Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
you make your brush sizes more than 2,500 pixels, you can go all the way 5,000 pixels.
Yeah, baby!
New Power for the Eyedropper
If you've added an adjustment layer above an image, and you use the Eyedropper tool to
sample a color from that image, of course the color it picks is going to be based on how the
adjustment layer is affecting that image, right? Right. However, you can make the Eyed-
ropper tool ignore the effect of any adjustment layer and, instead, sample from your im-
age layers. You do this by choosing
All Layers No Adjustments
from the Sample pop-up
menu in the Options Bar.
A Trick for Selecting Skin Tones
If you have skin tones that needs adjusting (maybe your subject's skin tone looks too red,
but the rest of the photo looks good, which is more common than you might think), then
you'll want to know this little trick in Photoshop: if you go to under the Select menu and
choose
Color Range
,andthenfromtheSelectpop-upmenuatthetopofthedialog,choose
Skin Tones
, it looks for flesh tones and selects them. If you're just trying to select skin
tones in your subject's face, then turn on the Detect Faces checkbox to refine it even fur-
ther. Then, drag the Fuzziness slider (kind of like the Tolerance amount in the Magic Wand
tool) down to 1 and see what that looks like. If you need to raise the amount to select more
skin, drag it to the right.
