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Shes clearly in front, but her colleagues in the fluorescent safety jackets are distracting.
Blur, and they fade away, leaving her center stage. Bonus:
The short depth of field mimics how we actually see.
Photoshop
(1) Select your object.
(2) Feather slightly. Inverse.
(3) Blur the selection.
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Add a spotlight
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After
Three attractive models compete for our attention.
Gradient spotlight focuses on her; adds drama, intensity, interest.
Photoshop
(1) On a new layer, make a

circular selection over
your object, then Feather
(Select>Modify>Feather).
(2) Inverse the selection

(Select>Inverse).
(3) Set the Foreground color

to black, then fill (Edit>Fill).
Deselect.
(4) Set the fill layer to Multiply mode, then reduce its
opacity to about 75% (right).
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Six, same-size students are seen as a group.

One is now the focal point. As you bring her forward, keep
in mind that foreground objects appear lower in your visual
field; move her feet down a lot and her head up a little (below).
Photoshop
(1) Extend the canvas size.
(3) Scale it up.
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Match a color
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Shirt-color field intuitively

draws attention to Miss Chan.
For more contrast, make the
others black & white (above).
Five children are each wearing a different shirt color.
Kimberly Chan
Texture and asp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular but
quastic, leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible. Silk, shast,
lape tope this fluant and behast the thin chack.
Curved shape is soft and

childlike and echoes the line
of their heads.
Sonja Taylor
David Aikman
Flasp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular but quastic,
leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible silk.Texture and
asp net exating end mist of it snooling.
A card whint not oogum or bont. Pretty simple, glead and tarm. Texture and
asp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular but quastic,
leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible.
Victor Sanchez
Susan Fletcher
Its tope, this uant chasible. Silk, shast, lape and behast the thin chack. It
has larch to say fan. Why? Elesara and order is fay of alm. A card whint not
oogum or bont. Pretty simple, glead and tarm.
Silk, shast, lape and behast the thin chack. It has larch to say fan. Why?
Elesara and order is fay of alm. A card whint not oogum or bont. Pretty simple,
glead and tarm. Texture and asp net exating end mist of it snooling.
Five-color series highlights each child in turn.
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Draw an outline
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After
Our rooftop carrier is dwarfed by the big Jeep. This is

how it looks in real life, but its not ideal for an ad.
Carefully traced outlinessolve the problem beautifully.

The Jeeps still there for scale and fit, but our carrier is the
center of attention. Below, two simple alternatives.
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Windshield Delore Mist

lape and behast the thin chack. It has larch to say fan elesara and order.
Engine Texture Delore Mist

Texture and asp net exating end mist of it snooling.
Spaff forl isnt cubular but quastic, leam restart that
cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible. Silk, shast,
lape and behast the thin chack has larch to.
Frame Delore Texture Mist

Texture and asp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt
cubular but quastic, leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this
uant chasible. Silk, shast, lape and behast the thin chack. It has larch
to say fan elesara and order leam restart that cant prebast.
Cool car, but what if were interested only in the front?
(1) In Illustrator, trace

the object. Give it a
white background and
import into Photoshop.
Rubber Delore Texture Mist

lape and behast the thin chack it has larch.
Lights Texture Mist

lape and behast the thin chack. It has larch to say.
Fade the rear into outlines,then add captions. Its intriguing, and the readers attention is now where we want it.
Add layer mask

(2) In Photoshop, place the tracing
on top of the photo layer. Make sure
they both line up.
(3) With the tracing layer selected, click the Add layer mask
icon (above). Set the Foreground color to black. Select a soft
brush, and start masking away to reveal the photo.
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Crop and color
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After
CRYSTAL BLUE
BLUE IS THE NEW YOU.
Left, those eyes are intense, but so are the green background,
glossy lips and dark hair. Lets tighten the focus.
Photoshop
CRYSTAL BLUE
(1) Open the image in RGB mode. Crop.
(2) Eyedropper her hair color to fill the background. On the layers palette (below), click on the
Adjustment Layer icon and
select Black & White. Click
OK. Set the Foreground
color to black. Using a soft
brush, paint over her eyes
to restore the color.
(3) Finish by coloring the type to match her eyes.
Adjustment Layer
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Guide with lines
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After
VibrantPink
The new lipstick for 2009
Curving lines say here. Note that VibrantPink words

are differentiated by type weight only.
Beautiful face. Where do we look?
2
1
3
Two points make a perfect curve. With the Pen tool, click
(1) and drag (2). Release. Click a second point (3) and drag (4).
Adjust to suit. A perfectly smooth curve with no bumps!
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Article resources
Typefaces
1 Helvetica Neue Medium Extended
2 (ab) Helvetica Neue Thin Extended
3 Planet Kosmos
4 VAG Rounded Black
Colors
16 C15 M100 Y100 K15
17 C25 M100 Y25 K10
18 C60 M18 Y27 K12
5 VAG Rounded Thin

13
1
VibrantPink
2a
6 Futura Light
7 Futura Book
2b
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Lights Texture Mist

Texture and asp net exating end mist of it
snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular but quastic, leam
restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant
chasible. Silk, shast, lape and behast the thin chack.
It has larch to say.
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Texture and asp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular
but quastic, leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible. Silk,
shast, lape tope this fluant and behast the thin chack.
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Blur the background

Before
(3) Blur the selection.
Blur, and they fade away, leaving her center stage. Bonus:
The short depth of eld mimics how we actually see.
(2) Feather slightly. Inverse.
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(4) Set the ll layer to Multiply mode, then reduce its

