• Lesson Index:
• Overview
• Layout
• Getting Started
• Setting Colors
• Draw Layout
• Enhance Photo
• Import Image
• Gradients & Masks
• Components
• Making the Header
• Smudge Tool
• Write Title
• Navigation Bar
• Footer
• Finishing
• Slicing
• Export
• Export Options

Touch-Up with the Smudge Tool

If you zoom in close in the creativeworks.png file that we created in the last lesson, you will see that is an vertical interface line between the sky and our blue header.

Try to get rid of it by using the Smudge tool with it properties set as shown.

And just smudge around the edge there.

If you mess up, do Ctrl-Z to undo your strokes. If you pushed some colors outside the borders, don't worry about it, we take care of that later.

Because we had our sideimage object selected while we were doing the smudging, this will only affect our sideimage and not our header at all. If you turn off the visibility of our side image...

you can see how our header is unaffected...

Now if you turn on our sideimage and turn off our header, you can see our smudging handiwork...

We had actually erased some of the colors from our image. But since we have our header underneath that extends all the way to the middle of our side image, no one will know the difference (when we turn on visibility on all layers).

To get rid of this bit of color, recall that this bit of color is on the sideimage object. So select that in our layers panel and marquee out a selection as shown.

Press the delete key and the bit of color is gone. To deselect our marquee so that we don't keep seeing these marching ants (that is what they call that selection outline) do Ctrl-d.

Good time to Save.

In the next lesson, we will write out our title.