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8 Painting and Editing

The Adobe Photoshop CS painting engine is so sophisticated and powerful that the possibilities for using it are virtually unlimited. This lesson gives you just a taste of the many techniques and approaches you can use in your work.

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Painting and Editing
In this lesson, youll learn how to do the following:
Dene a custom workspace thats tailored for painting tasks. Use layers to paint, adjust, add effects, and make color changes to specic portions of an image. Set the blending mode and opacity of a layer to adjust how overlapping colors and elements of the image combine with each other. Set the blending mode and opacity of a painting tool to adjust how a paint stroke combines with other pixels in the image. Use the History palette and history tools to make corrections and add effects. Use preset brushes. Create and use custom brushes. Create and apply a pattern from a different image to create a picture frame.
This lesson will take about an hour and a half to complete. The lesson is designed to be done in Adobe Photoshop. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard drive, and copy the Lessons/Lesson08 folder onto it. As you work on this lesson, youll overwrite the start les. If you need to restore the start les, copy them from the Adobe Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book CD. Note: Windows 2000 users need to unlock the lesson les before using them. For more information, see Copying the Classroom in a Book les on page 3.

Getting started

Youll start the lesson by viewing the nal Lesson le to see what youll accomplish. 1 Start Adobe Photoshop and immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) to restore the default preferences. See Restoring default preferences on page 4. As messages appear, select Yes to conrm that you want to reset preferences, No to defer setting up your color monitor, and Close to close the Welcome Screen. 2 On the tool options bar, select the File Browser button ( ) to open the File Browser.

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Classroom in a Book
3 In the File Browser Folders palette, go to the Lessons/Lesson08 folder and select the 08End.psd le in the thumbnails pane so that it appears in the Preview palette. You can resize the other palettes to enlarge the image in the Preview palette, if needed. 4 When you have nished viewing the end le, close the File Browser without opening the start le yet.
Dening a custom workspace
When you use Adobe Photoshop CS to do a specic project, youll typically make frequent use of some palettes and rarely need others. When you do a different type of Photoshop project, the palettes you use most frequently may change because the nature of the job has different requirements. You already know that you can close unneeded palettes and open hidden ones that you do need, but with Photoshop CS you can save different combinations of open and closed palettes as workspaces. Painting is a good example of a situation that relies on specic palettes that are not opened by the default workspace denition. 1 Close the Navigator palette group, so that both the Navigator and Info palettes are hidden. 2 Drag the Brushes palette from the palette well in the tool options bar to the center of the work area. Position it so that you can see at least part of the History palette group. Note: If your work area size is 800 pixels by 600 pixels or less, the palette well does not appear. Instead, choose Window > Brushes.

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3 Drag the History palette tab into the Brushes palette. Then, click the Brushes tab to bring that palette forward in the palette group.
4 Close the Actions and Tool Presets palette group. 5 Drag the various palette groups to arrange them along the right edge of your work area, with the Color palette group at the top, the Layers palette group next, and the Brushes palette group at the bottom. (Depending on your monitor display area, the Layers palette group and Brushes palette group may overlap somewhat.) 6 Choose Window > Workspace > Save Workspace. 7 In the Save Workspace dialog box, type Painting_8 (to remind you of the tasks youll do in this workspace and the number of the associated lesson), and click Save. You can experiment with different workspaces to see how your custom setting can save you the trouble of closing and arranging palettes the next time you restart Photoshop:
Choose Window > Workspace > Reset Palette Locations. The palettes now appear as they did before you rst opened Photoshop; that is, in the default arrangement. Choose Window > Workspace > Painting_8. Now the palettes are selectively closed, opened, and regrouped to match the positions they had at the end of Step 5.

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After you close Photoshop or switch to a different Photoshop project, the Painting workspace remains available in Photoshop for use in future sessions.
Blending an image with the background
The blending mode controls how pixels in an image are affected by painting and editing tools. Its helpful to think in terms of the following types of colors when visualizing a blending modes effect:
The base color is the original color in the image. The blend color is the color being applied with the painting or editing tool. The result color is the color resulting from the blend.
Throughout this lesson, you will learn how to specify a blending mode for a layer in the Layers palette and for a tool in the tool options bar. For color illustrations of the different blending modes available in Photoshop and ImageReady, see gure 8-1 of the color section. For descriptions of each blending mode, see Selecting a blending mode in Photoshop Help. Youll use the Multiply blending mode to blend the white background of a tree outline on one layer with the opaque layer behind it. 1 Select the File Browser button on the tool options bar, or choose File > Open and open the 08Start.psd le in your Lessons/Lesson08 folder. The le opens, showing you one of the layers that has been prepared for you: a mottled blue-and-white texture. This coloration covers the entire image window, simulating a thin layer of wispy clouds against a deep blue sky.

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2 In the Layers palette, click the empty box to the left of the Tree layer set to place an eye icon ( ), which reveals that entire layer set in the image window.
3 Again in the Layers palette, click the arrow next to the Tree folder icon to expand the layer set. Two layers are nested in the set: an Outline layer and a Bark layer.
An outline drawing of tree branches against a white background now blocks part of the sky.

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4 Select the Outline layer in the Tree layer set. Then, at the top of the palette, use the pop-up menu to change the blending mode from Normal to Multiply.
The white background disappears, and the brown paint on the Bark layer shows up. The Multiply blending mode calculates the color for each pixel by multiplying the color information in each channel (such as R, G, and B) by the color channels in the paint pixels. As a result, painting in Multiply blending mode creates colors that are darker than the original colors. 5 With the Outline layer still active, change the Opacity value in the Layers palette to 30%, to soften the outline so that it looks more artistic and less cartoon-like. Youll make more adjustments to the appearance of the tree limb in the next procedures.

6 Choose File > Save.

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Painting shadows and highlights in nontransparent areas
In this part of the lesson, youll lock the transparency on the Bark layer. This restricts your painting on the layer so that you can add shadows and highlights to only the tree itself. Because all the transparent areas are protected, you dont have to worry about any paint strokes spilling onto the background outside of the tree outline. There are two techniques for protecting the transparent areas. One is to select the layer youll paint on and use the Lock Transparent Pixels option ( ) in the Layers palette. The other technique, which youll use here, is to create a new layer and then group it with the previous one. When you apply brush strokes or effects to a layer that is grouped with a second layer, those brush strokes or effects apply only to pixels of color on the rst layer. (Any transparent areas will be unaffected.) 1 In the Layers palette, select the Bark layer (in the Tree layer set), and then select New Layer from the Layers palette menu. (Dont use the New Layer button this time.)

