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Great question! To take the last part first, your skin hue would be the same no matter the brightness of incident light, provided the color of the light didn't change. That's why "Select skin tones" works in Photoshop CS6 and later. In broadcast video work, there's a commonly-used tool called a vectorscope that will prove to you, if you ever test it out, ...
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I'd start by use the brush to scribble with some different colors that you'd like.
Then we can use Filter → Pixelate → Mosaic... to turn it into some nice squares
Then we can do a Skew transform (Control + T on Windows)
Tweak and crop as necessary to get the size and angle you want
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For Photoshop:
Starting with the source image in greyscale:
Source: http://everysinglepixel.com
Add a layer with a gradient fill on top of it, adjust the blending mode for the layer to something that looks nice. I chose Soft Light and tweaked the opacity.
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You can either use a normal drop shadow for the outer irregular one (a short distance with a larger size will let you see the borders all around the shape), which will give you something like this:
Or manually add one for the bottom corners using shapes, transformations and blur:
To recreate it just:
Duplicate the shape in the back, and use the Warp ...
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Seems pretty straightforward with Photoshop CS6. I used the dropper tool to select the general background and did cleanup with the quick selection tool.
Note:
If the selection of the background ends up breaking due to the "grid pattern", you can work around it, like I did, by duplicating the later and applying a blur filter to smooth it out, then ...
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I say: Don't start with a greyscale image!
Use the layer effect "Gradient Overlay" with the blend mode "Color". That way you can keep the color information and add some depth by using only i.e. 50% opacity of the effect.
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If you look at the default Photoshop gradients, you will see one with blue and yellowish tones. You can probably use this gradient (changing the colors), or create a new one that imitates the color stops:
It's actually 2 or 3 gradients in one, 4 or 5 color stops. So your result would look something like this:
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For something like this with lots of text, you can greatly reduce the file size of a PDF saved in Photoshop by making sure that the text is exported as vector.
The reason your text is not being exported as vector is because you've got some of Photoshop's "Faux Styles" applied to your text. Any time you have one of these (Faux Bold, Faux Italic, Small Caps), ...
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Our tag wikis for Illustrator, Photoshop and (now) InDesign have listings for alternative software that has been discussed on this site. It is not an exhaustive list of all programs out there, only ones that we have tags for:
Photoshop / Alternative Software: adobe-photoshop-elements gimp corel-paint-shop-pro paint.net
Illustrator / Alternative Software: ...
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For Gimp:
These are the steps I took using GIMP to create a color gradient on the source image.
Choose the Blend tool to fill with a color gradient.
Create a new gradient with desired colors (Left HSV 21,83,91, Right HSV 301,52,60)
Apply the Blend tool in Mode - Overlay along a line from left to right:
Blend mode Color for a stronger effect:
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It's not a blur effect; it's just the use of a gradient.
Select a two color gradient.
Make one of the colors white and make the other one clear.
Use the gradient filler tool to apply it directly on top of the other layers.
This particular gradient is achieved using a linear gradient with the angle set to whatever you need it.
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My "professional" approach would be to vectorize the whole thing. This would not be a trivial task and would require lots of time and dedication. If you're not familiar with the process, I think this would be a good project to learn with. Since you mentioned that you're eager to learn new skills, I'd give it a shot if I were you.
You talked about the use of ...
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In order to break out spot colors, you must use the Channels Panel. There is no other way if you need proper separations. This is often one reason Photoshop is simply a poor tool to use if you need Pantone colored-text, especially small text.
Rather than write a lengthy tutorial on spot colors here are a few links to follow (I'm not specifically endorsing ...
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They can be the same, or at least appear to be the same, depending upon your monitor calibration settings.
The Monitor RGB setting uses the calibration profile for your monitor. That may be sRGB or not. You could easily calibrate your monitor to be wildly different than sRGB.
The sRGB setting uses sRGB.
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Found it! I had recently used the NVIDIA Control Panel to force FXAA on for every application. Apparently this anti-aliasing was being applied to the images 'rendered' by Photoshop.
Using the Control Panel to exempt Photoshop from this (and all anti-aliasing, for safety) fixed the problem after a restart of the app.
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Can't really do this in Photoshop. Photoshop's type on a path is as basic as it can be providing no options or refinements.
