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You can isolate all the photos within a given album by clicking the album name in the Albums panel.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h3>Creating a Smart Album</h3>\r\nYou can perform a search based on a number of different criteria. The Smart Album feature enables you to save the search results in an album. After you have all the files shown in the Organizer based on the searches you perform, you can create a Smart Album as follows:\r\n<ol class=\"level-one\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Open the New menu on the Albums panel and choose New Smart Album.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">The New Smart Album dialog box opens.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Type a name for your new Smart Album.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Make selections for the search criteria below the Name text box.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">You can search using multiple criteria by clicking the Plus (+) icon in the New Smart Album dialog box. 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It’s the place where multiple sequences, your video and audio assets, and alternate ways to view them all come together. Here&#8217;s how to set up a new project:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Create a project</strong>. After opening Premiere Pro, you can either click New Project in the welcome screen or go to File ➪ New ➪ Project from the main menu.</li>\n<li><strong>Name the project</strong>. Give it descriptive name and designate a older to save it with your other projects.</li>\n<li><strong>Making your sequence</strong>. Also known as the timeline, to create each sequence go to File ➪ New ➪ Sequence.</li>\n<li><strong>Name the sequence</strong>. Use a naming convention that provides pertinent information like location, subject, and date. For example: PODUNK_PLAY_20220202</li>\n<li><strong>Import Content</strong>. This refers to getting your clip and assets into your project folder, either by ingesting from the camera, transferring from the media card, or import an existing file on your hard drive.</li>\n</ol>\n"},{"title":"Bringing content into your movie","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>With features and functions that transform old school linear video editing from the suite to your desktop, Premiere Pro lets you bring content from a variety of sources into the workspace.</p>\n<p>Let’s examine various ways to get that media into the project.</p>\n<p>Not sure what format you want?  Here’s the lowdown on some of the most common and why you should or should not use it:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>QuickTime</strong>: More than a format, it’s an entire framework, but that’s not what matters in this situation. The QuickTime file format will give you an uncompressed file that’s perfect for archiving and high-level showing, but not so much for online use or sharing.</li>\n<li><strong>Adobe Bridge</strong>: Use Bridge to locate video, audio, and photo files throughout your system and import them into Premiere Pro.</li>\n<li><strong>Camcorder</strong>: Many allow you to connect via USB and capture directly into Premiere Pro.</li>\n<li><strong>Hard drive</strong>: Saved files can be imported from your hard drive or an external drive into your project.</li>\n<li><strong>DVD</strong>: Grabbing files from a data DVD is as easy as finding them on your other drives. Importing from a self-playing DVD is not as easy, but with the proper software, you can extract sections with ease.</li>\n<li><strong>Recorded from Zoom</strong>: Recording interviews over Zoom has become quite popular, and the files are easily importable.</li>\n<li><strong>Photos from cameras or devices</strong>: Plug it in, search for the file, and import it into Premiere Pro.</li>\n<li><strong>Downloading from your smartphone</strong>: Grab content from the cloud or plug in your smartphone, export it to a drive, and import it.</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"Exporting your movie","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>In the spirit of just about everything else in Premiere Pro, there’s no single solution when it comes to exporting your production. Numerous choices for export are available, and at your fingertips.</p>\n<p>Whether you’re hoping to post a video to your YouTube channel or show it on a big screen at a wedding, the journey to exporting video out of the timeline begins with the Export panel, shown below.</p>\n<div class=\"figure-container\"><figure id=\"attachment_293326\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_293326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 545px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-293326 size-full\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/Premiere-Pro-CC-export-panel.jpg\" alt=\"Premiere Pro CC export panel\" width=\"535\" height=\"395\" /><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_293326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premiere Pro CC&#8217;s export panel</figcaption></figure></div><div class=\"clearfix\"></div>\n<p>Let’s run through the process and then examine the options. 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Unless you’re trying to work within an active selection, press Command+D (Mac) or Ctrl+D (Windows) to deselect. An active selection elsewhere may be restricting your work.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\">Reset the tool. Right-click on the tool icon at the left end of the Options bar and select choose Reset Tool from the drop-down menu.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\">Check the Layers and Channels panels. Make sure you have the correct layer active and that the layer (not a layer mask) is active. Check the Channels panel to make sure you have the color channels active.</p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<h3>When Photoshop commands aren’t available</h3>\n<p>You move the cursor to the menu and click, only to discover that the command you want is grayed out! Your next stop should be the Image→Mode menu. Check to make sure that the image’s color mode and color depth are appropriate for the command you want to use. (Many of Photoshop’s filters, for example, can be used only with 8-bit/RGB images.)</p>\n<h3>Fixing Photoshop</h3>\n<p>When Photoshop just won’t work properly, try replacing the Preferences file by using this procedure:</p>\n<ol class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\">Open Photoshop and save your custom goodies. Choose Edit→Presets→Preset Manager to save sets of styles, brushes, and other such bits and pieces you created. Use the Save Actions command in the Actions panel menu to save any sets of custom Actions.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\">Review your Preferences. Open Photoshop’s Preferences and go through each pane, noting your preferred settings so that you can restore your work environment later.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\">Quit Photoshop. You then restart the program like this:</p>\n<ul class=\"level-two\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\">On a Mac: Hold down Command+Shift+Option and restart Photoshop. When prompted, release the modifier keys and confirm, that yes, you do want to replace the Photoshop settings.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\">On a PC: Restart Photoshop and then immediately press and hold down Ctrl+Shift+Alt. When prompted, release the modifier keys and confirm, that yes, you do want to replace the Photoshop settings.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ol>\n"},{"title":"Selection tricks in Photoshop CC","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>Say you want to work on a part, or selection, of an image instead of the whole photo. Photoshop CC has a large group of selection commands and tools. Here are a few tricks to add to your repertoire:</p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>To:</th>\n<th>Do:</th>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Make a selection of all pixels on a layer</td>\n<td>Command+click/Ctrl+click the layer thumbnail.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Load a layer mask as a selection</td>\n<td>Command+click/Ctrl+click the mask thumbnail.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Load an alpha channel as a selection</td>\n<td>Command+click/Ctrl+click the channel thumbnail.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Load all pixels according to luminosity</td>\n<td>Command+click/Ctrl+click the RGB channel thumbnail.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n"},{"title":"Photoshop CC layer-merging tricks","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>Here are some tricks for working with layers in Photoshop CC if the Layers palette gets too crowded, or if you need to apply the same filter to multiple layers, streamline your Layers palette, or work with multiple layers as a single entity:</p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>To:</th>\n<th>Do:</th>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Merge the active layer into the layer below</td>\n<td>Command+E/Ctrl+E</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Merge all visible layers into the active layer</td>\n<td>Command+Shift+E/Ctrl+Shift+E</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Merge a copy of all visible layers into a new layer</td>\n<td>Command+Shift+Option+E/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n"},{"title":"Photoshop CC filter gallery colors","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>Many of Photoshop CC&#8217;s creative filters use foreground color, background color, or both, and you should select these colors before you get into the Filter gallery. Use this list for important Photoshop filters and the colors they use:</p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Filter</th>\n<th>Color(s)</th>\n<th>Filter</th>\n<th>Color(s)</th>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Artistic→Colored Pencil</td>\n<td>Background</td>\n<td>Sketch→Graphic Pen</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Artistic→Neon Glow</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n<td>Sketch→Halftone Pattern</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brush Strokes→Accented Edges</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n<td>Sketch→Note Paper</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Distort→Diffuse Glow</td>\n<td>Background</td>\n<td>Sketch→Photocopy</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td></td>\n<td>Sketch→Plaster</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td></td>\n<td>Sketch→Reticulation</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sketch→Bas Relief</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n<td>Sketch→Stamp</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sketch→Chalk &amp; Charcoal</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n<td>Sketch→Torn Edges</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sketch→Conte Crayon</td>\n<td>Foreground + background</td>\n<td>Texture→Stained Glass</td>\n<td>Foreground</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Two filters that are not in the Filter Gallery use Foreground and Background colors. 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The Expanded Cells style ([email protected]@&#8211;&gt;Grid View [email protected]@&#8211;&gt;Expanded Cells) puts a wealth of information right at your fingertips. Press J to cycle through each of the three cell styles.</p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-261793\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/lightroom-grid-view.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe Lightroom grid view\" width=\"535\" height=\"457\" /></p>\n"},{"title":"Keyboard shortcuts","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>Lightroom Classic provides keyboard shortcuts for various functions to help boost your productivity. Here are tried and true workhorse shortcuts every Lightroom Classic user should commit to memory:</p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\"><strong>To Do This</strong></td>\n<td width=\"96\"><strong>Use This Keyboard Shortcut</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Undo last action</td>\n<td width=\"96\">Command+Z (Ctrl+Z)</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Jump to Grid</td>\n<td width=\"96\">G</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Jump to Loupe</td>\n<td width=\"96\">E</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Jump to Develop</td>\n<td width=\"96\">D</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Jump to Crop tool</td>\n<td width=\"96\">R</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Cycle through screen modes</td>\n<td width=\"96\">Shift+F</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Full Screen Preview</td>\n<td width=\"96\">F</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Show/Hide both side panel groups</td>\n<td width=\"96\">Tab</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Show/Hide all panels</td>\n<td width=\"96\">Shift+Tab</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Select All</td>\n<td width=\"96\">Command+A (Ctrl+A)</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">Deselect All</td>\n<td width=\"96\">Command+D (Ctrl+D)</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n"},{"title":"Lightroom Classic's Library module toolbar","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>The Toolbar in the Lightroom Classic Library module has more gadgets than Batman’s utility belt. You can toggle each gadget on and off via the drop-down menu on the right side. You can show or hide the Toolbar in any module by pressing the T key.