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Project 7:

House PaintingPreparing the workspaceFilling solid areasPainting with brushesWorking with patternsPainting nature

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Bitmap Images

Line drawing; only black or white

Typically 1200 or 2400 ppi

First convert to grayscale (1:1 ratio)then

Reduce resolution (resample)then

Convert to RGB

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Color Swatches

Access in the Swatches panel

Create new swatches (active foreground color)

Load built-in swatch libraries

Import ASE libraries from other Adobe applications

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Filling Selections

Edit>Fill to fill selection marqueeor entire active layer

Click with Paint Bucket tool – Fill areas within defined

color tolerance

– Contiguous limits the fill to areas that touch the spot where you click

– All Layers bases selection on all visible layers– Use selection marquee to limit the fill area

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Fill Dialog Box

Fill selected area or active layer

Choose specific color or pattern

Define fill blending mode

Define fill opacity

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Painting with Brushes

Brush options:– Size

– Hardness

– Blending mode

– Opacity

– Flow

– Airbrush mode

– Pressure sensitivity

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Painting Tips

Cursor preferences

Layers

Blending mode, opacity

Selection areas

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Painting Tips (cont’d)

Paint Behind mode

Paint Clear mode

Cloning– Selection area– Entire layer

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Creating Strokes

Edit>Stroke– Requires active selection marquee

– Define stroke width, color, location, blending mode, opacity

– Location is relative to marquee

Stroke Path– Requires existing vector path

– Uses existing tool settings (Pencil, etc.)

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Paths panel

Pen tool in Paths mode

Draw a work path

Paths panel Options menu:– Save Path

– Make Selection– Fill Path– Stroke Path

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Patterns

Create a pattern in a separate file

Edit>Define Pattern

Repeated pattern is based on size of original pattern file

Save custom pattern libraries using the Preset Manager

Pattern Stamp tool

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Eraser tools

Eraser tool– Removes pixels

from active layer– Brush size or

standard-size block

Magic Eraser tool– Erases pixels within defined tolerance

Background Eraser tool– Erases pixels while trying to maintain

edges

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Brush Settings

Access brush libraries in the Brush Preset picker

Access specific brush settings in the Brush panel

“Jitter” allows individual parameters to vary across the brush stroke

Save current brush settings as a preset

Save custom brush libraries in the Preset Manager

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PDF for Print

Use built-in PDF Presets or define custom settings

Standards – PDF/X

Compatibility – PDF 1.3 flattens

transparency

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PDF for Print (cont’d)

Compression

Downsampling

JPEG = lossy

ZIP = lossless

Higher quality, lower compression