1. Colorizing
And compositing

2. Open
Car original
Squash
Kitten

3. From To

4. Check Modes Be sure are all RGB (Image> Mode>RGB color
What do the three letters mean?
What is the print model?

5. Kitten-resize
Magic wand

6. Use magic wand
Select background
White area
Select>Inverse

7. Move
Move to car-original
New layer, name it kitten:

8. Background issue One way: Right click on Background layer
Choose Layer from Background
Name it car
Or just double-click and provide a name

9. Select car Quick Select Be sure are on Car layer
Quick select properties:
20 pixels
Hardness 88

10. Notes: Use “[“ to reduce brush size while selecting, “]” to increase.
For example, make smaller brush to get windshield bracket

11. Result

12. Touch up
Remember alt-click and shift-click

13. Paint Paint the selection View>Fit on screen
Double click the brush tool
Mode: Color…makes paint you apply transparent
Paint…adjust brush size
You choose

14. Show/Hide
Ctrl-H
Also recall Ctrl-D

15. Practice –color: His pants His shirt Her blouse, skirt
His tie—use magnetic lasso

16. More selections Make trees green (shift-click) Magic wand Tolerance 45
Brush 15

17. New tool Spot Healing brush Great for small areas
Just click on a pixel and it disappears!
Use it :click power lines

18. Adding Lens Flare Filter>Render>Lens Flare
Choose any…I like lens
50% Brightness
Click on the hub cap in the thumbnail , or move the cross hair

19. Practice: Gravel
Select, colorize

20. Creating a new background
Layer masks
Use brush
“paint” black on areas you don’t want…mask them out,

21. Switch to Squash background
Ctrl-A
Ctrl-C
Switch back to car layer
Edit > Paste (Ctrl-V)
Note a new layer1
Rename the layer as Barn
Squash now hides the car

22. Questions: What image is under the car image?
What if I erase the trees? What would show where I erased
Got it?

23. Mask cont. Rearrange layers—be sure Barn Layer under car
Going to erase portions of car
To show the underlying squash
Q: What would we see if we erase the trees?

24. Mask… masking out the trees
Choose car layer
Find Add Layer Mask at bottom of Layers panel.
Click it
Shows a white box—that’s the mask
White masks nothing
Black hides what you paint black,
via a mask

25. Mask… White hides nothing, thus nothing is hidden/masked We will:
Click white box (the mask)
Choose black as foreground color (D)
Choose a brush
Paint
We will actually use color black to paint over what we don’t want.
Black hides
Want to hide the trees
Select brush tool
Try size:25, Hardness 25%
Be sure the Foreground color is Black

26. Mask…
Click inside the white box, or else you will end up actually paining black
Reset Mode to normal
D key (default) “paint” what you want masked out...trees
No need to select first
Switch to white if you make a boo boo (reverse colors)

27. Filter…

28. Density about 65%
Result:

29. Increase vibrance-Barn
Select Barn layer
Again, choose Create new fill or adjustment……
Select Vibrance

30. Text
Make up your own slogan
Large text
You choose font, text color

31. Mask…
The hub caps
Result:

32. My Final version