Quick Guide to Using Photoshop for Rendering Sketches
This tutorial covers the bare essentials to using Photoshop as it pertains to Industrial design rendering. Photoshop has all but replaced traditional marker rendering and is a much sought-after skill in the design field today- however different firms use Photoshop in different ways. As you begin to work in your chosen field- be it product design, shoes, transportation, interiors you will learn techniques specific to the industry that will help you get your ideas across quickly. There is no single way to use Photoshop, but this beginning tutorial will get you started on your path.
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Photoshop Reference Guide
Opening Photoshop
On most NWU lab computers Adobe Photoshop can be found on the hard drive. Click on the Macintosh HD>Applications>Adobe Applications>Adobe Photoshop CS>Adobe Photoshop CS. ( The Adobe Applications folder may or may not appear depending on the image of the computer. ) The program Photoshop should now be open. A welcome screen will appear. Select Close from the screen. “Photoshop” should appear in the upper left hand corner of the screen next to the apple.
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Creating a Custom Mac OS X Poof
You know that little puff of smoke that appears when you drag an icon off of the Dock in Mac OS X? Well, that little animation is called a “poof”. (That’s a technical term.) It is merely a PDF file that consists of five frames of an animation and the shadow masks for each of those frames. This document outlines the basic steps for creating a replacement for the default system poof on Mac OS X. This document does not cover the creation of the original artwork. The artwork used in this example was created in Adobe Illustrator. The poof that is illustrated here is available for download on ResExcellence.com.
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Retro Colors Photoshop Tutorial
Step 1: Open an image into Photoshop
Open the File menu and select Open. Browse for the photo you would like to add a retro color effect to then click OK.
Step 2: Create a new layer
In the Layers pallet, click on the New Layer icon. This will create a new layer named Layer 1. Ensure that Layer 1 is highlighted before continuing.
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Layer Basics - Photoshop
Adobe® Photoshop® lets you isolate different parts of an image on layers. Each layer can then be edited as discrete artwork, allowing unlimited flexibility in composing and revising an image.
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Combining Illustrator Graphics and Photoshop Images
You can easily add a graphic created in a drawing program to an Adobe® Photoshop® file. This is an effective method for seeing how a line drawing looks applied to a photograph or for trying out Photoshop special effects on vector art. You can also export the resulting artwork for use in other graphics programs.
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Making a banner in Photoshop CS2 Jodi Trovato
Standard banner size 468×60 to start Open photoshop this tutorial is for CS2 can be applied to cs3 an previous photoshops 7 & 8
First you need to start with a blank template click file top left of photoshop screen (highlighted in blue) click new from drop down menu that will appear
a Size chart will pop up .. you want 468 pixels width and 60 pixels height and 72 resolutions and transparent back ground color mode RGB (it will say 8 bit next to it) once you do that click ok ..
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Resizing Images for the SMPSP Website
This tutorial covers using Adobe Photoshop CS2’s Image Process in the resizing of images for the SMPSP website to the specifications as of January 2007. I beg pardon if the tutorial is either too elementary or too advanced. I’ve tried to include the simplest explanations addressing the questions I’ve received from group members on this topic.
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GRASS TUTORIAL - Photoshop
This tutorial answer to a simple need : making grass.
An architectural render, how beautifull is it need some good grass to perfect final picture. Some of you fight with photoshop in post prod, some other keep it flat Think about having great shadows projected to a non-flat grass using SSS. This tutorial teach you how to make such a thing, in an easy & fast way.
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DUO-TONE – PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL
Open the photo you would like to alter. Change the photo to black and white by clicking on Image/Mode/Grayscale. Be sure that RGB is checked and 8 bits per channel is also checked. A pop-up window will ask if you want the color information to be discarded. Click OK.
Now you will get to choose the two colors you would like your photograph to be. Do this by clicking on Image/Mode/Duotone. A new window will open. In that window is a drop down tab for monotone, duotone, tripe tone, or quadruple tone. For this tutorial, we are only going to be using duotone.
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