Photoshop Pattern Stamp

•   Open up Adobe Photoshop. If you have a picture you want to draw on, CLICK File / Open and select your digital picture.

•   If you want to start with a blank page, CLICK File / New. Here you can give your new picture a name.You can specify the width, height and resolution of the picture.

•    You can decide between different color mode options and what the background will look like. Here you can chose between white, another color, or a transparent background. These presets work for me, so I'll just click 'OK.'

 

•   On the left side of the screen is your toolbox. The pattern stamp looks just like a stamp.  There are two types of stamps the clone stamp and the pattern stamp. Click and hold down the mouse and make sure you choose the right one.

•    Near the top of the screen are options for this tool. Here you can choose the size of the brush, how hard or soft the brush is and what kind of tip to use.

•     There are a lot of options you can play with for mode.  You also have options for opacity, the flow of the brush, as well as airbrushing.

•  Click here to open the pattern picker. You can choose any one of these patterns by clicking on them.

•    When you click on any set it'll ask you to either append this new set to the current set or replace the old set with the new one. Click OK to replace sets. Now choose a pattern.   

•     You can go back up to the options and click on impressionist to give the drawing a softer look.

• Finally, there's one last box to check, 'aligned.' If aligned is checked then if you release the mouse and then start painting again, it remembers where you left off.

Photoshop Techniques

 

How to set the Highlight Value

1.                  Select open under the file tab on adobe Photoshop and navigate to the location the image you are working on is located.

2.                  On the pallet on the right, right click the eyedropper tool, then select the eye dropper

3.                  With the eyedropper selected ADJUST/CURVES from the IMAGE menu

4.                  Use the mouse to move the eyedropper around the image and find the lightest or brightest area of the image.

5.                  Observe the change; once you click OK your changes will be saved.

My picture for the History Poster was a little dark so this helped to adjust the photo of Herb Lubalin that i used for my project a lot.

Cut Out of Gerald Buttler

Simple cut out and drop shadow in Photoshop. This is a photo of Gerald Buttler, and it was the perfect picture to use because it came out really nicely. First a made a cut out of the image extracting the image from the background which was a nice outdoor environment. Then i duplicated the image and turned it black. And then i set the blur effect using the Gaussian blur and placed it nicely behind the image.