</p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-261800\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/lightroom-toolbar.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe Lightroom toolbar\" width=\"535\" height=\"170\" /></p>\n"},{"title":"Troubleshooting Lightroom Classic","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>There may come a time when you need Adobe Lightroom Classic help because Lightroom doesn’t behave the way you expect it to work or just plain doesn’t work at all. Don’t panic. Take a deep breath, and follow these troubleshooting steps. If the first step doesn’t resolve the problem, move on to the next step, and so on.</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Restart Lightroom Classic.</li>\n<li>Go to Help→Updates, and check for updates (install if available).</li>\n<li>Reboot your computer, and then restart Lightroom Classic.</li>\n<li>Replace Lightroom Classic’s preference file. Here’s how:\n<ol>\n<li>Close Lightroom Classic.</li>\n<li>Hold down the Option and Shift keys (Alt and Shift on Windows) while launching Lightroom Classic (keep the keys held down until you see the Reset Lightroom preferences prompt).</li>\n<li>Click the Reset Preferences button to reset all your preferences to their default settings.</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n<li><strong> Ask a friend. </strong>When all else fails, reach out for help.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photoshop Family Forum</a></li>\n<li>Reach out to me on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/@lightroomers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter: @Lightroomers</a></li>\n<li>Go to Help→System Info and note the Lightroom Classic Version Number to share with whomever you ask for help, along with your operating system version.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n"}],"videoInfo":{"videoId":null,"name":null,"accountId":null,"playerId":null,"thumbnailUrl":null,"description":null,"uploadDate":null}},"sponsorship":{"sponsorshipPage":false,"backgroundImage":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0},"brandingLine":"","brandingLink":"","brandingLogo":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0},"sponsorAd":"","sponsorEbookTitle":"","sponsorEbookLink":"","sponsorEbookImage":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0}},"primaryLearningPath":"Explore","lifeExpectancy":"One year","lifeExpectancySetFrom":"2022-03-09T00:00:00+00:00","dummiesForKids":"no","sponsoredContent":"no","adInfo":"","adPairKey":[]},"status":"publish","visibility":"public","articleId":261807},{"headers":{"creationTime":"2016-03-26T14:51:23+00:00","modifiedTime":"2022-03-08T14:37:39+00:00","timestamp":"2022-09-14T18:19:21+00:00"},"data":{"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Technology","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33512"},"slug":"technology","categoryId":33512},{"name":"Software","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33618"},"slug":"software","categoryId":33618},{"name":"Adobe Products","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33619"},"slug":"adobe-products","categoryId":33619},{"name":"Photoshop","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33629"},"slug":"photoshop","categoryId":33629}],"title":"Steps to Cleaning Up a Photo in Photoshop CC","strippedTitle":"steps to cleaning up a photo in photoshop cc","slug":"walk-through-cleaning-up-a-photo-in-photoshop-cc","canonicalUrl":"","seo":{"metaDescription":"Here's a step-by-step guide to how to improve a photo by deleting unwanted elements, cropping, and using other Photoshop CC tools.","noIndex":0,"noFollow":0},"content":"When cleaning up photos in Photoshop CC, large challenges sometime require drastic measures, such as duplicate layers and layer masks. Take a look at the following figure. At the top left, you see the “before” photo: at the top right, the “after” image. Below are images from three key steps in the process.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/377949.image0.jpg\" alt=\"image0.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" />\r\n\r\nHere are the steps taken to remove the boy from the group photo:\r\n<ol class=\"level-one\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Decide what needs to go and how best to cover it.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">In this case, the young man is no longer welcome in the group photo. The easiest way to remove him (without using scissors and leaving an empty hole) is to move the two young women on the right over to the left.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Make a selection of the area that you’ll use to cover.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">A large rectangular selection is used, which included everything to the right of the young man. Be careful to include everything you’ll need in the altered image. In this case, the girl’s hair is on the boy’s shirt. Remember you can always make a rough selection with one tool and then press and hold Shift to add to the selection with another tool, or press Option/Alt to remove part of the selection.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Copy the selection to a new layer.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Use the keyboard shortcut Command+J/Ctrl+J to copy the selection to a new layer.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Position the new layer.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Use the Move tool to slide the new layer over the top of the area you want to remove.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Add a layer mask.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Click the Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layers panel and then paint with black in the layer mask to hide areas of the upper layer. As you can see in the lower left in the figure, the upper layer covers areas of the lower layer that need to show (such as the man’s head), creating an unnatural shadow pattern.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">The layer mask in the lower-center image exposes as much of the lower layer as possible, leaving the upper layer visible only where necessary to show the two young women and their shadows as well as to hide the people on the lower layer.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Look for and adjust anomalies.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">In the lower center of the figure, you see that one woman’s foot should be in the man’s shadow. A new layer is added, and a selection is made of the area that should be in shadow, which is filled with the color of the toes that are already in shadow.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Then use the Multiply blending mode and the Opacity slider to match the original shadow. (See the lower-right image in the figure.)</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Crop.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Glancing again at the lower-center image in the figure, you see the area that needs to be cropped, off to the right. Using the rectangular Marquee tool, make a selection of everything you want to save. Then use the Image→Crop command, and the alteration is complete.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>Save the image.I suggest you save the image with a different name in case you ever need the unaltered image again.</li>\r\n</ol>","description":"When cleaning up photos in Photoshop CC, large challenges sometime require drastic measures, such as duplicate layers and layer masks. Take a look at the following figure. At the top left, you see the “before” photo: at the top right, the “after” image. Below are images from three key steps in the process.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/377949.image0.jpg\" alt=\"image0.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" />\r\n\r\nHere are the steps taken to remove the boy from the group photo:\r\n<ol class=\"level-one\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Decide what needs to go and how best to cover it.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">In this case, the young man is no longer welcome in the group photo. The easiest way to remove him (without using scissors and leaving an empty hole) is to move the two young women on the right over to the left.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Make a selection of the area that you’ll use to cover.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">A large rectangular selection is used, which included everything to the right of the young man. Be careful to include everything you’ll need in the altered image. In this case, the girl’s hair is on the boy’s shirt. Remember you can always make a rough selection with one tool and then press and hold Shift to add to the selection with another tool, or press Option/Alt to remove part of the selection.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Copy the selection to a new layer.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Use the keyboard shortcut Command+J/Ctrl+J to copy the selection to a new layer.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Position the new layer.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Use the Move tool to slide the new layer over the top of the area you want to remove.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Add a layer mask.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Click the Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layers panel and then paint with black in the layer mask to hide areas of the upper layer. As you can see in the lower left in the figure, the upper layer covers areas of the lower layer that need to show (such as the man’s head), creating an unnatural shadow pattern.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">The layer mask in the lower-center image exposes as much of the lower layer as possible, leaving the upper layer visible only where necessary to show the two young women and their shadows as well as to hide the people on the lower layer.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\">Look for and adjust anomalies.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">In the lower center of the figure, you see that one woman’s foot should be in the man’s shadow. A new layer is added, and a selection is made of the area that should be in shadow, which is filled with the color of the toes that are already in shadow.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Then use the Multiply blending mode and the Opacity slider to match the original shadow. 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That way, your SVG files retain infinite scalability without distortion.</p>\n<p>The following steps walk you through applying an SVG filter to graphics in Illustrator:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select the object(s) to which you are applying the filter.</li>\n<li>Choose Effect→SVG Filters.</li>\n<li>Select a filter from the list that appears.<br />\nMost filters have descriptive names. For example, the ones with <em>shadow</em> in the name are drop-shadows, the ones with <em>gaussian</em> in the name are gaussian blurs. The workflow is a bit odd and roundabout, but you need to first select a filter to access all the options available for applying one.</li>\n<li>To change the selected filter:\n<ul>\n<li>Keep the object to which the filter was applied selected, and open the Appearance panel by choosing Window→Appearance.</li>\n<li>In the Appearance panel, click the SVG filter that appears in the Fill section of the panel. 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I recommend the tutorial at <a href=\"http://www.w3schools.com/graphics/svg_filters_intro.asp\">w3Schools</a> for creating SVG filters. 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As an illustrator, you don’t need to know how to create that code, but you may need to know how to get it and turn it over to a developer. Here’s how.