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Posted By Martin Evening

Here’s a tip for using the new Smart Object feature of Photoshop CS2 and mutiple raw exposures with Camera Raw to produce a simple high dynamic range image blend.

It has been suggested that we may see one-shot cameras with extended dynamic ranges and we are already seeing the potential to record a wide range of tones with the cameras that are in use today. But when shooting outside, we often encounter scenes whose dynamic range is beyond what today’s cameras can capture. To get the most out of our raw files it can sometimes be useful to use the Camera Raw plug-in to interpret the raw data using two or more conversions and combine these together as layers and blend them together to produce a single composite image. This will work, but requires many steps. The other way is to place the raw files as Smart Objects in Photoshop CS2.

To do this, you need to select a raw camera file in Bridge and go to the Bridge main menu and choose File > Place > In Photoshop. This is the simplest way to convert a raw image into a Smart Object. Once the image is placed in this way you can create an unlinked duplicate of the Smart Object layer by choosing Layer > Smart Objects > New Smart Object via Copy. Then go to the Layers palette and choose Edit Contents to make further adjustments to both the original and the copied Smart Object layer (or layers). So let’s have a quick look at how you can do this in Photoshop CS2.

Figure 1 - To begin with I created a new document in Photoshop using a preset setting that matched the standard size pixel dimensions of the camera I was using.

Figure 2 - I then selected a raw image in Bridge. . .

Figure 3 - . . .and chose File > Place > In Photoshop from the Bridge menu. This opened the selected image in Photoshop and placed it as a Smart Object Layer above the Background layer.

Click on image to see full size dialog in a new window.
Figure 4 - As the layer was placed, the Camera Raw dialog opened allowing me to edit the Camera Raw settings before clicking Open to OK the settings for this first placed, Smart Object layer.

Figure 5 - Here you can see the camera raw image placed as a Smart Object layer in the layers palette. I then moused down on this first Smart Object layer using Control (Mac) right mouse (PC) to access the contextual menu and selected New Smart Object via Copy.

Figure 6 - This created a new duplicate Smart Object layer.

Click on image to see full size dialog in a new window.
Figure 7 - I was able to edit the Contents of the copied Smart Object layer by choosing Edit Contents from the Layers palette menu or by simply double-clicking the Smart Object layer. In the dialog shown here, you can see that I applied a lighter image adjustment to bring out more detail in the shadows. I then clicked the Open button to OK the adjustment. This updated the Smart Object copy layer.

Figure 8 - Finally, I added a layer mask to the copy layer and applied a black to white gradient to create a transitional fade between the two smart object layers.

Figure 9 - The final combination blends the two different exposures to produce this result.

This technique can be adapted in various ways. For example, you can use the layer blending options to change the layer blend mode or double-click the layer to open the Layer Style dialog where you can adjust the Blend if: This Layer options to adjust the transition between the two Smart Object layers.

There is also a much quicker way to place Camera Raw files as Smart Object layers. You can cut out steps 1,2, 4 and 5 completely by using Dr. Brown’s new Place-A-Matic script for Bridge. To find and get hold of this script, go to the PSN story: Dr. Brown – New Scripts!, from there you will be able to download the Dr. Brown’s Services 1.0 script for Bridge. And do remember to watch the movie as this will show you how to install the script correctly on a Mac or PC computer. Once you have installed the Dr. Brown’s Services 1.0 script, select the photograph in Bridge that you want to place and then go to the Bridge Tools menu and choose the above script from the menu.

The script will automatically create a new document with the correct dimensions and open the Camera Raw dialog to allow you to adjust the settings for the first camera raw Smart Object layer. After you click Open, the script will automatically create a duplicate camera raw Smart Object layer and allow you to create a new camera raw setting for the second Smart Object layer.

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Posted By Jeff Schewe

The release of Adobe Photoshop CS2 heralds a brand new version of Adobe Camera Raw. With the 3.0 version, Camera Raw has come of age as a significant workflow workhorse rather than a mere Plug-in for processing raw digital captures into Photoshop. Where once Camera Raw was tied to Photoshop alone in a modal processing state-one image at a time, Camera Raw has been expanded into a new dual-purpose role by working in both Adobe Bridge, and Photoshop CS2 for processing raw files. (Bridge is Adobe’s new file browsing application.) Now, a photographer can adjust settings of raw files while Camera Raw is hosted by Bridge and be processing images by Camera Raw hosted by Photoshop CS2-at the same time. Camera Raw has broken its modal shackles.
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Posted By Martin Evening

This is the result of replacing an image in the book using the new Smart Objects and Warp features in Photoshop CS2.

