tailieunhanh - Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P13

Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P13: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. From the toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools, Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printer or graphic artist needs. | 336 Part IV More Tools photograph that he wants screened but without a border the screen print looks unfinished and unprofessional. Project 18-2 Creating a Border Using an Existing Pattern Let s take a look back to some artwork that we worked on in Chapter 16. This artwork definitely needs a border before the final print can be considered complete. 1. Open the file from the Chapter 18 folder on the companion CD. 2. Change the foreground and background colors to white for the foreground and black for the background if necessary. 3. Choose Image Canvas Size to increase the size of the canvas. Change the width to 21 inches and the height to 18 inches. Maximize the file by clicking the large square in the top-right corner of the window. 4. Select the Pattern Stamp tool VI from the toolbox. If you loaded a different set of brushes in the last exercise in the options select Reset Brushes. Do the same for the Patterns palette. 5. From the options bar choose Brush number 100 Soft Round 100 pixels . 6. Click the down arrow next to Pattern to open the pop-up palette for the available patterns. 7. From the additional options in the pop-up palette select Reset Patterns if you did not do so in step 4. 8. Double-click the blue pattern called Woven. 9. Change Opacity and Flow in the options bar to 75 percent. 10. Enable airbrush capabilities by clicking the Airbrush icon in the options bar. 11. Verify the Airbrush icon is indented that means it s selected. Tip Notice that using the Airbrush is like spray painting with a can of paint. The longer you hold down the mouse in a single area the more paint is applied. 337 Chapter 18 Cloning and Correction Tools 12. Paint a border around the edges of the canvas. 13. Crop the image appropriately. 14. Choose the Smudge tool from the toolbox and work around the image to soften the edges. See the final result in Figure 18-5. Save this file as . Figure 18-5 Creating a border with the Pattern Stamp tool