Sometimes some people know just the small tricks in Photoshop...
Here's a small start!
- For a straight line: click at the beginning point, and hold shift while clicking the next point
- Make brush size smaller: push [
- Enlarge brush size: push ]
- Delete part of selection: hold shift while selecting the part you don't want to be selected.
Sometimes some people know just the small tricks in Photoshop...
Here's a small start!
- For a straight line: click at the beginning point, and hold shift while clicking the next point
- Make brush size smaller: push [
- Enlarge brush size: push ]
- Delete part of selection: hold shift while selecting the part you don't want to be selected.
If you hold down the shift key while pressing the left and right square bracket keys, you alter the softness of the brush.
Use the 'measure' tool (hides under the eyedropper tool - looks like a ruler) along a straight edge in your image, that isn't vertical or horizontal.
Pick Image->rotate and photoshop automagically fills in the amount to rotate to make that line a perfect horizontal/vertical line.
It's better to use Image->Free Transform to fix a slanted horizon than using the rotate tools. If you use the transform, you don't have to crop the image. If you rotate, you do. (just don't try that in basic rules apparently)
Use the 'measure' tool (hides under the eyedropper tool - looks like a ruler) along a straight edge in your image, that isn't vertical or horizontal.
Pick Image->rotate and photoshop automagically fills in the amount to rotate to make that line a perfect horizontal/vertical line.
It's better to use Image->Free Transform to fix a slanted horizon than using the rotate tools. If you use the transform, you don't have to crop the image. If you rotate, you do. (just don't try that in basic rules apparently)
One to Add:
Use the shift key to hold proportions when dragging a corner, or hold the
shift key and start dragging a box and have a perfect square when done.
If you want to apply a gradient (not basic-legal but fine in advanced) use cntrl-shift-n to create a new empty layer, click "multiply" mode, and accept to create the layer. Lay your gradient down on the empty layer. You can now adjust hue/saturation directly in this layer to fine-tune the color of the gradient, and fade the layer in and out to optimize the result. "Multiply" mode keeps it from acting on the darker areas of the image (assuming the gradient was paler than the darkest areas), allowing you to lay a sky gradient down in skies with silhouetted trees etc without affecting the darker, silhouetted non-sky portions much, if at all; in other words, no selection halos.
Using Edit/Assign Profile and choosing a different profile can sometimes be an easy way to boost the color especially if you didn't start out using Adobe RGB to begin with. Just be sure to use Edit/Convert (to sRGB) before saving and uploading to the web.
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It "was" supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek form of humor.
Had it not been for you, and what you've shared here, I probably still wouldn't have a clue how to do a gradient,
as I had tried so many times, omitting one key step - switch to multiply in the layer properties!
I have of tricks for PS but they all relate to game art. I guess the best I could tell you about is purchasing a wacom board if you really want some detail. This is a 3d hand I painted in an evening all on wacom, almost not possible without:
