Swatches, Brushes, Eraser, Opacity

Swatches, Brushes, Eraser, Opacity
(After right-clicking the image from the blog and saving it to your desktop)

1. Open Photoshop (From your Start Menu > Programs > Adobe CS2)
2. Open your image by going to the File menu and selecting Open.
3. Choose File and click Open, Repeat for the second image
4. Make sure the Layers Palette is visible, if not go to Window > Layers

Swatches
Convert to Indexed palette Image and 64 colors:

1. Image menu > Mode > Indexed Color.

Choose:

• Palette: Local (Perceptual)

• Colors: 64

• Forced: None

• Transparency: unchecked

• Dither: None

2. Click OK

3. Image > Mode > Color Table to view the limited 64-color palette based on this image.

4. Save: Give the file a name and Save it to the Desktop.

5. Click Cancel to exit the dialog box.

6. Swatches Palette Menu > Replace Swatches

7. Load the Swatches from the Desktop

8. If you wish to Save the Swatches File, from the Swatches Palette Menu choose Save Swatches and save the file in the Color Swatches folder.

Close/Open the File again
1. Close the Indexed Version of the Image File and re-open the JPEG version of the image File.
2. Add a New Empty Layer by clicking the Square in the bottom of the Layers Palette

Brush Tool

1. Select the foreground color by clicking on the Color Picker Tool, move the tool over the Swatches Palette. Choose a blue from the Swatches you just loaded.

2. In the Tool bar, Set the Opacity of the Brush to 50% and Flow at 100%. Set the Hardness of the brush to 30%. Set the Size (Diameter) of the brush to 100 pixels.

3. Click on the Brush Tool in the Tools Palette (keyboard shortcut is B)

Click and hold down the mouse to paint the blue color over the clouds.

4. Use the bracket keys to increase and decrease the size of the brush.

left [ = smaller and right ] = bigger

ERASER

1. Now click on the Eraser Tool in the Tools Palette (keyboard shortcut is E).

Brush Size = 45, Hardness = 0%, Mode: Brush, Opacity = 80%, Flow = 50%.

2. Use the Eraser to remove any areas where you placed color with the brush and you do not want it (making it look more natural)

Opacity

1. Click on the Top Layer on the Layers Palette

2. Adjust the Opacity Slider to the desired position. (making it look more natural)

SAVE
Save your image by going to the File menu and Save As (Choose JPEG for the File type). Save the image at the highest size (Size 12).

THE END.