Photoshop Creative Collection Vol 07 [2011]

07 Snap! Go to the View menu and locate the Snap To sub- 08 Put your mask on We will now 09 Rinse and repeat Repeat this menu (View>Snap To). Make sure that Guides is ticked, as mask out the unwanted areas of again for all photos, putting each well as Snap in the same menu. Choose the Rectangle Marquee tool the photo by using a layer mask. The good one in its own section and on its own layer. and draw a selection around the ower. The Selection tool should thing about making a selection beforehand When you are nished you should have ve snap to the edges of the guides. is that anything inside the selection will not sections with a slice of photo in each one, as be masked – but everything else will be. We in the picture above. can do this by going to Layer>Layer Mask> Reveal Selection. 10 Craquelure and Grain Time 11 Mosaic and Stained Glass Choose the third photo and go 12 All good things Finally, choose for some e ects! Locate the rst to Filter>Texture>Mosaic Tiles. Make Tile Size 12, Grout Width the last photo. Select the Texturizer photo layer and access the Craquelure lter 3, Lighten Grout 9 and hit OK. Reset to default colours by pressing lter from the Filter menu (Filter>Textures> (Filter>Texture>Craquelure). Set Crack Spacing ‘D’, then choose the fourth photo and select the Stained Glass lter Texturizer) and set the options to Texture to 15, Crack Depth to 6, Crack Brightness to (Filter>Texture> Stained Glass). Choose Cell Size 7, Border Thickness 2, Canvas, Scaling 200, Relief 20, Light Bottom 9 and hit OK. On the second photo use the Light Intensity 1. Left. Remove the guides by using the Move Grain lter with Intensity 40, Contrast 50 and tool to pull them o the canvas. Grain Type Contrasty. Stained Glass texture Filter Gallery Honeycomb effect Stacks of effects The Stained Glass These collected textures are great texture filter is a bit like for creating quick effects, and it the Patchwork filter, can often be useful to combine but builds an image of two or more of them. Luckily, single-coloured cells. Photoshop gives us the option of The cells are bordered combining filters using the Filter by the foreground colour. Gallery. When we use one of The image is broken into the Texture filters we are given a areas of the predominant window with options and previews. colour and arranged in a On the right-hand side under the honeycomb style. The cell size, border size and light intensity can be options we have a window where changed to produce various effects. We can use this filter to make an we can add more filters or remove easy stained-glass window effect, especially for the border. them – a bit like the Layers palette. PHOTOSHOP CREATIVE COLLECTION 251

tutorial Understanding clipping masks cUlnipdpeinrsgtamnadsinkgs Inside the menu Clipping A compositional aid in Photoshop – the long and the masks can be applied short of clipping masks through the Layers menu and going to Create Clipping f there was ever a feature The beauty of clipping masks is that they Before Mask. Another method is of Photoshop that needed can be layered on top of each other. This Ctrl/right-clicking on a layer more recognition, it would could be whether you choose to add a to open up a similar menu be clipping masks. Perhaps layer of texture, or a blend mode, or even an that has the option to mask. its name is enough to scare away even the adjustment layer to only a chosen subject of most daring digital artist… your image. After Clipping masks provide a way of masking one layer around the shape of another. They For our image here, we’ve taken the liberty o er an alternative to layer masks, and can of using clipping masks with adjustment be applied in an instant without the need for layers to add punch to the cityscape. This selections, in some cases. requires no editing of a mask – just a simple Popular situations where clipping masks selection. We also swapped the sky for a are used include hiding an image inside text more interesting one, using clipping masks to enhance the meaning of the words. In instead of a layer mask. this instance, when you ‘clip’ an image to a layer containing text, the words act as the Find out how to get creative with this ‘window’ and the rest of the image is hidden. backbench feature in Photoshop and you never know, you may discover that this is your new favourite! Selective black and white Cliptextwith images Using clipping masks with selections Make a window with the Type tool Clipping masks are very handy for creating Clipping masks work by selective black and white images. First select combining two neighbouring the area for turning monochrome, using tools layers together to hide certain such as the Pen or Magic Wand. Go to Layer> areas of your image. You can New>Layer Via Copy to place the selection create a window of words on its own layer. In the Layers palette add the using the Type tool. Open an adjustment layer, Hue/Saturation, and reduce image you want to use as the the Saturation slider to -100 to remove colour. view through the text, and use This will affect the entire image, but to solve the Type tool to write words this Ctrl/right-click the adjustment layer and hit over the top of the image, Create Clipping Mask in the drop-down menu. choosing a blocky font such as Gill Sans Ultra Bold. Double-click the The selected area should now be the only black background image to make the layer editable, and move the layer and white object. Ctrl/right-click the layer again above the type’s layer. Ctrl/right-click on the image’s layer and select and select Release Clipping Mask to remove. Create Clipping Mask to apply the image to just the inside of the text. 252 PHOTOSHOP CREATIVE COLLECTION

Change the weather We’ve Tip Replace one subject with another transformed this cityscape, Using clipping masks, a subject such as the sky in our which had a grey skyline, into Clipping image can be replaced with a sunnier one; the options a more dramatic image using mask are limitless depending on the mood you want to set. clipping masks. After selecting shortcut the sky, we dragged the new 01Make a one onto the image and applied Makinglifealittle selection a clipping mask. easier,thereis Start o by selecting aquickerwayof the sky using the Quick A bluer ocean Afterselectingthesea addingaclipping Selection tool. The size of our image and placing it on its own masktolayersinside of the brush determines layer (Layer>New>Layer Via Copy), we theLayerspalette. how much area will be applied the Curves adjustment layer to Floatthemouseover selected, and holding add more punch, and with a clipping thelinebetweenthe Alt and clicking with the masktojusta ectthesea. twolayersyou’re tool undoes a selection. lookingtoconnect, Create a new blank layer. holdAltandclickto applythemask. 02 Fill a mask Now go to Clipped layers In Edit>Fill and choose the Layers palette, Black from Contents. clipped layers are Hit OK and then represented by Ctrl/Cmd+D to remove an arrow pointing the selection. Go to down to the Filter>Blur>Gaussian layer beneath. Blur and apply 0.5px. Adjustment This softens the edges layers as well as of the black ll. ordinary layers can have clipping 03Compose masks applied. your sky Open an image with the sky you want to use and drag it onto the main artwork. You should now have three layers in the Layers palette, and a new sky layer. Ctrl/right-click and hit Create Clipping Mask to position the sky. Clipping Smart Objects Content and base layers Group together multiple clipping masks How do they work? When working with multiple clipping A clipping mask works on the masks in one image, you can group basis of having two layers: a them together and apply an overall base and content. The base layer clipping mask. Select all your clipped forms the shape for the content layers by holding Shift and clicking the layer to fit into, and can be any first and last layers. Go to Layer> Smart shape you desire. This is similar Object>Convert To Smart Object; this to a layer mask in respect of places all the layers onto one layer creating a ‘window’ for a layer, that’s still editable (double-click on but clipping masks are faster the layer to edit). By holding Alt and to change and apply. Another clicking on the line between the Smart advantage of clipping masks Object and the layer below in your is that when the base layer’s Layers palette, you can turn all the opacity or blend mode is altered, clipping masks on or off. so is the content layer’s. PHOTOSHOP CREATIVE COLLECTION 253

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