Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Isolating an image element, part of Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery.
I have opened Water drops.jpg, which is found inside the 27_pen_tool folder, and…those of you who've been with me for the long haul may recall this image from…the Navigation chapter, back in the Fundamentals portion of this series.…The image comes to us from Victor Burnside of the Fotolia Image Library, and…what we are going to do is we are going to take one of these beautiful details…here, this forward drop, and we are going to isolate it from the rest of the…image to produce this file right here, it's called Isolated drop.psd, and it…forces us to view this detail basically out of context.…
Then we could set some type around the image, if we are bringing it into another…document and so forth.…So it's a fairly simple construction what we have going here.…If I turn off the top layer, you can see behind it we have a copy of that same…layer with a rather amorphous layer mask assigned to it.…It's pretty easy to draw this mask actually.…It's all painted in.…It's just a hand-painted mask.…So nothing all that difficult about it, however the top layer is extremely…
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9/30/2010Recommended prerequisites: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals and Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced.
- Using masks and blend modes in radically new ways
- Mastering the Pen tool and Paths panel
- Transforming and maximizing Smart Objects
- Employing Smart Filters to create complex effects
- Exploring the capabilities of Bristle brushes and the Mixer Brush
- Merging multiple images into seamless panoramas
- Exploring the full range of luminance with HDR Pro
- Recording actions and batching-processing images
Skill Level Advanced
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Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?
A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.
Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Presets/Keyboard Shortcuts
Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."
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See ya1m 19s
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