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2 In the New Layer dialog box, type Highlights and select the Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask check box. Then click OK.
The Highlights layer appears with a small arrow pointing to the Bark layer, indicating that these two layers are grouped. (This arrow may be difcult to see while the Highlights layer is selected.) 3 On the Swatches palette, select a warm brown color from the bottom row of the swatches, using a color that is somewhat darker than the tree-bark color. 4 In the toolbox, select the Brush tool. Then, use the Brushes palette to select a brush, such as the Soft Round 21-pixel brush. 5 Make sure that the Highlights layer is active in the Layers palette, and then paint shadows on the right sides and lower edges of the branches of the tree, as if a light source is outside the image to the upper left. Also paint shadows into the gnarly areas of the main branch. As you paint, you dont need to worry about painting outside the tree area (because those areas are protected) or that the effect isnt subtle (because youll adjust that later).

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You can adjust the brush size and opacity of the paint as you work, using the settings on the tool options bar. To change the brush size on the y, press left-bracket ([) to move to the next smaller brush size; press right-bracket (]) to switch to the next larger brush size. 6 In the Swatches palette, select a brown color that is lighter than the original bark color, and use it to paint highlights on the upper and left sides of the branches. Then select white, and add touches of bright highlights to some of these areas.
7 When you are satised with the highlights and shadows (although the results are still not subtle), choose File > Save.
Smoothing the edges of a stroke
Now youll use the Blur tool to soften the edges of your paint strokes, smoothing out the color transitions among the brown shadows, the underlying bark, and the bright highlights. 1 In the toolbox, select the Blur tool ( ). Then, in the Brushes palette, select a small brush, such as the Soft Round 21 Pixel brush you used earlier. Make sure that tool options bar is set with Mode at Normal and Strength at 50%.
2 Make sure that the Highlight layer is active (selected) in the Layers palette. 3 Drag the Blur tool brush over the shadows and highlights of the tree branch to soften the color transitions. (It may be helpful to zoom in to see the results as you blur the image.) 4 As you blur the image, try adjusting the Strength option value in the tool options bar. If you dont like the results one percentage produces, choose Edit > Undo, and try a different one. 5 When you are satised with the blend of highlights and shadows, choose File > Save.

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Changing images with the history tools
As you work on an image, you may want to undo an operation or correct a mistake. There are many ways to correct mistakes in Adobe Photoshop. In the following sections, youll use the History palette and History Brush tools to restore your image to an earlier state.
About the history painting tools
Two brush tools include the word history in their names, but their functions are quite distinct. Each has its unique advantages. One similarity between them, however, is that both can apply what are ordinarily layer- or image-level changes to a limited area of an image. The History Brush tool can selectively restore areas of an image to a previous state without changing the subsequent work youve done in other areas of the image. It works in a way similar to the way the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools work. Brush strokes made with the History Brush tool change pixels in the image back to pixels as they were in the state or snapshot that youve designated in the History palette. The name of the Art History Brush tool refers to classic brush strokes you might see in painting masterpieces from over the centuries, but it is also related to the History palette. The brush strokes apply pixels based on the selected state or snapshot in the History palette, but the paint strokes are also ltered so that the results are altered in a particular way. The type of ltering is determined by the Style option for the Art History Brush tool. You can apply the Art History Brush tool selectively, painting in some areas of the active layer and leaving other areas of the active layer unchanged. With ordinary lters, the change applies to the entire selected layer.

Using the history painting tools
In this section, youll work with both the History Brush tool and the Art History Brush tool. By using them in the same task, youll get a better idea of the differences between them. Your goal here is to make the ow of color among the highlights, body, and shadows of the tree branches more subtle, as if they were part of a watercolor painting. 1 In the History palette, click the New Snapshot button ( ). A snapshot state, Snapshot 1, appears at the top of the History palette.

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2 At the top of the History palette, click in the empty box at the left of the Snapshot 1 thumbnail without actually selecting the snapshot.
An icon ( ) appears in the box, indicating that Snapshot 1 determines the source pixel state youll paint into the current state of the image. 3 In the Layers palette, select the Outline layer. 4 In the toolbox, select the Art History Brush tool ( ), hidden under the History Brush tool ( ). 5 In the Brushes palette, choose a small brush size (such as Hard Round 3 Pixel). Then, for Style in the tool options bar, choose a style from the pop-up menu (or leave this at the default setting, Tight Short, as we used in the example).
Important: Be sure that the most recent state is still selected (highlighted) at the bottom of the History palette list, or select it now.

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6 Using the Art History Brush tool, paint over the entire tree to smear and blur the outline. You can also experiment with just clicking on an area rather than dragging.
When you nish applying the Art History Brush tool, your image is probably a little more smeared than is ideal. Youll use the History Brush tool to remove some of the strokes you made with the Art History Brush tool, which wont affect other areas that you want to leave looking smeary. 7 Select the History Brush tool ( ), hidden under the Art History Brush tool ( ), and drag the pointer over the areas of the tree where you want to restore the focus to the dark details, such as the smaller twigs and branches and some areas on the shadowed side of the tree. Notice that the strokes you make with the History Brush tool remove the strokes that you made with the Art History Brush tool and uncover the original dark lines of the image. 8 When you are satised with the look of the tree, click the arrow beside the Tree layer set in the Layers palette to collapse the list, and then choose File > Save.

Getting the most from the Brush tool
The Brushes palette includes a variety of preset brush tips with different sizes, shapes, and densities. The Brushes palette and tool options bar for the Brush tool also include a complex variety of settings that you can use with your selected brush. This exibility gives you a powerful set of combinations that challenges you to use brushes in imaginative new ways. One of the useful properties of brushes is that you can select different blending modes and opacity settings as you paint on a single layer. These settings are independent of each other and of any blending modes or opacity settings that you apply to the entire layer. For color illustrations of brush blending modes, see gure 8-2 of the color section.

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Another enhancement in Photoshop CS is that you can do more with the custom brush shapes that you create and save. You can now assign different sizes and other properties to your custom brushes and even change them on the y like any other brush.
Painting with a specialty brush
Among the preset brushes are several that paint in preshaped units, so that a single stroke paints a series of stars, leaves, or blades of grass. Youll use one of the grass-shaped brushes to create a hillside for your image landscape. 1 In the Layers palette, select the Tree layer set and click the New Layer button ( ). Double-click Layer 1, and type Grass to rename the layer. 2 In the toolbox, select the Brush tool ( ), and then scroll down the Brushes palette and select the Dune Grass brush shape. To reduce the amount of scrolling needed in the Brushes palette, open the Brushes palette menu and choose Small Thumbnail (the display shown in the illustration below Step 3). You can conrm your brush choice by letting the pointer hover over the thumbnail until a pop-up appears, identifying the brush by name. If you prefer to see the brush descriptions as you scroll, you can still reduce your scrolling by choosing Small List on the Brushes palette menu. 3 Above the sample displayed at the bottom of the Brushes palette, drag the Master Diameter slider or type to change the value to 60 px.
4 In the Color palette, select a pale yellow color, such as R=230, G=235, B=171.

