Saturday, February 19, 2005 By: April M. Bowser Photoshop 7 Session 2 Saturday, February 19, 2005 By: April M. Bowser

Layers Photoshop works like adding transparent on top of transparent to give a full illusion

Instant 3D Type File; New (size:w653,h641,R72, RBG) Text Tool; then Type Layer; Type; Convert to Shape Ctrl-T; Hold down Shift-Alt-Ctrl; grab the top right corner, drag upward. Press Enter to accept Layer; Rasterizing; Shape

Instant 3D Type cont… Click and drag layer to the copy layer icon Press “d” (changes foreground to black) Hold shift-alt-press backspace (this changes the color to black) Alt-ctrl; press-and –hold right arrow to add 3D effect Use File: 3DTexting.jpg

Instant 3D Type cont… Hide your top layer and background layer by clicking on the eye icon This leaves all the black type layers Use the pop-down menu; Merge Visible Optional: click on Lock Transparency button, click on Gradient to create a gray effect.

Semi-transparent Type File; Open (photograph) Text Tool; Type your text Ctrl-click on text layer Makes text active selection Click eye icon at type layer to hide Click on background layer Ctrl-J (create layer1)

Semi-transparent Type cont… Click add a Layer Style (“f” at bottom of the Layer Palette ) Choose Drop Down Shadow Choose Inner Shadow Choose Inner Glow Now Click OK Click on type layer and drag to trash to delete layer Use File: Grad415.jpg

Semi-transparent Type cont… Optional: Click on Background Layer Ctrl-L Adjust Darker-Lighter Use Pointer to move words to different location

Visual Color Change Open a photograph that contains and object or part that you would want to change the color Select the object, by using a lasso tool Magnetic Lasso works great for this Outline the object Use file: VisualColorChange.jpg

Visual Color Change cont… Image, Adjustments, choose Hue/Saturation Then click on Colorize Move the Hue Slider to the desired color Click Ok

Perspective Cast Shadow File – Open (perspectiveShadow363039.psd) Make a copy of the layer Drag layer to New Layer icon Press “d” to change foreground black Press Shift-alt-backspace to fill option black Ctrl-T (Free Transform) Use File: PerspectiveShadow363039.psd

Perspective Cast Shadow cont… Right click directly in free transform box From pop-up list choose Distort Lie the copy layer almost flat by grabbing the center point Press Enter to accept Press “g” for Gradient tool In Layer palette: Click Lock Transparent pixels

Perspective Cast Shadow cont… Drag Gradient tool from one end to the other Shadow should go black to gray Turn of transparency lock Filter Menu-Blur-Gaussian Blur In dialog box enter 2 for Blur radius Click OK

Perspective Cast Shadow cont… Drag copy layer under Layer 1 This puts shadow behind image Use the Rectangular Marquee to draw a rectangle of the top quarter of the shadow Select-Feather- 5 pixel Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur-2pixel Ctrl-D (deselect)

I Hope You Had Fun Any Questions? Anything you would like to learn that we did not cover today?