Quick Reference for Labs:



Quick Reference for Labs:

Photoshop:

Making Selections with the Marquee Tool

Select the Marquee Tool

Make a selection on the Canvas (You must select a layer for the selection to be active)

Select the lower red rectangle and press delete (You should see the layer underneath)

Deselect by pressing Command D

To make a square selection—Place your Marquee Tool where you would like to make your selection

Start to drag along the selection and hold down the Shift key (this will make a square)

Create a new layer via Copy (Command J)

Option Click the Layer to see it without any of the other Layers

Make sure the layer is selected and add a Layer Effect

by clicking on the Effects panel

Making a Selection with the Pen Tool:

The Pen Tool is a vector based selection and path tool

It is really good for selecting straight and round edges

Make sure the Path Option is clicked in the Options menu

Click on the image to make your first Anchor Point

Zoom in (Command +) to get close to your anchor point

Shift drag to move the image’s position without affecting the selection

Make another anchor point and notice that you have

Notice you have Control Handles

The direction and length of the Control Handles determine the slope of the curve

You can keep clicking and dragging until the Anchor Point changes direction

If that happens you can Option Click the point and change its direction

Once you make it back to your original point click inside it to close the path

Use the Direct Selection Tool (White Arrow) to fine tune the selection

Select the Paths Panel

Convert Path to a selection

Clipping Mask:

Create Text as a Layer (Preferably Larger Logo Text) over a desired background

Add another Layer (that you would like to use as texture) above your Text Layer

Option Click between your Text Layer and Texture Layer

Double Click on Your Text Layer to create a layer style

Manually Combining Layers for Exposure Results

Take two photographs at varying exposures (ideally one with detail in the highlights and one with detail in the shadows)

Click File>Browse (This takes you to bridge)

Navigate to your images

Select both the images and

File>Tools>Photoshop>Load Files into Photoshop Layers

Apply a Layer Mask (this will allow one of the layers to show through)

Make sure both Layers are selected in the Layers palette

Edit>Auto Align Layers (Leave everything at default—auto projection)

Add a Layer Mask from the Masks panel

(If you do not have a masks panel go to the window menu and select masks)

Click on the “Add Pixel Mask” button

Add a black to white gradient on the mask depending on your preferred outcome

In the case of the demo in class—we used dark to light—to show the Valley floor

Select the gradient tool

Make sure Linear Gradient is selected

Make sure Black is the foreground and White is the background

Make sure Layer Mask panel is selected on the Layer

Click at the bottom of the image and drag up

You can look at the layer mask by holding down the Option key and clicking on the mask

You can paint with Black to increase the mask or with White to decrease the mask (You can switch the two by pressing X)

Compositing with Smart Selection and Layer Mask

Open up the two documents that you would like to composite

The Quick selection tool is good for selecting continuous tone (so the yellow rose’s background is the best for selection)

Select the Quick Select Tool

Move into the image

Make the Brush smaller by clicking on the left bracket

Drag tool in areas of continuous tone to make selection

You can also train the Quick Selection Tool not to select certain areas by selecting the Subtract from Selection option and drag in the area that you don’t want to select

Use the keyboard shortcut: (Command Shift I) to select the inverse (The rose)

Once your selection is made you can click inside the selection and drag directly up to the Layer where you would like to place the selection

Hover over the petals tab without releasing the mouse

With mouse still held down move over the image

Until you see a gray bounding box inside the background image

Without releasing the mouse hold down the Shift key to align the two images

It doesn’t look that great, so we’re going to try something else

Go back to the original image

Keyboard shortcut: Command D to deselect

With move tool click anywhere in the rose image

Drag the image to the tab of the Petals layer

Hover over it until the document panel switches to the Petals image

Take the bounding box into the image and press Shift and release the mouse to align the two images

Now the entire Rose image is on its own Layer

Use the Quick selection tool to select the background of the Rose

Select Inverse (Command Shift I)

In the Masks Panel

Click Add A Pixel Mask

The Rose is White(The Part of the Layer that is Showing)

The Background is Black (The Part of the Background that is showing)

Alt Click on the Mask Panel to see what it looks like

With the Layer Mask selected on the Rose layer

You can try Feathering by moving the slider bar to the right (UGLY)

Reduce Density of Mask (Allowing some of the green to show through) Not a clean effect

Click on the Mask Edge Panel

Start out by clicking the Default panel

Choose Standard Preview

To get a better view of the rose click Command H to hide the selection

Click the contract/expand slider to get rid of halo

You can also try to smooth out the edge of the mask

Adjusting the Radius and Contrast sliders can also soften that edge

Composite Two Images of Your Choice (Advanced Google Search) using any of the selection tools to put two images together in an interesting way

Create text for the image using a clipping mask and texture of your choice.

The image should be 8X10 at 300 DPI and all of the images and graphics should be the proper resolution for this image size.

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