Auto-Align: It Will Change the Way You Take Photographs. Last year around this time, I took 5 photos from the observation deck of the Calgary Tower which were intended to be merged together to make a wide panorama: I tried my best to merge the photographs in Photoshop CS manually using layer masking and free transformation and managed to merge just three of the photographs together and the result was this: Downtown Calgary Panorama The first of many tips from the Creative License Tour On June 14, I attended the Creative License Tour and learned of two features I did not know existed in Photoshop.
These features are Auto-Align and Auto-Blend, and this will change the way we take photographs as we know it. Typically to capture shots which are required for a panorama, you need to take shots which revolve around an axis as shown in the diagram below: Panorama RotationImage courtesy of Apple With these two new features in Adobe Photoshop CS3, the tripod is no longer needed. Auto-Align does all the nasty free-transforming for you And voila! And the result… Photoshop For Beginners: 6 techniques to extract anything from its background.
This is the second of a series of tutorials thought for Photoshop beginners.
I’ll explain in depth those features that can result difficult to understand for a newbi. Today I’ll show you 6 techniques you can use to extract a person/object from its background. From now on extraction won’t have secrets for you! Extraction is one of the worst enemies for those who start using Photoshop. While it’s simple to extract a geometric figure from its background, it is difficult to do the same with a tree or a blonde flowing hair model. Do you want to learn Photoshop basics with simple yet effective tutorials? How to: Before we start: in the following exercises I take for grant you’ll unlock the background layer when you open a new image in Photoshop before start the exercise. For mac users: alt=options. ctrl=cmd. Exercise 1: How to extract simple form objects Objects with simple forms are easy to be extracted.
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