Photoshop CS3: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks includes 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Photoshop CS3. The easy-to-use layout lets you work through all the tasks from beginning to end or jump in at random. Who is this blog for? You already know Photoshop basics. Now you would like to go beyond, with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the blog for you. Conventions Used In this blog 1 Steps this blog uses step-by-step instructions to guide you easily through each task. Numbered callouts on every screenshot show you exactly how to perform each task, step by step. 2 Tips Practical tips provide insights to save you time and trouble, caution you about hazards to avoid, and reveal how to do things with Photoshop CS3 that you never thought possible! 3 Task Numbers Task numbers from 1 to 100 indicate which lesson you are working on. 0 Repeat steps 8 and 9 so that there is only one layer above the Background layer. ! Click File. @ Click Automate. # Click Crop and Straighten Photos. !! ## %% @@ 00 ^^ ^^ ^^ Photoshop separates the segments and creates three new files with the name of the original plus copy, copy 2, and copy 3. $ Click the Close button of the original file. % Click the Maximize button on each of the three new files to enlarge them. ^ Click and drag each file to align the three new separate files to view the triptych. 59Chapter 3: Straightening, Cropping, and Resizing CCaauuttiioonn!! Be sure to create a new layer for each frame that you draw. You can then resize and rotate the shapes by clicking Edit . Free Transform and transforming the frame shape with the transformation anchors. Before you apply the Crop and Straighten Photos command, merge all the custom shape layers into one layer above the original image. MMoorree OOppttiioonnss!! Each image has a shape layer above the photo layer. You can drag the shape layer to the Trash to remove it, or you can use the shape to add a framed look. Press (Ctrl) + click the shape layer to select it. Click Edit . Fill and select a new color for the frames. Then click Layer . Layer Style and apply a bevel and drop shadow to the shape layer. 1 In a large file, click and hold the Rectangle tool and select the Custom Shape tool. 2 Click the Fill Pixels icon in the Options bar. 3 Click here. 4 Select the square thin frame shape. 5 Click the New Layer icon in the Layers palette. CROP MULTIPLE IMAGES from one original to create a triptych Although tools such as the Crop and Straighten Photos command are meant as productivity aids to crop and straighten multiple images at one time, you can use the same tool in various creative ways. You can create multiple images from one file by using the command to divide one photograph into multiple sections. You can make individual photographs from each section of the original or apply a diptych or triptych look to an image, making two or three panels for the image, which you can print and frame separately. Select a plain, rectangular frame shape as a custom shape to designate the areas that you want to crop into new images. Photoshop turns those separate shapes into separate images that you can save as new files. The trick to this technique is to leave a small margin around each of the shape selections and to create a separate layer for each shape when you use the Custom Shape tool. You can use the shape as part of your final print, or you can delete it because it is on a separate layer. 11 55 88 11 33 22 66 77 77 44 99 l A new blank layer is placed above the background. 6 Click and drag a frame shape in the image. 7 Repeat steps 5 and 6 twice to have two more layers and two more frame shapes. NNoottee:: Keep at least a 1/8 inch space between each shape. 8 Click here. 9 Click Merge Down. 58 33 44 22 11 Demonstrates a new spin on a common task Introduces a new skill or a new task Combines multiple skills requiring in-depth knowledge Requires extensive skill and may involve other technologies 4 Difficulty Levels For quick reference, the symbol below the task number marks the difficulty level of each task.
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