Media
How to place multiple objects on the canvas using the selection and move tools
Merging and Blending images and other Photoshop Tricks
4. Typography, Certificates, Covers and Advertisements, Calendars
Vector Text/Art, text on a curve
Customizing fonts in Photoshop
Extruding 3-D text in Photoshop Extended
5. Photo to Art, Frames and Borders, Gallery Prints
--Using Filters, actions and overlays
Making a Studio Print Studio Print Action
6. Animation --Photoshop Only
-- Animating Cartoon Characters and objects
Russell's Brown CS 5's The Puppet Animation Tool
7. Paint By Layers (not numbers!)
Filters, Layers, Masks and Custom Brushes An Introduction to Using Brushes Painting with Brushes in CS 5How to make Sketches
You can download the Tuscan sketch from Creative Photoshop's Magazine's website
8. Photography!
Is it art or just a photo?
Camera Raw...
You should do 95% of your processing in Camera Raw
Here's a short Work Flow List
Here's the details Camera Raw Processing
Photoshop Techniques...
Portraits
Layer Masks and Wrinkles
Skin Tones and the Clone Tool with an added wrinkle
Landscapes
The Gradient Filter
Sky too light? Foreground too Dark?
Using Layers and blending to fix Over or Under Exposed Photos
9. Output --Display and Printing
dpi... Really means pixels per inch!
Setting up your Project to print correctly to screen or paper
Sharpening...
Is the one, the most important process you MUST do to present your work. Especially if your work includes photographs.
Printing...
Photoshop CS through CS4 (yes, it's Changed in CS5 -- See link below...)
Three things happen when you Print a Photo in CS - CS4.
1. The computer must talk to the printer first...
hey, printer! here comes photo data, to be printed on a thirteen x nineteen inch paper, in landscape mode...
2. Hey, Photoshop here's the setup for printing the colors...
Either photoshop manages the colors, or the printer does the management...or there is NO color management at all!
3. Okay printer, here's the details.
This is where you select, the paper type, print mode, quality of the print and who is managing the color...
Okay, you can print now
CS5 Print Setup
PDF Slide Shows & Web Gallery Pages...
Using Bridge
Bridge > Output > PDF Slideshow or Web Gallery
Click the above image to see the real output
Sharing...
Services like Flickr and Picasa Albums allow you to share your photos with the world, or just your friends and family (invited guests) or just your self...
Picasa Web Album is part of the Google, family. join Google and you can have Picasa Album's.
Flickr is part of the Yahoo Family, Join Yahoo and you can have free Flickr PhotoStreams.
What's Next?
Websites
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A Collection of Photoshop Websites
http://photoshop.alltop.com/
A Collection of LightRoom Websites
http://lightroom.alltop.com/
Get a Free copy of Layers Magazine
http://layersmagazine.com/category/photoshop/page/8
Get the latest Photoshop News
http://photoshopnews.com/
Get the latest Lightroom News
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/
National Association of Photoshop Users
http://www.photoshopuser.com/
The best Photoshop Magazine PhotoShop Creative
http://www.pshopcreative.co.uk/
Books