(Click photos to enlarge)Adobe PhotoShop is a great tool for the graphic/web designer. This first image was made by taking the color from the photo, using the shape tool and giving it a filter like emboss to make it fade into the black part. Then, text is added. PhotoShop was made as a photo
enhancer, and has an huge number of tools and filters you can use.
However, you can put those tools to more use than just photo manipulation and editing. You can make many things from scratch in PS using the many tooks it provides. This coupon was created
using only the program and no external materials. PS is jam-packed with bruses, shape tools, text tools, gradients, filters, and effects just waiting to be messed with! Experimentation is key if you want to develope PS skills.As an aspring illustrator, I use PS to color
my drawings. Here are a few examples. The first is fan art of some video game characters I grew up with. I sketched it, scanned it, and opened it in PhotoShop. PS allows you to clean up sketches easily, using layer masks. Once they're cleaned, you can use different layers to organize and color different sections of the drawing easily. I like to use lower opacities with the brush tool when coloring, because it lets the layers of color bleed through, I also like to make textures with the different brushes, and use filters when coloring. The next one was a sketch I decided to color. A great thing about PhotoShop is that you have color the same thing multiple times, so there's no fear of ruining a sketch. Sometimes, I like to take the original sketch and just lightly use a multiply brush over it, so you can still see the "sketchyness" of the picture. You can see the difference in the ways you can color with photoshop in these two drawings.
Another was to use PS creatively is to create art out of text! PhotoShop has a lot of tools that make it very easy. For some examples of graphics created ith texton PhotoShop I made using online tutorials click here!