Photoshop. Adding Oomph to a Photo.

Use the skills we have practised so far to transform this drab photo into something more appealing.

Use the Pen tool to trace the bottle.

Copy it.

Open a new document. 20cm h x 15cm w

300dpi

Paste the bottle

Resize it. Control T. Hit enter.

Adjust Brightness +25, Contrast +60

Use Blur tool to smudge any areas where the pixels are too grainy.

Make the black type on the bottle BLACK. Use the Pen too trace its outline and fill with black.

Add a New Layer. Fill with black (Edit > Fill). Make it the background

Use Burn Tool to darken the edges of the bottle. (Gives depth).

Add and Outer Glow to the bottle (FX at bottom of Layer Palette)

Add a gradient to your background layer. Orange to Red. This will add some warmth and vibrance to the picture.

Photoshop. Make a Photo Look Like a Miniature Model.

Open a photo in PS.

Turn on Quick Mask Mode.

Select > Edit in Quick mask Mode.

Select the Gradient Tool.

Make sure Reflected Gradient is selected.

Double Click in the Edit Gradient box.

Make sure gradient is Black to White.

Create a Gradient Mask over the parts of the photo you wish to remain in focus.

Turn off Quick Mask Mode

Go to Filter > Blur > Lens Blur

Adjust to suit the image.

Enter.

Deselect Control (Command) D

Go to Image > Adjustments > Vibrance

Bump up Saturation  30 - 40 %

Photoshop. Intensify Colour.

A tip for intensifying the colour in a image you feel may be lacking in that area.

Open your image in PS.

Right click on the Layer in Layers Palette.

Select Duplicate Layer

Set the Blending Mode of the new layer to Soft Light.

Then adjust the Opacity to suit.

Photoshop. Colour Correction Excercise

These images need to be adjusted,

Too blue, too vibrant, too dark

Too dull, too dark, lacking vibrance.

to make them look more like this image.

Use Adjustment Layers, so that you can play around with them.

Photoshop. Colour Correction, Image Adjustment

You may have an image which is too blue, too dark, too dull. You can adjust it in Photoshop.

There are three main ways in which you can adjust colour, brightness, contrast, hue etc.


The Image Menu.

Under the Image Menu you will find the following:

Auto Tone - Tone refers to the degree of lightness or darkness of an area.

Auto Contrast - Contrast is the difference between the lights and the darks. If you have a picture that has little contrast, its usually very subdued. If you take an picture and turn down the contrast, the light parts of the pic become darker, and the dark parts become lighter.

Auto Colour - Removes colour casts. A colour cast is a tint of a particular colour, usually unwanted, which affects the whole of a photographic image evenly.

Certain types of light can cause film and digital cameras to have a colour cast. In general, the human eye does not notice the unnatural colour, because our eyes and brains adjust and compensate for different types of light in ways that cameras cannot.

If you click these the computer selects for you what it thinks are the optimal settings for each of these.

You can also adjust manually.

Image > Adjustments >

This allows you to adjust

Brightness/Contrast

Levels

Allows you to adjust the levels of each colour individually

Exposure

Vibrance


Saturation
Saturation is a uniform bumping up the intensity of all colors in your shot, regardless of the starting point of the colors. This can result in clipping (over saturation of certain colors which results in loss of detail in those areas) and over saturation of skin tones leaving them looking too orange and unnatural.

Vibrance
Vibrance is a smart-tool which cleverly increases the intensity of the more muted colors and leaves the already well-saturated colors alone. It’s sort of like fill light, but for colors. Vibrance also prevents skin tones from becoming overly saturated and unnatural.

Hue/Saturation

Colour Balance and more.

These tools allow you to use your judgement to adjust a photo to look the best according to your own tastes.






Adjustment Layers.

The Adjustment Layers palette allows you to make adjustments to an image which are on a separate layer. This way they can be discarded at any time, which is very handy.

The Layers Palette.

In the Layers Palette, click on the Channels Tab.
This allows you to alter each colour individually.
Click on the colour you wish to adjust and alter it by using the Image Menu.

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Layer Masking. Quick Selection Tool

Make sure the bottom Layer is selected in the Layer Panel.

Use Quick Selection Tool to select the part of bottom Layer you wish to see.

Click Select > Refine Edge if you wish to alter Feather. Click OK

With running ants still showing in bottom Layer, click top Layer in Layers Panel.

Click Add Layer Mask

Collage Practice Photo

Photoshop. Obama Collage.

Take these.

Make this.

Don't forget to add the shadow!

Photoshop. Tracing Around Hair.

Open the back ground photo in Photoshop

Place the foreground photo in a layer above it.

Use the Quick Selection Tool to select girl, her body, and her hair as best as you can.

Click on Refine Edge at top of screen.

Turn on Smart Radius Set to 5

Select Refine Radius tool

Paint on the areas which are grey to delete all grey

Click Decontaminate Colours

Adjust Amount  65%

Output to New Layer with layer Mask.

If required select the Burn Tool and darken up the hair strands.

An alternate way to achieve this is to use the Background Eraser Tool (E)

With the picture of the girl in front, select the Background Eraser Tool.

Set the Control Panel to these settings

Sampling: Once

Limits: Contiguous

Tolerance: 50%

Protect Foreground Colour : Unchecked

Now, simply left click on the grey area ( to tell the tool this is the colour you wish to delete) and holding down the mouse button, paint out the areas you want to delete.

