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Styles are like little bit size effects that you can apply to your selected objects. As you see here we have the styles panel and if you don't see this just go to the window menu and choose styles to open up the panel and I'll tear this off temporarily so we can just focus on this guy. Now I've already gone ahead and done some of these to a simply rectangle. As you see here I have some styles applied to it and I also used some of these guys right here. So let's go ahead and start from scratch and I'll show you how to make a style and also how to save one. So I'm gonna go to file, new and I'll create a new document, I'll make my background transparent, why not. And I'm going to create on this layer, let's see I'll create a brand new shape. I'll grab an elliptical marquee and I'll draw out a marquee like so and I'll hold down the shift key so I can add to this object here and just make something crazy like so. Now what I can do is click on, well first of all let me fill this in with a color, any color, it doesn't really matter. Now I can click on a style and the style is applied to our object. Now that's a really cool effect right there, this one. And the color kind of goes through depending on what you select on some of these styles. So if I go ahead and click this button here to get rid of that color I can choose a different fill. For example I'll go to greenish or yellowish color, fill that in and when I go back to this one here, that yellow is retained in that shape. So once again some of the styles allow you to have some of the color choices you make uh shown inherently in that object. So now that I have this style what I can do is save it to this panel and all I have to do to save this is simply go uh save styles and I can name this whatever I like. Let me also tell you another way to save a style which is a little bit more dramatic. I'm going to go to some effects here and I'm going to add lets see I'll add a drop shadow to this guy here, let me move this over, move the shadow down and place it where I like it to go. And I am going to increase the size of the shadow and the spray to soften it out. I am also going to change the color a little bit to uh grayish color. I can add an outer glow an inner glow and other options. So let me go ahead and increase this size of this glow here. And on the outer glow. Now when I move this panel over you'll notice that I have the ability to save a new style here. I can click new style and call it whatever I like to, I'll call it squiggly and if I want to I can include a layer blending options as well. So I am gonna go ahead and click ok and click OK here and here is the new style right there. So what I can do is create a brand new object and it doesn't really matter what it is and I can create a rectangle for example and grab a rectangle and I'll fill it in with this yellow color here and I can click on my style and it's applied with all of the other styles right in there. So it's really, really cool to be able to save these styles right in this list. I also have other styles to choose from. I can choose from abstract, buttons, dotted strokes and more and when I choose one of the effects here I can upend it to this list and as you see I have more styles that I can choose from at any time. I can always go back to my original styles by simply resetting these and then I can upend that and start from the original set of styles that I had at the very beginning. I can also save these out in a separate file. So I can go to styles and you'll see that their located, let me move this up a little bit, in a styles folder that is located in your Photoshop folder, so you'll see that its in a styles presets Adobe Photoshop CS3. So saving styles and creating your own styles is a nice way to create a uniform effect for any project in which you have to have objects like buttons and everything else look the same.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |