If I could ask for one more thing please. How can I put a black border around one of the circles?
Thanks in advance, I do appreciate all of you very much.
John Donovan
--- In photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com, "John L Waller" <johnlwaller@...> wrote:
>
> Okay,
>
> I am running CS5 now, not CS2 and I am not sure if the tools palette order
> has changed since CS2. Note also, my tools palette is a single column, not a
> double column so the locations in your palette might not be the quite
> identical to mine, but will be similar.
>
>
>
> First the background and foreground colors:
>
> On the tool palette, look to the very bottom, at the bottom
> you will see a rectangle with a circle in it. Look right above it, you will
> see two squares, the left one over laps the right one. The left square is
> your foreground color, the right square is your background color. Press the
> 'x' key and they will change places. Click on the foreground square and the
> color palette will come up allowing you to set the foreground color.
>
>
>
> Secondly:
>
> Tips on making the circles. When you create the circle, set your cursor
> where you want the center point to be and press the 'alt' key. Keep the
> 'alt' key pressed as you draw the ellipse out and it will remain centered on
> the point you selected. To make it a circle and not an ellipse, press the
> 'shift' key while the 'alt' key is still pressed. When you draw it out, it
> will be circle, not an ellipse.
>
>
>
> Thirdly:
>
> In CS5 the fill tool is the 12th tool down in the tools palette, it looks
> like a paint bucket just starting to pour out the paint. Click on it, you
> will see the cursor transformed into a bucket. Go to the foreground color
> and select the color you want. Since you are dealing with solid colors it is
> not necessary to make a selection and you do not need to make a new layer
> either. Once the you have selected the color and you have selected the paint
> bucket, move the bucket cursor to the color you want to change and click it.
> That color and only that color will be filled with the new color.
>
>
>
> That should do the trick, if not ask againJ
>
>
>
> JohnW
>
>
>
>
>
> From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Donovan
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 6:37 PM
> To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Photoshop-beginners] Learning Photoshop CS
>
>
>
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>
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>
>
> JohnW,
>
>
>
> Thanks very much. How do I set the background color please? I tried
> selecting the area to change using the magic wand, then clicking the
> background tool and nothing happens. Please take me step by step.
>
>
>
> Thanks again, I am really lost and I do need the project. As you described
> it would be very similar to the Target logo but it has a cross in it too.
>
>
>
> John D.
>
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>
>
>
> From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John L Waller
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:20 AM
> To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Learning Photoshop CS
>
>
>
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>
> From what I understand of your description, it looks like target. If so,
> then it is simple. Set Gold as your foreground color, and select the fill
> tool, select the white you want to change and it will be filled with gold.
> Do the same for the red, set foreground to red and select the black you want
> to change to red and it will be filled with red. If I understand your
> description correctly that will do the job.
>
> JohnW
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> <mailto:photoshop-beginners%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of JohnD
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:04 PM
> To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:photoshop-beginners%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [photoshop-beginners] Learning Photoshop CS
>
> I am a new member just joining and I hope to learn how to use Photoshop CS.
> When I look under "Help" then "About Photoshop..." it just tells me it is
> version 8.0 just so you know what I am working with. I would appreciate if
> someone would help me with this please?
>
> If I have a circle that is 500px in diameter white with a black border and
> inside of that is a circle that is 450px diameter centered inside and black
> with another circle centered inside it that is 350px in diameter with white
> inside. All layers have been flattened I believe because in the Layers box
> they show only one layer. In other words I have a tiny black circle border
> then a small (50px) white inside of it then the 450px black circle inside
> that with a 350px white circle inside that. I'd like to make that first
> 50px white inside circle gold instead of white.
>
> I hope that description is understandable, I'm not sure how to describe it.
> Can someone please tell me how to change the white to a gold color and maybe
> the black inner circle into red or something.
>
> I'd really appreciate your help, I am not very knowledgeable with Photoshop.
> Thank you, John D.
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