Hi, guys I'm back again to post what I did in class this week. Well, this week I had my photoshop quiz which was to follow exactly the same (if possible) with the one that my lecturer showed to us. Fortunately, there was nothing strange happened when I was doing my test. However, I did save my photoshop quiz into my flash disc just in case if there is something happen during the submission. If you are curious about what I did during my quiz, then here it is!
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| In my opinion, I thing the most complicated one is to do the sakura tree (at the left corner). I don't know whether I used the complicated way or it was actually complicated. Well, I didn't copy the original picture of the sakura tree, but I'll just explain how I did it, hopefully you can understand! HAHA. |
From the original picture of the sakura tree, I selected the background with the Magic Wand Tool and I unselected the small background area between the leaves by pressing Alt + Magic Wand Tool. I did it repeatedly and sometimes I tried to hide selection from layer mask options, and if there were some part that I needed to unselect, then I went back to my previous work by pressing Ctrl + Z (same with Microsoft) and unselected it again. Well, I think there is no problem with the rest of it.
However, I did research on how to use the Smudge Tool and here it is!
The function of the Smudge Tool is to spread and mix the content colour from one tone to the other tone.
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| First thing first, I insert the a colour scheme so that it will be easier to see the effect of the smudge tool. |
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| Well, this is what happen after I used the Smudge Tool. As you can see in the picture, the black color spread and mix to the grey colour, as well as grey to white, white to red, and red to blue. Smudge Tool can be used in any direction and you also can change the strength of the smudge tool which means how far will the color spread when you click and drag by using Smudge Tool. |
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| Like what I mentioned before, in order to change the strength of your smudge tool, you can go to the strength options -the one with the yellow circle- and put your cursor at the word "strength" which later on two arrows will appear at the both left and right side of your cursor. When the arrows appear, you can just directly drag your cursor to the right-hand-side to strengthen the smudge tool effect, and to the left-hand-side to weaken the strength. |
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| As you can see in this picture, I tried with different strength in order to look at the differences. Well, if you look at the 92% strength, the color spread and mix longer compared to the 64% strength. While for the 7% strength, maybe it is quite difficult to see the effect, but if you carefully you will be able to see only a little bit of colour which spread to the other colour tone. In a nutshell, the bigger the percentage, the longer the color will spread, and the smaller the percentage then the shorter it will spread. |
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| Besides changing the strength of the smudge tool, you also can give other effect which is by clicking the "Finger paint with foreground color" -the one with yellow circle-. As you read the name, the effect is when you click and drag your cursor, the first colour to be shown is the colour which applied to your foreground colour. Foreground colour is the 2 color boxes at the tools panel on the left-hand-side. In my case, my foreground colour is the light green colour, while yellow is my background colour. |
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| Well, this is what happened after I turned on the "Finger paint with foreground colour" options. As you can see in this picture, the one that I pointed with a yellow arrow is the affect after I turned on the option. Because of my green foreground colour, whenever I click and drag my smudge tool, the first colour to appear is green colour. On the other hand, if you want to change the green colour into the skyblue colour -well, I just changed my background colour into skyblue- whenever you start using the Smudge Tool, you can just switch the colour by pressing X or by clicking the small arrow at the edge of the box in tools panel and start clicking and dragging your cursor. |
Well, this is all about the Smudge Tool in photoshop, and for other tools, I'll write it again in the next entry. Thank you! ^^
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