</p>\n<p>The pathway to exporting your SVG graphics as code runs through Illustrator’s Save functions. The Save menu has options (not easy to find) that export your file as SVG code. You will likely want to be in real-time communication with your screen developer as you generate that code because several options are determined by how that code will be used:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Choose File→Save (or Save As if you&#8217;re resaving a file).</li>\n<li>In the dialog that opens, select SVG from the Format menu.<br />\nIgnore the SVGZ file option, which is for a compressed file that does not display in browsers.</li>\n<li>Click Save to open the SVG Options dialog.</li>\n<li>Always choose SVG 1.1 in the SVG Profiles drop-down. Other versions are obsolete.</li>\n<li>If you have embedded or linked images in your SVG file, choose Embed from the Image Locations drop-down. However, consult with your web developer about this choice first.</li>\n<li>Select Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities to make the file editable in Illustrator.<br />\nThis choice increases file size but allows you to work with a single SVG file that you can edit, update, and share with web developers.</li>\n<li>If the More Options button is displayed, click it to access advanced options. and make your selections.<br />\nEssentially, the different options generate CSS with your file that defines properties in the following ways. Consult with your web developer teammate on how to define these CSS properties:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Presentation Attributes </strong>embeds styling in SVG code. This option is the simplest and the default. 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You can save that code as a text file using your operating system’s text editor, and hand off the file to a developer.</li>\n<li>After you’ve generated code, click OK to save your file.<br />\nYou can re-open and edit this file in Illustrator.</li>\n</ol>\n"}],"videoInfo":{"videoId":null,"name":null,"accountId":null,"playerId":null,"thumbnailUrl":null,"description":null,"uploadDate":null}},"sponsorship":{"sponsorshipPage":false,"backgroundImage":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0},"brandingLine":"","brandingLink":"","brandingLogo":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0},"sponsorAd":"","sponsorEbookTitle":"","sponsorEbookLink":"","sponsorEbookImage":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0}},"primaryLearningPath":"Explore","lifeExpectancy":"One year","lifeExpectancySetFrom":"2022-02-23T00:00:00+00:00","dummiesForKids":"no","sponsoredContent":"no","adInfo":"","adPairKey":[]},"status":"publish","visibility":"public","articleId":268252},{"headers":{"creationTime":"2018-11-06T17:01:26+00:00","modifiedTime":"2022-02-01T18:05:49+00:00","timestamp":"2022-09-14T18:19:04+00:00"},"data":{"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Technology","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33512"},"slug":"technology","categoryId":33512},{"name":"Software","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33618"},"slug":"software","categoryId":33618},{"name":"Adobe Products","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33619"},"slug":"adobe-products","categoryId":33619},{"name":"Photoshop","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33629"},"slug":"photoshop","categoryId":33629}],"title":"Photoshop Elements 2022 For Dummies Cheat Sheet","strippedTitle":"photoshop elements 2022 for dummies cheat sheet","slug":"photoshop-elements-2021-for-dummies-cheat-sheet","canonicalUrl":"","seo":{"metaDescription":"Learn your way around the Photoshop Elements editor workspace and tools panel, and check out the keyboard shortcuts and selection tricks.","noIndex":0,"noFollow":0},"content":"As you edit images in Photoshop Elements, you need to know your way around the editor workspace and the tools panel — especially the selection tools.\r\n\r\nCheck out the visual reference to the photo editor and the tools panel keyboard shortcuts, as well as the table of Photoshop Elements selection tricks.\r\n\r\nHaving these references by your side will help you edit images in Elements quickly and easily.","description":"As you edit images in Photoshop Elements, you need to know your way around the editor workspace and the tools panel — especially the selection tools.\r\n\r\nCheck out the visual reference to the photo editor and the tools panel keyboard shortcuts, as well as the table of Photoshop Elements selection tricks.\r\n\r\nHaving these references by your side will help you edit images in Elements quickly and easily.","blurb":"","authors":[{"authorId":9035,"name":"Barbara Obermeier","slug":"barbara-obermeier","description":" <p><b>Barb Obermeier</b> is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio specializing in print and web design, and lead instructor in the graphic design program at Brooks Institute. <b>Ted Padova</b> is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe Acrobat, PDF, and digital imaging. 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Here is the Photo Editor interface showing the expert editing mode with the Layers panel open.</p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-257003 size-full\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-elements-workspace.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshop Elements workspace\" width=\"387\" height=\"400\" /></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open an image in the Photo Editor by choosing File→Open.</li>\n<li>Get information about your image by looking at the status bar. Click the right-pointing arrow to get more details about your image.</li>\n<li>Need to see detail in your image? Zoom in by pressing Ctrl+spacebar and clicking where you want to see the image close-up. Zoom back out by pressing Alt+spacebar and clicking.</li>\n<li>Easily switch the display for Tool Options to Photo Bin by clicking the Photo Bin button. The Tool Options panel disappears and thumbnail images for photos opened in the Photo Editor appear in the Photo Bin.</li>\n<li>Access panels as needed by choosing them from the Window menu or the Panel Bin.</li>\n<li>Easily select tool options for a tool selected in the Tools panel by making choices in the Tool Options panel.</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"Keyboard shortcuts","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>When you select a tool and open the Tool Options bin below the image window, companion tools are displayed in the bin. Selecting a tool in the Tools panel opens the Tool Options, where you can select additional tools if you&#8217;re using keyboard shortcut keys.</p>\n<p>To cycle through tools that share a keyboard shortcut, simply press the key that corresponds to your desired tool until that tool is selected. For example, if the Elliptical Marquee was the last tool used, press M to return to the Marquee tool. Check out the keyboard shortcut for each tool in the Tools panel, as well as which tools share a keyboard shortcut.</p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-257000\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-elements-shortcuts.jpg\" alt=\"photoshop-elements-shortcuts\" width=\"526\" height=\"400\" /></p>\n<p><em><strong>Note:</strong></em> New in Elements 2021 is the Smart Selection tool.</p>\n"},{"title":"Keyboard commands","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>If you want to pluck an element out of its environment and stick it in another in Photoshop Elements, or apply an adjustment to just a portion of your image, you need to create a selection around that element.</p>\n<p>Finding out how to make accurate selections is one of those skills that&#8217;s well worth the time you invest.</p>\n<p>Refer below for handy keyboard shortcuts that enable you to refine a selection in Photoshop Elements.</p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-256996\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-elements-commands.jpg\" alt=\"photoshop-elements-commands\" width=\"535\" height=\"422\" /></p>\n"}],"videoInfo":{"videoId":null,"name":null,"accountId":null,"playerId":null,"thumbnailUrl":null,"description":null,"uploadDate":null}},"sponsorship":{"sponsorshipPage":false,"backgroundImage":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0},"brandingLine":"","brandingLink":"","brandingLogo":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0},"sponsorAd":"","sponsorEbookTitle":"","sponsorEbookLink":"","sponsorEbookImage":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0}},"primaryLearningPath":"Advance","lifeExpectancy":"One year","lifeExpectancySetFrom":"2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00","dummiesForKids":"no","sponsoredContent":"no","adInfo":"","adPairKey":[]},"status":"publish","visibility":"public","articleId":257006},{"headers":{"creationTime":"2016-03-26T14:51:25+00:00","modifiedTime":"2022-01-07T18:30:11+00:00","timestamp":"2022-09-14T18:19:00+00:00"},"data":{"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Technology","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33512"},"slug":"technology","categoryId":33512},{"name":"Software","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33618"},"slug":"software","categoryId":33618},{"name":"Adobe Products","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33619"},"slug":"adobe-products","categoryId":33619},{"name":"Photoshop","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33629"},"slug":"photoshop","categoryId":33629}],"title":"Tips for Working with Photoshop CC's Clone Stamp Tool","strippedTitle":"tips for working with photoshop cc's clone stamp tool","slug":"tips-for-working-with-photoshop-ccs-clone-stamp-tool","canonicalUrl":"","seo":{"metaDescription":"Learn how to use Photoshop CC's Clone Stamp tool, which allows you to copy or paste over something you want to remove from an image.","noIndex":0,"noFollow":0},"content":"Sometimes in Photoshop CC you need to copy/paste over something that needs to be removed from a photo. The Clone Stamp tool is usually faster and easier than working with selection. One of the keys to using the Clone Stamp tool is keeping an eye on your work.\r\n\r\nZoom in close so you can work precisely, but choose Window→Arrange→New Window for [<i>filename</i>]. Choose Window→Arrange→Tile All Vertically and keep that second window zoomed out and off to the side so you can monitor your progress while you work.\r\n<p class=\"Tip\">Keep a copy of the original image open for reference. You can make a copy of the file with the Image→Duplicate command or by clicking the left button at the bottom of the History panel. As you make changes to the original image, refer to the duplicate (the original filename appended with copy). If you're not happy with the previous change, you can undo it.</p>\r\nHere are some tips for working effectively with the Clone Stamp tool:\r\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Work on a separate layer. </b>Before cloning, click the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel and set the Sample menu to All Layers in the Options bar. By cloning to the new layer, you protect yourself from irreversible errors (you can always erase part of the upper layer or delete it), and you can show/hide your work layer to check progress.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">If the image already has multiple layers and you want to clone from only one, hide the other layers in the Layers panel by clicking the eyeball icons in the left column.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>If a color or pattern is uniform, choose a source near the area you want to clone. </b>Option+click /Alt+click the area in the image you want to clone. If, for example, you’re removing a power line in a beautiful blue sky, clone from right above and below the power line so that you get the best possible color match. For delicate jobs or larger items, you can clone by halves — clone half from one side and the other half from the other side.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>To avoid a recognizable pattern, choose a source that's far from the area you want to clone. </b>You can clone from a variety of places to avoid creating any recognizable replicas of nearby flowers or rocks. You should, however, try to clone from areas that are approximately the same distance from the lens as the area over which you’re cloning. If you clone from the far distance into the foreground, you’ll have a recognizable size mismatch and perhaps a focal difference, as well.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>To copy areas or objects, use Aligned. </b>By using the Aligned option, the relationship between the point from which you sample and the point to which you clone remains constant when you release the mouse button. To pick a new source point, Option+click/Alt+click elsewhere in the image.