Jeff Cochran
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Unsharp mask is under the filters drop down menu > Sherpen. Unsharp mask is a way of sharpening your image (ignore the name unsharp). Unsharp mask will increase the contrast between pixels to sharpen an image. I usually use a value of 100, 1.0 and 0 to sharpen up a scanned image. Try ramping the values up and see what kind of results you get.
An alpha channel is something that is used commonly in the video industry as a transparency mask. Photoshop sees channels as the different color plates in your document.(I.e. CMYK or RGB) the channels represent each color (i.e. Cyan channel). BUT, you can also create a number of additional channels in your document. Best example of this would be to take a color image, copy and paste it to a new channel, creating a grayscale image from it. You’ll find the channel palette under the windows pull down menu. The benefit of doing this is now you can make a selection out of the grayscale image. Hold down the Apple key and click on the channel icon in the channel menu (This also work for making a layer a selection). Now, this has made a multi transparent selection out of the image. White will be select 100%, 50% Grey will be selected 50% and black won
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Try using transfer modes in your layers pallette. I use Screen, Multiply and color quite often. Transfer modes allows a layer to interact with the layers beneath it. (Multiply darkens, Screen lightens and color, well you get it).
Tim Marrs is gathering a lot of textures either from photos or creating painterly effects in painter. You can do the same. Take a camera out and just shoot textures or find some stock on-line that you like. You can also create your own with filters such as noise, blur and sharpen (Find a texture you like and apply an un-sharp mask to it with an amount of 500 and pixel radius of 20). I’d also suggest learning to use your layer masks and alpha channels for adding texture. Try taking a textured image, use the Curves or levels tool to blow out the highlights and shadows, then use that texture as a layer mask for a flat color, place that layer over another image and give the layer a transfer mode of color, and see what you get.
Play (and I do mean play) with a couple of those ideas. I’ll see if I can gather some examples later.
Have fun
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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Nicely done!
I like the edit and the tension you’ve built.
I’m wondering if the girl
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Underbelly’s right
Once you get the message, the only thing you can do is clear some space on the drive or quit out of Photoshop and start over..
Cropping the image just helps to keep the file size down so you don’t use all your memory as quickly..I’d use his suggestions of a firewire drive, more ram or both.
Otherwise, save often, close and open the file often. Closing the file will clear the history.
Good luck
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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The problem is memory. As you work on your file, Photoshop pulls from the HD memory. Try saving your file more often, that will help release some of the memory that PS is pulling from the HD. Another thing you could try is cropping your image. I’ve run into this several time. you may have image data outside the canvas area that you don’t intend to use.That image data is using memory. Crop the image and remove that unwanted data.
And, of course, clear as much off your HD as possible.
Good Luck
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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Try This
Take the layer that you want to use for mask, select all and copy (Command C), Go to the channels palette and create a new channel, paste the layer you just copied (Command V)
This creates a grayscale version of the layer. Hold down the command key and click on the channel in the channel palette. This will make a select from the white areas; will also create a select based on the level of grey in the image.
Go back to the layer palette, click on the layer with the image you want masked, and click the mask button at the bottom of the palette. This will mask your image.
Things you can try to alter the mask are.
1. Invert the mask (Command I)
2. Use the curves tool to increase/decrease contrast, levels of white or blackHave fun
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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Nearest neighbor is a one of three different ways Photoshop interprets pixel information. Nearest neighbor is great for resizing black and white only (Line art) images. Go under image to Image Size, Next to Resample Image is a pull down menu. This will allow you to select nearest neighbor. Now when you resize your art, nearest neighbor will keep the separation between black and white much cleaner.
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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Draw a path around the image, make sure the new path is in front of the drawing and placed where you want it, select the path and the drawing. Under the OBJECT drop down menu, scroll to CLIPPING MASK and MAKE.
This should give you what you want
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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Cesar
It really is pretty easy to create your PDF file
First, save the file out of Photoshop as a PDF, Now, if you double click on the file, it will open in Photoshop. So, what I do to make sure another user can open the PDF in Acrobat with out any trouble is, open Acrobat and use the OPEN command to open the file. SAVE AS and write over the original file. Now if you double click on the file, it will open Acrobat.
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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Hi Jason
I’m with you there, I hate the PPT backgrounds
Backgrounds are easy for PPT from Photoshop. Create your file at 720 x 540 pixels, RGB color at 72 dpi. Create the background you want and save a copy as a JPEG.
In PPT, go under format to background. Look for the tab across the top labeled picture, then the button “select Picture” find your JPEG and import, hit OK, then either Apply or apply to all (hopefully self explanatory). There you have it, a custom background
Good Luck
Jeff Cochran
http://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com