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5 If necessary, adjust the size and magnication of the image window so that you can see the entire image. Then, drag the Brush tool in a gently waving line from the center of the left side of the image to the lower right corner. (Refer to the 08End.psd le as a guide.) 6 Continue dragging the Brush tool across the lower left area of the image to ll in the hillside of grass. Do not try to ll the area with solid color, but leave a little bit of the sky showing through so that you can still see most of the individual blades of grass.

7 In the Color palette, select a light olive-green color, such as R=186, G=196, B=93. 8 In the tool options bar, select Multiply in the Mode pop-up menu, and change the Opacity value to 50%.
9 Resume painting over the same area of your image, building up color until you are satised with the results. If you make a mistake or want to start over, select a previous state in the History palette, and start again from that state.
Notice that when you rst start painting the olive color, the results are relatively faint. As you continue to drag the brush over the same areas, the color you add multiplies itself by the underlying pixel colors, producing increasingly darker shades of green. This process effectively demonstrates the way the Multiply blending mode works. 10 Choose File > Save.

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Creating new color swatches for the umbrella image
Now, youll use traditional painting techniques and brushes to complete more painting layers that have been started for you, and which together become an umbrella. 1 In the Layers palette, click the eye-icon box for the Umbrella layer set to make those layers visible in the image window. Then click the arrow to expand the layer set, so that ve layers appear within that set, only some of which are visible.
2 Click to set an eye icon ( ) for the Wet_Lt blue layer. A series of brush strokes have been laid down for you, so that the color and shape are gaining some denition. 3 Click to set an eye icon for the Wet_Dk blue layer. Seven of the ten segments of the umbrella have been painted with additional color, but the three segments on the left side of the umbrella have not. Before you begin painting, youll dene two new color swatches that youll use for this task. 4 Drag the Swatches palette tab out of the Color palette group so that it becomes a standalone palette. Move the Swatches palette so that it is near the Color palette and you can see both palettes completely. 5 In the Color palette, select a medium blue color, such as R=150, G=193, B=219.

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6 Move the pointer into the blank (gray) area to the right or below the last swatch in the bottom row of the Swatches palette. When the pointer appears as a paint bucket icon ( ), click to add the medium blue color to the collection of swatches.
7 In the Color Swatch Name dialog box, click OK to accept the default name. 8 Dene a darker blue color in the Colors palette, such as R=132, G=143, B=199, and add that color to the Swatches palette, using the technique you just learned.
Adding brush libraries to the Brushes palette
The brushes available to you go beyond the default set. Youll add a new brush library to the brush presets in the Brushes palette, and select settings for one of those brushes. 1 On the Brushes palette menu, choose Large List. Now, both the thumbnail of the tip and the name appear for each brush shape.

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2 Again on the Brushes palette menu, choose Wet Media Brushes.
3 A small dialog box appears; select Append to add the Wet Media Brushes library to the set currently listed in the Brushes palette. Note: If you accidentally click OK instead of Append, Photoshop replaces the existing brush set with the Wet Media Brushes set. To restore the original brush set, choose Reset Brushes on the Brushes palette menu, and then repeat Step 2 and 3 to append the Wet Media Brushes to the default brush library. 4 Scroll to the bottom of the list in the Brushes palette, and select the Watercolor Light Opacity brush. Then, just below the list, use the Master Diameter slider or type to set the value at 25 pixels.

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5 In the tool options bar, select Normal on the Mode pop-up menu and change the Opacity value to 15%. 6 In the Swatches palette, select the medium blue swatch you created in the previous topic.
Creating form and dimension with wet media brushes
Before you begin painting, youll load one of the alpha channels that has been prepared for you. Youll use three different prepared alpha channels to restrict your painting to each of the three segments youre going to paint, so you dont have to worry about getting paint in other areas of the image or painting out the ribs of the umbrella. 1 In the Layers palette, select the Wet_Dk blue layer. 2 Choose Select > Load Selection. 3 In the Load Selection dialog box, select Alpha 1 from the Channel pop-up menu, and then click OK.
In the image window, a selection border appears around the lower of the three umbrella panels that youll paint. If you nd the selection border distracting, you can hide it by pressing Ctrl+H (Windows) or Command+H (Mac OS). Even though the marquee is not visible, your painting is still restricted to the area within it. To make the selection border visible again, use the same keyboard shortcut. 4 Starting near the center of the umbrella, paint with short, downward strokes to build up a subtle shading, concentrating on the areas next to the umbrella spokes.

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As you work, you can experiment with different brush sizes and opacity settings to create varied texture and shadows. 5 In the Swatches palette, select the darker blue swatch that you created earlier, and continue to paint until that section of the umbrella coordinates nicely with the panels of the umbrella that are already painted.
6 Choose Select > Deselect. Then, choose Select >Load Selection and select the Alpha 2 Channel in the pop-up menu. Repeat Steps 4 and 5 to shade in the second of the three umbrella sections. 7 Repeat Step 6, but this time select the Alpha 3 Channel and paint the third umbrella section. 8 When you nish painting, click the arrow to collapse the Umbrella layer set in the Layers palette, drag the Swatches palette back into the Color palette layer group, and then choose File > Save.

Saving a customized preset brush
Now youll create and save a brush based on an existing preset, and use it in your painting. 1 In the Layers palette, select the Umbrella layer set, if necessary, and then click the New Layer button ( ) at the bottom of the palette. Double-click the new layer and type Leaves to name the layer. 2 With the Brush tool selected in the toolbox, scroll through the Brushes palette and select the Scattered Maple Leaves brush.

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3 On the left side of the Brushes palette, click the words Shape Dynamics to display the Shape Dynamics options on the right side of the palette. Enter the following settings, noticing how the stroke sample at the bottom of the palette changes each time you change a setting:
In the Control pop-up menu near the top of the palette, select Fade, and then type 50 as the Fade value. In Roundness Jitter, drag the slider or type to set the value at 40%.
4 Again on the left side of the Brushes palette, click the word Scattering and drag the sliders or type on the right side of the palette to change the following settings:
For Scatter, set the value at 265%. For Count, set the value at 1.
5 In the upper left corner of the Brushes palette, click the Brush Presets to display the list of brushes again. Then drag the Master Diameter slider or type 65 px. 6 At the bottom of the Brushes palette, click the New Brush button ( ), and then type Leaves 65 as the brush name and click OK.
The new brush appears at the bottom of the list of brushes in the palette.

