Senin, 03 Desember 2012

Photography: PSE Methods

By Darnell Garcia Austria


Use Another lmage's Colors

When you have a picture taken at one time during the day and you simply want to provide it with the feel of a special period of the day or various basic coloring manner, that can be done by getting the shades from some other photograph. PSE 10 includes a variety of photos you can borrow different colors from but you can also use your own. To get started, open your image and select File - New - Photo Merge Style Match. With the Style Bin at the foot within the window you will see many pictures. Opt for the one that is nearly close in style and shades to the picture you would like to make. Alternately select the + icon and choose Add Style Images From Hard Disk and browse to pick out pictures to add to the Style Bin.

To imitate the colors from the image, select the Transfer Tones check box, then adjust the Clarity, Details and intensity sliders to modify the effect. This way you may, for instance, take an image which had been shot on a good daylight and provide it a warmer gleam of a nice setting sun by borrowing the colors from a sunset image.

Keep Clear of Filter Bloopers

Lots of Photoshop's filters primarily Distort and Sketch makes use of the presently chosen foreground and background hues to paint the image but nowhere will PSE alert you this is the case. Thus, in case you have red and blue picked out as your foreground and background colors, and you also use a filter such as the Diffuse Glow filter, the image will be colored blue or red and look awful.

Instead, before you apply a filter, choose the wished-for hues, the Diffuse Glow filter works for black as the foreground color and white as the background color, you could fix these by hitting the shortcut key D which sets the default hues. Then choose Filter - Distort - Diffuse Glow and you will add an attractive grainy light with the photo.

Batch Resize Multiple Image Files

If you've got a series of pictures you would like to size down to a fixed dimension choose File - Process Multiple Files. Click on the Browse tab and select a folder of photos to resize. Simply find the target folder by simply clicking the second of the Browse tabs and locate a folder in which the resized images will be saved. Click on the Resize lmages option, choose Constrain Proportions so the photos aren't skewed out of dimension and then type either the Width or the Height to your photos to be resized to. Once you're done, click on OK and the pictures will likely be opened, resized and saved in the directory you have chosen. If you wish to resize portrait and landscape images to several measurements, store them on different directories before applying the batch resize to each directory in turn.

Cut Text from an Image File

To cut text originating from an image so you have written text that's filled up with an image, for starters open the image to utilize. Select the Text tool and enter a few textual content onto it by using a thicker font shows the image characteristic more obviously, the color of the text is unrelated because it would not show afterwards. Click on the Move tool and click on the textual content to pick then resize the words to suit and drag it in place within the image.

Double click the background layer and click on OK to change it to a normal layer then move the background layer over the text layer. At this point, with the photo layer chosen in the Layer palette, select Layer - Create Clipping Mask. This clips the photo to the shape of the text.

Now you may, if you wish, click the photo layer and move the photo around until you obtain an interesting section of the photo right behind the text. You can add a plain or gradient-filled layer underneath the text layer to fill up the backdrop. You may also give a layer layout to the text by Choosing Effects - Layer Styles - Drop Shadows and then apply a drop shadow to the picture.




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