Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P4

Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P4: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find thetools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. Fromthe toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools,Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printeror graphic artist needs.
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Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P466 Part I / The Photoshop Interface] Tip: Creating your own preset tool library can be quite helpful if you use the same tools often to perform specific tasks. Revisit this part of the chapter after you’ve finished this book and create a library of your favorites using the Preset Manager available from the additional options. Other Common Terms and Options There are several options that you’ll see off and on when accessing tools and using the options bar. Words like tolerance, anti-alias, contiguous, flow, and others will pop up, depending on the tool selected. These words are defined briefly in this section.] Tip: Bookmark this page and refer to it when using tools and the options bar. This section is meant to serve as a reference and should be referred to when questions about the items in the options bar arise. n Actual Pixels/Fit Screen/Print Size: Used with the Zoom and Hand tools, these options allow you to configure how the image should look on the screen after modifying it. n Align and Distribute: These options allow you to align and distrib- ute layers or selections within an image. There are several ways to align or distribute objects: top, vertical center, left, horizontal center, and right. n Aligned: Aligned is used when repairing flaws in images (such as with the Healing Brush or Clone Stamp tool). Place a check in the Aligned box if you need to release the mouse button while working and still keep the sampling point; sampled pixels are thus applied continuously. Uncheck the box to apply the pixels from the original sampling point each time. n Anti-alias/Anti-aliasing: Anti-aliasing is the process of smoothing edges around a selection. It differs from feathering in that it does not blur the edges but instead softens them by blending the colors of the outer pixels with the background pixels. This results in no loss of detail. You must choose anti-aliasing before selecting; it cannot be added after a selection has been made. Chapter 4 / The Options Bar 67n Area: Area is used with the Art History Brush to specify the paint- ing area diameter.n Auto Erase: Available with the Pencil tool, checking the Auto Erase box allows you to paint the background color over areas of fore- ground color. This, in essence, erases what has been previously drawn with the foreground color.n Contiguous: This is used with tools such as the Magic Eraser, Paint Bucket, Magic Wand, and others to specify how colors will be selected, applied, or erased. When Contiguous is checked, the result- ing selection only includes pixels that are adjacent to each other. Otherwise, all pixels of the preferred color are selected.n Dither: Dither reduces visible banding related to gradients when using the Gradient tool.n Exposure: This sets the amount of exposure (coverage) used by the Dodge and Burn tools.n Feather: Feathering is the process of blurring edges around a selec- tion. Blurring the edges helps the selection blend into another object, file, or selection when it is moved, cut, copied, and/or pasted. Feathering causes loss of detail and should not be used with spot color artwork. However, feathering can be useful when working with photos, especially if you plan to cut from one photo and paste into another.n Flow: Flow is used to specify how quickly paint is applied when using a brush tool like the Airbrush. A heavier flow lays on more paint more quickly; a lower flow lays on less paint.n Front Image and Clear: Used with the Crop tool, Clear removes all text from the text boxes, while Front Image uses the settings from the front image for the width, height, and resolution.n Impressionist: This adds an impressionist effect (like Monet’s art) when the box is checked while using the Pattern Stamp tool.n Limits: Limits allows you to choose from Contiguous, Discon- tiguous, and Find Edges when using the Background Eraser tool. Contiguous erases colors that are next to the original sample, Discontiguous erases underneath the brush, and Find Edges looks for and finds the edges of an image and erases to those edges.n Protect Foreground Color: When erasing, check this box to pro- tect the foreground color from being erased.68 Part I / The Photoshop Interface n Range: This is used with the Dodge and Burn tools and allows you to select a tonal range to lighten or darken (midtones, highlights, or shadows). n Refine Edge: Use this option with the lasso tools to define the lasso’s s ...