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Painting from the image onto a created border
In the nal artwork, a white border surrounds the painting, and leaves appear to y outside the edges of the picture and onto the border area. To create that effect, your rst step is to create the border. 1 In the toolbox, make sure that the background color is white. Then choose Image > Canvas Size. 2 In the Canvas Size dialog box, type 580 as the Width and select pixels from the units pop-up menu. Then type 440 as the Height and set those units to pixels also, and click OK. 3 On the Color palette, select a dark, warm yellow, such as R=185, G=141, B=59. This will be the base color for the autumn leaves youll add. Youre now ready to start painting your leaves. Make sure that your Leaves 65 brush is still selected in the Brushes palette and that the tool options bar shows Normal as the Mode option and Opacity at 100%. 4 Drag the Leaves 65 brush in a gentle arc from the tips of the tree branches to the right, letting the stroke wander into the top border and onto the border on the right side. Refer to the 08End.psd le as a guide.
5 If you are not satised with the result, choose Edit > Undo, and try again. Because brush Scatter settings are designed to create random patterns, each brush stroke produces slightly different results. It may take several tries before you get a pattern that you like. Remember that you can use either the Undo command or the History palette to backtrack through these attempts.

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To save some results of the painting as potential candidates, use the History palette to take a snapshot of the image and then revert to an earlier state. Try painting again from that state to see if you can improve on your results. By taking snapshots of a series of attempts, you can compare them and select the one you like best as the basis for the remaining work in this lesson. 6 When you get the results you want, choose File > Save.

Creating a custom brush

Now that youve tried out the maple-leaf and dune-grass brush shapes, you may be wondering about other similar brushes you could use in your work. With Photoshop CS, you can create and save brushes in any shape you choose, even using other photographs as the basis of your custom brush shapes. You can then set options for the brush. 1 Choose File > Open, and open the Flower.jpg le in the Lessons/Lesson 08 folder. 2 Choose Edit > Dene Brush. In the Brush Name dialog box, type Flower, and click OK. The Flower brush appears in the Brushes palette and is selected.
3 Close the Flowers.jpg image le.

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4 In the Brushes palette, click Brush Tip Shape near the top of the left side of the palette. Then, on the right side, drag the sliders or type to set the Diameter value at 25 and the Spacing at 80%.
5 On the left side of the palette, click Shape Dynamics. Then, on the right side, set the following options:
In the Control pop-up menu, select Off. For Roundness Jitter, drag the slider or type 44%.

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For Minimum Roundness, drag the slider or type 39%.
6 Once more on the left side of the palette, click Scattering, and use the slider or type to set the Scatter value at 500% and the Count at 1.
7 Finally, click Color Dynamics on the left side of the palette and change the Hue Jitter to 15%. Your brush is now ready for show business.

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Painting with a custom brush
Youre going to use your custom ower brush to paint a design on the fabric of the umbrella. To prevent yourself from accidentally painting the other parts of the image, youll use another alpha channel, in the same way that you used alpha channels when you painted the shadings into the umbrella earlier in this lesson. 1 In the Layers palette, click the Umbrella layer set to make it active, and then click the arrow to expand it so that you can see the ve layers nested in that set. 2 Click the New Layer button ( ) at the bottom of the Layers palette. Double-click the new layer, which appears at the top of the layers in the Umbrella layer set, and type Flowers to name the layer. 3 Drag the Flowers layer down in the Layers palette so that it is between the Frame layer and the Wet_Dk blue layer.
4 Choose Select > Load Selection, and then select the Alpha 4 option from the pop-up menu in the Load Selection dialog box, and click OK. This alpha channel selects the entire umbrella shape. Remember that you can hide the selection marquee using Ctrl+H (Windows) or Command+H (Mac OS) if you prefer not to be distracted by the movement in the marquee. 5 Make sure that the Brush tool is still selected in the toolbox and that the Flower brush is still selected in the Brushes palette. 6 In the Color palette or Swatches palette, select a bright red color.

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7 Using a series of short brush strokes, paint owers onto the surface of the umbrella, creating a random pattern of fairly uniform density. Continue painting until you are satised with the result. 8 In the Layers palette, keep the Flowers layer selected and select Multiply from the blending-mode pop-up menu. Then set the Opacity value for the layer to 70%.

9 Choose File > Save.

Using the Pattern Maker to create a picture frame
In previous versions of Photoshop you could generate tiled patterns, but the new Pattern Maker in Photoshop CS marks a signicant improvement in this functionality. Using this new feature, you can generate multiple, seamless patterns that you can use anywhere in your images.

Dening a new pattern

Youll use a prepared texture le as the basis of your custom pattern. 1 Choose File > Open, and open the Texture.jpg le in your Lessons/Lesson08 folder. 2 In the toolbox, make sure that the background color is white, and then choose Image > Canvas Size. 3 In the Canvas Size dialog box, change the units to pixels, and set Width at 780 and Height at 580. Then click OK. 4 Choose Filter > Pattern Maker.

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5 In the Pattern Maker dialog box, use the rectangular marquee tool ( ) in the upper left corner of the dialog box to select a large area of the textured image. Be careful not to include any of the white background in your selection. If you want to change your selection, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) and click the Reset button in the upper right corner of the Pattern Maker dialog box (which appears as the Cancel button when you release Alt/Option); then make a new selection. 6 Click the Generate button.
Notice the dimension information listed in the dialog box. The default tile size is 128x128 pixels, so that is the size of the pattern generated. 7 Under Preview (on the right side of the dialog box), select the Tile Boundaries check box. A grid appears over your pattern, displaying the boundaries of the individual pattern tiles, each 128x128 pixels. Click the Tile Boundaries check box again to deselect it and hide the grid.

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8 Under Tile Generation (on the right side of the dialog box), click the Use Image Size button so that the tile size matches the image size. Notice that the dimensions in the Width and Height displays are now the same as the dimensions of the image.
9 Click the Generate Again button a few times to generate variations of your pattern. Then, use the Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of the Tile History area of the dialog box to cycle through the patterns youve created. Select one of the patterns to use, and click OK. In the image window, a new, seamless pattern lls the entire canvas. 10 Choose File > Save As, and name the le Matte.psd, saving it in your Lessons/Lesson08 folder. Patterns can be saved and used repeatedly in any number of projects. Because youll use this pattern just once, you wont bother to save it as a permanent pattern.

