Photoshop Senior Assistant--extensis Photo Graphics (i)

When using Photoshop, senior friends often want to draw some geometry, a curve of words, and so on. But this often puzzles the people, because in Photoshop does not have this function at all. Ask the prawn on the Internet, often tell you to use CorelDRAW or illustrator to complete the production. So you have to spend hundreds of megabytes of space illustrator these big guys, and then in which to draw out the graphics file, and finally in Photoshop to deal with. It's not too wasteful to use these big things just to draw some simple graphics, and it's not very handy. What to do?! In fact, it is very simple to install the photo graphics filter produced by Extensis Company and everything is solved.

First download this filter in the software download in design.cnroot.com, about 3 m in size. It is then installed in the Plug-ins directory of Photoshop (like the installation of most filters). When we started Photoshop, we found that there was a Extensis submenu in the Filter menu, and there was only one command--photo Graphics in this submenu .... Select this command and we will find an interface that pops up a filter. It looks similar to Photoshop, has a toolbox on the left, a floating surface on the right, and a refreshing interface.

First let's look at the tools available in the Toolbox. Although the tools provided in this filter are not as much as Photoshop's, they are sufficient. The toolbox includes mobile tools, text tools, line tools, pen tools, rectangular tools, round tools, polygon tools, zoom tools, color-absorbing tools, rotation tools, hand tools, and magnification tools. and the settings for the bounding and fill colors. These tools are similar to illustrator's tools, and if you're a illustrator, you'll get started quickly.

The first move tool that you can use to move the drawing, as well as the nodes on the graph. Using the method and the use of all the graphics software's mobile tools, here's a little hassle.

The second tool is the Text tool. When used in general state we will find that there is a text area around the text limit, we can change the size of the text area by dragging the restriction box with the mouse. We can also let the text by the path of emissions. First draw a geometry or curve, and then use the Word tool to click on the edge of the geometry or curve, which is the input text is arranged according to the edge of the geometry, very convenient.

Double-click the tool Text Tool we found a dialog box in which we can create new or edited text styles. Press New ... (new) or edit ... (edit) and duplicate ... (copy) We can set the style of the text in the pop-up dialog box, such as text size, font, word spacing, font scaling, bold, italic, and so on.

The third tool is a line tool. Using it we can draw a straight line. method, like any other software, is not much to say.

The fourth tool is the pen tool. With this tool we can easily draw a curve. Just like illustrator. Each node has two control points, and with these two control points we can regulate the curved shape of the curve.

The fourth tool is the rectangular tool. The tool is used to draw rectangles, of course. Right here. Double-clicking the tool icon also pops up a dialog box. When we select the Enable Round corners (allow fillet) option, the rectangle that is drawn is the rounded rectangle. The bottom horiznal radius (horizontal radius) and vertical radius (vertical radius) are used to adjust the parameters of the radius.

The fifth is a circular tool for drawing circles. Method is the same as other software.

The sixth tool is the Polygon tool. Double-click this icon to sides (edge) in the pop-up dialog box to adjust the number of edges. The Star shape (Star) option lets you convert a polygon to a star shape. Radius (RADIUS) is used to adjust the radius of the star shape.

The next tool is the Zoom tool. It allows us to scale the graph in equal proportions. Use the same method and its graphics processing software.

The seventh tool is the color-absorbing tool. Using it, we can draw the colors in the picture as easily as Photoshop.

The eighth tool is the rotation tool. We use it to easily rotate the graphics. As with illustrator, when we rotate the graph there is a central point, we can use the mouse to move the center point, and change the way the rotation.

The Nineth and tenth tools are hand tools and magnification tools respectively. The two tools, like the tools in Photoshop, allow us to change the view of the preview to make it easier for us to manipulate the graphics.