Photoshop és una aplicació d’edició d’imatges sense iguals, de molt l’eina No.1 entre professionals des del seu llançament de 1990.
Els editors professionals d’imatges coneixen tots els trucs que els poden ajudar a estalviar temps i acabar més ràpidament algunes tasques. Per començar, ompliu àmplies àrees d’una imatge amb colors sòlids. Aquí podríeu utilitzar les eines de pintura i dibuix, però es pot fer molt més ràpidament a Photoshop.
Per què no utilitzar pintura i dibuix
El diable podria estar en detalls, però si dediqueu massa temps a tractar tots els detalls, perdreu temps valuós i podreu perdre la paciència i l’enfocament, cosa que només pot aparèixer en la vostra obra.
En lloc de pintar i dibuixar, hi ha dues maneres fantàstiques d’omplir zones d’un mateix color. Podeu utilitzar l'eina Paint Bucket o el Comandament d'emplenament . Ambdues són igualment eficients i, depenent de la vostra preferència i de la situació, és possible que preferiu l’un sobre l’altre.
Paint Bucket
Here’s how to use the Paint Bucket tool in Photoshop:
- Enable the Color Picker by navigating to the foreground color swatch in the toolbox. Now, either find the color that you want to use and select it or select a shade from one of the color libraries. Clicking OK will lock in the selected color.
- To select the Paint Bucket tool, press the G key on your keyboard. If this doesn’t work, you’ve probably been using a tool that is in the same toolbox as the Paint Bucket (the Gradient tool, for instance). If this is the case, press Shift + G and click/hold on the Gradient tool in the toolbox, which should reveal the Paint Bucket
- Now, you need to set options for the Paint Bucket tool and this is done in Options. If you want to use a particular pattern fill rather than the foreground color, you need to open the fill-source menu and change the setting to Pattern rather than Foreground. Now, select the desired pattern from the pattern gallery. Open the Mode menu, choose a blending mode, and find the right opacity for the fill. The Tolerance field defines how closely the area that you fill should resemble the area color. In other words, how closely the pixels should resemble the area in question. The Contiguous, Anti-Alias, and All Layers checkboxes help you define the edges of your fill area.
- Finally, click the image with the Paint Bucket tool in the target area (the color that you want to replace).
Fill Command
Here’s how to use the Fill Command in Photoshop:
- Use the Color Picker tool to select the background (foreground) color. To do this, click on the background/foreground color swatch in the toolbox. Pick a color by selecting one from the color libraries or by entering the corresponding formula. Click OK to set this color.
- To bring up the Fill dialog box, press Shift + Backspace on a PC, or Shift + Delete on a Mac. Choose between Background Color or Foreground Color in the Use Should you happen to change your mind, overriding these colors is as easy as choosing Color to bring up the Color Picker. The Use menu can be set to History, White, Black, 50% Gray, or Pattern. The Pattern option will open the Custom Pattern gallery for you to select your fill. Make sure that you choose the Content-Aware option for the selection to fill itself by drawing details from the adjacent areas of the image.
- The Mode menu allows you to control the fill’s blending with existing colors in the target area. Opacity determines how opaque your fill is going to be. The Preserve Transparency checkbox helps you make sure that the fill doesn’t affect the transparent areas within the image. To apply the fill after personalizing it, click OK.
Things to Keep in Mind
Although this sounds basic enough, there are things that you need to pay attention to. First of all, the mentioned Content-Aware fill can often have random results. This means that you’re going to be playing with the Undo command quite a bit.
The 50% Gray setting isn’t quite like setting a CMYK color in the Color Picker. The results tend to vary. Essentially, 50% Grey gives you a color that measures 128 in the RGB file across all three channels, plus 50% in each channel of the CMYK file.
Un veritable estalvi de temps
Això ho podem prometre molt. Un cop hàgiu après les funcions d’utilitzar l’eina Paint Bucket i el Comandament d’emplenament, tot el que feu al Photoshop serà molt més eficient.
Amb quina freqüència utilitzeu aquestes dues ordres? Prefereixes fer el llarg camí de pintar i dibuixar? Per què? Perquè no? Discutiu!
