Technical data

Cropping..................................................................................................35
Flipping and Rotating...............................................................................36
Adjusting Image Colors ...........................................................................37
Applying Effect Filters..............................................................................39
HANDS ON: Photo-painting.............................................................39
Multiple effects.................................................................................40
HANDS ON: Antiquing a Photo ...............................................................41
4 ♦♦ Working with Paint and Text
Choosing Colors......................................................................................45
HANDS ON: Step into the Sandbox! .......................................................46
Painting and Drawing ..............................................................................47
Using the basic Paintbrush tool .......................................................48
Choosing and customizing brush tips..............................................48
Setting tool properties......................................................................49
Using the Airbrush tool ....................................................................50
Using the Eraser tool .......................................................................51
Using the Smudge tool ....................................................................51
Using the Clone tool ........................................................................52
Creating Lines and Shapes .....................................................................53
Filling Regions.........................................................................................55
Working with Text....................................................................................55
HANDS ON: Creating Filled Text ....................................................57
5 ♦♦ Using Layers and Masks
Layers......................................................................................................61
Kinds of layers .................................................................................61
Basic layer operations .....................................................................62
Manipulating layers..........................................................................63
Moving the contents of one or more layers..................................63
Clipboard operations involving layers ..........................................64
Rearranging standard layers in the stack ....................................64
Merging layers..............................................................................64
HANDS ON: Making a Montage......................................................65
Masks......................................................................................................68
Mask-making ...................................................................................69
1 Creating the Mask....................................................................69
2 Editing on the Mask .................................................................70
3 Applying changes to the layer ..................................................71
HANDS ON: Vignetting....................................................................71