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>To repeat a pattern or texture, don’t use Aligned. </b>If you have a specific object, texture, or pattern that you want to replicate in more than one area, you can clear the Aligned check box on the Options bar. Every time you release the mouse button, the source point returns to the exact spot where you Option+clicked/Alt+clicked. You can copy the same part of the image into as many different places as you choose.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>You can vary the tool’s opacity and blending mode. </b>Generally speaking, when you want to hide something in the image, use the Normal blending mode and 100% opacity. However, you can also clone with other blending modes and reduce opacity to subdue rather than hide and, of course, for fun special effects.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Adjust your brush size on the fly. </b>Pressing the left and right brackets keys (to the right of P on the standard English keyboard) decreases and increases the brush diameter without having to open the Brushes panel.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Check the brush’s hardness and spacing settings. </b>To get the smoothest result for general cloning, reduce the brush’s Hardness setting to about 25%, allowing edges to blend. There are times, however, when you’ll need a more distinct edge to the brush, but you’ll rarely need to clone with a brush set harder than perhaps 90%.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">In the full-size Brushes panel, you can generally set the Spacing (in Brush Tip Shape) to 1% for cloning to ensure the edge is as smooth as possible.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">The Spot Healing Brush works much like the Healing Brush to repair and replace texture. However, instead of designating a source point by Option+clicking/Alt+clicking, the Spot Healing Brush samples from the immediate surrounding area, which makes it perfect for repairing little irregularities in an area of rather consistent texture.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">You can also clone from another image. Open two images and tile them vertically (Window Arrange Tile All Vertically). Option+click/Alt-click the image you want to clone (the source) and drag inside the image you want to clone the pixels to.</p>","description":"Sometimes in Photoshop CC you need to copy/paste over something that needs to be removed from a photo. The Clone Stamp tool is usually faster and easier than working with selection. One of the keys to using the Clone Stamp tool is keeping an eye on your work.\r\n\r\nZoom in close so you can work precisely, but choose Window→Arrange→New Window for [<i>filename</i>]. Choose Window→Arrange→Tile All Vertically and keep that second window zoomed out and off to the side so you can monitor your progress while you work.\r\n<p class=\"Tip\">Keep a copy of the original image open for reference. You can make a copy of the file with the Image→Duplicate command or by clicking the left button at the bottom of the History panel. As you make changes to the original image, refer to the duplicate (the original filename appended with copy). If you're not happy with the previous change, you can undo it.</p>\r\nHere are some tips for working effectively with the Clone Stamp tool:\r\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Work on a separate layer. </b>Before cloning, click the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel and set the Sample menu to All Layers in the Options bar. By cloning to the new layer, you protect yourself from irreversible errors (you can always erase part of the upper layer or delete it), and you can show/hide your work layer to check progress.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">If the image already has multiple layers and you want to clone from only one, hide the other layers in the Layers panel by clicking the eyeball icons in the left column.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>If a color or pattern is uniform, choose a source near the area you want to clone. </b>Option+click /Alt+click the area in the image you want to clone. If, for example, you’re removing a power line in a beautiful blue sky, clone from right above and below the power line so that you get the best possible color match. For delicate jobs or larger items, you can clone by halves — clone half from one side and the other half from the other side.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>To avoid a recognizable pattern, choose a source that's far from the area you want to clone. </b>You can clone from a variety of places to avoid creating any recognizable replicas of nearby flowers or rocks. You should, however, try to clone from areas that are approximately the same distance from the lens as the area over which you’re cloning. If you clone from the far distance into the foreground, you’ll have a recognizable size mismatch and perhaps a focal difference, as well.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>To copy areas or objects, use Aligned. </b>By using the Aligned option, the relationship between the point from which you sample and the point to which you clone remains constant when you release the mouse button. To pick a new source point, Option+click/Alt+click elsewhere in the image.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>To repeat a pattern or texture, don’t use Aligned. </b>If you have a specific object, texture, or pattern that you want to replicate in more than one area, you can clear the Aligned check box on the Options bar. Every time you release the mouse button, the source point returns to the exact spot where you Option+clicked/Alt+clicked. You can copy the same part of the image into as many different places as you choose.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>You can vary the tool’s opacity and blending mode. </b>Generally speaking, when you want to hide something in the image, use the Normal blending mode and 100% opacity. However, you can also clone with other blending modes and reduce opacity to subdue rather than hide and, of course, for fun special effects.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Adjust your brush size on the fly. </b>Pressing the left and right brackets keys (to the right of P on the standard English keyboard) decreases and increases the brush diameter without having to open the Brushes panel.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Check the brush’s hardness and spacing settings. </b>To get the smoothest result for general cloning, reduce the brush’s Hardness setting to about 25%, allowing edges to blend. There are times, however, when you’ll need a more distinct edge to the brush, but you’ll rarely need to clone with a brush set harder than perhaps 90%.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">In the full-size Brushes panel, you can generally set the Spacing (in Brush Tip Shape) to 1% for cloning to ensure the edge is as smooth as possible.</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">The Spot Healing Brush works much like the Healing Brush to repair and replace texture. However, instead of designating a source point by Option+clicking/Alt+clicking, the Spot Healing Brush samples from the immediate surrounding area, which makes it perfect for repairing little irregularities in an area of rather consistent texture.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">You can also clone from another image. Open two images and tile them vertically (Window Arrange Tile All Vertically). Option+click/Alt-click the image you want to clone (the source) and drag inside the image you want to clone the pixels to.</p>","blurb":"","authors":[{"authorId":9650,"name":"Peter Bauer","slug":"peter-bauer","description":" <b>Peter Bauer</b> is an award-winning photographer and contributing writer for Photoshop User and Layers magazines. 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Learn how to find and take advantage of these creative features.","noIndex":0,"noFollow":0},"content":"The Brush Settings panel in Photoshop CC, like the Layer Style dialog box, has a column on the left that lists options. Like the Layer Style dialog box, you mark the check box to activate the feature, but you have to click the <i>name </i>to open that pane in the panel.\r\n\r\nAs you can see in this figure, the Brush Settings panel menu offers very few commands, whereas the Brush panel menu includes variations in how to display the panel content, some housekeeping commands for resetting/loading/saving brushes, and a list of brush sets in the bottom half of the menu.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-290188\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/Brush-settings-panel.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshop brush settings panel\" width=\"630\" height=\"428\" />\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDon’t overlook those little lock icons to the right of the various pane names in the Brush panel. Click the lock to preserve the settings in that pane while you switch among brush tip presets. Any unlocked attributes revert to those with which the brush tip was created. Locking, for example, Shape Dynamics retains those settings even if you switch to a totally different brush tip.\r\n\r\nHere, in order, are the Brush panel panes and the options in those panes to which you should pay attention:\r\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Brushes: </b>This button (just above the names of the panes) opens the Brush panel, where you pick the basic brush tip shape from the brushes loaded in the panel. You can also resize the brush tip, but that’s it. (Note that you can also select a brush tip in the Brush Tip Shape panel of the Brush Settings panel.)</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Brush Tip Shape: </b>Without a check box to the left or a lock icon to the right, Brush Tip Shape is the pane in which you can select and customize a brush tip. (Refer to the Brush Tip Shape pane in the figure)</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">This is perhaps the most important part of the Brush panel. In this pane, you can select a brush tip, change its size, alter the angle at which it’s applied, change the height-width relationship (Roundness) of the tip, and adjust the Spacing setting.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Shape Dynamics: </b>Dynamics in the Brush panel add variation as you drag a tool. Say you’re working with a round brush tip and choose Size Jitter. As you drag the brush tip, the brush tip instances (the individual marks left by the brush as you drag) will vary in diameter. The Shape Dynamics pane offers Size Jitter, Angle Jitter, and Roundness Jitter.</p>\r\nEach of the “jitters” can be set to fade after a certain number of brush tip instances or can be controlled with the stylus that you use with a tablet and stylus. Angle can also be set to Direction, which forces the brush tip to adjust the direction that you drag or the direction of the selection or path you stroke.\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Use Shape Dynamics to add some variation and randomness to your painting, as shown in this image:</p>\r\n<img src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/382866.image1.jpg\" alt=\"image1.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"400\" /></li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Scattering: </b><i>Scattering </i>varies the number of brush tip instances as you drag as well as their placement along the path you drag. Like Shape Dynamics, Scattering can be set to fade or can be controlled with a Wacom tablet.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Texture: </b>Use the Texture pane to add a pattern to the brush tip, as shown. You can select from among the same patterns that you use to fill a selection. Texture is most evident when Spacing for the brush tip is set to at least 50%.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Dual Brush: </b>Using a blending mode you select, the Dual Brush option overlays a second brush tip. You could, for example, add an irregular scatter brush to a round brush tip to break up the outline as you paint.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Color Dynamics: </b>Using the Color Dynamics pane, you can vary the color of your stroke as you drag. This comes in most handy for painting images and scenes rather than, say, working on an alpha channel. Just as you might add jitter to the size, shape, and placement of a grass brush while creating a meadow, you might also want to add some differences in color as you drag.