Perspective Warps and Distorts with Adobe Tools: Volume 1

Gain skills in image and logo manipulation that will enhance your designs and make them more appealing--either in your portfolio or for your client’s next graphic project.

As Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator have evolved, new and unique features have been added to these programs that offer different options for warping and distorting graphics and shapes. For the beginner and intermediate student or graphic artist, choosing or knowing which distort or warp tool to use among so many available can become overwhelming and confusing.

This book primarily focuses on teaching how to work with various warping tools and filters in Photoshop, though you will also be using graphics acquired from Adobe Illustrator. Knowing how to work between these two applications is a crucial part of understanding how to successfully manipulate your designs. In Photoshop, you'll see how to alter both raster images and vector graphics, and learn how to do this with layers in various non-destructive ways.

Some of the filters mentioned in this book will be familiar to you, as you may have used them frequently. However, others are well hidden, are new, or perhaps you have never considered that you could use that tool, dialog box, or filter to warp or distort.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

* Become proficient in using the warping and distorting tools and filters in Photoshop, as well as how to correct basic distortions in photos and add perspective
* Grasp transferring illustrations from Illustrator for use in Photoshop
* Discover how to warp and distort type
* Generate unique patterns
* Work with Smart Object Layers and Smart Filters
* Work in combination with older tools and newer, enhanced ones

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Beginner- and Intermediate-level readers interested in pursuing careers as graphic artists, photographers, or video artists/animators.

Jennifer Harder has worked in the graphic design industry for over ten years. She has a degree in graphic communications and is currently teaching Acrobat, InDesign, and Dreamweaver courses at Langara College.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Warps

Chapter 2: Basic Warping Tools

Sub – Topics:

• Blur Tool

• Sharpen Tool• Smudge Tool

• A review of the Perspective Crop Tool

• Brief discussion on other tools you may use to enhance or correct your distort (Example, Stamp Tool or other healing brushes)

Chapter 3: Warping with Patterns

Sub - Topics:

• Basic Pattern Creation

• Drawing and Erasing with a custom Symmetry Paint and paths panel and create a custom pattern layer in Photoshop

• Filter Other > Offset filter

• Defining a Pattern (where are they stored)

• Live shapes pathfinder properties using Pen and Shapes tools

• Edit > Fill pattern built-in scripts

• The Layers panel working with adjustment layers and patterns

• Working with Patterns in Layer Styles

• Library Panel: Adobe sensei Capture Create from Image a pattern

• Pattern preview

Chapter 4: Transform Your Layers in a Non-Destructive Way with Smart Objects

Sub - Topics:

• Free Transform

• Scale

• Rotate

• Skew

• Distort

• Perspective

• Warp

• Warping with Normal or Smart Object Layers

• Applying this knowledge to further warping of patterns, brushes, shapes, and styles

Chapter 5: Warping Text

Sub - Topics:

• Create Warp Text

• Covert Text to Path, Shape Layer or a Frame.

• Warping text while the FX Styles are applied

Chapter 6: Working with Puppet Warp

Sub - Topics:

• Edit > Puppet Warp (Tool)

Chapter 7: Perspective Warp & Content-Aware Scale

Sub - Topics:

• Edit > Perspective Warp

• Edit > Content Aware Scale

• Edit > Sky Replacement

Chapter 8: Basic Filters & Smart Filters

Sub - Topics:

Basic Filters:

• Filter Gallery > Distort (Diffuse Glow, Glass and Ocean ripple,) Texture > Stained glass

• Filter > Blur (Radial Blur, Shape Blur)

• Filter > Blur Gallery (Spin Blur)

• Filter > Distort (Displace, Pinch, Polar Coordinates, Ripple, Sheer, Spherize, Twirl, Wave, Zigzag)

• Filter > Pixelate (Crystalize, Mosaic, Pointillize)

• Stylize > Oil paint

• Combining Smart Filters and using Masks

• Project: Creating a simple GIF animation from some of the distorts created after using the filters

• Tips on the Filter > Render Tree, Flame and Picture Frame

Chapter 9: Advance Filters working Smart Filters

Sub - Topics:

• Advanced filters:

o Lens Correction (Correcting Distortion) o Adaptive Wide Angle (Correcting Distortion)

o Camera Raw Filter > geometry (Correcting Distortion)

o Filter > Vanishing Point

o Filter > Liquify (workspace related tools)

o Filter > Neural Filters Workspace (Smart Portrait, Landscape Mixer)