A I M P CS: Dvanced Mage Anipulation With Hotoshop
A I M P CS: Dvanced Mage Anipulation With Hotoshop
74 Ver 1
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1 Login to WebCT
Objectives To login to WebCT
• If Internet Explorer opens at the ITS home page, you will see
a link to WebCT at the bottom of the page
Figure 1-1
• Click on Photoshop
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2 Drawing tools
Objectives To draw shapes within Photoshop
Most simply, you may use the Brush or Pencil tool to draw a line
onto your canvas.
Figure 2-1
With both of these tools, you may change the brush size using
the options bar below the menus.
Activity 2.2 Rectangle, Ellipse
Figure 2-2
All of these shapes have further options you may set – note
particularly those on the drop down menu shown in Figure 2-3,
allowing you to constrain the shape to a circle, square etc.
Figure 2-3
The colour of these shapes should also be set on the option bar,
as shown below
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Figure 2-4
These icons allow for
special effects; try
them and see
You may have noticed, however, that when using the tools
above, there is no option to change how thick the line is. To
draw an unfilled shape and set the size of the line, you should
use one of the marquee tools.
Figure 2-5
• Add a new layer, using the layers window
Figure 2-6
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• Open the image frog.jpg from your n: drive (if you need to
download it, it is in WebCT, under IT Skills – Software Guides
– Photoshop – Sample Images – Photoshop #1)
• Hold the SHIFT key and click once on the frog’s eye to add that
to the selection
Figure 2-7
• Click OK
The frog is still selected, and may be copied and pasted onto
another image.
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3 Retouching tools
Objectives To use Photoshop’s retouching tools
Activity 3.1 All three tools are accessible from the icon shown in Figure 3-1 –
click and hold to see the options.
Each tool has, at the top of the screen, a mode and strength
setting, as shown in Figure 3-2 and Figure 3-3 respectively
Figure 3-3
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• The change is slight, but the history panel will allow you to
see what has been done
Figure 3-4
If you want, try painting over the image with a higher pressure
setting to see how damaging the sharpen tool can be – use the
history panel to reverse any changes you don’t want
Activity 3.3 Sharpen Filter
You may not need to use the sharpen tool, as there are filters
available to serve a similar function.
• Open frog.jpg
• Take a duplicate of the image (Image – Duplicate)
• Select the magic wand
• Change the tolerance to 75
• Holding down the SHIFT key, click into the main portion of the
eye a few times, till most of it is selected
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You should now have most of the face selected, which protects
the hairline
The blur tool needs care in use, but applied sparingly it can be
very useful in giving the required effect.
The smudge tool is similar in effect to the blur tool, but allows
you to “smudge” paint from one area to another. Its effects are
often even more obvious than the blur tool, so usage needs still
more care.
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• Click just to the side of one of the blemishes and paint over it
Figure 3-5
• Open the image redeye.jpg
• Choose Image – Duplicate
• Close the original
• Check that the mode is set to Desaturate, and the brush size
is small – 3 or 1 – as in Figure 3-6
Figure 3-6
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Figure 4-1
• Click on Photoshop #2
• Open the full size version of girl.jpg and save a copy to your
n: drive
• In Photoshop, open the file you have just saved
Figure 4-2
• Use the toolbar to select a large brush size (c.20)
Note that each click of the mouse applies the effect again – so
two short sweeps have double the intensity of one long one.
If you overdo it, you may correct the effect. Try some or all of
the following;
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5 Recolour a photograph
Highlights
Midtones
Shadows
Figure 5-1
• Click and drag the middle box down and to the right a little –
just enough to make the line curve a little. You should see
the picture darken
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Figure 5-2
Figure 5-3
• Use the toolbar to choose a large brush (between 20 and 30)
size
• Set the mode to saturate
• Change the pressure to 40%
Figure 5-4
• Paint over the coat on the right hand side – remember to
avoid repeated clicks of the mouse; use a sweeping motion
The denim we can leave faded, but you could use the same tool
– possibly with a smaller brush size – on the badges on the
denim jacket.
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That may give just the effect you want – you may still use other
tools to correct colours etc. For more control over this effect,
use the layers panel
• In the layers panel, drag the background layer onto the new
layer icon (to the left of the dustbin) to duplicate it (or right-
click and choose duplicate layer)
Figure 5-5
• Use the opacity setting to reduce the effect
• Repeat the above to increase the effect
Figure 5-6
Note that this method, changing the blend mode to Screen, will
also work for under exposed (too dark) photographs
In Photoshop CS, you may also use Image – Adjustments –
Shadow/Highlight – use the sliders to alter the severity of the
effect
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6 Retouch a photograph
Objectives To use Photoshop’s retouching tools to whiten teeth and
“improve” a face…
Method Use clone, blur, dodge and burn
• Use the toolbar to set the range to midtones and the exposure
to c. 20%
Figure 6-1
• Paint over the teeth to whiten them!
Activity 6.2 Next, we will remove the shadows from under her eyes
Figure 6-2
• Click and drag over the shadow to blend it away
Be careful of the eye on the left, as the lashes are indistinct and
easily removed
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Figure 6-3
• Set the mode to lighten, with a heavy pressure, to remove the
few dark spots from her face and, if necessary, further to
blend in the effect achieved with the clone stamp
Activity 6.3 Finally, we can remove the white fleck from her hair and darken
her temple.
• Use the burn tool with a low exposure (<10%) and the range
set to midtones to darken the glare on her temple a little
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Activity 7.1
M Marquee Move V
L Lasso Magic Wand W
C Crop
J Airbrush Paintbrush B
S Clone History brush Y
E Eraser
R Blur/Smooth Dodge/Burn O
Type T
Rectangle U
Eyedropper I
H Hand tool Zoom Z
Switch colours X
D Default
colours
Full screen mode
Figure 7-1
Cosmetic Retouching
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshoptutorialsretouch/
Range of Tutorials
http://www.good-tutorials.com/
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