Adobe Photoshop for Photographers- P5: In 1996, a group of self-proclaimed ‘digital’ photographers met together at Ian McKinnell’s studio in Holborn, London, to discuss the formation of a Digital Imaging Group. At first, this was a small gathering of professional photographers. The one thing we all had in common was a shared interest in using computers and their potential as a photographic medium of the future. | Adobe Photoshop for Photographers This is a book about Photoshop and photography. A rich variety of text effects can be achieved in Photoshop and designers who work in print and multimedia often mainly use the program for this purpose. Since there are plenty of other Photoshop books devoted mainly to the needs of graphic designers I am going to concentrate on the needs of image makers. But you will find more information on using the type tools contained in Chapter Fifteen. Shape tools Photoshop can let you create shapes that can be in the form of a filled layer with a vector mask formerly referred to as a layer clipping path a solid fill or a path outline. You can define polygon shapes and also import custom shapes from EPS graphics such as a regularly used company logo and store these as Shape presets using the Preset Manager. The shape tools are a recently added crossover feature from ImageReady. Single pixel or wider lines can be drawn with the line shape tool. To constrain the drawing angle by 45 degree increments hold down the Shift key this applies to all the painting tools as well . Arrowheads can be added to the line either at the start or finish of the line. Click the Shape. button in line tool Options to customize the appearance of the arrowhead proportions. i Annotation tools You can add text or sound notes to a file in Photoshop. Documents that are annotated in this way can be saved in the Photoshop PDF or TIFF formats. To annotate an open document select the text note tool and click inside the image window. A note icon is placed together with an open text window. Enter text inside the window - for example this can be a short description of the retouching which needs to be carried 180 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on to remove this watermark. The work space out on this part of the picture. After completing the text entry close the text window. The text note will remain as a small icon floating above the actual image. Although .
