From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator

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Prep the image in Photoshop

Prep the image in Photoshop

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator

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Prep the image in Photoshop

- [Instructor] In this mini-project, I'll create this nostalgic railway poster. If you do a browser search for vintage railway posters, you'll come up with a great deal of inspiration. This style uses mainly flat color and a limited color palette. I'll be starting out in Photoshop with this image, I'm going to prepare this image by cropping it and simplifying it and changing some of the colors, place it in Illustrator where I will vectorize it with Image Trace, that's going to make it completely scale-able, but we're going to see that it's necessary to have some interplay between Photoshop and Illustrator to get the best results from Image Trace. So let's start out here, and I will press c to get on my crop tool. The first thing I want to to do is crop this to a specific aspect ratio, and that aspect ratio is 5:7. I'm going to center the figures within the cropped area. I'm not, initially, going to delete the cropped pixels because I might want to adjust that crop based upon what I do…

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