Photoshop Assistant--EXTENSIS Photo Graphics
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When we use photoshop, we often want to draw some geometric figures, words arranged by curves, and so on. However, this is often a big headache because it is not available in Photoshop. Asking online prawns often tells you to use Coreldraw or Illustrator to complete the production. So you have to spend hundreds of megabytes of space to install the big guys like Illustrator, then export the graphics files after drawing them, and finally deal with them in Photoshop. It's not too wasteful to use these big guys just to draw some simple graphics, and it's not very convenient to use. How to do? ! In fact, it is very simple, and the Photo Graphics filter produced by EXTENSIS company is all solved.
First download this filter in the software download at design.cnroot.com, about 3M in size. Then install it into Photoshop's plug-ins directory (as with most filters installed). After starting Photoshop, we found that there is an EXTENSIS submenu in the Filter menu. There is only one command in this submenu - Photo Graphics.... Select this command and we will find a screen that pops up a filter. It looks like Photoshop, with a toolbox on the left and a floating panel on the right. The whole interface is refreshing.
First let's take a look at the tools that are available to us in the toolbox. Although the tools provided in this filter are not as good as those of Photoshop, they are sufficient. This toolbox includes mobile tools, text tools, line tools, pen tools, rectangle tools, circle tools, polygon tools, zoom tools, color suction tools, rotation tools, hand tools, and magnification tools. And the settings for border and fill colors. These tools are very similar to Illustrator's tools, and if you're a master of Illustrator, you'll get started quickly.
The first move tool that can be used to move the drawn graph as well as the nodes on the graph. The method of use is the same as that of all the graphics software's mobile tools, so there is no need to talk about it.
The second tool is the text tool. When using the general state, we will find that there is a text area restriction around the text. We can change the size of the text area by dragging the limit box with the mouse. We can also let the text be discharged by path. First draw a geometry or curve, then use the text tool to click on the edge of the geometry or curve. This is the input text is arranged according to the edge of the geometry, very convenient.
Double-click on the tool text tool and we found a pop-up dialog where we can create or edit the style of the text. Press New... or t... (edit) and Duplicate... (copy), we can set the style of the text in the pop-up dialog box, such as the size of the text, font, word spacing, Font scaling, bolding, italics, and more.
The third tool is the line tool. Using it we can draw a straight line. The method is the same as other software, so I won't talk much about it.
The fourth tool is the pen tool. With this tool we can easily draw the curve. Like Illustrator, each node has two control points, and with these two control points we can control the shape of the curved curve.
The fourth tool is a rectangular tool. This tool is of course used to draw rectangles. Double clicking the tool icon here will also bring up a dialog box. When we select the Enable Round Corners option, the rectangle drawn is the rounded rectangle. The Horiznal Radius (horizontal radius) and Vertical Radius (vertical radius) below are used to adjust the parameters of the radius.
The fifth is to draw a circular tool. The method is the same as other software.
The sixth tool is the polygon tool. Double-click this icon in the pop-up dialog box. Sides is used to adjust the number of edges. The Star Shape option converts a polygon to a star. Radius is used to adjust the radius of the star.
The next tool is the zoom tool. With it we can scale the graph proportionally. Use the same method as its graphics processing software.
The seventh tool is the color absorbing tool. Using it, we can easily absorb the colors in the picture like Photoshop.
The eighth tool is the rotary tool. We use it to rotate graphics easily. Like Illustrator, when we have a center point while rotating the graph, we can use the mouse to move the center point and change the way the rotation is done.
The ninth and tenth tools are hand tools and magnification tools, respectively. These two tools are the same as the tools in Photoshop, through which we can change the preview view, making it easier for us to manipulate the graphics.
Like Photoshop, there is a floating panel on the right side of the interface. There are four tabs on the floating panel -- Text, Layer, Color, and Option. Like Photoshop, we can also drag the label to make it a separate floating panel. Let's take a closer look at the role of the parameters on the floating surface class.
In the Text tab we see that the text here has very many parameters and contains almost all the operations that can be thought of. In the drop down menu we can select the font. On the right side of the font drop-down menu is a button that allows us to set the font to bold, italic, bold, and italic. Below this button, we can see that there is an icon for a new page. Pressing this button, we found a window with an Edit Character Style. In this window we can edit the style of the font and then save the font style for our next use. The press of a pen-shaped button next to it allows us to edit the saved style, which is the same as double-clicking the text button in the toolbox. The next button must be recognized by everyone looking at the icon - left, right, center, scattered alignment and horizontal text, vertical text. The eight buttons below the font drop-down menu are Normal, Bold, Italic, Underline, Superscript, Subscript, Uppercase, and Lowercase. The following parameters from top to bottom are font size, line spacing, baseline position, font width, font height, and word spacing.
In the Colors tab we can easily choose colors. Like Photoshop, we can choose the color mode in the menu in the arrow in the upper right corner of the floating panel - RGB, CMYK, gray mode, HSB mode, etc., so that we can easily choose the color. The lower half of the floating panel is a commonly used color. Of course, we can also add the usual colors ourselves. By pressing the last New button on the floating panel, we can quickly add our usual colors to the usual colors.
