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Select the Eraser tool in the Toolbox and choose a very large brush with a hardness setting of 0%. STEP 6 With the lower (empty) layer active in the Layers palette, drag a gradient from the top of the image window to the top of the existing sky. (Since there are no transparent sections in our gradient, the Transparency box is insignificant.) Check the box for Dither, and leave Reverse unchecked. Stick with the Normal blending mode and 100% for opacity.

In the Options Bar, select the linear gradient option and make sure the selected gradient is foreground-to-background. STEP 5 Select the Gradient tool in the Toolbox. This will give us some variation in the sky in the next step. Increase the Saturation slider by about 5% and decrease the Brightness by about 5%. Open the Color palette and from the palette’s menu, select HSB. Press X on the keyboard to make that the background color and click once more in the same spot with the Eyedropper. That sets the foreground color to the sky’s color at the point from which we’ll extend. STEP 4 Select the Eyedropper tool in the Toolbox and click on the very upper pixels in the center of the existing sky. Since we no longer have a background layer, the “Canvas extension color” option is unavailable and the new area will be transparent. Increase the Height field to 8 (in this example) and click in the lower row of boxes in the 3×3 proxy so that the new canvas is added to the top of the existing image. STEP 3 Use the menu command Image> Canvas Size. Hold down the Command key (Mac) or the Control key (Windows) when you click the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette and the new layer is added below the currently-active layer. STEP 2 Add a new layer below the original image layer, now named (by default) Layer 0. That converts the layer from a background layer to a regular layer. STEP 1 In the Layers palette, double-click the layer name “Background” (if any) and rename the layer. NOTE: Aspect ratio is also often expressed as the relationship of the larger dimension to 1, as in 1.5:1 (equivalent to 3:2) or 1.37:1 (the aspect ratio of 35mm film).

#Smoothing brushes photoshop 5.5 full#

Here’s how we can make the image fit the full 8-inch height of the frame with no white border or cropping. If we resize this to fit in a 10-inch wide frame, it’s only 6.667 inches tall. Measuring 1600 pixels by 1200 pixels (approximately), it has an aspect ratio of 4:3. PhotoSpin’s image #PS020030 is a lovely shot of a temporary housing facility in Washington D.C. Sometimes, however, you may want to add to an image rather than subtract from it. (“Aspect ratio” refers to the relationship between the width and height of an image.) Often the most practical solution is to crop the image to fit, which is discussed here. Most digital images have an aspect ratio of 3:2, while common picture frames are 5:4 (4×5″ and 8×10″) or 7:5 (5×7″). Otherwise, go to the next page.More often than not, a digital photograph isn’t shaped to fit your picture frame.

#Smoothing brushes photoshop 5.5 how to#

If you need a brief explanation on how to use the brush and pen tool, click here.

A Graphic tablet or mouse (a tablet will be much easier to use).

Basic knowledge on using Adobe Photoshop (the features listed in this tutorial are compatible with all CS versions).

Now this tutorial presumes you already have the following: It would be best if you have a tablet with you, as it is easier to use when it comes to digital art, but the technique I’m teaching here can be done with a mouse. This tutorial was first made using Photoshop version CS (or 8.0), and though is updated to CS4, much of the techniques here are basically the same across all CS versions. With the great improvements made to these tools in versions 6.0 and up, and at the same time WACOM unveiled their Graphire tablet, I’ve been able to mimic natural pen strokes. I started inking digitally during version 5.5 of PS, I was still using a mouse then, and there’s not much you can do with Photoshop’s brush tool and pen tool. I have, since the conception of this tutorial, switched to digitally inking my pieces using Corel™ Painter, but this technique is very much viable still whenever I need to draw something I just can’t do freehand.

With Photoshop, I can ‘ink’ my drawings using crisp, smooth lines that I wanted without worrying about making mistakes, blotting or refilling my ink pens or ink bottles. Thanks to technology, I don’t have that problem anymore. To ink a penciled illustration, whether its your own or someone else, requires patience and precision, and I know I have the precision, but I lack the patience. I just never had the dexterity and patience to use real ink and brush. Inking through traditional means has been my Achilles’ heel ever since I can remember.