DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION OF INSECTS USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS. Introduction. The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate the use of Adobe Photoshop to produce a full …

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ENT 5051. Scientific Illustration of Insects Fall Semester, 2004
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DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION OF INSECTS USING
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS
Introduction
The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate the use of Adobe Photoshop to produce a full
habitus (i.e., general form and appearance), color illustration of an insect. As a bitmap or rasterediting
application, Photoshop offers an incredible diversity of tools, filters, masks, etc. to subtly
change the color value of individual pixels in bitmapped images (digital photographs, scanned
images). A bitmap is a grid (or raster) of small squares, pixels (or picture elements), used to
represent an image, much like a mosaic of tiny colored squares. Each pixel has a specific size,
location, and color value and is individually editable. Perhaps Photoshop’s most common
application is in enhancing and retouching digital or scanned photographs, but its tools can be
used to create digital art from scratch. Photoshop can represent subtle gradations of color and
tone that are not possible in vector or object-oriented applications such as Adobe Illustrator. In
Illustrator, objects, specifically lines and curves, are independently defined by mathematical
equations called vectors. Illustrator produces drawings with smooth curves…