In the Layer we can control the layer. The layer control here is quite similar to the layer control of Illustrator. You can create a new layer by pressing the New button at the bottom of the floating panel; the Delete button next to it is of course the delete layer. Each layer has a different color representation. When we select an object, we can clearly know which layer the object is on. In front of the layer are two buttons labeled with eyes and a pen. These two buttons allow us to hide layers and disable editing layers. The Opacity slider is used to adjust the transparency of the layer, just like most graphics software.
The Options tab contains parameter adjustments for the edges. Stroke is used to adjust the thickness of the edge; Miter is used to adjust the angle of the corner; three buttons in Caps are used to adjust the shape of the end of the line segment; three buttons in the Joints are used to control the shape of the corner; the Close option is used to control Whether the closed graphic is closed; Opacity is used to adjust the transparency of the line; the last sliding bar is used to adjust the degree of anti-aliasing of the line.
Now let's take a look at the commands in the menu bar. In the menu bar of this filter, there are seven menus: File, Edit, Graphic, Text, View, Windows, and Help.
In the File menu we can see the operation that contains most of the files here. The New command is our most common command, so there is no need to pay for it; the Open From Image... command can be used to open the file with Save With Image. The advantage of this is that we can save the edited graphics and images, so that we can edit the graphics drawn by EXTENSIS Photo Graphics in the future (note that this is the special graphic format of EXTENSIS Photo Graphics); Open Last Applied command can Open the graphics we edited last time; the Save With Image command is of course the same as saving the graphics and images; the Save as... command is of course a save file; the Revert command restores all your draws to their original state. This is the same as the Revert command in Photoshop; the Edit Drawing... command can perform Rename, Delete, etc. on the image files we saved with Save With Image. The Save To Disk... command saves the drawing drawn by EXTENSIS Photo Graphics as a separate file with the suffix xdf (note that only the graphics can be saved here, but not saved at the same time as Save With Image; Open From Disk. The .. command is of course to open the saved xdf file; the Apply command is to apply the drawn graphics to the current image; the Apply With Erase command can erase the image on the current layer, leaving only the drawn Graphics; Apply to New Layer command is to build the drawn graphics on a new layer; Cancel does not need me to talk about it.
Some edit commands are included in the Edit menu. Undo, Redo, Cut Copy Paste Delete These commands are the most common commands. I won't talk much about them here. The Past In Front and Past In Back commands in this menu can paste the copied graphics in front of or behind other graphics; the Duplicate command can copy the graphics in multiples; the Select All and Select None commands are all select graphics. Or give up the choice; in Preferences we can set the Extra Workspace workspace size, the number of Undo/Redo and the color of the Guides grid and Image Border graphics borders in the pop-up dialog box.
Some commands for graphical operations are included in the Graphic menu. The four commands Bring to Front, Bring Forward, Send Backward, and Send To Back are used to organize and arrange the order of the graphics. They can place the graphics to the front, the front, the back, and the last. The Group grouping command is also a more common command in graphics processing software. It can group graphics and facilitate graphics management. The role of Ungroup is to undo packets. The Lock and Unlock All commands can be locked or unlocked. Use these two commands to prevent a good graphic from being inadvertently changed; the Hide and Show ALL commands can hide or unhide the graphic;
The Offset command allows us to move the graph precisely. In the pop-up dialog box, we can adjust the position of the graphic according to the horizontal horizontal and vertical vertical values filled in, or arrange the position of the graphic according to the moving distance Distance and the moving angle Angle.
The Scale command allows us to scale the graph precisely. In the pop-up dialog box, we accurately adjust the scale of the graphic zoom according to the values of the horizontal horizontal and vertical vertical filled in. There is a Constrain Proportion option below. When this option is selected, the scaled graphic is scaled by aspect ratio.
The Rotate command also allows us to rotate the graph precisely. The method of use is also very simple. Fill in the pop-up dialog box with a precise angle to rotate the graph according to the angle of the fill.
The last few commands are simpler. They can flip the image horizontally, flip vertically, rotate 90 degrees clockwise, rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise, and rotate 180 degrees.
In the Text menu, the commands and parameters on the floating panel are actually moved to this menu.
The illustrated commands are gathered in the View menu. The Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom 100%, and Fit In View commands can zoom in, zoom out, zoom to 100%, and preview them. The Display at Resolution command allows the drawn graphics to be displayed in the most accurate way. The Default Preview default display allows only the layers being drawn to be displayed in the illustration; the Composite Preview command displays all the layers and the drawn graphics; the Drawing Only command only displays the drawn graphics, but hides the other The Hide Edges command hides the bounds of the selected object; the Hide Rulers command hides the ruler in the filter; the Hide Guides command hides the guides; the Snap To Guides command lets the objects catch the guides; Lock Guides and Clear Guides You can lock the guides and clear the guides.
The indows menu lets you hide or show toolbars and various floating panels.