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Snail Power Case Study / Background
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Well, when you are at a certain stage like this, it's a good time to save your document if you haven't already done that. And I actually have saved my document. I've saved it in its own folder called 'snailpower case study'. So I'll just save over it. And I notice that my snail and cow combination needs to be a little bit smaller. They seem to be conflicting with the hilltop in the background. So what I'm going to do is link the snail and cow layers and zoom out just a bit so I can see everything, and choose command + 'T'. And another nice feature of Photoshop is that free transform will transform linked layers. So I'm going to hold down the shift key, just drag it in a bit to make my cow-snail combo a little bit smaller. And what I might do is change the background a bit. So I'm going to select the background layer and click the new layer icon to create a new empty layer. So I'm going to create a gradient. So I'll click on my gradient tool, and click right on the gradient thumbnail to bring up the editor. Or I could have just clicked on the presets, and see if there is a gradient in here I like. And there isn't, so what I am going to do is create my own custom gradient. And actually I see one here that I like. So this will gradate from dark blue to transparent. And I am going to put it on its own layer, so that I can control its opacity. So I'm going to click and drag from the top to the bottom. And I can see it was on the wrong mode - I had radial mode and I really want linear. So I'm going to undo that and try again. And that looks pretty good, but obviously it's too intense. So I'm going to back off on the opacity. And also I think I'm going to add a adjustment layer that will de-saturate part of my image. So from the bottom of the layers palette, I'm going to click on the adjustment layer icon and choose hue/saturation. And dial back the saturation here just a bit. And what this does of course is draw your attention a little bit more to my colorful snail. Well here's my hue-sat layer. I'm going to drag it so it affects just the background image and nothing above it. But I don't want it to affect so much the top of the image, so I'm going to add a gradient on the layer mask that is attached to this. And for this one, I'm just going to choose current foreground and background color, black and white in this case. And with my layer mask selected, just drag it. Now, I'm going to turn it on and off, and you can see how the bottom portion of the image de-saturates.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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