Photoshop Skills (Week 5)

CREATING/SAVING YOUR OWN COLOURS IN PHOTOSHOP

1. Eyedropper tool
2. Select colour with this from your drawing.
3. Go to swatches menu
4. Select new swatch and it will be added to your colour palate

OR

Use the eyedropper to select colour as before and then simply select new from the bottom of the colour window.

 

TO SAVE COLOURS

Go to swatches menu and select save swatches

DELETING A SWATCH

1. Hover mouse over swatch palate
2. Press ALT- this will bring up scissors.
3. Click on the swatch you want to get rid of and it will delete.

PANTONE –UNIVERSAL COULOUR SYSTEM

Come in

• Solid
• Coated
• Uncoated palates, AND
• For fabrics

To open these on your Photoshop:

1. Go to swatch menu
2. Select which pantone colour palate you would like to use.

NOTE: You can download more palates online.

FILLING COLOUR IN THE BACKGROUND

1. Turn background layer off.
2. Create a new layer with colour and name file.
3. Move to the background of the list
4. In tools menu select the gradient tool by holding the mouse down and then click on the paint bucket
5. Select what colour you would like the background to be from the swatch palate and then apply to your image.

OR

1. Edit
2. Fill
3. Select from the contents menu what you would like to fill your colour with.
4. Select ok

SAVING FABRIC DESIGNS IN PHOTOSHOP

Design your fabric print (stripe)

1. Select the area you want to repeat with marque tool
2. Edit, define pattern and name it.
3. Create a new layer, turn original layer off
4. On the new layer, go edit, fill and then in the contents menu select ‘pattern’
5. Select the pattern and it will fill your new layer

Follow the first lot of instructions to fill your pattern into the background of the other images. This will result in something similar to the image below.

MERGING LAYERS

1. Select the layers you would like to merge from the menu
2. Click merge layers.
3. Rename file

FULL DROP

1. Save merged layers as pattern
2. Follow the top instructions to fill page
3.  

GETTING RID OF TRACK MARKS

What are track marks?

The places where we can see when a pattern repeats

HALF DROP

1. Duplicate original layer, by selecting from the layer menu and turn one off
2. Select all of the image
3. Copy the selection by going to edit and copying.
4. Go to image and then image size (1748X2480 pixels and press OK)
5. Filter other offset
6. Enter width and height measurements in and click ok
7. NOTE: this is half the half drop
8. Make canvas bigger by gong to image, canvas size
9. Increase the right hand size by 200% by selecting % and entering 200 in the width box
10. Select the appropriate anchor from the image box and select OK
11. Go to edit and select paste
12. With the move tool move the image to the centre of the right hand side
13. MERGE LAYERS again so that you can move them as a whole
14. Image, duplicate
15. Open a new document and fill it with pattern