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Capture patterns, colors, gradients, type attributes, and shapes from an image - Photoshop Tutorial

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Capture patterns, colors, gradients, type attributes, and shapes from an image

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- [Instructor] The libraries panel has a fast and easy way to extract patterns and shapes, colors, type attributes, and gradients from an image and store them directly in the libraries panel. In the libraries panel, I'll choose to create a new library and we'll call this sunflower. Then from the bottom of the libraries panel, I'll click the plus icon and choose extract from image. I'll start by extracting a pattern. Now there are a lot of different patterns that we can choose from, and then we have some options to scale the pattern as well as rotate it, and we can reposition it in the image area. Once we find a pattern that we like, we can save that to the CC Libraries. Next, I want to create a vector shape out of the sunflower. I can use the detail slider in order to change the threshold, so I like the sunflower on the left like that, but I want to remove all of this area right here, so I'll just paint over it. Then I can save that to my CC Libraries as well. Next, I'll save a color theme extracted from the image, and we can choose from one of the different color moods. We can also select any of these swatches and then reposition it to create our own color theme. I'll save that, and then I want to create a gradient. Here, we can change the number of gradient stops. I'll increase it to five, and I want to create a gradient that goes from blue to dark green to a lighter green, and then up to a light orange and then yellow, and I'll save that to my CC Libraries. Finally, we'll extract some text and save the character attributes, but this image doesn't have any text, so I'll click on the plus icon and then open the Furnace Creek image. I'm going to reposition this blue rectangle over the words auto service and ask Photoshop to find similar fonts. Photoshop's going to try to match the font using the Adobe type library. I can select any of these fonts and then save it to the CC Libraries. All right, let's close this and open up a new document at the default Photoshop size. I'll click on the pattern fill, which will fill the background with a pattern, and I'll decrease the scale to 10%. I can use the move tool if I need to reposition the pattern in the image area. Then I only want the pattern to appear on the left side, so I'll tap the M key to select the marquee tool, and then click and drag out a marquee on the right side. I'll make sure that the layer mask is targeted, and then we can fill that with black. I'll go ahead and deselect and then drag out the sunflower graphic into the right side of the image, reposition it and resize it as necessary. To make the sunflower more colorful, I'll click on the gradient. Photoshop will automatically clip it to the shape below, and then we can edit the gradient. I'm just going to decrease the scale down to 50% and then realign it so I can see a bit more of the orange and yellow at the top of the flower. Finally, I'll tap the T key that will select the text tool, and I'll type in sunflower. I'll hold down the command key in order to make that text a little larger and the shift key in order to constrain the proportions. Then I'll click away to commit to the default text and click on the character style in order to apply it. I'll go ahead and make this a little larger, and then click on one of the color swatches on the color themes in order to colorize it. As you can see, it's easy to create content from an image and store it in your library to be used to create an entirely new and unique image.

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