Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Guys,
I recently discovered that I had totally forgotten about the feature of photoshop that allows one to duplicate or insert features in pictures and obey optical rules of perspective with objects reshaped to follow the images perspective and have distant parts recede. I needed to replace the top of a pano and without taking account of converging lines, it looked awkward. Luckily, both Cem and Bart swiftly came to my aid and reminded me to look under planes and vanishing point.
I realized then that there were so many such riches in Photoshop that we don't use every day and simply our lives by forgetting them.
So here's a list of my favorite under-used tools:
planes and vanishing point: allows one to add windows, put a logo on a truck or pictures and words on a billboard on a building that's seen from an angle or totally repair a complex brick wall even though t recedes.
blend if: This is the dialog box one finds when one clicks on the right blue space of any layer. Besides the oft used shadows, there's wealth of control based on tone and color one can also use.
What are your hidden favorites that you would suggest we don't ignore?
Asher
I recently discovered that I had totally forgotten about the feature of photoshop that allows one to duplicate or insert features in pictures and obey optical rules of perspective with objects reshaped to follow the images perspective and have distant parts recede. I needed to replace the top of a pano and without taking account of converging lines, it looked awkward. Luckily, both Cem and Bart swiftly came to my aid and reminded me to look under planes and vanishing point.
I realized then that there were so many such riches in Photoshop that we don't use every day and simply our lives by forgetting them.
So here's a list of my favorite under-used tools:
planes and vanishing point: allows one to add windows, put a logo on a truck or pictures and words on a billboard on a building that's seen from an angle or totally repair a complex brick wall even though t recedes.
blend if: This is the dialog box one finds when one clicks on the right blue space of any layer. Besides the oft used shadows, there's wealth of control based on tone and color one can also use.
What are your hidden favorites that you would suggest we don't ignore?
Asher