Phone and power lines are the bane of a retoucher’s existence. The new Content-Aware Spot Healing in CS5 has fixed this. Here’s how: Using the Pen tool (P), add a path to the line; choose the Spot Healing Brush (J) with Content-Aware selected in the Options Bar; change the brush size to two times the …
When drawing strokes to define a foreground object with the Roto Brush tool (Option-W), begin by drawing broad foreground strokes along the center of the object’s features. Next, make at least some rough background strokes on the other side of the object’s boundary. Then you can draw a fine stroke along the boundary to attempt …
You can now get rich details about how your layout is hanging together with CSS Inspect. Click the Inspect button at the top of your document window, and hover over areas in Live View. The CSS Styles panel will update in real time with the properties of your selection, and you’ll get a visual overlay …
In Photoshop CS5 Extended, it’s easy to get started with 3D creation from the 3D panel (Window>3D). Use Repoussé on text layers, masks, selections, or paths to extrude them to real 3D geometries. Take layers and wrap them around 3D shapes and even open 3D models from third-party content providers directly as a Photoshop 3D …
Fireworks has a simple and powerful selection model. Click on something to select it, regardless of what layer it’s on, even if it’s grouped. There’s no need to dig through your Layers panel to try and find a layer. Use the Pointer tool (V) to select an object or its group, the Select Behind tool …
While dragging with a frame tool, tap the arrow keys to start sub-dividing the area you’ve dragged out into equal parts. The Up/Down Arrows change the number of rows and the Right/Left Arrows change the number of columns. The default amount of space between each frame will automatically be the same as the Gutter value …
In Illustrator CS5 you can join any number of paths by simply selecting them all with the Selection tool (V) and pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J)-you no longer need to select just the end points. A second Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) with the path still selected will close the path.
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