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Composing the patterned image with your painting
This is itthe nal phase of your work. Because youre going to atten the painting image as part of the process, youll create a duplicate of the original as a safeguard, in case you ever need to go back and edit it. Youll add one last touch to give the textured picture frame a dimensional appearance. 1 Click the image window for your umbrella painting to make it active. 2 Choose Image > Duplicate to create a duplicate image le, and name the duplicate Autumn_at.psd. Click OK. 3 In the Layers palette menu, choose Flatten Image to combine all the layers in the Autumn_at le.

4 In the toolbox, select the Move tool ( ).

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5 Hold down Shift and drag the painting from the Autumn_at.psd image window into the Matte.jpg image window. The attened painting appears as Layer 1 in the Matte.jpg Layers palette.
Holding down the Shift key as you drag in the painting image automatically centers it in the Matte.jpg image, so that the textured picture frame is equally sized around the painting. 6 With Layer 1 selected in the Layers palette, click the Add A Layer Style button ( ) at the bottom of the palette to open the pop-up menu, and choose Inner Shadow.

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7 In the Layer Style dialog box, set the Inner Shadow options, with the Opacity value at 85%, the Distance at 6, and the Size at 7. Leave the other settings unchanged, and click OK.
Congratulations; youve nished your painting. You can save your le or print it on a color printer as a souvenir. This lesson represents just the tip of the metaphorical iceberg in terms of the potential of the painting tools. For more information, see the painting topics in Photoshop Help.

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Review questions
1 What is a blending mode, and what are the three types of color that are helpful for visualizing a blending modes effect? 2 What do the History palette, Eraser tool, and History Brush tools have in common? 3 What is the difference between the Art History Brush tool and the History Brush tool? 4 Describe two techniques for protecting transparent areas. 5 How can you add to your brush collection?

Review answers

1 A blending mode controls how pixels in an image are affected by the tools or other layers. Its helpful to think in terms of the following colors when visualizing a blending modes effect:
2 The History palette, Eraser tool, and History Brush tools can all restore your image to an earlier state, so that you can undo an operation or correct a mistake. 3 The Art History Brush tool paints with a stylized stroke based on a selected state or snapshot. The stylized stroke of the Art History Brush tool simulates the look of different paint styles. The History Brush tool paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window. You can use the History Brush tool to remove the strokes made with the Art History Brush tool. 4 One method of preserving areas of transparency on a layer that you are painting is to use the Lock Transparent Pixels optionone of four Lock options on the Layers palette. A second method is to create a new layer above the layer with the transparent pixels that you want to protect and then to group the new layer with the layer below it. With the layers grouped, you can paint freely on the new layer because the paint applies only to areas with colored pixels in the underlying layer.

Whats New

ADOBE Photoshop CS4
Create powerful images with the professional standard
ADOBE Photoshop CS4 Extended
Discover new dimensions in digital imaging
Digital images are everywherefrom the photography studio to the X-ray lab, from the glossy magazine to your website. With two new versions and a heap of new features and enhancements, wherever great digital images are found, Photoshop is there.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 refines and redefines the professional image-editing experience, with faster, nondestructive ways to accomplish core tasks like image adjustments and masks, and new tools and enhancements that let you work more easily, efficiently, and naturally.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 is also available as a component of:
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended is also available as a component of:
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection
Photoshop CS4 Extended starts with the complete set of features found in Photoshop CS4, and adds others designed specifically for professionals working with specialized image types and multimedia workflows. With breakthrough 3D editing and compositing features, richer motion-graphics capabilities, and enhanced image analysis functions, PhotoshopCS4 Extended broadens your reach beyond traditional digital images.
This icon marks features in this document that are exclusive to Photoshop CS4 Extended. All other content is common to both versions of the software. Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a newly refined, tab-based interface in a single, integrated window, with self-adjusting panels arranged in docked groups. Automatically keeping tools well organized and away from your work area means you get greater efficiency, less clutter, and better results, faster than before.
Top new and enhanced features in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended
Live, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel (page 2) Re-editable, feathered, densitycontrolled masks (page 3) More refined, natural results with Dodge, Burn, and Sponge (page 3) Enhanced Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and new 360 panoramas (page 3) Content-Aware Scaling (page 4) Extended depth of field (page 5) Fluid canvas rotation (page 5) Ultra-smooth pan, zoom, preview, and painting tools (page 6) Next generation Adobe Bridge CS4 (page 6) Tighter integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (page 7) Camera Raw 5 with localized, nondestructive adjustments (page 7) Breakthrough 3D editing and compositing (page 7) Enhanced motion graphics (page 8) Volume Rendering (page 8) Easier data collection and analysis with the Count tool (page 9) Unifed tabbed interface with self-adjusting panels (page 9) Smarter Smart Objects (page 10) More powerful printing options (page 10) Higher performance on very large images (page 10) Additional refinements (page 10) Creative Pro Online Services (page 11)
With Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended, you get: Unrivaled editing power. New Adjustments and Masks panels slash the time it takes you to make nondestructive color and tone adjustments, and to create and re-edit feathered, density-controlled pixel and vector masks. With on-image controls and presets, theres less time mousing between settings. Fine modifications are faster and easier with additions like the new Vibrance adjustment layer and enhanced Color Range mask creation. And ContentAware Scaling is the revolutionary new feature that automatically recomposes an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as it adapts to the new dimensions. Increased productivity. Work more efficiently and naturally with fluid, natural canvas rotation, enhanced pan and zoom tools, and effortless large-image navigation. Vastly improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools let you intelligently and accurately adjust the exposure and color of image areas using simple brush strokes. Photoshop CS4 tools combine increased power and finer control with easier, more naturally controlled effects to boost productivity, no matter how you work with digital images. Breakthrough 3D, motion graphics, and image analysis capabilities. In Photoshop CS4 Extended, you can now work with 3D objects and video frames as easily as with any traditional image. Paint directly on 3D objects. Combine 2D layers and video files into 3D layers. Easily convert any image into a 3D object or volume. And do it all with a brand new 3D engine that provides dramatic performance and capability improvements. In motion graphics, single-key shortcuts let you move through and edit video layers faster and more precisely than before, and new controls enable you to preview and export audio tracks as well. Image analysis improvements include multiple counts with the Count tool and volume rendering of DICOM files. See whats possible, with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended.

