In this movie I'll show you how to create a pattern of custom shapes.…Specifically we're going to be drawing this perfect row of scissors below…the dotted rectangle.…I'll go ahead and turn that Scissors layer off because we're going to recreate it.…And then I'll click on a Rounded Rectangle layer to make it active, so that…we create the new lawyer in front of it, and I'll click and hold on Rounded…Rectangle tool, in my case, to bring up the fly-out menu and choose the Custom…Shape tool from the bottom of the list.…Then go up here to the Shape option, near the right-hand side of the…Options bar, and click on the down pointing arrow head in order to bring up…a list of custom shapes.…
Now these aren't all the shapes that ship along with Photoshop, these are just…the ones that show up by default.…If you want to see every single one of them--which you do, because there's a…lot of great shapes here--then click on this little gear icon in order to bring…up this popup menu and choose, All, which will load up every single shape that…
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7/20/2012- Performing automatic retouch, scaling, and more with the Content-Aware tools
- Editing the histogram
- Customizing a Levels adjustment
- Making channel-by-channel Levels adjustments
- Sharpening with the Smart Sharpen, Emboss, and High Pass filters
- Working with vector-based type
- Kerning and tracking characters
- Creating text on a path
- Drawing and customizing shapes
- Creating depth, contour, and texture with layer effects
- Liquifying an image
- Simulating an infrared photo
- Adjusting print position, size, and color
- Creating the perfect JPEG image
- Downsampling for the web
Skill Level Intermediate
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Using Content-Aware Patch5m 42s
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Scaling in multiple passes2m 21s
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Protecting skin tones3m 31s
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Editing the histogram1m 50s
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Correcting for camera shake3m 25s
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Sharpening with High Pass4m 44s
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Painting in sharpness3m 1s
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How sharpening works1m 38s
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14. Creating and Formatting Text
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Font and type style tricks7m 10s
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Type size and color tricks7m 29s
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Creating text along a path6m 12s
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Adjusting baseline shift5m 40s
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Vector-based type1m 35s
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15. Drawing Shapes
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The other vector-based layer1m 40s
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16. Layer Effects
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Depth, contour, and texture1m 28s
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The power of the drop shadow7m 37s
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17. Paragraph, Character, and Layer Styles
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Styles store settings1m 38s
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Scale, duplicate, and repeat4m 30s
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Meet the transformations1m 55s
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19. Liquifying an Image
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Lifting and slimming details9m 31s
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Improving a model's posture4m 40s
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20. Converting to Black & White
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Three ways to grayscale5m 36s
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21. Printing an Image
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Using the test document3m 18s
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Establishing a bleed3m 44s
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Getting reliable color5m 54s
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Special printing options5m 1s
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Creating contact sheets4m 49s
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Creating a multipage PDF3m 51s
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The many ways to print1m 41s
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22. Saving for the Web
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Introducing Save for Web4m 54s
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The two varieties of PNG3m 57s
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Downsampling for the web5m 19s
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Making Internet imagery1m 10s
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