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The warp tool can be used for both fun and for practical purposes. It's located under the edit menu but before I do that I want to show you something interesting here. You'll notice that on this image that I opened up it's the background layer, by default it's called the background layer and we have this lock symbol. So if you go to the edit menu and you choose any of these tools here you notice you can't grab any because the layer first of all has to be unlocked. So I'm gonna double click where it says background and I'm just gonna simply accept that and now the layer is unlocked. I can now use the warp tool. Now you have two ways to use this tool, you can use it on an unselected image which of course will select everything and let me go ahead and move that out of the way. And you can warp the entire image and you can click in one of these grids here. Or you can click on one of these handles. And what you wind up doing is you're moving the pixels around you're creating this kind of warped feel to it. So you can create a flag, you can create the feeling that someone is going into a vortex. So you know she's holding on to old sparky for dear life as they get ready to get dragged into another dimension. So if you like this you can hit the enter key to accept it or you can hit the escape key to go back to the normal image. Likewise you can also draw a marquee around a part of the image that you want to warp, go to edit, choose transform, choose warp and only that part of the image will be affected by the warp uh filter. Let me go ahead and escape and deselect that. Now the practical purpose of the warp filter, it's very helpful when you want to place text around something or if you want to make a shape look like it belonged to something. For example I am going to draw a heart and place it on her knee and we are gonna de, deform it so it looks like it's actually part of her pants. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to my layers here, create a new layer. I'm gonna go to my custom shapes and in the shape I already have selected the heart. And I'm gonna draw a heart right about here, it doesn't really matter where it is. Then I am gonna go to my paths palette or panel and I'm gonna click right here to make this an active selection and I'm going to fill this in with red. As you see here I have the foreground color as red so I'm gonna choose fill, foreground color and I'm simply going to deselect that by pressing command or control D. Since this heart is on it's own layer I don't have to worry about making a selection because the filter is smart enough to grab this by itself. So first of all I'm gonna zoom in and now I'm gonna go to edit, transform, warp. Now what I can do is have some fun, let me oops I deselected by mistake, let me grab that again, warp OK there we go. I can now move this around and I can start to put this heart where it belongs. But before we do that I actually want to move it up a little tiny bit so I'm gonna grab this and press command or control T and let me rotate it a little tiny bit like so and I put it right about here and I'll double click to accept that and now I am ready to warp. I always get ahead of myself. Now here's the fun part, I can grab one of these handles here and I can start to pull and I can go inside the grid itself and start to manipulate this shape so that it looks like it's starting to conform to the knee. And I can pull the handles and I can push in here to give it that curve that goes around the knee and I have full control at all times because I have control handles as well as the ability to push and pull and deform from within the grid itself. So by the time your done you'll be able to get the shape exactly the way you want it. And I am almost finish here, I'm gonna grab right inside this grid here and I think that looks pretty good. And I'm going to just pull this out a little bit more and I'm gonna hit enter or return to accept that. Now I'm gonna zoom all the way back out again and last but not least I'm going to add a blend mode to this heart layer. I am going to choose screen and that makes the pixels turn pink. So now it looks like the heart is on her pants and it's a part of it so I can actually you know use my move tool, move it down a little bit more to get that little blue edge there to really differentiate between the jacket and the heart. So that is how you use the warp tool to deform your artwork so that you can create all kinds of cool shapes, whether for fun or for practical purposes.
| 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 |