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DECEMBER 22, 2003 Adobe Photoshop CS
The last of the major new image manipulation tools is the Color Replacement tool. This one functions just like the regular Brush tool, except that it extracts data from your canvas as you draw to allow you to colorize, rather than color-replace, your image. If you've ever used Mask Pro from Extensis, this brush feels a lot like the Magic Brush tool in that software, except that instead of masking, you're painting. It allows you, for example, to place the brush on the canvas and paint only on areas that contain similar colors, as in the purple sand in the image below.  [an error occurred while processing this directive]You can allow the brush to sample only once (at the point where your brush first touches down) or continuously (for smoother transitions), or you can use a predetermined color (the background color of your choice) as the color to paint over. You can also set the tolerance of the brush, anti-aliasing, limits (contiguous, edge detection or "discontiguous"), the brush size and softness and the brush mode. Modes include color, hue, saturation and luminosity. Crossing over between image adjustments and effects are two new features in Photoshop CS--Photo Filter and Lens Blur. Photo Filter is a new tool that appears in the Adjustment menu. As its name implies, the new function emulates photographic filters as a post process, providing presets for a variety of filter types or direct access to custom filter colors. You can also set the density of the filter and preserve the luminosity of your original image.  Photo FIlter, incidentally, can also be applied as an Adjustment Layer.  Also in the photographic category is the new Lens Blur effect. Located within the Blur filter category, Lens Blur nevertheless distinguishes itself from the rest of the blur functions in a number of ways. First, it's designed to simulate a photographic lens blur with respect to the characteristics of a camera iris (shape, radius, blade curvature and rotation). It also allows you to use a depth map (transparency, layer mask or any stored channel). And it provides controls for specular highlights and noise.  The only other new filter introduced in Photoshop CS is one called Fibers, which resides in the Render filter category, alongside Clouds, Difference Clouds and the rest. Fibers is a simple filter that creates vertical striations, with controls over strength and variance, along with randomization.  Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Related sites: • Animation Artist • AV Video • Content Mastering • Creative Mac • Digital Animators • Digital Game Developer • Digital Media Designer • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • Digital Video Editing • DV Format • DVD Creation • Film and Video Magazine • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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