</p>\r\nYou could pick different shades of green for the foreground and background colors and then also add jitter to the hue, saturation, and brightness values as the foreground and background colors are mixed while you drag, as shown in the previous figure.</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Transfer: </b>Think of this pane as Opacity and Flow Jitter. You can add variation to the opacity and flow settings from the Options bar to change the way paint “builds up” in your artwork.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Brush Pose: </b>When working with a tablet and stylus, this panel enables you to ensure precision by overriding certain stylus-controlled variations in a stroke. If, for example, you want to ensure that the brush tip size doesn’t change, regardless of how hard you press on the tablet, open Brush Pose, set Pressure to 100%, and select the Override Pressure check box. You can also override the stylus's rotation and tilt as you paint, setting any value from -100 to +100 for both tilt axis values and 0 to 360 degrees for rotation.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Other Options: </b>At the bottom of the left column are five brush options that don’t have separate panes in the Brush panel. They’re take-it-or-leave-it options — either activated or not.</p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"level-two\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Noise: </i>Adding Noise to the brush stroke helps produce some texture and breaks up solid areas of color in your stroke.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Wet Edges: </i>Wet Edges simulates paint building up along the edges of your stroke.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Build-up: </i>The Build-up check box simply activates the Airbrush button on the Options bar.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Smoothing: </i>Smoothing helps reduce sharp angles as you drag your mouse or stylus. If the stroke you’re painting should indeed have jagged turns and angles, disable Smoothing.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Protect Texture: </i>The Protect Texture option ensures that all the brushes with a defined texture use the <i>same </i>texture. Use this option when you want to simulate painting on canvas, for example.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p class=\"Tip\">When creating a dashed line or stroking a path with a nonround brush tip, go to the Shape Dynamics pane of the Brush panel and set the Angle Jitter’s Control pop-up menu to Direction. That enables the brush tip to rotate as necessary to follow the twists and turns of the selection or path that it's stroking. (You'll generally want to leave Angle Jitter set to 0 percent so the stroke follows the selection or path precisely.)</p>","description":"The Brush Settings panel in Photoshop CC, like the Layer Style dialog box, has a column on the left that lists options. Like the Layer Style dialog box, you mark the check box to activate the feature, but you have to click the <i>name </i>to open that pane in the panel.\r\n\r\nAs you can see in this figure, the Brush Settings panel menu offers very few commands, whereas the Brush panel menu includes variations in how to display the panel content, some housekeeping commands for resetting/loading/saving brushes, and a list of brush sets in the bottom half of the menu.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-290188\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/Brush-settings-panel.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshop brush settings panel\" width=\"630\" height=\"428\" />\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDon’t overlook those little lock icons to the right of the various pane names in the Brush panel. Click the lock to preserve the settings in that pane while you switch among brush tip presets. Any unlocked attributes revert to those with which the brush tip was created. Locking, for example, Shape Dynamics retains those settings even if you switch to a totally different brush tip.\r\n\r\nHere, in order, are the Brush panel panes and the options in those panes to which you should pay attention:\r\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Brushes: </b>This button (just above the names of the panes) opens the Brush panel, where you pick the basic brush tip shape from the brushes loaded in the panel. You can also resize the brush tip, but that’s it. (Note that you can also select a brush tip in the Brush Tip Shape panel of the Brush Settings panel.)</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Brush Tip Shape: </b>Without a check box to the left or a lock icon to the right, Brush Tip Shape is the pane in which you can select and customize a brush tip. (Refer to the Brush Tip Shape pane in the figure)</p>\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">This is perhaps the most important part of the Brush panel. In this pane, you can select a brush tip, change its size, alter the angle at which it’s applied, change the height-width relationship (Roundness) of the tip, and adjust the Spacing setting.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Shape Dynamics: </b>Dynamics in the Brush panel add variation as you drag a tool. Say you’re working with a round brush tip and choose Size Jitter. As you drag the brush tip, the brush tip instances (the individual marks left by the brush as you drag) will vary in diameter. The Shape Dynamics pane offers Size Jitter, Angle Jitter, and Roundness Jitter.</p>\r\nEach of the “jitters” can be set to fade after a certain number of brush tip instances or can be controlled with the stylus that you use with a tablet and stylus. Angle can also be set to Direction, which forces the brush tip to adjust the direction that you drag or the direction of the selection or path you stroke.\r\n<p class=\"child-para\">Use Shape Dynamics to add some variation and randomness to your painting, as shown in this image:</p>\r\n<img src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/382866.image1.jpg\" alt=\"image1.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"400\" /></li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Scattering: </b><i>Scattering </i>varies the number of brush tip instances as you drag as well as their placement along the path you drag. Like Shape Dynamics, Scattering can be set to fade or can be controlled with a Wacom tablet.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Texture: </b>Use the Texture pane to add a pattern to the brush tip, as shown. You can select from among the same patterns that you use to fill a selection. Texture is most evident when Spacing for the brush tip is set to at least 50%.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Dual Brush: </b>Using a blending mode you select, the Dual Brush option overlays a second brush tip. You could, for example, add an irregular scatter brush to a round brush tip to break up the outline as you paint.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Color Dynamics: </b>Using the Color Dynamics pane, you can vary the color of your stroke as you drag. This comes in most handy for painting images and scenes rather than, say, working on an alpha channel. Just as you might add jitter to the size, shape, and placement of a grass brush while creating a meadow, you might also want to add some differences in color as you drag.</p>\r\nYou could pick different shades of green for the foreground and background colors and then also add jitter to the hue, saturation, and brightness values as the foreground and background colors are mixed while you drag, as shown in the previous figure.</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Transfer: </b>Think of this pane as Opacity and Flow Jitter. You can add variation to the opacity and flow settings from the Options bar to change the way paint “builds up” in your artwork.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Brush Pose: </b>When working with a tablet and stylus, this panel enables you to ensure precision by overriding certain stylus-controlled variations in a stroke. If, for example, you want to ensure that the brush tip size doesn’t change, regardless of how hard you press on the tablet, open Brush Pose, set Pressure to 100%, and select the Override Pressure check box. You can also override the stylus's rotation and tilt as you paint, setting any value from -100 to +100 for both tilt axis values and 0 to 360 degrees for rotation.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Other Options: </b>At the bottom of the left column are five brush options that don’t have separate panes in the Brush panel. They’re take-it-or-leave-it options — either activated or not.</p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"level-two\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Noise: </i>Adding Noise to the brush stroke helps produce some texture and breaks up solid areas of color in your stroke.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Wet Edges: </i>Wet Edges simulates paint building up along the edges of your stroke.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Build-up: </i>The Build-up check box simply activates the Airbrush button on the Options bar.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Smoothing: </i>Smoothing helps reduce sharp angles as you drag your mouse or stylus. If the stroke you’re painting should indeed have jagged turns and angles, disable Smoothing.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"first-para\"><i>Protect Texture: </i>The Protect Texture option ensures that all the brushes with a defined texture use the <i>same </i>texture. Use this option when you want to simulate painting on canvas, for example.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p class=\"Tip\">When creating a dashed line or stroking a path with a nonround brush tip, go to the Shape Dynamics pane of the Brush panel and set the Angle Jitter’s Control pop-up menu to Direction. That enables the brush tip to rotate as necessary to follow the twists and turns of the selection or path that it's stroking. (You'll generally want to leave Angle Jitter set to 0 percent so the stroke follows the selection or path precisely.)</p>","blurb":"","authors":[{"authorId":9650,"name":"Peter Bauer","slug":"peter-bauer","description":" <b>Peter Bauer</b> is an award-winning photographer and contributing writer for Photoshop User and Layers magazines. 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Or, perhaps, images of drop cloths, ladders, rollers, and buckets — color being slopped on a wall and spread around. It doesn’t generally bring to mind digital image editing.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/382777.image0.jpg\" alt=\"image0.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" />\r\n\r\nIn addition to painting landscapes and portraits (which you certainly can do in Photoshop, if you have the talent and training), you can use Photoshop’s painting tools for a variety of other tasks. For example, you can paint to create masks and layer masks, adjust tonality or sharpness in specific areas, repair blemishes and other damage in an image — even to create graphic elements and special effects.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab1\" >Add color with the Pencil tool</h2>\r\nThe Pencil tool differs from the Brush tool in one major respect: Regardless of the Hardness setting in the Brush panel, the Pencil tool always uses a hardness value of 100%.\r\n\r\nWith the Pencil tool active, the Options bar offers the miniature Brush panel, a choice of blending mode and opacity, the somewhat-misnamed Auto Erase option, and a symmetry option, which enables you to mirror your pencil stroke with one of several presets such as Vertical, Horizontal, Wavy and much more.\r\n\r\nWhen you choose the Symmetry option, you choose a preset, and then adjust it to create the type of symmetry you need for the lines you’re drawing with the Pencil tool.\r\n\r\nWhen selected, Auto Erase doesn't actually erase, but rather lets you paint over areas of the current foreground color using the current background color. 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You can also elect to erase only the current background color and designate the foreground color as protected so that it won’t be erased even if you drag over it.\r\n\r\nThe Magic Eraser, like the Magic Wand selection tool, isn’t a brush-using tool, but this is a logical place to tell you about it. Click a color with the Magic Eraser tool, and that color is erased, either in a contiguous area or throughout the image, depending on whether you have selected the Contiguous option in the Options bar.\r\n\r\nAnd, like the Magic Wand, you can set the tool to work on the active layer or all layers in the Options bar, and you can also set a specific level of sensitivity (Tolerance). 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Photoshop How to Create an Album to Organize Photos in Photoshop Elements 9

