QUARTER 2 REVIEWER

• Creating a new layer

  1. Go to Layer (menu bar)

  2. Press New

  3. Select layer (from sub menu)
• CTRL+SHIFT+N


  Second way of creating a layer
• Layers Panel

  Contains a number of elements significant for layer manipulation
• How to add contents to a layer

  Take note of the current layer selected
• Some elements that can be added to a layer

  • Lines
  • Shapes
  • Color fills
  • Gradient fills
• Layer invisibility


  Tells if the layer is visible or not
• Opacity


  By default at 100%, can be changed from 0-100%
• Color fill


  Focused on filling in one color
• Implementing color fill

  Menu bar or Paint Bucket Tool
• Foreground color


  Majority of the color being used
• Background color


  Used when editing and moving objects
• Type tools

  • Horizontal type tool
  • Vertical type tool
  • Horizontal type mask tool
  • Vertical type mask tool
• Free Transform


  Enables images to be resized, rotated, and moved freely within the work area
• CTRL+T


  Shortcut for Free Transform
• Copy and move


  Applicable when working with images, done using the move tool
• Masking


  Technique for image extraction, used to hide the unnecessary parts of an image
• How to apply a mask to a layer


  Click the add layer mask button (Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal all)
• Typography


  Arrangement of text on a page
• Elements of typography

  • Kerning
  • Tracking
  • Leading
  • Measure
  • Alignment
  • Ligatures
• Traditional coloring


  Done on paper, uses pens, pencils, markers
• Digital coloring


  All you need is the software for coloring
• Advantages of digital coloring

  • Smooth lines
  • High levels of detail
  • Mistakes can be done easily
• Tools of digital coloring

  • Pen tool
  • Brush tool
  • Selection tool (paint bucket tool too)
• They both use different pens, colors and materials to color drawings
• One is done online, while one is done on paper
• Digital inking


  Usually darker and more bold pencil lines
• Things considered in inking style

  • Shadows
  • Thickness
  • Brush
  • Lines
  • Details
• Pen tool (P)


  Can be used to create vector images by making shapes & selections, has the capability to make fine curve paths using Anchor points and Handles
• Anchor points


  Created through clicks using the pen tool, similar to joints or corners of a path
• Handles


  Used to creating curves in a path
• Free form pen tool


  Used to create paths freely
• Add anchor point tool


  Used to add an anchor point
• Convert point tool


  Can be used to click on anchor points, or to click on anchor points with handle to remove them
• Refine edge tool


  Built to allow image selection and editing easier
• CTRL+SHIFT+R


  A way to access the refine edge tool
• Red eye tool


  A tool to remove red eye from an image
• Pattern stamp tool


  Allows you to paint on an image using pre-defined patterns
• Pattern stamp tool options

  • Brush
  • Mode
  • Opacity and flow
  • Pattern picker
  • Aligned
  • Impressionist
• Creating a new path


  Click the "create new path' icon under the path's palette
• Saving a new path


  Double click on the layer in the path's palette