Sunday, December 30, 2012

Photography: PSE Methods

By Darnell Garcia Austria


Use Another lmage's Colors

When you've got an image captured at some point of the day and you just wish to provide it with the look of a different time period of the day or different basic coloring manner, you can do so by getting the shades from a different image. PSE 10 comes with a variety of pictures you may use shades from. To start, open your image and select File - New - Photo Merge Style Match. In the Style Bin at the foot within the screen you will see many photos. Choose the one that's nearly close appearance and colors to the image you want to generate. Alternately select the "+" icon and choose Add Style Images From Hard Disk and explore to pick pictures to include to the Style Bin.

To imitate the colors from the image, select the Transfer Tones check box, then adjust the Clarity, Details and intensity sliders to modify the effect. This way you may, for instance, take an image which had been shot on a good daylight and provide it a warmer gleam of a nice setting sun by borrowing the colors from a sunset image.

Keep Clear of Filter Bloopers

Many of Photoshop's filters specifically Distort and Sketch utilize the currently specified forefront and background colors to color the photo but not anywhere will Photoshop Elements notify you this is actually the case. Consequently, if you've got blue and red picked out as your foreground and background colors, and you utilize a filter like the Diffuse Glow filter, the image will be colored blue or red and look horrible.

Instead, before you apply a filter, choose the wished-for hues, the Diffuse Glow filter works for black as the foreground color and white as the background color, you could fix these by hitting the shortcut key D which sets the default hues. Then choose Filter - Distort - Diffuse Glow and you will add an attractive grainy light with the photo.

Batch Resize Multiple Files

If you've got a series of pictures you would like to size down to a fixed dimension choose File - Process Multiple Files. Click on the Browse tab and select a folder of photos to resize. Simply find the target folder by simply clicking the second of the Browse tabs and locate a folder in which the resized images will be saved. Click on the Resize lmages option, choose Constrain Proportions so the photos aren't skewed out of dimension and then type either the Width or the Height to your photos to be resized to. Once you're done, click on OK and the pictures will likely be opened, resized and saved in the directory you have chosen. If you wish to resize portrait and landscape images to several measurements, store them on different directories before applying the batch resize to each directory in turn.

Cut Text from an Image File

To cut text originating from an image so you have written text that's filled up with an image, for starters open the image to utilize. Select the Text tool and enter a few textual content onto it by using a thicker font shows the image characteristic more obviously, the color of the text is unrelated because it would not show afterwards. Click on the Move tool and click on the textual content to pick then resize the words to suit and drag it in place within the image.

Double click the background layer and click on OK to change it to a normal layer then move the background layer over the text layer. At this point, with the photo layer chosen in the Layer palette, select Layer - Create Clipping Mask. This clips the photo to the shape of the text.

Now you may, if you wish, click the photo layer and move the photo in and around up until you get an interesting part of the photo right behind the text. You can include a simple or gradient-filled layer under the text layer to fill the background. It's also possible to give a layer style to the text by Choosing Effects - Layer Styles - Drop Shadows after which apply a drop shadow to the photo.




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