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This is a common question but usually for code. To create this in Photoshop:
New layer in Photoshop
Draw rectangle slightly smaller below
Fill with black
Filter>Gaussian Blur
radius around 5-7 pixels, play with the settings
Edit > Transform > Warp
Drop opacity around 20%
Another tutorial here.
Free Files
Free .psd files here for ...
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Yes, Photoshop could be used to design a magazine. But, so could MSPaint. This is absolutely a job suited for InDesign.
InDesign has much better tools for typesetting. If I didn't have InDesign available to me, I'd probably even use word processing software to lay everything out instead of going with Photoshop. It's definitely not the tool for the job.
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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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My question:
Can I create a magazine exclusively using PhotoShop?
YES you can, BUT this is not the industry standard and it is highly frowned upon. See last paragraph.
My understanding:
It should simply be a case of using CMYK and an adequately high
resolution.
The standard is 300dpi for print, but again, that depends on the medium, ...
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If you hide guides, then drag out a new guide, all guides are made visible. It appears as though you have merely drug out a few guides for the same area, then perhaps hid guides so you weren't aware they are still there.
Simply clear all the guides by choosing View > Clear Guides then drag out a new guide. You should only have one then.
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It is very likely that the person used a 3D software tool or the rudimentary 3D tools in Photoshop to create the shadow.
However, this particular example can be made by duplicating the blue shape layer, creating a drop shadow on the duplicate, setting the fill to 0%, rendering the layer, and using the warp tool to adjust the shadow shape. The shadow layer ...
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Create a New Layer and then Using Rectangular Marquee Tool Draw line and then choose brush tool to paint
Using Eraser tool erase the both ends and set the Eraser Opacity to 50%
Make a new layer and using Rectangular Marquee Tool draw rectangle below the edge line and paint gently using brush which set to opacity 50%.
Now choose the line layer and ...
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You can use Tool Presets and Actions.
Window > Tool Presets, and click the New Preset icon at the bottom of the Tool Preset Panel. Note the current Auto-Select setting and name it appropriately. Then toggle the Auto-select and create a second preset by again clicking the New Preset icon at the bottom of the panel.
Then, create a new action by clicking the ...
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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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You're experiencing dithering due to the color reduction of the GIF color table. Gif images can only contain a maximum of 256 colors. There's really not a great deal you can do about it.
You are asking the gif format to support smooth color, which it doesn't. The best you can do is experiment with the dithering options in the Save for Web window. However, ...
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Does the "Replace Color" feature in Photoshop solve your problem?
Image > Adjustments > Replace Color
There you can select a color with the eyedropper which is then also displayed under the "Replacement" section. If you click on the color rectangle in this section the color picker dialog opens and you can specify a desired hue.
Adjust the effect with the ...
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I do all my mock-ups in Illustrator. There is plenty of disagreement on this point but Photoshop is really an image editor. If you need an image in your design, jump to Photoshop (or Gimp). If you want to layout a page or an app, Illustrator (or Inkscape or Fireworks) is the place to be.
As for where to start, it shouldn't be with the tool. Learn the ...
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welcome to GD.SE!
To be honest, I don't think you really need to be a Photoshop guru to design your UIs. Especially if you are doing web, and you will end up coding everything anyway, the skills you will need to present some mockups and wireframes shouldn't take long to learn. Photoshop is quite intuitive, but this of course doesn't mean it won't have a ...
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When you are using Move tool you can press Cmd + Mouse left click to temporarily enable auto selection functionality.
If you have any other tool selected, you can Cmd + Alt + Mouse right click a layer and it will be selected. This is nearly identical to auto select with the move tool, you just can't move the layer during that key press.
Some other move ...
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A transparent stroke is probably not the best way to look at it. You'll need to use masks (in this case vector masks) to accomplish this.
General workflow is to Fill a layer with a color, create a path and go layer>vector mask. This will now control what of that layer is visible. With the mask selected, you'll notice a bunch of options in a dropdown at the ...
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I would use Bridge to make a PDF Contact Sheet:
To do this in Bridge, go to Window → Workspace → Output
You can specify the output size as well as the number of columns and rows. Whether or not it will be able to process a 20k x 10k pixel output remains to be seen I suppose, I've certainly never tried something of that magnitude.
Alright, so I just ...
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There are two types of anchors - corner anchors and smooth anchors.
Smooth anchors always have symmetrical bezier handles.
Command-click-dragging with the Pen Tool on a smooth anchor moves both its' Bezier handles in unison.
Option-click-dragging with the Pen Tool on a smooth anchor handle, and you convert the smooth anchor to a corner anchor.
Corner ...
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In a nutshell, you duplicate the exiting path, delete what you don't want, then add what you do want to the duplicate.
Use the Direct Selection Tool (the white arrow) and hold down the Option/Alt key to drag a copy of the path to a new area.
Now, use the Pen Tool and click on the path to place new anchors where you want to cut the path. Basically, make ...
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Using the Lens Flare filter is a pretty simple way to make a lens flare.
Filters > Render > Lens Flare
But in order to get a look more like the one you provided, I used to lens flare filter and made sure the brightness was set pretty low (around 75%) to make sure there isn't a lot of blur that could disrupt the next step.
Next, I just used the smudge tool ...
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I think Jan Steinman was close with his angular explanation. The DPI table is good as well but in the end it all comes down to pixels not DPI for photographic images.
Forget DPI, a good rule of thumb is that across your field of view your eye can not see more than 8,000 pixels. Therefore you should not create a bitmap image of more than 8,000 pixels across. ...
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