Top new features in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended
The new versions of Photoshop are about much more than just adding new features. Theyre about providing you with best practices in the tasks you do dailyabout making your work in Photoshop not just faster and easier, but more intelligent, and more natively nondestructive. Here are the top new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS4 and PhotoshopCS4 Extended.
Live, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel
Photoshop CS4 speeds workflow performance with the Adjustments panel, cutting the time it takes to make nondestructive adjustments like Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, and much more. Theres no dialog box maze to navigatejust go straight to the task at hand. The Adjustments panel brings the right tool for the right job to your fingertips, dynamically, saving precious time. The panel features the new Vibrance adjustment, giving you greater control over color saturation while preserving delicate tones, such as skin colors. On-image adjustments are now available for Hue/ Saturation and Curves. Plus, for even greater convenience and time savings, the panel features a wide variety of modifiable presets for each type of change, including more than 20 new preconfigured, customizable starting points.
The new Adjustments panel helps eliminate up to 90% of the mouse movements required to make nondestructive image adjustments.
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Re-editable, feathered, density-controlled masks
The new Masks panel smooths and speeds the creation and adjustment of pixel and vector masks, making it easier than ever to apply effects to precisely defined areas of an image. Now, with simple sliders, you can adjust the density and feathering of a mask, to control both the sharpness of the mask edge and how much of the adjustment effect youd like to reveal. The Refine Mask feature allows simple yet fine-grained control over the mask size and edges. And Color Range has been upgraded for better accuracy and power. Its a fast way to automatically create powerful and detailed masks based on single or multiple colors, with simple controls for the spatial tolerance and fuzziness of the color sampling.
Color Range is now more versatile and effective. Automatically create powerful, detailed masks based on multiple colors, with better control over the selected range.
The Masks panel speeds precise mask creation and editing, with controls for density, multiple-color range selection, and effective edge refinement.
More refined, natural results with Dodge, Burn, and Sponge
In the days of film, paper, safelights, and chemicals, photographers dodged and burned their prints during exposure, to darken and brighten areas of an image as they created it. It was an art that required steady hands and practice to master. The newly refined Dodge, Burn, and Sponge Spot color and exposure adjustments are more natural tools in PhotoshopCS4 take the pain and with the improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools. practice out of preserving tonal quality while you spot-correct exposure and color saturation. Simply paint the area you want to adjust and get advanced results in a fraction of the time.

Enhanced Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and new 360 panoramas
The automatic alignment and blending technology in Photoshop CS4 enhances a wide variety of features, but nowhere are the improvements more obvious than in Photomerge. Now, when you stitch a sequence of images into a panorama, enhanced blending combines with new vignetting and geometric distortion corrections to bring you even better resultsa panorama with more natural colors blended from one end of the scene to the other. Additional improvements include the ability to create 360-degree panoramas, automatic detection of fish eye lenses to compensate for their inherent distortion, and the new Collage option which rotates and scales individual images as they are combined using Auto-Align and Photomerge.
Enhanced AutoBlend technology automatically masks and blends frame edges for better results on panoramas.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Photoshop CS4 ExtendedWhats New 3

Content-Aware Scaling

Imagine you have an image that is ideal for a new project, except the proportions are wrong. Maybe its a full-frame 8x12-inch photograph you want to fit into an 8x10-inch frame, or a 8x10-inch image you want to crunch down to a panoramic, without sacrificing the people or important background. Up to now, getting these results was so time-consuming a process that it was virtually impossible. With Content-Aware Scaling, the near-impossible becomes the near-instantaneous success. Content-Aware Scaling is the revolutionary new feature in Photoshop CS4 that lets you resize and recompose simultaneously, with no more effort than it takes you to simply resize an image. As the name implies, the feature analyzes the image in the background while you adjust it, and intelligently recomposes the scene to preserve the most visually interesting areas. Content-Aware Scaling automatically recognizes skin tones to keep people from being squeezed out of the shot, and for more fine-grained control, selection tools let you easily define the most important areas before you begin scaling. To begin, simply select any unlocked layer in a Photoshop document, and then either choose Edit> Content-Aware Scale, or press Command-Option-Shift-C (Mac OS X) or Ctrl-AltShift-C (Windows). Resize the image by dragging the corner or side controls, exactly as if you were doing a crop or free transform. If you want to define a protection area first, use any selection tool to select the vital area, then choose Select > Save Selection to save it as a new alpha channel. Choose a saved selection from the Protect menu to constrain the new composition when you adjust the image with Content-Aware Scaling.

Intuitive controls on the options bar let you adjust the content to be protected from change during Content-Aware Scaling.

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Photoshop CS4 ExtendedWhats New 4

Extended depth of field

Whether its the extreme close-up, the microbial world, or simply low-light conditions, there are times when the depth of field you can capture with your camera is extremely shallow. Now, you can shoot the scene with a series of focal points, and use the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers feature to automatically create a new, single image with a depth of field encompassing the entire series. You can even color-correct the images at the same time, automatically. This feature provides breathtaking enhancement of any scene where lighting and depth of field are in short supply.
A range of shots, each with different exposure, color, and focal points (left) automatically becomes a single, colorcorrected, expanded depth-of-field image with Auto-Blend Layers.

Fluid canvas rotation

Photoshop CS4 introduces a revolutionary new feature that lets you paint and draw as easily and naturally as sitting down at an easel. With the new Rotate View tool, you can nondestructively spin your canvas to any orientation you desirea boon to every illustrator, whether you paint by mouse or tablet. No pixel distortion, no craning your head to get the perspective you want, and no matter how you spin your canvas, Photoshop CS4 adjusts your selections, grids, rulers, and other tools and features to match your chosen orientation.
Access the Rotate View tool in the new Application Bar at the top of the Photoshop application frame, or in the Tools panel, where it is grouped with the Hand tool.
Simply drag the new Rotate View tool outside the image area to spin your canvas to the orientation that works best for you.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Photoshop CS4 ExtendedWhats New 5

