Overview
- Shows how to take hand-drawn artwork to the next level and make it print and portfolio ready
- Teaches the use of Photoshop selection tools to improve your workflow and efficiently clean up your artwork
- Shows how to make improvements in Photoshop by eliminating unnecessary artifacts
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About this book
Take your hand-drawn illustrations to the next level by using various selection tools in Photoshop to clean up the artwork, and Illustrator for final refinement. Also, learn to save your artwork as vector images to be used for web, print, or even stills for character animation.
Author Jennifer Harder begins by showing you how to use basic tools in Photoshop to clean up your artwork, followed by Marquee tools and more. Next, you will see how to use more advanced tools such as Lasso, Magic Wand, the Object Selection tool, and so on. You’ll then get a demonstration of how to control the type of selection using the selection main menu, how to copy selections to another layer, and how to use the focus area. This is followed by a chapter that covers paths, channels, and layer masks that you will master to clean up your artwork.
To round things out, you will learn how to use Illustrator’s different features to further enhance your work. On completing the book,you will have mastered how to make your artwork and illustrations portfolio-ready.
What You Will Learn
- Master each selection tool found in Photoshop
- Choose the right tools for cleaning and refining artwork
- Save selections for other projects
- Make your artwork scalable in Illustrator using various methods
Who Is This Book For
Readers with little-to-intermediate-level experience with Photoshop.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jennifer Harder has worked in the graphic design industry for over 10 years. She has a degree in Graphic Communications and is currently teaching Acrobat, InDesign, and Dreamweaver courses at Langara College. As a freelancer, Jennifer frequently works with Adobe PDFs to help enhance websites. She enjoys talking about Adobe Software and her interests include writing, illustration, and working on her websites.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Accurate Layer Selections Using Photoshop’s Selection Tools
Book Subtitle: Use Photoshop and Illustrator to Refine Your Artwork
Authors: Jennifer Harder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7493-4
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Jennifer Harder 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7492-7Published: 19 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-7493-4Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 938
Number of Illustrations: 492 b/w illustrations, 946 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Graphics