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If you want to take some text and wrap it around an object there are some complicated procedures using the Shear filter that will yield very precise results, but for most uses the following quick and easy technique will produce the desired effect.
To begin open your image and create a new layer by going Layer> New> Layer.
On this layer you will place the type by choosing a font and typing the words of the phrase you want to wrap. I've found that handwriting fonts work the best.
To select a font in Photoshop go Window> Character. In the palette you'll see a list of your installed fonts. Make sure to tweak the settings so that the spacing and size and color are all appropriate for the effect you want to achieve.
Bend That Text
Make sure that your text layer is active and then go Layer> Type> Warp Text.
Now you need to choose a transform option from the Style popup menu. Choose Arch and then click Horizontal.
The Arch Style's default is to bend from left to top to right, but we want to bend from left to bottom to right, so we need to move the Bend Slider toward the left until we reach a negative number.
I found -22 to be very close to the shape of the curve of the cup's lip, so that worked for me. Readjust the slider until you feel you've got it just right. And that's it! Click OK.
A Couple Of Little Tweaks One thing that can help is to use the move tool (keyboard shortcut V) and very carefully move your type to reposition it in a more natural looking way. You might also find that you want to rotate the warped text. Go Edit> Transform> Rotate. You'll now see a bounding box. With your cursor outside of the bounding box, click and move your mouse to rotate the text. To accept the changes double-click inside the bounding box, or to cancel hit Esc. If you make a change but then decide against it, choose Edit> Undo.
You have a nice big beautiful photo. It is gorgeous. But you need it much, much smaller, and by the time the file is down to the right size, you might find that the image has started to take on a blurry look. This is a real problem with resizing images, but luckily in Photoshop there's a very simple solution.
This tip will only work with Photoshop CS2 and CS3. If you don't have a CS version yet I recommend you try and get one as soon as you can, because they are full of powerful new features. For earlier versions of Photoshop there's a workaround at the end of this tip.
When you want to reduce an image go to the Image> Image Size menu. Click on Resample Image and choose Bicubic Sharper from the drop-down menu. This is the best setting for making sure that an image doesn't blur. The example photo of the flower started at 2,000 pixels across. I stepped it down to 250, and then again to 125 with almost no loss of sharpness. For enlarging an image select Bicubic Smoother.
Another thing to keep in mind when resizing is to try to do it only once on an image. Many people will resize repeatedly as they search for the perfect fit for a design element, and then end up with an image with a lot of blur. It's always better to experiment on a duplicate of the image. Then, when you've settled on the final dimensions, you can go back to the original and resize it just once.
Pre-CS Workaround
In earlier versions of Photoshop simply zoom out so that your window and image are at either 50% or 25%, and then take a screenshot of the image window at this new reduced size. You'll find that the image will maintain its sharpness. Now open the screenshot in Photoshop, and crop and save. The trick to making this work is to use either a 50%, 25%, or 12.5% view size before making the capture. If you view the image at 66.7%, 33.3%, or 16.7%, the image will not be as sharp due to the way Photoshop draws images at those sizes.
Troubleshooting
Never resize a GIF image. First change the mode to RGB Color (Image> Mode> RGB Color), and then resize. You can still save your resized image as a GIF, just do not apply resizing while the image is in the GIF mode.
Want to make some nice coloring books? The first step is to turn a photo into a sketch, and that's exactly what we'll do now. This tutorial is fairly easy and consists of just 6 steps.
Start with your selected photo. Prep it so it's exactly the dimensions and resolution you want your final document to be.
STEP 1 - Duplicate The Background Layer First duplicate the background layer. Go Layer> New> Layer via Copy. Now we have 2 layers, the Background Layer, and Layer 1.
STEP 2 - Desaturate The Photo With Layer 1 selected, choose Image> Adjustments> Desaturate. This gives us a grayscale version of the photo.
STEP 3 - Duplicate Layer 1 At this point you must duplicate Layer 1. With Layer 1 selected, go Layer> New> Layer via Copy. Now we have 3 layers, the Background Layer, Layer 1 and Layer 2.
Next we'll be working with Layer 2.
STEP 4 - Invert Layer 2 With Layer 2 selected, go Image> Adjustments> Invert. This will make your photo look like a negative.
STEP 5 - Change The Layers Blend Mode To Color Dodge In the Layers Palette change the Layers Blend Mode for this layer (Layer 2) to Color Dodge. This will make your photo almost completely white, but don't panic! Everything is going to work out just fine.
STEP 6 - Apply The Gaussian Blur Filter Go Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur. When the dialog box appears start by moving the Radius Slider all the way to the left. Once you've done that you can start to slowly move it to the right.
Now here comes some real Photoshop magic — because as you move the slider your sketch will start to appear.At this point take time to experiment and make sure you are getting the desired effect.
Bigger numbers create a more pronounced effect, but at some point this will turn your sketch back into a photo, which you don't want, so when you reach that point simply nudge the slider to the left just a little and that should do it!
For my apple sketch I used a Radius setting of 9.8 pixels.
Experiment With Settings
This technique will also work with the Motion Blur Filter and the Radial Blur Filter. The reason I mention this is sometimes an image will not work as expected, and so you have to try different methods.
Calling All Cezannes
Now print out your best sketches and create some nice coloring books, then give the kids some crayons and see what kind of crazy masterpieces they come up with!
1. In Photoshop, open up the image on which you would like to create the displaced shadow. Here we want to put a hat on this incredibly good looking face and give it a realistic shadow. To start, we want to create a new image file using this image.
