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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