Three Photoshop Tutorials

Summarise Key Points

Double Page Tutorial

-Make the double page spread landscape.

-Use guidelines to help place the text in proper columns and to have a equal width apart from one another. 

-Start by creating borders of where you will put page numbers etc. and then start inserting your images.

-Make sure layers are in order.

-To make an image look like it has a polaroid background, create two boxes behind the actual image and to make it look real, put a drop shadow on the outer box by increasing the distance.

-You can link layers to that layers of your choice can move and be resized together.

-Remember colour schemes.

-To add text: go on paths, click the rectangle tool making sure that it is on the paths button (second button) and is add to path area is also clicked (first button of final selection of buttons on the row). First make sure that guides is not selected and then begin drawing where you want your text to appear on your double page spread.

-If there are sections you don't want text to appear in, click subtract from path area (second button of final selection of buttons on the row) and using the pen tool draw out the parts. This is called text wrapping. 

-Once that is done you create a new layer, sort your desired font and alignment and then you can copy your actual text for the page into the areas selected. Remember to "path layer" before pasting. 

Mag Front Cover 2 Tutorial (1)

-To separate the image from it's background, you need to select colour range, and click on all of the background then select inverse it since we want the image selected and not the background.

-In case part of the image has been selected also due to being the same colour as the background, click on quick mask mode and make sure the colour indicates: "selected areas" and the colour is "black" with "100%" opacity. Then you paint the areas of the image that is not black to black by using the paint brush tool. You should be able to separate the image and the background now by right clicking the image and selecting "layer via copy"

 which creates a new layer for the image.

-If you want to edit the image, you can make copies of it so you can see the difference between the different filters.

-You can use effects to edit the Headline

Mag Front Cover 1 Tutorial (2)

-Use effects to make certain texts stand out. 

-Colour Scheme is key.

-Copy and paste the barcode.

-To create a gradient shape, you must draw a bar using the rectangle tool and click on the lay mask (next to fx). Then you go to the gradient tool set it to what colour (black to transparent for example) and start to draw the gradient over the rectangle shape to see the effect work.