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PROJECT FILES To download this OF PHOTOSHOP Uncover a host of hidden tools issue's les, type Uncover a host of hidden tools and little-known tricks the following link and little-known tricks into your web browser on your PC or Mac: DRONE SHOOTING | COLOR SKILLS | LANDSCAPE TIPS https://bit.ly/2N5DVgK DRONE SHOOTING | COLOR SKILLS | LANDSCAPE TIPS Welcome to issue 90 of Practical Photoshop! FIND US HERE… If you enjoy the issue, why not subscribe and get a whole year for just $19.99? http://bit.ly/practweet http://bit.ly/pracface We all use Photoshop for diferent reasons, so inevitably there will be tools and commands Also available on: that – however proicient we are – will have passed us by. This issue we explore 20 hidden tricks and http://tiny.cc/4dw9ky techniques guaranteed to surprise and delight you. http://tiny.cc/rew9ky James Paterson, Editor t [email protected] www.digitalcameraworld.com http://tiny.cc/8ew9ky 20 SECRET TRICKS CAMERA REPLACE A LIGHT A SCENE LIGHTROOM OF PHOTOSHOP CALIBRATION BORING SKY WITH A DRONE SKILLS Q Discover a host QGet to grips QSpruce up dull QShoot and edit QMaster the Crop of hidden tools with this useful landscapes by amazing drone- tool and discover and techniques Camera Raw tool adding a sunset lit landscapes hidden features DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HERE https://bit.ly/2N5DVgK ON YOUR PC OR MAC WATCH THE VIDEO https://goo.gl/8TQNeA This little-known First you’ll need to enable it mirrors your brush strokes painting feature the command by checking can easily be achieved in duplicates and mirrors your a box tucked away in the other ways by duplicating brush strokes in various Photoshop preferences. and ipping them, but there’s ways across your canvas, Once done, you can select an something quite magical applying strokes in several axis for your brush strokes about watching them appear places at once. It’s great fun. and start painting. The way as you use the brush... ENABLE SYMMETRY Right now this painting command is a beta feature in Photoshop CC, so it needs to be enabled in the preferences irst. Go to Photoshop > Preferences > Technology Previews and check Enable Paint Symmetry, then hit OK. Now make a new blank document (File > New) and choose whatever size you like. CHOOSE AN AXIS Grab the Brush tool from the Tools panel, then go to the buttery icon at the top. This is where you can choose an axis for your symmetrical painting efect. Experiment with the diferent options and see what you get. We’ve used the Dual Axis option here, which mirrors our paint strokes on both the horizontal and vertical axes. START PAINTING Choose a color, brush tip and brush size then begin painting. With Dual Axis, each stroke will be duplicated in the four corners of the canvas, allowing you to create beautiful symmetrical patterns and shapes. Try turning on Smoothing in the brush options: this’ll make smooth curves in your strokes – even when you’re using a mouse to paint rather than a graphics tablet. This is a fairly new feature that may have passed some of us by. But it’s very useful for designers, artworkers and anyone who’s ever seen a design and thought – “That’s a nice font, I wonder what it is?”. With the Match Font command (Type > Match Font), you simply draw a box over any text and Photoshop will attempt to identify and enable it for you – or at the very least list similar fonts. PNG, PSD – so the next time take a shot of it, open it It works for any kind of you seen a font you like in Photoshop and use the image format – JPEG, TIFF, and want to use it yourself, Match Font command. Many irst-time users struggle with the Pen tool. It takes time to get to grips with the way it behaves, especially when it comes to plotting the Bézier curves that make the tool so useful. However, a setting in the tool options (at the top of the interface) can be a big help. Click the Path Options cog and turn on Rubber Band, and your cursor will have a line that – like a rubber band – stretches to show you what your next anchor point will look like. WATCH THE VIDEO https://goo.gl/BQX775 Here’s a little-known moves, resizes or rotates a Photoshop’s New dialog but fun shortcut – layer over and over again. (File > New), which is worth Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T – that When you use the shortcut exploring for an array of performs two functions at with random shapes or interesting designs and once. First it duplicates a efects, you can turn them assets. We can take an initial layer, then it repeats the last- into beautiful abstract spiral design and transform it to used Transform command. shapes. Here we begin with create an abstract octopus- So it basically copies then a shape downloaded via like ower. Here’s how... DOWNLOAD ABSTRACT SHAPES Go to File > New then search for and download the Vertigo Collection ile. Once it’s downloaded, open it up and go to the Layers panel (Window > Layers), then look through the layers and Shape groups and choose some of the interesting shapes within to use for your spiral efect. Now you can continue… COPY LAYERS Make another new document (File > New). This time, choose a simple A4 canvas with a black background. Right-click any shape layers you like and choose Duplicate Layer, then select the other document from step 1 in the ‘Destination’ settings. Once you have a few shapes to play with, you can begin the spiral efect. TRANSFORM A SHAPE Highlight a shape layer in the Layers panel, then press Cmd/Ctrl+J to copy it and Cmd/Ctrl+T to transform it. Any tweaks to the layer size, rotation and shape will be repeated again and again, so experiment with slight tweaks. Use the bounding box to rotate the layer slightly, then drag it to the side and resize it to make it a little smaller. Press Return to apply the efect. STEP AND REPEAT Now press Cmd/ Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T over and over to repeat the copy and transform commands, creating the spiral efect.