PS tutorials: tools that help you understand PS (2)

1. Text tool button.

(1) horizontal/vertical text tools, as shown in the figure.

(2) horizontal/vertical text mask tool.

Create a new file, use the horizontal text mask tool to enter the text on the file, and then click the move tool to confirm the text output to get the selection.

Press ctrl + c and press ctrl + v to obtain layer 1.

Click layer-layer style. In the displayed dialog box, select a layer.

Finally, the effect chart is displayed. (The steps for using the vertical text mask tool are the same as those described above)

2. Pen tool button

(1) both the pen tool button and the free pen tool button are used to select a region, while the free pen tool can be selected directly without holding the mouse.

(2) adding or deleting an anchor can delete or add an anchor in a path.

(3) conversion tool:

Create a document and use the pen tool to draw a path

Then we use the conversion point tool for processing. Find a smoothing point and click it to convert it into a corner point.

3. Light reduction tools, deepening tools, and sponge tools

(1) the tool for reducing or deepening the color of the selected area.

The greater the exposure, the greater the impact of each smear; protective tones can reduce the impact on other tones.

(2) sponge tool: add color to the image

4. Blur, sharpen, and smear tools

SOURCE image:

Blur is the blur background, sharpen is to enhance the pixel color, and smear can deformation the image.

5. Eraser tools

(1) Magic Eraser: erasable pixels of similar color as the mouse click

(2) background eraser: there is a cross in the middle. As long as the cross Cross is in the background color, even if the paint brush covers the object and background, only the background will be erased.

You can try a picture by yourself.