Ultra-smooth, extra-precise pan, zoom, preview, and painting tools
Most modern computers contain a powerful graphics processor (GPU) that is almost like having a second computer inside the box. Photoshop CS4 leverages the power of your GPU with OpenGL technology to blast past the image-viewing restrictions of yesterday. Zoom all the way down to the level of individual pixels, with perfect clarity even at the oddest magnification percentages. Smoothly navigate around the largest images with no stutter or preview lag. Use the new Pixel Grid to easily edit images at the highest magnification. And revel in a faster, easier painting workflow, with brushes you can resize by dragging your mouse; new brush cursors that more The new Pixel Grid appears at magnifications of 600% or higher, clearly preview brush strokes facilitating the finest detail editing. before you make them; and improved, higher precision tablet tracking. Navigating very large images is easier than everinstantly zoom high overhead to move to a new area of the image, and just as instantly zoom back in to the highest magnification. You can also toss the image across the screen with the Hand toolthe physics engine in Photoshop CS4 will give you a natural pan in any direction.
Next generation Adobe Bridge CS4
Finding, previewing, and managing all of your image assets jumps to a new level of power and convenience with Adobe Bridge CS4, beginning with faster performance from startup through to handing off images to Photoshop CS4. New path-bar navigation and workspace selection buttons across the top of the Bridge window let you instantly jump to just the right display for every task, including new Camera Import controls, visual folder navigation, and a new Carousel View for larger image-group selections. In the Output workspace, Bridge now features PDF-based contact-sheet creation and web-gallery creation and uploading. You can preview 3D images and panoramas created in Photoshop CS4. The new Search field helps you quickly find images in Bridge, and is also integrated with the Spotlight feature in MacOSX and the Desktop Search feature in Windows Vista. You can even switch to the new, intuitive List View, with Bridge CS4 makes it easier to work with all of your image assets, with intuitive, easily discoverable controls for camera import, viewing and sorting, contact-sheet and web-gallery creation. Youll also find more versatile throughput to its familiar data display PhotoshopCS4, including opening multiple files as a single, multi-layered image, and much more. and sorting controls.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Photoshop CS4 ExtendedWhats New 6
Tighter integration with Photoshop Lightroom 2
Professionals and other advanced photographers rely on the one-two punch of Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom software as the complete digital photography toolkit. Photoshop CS4 makes this workflow easier than ever, with improved cross-application support for automated functions, such as opening multiple photographs from Lightroom 2 directly into a layered Photoshop document, high dynamic range (HDR) image, panorama, or Smart Object. Lightroom 2 and Adobe Camera Raw also share the same underlying technology, which means the changes you make with Camera Raw 5 in Photoshop CS4 are recognized in Lightroom 2, and vice versa.
Camera Raw 5 with localized, nondestructive adjustments
Providing the first step in the processing of raw data from your digital camera, Camera Raw now enables you to make localized adjustments by simply painting the area to be affected, and then using sliders to control the change. Additional enhancements include Post Crop Vignetting, and gradient-based localized correction. You can apply the same Camera Raw adjustments to TIFF and JPEG photographs, and, as always, the corrections you make are completely nondestructive, with the original files being maintained in their pristine state.
New Post Crop Vignetting lets you recreate artistic vignette effects in a photograph even after the original edge of the photo has been cropped away.
Breakthrough 3D editing and compositing
With Photoshop CS4 Extended, you can now work with 3D models as easily and powerfully as you can 2D images, without navigating dialog boxes and special layer contents. For the first time, you can paint directly on 3D models, easily convert 2D images or gradient maps into 3D objects, and convert layers into volumes. Wrap a flat design onto a 3D object by merging the 2D layer directly onto your 3D layer. Merge two different 3D layers into a single scene. You can even use video layers as textures, to turn any 3D object into a video display zone. Basic presets will speed the process of turning two-dimensional designs into common 3D shapes such as spheres and cylinders. You can also export 3D layers directly to the OBJ, KMZ, Collada, and U3D file formats. It all means that every creative professional can now take immediate advantage of three-dimensional assets created in todays high-end modeling applications, and use them in their 2D mock-ups and composites. The 3D engine has been rebuilt from the ground up to provide dramatically faster performance; allow editing of properties like lights, materials, and cameras; and create more realistic renderings with a new high-quality ray tracer.
Enhancements to 3D support in Photoshop CS4 Extended include the ability to merge 2D layers onto 3D layers effectively turning a 2D image into part of the 3D object.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Photoshop CS4 ExtendedWhats New 7

Enhanced motion graphics

Adobe Photoshop is an essential part of the motion graphics workflow, and Photoshop CS4 Extended makes that workflow more efficient than ever, starting with the enhanced preview of non-square-pixel images. Easily preview and export the audio content of a video file as well as its frame comments. New keyboard shortcuts are enabled for the Animation panel to make fast work of editing between frames and keyframes. You can now animate the 3D object and camera position, render settings, and cross-sections, bringing new depth to motion-graphics editing. When working with 3D objects, you can even place video layers into your textures, turning any 3D object surface into a video display screen. Especially for film and television professionals, Adobe After Effects CS4 can now directly read and import 3D layers from Photoshop CS4 files.
Preview and export audio tracks and frame comments from the Animation panel in Photoshop CS4 Extended.

Volume Rendering

Volume Rendering is a new way to easily convert text, shape, or pixel layers into a volume. Artists can combine painted layers into entirely new and eye-catching 3D volumes. Motion graphics professionals can quickly turn text layers into animated 3D text. Medical professionals can volume render a DICOM image stack into a 3D anatomical image that can be viewed and explored from all angles and depths. Whether the goal is creative or scientific, Photoshop CS4 Extended adds exciting new capabilities with Volume Rendering.
With Volume Rendering, the 2D images from a DICOM stack (left) become rich, 3D volumes that can be examined from any orientation.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Photoshop CS4 ExtendedWhats New 8
Easier data collection and analysis with the Count tool
Allowing fast, simple, point-and-click tallying of objects in scientific images, the Count tool is expanded in Photoshop CS4 Extended to allow for multiple counts, as well as separate colors for each count. This data is easily saved into the file for future reference, and can be collected in the Measurement Log panel for comparison and export to standard text files.
Perform multiple counts with the enhanced Count tool.
Unified tabbed interface with self-adjusting panels
Working with multiple images is simple and clutter-free with the new tab-based interface.

Photoshop CS4 helps you keep your work area efficient and clutter-free, with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels. Youll notice immediately how the Photoshop interface appears cleanerinstead of having to arrange multiple image windows, Photoshop does it for you with a tab for each open image. Docked panel groups keep to the side of your images, so you have fewer things to move around while you work. Individual panels expand and contract automatically to show you the controls you need, and you can even collapse entire panel groups to their header rows with a single click. Of course, you can still manually arrange floating windows and panels to suit your working style, even moving all of your panels to a second monitor if you prefer.
Use the Arrange Documents menu in the new Application Bar to easily manage your view of all open images.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Photoshop CS4 ExtendedWhats New 9

Smarter Smart Objects

Smart Object layers allow for nondestructive scaling and transformation of Photoshop layers. With Photoshop CS4, you can now apply perspective transformations to Smart Objects, work with linked layer masks, and use the new Eyedropper tool option to sample either the current layer or all of the layers in the Smart Object at once.
More powerful printing options
Photoshop CS4 brings even higher quality to large, detailed images when taken to print. You can now preview out-of-gamut colors and take advantage of a streamlined printing interface. In addition, only on Mac OS X for this release, 16-bit printing is available for the first time, vastly increasing the color depth and clarity possible in printing.
Higher performance on very large images (Windows 64 only)
PhotoshopCS4 has now been optimized to take advantage of even more RAM on 64-bitcapable Windows PCs that are running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.
Printing improvements in Photoshop CS4 include 16-bit printing (Mac OS X only) and preview of out-of-gamut colors.

