Photoshop class: Fun with Filters & Tips

10 tips for new photoshop users:

1) Breathe and relax... what has been Done can be Edit-Undo(ne)

2) save. save often. i cant stress this one enough. Go ahead, spend 5 hours on something cool and have the power go out before you save. see how hard you cry then. oh wait - that was ME ;) ..........SAVE........ it's worth it.

3) go ahead, rearrange your windows and stuff - you can always restore them to what they were... and you may find that different layouts work better for different style projects.

4) Experiment. Play with filters, actions, styles, patterns, gradients! Won't know what all they can do if you don't play.

5) There's more to this than meets the eye... A lot of tools are hidden under other tools. keep in mind you may have to hunt for them... not to mention the plethora of shortcuts!

6) don't give up. even Michelangelo had to learn how to draw a circle. and he didn't have a handy elliptical marquee tool w/ stroke to help!

7) layer styles can be your friend.

8) it is better to edit non-destructively whenever possible.

9) you can heal all manner of ills... between the healing tools & the clone stamp tool

10) most tools are very customizable - find the pallet/window for them and see what you can do!

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End Results of Homework (i really like the train one LOL):

Happy Kitty, Photoshop Assignment

yeah, kinda crappy... but done with vectors only =D

and i made my own custom shaped kitty cat.

so there.

:P

classwork: Vector graphics

now... to do the actual assignment: create a greeting card using NO raster images, only vector.

FUN! =D

*chuckles*

Welcome, Spring!

Photoshop Class, Digital Images, before & After

Peek-A-Boo Bunny (assignment 6)

Peek-A-Boo Bunny says: I see you!

Assignment this week, extract abunny from a blue background, set him amongst nature so he looks like he belongs.

not sure i accomplished that - but i had a lot of fun & learned a few things along the way! i even successfully used a clipping plane! yay me!

Zen Garden: Book Lesson 6

Lesson 6: Advanced selections, AKA Masks & Channels

We created a book cover! yay me!

learned quite a bit this lesson.... gotta let it sink in, brain is fried.

If we had....

Assignment 5 for photoshop class....

Lesson 5

My end result for this week's bookwork =D

Unwind... Lesson 4 Assignment

Composite of 3 images, working with selections

Classwork, Lesson 3, Con't

1. Saved as a working document

2. duplicated background layer so i would have an original to look at

3. used healing brush set to "replace" to eliminate dog in background

4. Used healing brush set to normal to correct strange edges previous tool left behind & add a bit of grass to "corner" of drive, as well as correcting patches of grass in foreground

5. "snapshot"

6. sponge, saturate - foreground grass
7. didn't like it, reverted. Tried a few methods, came back to sponge - saturate, flow set to 40%, and turned vibrance off.

8. snapshot

9. used above sponge settings on trees to see...

10. liked it, took a snapshot

11. same tool (sponge - saturate), on horse & dog, then used same tool set to desaturate to reduce some color around them, to make them stand out more

12. healing brush, set to replace to get rid of trailer & horse trainer, and then normal mode to "ease" the edges

13. snapshot

14.cropped

15.switched back and forth between Patch and Healing brush(es) to eliminate the bit of car, and the rest of the girl on the right, and make a lovely bush border for the drive, eliminate the shock collar on the dog....

16. Saved for web, 70% quality

17. Saved .psd

Classwork, lesson 3 =D

I still have to do the "for credit" assignments - these were the ones from the book, and the fawn one was one we were given to practice on. we're still working on touching up & repairs - for instance, Yukimi there had a torn corner of the photo. the climber had graffitti & bolt holes, Dude had lots of wrinkles (and apparently protested this fact), and the lawn where the girls are petting the fawn was pretty spotty... too much salt for the salt lick to woo the fawn I suppose!