Article / Updated 08-16-2022

In Photoshop Elements, you can use the Albums panel to create an album to organize your photos. You might want to organize an album for sharing photos with others on Photoshop online, assemble an album and rate each photo with a range from one to five stars, create a slide show, or just use the Albums panel to further segregate images within different categories. You can create an album with photos that share a keyword tag. For example, you might have a catalog with a number of photos taken on a European vacation. You can create keyword tags for files according to the country visited. You then might rate the best pictures you took on your trip. The highest-rated images could then be assembled in an album and viewed as a slide show. Rating images Rating photos is handled in the Properties panel. To assign a star rating to a file, right-click a photo and select Properties from that menu. The Properties - General panel opens. Click a star to rate the photo. Alternatively, click a photo, choose Edit→Ratings, and choose a star rating. Rating photos with stars in the Properties panel. When you select the Details check box on the Shortcuts bar, all your rated photos appear with the number of stars according to the rating you provided. You can easily sort files according to ratings by choosing the Edit→Ratings command and select a star rating from the submenu. When the Details check box is selected, all rated photos appear with stars. Adding rated files to an album You might want to rate images with star ratings and then add all your images to an album. Within the album, you can still choose to view your pictures according to star ratings. Creating an album With albums and star ratings, you can break down a collection into groups that you might want to mark for printing, sharing, or onscreen slide shows. To create an album, follow these steps: Click the plus sign (+) icon on the Albums panel and choose New Album from the drop-down menu. The Albums panel expands to show the Album Details. Name the new album. Type a name for the album in the Album Name text box. Drag photos from the Organizer to the items window in the Album Content panel. Alternatively, you can select photos in the Organizer and click the plus sign (+) icon to add them to the album. Drag photos to the Items area in the Album Contents panel. Click Done at the bottom of the panel. Your new album now appears listed in the Albums panel. You can isolate all the photos within a given album by clicking the album name in the Albums panel. Creating a Smart Album You can perform a search based on a number of different criteria. The Smart Album feature enables you to save the search results in an album. After you have all the files shown in the Organizer based on the searches you perform, you can create a Smart Album as follows: Open the New menu on the Albums panel and choose New Smart Album. The New Smart Album dialog box opens. Type a name for your new Smart Album. Make selections for the search criteria below the Name text box. You can search using multiple criteria by clicking the Plus (+) icon in the New Smart Album dialog box. Click the icon, and a new line appears. Click OK. The Smart Album is listed above the albums in the Albums panel. Type a name for your new Smart Album, add the search criteria, and click OK to add the album to the Albums panel. Creating an Album Category The Albums panel contains all the albums and Smart Albums you create in an organized list. By default, the albums are listed in alphabetical order. If you add many albums to the panel, the list can be long, making it difficult to find the album you want to use for a given editing session. An Album Category is no more than a divider shown in the Albums panel. You don’t add photos to the group. You nest albums within a group in a hierarchical manner. To understand how to create an Album Category, follow these steps: Create several albums. To begin, you should have two or more albums added to the Albums panel. Create an Album Category by clicking the New menu on the Albums panel and choosing New Album Category. The Create Album Category dialog box opens. Type a name for the group in the Album Category Name text box and then click OK. You new Album Category is added to the Albums panel. Click and drag an album onto the Album Category name in the Albums panel. The albums you drag to the Album Category are nested within the group. Albums are nested below an Album Category.

