Photoshop’s Pen Tool for Tracing Vectors Written by kay zetkin
Photoshop offers lots of drawing, illustrating and imaging tools for a web designer to take advantage of. In this tutorial, we will be given an opportunity to learn how to use Pen Tool for tracing images in your computer and apply them to create a vector graphics effect by tracing. Everyone of us knows that CorelDraw is software program for creating vector graphics. However, with Photoshop’s Pen Tool, you can create paths over an image and create an equally passable vector graphics that’s lifelike. Pen Tool can do it for you by creating a power-packed modern tracing effect. Preparing to start? First of all, choose an image you would like to trace vectors in. Any image you like would be applicable. You can even grab it from either gogle or a stock image CD. But, as a beginner, it’s best to pick something that has a face in it or an animal’s head. With this kind of image, experiment won’t get too complicated for you comprehend. Scale down large images that you have chosen to more workable proportions. The second step is to choose your palette. Move your picture into center of canvas and zoom in about 200% - 300%. After adjusting your zoom view, pick out darkest color in your image. With use of Eyedropper tool select darkest color for your palette.
| | Bring to Life your Ideal Web Pages Written by kay zetkin
Planning to create and design your own web page? What can we say but -- welcome to web design world!Of course there are many elements to keep in mind in creating and designing your web page. Knowing these things, next question should aptly be -- how will you get them done accordingly? There’s HTML, if you know how. HTML makes it definitely possible to code a simple webpage fairly quickly, and consequently get information you need on Web as soon as possible. But let’s say you’re targeting a web page with a handful of pictures or a table and not just one with simple text and one-color design, HTML might not do trick for you. Coding by hand is quite time-consuming if you have a complex web page design in mind. Thus, it advisable to look into some useful and applicable web development tools that will help you put together and create what you have exactly in mind with less time, cost and strains. Having appropriate Web development tools, e.g. Macromedia Flash, PHP, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, etc., are a great asset in building a webpage. It doesn’t even matter if you’re designing your first page or fiftieth. By being armed with right web development tools, you don't even need any prior HTML knowledge just to get into programs and start building your web pages. Though if you happen to have some HTML experience then it makes things even easier. You can combine your HTML knowledge and right tools to achieve common tasks. Manage several by having them assigned to certain buttons that permits quick and easy coding.
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