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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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)

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. Perspective Cast Shadow
File – Open (perspectiveShadow 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: PerspectiveShadow psd

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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)

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