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If you choose Analysis>Set Measurement Scale>Custom, you will get a dialog where you can set a series of presets. Although you are in the dialog, you can still move outside of it and click-and-drag out a measurement.
You too can create exciting animated GIFs for use on your next website. Just follow these simple steps: (1) Create a text layer, (2) apply styles, and (3) hide the styles. The Animation panel takes care of the rest.
In the Animation panel, you can control the position, opacity, style, and wrap of a text layer. Clicking on the Clock icon to the left of the style layer activates that option. At that point, just move the keyframe playhead to the end of your animation and turn on the styles. Voila! Instant animated GIF. To export it to your very own website, choose File>Save for Web & Devices, and select your desired output features.
When animating objects in the timeline, Photoshop interpolates between keyframes to give a sense of movement. However, if you would like the animation to toggle between keyframes, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on that keyframe in the timeline to bring up the contextual menu and select Hold Interpolation. The appearance of the keyframes will change, and when played back it will cut to each keyframe.
You can modify the duration setting in the timeline by going to the Animation panel’s flyout menu and selecting Document Settings. In the dialog, you can set the duration and also choose a frame rate from the pop-up menu or you can enter a custom setting.
In the Animation panel (in Timeline mode), at the top of the layer list there is an item called Comments. This allows you to place keyframes on the timeline and each keyframe is an annotation which can contain information specific to that point in the timeline. You can add a Comment keyframe by clicking on the clock icon on the Comment layer. Toggle through them by clicking the left and right arrows to the left of the Clock icon.
One of the cool features of video layers is that they can be set up as Smart Objects. This opens up a ton of possibilities for image manipulation, including scaling, rotation, and even warping.
At the top of the Animation panel (in Timeline mode), you will notice two blue handles at the ends of the Work Area bar. This is your work area. You can drag the Work Area Start and Work Area End handles to specify how much of the video you want to work with.
Big changes in Vanishing Point! Now you are not constricted to 90° angles. This offers lots of cool possibilities with the Vanishing Point filter.
Although there are many tools that will create exact selections, Adobe does step up the game a little with Refine Edge (Select>Refine Edge). With the Refine Edge feature, you have the ability to modify your selection using a set of sliders and preview your output on different color backgrounds. Use the F key in the dialog to cycle through the preview options.
Have you ever used the Clone Stamp tool and wondered what exactly you were going to paint in the area? Wonder no more. Now you can turn on the Show Overlay checkbox at the bottom of the Clone Source panel to automatically see an overlay of the image as you would clone it. You can automatically turn this off and on by turning on the Auto Hide checkbox.
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Corey shares another way to get a cool 3D light beam effect.
Corey finishes up the Olympic-inspired design that he began last week in Part 1.
The Olympic-inspired tutorial will be coming in two parts. Stop by next week for the conclusion to this video.
This week’s tutorial deals with creating masks for complicated images by using channels.
You can open RAW images in Camera Raw right from Bridge in Photoshop CS3. This frees up Photoshop to continue working on your files while they’re being processed in Camera Raw. Just select one or more images in Bridge, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on them, and choose Open in Camera Raw. This will open the image(s) in Bridge’s Camera Raw rather than Photoshop. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command-R (PC: Ctrl-R).