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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0??? Best Answer will get 10 pts!!!!!!! :-) ?Question: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6!.0!?!?!? Best Answer will get 10 pts!!!!!!! :-) !? Is it difficult to learn!? I want to edit, color my drawings and photos!.
also, when you create layers to color a scanned lineart image, you make a layer right!? Then you proceed to coloring!.!. the color does not go over the black lines!.!. but outside the lines!.!. then you do something and clean the smudges on the outside!.!. how does that work!? I'm sorry, I'm very inexperienced with digital coloring and such!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: PS and PSE are a bit tricky to learn, however they are well worth the effort because they are so incredibly powerful!. As far as your question regarding linear art!. A scanned image comes in as a bitmap, not as a vector!. If you are using PS for vector art, then you'll want to convert it!. To the best of my knowledge, PS doesn't have a tool to do that automatically!. I use PS mostly for photos, so doing vector work is not my forte', but I have played around with it a bit!. I have seen some great vector work done in PS!. You may find yourself working between PS and Adobe Illustrator - or even in just Illustrator alone if you are primarily doing artwork!. Oh, you are probably not familiar with the difference between a bitmap and a vector!. Simply put, a bitmap is a bunch of pixels or dots that make up an image!. When you enlarge the image, you enlarge the dots!. As you do this, your image gets pixelated (where you see a bunch of squares) and the image looks blurry!. A vector, on the other hand, is a calculation!. When you draw a line, it's not really a line as much as a bunch of coordinates!. When you enlarge a vector, the calculations are redone, and the drawing remains sharp, because it's essentially redrawn it from a bunch of calculations!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Many of the better photo editing programs have what is called the - Clone Brush!. With this small but quite powerful tool you can "clone" (make copies) of parts of an image on to and in to its self!. However, if you have 2 images open in the same work screen, side by side, you can clone parts of one image into the other!. The Clone Brush also has the unique feature of acting like a paint spray can and you can also control the size of the "spray", so with a small amount pf practice and understanding, you can be quite precise it what and where you want to clone, from where, to where!.!.! This is also one of the easiest ways to make part of a BW image - color!. You take your color image and make a copy of it on your work screen!. Turn 1 image into a BW!. Using the Clone Brush you now paint the color from color image into the BW one, right where you want it!.!.! No Masks!. No Layers!. No Hoodoo Voodoo needed!.!.!. See examples on a motorcycle tail light done as I typed this - http://lensmen2!.smugmug!.com/gallery/5737!.!.!. This color or copy technique can be applied to almost anything you want, anywhere you want!. The learning curve is not all that steep, but a lil fore thought and practice helps - a lot!.!.! Look at - Too Cows - also just done to represent what you can do with Cloning part of an image into another!.!.!. These were quick n dirty examples, maybe a minute or so each and on small sampled images!. For any of my real work, the images are no less than 3000x2000 pixels and the time spent is the time to do it right, good and clean!.!.! Have fun Bob - Tucson Www@QuestionHome@Com |