June 2013
Beginner
926 pages
36h 13m
English
Content preview from Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Combining Vectors and Rasters
A fun trend in the design world is to combine vectors with rasters (The Open Dialog Box explains the difference); in other words, to combine illustrations with photographs, a technique that provides an interesting look and lets you get creative. Because you can place vectors as Smart Objects (Using Smart Objects), they remain infinitely resizable, letting you experiment with them as backgrounds, artful embellishments, and even ornamental photo frames. As you can see in Figure 8-26, adding vectors to photos is a ton of fun.
Figure 8-26. A dash of vector art can spice up any photo. It’s as if you’re blending real images with imaginary ones. Even if you can’t draw these little goodies yourself, stock-image companies like iStockphoto.com and Fotolia.com sell affordable vector images so you can still join in the fun. In fact, if you visit www.lesa.in/istockdeal, you can download 10 images for free! Another great resource for vectors is GraphicAuthority.com.
You can add vector art to images in a couple of ways:
Place it. With a document open, choose File→Place and navigate to the vector file on your hard drive (these files are usually in EPS [Encapsulated PostScript] or AI [Adobe Illustrator] format). This inserts the file as a Smart Object (Using Smart Objects). Since you’ll most likely need to resize the artwork, Photoshop considerately surrounds it with the ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.