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Premiere Premiere Pro CC For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-02-2022

Whether you're new to video editing or have some experience, this Cheat Sheet is a handy reference for how to set up a new Premiere Pro CC project, import content to the workspace, and export your finished movie.

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Photoshop Photoshop CC For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-25-2022

This Cheat Sheet is handy to keep nearby when you're working in Photoshop as a quick reference to selection tricks, layer-merging tricks, filter gallery colors, and troubleshooting tips.

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Lightroom Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-14-2022

If you're new to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic, you'll be eager to discover its exciting possibilities. Use this Cheat Sheet to get the most out of Adobe Lightroom Classic, get to know the ins and outs of Grid view and the Library module toolbar, discover keyboard shortcuts, and, if you run into a problem, get Adobe Lightroom Classic help by following the troubleshooting steps.

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Photoshop Steps to Cleaning Up a Photo in Photoshop CC

Article / Updated 03-08-2022

When cleaning up photos in Photoshop CC, large challenges sometime require drastic measures, such as duplicate layers and layer masks. Take a look at the following figure. At the top left, you see the “before” photo: at the top right, the “after” image. Below are images from three key steps in the process. Here are the steps taken to remove the boy from the group photo: Decide what needs to go and how best to cover it. In this case, the young man is no longer welcome in the group photo. The easiest way to remove him (without using scissors and leaving an empty hole) is to move the two young women on the right over to the left. Make a selection of the area that you’ll use to cover. A large rectangular selection is used, which included everything to the right of the young man. Be careful to include everything you’ll need in the altered image. In this case, the girl’s hair is on the boy’s shirt. Remember you can always make a rough selection with one tool and then press and hold Shift to add to the selection with another tool, or press Option/Alt to remove part of the selection. Copy the selection to a new layer. Use the keyboard shortcut Command+J/Ctrl+J to copy the selection to a new layer. Position the new layer. Use the Move tool to slide the new layer over the top of the area you want to remove. Add a layer mask. Click the Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the Layers panel and then paint with black in the layer mask to hide areas of the upper layer. As you can see in the lower left in the figure, the upper layer covers areas of the lower layer that need to show (such as the man’s head), creating an unnatural shadow pattern. The layer mask in the lower-center image exposes as much of the lower layer as possible, leaving the upper layer visible only where necessary to show the two young women and their shadows as well as to hide the people on the lower layer. Look for and adjust anomalies. In the lower center of the figure, you see that one woman’s foot should be in the man’s shadow. A new layer is added, and a selection is made of the area that should be in shadow, which is filled with the color of the toes that are already in shadow. Then use the Multiply blending mode and the Opacity slider to match the original shadow. (See the lower-right image in the figure.) Crop. Glancing again at the lower-center image in the figure, you see the area that needs to be cropped, off to the right. Using the rectangular Marquee tool, make a selection of everything you want to save. Then use the Image→Crop command, and the alteration is complete. Save the image.I suggest you save the image with a different name in case you ever need the unaltered image again.

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Illustrator Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-23-2022

Many of the most dramatic changes in how Illustrator is being used are taking place in the realm of translating vector images to the web, and the underrated SVG format is the key link in that process. SVG files maintain the treasured scalability features of vector artwork and are supported nearly universally in websites and web development environments. When you prepare vector artwork for the web, it’s important to avoid Illustrator’s standard effects and, instead, use SVG filters. Illustrator comes with a decent (but minimalist) set of SVG filters, but here are some tips on how to find and add SVG filters as well as resources for creating your own SVG filters. For those who work with web and app developers, make their lives easier and more productive by checking out the cheat sheet for handing off SVG code.

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Photoshop Photoshop Elements 2022 For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-01-2022

As you edit images in Photoshop Elements, you need to know your way around the editor workspace and the tools panel — especially the selection tools. Check out the visual reference to the photo editor and the tools panel keyboard shortcuts, as well as the table of Photoshop Elements selection tricks. Having these references by your side will help you edit images in Elements quickly and easily.

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Photoshop Tips for Working with Photoshop CC's Clone Stamp Tool

Article / Updated 01-07-2022

Sometimes in Photoshop CC you need to copy/paste over something that needs to be removed from a photo. The Clone Stamp tool is usually faster and easier than working with selection. One of the keys to using the Clone Stamp tool is keeping an eye on your work. Zoom in close so you can work precisely, but choose Window→Arrange→New Window for [filename]. Choose Window→Arrange→Tile All Vertically and keep that second window zoomed out and off to the side so you can monitor your progress while you work. Keep a copy of the original image open for reference. You can make a copy of the file with the Image→Duplicate command or by clicking the left button at the bottom of the History panel. As you make changes to the original image, refer to the duplicate (the original filename appended with copy). If you're not happy with the previous change, you can undo it. Here are some tips for working effectively with the Clone Stamp tool: Work on a separate layer. Before cloning, click the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel and set the Sample menu to All Layers in the Options bar. By cloning to the new layer, you protect yourself from irreversible errors (you can always erase part of the upper layer or delete it), and you can show/hide your work layer to check progress. If the image already has multiple layers and you want to clone from only one, hide the other layers in the Layers panel by clicking the eyeball icons in the left column. If a color or pattern is uniform, choose a source near the area you want to clone. Option+click /Alt+click the area in the image you want to clone. If, for example, you’re removing a power line in a beautiful blue sky, clone from right above and below the power line so that you get the best possible color match. For delicate jobs or larger items, you can clone by halves — clone half from one side and the other half from the other side. To avoid a recognizable pattern, choose a source that's far from the area you want to clone. You can clone from a variety of places to avoid creating any recognizable replicas of nearby flowers or rocks. You should, however, try to clone from areas that are approximately the same distance from the lens as the area over which you’re cloning. If you clone from the far distance into the foreground, you’ll have a recognizable size mismatch and perhaps a focal difference, as well. To copy areas or objects, use Aligned. By using the Aligned option, the relationship between the point from which you sample and the point to which you clone remains constant when you release the mouse button. To pick a new source point, Option+click/Alt+click elsewhere in the image. To repeat a pattern or texture, don’t use Aligned. If you have a specific object, texture, or pattern that you want to replicate in more than one area, you can clear the Aligned check box on the Options bar. Every time you release the mouse button, the source point returns to the exact spot where you Option+clicked/Alt+clicked. You can copy the same part of the image into as many different places as you choose. You can vary the tool’s opacity and blending mode. Generally speaking, when you want to hide something in the image, use the Normal blending mode and 100% opacity. However, you can also clone with other blending modes and reduce opacity to subdue rather than hide and, of course, for fun special effects. Adjust your brush size on the fly. Pressing the left and right brackets keys (to the right of P on the standard English keyboard) decreases and increases the brush diameter without having to open the Brushes panel. Check the brush’s hardness and spacing settings. To get the smoothest result for general cloning, reduce the brush’s Hardness setting to about 25%, allowing edges to blend. There are times, however, when you’ll need a more distinct edge to the brush, but you’ll rarely need to clone with a brush set harder than perhaps 90%. In the full-size Brushes panel, you can generally set the Spacing (in Brush Tip Shape) to 1% for cloning to ensure the edge is as smooth as possible. The Spot Healing Brush works much like the Healing Brush to repair and replace texture. However, instead of designating a source point by Option+clicking/Alt+clicking, the Spot Healing Brush samples from the immediate surrounding area, which makes it perfect for repairing little irregularities in an area of rather consistent texture. You can also clone from another image. Open two images and tile them vertically (Window Arrange Tile All Vertically). Option+click/Alt-click the image you want to clone (the source) and drag inside the image you want to clone the pixels to.

