Lesson 4 Review

Photoshopped: Non-Destructive Editing and Presentation

Here are links to what we covered in class

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Lesson 4

Intro to Painting with Brushes

Making a simple Fancy Background for presentation or display

Here’s some subjects we didn’t cover, but you might find useful

How to Align Images in different layers in Photohop

Healing Tool

More Healing Tool

Tip of the Day…

Tip:
To Make a flattened copy of visible layers
Keyboard shortcut
Control + Alt + Shift + E (PC)
Command + Option + Shift + E (Mac)

 So, Now what… 

I’m often asked… now that the classes are over, what do we do now?

Here are some suggestions…

• Take another class, At some point Clark will have CS 6 (I’ll let you know)
• The Clark web site currently only lists active summer programs 
• http://cce.clark.edu/community-education
• Go to the library…
• Visit Websites, 
• … This is a Collection of Photoshop Websites, it’s a bunch of Links to most visited/popular blogs
• http://photoshop.alltop.com/
• A Collection of LightRoom Websites
• http://lightroom.alltop.com/
• Photoshop Tutorials from Layers Magazine
• http://layersmagazine.com/category/photoshop/page/8
• National Association of Photoshop Users
• http://www.photoshopuser.com/
• The best Photoshop Magazine in my opinion is PhotoShop Creative
• http://www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/

Garry’s Favorite web sites (they are photography oriented)

1. The Luminous Landscape
   1. http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/
2. http://www.dpreview.com/
3. http://www.imaging-resource.com/news
4. http://www.photographyblog.com/
5. http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer

1. Join a Photoshop forum and lurk!

   http://www.photoshopforums.com/

   http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop

   At some point someone will post a question… And you’ll be able to provide them the answer!

There are lots of videos on the Adobe TV web site

http://tv.adobe.com/

My main area of interest is photography

LUMINOUS LANDSCAPE  has a bunch of video tutorials that they sell. Get them and their monthly video Journal…

http://luminous-landscape.com/videos/download-videos.shtml

George Jardine has a terrrific web site a a series of videos

http://mulita.com/blog/

One more thing
Don’t be shy, Stay in touch and share your photographs and works of Art!

and

Photograph, Photograph, Photograph!

Then in Lightroom & Photoshop

Practice! Practice! Practice!

Got a question, send me an e-mail 

Best  Wishes

Garry Stasiuk

More cs6 opportunities… a one day seminar in Portland 8/6

https://www.fisheyeconnect.com/workshop/1161/details.aspx

Howdy

Don’t EVER be afraid to try, experiment, play with Photoshop…  You just might come up with a masterpiece!

This what I did

Howdy

apparently the link to the digital painting page was broken

Here it is 

http://uofgts.com/PS/digitalpainting.html

Remember, in the next class were are focusing on photography in Photoshop’s plug-in Camera Raw

Photoshop has the following different kinds of layers

1. Normal
2. Text
3. Fill
4. Shapes
5. Adjustments
6. 3D
7. Video
8. Smart Objects.

One of the most versitile is the Adjustment Layer and there are 15 of them

Each adjustment layer is associated with a “Gadget-icon” and a Mask

Clicking on the “Gadget-icon” pops up a dialogue box that allows you to make adjustments to the layer(s) below…

In the example I have selected the Black & White Adjustment Layer using Photoshop CS 6

What I want to do is to “paint” some color back into the image of just the vending machine.  That way your attention will be really drawn towards the color in an otherwise black and white image.  

Here’s how to do that.

Step 1:

Click once inside the White Mask to “activate” it… You’ll see the double lines around the mask.

Step 2: 

Press the “x” key on the keyboard, to cycle the foreground color with the background color at the bottom of the Tool Bar… We want the forground coplor to be BLACK

Step 3:

Press the”B” key to select a brush.  You can make the brush bigger or smaller by pressing the Left or Right Square breket key.

Left square bracket makes the brush smaller, Right square bracket key makes the brush larger…

Step 4.  

Paint over the Pepsi Machine on the Canvas, untill all the colors are Visible…

Painting Black on the Mask, blocks the black and white effect of the B & W adjustment panel, showing the colors from the layer below…

Here’s the result

Howdy

I got this from Sitepoint.com, they are promoting a book on using Photoshop CS6 for web design and are giving away a shortcut guide…

Hey there

To help you work faster and smarter, download our FREE
“Photoshop CS6 Shortcuts Sheet” (PDF)

http://www.sitepoint.com/free-photoshop-cs6-shortcuts-sheet

It contains a set of handy Photoshop shortcuts and batch
commands to boost your web design productivity.

Then invest $17 and take your design skills to the next level,
with a digital copy of our new book “Photoshop CS6 Unlocked.”

http://www.sitepoint.com/launch/b68017

Remember the book comes with a Money-Back Satisfaction
Guarantee, and you’ll receive EPUB, MOBI and PDF versions 
to download straightaway (for your ereader of choice).

Nice looking guide!

Saving files in Photoshop and file formats.

The file format you use to save your work in Photoshop will depend on how the image will be used.

Preserving Layers

If you want to perserve layer information so you can re-edit the image or apply the same techiques to another image, then save the image as a .psd file a PhotoShop Document.

The Menu item is

File > Save As

Keyboard short cut

Shift + Control + S (PC)

Shift + Command + S (Mac)

In the Save As Dialogue box

Give the file a unique name (Photoshop will add the extension, in this case .psd)

You can also check

 Save:  √ As A Copy and photoshop will add the word copy to the file name in this case it would be “Beach copy.psd”

TIP: In Photoshop, if there is a button or icon that you don’t know what it does, put your “pointer” over the item and don’t move it… in a few seconds a yellow box will popup and tell you what it does!

If you want to perserve layers in the PSD document Make sure the Layers box is checked and always perserve your color profile..

Saving for the Internet

The .jpg file format is “lossey” the more the file is compressed, the more data is thrown away. Too much compression and the image/photo looses detail…

The menu is 

File > Save for Web…

What’s important here is to choose how much compression, and the file size you want to actually display on the web or in and e-mail

If the file is going to be displayed on a web page Check Convert to sRGB 

When you make all your choices click the Save… button at the bottom of the page…

Steps to upload your work of art!

Don’t forget to check the √ I accept the terms of submission check box!

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