Additional refinements

The evolution of Photoshop software always includes a vast array of small but important improvements and additions. Extra refinements in Photoshop CS4 include: Support for multi-touch gestures available on newer Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers running Mac OS X Leopard Clone Stamp and Healing Brush live preview cursor for easier, more precise cloning and healing results Layer-based metadata enabling reading and writing strings to layer properties, such as recording time-stamp information for video Developers of specialized applications can create custom SWF-format panels that smoothly integrate with Photoshop CS4 Extensible SWF-based File Info panel, enabling developers to add network-stored keywords, perform spell-checking, and other functions Unique IDs per document for easier downstream tracking of assets

The Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools now feature a live preview of the source pixels at the cursor, making it easier than ever to precisely replace or heal specific areas of an image.
CUDO technology, providing the ability to design with sensitivity for color blind individuals via soft-proofing FXG export Device Link color profile support
The File Info panel is now based on the SWF format, for greater extensibility.
Spring-loaded keys to temporarily shift between tools by holding down a tool shortcut key
Notes panel, to keep annotations from cluttering the canvas
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Creative Pro Online Services
Photoshop CS4 gives you built-in access to a world of online resources with Creative Pro Online Services. Search for help; share your screen with colleagues or clients in a few clicks; create and share color harmonies; and more. Adobe Community Help. Get the power of an online search engine with targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth Photoshop Help, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need, fast, simply by choosing Help > Photoshop Help (Internet connection required). Adobe ConnectNow. Share your screen and collaborate in real time with colleagues, clients, and peersregardless of their locationusing ConnectNow. Show your desktop to two online guests at a time at no additional service charge. Exchange ideas using the accompanying chat pod, add a live video or audio feed to enhance your session, or use the annotation feature to allow guests to draw on the active screen. You can even temporarily hand over control of the screen to one of your guests so that they can make adjustments to your file. Simple to use, easy to access, and with reliable cross-platform support, ConnectNow allows you to more readily share knowledge, get immediate feedback, and streamline your work. Just choose File > Share My Screen to start a ConnectNow session (Internet connection required). Adobe Kuler. Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community. Browse thousands of themes by newest, most popular, or highest rated; or search themes by tag word, title, or creator. Themes can be downloaded and moved to your Swatches panel with one click. Or use an interactive color wheel that supports standard harmony rules to develop new color themes that you can save, move to your Swatches panel, and upload to share with others (Internet connection required for community functionality).

The integrated Adobe Kuler panel makes it simple to browse, create, and share color themes online.
Adobe Bridge Home. Click Bridge Home in the Favorites panel of Adobe Bridge CS4 and stay up to date with whats new from Adobe, and from the design, web development, and video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 components, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you make the most of Photoshop CS4 (Internet connection required). Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended are important components of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of software. Creative Suite 4 Design Premium is everything a modern designer needs to create eye-catching images, breathtaking graphics, expert typography, precision layout, and high-quality production for print, web, interactive, and mobile content. Creative Suite 4 Web Premium is a complete solution for creating interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, mobile device content, Adobe AIR applications, and other digital experiences. Creative Suite 4 Production Premium is must-have software for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive mediaon-air, online, on-device, and invariably on deadline. Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is the complete solution for customers requiring the ultimate power and versatility of the complete line of Adobe Creative Suite 4 components.
Part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family
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Mac OS

PowerPC G5 or multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v10.4.1110.5.4 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices) 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 DVD-ROM drive QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features Broadband Internet connection required for online services
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended will be available in North America for an estimated street price of US$999. Adobe Photoshop CS4 will be available for an estimated street price of US$699. Both can be obtained directly from Adobe or through Adobe Authorized Resellers. To order directly from Adobe, visit the Adobe Store at www.adobe.com or call 1-800-833-6687. Licensed owners of Photoshop CS3 Extended, Photoshop CS2, or Photoshop CS can upgrade to Photoshop CS4 Extended for US$349. Licensed owners of Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS2, or Photoshop CS can upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS4 for US$199. Licensed owners of Photoshop 5 or 6 can upgrade to Photoshop CS4 Extended for $899 or Photoshop CS4 for $599. Licensed owners of Photoshop CS3 Extended, Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS2, or Photoshop CS are also eligible for special upgrade pricing to certain editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4. A complete description of upgrade eligibility and pricing is available in a separate Pricing Overview document. For volume licensing information, contact an Adobe Authorized Licensing Center or go to www.adobe.com. Estimated street prices do not include taxes, shipping, handling, or other related expenses. Information on pricing and support policies outside of North America and for Education customers will be available separately. Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and informationanytime, anywhere, and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Availability and pricing

Windows
1.8GHz or faster processor Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32- and 64-bit and Windows Vista) 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices) 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 DVD-ROM drive QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features Broadband Internet connection required for online services For updates to system requirements, visit www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/ systemreqs (Photoshop CS4) and www.adobe.com/ products/photoshop/photoshopextended/systemreqs (Photoshop CS4 Extended).
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Fourth quarter 2008

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New and enhanced features compared

Increased Productivity

Fluid canvas rotation Enhanced Pan, Zoom, and large image navigation More refined, natural results with Dodge, Burn, and Sponge Next generation Adobe Bridge Tighter integration with Photoshop Lightroom Integrated Kuler for color harmony creation and sharing N-up and multiple document view More powerful printing options Superior performance on very large images* Support for multi-touch gestures Extensibility with SWF panels Unified tabbed interface with self-adjusting panels

Photoshop CS4

Photoshop CS4 Extended

Unrivaled Editing

Live, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel Re-editable, feathered, density-controlled masks Enhanced Auto-Blend with seamless tones and colors 360 panoramas Content-Aware Scaling Extended depth of field Camera Raw with localized adjustments Enhanced Smart Objects On-image controls for Curves, Hue/Saturation adjustments Clone Stamp and Healing Brush preview cursor
Breakthrough 3D, Motion Graphics, and Image Analysis
Direct painting on 3D objects Easy conversion from 2D to 3D Editable 3D properties (scene, materials, meshes, lights) New high quality interactive ray tracer Create 3D composites with 2D images or other 3D objects New, high-performance, non-modal 3D engine Volume Rendering Keyboard shortcuts enabled for the Animation panel Enhanced preview of non-square-pixel images Preview and export audio content and frame comments Animate 3D objects and their textures Enhanced Count tool
* Additional RAM usage requires 64-bit version of Windows and a 64-bit capable computer Requires newer Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers running Mac OS X Leopard