Saturday, February 28, 2009

Adobe Photoshop 4: Tips When Printing Posters

By David Peters

As a designer, The computer is an Art designer's major tool in enabling us to digitally manipulate images into traditionally looking art images and without effecting the interactive quality. Designing posters certainly has many benefits regarding quality / ease factors with professional software like the Adobe Photoshop 4 version. The main feature on this software that allows such quality results is through its ability to do things like the traditional method with a pencil and paper but amazingly much quicker.

With Adobe Photoshop, you will be able to draw and erase illustrations and images in Photoshop as much as you want. In fact, even in the last stages of the design, you will still be able to edit major parts of the design without beginning from scratch. All these things can be done without even using a single paper or pencil.

Whether you are a traditional artist or a professional art designer the ability to create stylish marketing resources remains the same and by only carrying out a couple of basic Photoshop commands. Adobe Photoshop 4 is perfect for the creating flyers and publicity posters and you will be amazed at how simple the steps are. Internet page creation is time consuming enough, but by investing in Adobe Photoshop 4 you will save so much important time for other important tasks.

Basically, when you are designing a poster in Adobe Photoshop 4, you have to know that there are 4 basic steps to do so.

The first step is by sketching the design in Photoshop. A lot of designers say that the sketching process in Adobe Photoshop 4 is the same as sketching it the traditional way. The graphic palette of Adobe Photoshop almost copies that of the feeling of drawing on paper. Although drawing on Photoshop using a mouse and keyboard is not as fast as drawing on paper, you will see that there are quite a lot of advantages when you draw with Photoshop. One such effect is the halftones which you cannot do with pencils.

Once the sketch has been altered into sepia tones, you create two layers. Proceed to the layers palette and there set the background layer to the "multiply mode" and insert it between the two new virgin layers. Be careful tp place the layers with colors into the lower layer, which is directly under the sepia layer.

The third step is by working on the lower layer. You need to choose a dominant dark color, which the secondary effects can relate to and one that will not lose contrast to it. You do this in order to avoid getting lost in the details of the entire colors and graphics all over the work area.

Layering is a fundamental process in editing digital images and Photoshop is the master in producing the highest of quality edited images. This guide will help you to create excellent design work and your editing capabilities will soon be noticed as you improve. - 15437

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