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 userepparttar 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 isrepparttar 138854 software program for creating vector graphics. However, withrepparttar 138855 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,repparttar 138856 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 intorepparttar 138857 center ofrepparttar 138858 canvas and zoom in about 200% - 300%. After adjusting your zoom view, pick outrepparttar 138859 darkest color in your image. Withrepparttar 138860 use ofrepparttar 138861 Eyedropper tool selectrepparttar 138862 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 torepparttar web design world!

Of course there are many elements to keep in mind in creating and designing your web page. Knowing these things,repparttar 138853 next question should aptly be -- how will you get them done accordingly?

There’srepparttar 138854 HTML, if you know how. HTML makes it definitely possible to code a simple webpage fairly quickly, and consequently getrepparttar 138855 information you need onrepparttar 138856 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 dorepparttar 138857 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.

Havingrepparttar 138858 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 withrepparttar 138859 right web development tools, you don't even need any prior HTML knowledge just to get intorepparttar 138860 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 andrepparttar 138861 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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