Shortcuts
Throughout this document, “Command/ Ctrl” means Command on the Macintosh® and Ctrl on Windows.®“ Option/Alt” means Option on the Macintosh and Alt on Windows.
2. Go to the Channels palette. Toggle through the three channels by pressing Command/Ctrl + 1 = Red Command/Ctrl + 2 =Green Command/Ctrl + 3 = Blue Find the one channel with the most contrast. In our case it was the red channel. With the channel selected, choose Duplicate Channel.
3. In the dialog box you will want to choose “New” under Document. Then in the Name field type in “Blur map”. Note: if you are on Windows you must give it the .psd extension.
4. You should now have a new image with the file name Blur map open on your desktop.
Notice: if you check its channels, it has only one channel
This is important because we only want to displace our shadow vertically. In order to have true horizontal displacement there must be a second channel.
Displacement map
Is basically a second A Displacement map image that the Displacement filter uses to determine how
to distort the selection. Any Photoshop file except bitmaps can be used.
5. Now we want to smooth out the gradations in this image and have detail without any speckling. The best way to do this is to choose Filter > Noise > Despeckle. Repeat filter three to four times. (Command/Ctrl + F) The softer and smoother the displacement map, the smoother the shadow effect. Once you have done this, save the image and put it aside.
6. Let’s go back to our original image. Get back in RGB composite mode. (Command/Ctrl +~) Next, open the image that you want the shadow to fall under. In this case, we want to have a realistic shadow falling under the brim of this hat. Ahha, now it’s starting to make sense! Notice that our hat already has a transparent background.
7. Bring in the second image either by copying and pasting or dragging and dropping. Size it using the transform tool (Command/Ctrl + T). Place it into final position. You’ll want to do this in order to see where the shadow needs to fall.
Transform!
To bring up the dialog box for the Transform tool, try the shortcut Shift + Command/Ctrl + T.
8. Now, we want to create our shadow. Select the bottom layer and click the new layer icon. This will create a new layer between the hat and our face for the shadow. With this layer still selected, create an approximate shadow using one of the selection tools. (Remember, the exact shaping will be done with the Displacement filter). Fill your selection with 50% gray. Deselect, and choose Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur to create a soft shadow.
Shadows
Another quick way to create a soft shadow is make your selection then choose Select > Feather. Type in a pixel value for the selection edges to be feathered.
9. With the shadow layer still selected choose Filter > Distort> Displace. Enter 0 in the Horizontal scale and approximately30 in the Vertical scale. (Although you may want to
experiment with the amount.) The rest of the settings can stay the same. Click OK.
Displacement Filter
Remember, the image we’re using for our displacement map has only one channel. Through experimentation, we have found that only the vertical scale is needed for a good-looking shadow.
10. Next, a dialog box appears asking for a file to use for the displacement map. Navigate to where you saved the Blur map file and select it. Click OK and wait for the results. Wow! The shadow magically bends over the contour of this perfect face. Ahaa.
11. Now, to make it a little more realistic, set the mode to Multiply. Looks OK, but we can do better than this!
Multiply Mode
Effectively like sandwiching two negatives together, this mode looks at the color information in the channels and multiplies the base color by the blend color, darkening the color underneath it.
12. For the final touch we want to add a bit of warmth and color to the shadow as there would be in real life. Fortunately, Photoshop 4.0 Adjustment layers make this a snap. Choose New Adjustment Layer from the layers pop-up menu. Choose Hue/Saturation and make sure to select “Group with Previous Layer.” This way the adjustment layer will affect only the shadow layer.
13. In the Hue and Saturation dialog box, select Colorize and then adjust your HSL levels until you have your desired density and shadow color.
Colorize
You can use this effect to colorize black-and white images or to create a monotone effect. Your selected image will be converted to shades of red. You can then adjust the color using the Hue slider.
14. Voila! There you have it! The perfectly shaped and shaded shadow. For a finishing touch to make the hat appear as though it were sitting on the head, we added a single 50% brushstroke to the shadow layer underneath the hat.
references:Adobe Seminars Web Page Design
by Lisa Lopuck and Sheryl Hampton
Sometimes you want to mask or crop more than one image with the
same shape. To allow for the most flexibility, use a clipping group
with your layers. In this example we used type as the masking layer
and two different fabric layers. We wanted to leave them on separate
layers to allow for more experimentation.
1. Open or create a file that contains all the layers that you want to mask through a
Common mask. The layer that will mask the others should be the bottom-most layer. In this example we will mask both the lace and the floral layers with the big type layer. Remember to put your mask shape on a transparent background.
Base layer (mask)
The shape that masks all the layers in the clipping group must be on a transparent background or the effect will not work. The masking shape is created by every pixel on the base layer no matter what color it is. The edge of the mask shape is wherever there is a pixel next to a transparent area.
2. Make a clipping group by holding the Option/Alt key and clicking between the layers that will be in the group. Notice how the cursor changes to indicate that you are making a clipping group, and the Layer thumbnail indents.
Group modes
All clipping groups have a base layer. This is the bottom layer in the group, and it defines the shape of the mask through layers in the group are displayed. The base layer defines the mode and transparency of all the layers in its group.
3. Option/Alt clicks between all the layers that will be in the clipping group. Note: You can move layers around within a group, but once you move a layer outside of the group, it will no longer be masked by the base layer.
Clipping groups
As you click the lines between the layers to make a clipping group, they become dotted lines. The base layer is the one with the underlined layer name.