You may find for Photoshop, using the Warp options located at Edit > Transform> Warp will yield much better results than type on a path ever will.
Realize that these types of type manipulations on stocks and bods were all done ...
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If it were me, I'd find a photo of gravel that was similar to the background of that image. Then extract the turtles from the original image and place them on the other (larger) background image, recreating shadows as necessary.
Extracting the turtles and using a separate background image will provide much better results than trying to extend that limited ...
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You can't just overlay a 'blurry' image that blurs the random image behind it. The blur effect needs to sample the image behind to transpose/spread the pixels, so it needs to be applied there.
You can however make a sandy/grainy texture and use it as a multiply layer to get the grainy texture look.
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Taking a look at the second image you have provided, something like this is not possible with a PNG overlay. That is absolutely done programmatically in some way and not with a PNG overlay. I have tried some of the other suggestions posted here, none came close (but perhaps you will have better luck)
This is really going outside of your requirements, but ...
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It looks fairly straight forward to me, though I'm not actually going to try it myself.
Create a 'Solid Color' layer underneath this layer that is the roughly the color you want.
Select the layer of the grey pattern image.
Use the 'Blend Mode' drop-down menu that usually says 'Normal' inside it and run through it until you find a Blend Mode that overlays ...
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I imagine one of the reasons why you are having difficulty with this shadow is because it kind of gets smaller in the center, it doesn't go all the way to the ends.
I would re-create it using a new element:
Create a white rectangle (your page) over a gray background
In a nee layer under the rectangle, draw a black oval shape the size of your desired ...
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The printer driver is going to do with the image what it wants... What I'd try first in Photoshop is use the Curves tool to adjust the specific dark tones that tend to smudge into each other, that is, you can adjust the brightness of those tones specifically with a limited impact on the rest of the image's colours. Apply the Curves tool as a non-destructive ...
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Noise Filters in GIMP
Below are examples of factory noise filters in a default GIMP 2.6 installation.
Source image (unfiltered)
Various highly configurable noise filters with default settings
(1. Film grain 2. HSV noise 3. Pick 4. RGB noise 5. Slur 6. Spread)
By choosing different settings or combining these effects we can achieve anything from subtle ...
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Yes, it's a noise effect that you can recreate using Photoshop or CSS. You can see it better in the background image of the website.
Noise Effect in Photoshop
You can recreate it by adding a noise filter to a colored layer.
Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise..., and select the Amount.
(Source)
Then use transparency to make it more subtle. You ...
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Find a paper texture.
Put a b&w adjustment layer on it.
Perform a levels adjustment until its purely black or white.
Select black with the magic wand, and add a mask to it.
You can open the mask (alt click) and fine tune it (add blur to soften the scrapes or sharpen etc.) to clean it up where necessary.
(Not quite as clean as the guy did it ...
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This could also be done in Illustrator (inspired by the answers here):
If the original artwork is vector...
1. Convert your artwork to a Symbol
Put your artwork on your main artboard. Select all of the artwork, then hit the New Symbol button on the Symbols pane (alternatively you can drag the selected artwork to the Symbols pane). That will convert your ...
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I would personally have them in the same workspace, and as you mention I'd slice them for saving.
Only difference with the comments is, I'd also have each image in a separate smart object. That way, you can edit them freely in a different 'file' so to say, but see the results in comparison with the other two in the same canvas. I'm guessing this might be ...
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For Single Lines of Text:
This is a really rinky-dink way of doing it, but you could rasterize the text layer and then measure it:
var artLayerRef = activeDocument.activeLayer;
var newLayer = artLayerRef.duplicate();
newLayer.rasterize(RasterizeType.ENTIRELAYER);
var width = newLayer.bounds[2] - newLayer.bounds[0];
newLayer.remove();
alert(width);
I ...
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In short, not without altering the document in some way that isn't terribly useful. A bit of a brainstorm follows (in Javascript)...
Dimensions of text can only be given if the text is set to a kind of TextItem.PARAGRAPHTEXT, so discounting text wrapping would require extra calculations on your own as the PARAGRAPHTYPE requires wrapping. In terms of ...
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Unfortunately, you can't. It's all or nothing
However, nothing is stopping you from...
Duplicating the layer
Expanding the layer styles
Deleting the style layers you don't want
Keeping the style layers you do want
Turn off the particular live style aspect on the original layer.
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