Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Guide to Printing Posters with Adobe Photoshop 4

By David Peters

As a designer, The computer is an Art designer's major tool in enabling us to digitally manipulate images into traditionally looking art images and without effecting the interactive quality. Designing posters certainly has many benefits regarding quality / ease factors with professional software like the Adobe Photoshop 4 version. The main feature on this software that allows such quality results is through its ability to do things like the traditional method with a pencil and paper but amazingly much quicker.

With Adobe Photoshop, you will be able to draw and erase illustrations and images in Photoshop as much as you want. In fact, even in the last stages of the design, you will still be able to edit major parts of the design without beginning from scratch. All these things can be done without even using a single paper or pencil.

From traditional artists to modern commercial graphic designers, you will see that creating marketing materials with Photoshop is relatively easy. From brochures to large posters, you will see that Adobe Photoshop 4 will be able to help you from start to finish. The great thing about Photoshop 4 is that it will be able to help you get things done faster, which means that you will be able to have more time to deal with any minor errors in the design.

Basically, when you are designing a poster in Adobe Photoshop 4, you have to know that there are 4 basic steps to do so.

You then venture into the creating of layers, so proceeding the sketching phase, you convert the image to sepia tones. Then you will start with colors and the halftones created will be more subtle looking and your colors will turn out a lot more natural and sharp looking.

As soon as the sketch has been changed into sepia tones, it is necessary to create two layers. Go to the layers palette and set the background layer to the multiply mode and place it between the two new virgin layers. Check that you put the layers with colors in the lower layer, directly below the sepia layer.

Then you will need to work on the lower layer and for that you must to choose a dominant dark color. which The secondary effects will be able to relate to this and will not lose any of the contrast. Finally you will finish off by working on the higher layer of the drawing, where you can manipulate the lines of the drawing. Edit options include "refine" and "correction" of the lines and you can experiment with lighter colors to smooth out any shapes in the drawing.

The fourth step is to work on the top layer of the drawing. This is where you can work with the lines of the drawing. Here, you will adjust, refine, and correct the lines ad this is where you will also work with lighter colors in order to smoothen out the shapes of the drawing. After coloring your design, you will now need to soften or get rid of the lines that are too heavy on the top layer. - 16035

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