tailieunhanh - Professional Information Technology-Programming Book part 46

Tham khảo tài liệu 'professional information technology-programming book part 46', công nghệ thông tin, kỹ thuật lập trình phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | . Pattern Overlays You can get some really nice effects by simply blending layers with two different subjects on them. It s so easy to experiment and so much funand much more productive than playing solitaire while you re waiting for that call from the agency. What I m going to suggest here however is a slightly more predictable variation on that same idea. Simply create a solid color layer and then use either the Pen or Shape tool to make an object that if repeated would become a pattern. In this instance I used a 50 percent gray layer fill and then filled it again with a pattern. I then put the resulting layer in Multiply Blend Mode and reduced the Opacity of the layer. Finally I used a Curves adjustment layer to increase the contrast and exposure of the end result. Figure 10-29 shows you the original image and the color-blended result. Figure 10-29. A pattern layer overlain on a photograph could use many variations on Blend Modes. NOTE The pattern in Figure 10-29 wasn t made with the Pattern Maker filter but by the much more predictable old-fashioned Photoshop method I created a solid color layer and placed an image inside it. I then used a square Rectangular Marquee to select it and chose Edit Define Pattern. After naming the pattern in the resultant Pattern dialog it became part of the currently chosen pattern library. I then created a blank layer and chose Edit Fill. In the Fill dialog I chose Pattern from the Use menu. The pattern then seamlessly filled the entire layer thanks to the fact that its background had no pattern. . Photo Filters The Photo Filters command in the Image Adjustments menu is a means for making a sepia-toned image but it is also a way to make toned images based on all the primary RGB colors and their complements. But the Photo Filters command s most real and important function is imitating the glass color-balancing filters traditionally used in film photography for warming and cooling the image see Figure 10-30 . Figure 10-30.