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What is Small Gamut?
Small Gamut Inks are actually colour inks but the size of the “gamut” or colour range is dramatically smaller than that of a full colour ink set such as the standard inks from Epson, Lyson etc.

What are the advantages?
Black and White printing using full colour inks is virtually impossible because the printer has to make up a neutral grey from a perfect balance of cyan, magenta and yellow. This perfect balance is extremely hard to achieve resulting in colour shifts across the grey spectrum. Small Gamut inks enable black and white images to be printed without these colour shifts. The base colours in a small gamut set are far less vivid than their full colour equivalents. This means that when these colours combine, a monochrome effect is easily achieved.
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Taking a peek at Elements 3 for the first time and you will realize this is a major revamp to their popular image editing software. Elements almost has 3 unique features to offer to user:
Photo Organizer: Allows you to add and organize your photos within Adobe Photoshop Elements. Photo Editor: Allows you to use Adode Photoshop Elements to edit your photos (this is the part of Elements you will most recognize) Photo Creations: Allows you to create web page galleries, slide shows, greeting cards and more.
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Photoshop Elements is an image editing program you can use to prepare images for your story.
Photoshop allows you to resize and crop photos, fix flaws in the image, and composite images together into a collage.

Step 1 – Opening Program and Getting Photos
After opening up the software you will see the “welcome” window. Select “Browse for File.” This will open up the Browser window. Use the window in the upper left to navigate to your “rough images” folder. You should now see your rough images in the Browser.
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This Maya tutorial shows how to create a 3D envelop, skin and structural elements from hand drawn curves or data generated curves. The 3D shape is lofted and extruded from curves drawn in Photoshop or Illustrator.

In Photoshop, go to Layers > create separate layers, draw shapes that will be later connected together
Select the white area above the curve with the Magic Wand tool. Go to Paths > create a path.
Go to File Export > Path to Illustrator, save as an Illustrator file.
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