Intro to PhotoShop - Photo Selection / Masking Techniques - Part 1
Keyboard Shortcuts:
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Some of the selection techniques we have learned to make selections:
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Practice
Practice, Practice, Practice .... will make all the difference in the world
First:
First:
- Use basic selection with the colour want, quick selection, eraser, and regular lasso to give evidence that you can isolate at least 3 images from their background and put them onto a different background image.
- For example, put a football player, a coach, and the game ball onto the background of a football field or stadium. Or onto a field, put a tractor, a cow, and a scarecrow.
Assignment: Now I Know My ABCs - Creating the Letters In PhotoShop
- The Alphabet dates back to the Egyptian era and forms the basis of our language, through the years people have experimented and created a wealth of interesting and unique alphabets. Time to explore some examples.
- Task is to create a collage of your first name or other word using one of the following techniques
- Modified Ransom Letter Technique - letters that have been taken from a variety of photographs.
- Modified Ransom Letter Technique - letters that have been taken from a variety of photographs.
- Your source images can either come from images you have found on the Internet or that you have taken yourself using your phone or one of the classroom cameras.
- Your finished work must be posted in your portfolio on a new page that includes the following:
- The completed image
- A title or name for the image
- Link to the psd file so that it can be dowloaded and layers viewed
- A gallery or slideshow that showcases the source images. Hopefully, in the captions area, for each image you source where it came frame
Photography Alphabet Assignment - Found Letters - Cropping / Clipping Images into Letter Blocks
Step 4: Creating the Word in Photoshop
- Step 1: Experimenting
- Before getting started, check out this interactive site so that you can get an idea of what your name or word could look like
- Create and save a minimum of 5 examples that you create from this site. You will need to take a screen shot of your work using either
- Keyboard shortcut - Command Shift 4
- GRAB application
- Keyboard shortcut - Command Shift 4
- Step 2: Exploring for Possibilities
For examples of letters, check out:- https://www.foundalphabet.com/gallery
- https://lettersart.com/pages/individual-letter-art-collections
- http://www.alphabetphotography.com/alphabet_letters.aspx?theme=food
- http://www.alphabetphotography.com/alphabet_letters.aspx?theme=classic
- http://www.alphabetphotography.com/alphabet/letters/theme/vegas/
- http://kathystanczak.ca/alphabet.php
- http://www.imagineletters.com/
- Step 3: Taking and Collecting Images
- For your project, you must look around your environment (at school, home, and in the community) to find letters.
- It is cheating, and a lot less fun, to find your source images from the Internet. If you do use images from the Internet, realize that your mark will be effected. You also must cite your sources for images taken from the Internet
- For each letter in your word or phrase you must show a larger picture that puts the source letter in terms of its environment and its zoomed in version that focuses on the specific letter. If you want, you can make life easier by taking just one version and then using proper clipping or cropping techniques to zoom in on the image.
- Don't worry about the cropping and resizing until next week. For now, we need to determine the phrase and concentrate on finding unique sources for our letters.
- For your project, you must look around your environment (at school, home, and in the community) to find letters.
Step 4: Creating the Word in Photoshop
- First step is to create a canvas or new document. In Photoshop go Command N or File > New and the new document window will pop up.
- Do not press "OK" until you have
- Set the canvas size width and height. A good starting point would be 11 inches wide and 7 inches high. Don't worry. This can be changed later.
- Set the resolution at a 150, 200, or 300. The higher the number, the better quality the final product will be.
- Do not resize, crop, or shape your images at this point. We will learn how to crop or clip our images into rectangles next week.