Adobe Toolbox Photoshop 7 Tutorials
You’ve probably been hanging out to get stuck into the very nifty Photoshop toolbox. In this article I’ll introduce some of the most frequently used tools found in the toolbox.
You’ll notice that some of the tool icons have small black triangles in their bottom right-hand corners. These icons contain hidden treasures! The triangle indicates that there are more related tools available; if you click on the tool icon and hold it down, a “flyout” menu will appear, displaying the additional tools.
Selection Tools:
You can use the selection tools to select certain areas of your document for editing. If you use a selection tool, only the area that’s selected will be affected by any changes you make. You can “feather” selections (specify a fuzzy radius for them) using the Feather field in the options bar.
Marquee tools (M) are used to create rectangular or elliptical selections, including selections that are “single row” (one pixel tall, stretching across the entire width of the document) and “single column” (one pixel wide, tretching through the entire height of the document).
To make single-row or single-column selections, click with the appropriate tool on the image area where you want to select a row or column. You can use the Lasso tools (L) to create freeform selections.
The Lasso Tool comes in three different forms:
Lasso Tool (L) Click and drag the Lasso Tool to draw a selection area. Releasing the mouse button will close the selection by joining the start and end points with a straight line.
Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) Click at different points to create vertices of a polygonal shape. Close the selection by moving your cursor to the beginning and clicking once, or pressing the Enter key.
Magnetic Lasso Tool (L) If you think you need help with making your selection, try the Magnetic Lasso Tool. Photoshop will attempt to make a “smart” selection by following the edges of contrast and color difference. Click once near the “edge” of an object and follow around it-Photoshop will automatically lay down a path.
You can also click as you follow the line to force points to be created on the path. Close the selection by pressing the Enter key or clicking at a point near the beginning of the selection. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is not available in ImageRead
David Peters
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Please Help..=]?
I have adobe photoshop CS2.
I’m trying to have a go at adding lipgloss to photo’s, in everyone’s tutorials online they all say that when you add layers a toolbox comes up. But when I click add new layer it just adds it and I can’t see it!!
Please help me with instructions
Thanks. Kate xx
You’ll have to play with the settings and look in the manual.
http://www.good-tutorials.com
^^they might have tutorials for makeup that will help/be easier.
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I use CS2 and have never ever had a toolbox to come up when adding a layer. They may be talking about an Adjustment layer. Click to add an adjustment layer picking the type adjustment that the tutorial is talking about.
Have never added lipgloss to a photo but I can see it possible with a good deal of sharpening. However, over sharpening can ruin the rest of the photo. You might try this, it might work maybe not.
Open you photo and first thing you do is duplicate and close the original. That keeps your original save. Then, open your Layer palette if not open. Click on the Background layer and drag to the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layer palette. You now have two layers and the new layer should be active. Click on the Add Mask at the bottom of the Layer palette and then click the "eye" on the left side of the new layer. This turns it off so you can see the bottom layer.
Click once on the bottom layer to make sure it is active. Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask. Move the image in the dialog box so you see the lips and slide the sharpening slider to the right. Click OK. Click the eye of the top layer then click once inside the white rectangle that indicates a Mask. You will be seeing the photo as it was originally. The colors should now be black/white, the default colors. Zoom in so you get a good close view of the lips and with black, paint the lip area. As you do the sharpened photo below will be revealed. Paint too big an area, use white to cover it up. Maybe this will produce the look you want, maybe not. There will have to be light reflection and some gloss on the lips for it to work.
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