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Drawing and Painting With Photoshop CS3

Drawing And Painting With Adobe Photoshop CS3

In this lesson you will see that Adobe Photoshop is not just an image editor, but it is also useful in creating art work by drawing and painting. In this lesson we will focus on Painting, but you can always add to this project if you would like to try your own drawing. In this lesson we will be learning how to use the following:

● Use the basic painting tools. ● Use the colors panel, gradient panel,and the brushes panel. ● Use layers to paint the image. ● Use the blending modes, and paint strokes. ● Use masking and selection tools ● Use custom brushes and settings from the tool options bar.

Pick one of the images below and Save image to your computer, as" clown.jpg ".


File > Open > Clown.jpg

First thing you always want to do is make a copy of the original to work with to keep the original intact to use again.

Now you're ready to get started. The first thing that needs to be done is converting the clown.jpg which is a photograph to a drawing.

With the second Layer selected go to Filter > Stylize > Find Edges.


This is what it should look like converted.


Now we need to get rid of all color. Go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.

Next the drawing needs to be cleaned up using the Levels dialog. Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels.


Use the settings above to get your image cleaned up, you may have to change your setting to work for you.

Now use the Magic Wand Tool (W) to select the inside of the mouth or lip with the Background copy layer selected. Once you get the inside lip selected - Right Click in the selected area with the Magic Wand Tool you'll get a menu > select > Layer Via Copy. Double left click on the new layer name and rename it "inside of lip." This will be the process for this lesson you will always have to go back to the Background copy layer.


Next select the Background layer again in the layer panel. Go to the Tools panel and select the

Magic Wand Tool (W) and select the out side of the lip. Right Click with the Magic Wand > Select > Layer Via Copy > Name layer " Outside of lip."


Use the Paint Bucket Tool to fill with white to the Outside of lip object.

With the Outside of lip layer still selected go to the bottom of the Layers panel and select the fx icon > select > Shadow and Stroke below are the settings for stroke. Use the stroke to create a red line around the mouth.


Next select the white areas on the clowns face using the Magic Wand Tool (W) . Make sure you're on the background layer when you do this. Once all white areas are selected - Right Click with Magic Wand Tool and select > LayerViaCopy to create a new layer > Name layer. Now fill with white using the Paint

bucket tool


Select the Face, hat, colar, and hair, each should be seperate layers. Use the same process as was used above.

To create the wood plaque that the clown head is connected to we'll use the Actions panel for this.

1. Select the Background copy layer. 2. On the layers panel go to the bottom of panel and select Create a New Layer button.

3. Now go to Window > Actions, once the panel opens up go to the top right hand corner you'll see a small triangle. Left Click on it to get a menu > select > Textures located at the bottom of the


menu.

4. 5. Now select the Textures folder in the Actions panel > Select > Wood - Pine to create the wood panel.


6. Make sure the New Blank layer above the Background layer copy is selected. At the bottom of the Actions panel > click on the Play button (small triangle). This will run a script that will create the wood for you. Cool!

7. Now Murge the layers that were create from the Action and call the layer "Wood".

With the Wood layer selected in the Layers panel > go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90°CW. The reason for this is the wood grain is going the wrong way so it needs to be adjusted.


Next select Edit > Free Transform Path (Ctrl + T) to expand the wood object to fill the image.


Hide the Wood layer (click on the eye) > Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool . This will draw straight lines very easily see below to create a selection. Hint left click once to change direction with tool.


Click on the Eye on the Wood layer to show layer again and make sure this layer is selected. Go to the bottom of the Layers panel and select the Add Layer Mask button. With the selection you made with the Polygonal Lasso Tool you'll see that the shape of the plaque is now appearent.


Now Select the Fx button at the bottom of the Layers panel and add a Drop Shaddow and Stroke. See color size below.


The example below isn't completily finished but it will give you an idea of the directions you're working towards.

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