PHOTOSHOP UNIT 2 – GETTING STARTED

Go to Mr. Heil’s Class page and download, but DO NOT OPEN, the following zip file: GraphicDesign_Lesson4_Images_ Open and read “Photograph Balancing.pdf” from Mr. Heil’s Class page. GETTING STARTED

Open the file House.tif 1. Rename the layers to give them meaningful names 2. Group layers 2–5, and name the group House1 3. Reduce the size of the house. Hold the Shift key as you drag the bottom right corner of House1 4. Duplicate the House1 group, drag it down to the duplicate-layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel 5. Name the new group House2 6. Use the Move tool to move the second house next to the first house. MANIPULATING LAYERS

1. Select the 4th layer (the windows) from House2 and drag it to the Trash icon at the bottom of the Layers panel, and then use the Free Transform tool to make the door bigger. 2. Select House1 and add a new layer called Chimney. Set the color to red, and use the Rectangle tool to draw a chimney. Use the Free Transform tool to place the chimney on the roof, resize and rotate it if necessary. 3. Add another layer and call it Smoke. Change the color to white, and use the Brush tool to create some smoke coming out of the chimney. 4. Create a Hue/Saturation layer and increase the lightness to make it look like a foggy day. 5. Add a final layer and call it Name.. MANIPULATING LAYERS

Leopard PictureFrame BeachHouses Clouds

Clouds and Beach Houses Try these selection tools to select the clouds: Rectangular Marquee Magic Wand Magnetic Lasso Which tool do you think is best for this task? Why? MANIPULATING LAYERS

Sweaters

1. Open the Musician.jpg and Stage.jpg files in Photoshop and arrange them as tiles. 2. Click the Musician image to activate it, and select the Quick Selection tool (Shift+W). 3. Starting in the upper left corner of the image, click and drag the Quick Selection tool all around the outside edges of the image. Everything except the musician and guitar will be selected. 4. Look for areas of the musician that are included in the selection (like the hand on the guitar and the shoes). Use the Subtract from Selection in the Options bar to refine these parts, so that none of the musician is included in the selection. Use the Shift+Control+I shortcut to inverse the selection. Now the musician and guitar should be selected. If there’s time, try using a combination of tools for even more precise selections. See how using the Magic Wand tool, set at different tolerance settings (Options bar), affects the ease and accuracy of the desired selection. 5. Use the Move tool to move (drag) the musician onto the Stage image. This will create a new layer in the Stage image. 6. Use free transformation (command + T) to resize the musician so that he looks right on the stage. Hold down the shift key when you do this to maintain proportions of the musician. 7. Save your new image as a PSD file.icon MANIPULATING LAYERS

Change the purple sweater to match the one in front of it. Now try to change the sweater color only. What is the easiest way to accomplish this? MANIPULATING LAYERS Sweaters