Finding and Preparing the Images

You'll be using several photos in the brochure, and you'll start off by using Bridge to find just the right images. As you did in the preceding chapter's project, use Bridge to rate the images you like, and then choose to view only your high-rated images (see Figure 13.5). In this brochure, you're going to need four images.

Figure 13.5. Showing just the images that you've chosen in Bridge, using the Details view mode.

Let's start with the image of the dock leading to the ocean (29010000884.tif). Open the image, and, similar to what you did in the previous project, use the Shadow/Highlight command with a Shadow setting of 30 to lighten the photo a bit. Because this brochure will be printed, choose Image, Mode, CMYK Color, and then save it as a Photoshop (.psd) file into your Version Cue project (see Figure 13.6).

Figure 13.6. Choosing to save the file as a Photoshop file (`.psd`).

Next, open the image of the empty beach (11002003186.tif). The image is fine the way it is, so just convert the image to CMYK and save it as a Photoshop file into your Version Cue project. Do the same for the image of the two couples walking along the beach (29000009210.tif).

Retouch a Photograph

You're going to use the receptionist talking image on the inside of the brochure. Open the file (ks94007.tif), convert the image to the CMYK color space, and save the file as a Photoshop file into your Version Cue project. Don't close the file just yet.

The design of the brochure calls for a text headline that will wrap along the contour of the receptionist's face and headset. However, the cord of the headset gets in the way. You'll use the Healing Brush to give the receptionist a "wireless" headset. You'll also make a few other adjustments to the photo, such as adding a path and a fade.

Before you grab the Healing Brush, it will be helpful to create a selection to isolate the areas you want to touch up. Zoom in to around 200% and use the Lasso tool to draw an area that surrounds the cord yet excludes the areas where the cord touches the face or the headset itself (see Figure 13.7). Now select the Healing Brush tool and set your brush size to 20 pixels. Next, Option+click (Alt+click) on a clean area in the upper right of the image (see Figure 13.8) and then draw over the wire to remove it. Use the Blur tool or the Clone tool to touch up any imperfections, and press Command+D (Ctrl+D) to release the selection (see Figure 13.9).

Figure 13.7. Creating a selection to isolate the area around the cord.

Figure 13.8. Sampling a clean area of the image.

Figure 13.9. The cord is now removed from the image.

Zoom back out to 100%, select the Pen tool, and in the Tool Options bar, click on the Paths button (see Figure 13.10). You're now going to create a path that you can use for a text wrap when you place this image into your InDesign layout. Start from the top and create a path that follows the contour of the receptionist's face and her headset (see Figure 13.11). Choose Save Path from the Paths palette menu (see Figure 13.12) to save the path in the file.

Figure 13.10. Choosing the Paths option for the Pen tool.

Figure 13.11. Drawing a path to follow the contour of the image.

Figure 13.12. Saving the path in the Paths palette.

As a last step, you're going to create a fade, much like you did in the previous chapter, but this one will have the image fade out on the right side. Double-click on the Background layer, select the Gradient tool, press the Q key to enter Quick Mask mode, and create a fade that starts at the headset and ends at the far right side of the image (see Figure 13.13). Press Q again to exit Quick Mask mode, and choose Layer, Layer Mask, Hide Selection to execute the fade.

Figure 13.13. Dragging to create a gradient mask.

You should now see the checkerboard transparency grid fading on the right side of the image (see Figure 13.14). When you drop this file into an InDesign layout later in the project, InDesign will see and recognize this transparency as well. Save the image.

Figure 13.14. The image with the transparent fade layer mask applied.

If you're using Version Cue, you know that saving the file saves only your working copy. You'll notice in the status bar that the file is still In Use By You. To save this updated file into your Version Cue project, you have to save a new version. Choose File, Save a Version; add a comment and click Save (see Figure 13.15). The status of the file is now Synchronized. Close the file.