Get Creative
March 26, 2002
Let your creativity run wild! With Photoshop 7's new Paint
engine you're no longer restricted by your imagination!
Brush Palette
The new Brush Palette is awesome. Brushes have a variety of
attributes, allowing you to create custom brushes. Included
among the attributes are Shape Dynamics, Scattering, Texture,
Dual Brush, Color Dynamics, Other Dynamics, Noise, Wet Edges,
Airbrush, Smoothing and Protect Texture. Click the
checkbox to apply the default settings, or click the name to
display the options palette for that attribute and design your
own! Among the options are dozens of settings for shape, tilt,
spacing, scatter, jitter, diameter, texture, shading, and more!
Take full advantage of your Wacom graphics tablet’s pressure
sensitivity, including tilt and airbrush thumbwheel features,
for even greater control over brushstrokes. Never before has it
been so easy to achieve traditional painting techniques in
Photoshop. The cream on this cake is that you can save your
creations as a preset which can be accessed from the Tool options
bar or from the new tool Presets palette!
The Pattern Maker
The Pattern Maker is a definite plus when it comes to creating
tiled or seamless patterns. Up to 20 patterns may be generated
from an image, and saved in history. Once a pattern is selected
it can be saved to the pattern library where it will be available
for all pattern-related tools, including the pattern stamp tool,
the healing brush and patch tools, layer styles, and Fill options.
The Healing Brush and Patch Tool
The new Healing Brush and Patch tool are absolutely awesome! No
amount of words can fully describe these two tools. The first time
you see them work you'll be amazed, wondering "how'd it do that"?
With the Healing Brush, you can easily remove scratches, blemishes,
wrinkles and other imperfections from an image. It's similar to
the Clone Stamp tool, yet different in that it automatically
preserves shading, lighting, texture and other attributes. And,
it works within one image or between images!
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| Simply select a blemish free area and alt-click on it. |
Drag the cursor over the blemished area. As you drag,
the area may display different (darker or lighter) tonal and color
values. |
When you release the mouse, the area is
automatically corrected and blended. |
With the related Patch Tool you can be even more precise by
working with selections. Remove wrinkles, dirt, scratches,
folds from scans of damaged photos.
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Define your selection using any of the
selection tools, including channel operations. |
Once the selection has been made, position the cursor within
the selection marquee. The cursor becomes the patch icon. Drag
the selection to an unblemished area. |
Photoshop 'heals' the selection, matching
the lighting and shading of the sampled pixels to the source
pixels. |
Auto Color
The automated color-correction tools have been completed by the
addition of the Auto Color feature. Auto color automatically
removes color casts from images. The Auto Color command adjusts
the contrast and color of an image with a slightly different
algorithm than the Auto Levels command.
Liquify
Liquify, located under the Filters menu, has been enhanced for greater
editing control. Additional features added to Liquify include:
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- Change the magnification level of the image using the zoom
tool, navigate the image using the hand tool, and undo
multiple steps.
- Display specific layers or a composite image as a backdrop
to the layer on which you’re working.
- Apply saved meshes to multiple layers in the same file or
separate files, independent of image resolution.
- Create and apply meshes to low-resolution images for quick
preview; then apply them to higher-resolution images for
final output.
- Apply turbulence to add organic distortion to images.
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