tailieunhanh - Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P6

Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P6: This book rocks! It is not just a revised version; this is a brand new edition. So much has changed in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 that it is practically a whole new program, and Mikkel Aaland has completed quite an amazing undertaking with Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions. | 134 Figure Just by applying Levels to the background the image was improved left . Applying a Gaussian blur made the background less distracting right . CHAPTER 5 BETTER PRODUCT SHOTS 3. This helped but to give the picture more depth I applied a Gaussian blur to the background Filter Blur Gaussian Blur . I set the Radius at pixels. 4. The label still needs selective burning and dodging and the reflections at the top of the bottles are too harsh. I ll fix the harsh reflections later in the chapter but as you can see on the right in Figure simplifying the background already has significantly improved this shot. Creating New Backgrounds After you have isolated a product from its background there is no reason why you can t insert any background you want. Backgrounds can come from another photograph or purely from selective Photoshop Elements effects and a little imagination. Some of the most effective backgrounds are a combination of a real photograph and a Photoshop Elements filter or effect. In Figure you ll see an example of a background created using a combination of a gradient fill adjustment layer and an effect. Figure This background was quickly created using a gradient fill and an effect. Here s what I did to create the new background 1. Starting with the car that I worked on previously I selected and removed the previous background titled Color Fill 1 Layer Delete Layer and made a new gradient background by clicking the Create Adjustment Layer icon at the top of the Layers palette and choosing Gradient from the pop-up menu. You can also select Layer New Fill Layer Gradient from the menu bar. 2. From the various Gradient options I chose the settings you see on the left in Figure . To find the Silver gradient I started by clicking the drop-down arrow adjacent to the word Gradient in the Gradient Fill dialog box. Then when another palette of options opened I clicked the arrow pointing to the right. This brought up a drop-down menu .