Photoshop Improvements

Over the course of creating the textures for the honours project I have needed to spend a lot more time on photoshop than I ever have before, and this has led to some good progression of my skills and knowledge.

I learnt that right clicking with the colour picker tool allows to increase or decrease the range at which it takes its values. This is very useful as it means I can find out the general colour over a large area, rather than selecting one particular pixel colour

I have also begun to use the levels adjustment tool, rather than the brightness/contrast tool. I find that using the levels tool allows for a greater degree of control, and I seem to find it easier to get the adjustments I want faster.

I Was having trouble with getting the hue/saturation tool to achieve the look I wanted, but figured out I can much more easily throw an opaque colour on top of my textures in order to shift the colour to the one I want.

Something I would like to note is that I have been discovering just how much better a program CS4 is compared to CS2 which i have on my laptop, there are a number of improvements i noted that whenever i had to swap back would greatly reduce the speed at which i could work. One such example is the little preview the clone stamp tool provides in CS4, which allows for accurate continuation of lines. But in CS2 this is made quite difficult to achieve