The Transform command in Photoshop allows you to scale and change the shape of an image. But one of the drawbacks of using this tool is that up until now, it has always been a one-way process in which the pixels inevitably become degraded as successive transforms are applied. The new Smart Object feature in Photoshop CS2 allows you to preserve the integrity of the image data by applying the transform changes to a proxy version of the image instead of editing the original pixels.

In the following tutorial Martin Evening shows you how to edit a Smart Object layer using the Transform tool in combination with the new Warp mode in Photoshop CS2.

Figure 1. The starting point here is a picture of an open book that has been photographed using natural daylight. Over the next few steps I will show you how to add a new image on a layer and then apply a warp transformation to make it match the appearance of the photograph on the right hand page.

Figure 2. When you add a new layer in Photoshop CS2 you can promote it to become a Smart Object via the Layers palette fly-out menu. Once a layer (or group of layers) has been grouped to become a Smart Object its status will be indicated by the Smart Object layer icon in the bottom right corner of the layer thumbnail icon. Once you have created a Smart Object you can carry out multiple transforms to the Smart Object layer without progressively degrading the pixels.

Figure 3. In this next step, the Smart Object layer was scaled down in size via the Image menu Transform command so that the photograph on the Smart Object layer was roughly the same size as the photograph in the book.

Figure 4. You can switch from the Transform mode to Warp mode by clicking on the button (circled) in the tool options bar. This button will allow you to toggle easily between the transform and warp modes. In the example shown here, I was able to use the corner warp handles to distort the Smart Object layer so that it matched the shape of the photograph on the page below.

Figure 5. Once I had warped the photograph, I needed to make sure it matched the lighting in the original photograph. To do this, I added a new curves adjustment layer above the Right page layer. I then created a clipping mask so that the Curves adjustment layer adjusted the Right page layer only. One easy way to create a clipping mask is to Option/Alt click the divider between the adjustment layer and image layer. To release a clipping mask, Option/Alt click on the divider again.

In this example I applied a curves adjustment to darken the image to match the original image’s lighting. I filled the adjustment layer mask with black to hide the adjustment effect and then selected the paintbrush, using white as the foreground color, to paint in the darkening adjustment across the left edge of the picture so that the photograph on the Right page layer matched the shading in the original photograph.

Figure 6. You can edit a Smart Object layer by double-clicking on the thumbnail image icon in the Layers palette. This will open the Smart Object layer as a separate document. In the example shown here, I added a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to colorize the image. Once you have finished editing the Smart Object layer, use File > Save or Command/Control-S to save any changes made. This will update the Smart Object layer in the master/parent image and if you wish you can now close the Smart Object image window.

Figure 7. In the final version shown here you can see all the changes that I made in which I replaced the photograph on the right hand page with a new one that matched the shape and lighting of the original and also matched the color of the photograph on the left hand page.

Martin Evening is the author of Photoshop CS2 for Photographers published by Focal Press. This new edition will be hitting the stores the third week of May, 2005.

Based in London, Martin is an advertising photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. As a successful photographer, Martin is well known in London for his fashion and beauty work. Check out Martin’s web site.

In addition, Martin is a principal of PixelGenius where he designed and was product manger for the recently released PhotoKit Color. PhotoKit Color applies precise color corrections, automatic color balancing and creative coloring effects. PhotoKit Color offers a comprehensive set of coloring tools for Photoshop 7.0 and Photoshop CS for both Macintosh and Windows.

Martin also works with the Adobe Photoshop engineering team consulting on new feature development and alpha and beta testing. He worked alpha & beta for Photoshop CS2 and was influential in the new Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw 3.0.
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How to create a image of Colorful shopping Bag icon

If you are looking for an icon for a shopping webite you may spend sometime learning this adobe tutorial and acquire skill to design a
of Colorful shopping Bag icon.

[1]- Firstlly take a new blank document size 321×301pixel

. RGB
color mode. with white background

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[2]- Look below and create a new Rectangul

now create a new
Lyer1 from the Layer window

after that fill the any nice color help by the

Linear
Gradient tool , Now right click and

select the Stroke width-3 pixel

[3]- Now press the Ctrl+T and drag it

as below after that press
the Enter key

now press the Ctrl+D

I will explain here two ways for crop picture in Photoshop.
- First way is easy, but you have to be very precise. Just pick Rectangular marquee tool from tools palette, and make selection on photo you are working on. Select part you want to stay. Than, just go to Image-crop, and you’re done. If you don’t like what you’re done, you always can go to Edit-Step backward.

