PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P2

STEP 21: Make sure you still have the Move tool, then press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key, go to the Layers panel, and click on the second and fourth layer groups from the top (as shown here). Press the Down Arrow key on your keyboard 10 times to move those two selected groups down a little from the rest (as seen here).STEP 22: Now select all five groups in the Layers panel, then press-and-hold Option-Shift (PC: Alt-Shift), click on any one of the five groups in the image area, and drag straight downward to duplicate all five groups, creating a...
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PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P2 STEP 21: Make sure you still have the Move tool, then press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key, go to the Layers panel, and click on the second and fourth layer groups from the top (as shown here). Press the Down Arrow key on your keyboard 10 times to move those two selected groups down a little from the rest (as seen here). STEP 22: Now select all five groups in the Layers panel, then press-and-hold Option-Shift (PC: Alt-Shift), click on any one of the five groups in the image area, and drag straight downward to duplicate all five groups, creating a second row of five (as seen here). Note: If you’re going to be photographing the people on your team, to get a more realistic “football” look, don’t have them angle their shoulders (like a traditional por- trait). Instead, have them pose more like a standard football player shot, with their shoulders flat, facing directly toward the camera.16 Chapter Chapter 1 Photo Effects, Part 1 STEP 23: You can change the colors of the bottom row if you’d like, and you do that by going to one of the duplicate groups in the Layers panel, expanding the group by clicking on the little right- facing arrow beside the folder, and then scrolling down to the layer with the red bar. Choose a new Foreground color, and fill this bar with your new color (purple, in this case) by pressing Option- Shift-Delete (PC: Alt-Shift-Backspace). Now, in the Layers panel, click on the white shape layer, then take the Magic Wand tool and click it on the dark gray area at the top right to select that area. Choose a contrasting Foreground color (I chose yellow), and fill your selected area with this new Foreground color. Finally, get the Horizontal Type tool, click on the layer for the type that appears on that upper tab, then highlight it and change the text color from white to black (click on the color swatch up in the Options Bar). Repeat this process for the other four cells on the bottom row. STEP 24: Now you’re going to add a background photo. In this case, we’re going to use a football-on-the-field shot, in keeping with the theme (you can download this same background shot, if you’d like, from this book’s downloads page, listed in the book’s intro). Once you open the background photo, get the Move tool, and drag-and-drop that background photo onto your main document. Then, in the Layers panel,SCOTT KELBY click-and-drag it so it appears just above the Background layer (that way it appears behind all the cells you created earlier). Continued Photo Effects, Part 1 Chapter 1 17 STEP 25: You’re going to make an adjustment to that background photo, so it doesn’t distract or compete with the cells you created. Start by removing all the color from the photo by pressing Command-Shift-U (PC: Ctrl-Shift-U), which is the shortcut for Desaturate. Next, go to the Adjustments panel and click on the Levels icon (the second icon from the left in the top row). When the Levels options appear, drag the bottom- right Output Levels slider to the left (as shown here) to darken the overall image, which helps to make your cells stand out. STEP 26: We’re almost done. Now, you can add any text you’d like below the whole cell area. Here, I added a few lines of text with the Horizontal Type tool, using the same font that I used for the “players” names in each cell. The key to doing the stacked lines of type, and making it look good, is to not add space between the letters to make each line fit—instead you increase (or decrease) the size of the font until it’s a perfect fit. It also helps to pull out vertical guides (from the rulers) before you start sizing your text—that makes it much easier to align each line of type. After the type is in place, get the Line tool (it’s one of the Shape tools—press Shift-U until you have it), click on the Shape Layers icon at the left end of the Options Bar, and then set the Weight (also in the Options Bar) to 8 px. Make sure your Foreground color is set to white, then press-and-hold the Shift key, and draw a line separating the company name from the “MANAGEMENT TEAM” line.18 Chapter Chapter 1 Photo Effects, Part 1 STEP 27: Now that you’ve got the whole thing designed, it’s time to swap out our original team member placeholder photo with the real members of your manage- ment team (or tag football league, or employees of the month, etc.). To do that, switch to the Move tool, press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key and, right within your image, click once on the cell you want to edit, and that layer group will become selected in the Layers panel (that’s an awfully handy shortcut). Now, expand that layer group, scroll down to the photo layer and drag it onto the Trash icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to delete it. Click on the gray shape layer to make it the ...