Virtual Stamping 102 includes Ten Chapters in PDF format. Assuming that you are comfortable with the basics learned in VS 101, this CD take you into the new territory of creating art from scratch using your computer. From beginning Brushes through beginning collage (compositing), this is exciting adventure!
In each Chapter, you complete a project, learn a set of PhotoShop skills, and are then ready for the next chapter. And, the CD includes all the images you need for the projects.
Every page is illustrated with screen shots that are large and easy to see, and many of the screen shots are illustrated with colored arrows to show exactly where a tool or menu item is found.
Type is large enough to see when the print-out is lying on your desk - without you having to pick it up, and there is lots of white space for note taking if you desire.
Keep each completed Chapter in a ring binder and you will have a reference book for future use.
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Screen shot illustrations are done in Adobe PhotoShop Elements® 2.0. with explanations for any differences from the big PhotoShop Program.
You can complete this CD using Adobe PhotoShop Elements, Versions 1.0 - 5.0, or Adobe PhotoShop versions 7-0 - CS2.
Users of Elements 3.0 - 5.0 need to work in the Edit and Enhance or Standard Edit Mode.
Nothing But Blue Skies . . .
One of the great icons of happiness and good times is the beautiful blue sky. This Chapter will teach you how to create a never-ending supply of Blue Sky, to be printed and used in any art project.
PhotoShop has a magic filter that will start you off with clouds, but it takes some special tricks to turn them into a realistic looking sky.
The card shown is just one example of how beautiful this “Sky” can be when incorporated into artwork.
Skills Learned in this Chapter:
Using the Render Clouds Filter
Using Transformation Handles Outside the Boundaries
Cropping an Image
Calligraphy Cards
There is a wonderful elegance to the simple cards you see in specialty shops or galleries which feature a quotation written in beautiful calligraphy over a few brushstrokes of watercolor.
But, all of us are not practiced calligraphers and often in the real world, painting a couple of wide swashes of watercolor causes a card to warp and wrinkle. But this beautiful style of card can be easily created in PhotoShop with none of those worries.
Skills Learned in this Chapter:
Removing Unwanted Parts of an Image Using the Selection Marquee
Using the Brush Tool with Options
Painting with Wet Media Brushes
Special Tip: Intensifying Color in a Document
Review: Setting Type and Arranging Type Layers
Review: Resizing a Graphic
Review: Using the Eyedropper Tool to Sample a Color
Review: Changing the Color of Type
Butterflies in Color
Butterflies present the perfect canvases for teaching you how to add color to black and white art in PhotoShop, and we will learn to do that three ways in this Chapter - resulting in some really beautiful butterflies!
Skills Learned in this Chapter:
Understanding Anti-Aliasing
Creating a Trap Layer for Color
Painting with the Paint Bucket Tool
Review: Using the Magic Wand Selection Tool
Painting with the Gradient Tool
Painting with Special Effects Brushes
Changing Colors with the Hue Slider
Removing Background with the Magic Wand
Combining and Resizing Several Images on One Page for Printing
The Window Card
This Chapter will teach everybody how to “draw a straight line” and we’ll never have to hear that excuse again!
A wonderful thing about PhotoShop is that you can use the tools in ways they were never intended for and come up with new and interesting techniques!
In this Chapter, we use a technique as easy the dot-to-dot art you did as a child, to create a fun illustration from scratch.
Skills Learned in this Chapter:
Dot to Dot Drawing with the Polygonal Lasso Tool
Using the Stroke Command
Erasing a Selection
Constructing an Illustration Using Layers
Creating See-Through effects
Rearranging the Layers Stack
Room With A View
Combining drawings with real world photographs produces a surrealistic effect that is just plain fun!
But, it can be tricky to adapt the photograph to just the size and shape you need. So that's what we learn to do in this Chapter, and then we color our drawing just for fun - with colors pulled right from the photograph.
We will also use the Pencil Tool to create a red and white checkered tablecloth for our table.
Skills Learned in this Chapter:
Deleting Layers
Toggling to Switch Foreground and Background Colors
Measuring with the Rectangular Selection Marquee
Cropping a Photograph to a New Shape
Resampling a Photograph to a New Size
Using the Eyedropper Tool through Layers
Shading with the Gradient Tool