- Another way is using crop tool. Pick it up from tools menu  (see picture) and make selection on photo. Now, you have 8 points where you can change selection, by pulling some point (color picture).

When you are finished with that, go to Image-crop, and you’re done.

A great tip from the Photoshop guys showing how to create a great self-contained animation using AdobePhotoshop. You will need Photoshop, Adobe Image Ready and you will learn creat nice flash animation. Or gif animation, you can chose.
When we are talking about pictures, you’ll need two pictures (they used girl and nature for background here). And prepare text you will input (your slogan, …).
It’s not hard to do tutorial, you will use layers, duplicating layers, opacity, move tool. In ImageReady you shall use “Tweens animation frames” tool.
And you can see this video tutorial now:

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll make a nice old paper image. Let’s start.

Open AdobePhotoshop. Open New document, 150×200 pixels with white background.
Create a new layer, pick Rectangular Marquee Tool, mark and paint selection in black. Just like on this image.

Deselect. Go to FILTER - BRUSHED STROKES - SPRAYED STROKES , and set:
Stroke Length to 10
Spray Radius to 15
Stroke Direction - Horizontal.

In Tools, pick “Magic Wand” and click inside black rectangular. Now, invert selection and click Delete. Deselect.

Go again from “FILTER - BRUSHED STROKES - SPRAYED STROKES” part but instead Stroke Direction Horizontal pick “Right Diagonal”. Play with sliders a little to make nice effect.

CTRL + click on layer and pick Red:240, Green:225, Blue:205 color. Paint black rectangular.

Make new layer. In brush, pick Soft brush 45. Opacity to 20%. Mix Red:116, Green:74, Blue:0 color and paint edges.

CTRL Click on rectangular layer to load selection, invert it and delete.
Link layers and merge linked.
Go to FILTER - EFFECTS - Outer Glow. Mode - normal.
Opacity - 75%.
Blur - 1 pixels.
Intensity - 50%.

Now, go to FILTER - EFFECTS - Drop Shadow.
Mode - multiply.
Opacity - 50%.
Angle 135
Distance 7 pixels.
Blur 6.
Intensity 0%.

Now go to IMAGE - ADJUST - Brightness/Contrast, and add picture or text.

You just made old paper in Photoshop for your usage.

Title: Cool Bulging text effect for your banner project

Description: Lets be creative and use some photoshop features to create a emanating or bulge text effect.

Photoshop tutorial - How to make create a bulge text effect for a logo.

[1] Take a new file of 500 pixels by 500 pixels of resolution 72 dpi. Choose the RGB mode.

[2] Now select the Text Tool and create your text as shown image below.

[3] With your type tool still selected
click on the “Create warped Text”
button to open the wrap text box.

[4] Use these settings.

[5] Your image should be look like this.

[6] Then make the copy of
Layer Intel see in the next image.

[7] And now press the Cntl+E
to merge down the Intel Layer
don’t merge intel copy layer
see in the next image.

[8] And hide the Inter Copy
Layer as shown fig. below.

[9] Now go to Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates
use these settings.

[10] Then go to Image>Rotate Canvas 90 CW.

[11] Your image look like this.

[12] Then go to Filter>Stylize>Wind
use the following settings.

[13] Then press Cntl+F to
reapte wind effect 12 time.

[14] Then to go Image>Rotate Canvas> 90CCW.

[15] Now go to Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates
use these settings.

[16] Your image should be look like this.

[17] Now enable to top layer
change the color would you like.

[18] Your image will be look like this.

[19] Then go to Blending Option
select the Gradient Overlay use these settings.

[20] And set the Gradient color
as shown image below.

[21] Here is final step go to Blending Option
select Stroke Structure use the following settings.

[22] Your final image should be look like this.

Here’s how you can Make your own letter A brush in Photoshop.

Open new Photoshop document, 80×80 pixels, Contents - White. Set foreground color to black. Pick Type tool. Chose Elephant font, Regular, 36 pixels, Strong. Now, type letter “A” in document. Do it upper case. Double-click on that layer to open layer style. left-click on Drop shadow. I’ve set Opacity to 75%, Distance and Size on 5 and Spread on 0. But you can play with it and figure what you like.

Now, just go to Edit - Define brush and pop-up will show up. There, type name for your brush (”letter A” can be appropriate name for that brush).

You just made letter A brush. Now, you can try it. Open some image from your hard drive in your AdobePhotoshop. Pick paintbrush tool. In Brush at top, find your new Letter A brush and click once. After, just click on picture where you would like to stamp A letter.

You can also make several Letter A brushes in different sizes. Can be proper for different image sizes.

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