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Tips & Tricks Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Chapter2 Painting a Photograph

Photoshop 7.0 allows you to make your own brush, and even add texture as well, enabling an infinite number of unique brushes and touches.
Use a photograph as a texture, and you can easily make a painting with an illustration touch.

1. Choose a photograph (a simple one will make it easy)

		If you wish to prepare a different photo, be sure you fill in the background with White. (If the object is white, set the background Black) In order to work this easily, a solid color background is recommended.

2. Register the photograph as a pattern.

Select the image (Ctrl+A), go to the

menu and select

Input a name for the pattern, and click

3. Brush selection & setting

Select the brush tool from the Toolbox, and select the brush type from the brush preset, and then adjust the settings in the brush palette.

Now click

and adjust the settings for the pattern you' ve just created.

(1)	Click to open up the Pop-up Palette
(2)	Click the new pattern you' ve just made to set the texture.

(3)	Set the Scale to 100%
(4)	Activate Texture Each Tip, if you wish to use different modes for your touches.
(5)	Set the Depth to 100%, and Depth Jitter to 0%
After you finish adjusting, set the tool in the ToolPreset.

4. How to paint

Add a new layer to the photograph, and bring it to the front.
Fill in this layer White, and set the paint color as you wish. (*red for this one)

(1)	Check in the Invert box, and paint over the tomato 2 or 3 times while keeping the pen-pressure low.

(2)	To make the image more like an illustration, paint over with a more yellowish color.

(3)	Color the stem of the tomato with a thinner brush.

(4)	Since the shadow was deleted in the beginning, check out the Invert box and add a shadow by painting over 2 or 3 times again.

(5) For the detailed parts, zoom-in, and use a thin and sharp brush for the final touch-ups.

5. Add your signature

Choose a thin brush, and activate

in the brush palette.

Add in your signature, and you' re DONE !!

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