ptg presentation IN THIS CHAPTER Creating a vignette . . . . . . . . . . . . .373 Adding an artistic border . . . . . . . . .374 Adding a watermark . . . . . . . . . . . .376 Creating a contact sheet . . . . . . . . .378 Creating a PDF presentation . . . . . . .380 Creating and using layer comps. . . . .382 Creating a PDF presentation of layer comps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384 23 A An oval, feathered mask lends this garden photo an old-fashioned appeal. In this chapter, you’ll learn various ways to nish and present your photos to clients in print and onscreen. You’ll learn how to frame your subject matter as a vignette, add an artistic border, embed a watermark, create a contact sheet or PDF presentation, and create and present layer comps (multiple variations within the same document) manually and via a PDF slide show. Creating a vignette Aside from the fact that vignettes look beautiful, they also can be used as a cropping device to feature (or hide) part of a composition. To create a vignette: 1. Open an image, and press Ctrl-J/Cmd-J to dupli- cate the Background. 2. Click the Background, then press Shift-Backspace/ Shift-Delete. In the Fill dialog, choose Use: White, Mode: Normal, and Opacity: 100%, then click OK. 3. Click the duplicate image layer. Choose the Elliptical Marquee tool (M or Shift-M), then select the area of the image you want to keep visible. Hold down Alt/Option while dragging to draw the marquee from the center. 4. Display the Masks panel. Click the Add Pixel Mask button, then adjust the Feather value to fade the edge of the mask. A ➤ To reposition the mask to reveal a dierent area of the image, on the Layers panel, click between the layer and mask thumbnails to unlink them, then hold down V (for a temporary Move tool) and drag in the document window. ptg 374 Chapter 23 Adding an artistic border Using options in the Rene Edge dialog, it’s incredibly easy to add artistic borders to an image. To add an artistic border to an image: ★ 1. Open a one-layer document, then click the Background on the Layers panel. 2. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool (M or Shift-M), then draw a selection marquee. Position the marquee where you want the border to be. A 3. On the Options bar, click Refine Edge. 4. In the Rene Edge dialog, choose On White view (W), then adjust the Radius, Smooth, Contrast, and Shift Edge values to roughen the edges. B 5. From the Output To menu, choose New Layer with Layer Mask, then click OK. C 6. Click the Background, then press Shift-Backspace/ Shift-Delete. In the Fill dialog, choose Use: White, Mode: Normal, and Opacity: 100%, then click OK. A We created a rectangular selection. C So easy! B We chose these settings in the Rene Edge dialog. ptg Presentation 375 A To create this Paris montage, we applied a hand-painted border to each image separately in its own le, using the technique described on the preceding page. We dragged each image layer into a larger document, which contains a photo of burlap as the Background image. To complete the composition, we scaled and moved — and rotated two of — the layers. USING HAND-PAINTED FRAMES IN A MONTAGE ptg 376 Chapter 23 Adding a watermark If you’re planning to display any of your images online, you can help protect them from unauthorized use by embedding a copyright or other watermark into them, analogous to traditional watermarking on paper. In these instructions, you’ll create a copyright shape with the Custom Shape tool, then save the shape as a tool preset for use in any document. To embed a watermark into a file: 1. Choose the Custom Shape tool (U or Shift-U). 2. On the Options bar, do the following: Click the Shape Layers button. Click the Shape picker thumbnail, then click the copyright symbol © (it’s in the default custom shape preset library) A or click a custom shape that you’ve created for this purpose (see the instructions on the following page). Click the Style picker thumbnail, then click the Default Style (None). Click the Color swatch. In the Color Picker, choose white as the Foreground color, then click OK. 3. Shift-drag with the tool in the document window until the symbol is the desired size. A shape layer will appear on the Layers panel. 4. On the Layers panel, change the Fill value for the shape layer to 0%. 5. Double-click next to the shape layer name to open the Layer Style dialog, then click Bevel and Emboss (don’t check Contour). Choose Style: Inner Bevel, Technique: Smooth, Depth around 60–90%, Size 16–30, and Soften 8–12, then click OK. B 6. You can use the Move tool to reposition the shape on the image. For a better view of the copyright symbol, C click another layer. 7. To save the layer settings and layer eects to the Styles panel for future use, click the shape layer for the copyright mark on the Layers panel. On the Styles panel, click the New Style button. Type a name in the dialog, then click OK. To save the shape style as a tool preset, see the second task on the next page. C i s i s t h e n a l w a t e r m a r k i n t h e i m a g e . B e © symbol appears in the mask for the shape layer on the Layers panel. A Click the copyright symbol (or a custom shape) on the Custom Shape picker. ptg Presentation 377 You can also create a custom watermark by using the Type tool. To create a custom watermark from text: 1. Choose the Horizontal Type tool, create the desired text for the watermark, then scale and style it as desired. (To create the copyright symbol, we typed Alt + 0169/Option-G.) 2. Choose Layer > Type > Convert to Shape. 3. Choose Edit > Define Custom Shape, enter a name (we entered the same name as in our watermark), then click OK. 4. Delete the shape layer. 5. Follow the steps on the preceding page, except in step 2, choose your new custom shape from the Custom Shape picker. A Note: If you already saved a watermark style to the Styles panel, follow only steps 1–3. In step 2, click your custom shape on the Custom Shape picker and click your watermark style on the Style picker. A To create a custom watermark, we converted this text into a shape. By saving your custom watermark as a preset for the Custom Shape tool, you’ll be able to use it to quickly add your watermark to any image. To save a watermark shape and style as a tool preset: 1. Follow steps 1–7 on the preceding page. 2. Choose the Custom Shape tool (U or Shift-U). 3. On the Options bar, B make sure either the copy- right symbol or your custom shape is chosen on the Shape preset picker. 4. Click the Style thumbnail on the Options bar to open the Style picker, then click your custom style. 5. Click the Tool Preset picker thumbnail at the left end of the Options bar, or display the Tool Presets panel. 6. On the picker or panel, click the New Tool Preset button, enter a name (we entered the text we used for our watermark), keep Include Color unchecked, and click OK. C 7. To place the watermark in any image, with the Custom Shape tool selected, click your tool preset on the Tool Preset picker or the Tool Presets panel, then Shift-drag in the document. Note: If Current Tool Only is checked on the picker or panel, you’ll have to choose the Custom Shape tool to make the preset appear as a listing. B On the Options bar for the Custom Shape tool, we chose Shape, Style, and Color settings, clicked our custom watermark on the Shape picker, and clicked our custom style on the Style picker. C Our new custom tool preset appears on the Tool Preset picker. . same document) manually and via a PDF slide show. Creating a vignette Aside from the fact that vignettes look beautiful, they also can be used as a cropping device to feature (or hide) part. mask thumbnails to unlink them, then hold down V (for a temporary Move tool) and drag in the document window. ptg 374 Chapter 23 Adding an artistic border Using options in the Rene. add artistic borders to an image. To add an artistic border to an image: ★ 1. Open a one-layer document, then click the Background on the Layers panel. 2. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool