Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool

Lesson Info

Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool

And then let's finish it with one final shape so again I'm gonna go back to that shape tool, the custom shape tool, select this little dropdown arrow. I'm viewing all element shapes and then we have this, like river stream or what do that they call it, river I'm gonna double click that I don't know how's it's gonna look on top of all this stuff but let's just see. And then we'll click and drag. And I'm not holding shift, I'm just gonna stretch it out like this, and then we'll let go and there we have a little stream, in our illustration. Let's finish that, we'll do one more texture because I think it's just too much fun. So flip that add one more blank layer. Clip it by pressing and holding alt or option. Let's go back to our brush. I'll come down here and let's see try a different category. I think that, the wet media brushes, there's one that I used it one time for something and then I forgot which brush it was and I don't think I've ever remember. But let's try, I don't know this on...

e. That looks interesting and again I'm gonna change the color something light this time, there we go. And let's just see what this looks like, no idea. Ooh it does actually kinda look watery. So I'm just gonna smear that around and then maybe I want to actually blend in a little more. I'll come over here and lower the opacity down. So we get some neat looking texture and if I really want to get fancy I can make a gradient for the sky. I don't know what colors I would go with. We'll grab our gradient tool and come in and see what we have under color harmonies, no. Let's try pastels. ooh Maybe like this one and let's just have it go I guess I'm on the background layers so this will paint on the background. And we'll just do maybe like that. Ooh maybe the other direction, oh yeah that's a little better. That's a little better. If I wanted to fade that I could do a couple of things. I could put another blank layer on top of it and fill that with white by going to edit, fill layer and from this menu here choosing white. I feel like that's a little bit strong, so I'll fill this layer with white and then fade, fade that down like that. That's actually not too bad. So there's an example of some fun things that you can do with brushes, with shape tools

Class Description

Lessons

1. Class Introduction
2. Understand How Elements Works
3. Importing Images
4. Workspace Basics: Organizer
5. Workspace Basics: Editor
6. Tonal Adjustments in Quick Fix
7. Color Adjustments in Quick Fix
8. Apply Black & White Filters
9. Sharpen an Image
10. Fix Red Eye & Pet Eye
11. Straighten an Image in Quick Fix
12. Explanation of Photoshop Elements
13. Basic Cropping in Quick Fix
14. Guided Edit Overview
15. Guided Edit: Tilt Shift
16. Ways to Save Files
17. Layers & Simple Selections
18. Combine Images with Layers
19. How to Use Layer Styles
20. Make Selections with Layers
21. Make Selection with Lasso
22. Compositing with Multiple Images
23. Refine Edge Selection on Image
24. Use Refine Edge on Images
25. Create Gradient in Image
26. Gradient Map Differences
27. Options for Saving
28. Brushes Overview
29. Creatively Use Brushes
30. How to Change Brush Settings
31. Use Shape Tool with Brushes
32. Work with Multiple Shape Layers
33. Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool
34. How to Load Brushes into Elements
35. Add Layer Style to Image
36. Clip Image to Shape & Use as Template
37. Retouching Overview
38. How to Use Content-Aware Fill
39. How to Use Content-Aware Move Tool
40. Spot Healing Brush on Blemishes
41. Remove Frown Lines with Retouching
42. How to Remove Tattoos
43. Remove a Gap in Teeth
44. How to Whiten Teeth
45. Adjust Facial Features
46. Working with Type Overview
47. Match Type for Image
48. How to Manipulate Type Layers
49. Create Postcard with Type
50. Add Type on a Path
51. Organizing Images in Elements
52. Add Keywords to Images
53. Smart Tags Overview
54. Using Albums in Elements
55. Places Workspace Overview
56. Use Event Tags on Images
57. Timeline for Image Organization
58. Recommended Workflow