tailieunhanh - Adobe Photoshop 6.0- P7

Adobe Photoshop P8: Adobe Photoshop delivers powerful, industry-standard image-editing tools for professional designers who want to produce sophisticated graphics for the Web and for print. Included with Photoshop is ImageReady and its powerful set of Web tools for optimizing and previewing images, batch-processing images with droplets in the Actions palette, and creating GIF animations. Photoshop and ImageReady combined offer a comprehensive environment for designing graphics for the Web | LESSON 7 Basic Pen Tool Techniques 202 14 Alt-click Windows or Option-click Mac OS point J to set a corner point. Creating an S-curve by dragging in the opposite direction of a curve then setting a corner point 15 To complete the path Shift-click point K. End the path using one of the methods you ve learned. 16 Choose File Close and do not save changes. Adding and subtracting anchor points You can add points to a path to increase the number of segments in the path and you can subtract unneeded or unwanted points from a path. 1 Choose File Open and open the file from the Lessons Lesson07 folder. Two paths have been named and saved in the Paths palette. You ll edit the paths using the pen tool and the convert-point tool. 2 In the Paths palette click the Add and delete points path to make it the active path. Two subpaths appear in the document window. 3 Select the add-anchor-point tool hidden under the pen tool . Then position the pointer over the red dot at the center of the straight path and click. An anchor point with direction lines is added to the segment and the pointer becomes a hollow arrow which lets you select and manipulate the path. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 203 Classroom in a Book 4 Now select and drag the path upward. Clicking with the add-anchor-point tool Next you ll subtract an anchor point from a path. 5 Select the direct selection tool and select the second path. You must select the path before you can delete points from the path. But you can select the path and the anchor points without first selecting a tool. If a path is selected just move the pen tool over a segment to change it to the add-anchor-point tool. Move the pen tool over an end point to change the tool to the delete-anchor-point tool. 6 Select the delete-anchor-point tool - hidden under the add-anchor-point tool fi position the pointer on the red dot over the center anchor point and then click to remove the anchor point. Clicking with the Result delete-anchor-point tool Converting .