RE: [Photoshop-beginners] Learning Photoshop CS

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 12^th 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

 

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.

 

 

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

 

 

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

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From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of JohnD
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:04 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.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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