SILHOUETTES CREATION USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOPWritten by BLUR LOTERIÑA
Do you want your image to have that commercial look? If you want to learn how to make a stunning background like what you always see on posters, follow these simple steps.When you read a magazine, try to focus on ad pages. Can you see cigarette ad with valleys and lakes for a background? Or a waterfall that was set behind a bar of soap? These images are called silhouetted images. When you say silhouette, it means that an image does not have a background of its own. It uses either text or other images as its environment. But before you can make this kind of image in Photoshop, you will have to create a Clipping Path first. The first step is to put your image before a white background. You can do this by cutting an image from one document and pasting it to another document with a white background and make necessary modifications. But, it is much better if you photograph your desired image and put a plain white paper or something for a background. Then, you can add text to serve as its background. That was easy. But what if you are required to use another image as a background? This can be solved by Clipping Path. How do we use this?
| | Photoshop and Illustrator - How good does it get?Written by Maricon Williams
Which is better program – Photoshop or Illustrator? Many of us are still entertaining hazy notions about two programs. It is high time to distinguish two - which is which really? To boot, Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap image processing and manipulation program. It is well matched with creating, transforming and outputting digital images of a photographic nature which share common pixels in a bitmap. Its primary operations include access or acquisition of photographic digital graphics; alter, transform, modify, and colorize pixels in images; produce digital files and prepare complicated color or black and white images for further processing. Photoshop manipulates individual color pixels within a fixed bitmap. A less costly version of Photoshop is Photoshop Elements (PSE). It can do 90% of what Photoshop does without higher-end pre-press printing capabilities. Adobe Illustrator, on other hand, is a vector-based postscript drawing program which creates curved paths called Bezier curves connected by modifiable anchor points. Through these anchors, file is eventually editable since they do not leave file. Vector based drawing program create various elements of image as individual vector objects which retain their characteristics and do not become a piece of a bitmap. Illustrator can do many things just like Photoshop. It can do everything that a graphic designer wants to be done except manipulate photos.
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