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One is now the focal point. As you bring her forward, keep
in mind that foreground objects appear lower in your visual
eld; move her feet down a lot and her head up a little (below).
After
(3) Set the Foreground color

to black, then ll (Edit>Fill).
Deselect.
Gradient spotlight focuses on her; adds drama, intensity, interest.
(2) Inverse the selection

(Select>Inverse).
Three attractive models compete for our attention.
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(1) On a new layer, make a

circular selection over
your object, then Feather
(Select>Modify>Feather).
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Bring her forward

Before
Photoshop
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(1) Extend the canvas size.
Six, same-size students are seen as a group.
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Match a color
Sonja Taylor
A card whint not oogum or bont. Pretty simple, glead and tarm. Texture and
asp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular but quastic,
leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible.
David Aikman
Five children are each wearing a different shirt color.
Flasp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular but quastic,
leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible silk.Texture and
asp net exating end mist of it snooling.
Pix Trix 4
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Five-color series highlights each child in turn.
Before&After
After
Kimberly Chan
Silk, shast, lape and behast the thin chack. It has larch to say fan. Why?
Elesara and order is fay of alm. A card whint not oogum or bont. Pretty simple,
glead and tarm. Texture and asp net exating end mist of it snooling.
Susan Fletcher
i U X
Pix Trix 4
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Curved shape is soft and

childlike and echoes the line
of their heads.
Shirt-color eld intuitively

draws attention to Miss Chan.
For more contrast, make the
others black & white (above).
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Victor Sanchez
lape tope this uant and behast the thin chack.
Its tope, this uant chasible. Silk, shast, lape and behast the thin chack. It
has larch to say fan. Why? Elesara and order is fay of alm. A card whint not
oogum or bont. Pretty simple, glead and tarm.
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Carefully traced outlines solve the problem beautifully.

The Jeeps still there for scale and t, but our carrier is the
center of attention. Below, two simple alternatives.
3 of 6
Our rooftop carrier is dwarfed by the big Jeep. This is

how it looks in real life, but its not ideal for an ad.
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Before
Photoshop
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After
After
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Lights Texture Mist

lape and behast the thin chack. It has larch to say.



Fade the rear into outlines, then add captions. Its intriguing, and the readers attention is now where we want it.
Add layer mask
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(3) Finish by coloring the type to match her eyes.
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(3) With the tracing layer selected, click the Add layer mask
icon (above). Set the Foreground color to black. Select a soft
brush, and start masking away to reveal the photo.
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Adjustment Layer
(2) Eyedropper her hair color to ll the background. On the layers palette (below), click on the
Adjustment Layer icon and
select Black & White. Click
OK. Set the Foreground
color to black. Using a soft
brush, paint over her eyes
to restore the color.
Left, those eyes are intense, but so are the green background,
glossy lips and dark hair. Lets tighten the focus.
CRYSTAL BLUE
(2) In Photoshop, place the tracing

on top of the photo layer. Make sure
they both line up.
Cool car, but what if were interested only in the front?
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(1) In Illustrator, trace

the object. Give it a
white background and
import into Photoshop.
Pix Trix 4
Crop and color
(1) Open the image in RGB mode. Crop.
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Curving lines say here. Note that VibrantPink words

are differentiated by type weight only.
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18 C60 M18 Y27 K12
17 C25 M100 Y25 K10
16 C15 M100 Y100 K15
Colors
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Two points make a perfect curve. With the Pen tool, click
(1) and drag (2). Release. Click a second point (3) and drag (4).
Adjust to suit. A perfectly smooth curve with no bumps!
Typefaces
1 Helvetica Neue Medium Extended
2 (ab) Helvetica Neue Thin Extended
3 Planet Kosmos
4 VAG Rounded Black
5 VAG Rounded Thin
7 Futura Book
6 Futura Light
Images
Images: iStockphoto.com
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10 (4501160)
11 (3529628)
12 (1518744)
13 (6556956)
14 (4433387)
15 (691320)
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Texture and asp net exating end mist of it snooling. Spaff forl isnt cubular
but quastic, leam restart that cant prebast. Its tope, this uant chasible. Silk,
shast, lape tope this uant and behast the thin chack.
Kimberly Chan
Beautiful face. Where do we look?
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Blur the background

(1) Select your object.

(2) Feather slightly. Inverse.

(3) Blur the selection.

Pix Trix 4 0674

Three attractive models compete for our attention.

Gradient spotlight focuses on her; adds drama, intensity, interest.

(1) On a new layer, make a

(2) Inverse the selection

(3) Set the Foreground color

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Bring her forward

Six, same-size students are seen as a group.

(1) Extend the canvas size.

(2) Select your object.

(3) Scale it up.

Pix Trix 4 0674

Shirt-color field intuitively

Curved shape is soft and

Five-color series highlights each child in turn.

Pix Trix 4 0674

Our rooftop carrier is dwarfed by the big Jeep. This is

Carefully traced outlinessolve the problem beautifully.

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Windshield Delore Mist

Engine Texture Delore Mist

Frame Delore Texture Mist

Cool car, but what if were interested only in the front?

(1) In Illustrator, trace

Rubber Delore Texture Mist

Lights Texture Mist

Add layer mask

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Crop and color

BLUE IS THE NEW YOU.

BLUE IS THE NEW YOU.

(1) Open the image in RGB mode. Crop.

(3) Finish by coloring the type to match her eyes.

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Guide with lines

The new lipstick for 2009

Curving lines say here. Note that VibrantPink words

Beautiful face. Where do we look?

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5 VAG Rounded Thin

The new lipstick for 2009

Windshield Delore Mist

Engine Texture Delore Mist

Frame Delore Texture Mist

Rubber Delore Texture Mist

Lights Texture Mist

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(3) Blur the selection.