Once again, use the Burn Tool if necessary.

Photoshop. Collage

Open the image from which you want to take a piece.

1. Use the Magic Wand, Quick Selection, Lasso or Marquee tool and select the area you wish to copy.

Go to Select > Refine Edge.
You can adjust the edges of the area you are copying.

When happy click OK

Edit > Copy

Go to the image in which you wish to place the selection

Edit > Paste.

Use the Move to to adjust positioning.

GOOD FOR SOFTER EDGES


2. Select the Pen Tool.

Draw the area you wish to copy.

Select the Path Selection Tool ( black arrow).

Right Click on Path.

Click Make Selection

Set Radius to required Feather.

Edit > Copy

Edit > Paste

GOOD FOR HARDER EDGES

Type Mask

Open an image in PS.

Select the Type Tool.

Click on the area of the image you wish to place the type.

Change the type settings to suit your requirements.

(Holding down Shift will constrain proportions)

TYPE!

If you want to alter the type click Control T.

When happy with changes  press Return.

In the Layer Palette, drag the Type Layer below the Image Layer.

Hold down Alt key and move the curser so that it is on the line between Layer 1 and Layer 2.

It changes into a little arrow with a square next to it.

Click.

Type mask!


You can use the move tool to change the placement of the type or the masked image.

Layer Masking 3. Painting a Mask

Open two images on separate layers of the same document. ( See Layer Masking 1)

With the top layer selected, click Add Layer Mask.

Select the Paint Brush.

Make sure the Foreground Colour is black.

Paint out the parts of the photo you wish to delete.

Layer Masking 2. Drawing a Mask

Open two images in separate layers (see Layer Mask 1 for how to do this.)

With top Layer selected click Add Layer Mask.

Select the Pen Tool.

Draw the area you wish to mask.

Select Path Selection Tool

Right click on the Path you have drawn

Click Make Selection

0 Feather Radius gives a sharp edge.

The higher the number the softer the edge.

Select Paint Bucket Tool

Make sure Foreground Colour is Black.

Fill the selected area.

See what happens.



Now try undoing until you have the selected area unfilled.

Go to Select > Inverse.

The selected area inverts.

Now fill the selected area.

Layer Masking 1. Gradient Mask

Open the two photos you wish to make a mask with in separate windows.

Select > All , one of the images.

Then Edit > Copy.

Then Edit > Paste

The two images should now be on separate layers in the same document. Check your layers palette to make sure.

If one the pasted image needs to be resized press Control T to transform. When happy with changes hit enter.

In the Layers Palette, make sure the top layer is selected.

Click Add Layer Mask at bottom of Layer Palette.

Layer Mask thumbnail appears next to Layer 1 thumbnail.

Select the Gradient Tool

Double click Edit Gradient icon at top of screen.

Make sure that the gradient is black to white.

Select Linear Gradient Icon in Control Panel

Click and drag on Desktop.

See what happens!

Try shorter drags, longer drags

Try the Radial Gradient

Fix This Photo!

This image needs a few things touching up to make it suitable for printing.

1 Dirt spots in sky and building.

2 Rocks are under exposed.

3 Beige building in middle is over exposed.

4 Grass needs to be more saturated.

5 remove as much of the reflection of other buildings as you can from black building in middle.

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Photoshop. DPI Resolution

Photoshop. Colour Models

Photoshop. File Types

Photoshop. Double Exposure

Photoshop. Photos for Double Exposure

Photos for practicing tools.

Photoshop. Tools.

Move Tool: Allows you to move a selection or entire layer by dragging it with your mouse or using your keyboard arrow keys

Marquee: Allows you to select rectangular, elliptical, single column or row of your image.

Lasso: Allows you to select precise areas of an image by drawing or tracing the selection outline.

Quick Selection/Magic Wand: Select and area of an image based on its colour.

Crop: Allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything else.

Eyedropper: Picks up a colour.

Healing, Patch, Red Eye Reduction: Allows you to fix image imperfections.

Bruch, Pencil: Allows you to paint and draw.

Clone Stamp: Allows you to duplicate part of an image.

Eraser: Erases part of the image.

Gradient: Very useful for creating masks

Blur, Smudge, Sharpen: B, S, S areas of you image.

Dodge, Burn, Sponge: Lighten or darken areas which are under or over exposed. Saturate or desaturate colour.

Pen: Draw accurate shapes, select them, fill them or outline them.

Text: Add text.

Path/Direct Selection Tool: Select part or all of a path.

Shape: Draw rectangles, ellipses and polygons.

Hand, Rotate View: Move your canvas around the screen or rotate your canvas.

Zoom: Zoom in or out (hold Alt key)

Colour: set foreground and background colour.

Quick Mask: make a quick selection for a mask.

Where to find Creative Suite Tutorials.

www.lynda.com/Adobe-Training

This is a membership website. You need to pay a monthly fee, but it is the best.


http://tv.adobe.com/channel/how-to/

This site contains video tutorials on how to perform various tasks in all Adobe products.


http://www.computerarts.co.uk

Fantastic website with lots of beginner to advanced tutorials.


http://psd.tutsplus.com

This website has longer tutorials which instruct you how to complete more complex tasks.


http://youtube.com

There are many kind souls who post helpful videos about all sorts of things related to Adobe products.

For example:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CD20EBB30C2C341


http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-cs6/

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-indesign-cs6/

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-illustrator-cs6/

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