- A few weeks ago we looked at Photoshop with Simon and egan the Photoshop induction by learning the differences between destructive and non destructive transformations on images.
- Destructive transformations are where the changes made to an image cannot be reversed or amended and they happen when an image is changed directly, rather than through using layers or layer masks.
- Using non destructive methods allows you to go back and fix areas of an image, or revert them to how they originally were.
- Layer masks are found in the layers panel, layers can be edited once an image is opened in Photoshop.
- Edited image; the colourful areas appear better here than on the original, yet the detailing in the white window areas is lost.
- This can be fixed by painting over these areas in black as this reverts those areas back to the original image, leaving the rest which hasn't been painted over in black as the edited version.
- Layer masks can also be adjusted by using different types of selection tools (See below). Other transformations can be applied in a similar way such as background colours, type and other elements too.
- One problem which appears with editing and printing images when using Photoshop, is making sure the image is set up correctly for printing.
- If an image has been created in RGB mode, then the colours used in it will work on screen, yet a printer can only print a selection of those colours. So, for an image to be printed properly, it has to be in CMYK mode.
- Gamut warning shows the range of colours in the image which aren't in CMYK and therefore can't be printed. The hue, saturation and levels can therefore be adjusted to fix the colours in the image til they are in CMYK.
'Getting Photoshop to do the work for us'
- One of the benefits of Photoshop is that it can be set to literally do the work for you. For example, when it comes to making panorama images by combining several images together, it can be incredibly difficult to line things up and have them all in the correct proportions, yet Photoshop can quite easily create a panorama image with just a little setting up and using the Photomerge tool.
- One of the benefits of Photoshop is that it can be set to literally do the work for you. For example, when it comes to making panorama images by combining several images together, it can be incredibly difficult to line things up and have them all in the correct proportions, yet Photoshop can quite easily create a panorama image with just a little setting up and using the Photomerge tool.
Here is one I created myself when I got home, using our Flat kitchen and living area;
- Another useful tool for uploading images to the internet is a Photoshop Droplet.
- This can be set up to allow you to apply the same transformation to a number of different images all in one go, so effectively it only has to be done once and Photoshop will replicate the actions and apply them to the images placed into the droplet.
- After creating the droplet, images can be dragged to it, they will then be each resized and saved in a specific folder.
