tailieunhanh - Adobe Photoshop 6.0- P9

Adobe Photoshop P9: 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 | ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 271 Classroom in a Book 4 In the Swatches palette select a yellow-green color that appeals to you for the foreground color. Paint the entire pear with the light yellow-green color. As you paint you ll notice that the color of the pear changes to the color you selected. If you want your colors to be appropriate for use on the Web first choose Web Color Sliders from the Color palette menu and then choose a color for the pear. Selecting yellow-green swatch Result 5 Next select a darker green from the Swatches palette. In the Paintbrush Options palette set the brush opacity to about 30 . Paint around the edges in the pear selection avoiding the highlight area. 6 To add additional highlights to the pear select a rose color from the Swatches palette and select a smaller brush from the Brush pop-up palette. In the Paintbrush Options palette decrease the paint opacity to about 20 and paint more highlights on the pear. 7 Choose Select Deselect. 8 Choose File Save. Adding a gradient Now you ll use the gradient tool to add a gradient to the other pear for a highlight effect. ImageReady does not have a gradient tool. Instead gradients are created as ImageReady layer effects. First you ll need to load the selection of the left pear you made earlier. 1 Choose Select Load Selection and select Alpha 2. Click OK. A selection border appears around the left pear in your image 2 Select red as the foreground color. 272 LESSON 10 Creating Special Effects 3 Click the background color swatch and select yellow as the background color. Selecting red as the foreground color Selecting yellow as the background color 4 Select the gradient tool a and select Radial Gradient from the tool options bar. a n a -----i i i r A B C D A. Radial gradient B. Angle gradient C. Reflected gradient D. Diamond gradient 5 Make sure that Foreground to Background is selected in the Gradient picker so that the color blends from the foreground color red to the background color yellow . Set the .