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Photoshop Photoshop CC's Brush Panel Options

Article / Updated 01-06-2022

The Brush Settings panel in Photoshop CC, like the Layer Style dialog box, has a column on the left that lists options. Like the Layer Style dialog box, you mark the check box to activate the feature, but you have to click the name to open that pane in the panel. As you can see in this figure, the Brush Settings panel menu offers very few commands, whereas the Brush panel menu includes variations in how to display the panel content, some housekeeping commands for resetting/loading/saving brushes, and a list of brush sets in the bottom half of the menu. Don’t overlook those little lock icons to the right of the various pane names in the Brush panel. Click the lock to preserve the settings in that pane while you switch among brush tip presets. Any unlocked attributes revert to those with which the brush tip was created. Locking, for example, Shape Dynamics retains those settings even if you switch to a totally different brush tip. Here, in order, are the Brush panel panes and the options in those panes to which you should pay attention: Brushes: This button (just above the names of the panes) opens the Brush panel, where you pick the basic brush tip shape from the brushes loaded in the panel. You can also resize the brush tip, but that’s it. (Note that you can also select a brush tip in the Brush Tip Shape panel of the Brush Settings panel.) Brush Tip Shape: Without a check box to the left or a lock icon to the right, Brush Tip Shape is the pane in which you can select and customize a brush tip. (Refer to the Brush Tip Shape pane in the figure) This is perhaps the most important part of the Brush panel. In this pane, you can select a brush tip, change its size, alter the angle at which it’s applied, change the height-width relationship (Roundness) of the tip, and adjust the Spacing setting. Shape Dynamics: Dynamics in the Brush panel add variation as you drag a tool. Say you’re working with a round brush tip and choose Size Jitter. As you drag the brush tip, the brush tip instances (the individual marks left by the brush as you drag) will vary in diameter. The Shape Dynamics pane offers Size Jitter, Angle Jitter, and Roundness Jitter. Each of the “jitters” can be set to fade after a certain number of brush tip instances or can be controlled with the stylus that you use with a tablet and stylus. Angle can also be set to Direction, which forces the brush tip to adjust the direction that you drag or the direction of the selection or path you stroke. Use Shape Dynamics to add some variation and randomness to your painting, as shown in this image: Scattering: Scattering varies the number of brush tip instances as you drag as well as their placement along the path you drag. Like Shape Dynamics, Scattering can be set to fade or can be controlled with a Wacom tablet. Texture: Use the Texture pane to add a pattern to the brush tip, as shown. You can select from among the same patterns that you use to fill a selection. Texture is most evident when Spacing for the brush tip is set to at least 50%. Dual Brush: Using a blending mode you select, the Dual Brush option overlays a second brush tip. You could, for example, add an irregular scatter brush to a round brush tip to break up the outline as you paint. Color Dynamics: Using the Color Dynamics pane, you can vary the color of your stroke as you drag. This comes in most handy for painting images and scenes rather than, say, working on an alpha channel. Just as you might add jitter to the size, shape, and placement of a grass brush while creating a meadow, you might also want to add some differences in color as you drag. You could pick different shades of green for the foreground and background colors and then also add jitter to the hue, saturation, and brightness values as the foreground and background colors are mixed while you drag, as shown in the previous figure. Transfer: Think of this pane as Opacity and Flow Jitter. You can add variation to the opacity and flow settings from the Options bar to change the way paint “builds up” in your artwork. Brush Pose: When working with a tablet and stylus, this panel enables you to ensure precision by overriding certain stylus-controlled variations in a stroke. If, for example, you want to ensure that the brush tip size doesn’t change, regardless of how hard you press on the tablet, open Brush Pose, set Pressure to 100%, and select the Override Pressure check box. You can also override the stylus's rotation and tilt as you paint, setting any value from -100 to +100 for both tilt axis values and 0 to 360 degrees for rotation. Other Options: At the bottom of the left column are five brush options that don’t have separate panes in the Brush panel. They’re take-it-or-leave-it options — either activated or not. Noise: Adding Noise to the brush stroke helps produce some texture and breaks up solid areas of color in your stroke. Wet Edges: Wet Edges simulates paint building up along the edges of your stroke. Build-up: The Build-up check box simply activates the Airbrush button on the Options bar. Smoothing: Smoothing helps reduce sharp angles as you drag your mouse or stylus. If the stroke you’re painting should indeed have jagged turns and angles, disable Smoothing. Protect Texture: The Protect Texture option ensures that all the brushes with a defined texture use the same texture. Use this option when you want to simulate painting on canvas, for example. When creating a dashed line or stroking a path with a nonround brush tip, go to the Shape Dynamics pane of the Brush panel and set the Angle Jitter’s Control pop-up menu to Direction. That enables the brush tip to rotate as necessary to follow the twists and turns of the selection or path that it's stroking. (You'll generally want to leave Angle Jitter set to 0 percent so the stroke follows the selection or path precisely.)

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Photoshop Add or Remove Color in Photoshop CC

Article / Updated 01-06-2022

Painting certainly has a place in your arsenal of Photoshop skills, even if you never create an image from scratch. Painting. The word evokes images of brushes and palettes and color being precisely applied to canvas. Or, perhaps, images of drop cloths, ladders, rollers, and buckets — color being slopped on a wall and spread around. It doesn’t generally bring to mind digital image editing. In addition to painting landscapes and portraits (which you certainly can do in Photoshop, if you have the talent and training), you can use Photoshop’s painting tools for a variety of other tasks. For example, you can paint to create masks and layer masks, adjust tonality or sharpness in specific areas, repair blemishes and other damage in an image — even to create graphic elements and special effects. Add color with the Pencil tool The Pencil tool differs from the Brush tool in one major respect: Regardless of the Hardness setting in the Brush panel, the Pencil tool always uses a hardness value of 100%. With the Pencil tool active, the Options bar offers the miniature Brush panel, a choice of blending mode and opacity, the somewhat-misnamed Auto Erase option, and a symmetry option, which enables you to mirror your pencil stroke with one of several presets such as Vertical, Horizontal, Wavy and much more. When you choose the Symmetry option, you choose a preset, and then adjust it to create the type of symmetry you need for the lines you’re drawing with the Pencil tool. When selected, Auto Erase doesn't actually erase, but rather lets you paint over areas of the current foreground color using the current background color. Click an area of the foreground color, and the Pencil applies the background color. Click any color other than the foreground color, and the Pencil applies the foreground color. Remove color with the Eraser tool The fourth of your primary painting tools is the Eraser. On a layer that supports transparency, the Eraser tool makes the pixels transparent. On a layer named Background, the Eraser paints with the background color. On the Options bar, the Eraser tool's Mode menu doesn't offer blending modes, but rather three behavior choices. When you select Brush (the default), the Options bar offers you the same Opacity, Flow, and Airbrush options as the Brush tool. You can also select Pencil, which offers an Opacity slider, but no Flow or Airbrush option (comparable to the actual Pencil tool). When Mode is set to Block, you have a square Eraser tool that erases at the size of the cursor. (When you click or drag, the number of pixels erased is tied to the current zoom factor.) Regardless of which mode is selected, the Options bar offers one more important choice: To the right of the Airbrush button, you’ll find the Erase to History check box. When selected, the Eraser tool paints over the pixels like the History Brush, restoring the pixels to their appearance at the selected state in the History panel. A couple of variations on the Eraser tool are tucked away with it in the Toolbox, too. The Background Eraser tool can, in fact, be used to remove a background from your image. However, it’s not limited to something in your image that appears to be a background. Remember that digital images don’t really have backgrounds and foregrounds or subjects — they just have collections of tiny, colored squares. What does this mean for using the Background Eraser? You can click and drag on any color in the image to erase areas of that color. You can also elect to erase only the current background color and designate the foreground color as protected so that it won’t be erased even if you drag over it. The Magic Eraser, like the Magic Wand selection tool, isn’t a brush-using tool, but this is a logical place to tell you about it. Click a color with the Magic Eraser tool, and that color is erased, either in a contiguous area or throughout the image, depending on whether you have selected the Contiguous option in the Options bar. And, like the Magic Wand, you can set the tool to work on the active layer or all layers in the Options bar, and you can also set a specific level of sensitivity (Tolerance). Here is the one difference between the two: The Magic Eraser is, in fact, a painting tool in that you can set an opacity percentage, which partially erases the selected pixels.

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