Lesson 9/30 Monday
Goal: Today your goal is to work in Photoshop to upload the portraits you took last week. Some people have photos on the school cameras and some have their work on their phones. If your photos are on your phone it is your responsibility to get the images either from your email, a flash drive or icloud. We can't use class time to go get your phones.
Use the following tools in Photoshop: clone stamp or healing brush and the adjustments tools. For directions on these tools see the earlier posts.
Also, please upload your Annie Leibovitz work when finished.
click here to upload your finished Annie Leibovitz assignment
click here to upload finished portraits

click here to upload your self-portrait

Investigation: Portrait Photographers
Part 1: Annie Leibovitz
Directions: Use the links below to learn about the famous American Portrait Photographer Annie Leibovitz. Once you finish, create a Pages doc that answers these questions:
1. Where did Annie go to school? What did she original study before photography?
2. What was Annie's first job as a photographer?
3. What is significant about the photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono?
4. Explain the influence Susan Sontag had on Annie.
5. Pick an image of Annie's that you find interesting. Describe it. What story is she trying to tell? What photographic attributes are most significant?
Photo Attributes:
light
focus
shape
time
motion
point of view
framing
cropping
technique

Use these links:
bio info and images
documentary video
click here to upload your answers to the questions

Photoshop Mini lesson #4 notes: Retouching your photos

Selection Tools:

1. Use the selection tools to move, copy, delete, scale, rotate, or anything else you want to

do to all or a part of your image.

2. The selection tools are:

A. the marquee selection tools (use when you want to select something of a regular 

B. The lasso tools (use for odd shaped objects)

C. The quick selection and magic wand (are great when your object is of similar color)

D. Extract tool (use this to pull the object from its background in one step)

Retouching Tools: Once you have something selected you can:

1. click edit

2. click transform

3. then select any option you want from the list

4. click the check mark at the top to apply the transformation

5. To feather the edge of a selection (helpful if you have removed an object/person )

6. Click Refine Edge

7. A dialog box will appear. Input a number between .1 and 250 to the feather selection from the original background) click Select

to determine the softness of the edge. The larger the number, the thicker the softened edge.

8. Click OK.

9. To fill a selection with color first make a selection.

10. Click Edit

11. Click Fill

12. Click on the arrow with the Use option.

13. To use the custom Pattern option, click the rectangular marquee tool and select an area

14. You can decrease the opacity to fill with a semitransparent color or pattern by

15. Click OK.

16. To apply a “ghosted” white over a part of your image, select the area and set to fill

17. To correct defects in your image, click the Clone Stamp tool.

18. Click Brush and set your brush size.

19. Hold down the Option key while clicking on the area of the image you want to copy.

20. Let go of the option key and then click and drag over the area you want to correct.

21. You can apply the Clone Stamp more subtly by lowering its opacity in the Options

22. You can also correct defects in your image using the Healing Brush.

23. Click the Healing Brush tool in the menu bar.

24. Set your brush

25. Make sure the Sampled option is selected from the menu at the top.

26. Hold down the Option key and click the area you want to heal with.

27. Release the Option key and then click and drag inside the area you want to heal

area of the image to use as a fill pattern, then click Edit and Define Pattern.

changing the opacity number.

with white and the opacity set to less than 50%.

bar.

28. You can get really crazy and use the History Brush to paint a previous state of your

image from the History palette into the current image. Use this to revert just part of

the image.

29. Click the History button from the menu bar on the RIGHT side of your workspace.

30. Click the Create New Snapshot button in the History palette. This puts a copy of the

current state of the image into the History palette.

31. Change your image to make it different from the snapshot.

32. Click the left of the snapshot  in the box to the right to select it as the History brush

source.

33. Click the History brush in the tool menu on the LEFT of your workspace.

34. Click Brush and set it how you want.

35. Click and drag inside the image. Pixels from the old image are painted onto the new

image.

36. That is enough for now. Have fun!

Photoshop Mini Lesson #3: Clone Stamp and Healing Brush

Take Notes!!!

Key Vocabulary: clone stamp, healing brush,

Objective: Students will learn how to use the clone stamp and healing brush in Photoshop and to know when a situation is appropriate for one of these tools

Clone Stamp:

Step 1: Import a photo into photoshop

Step 2: Review Photoshop’s interface

Step 3: Clone Stamp tool: what is the purpose?

Purpose: To clean up small flaws or erase elements in your image. Clone stamp works by coping information from one area of an image to another.

Step 4: Zoom in on the area of your image where you want to erase

Step 5: Click on the Clone Stamp tool

Step 6: Select the appropriate size brush for the job

Step 7: Hold down the OPTION key and click on the area you want to copy (can also select from another open image)

Step 8: release the option button and click as many times as needed on the area to erase (click and drag too)

Tips:

o   choose an area to copy that matches the tone of the area you want to erase

o   to apply more subtly, lower its opacity in the options bar

o   select a soft-edged brush

Healing Brush:

Step 1: What is the difference between the healing brush and the clone stamp?

The healing brush also copies one area to another but the healing brush also considers the lighting and texture of the image as it works, which can make its modifications more convincing

Step 2: Click and hold the spot brush tool, select the healing brush from the list

Step 3: select brush size

Step 4: OPTION click the area you want to copy

Step 5: release the OPTION key and then click and drag inside where you want to erase

Step 6: Once you release the mouse button, photoshop will adjust for the lighting and texture

Tips:

o   Spot healing brush does corrects on autopilot. Takes samples from surrounding area once you select the diameter.

Mini Lesson #2: Manipulating Selections

Key Vocabulary: manipulate, scale, rotate,

Objective: Students will be able to move, copy, delete, rotate and scale a selection.

Once you have selected a specific area of your image you can manipulate that selection in a variety of ways.

Move a Selection: You can place elements of your image either in the background or in layers.

Step 1 : Click the background layer in the layers palette.

Step 2: Make a selection with a selection tool.

Step 3: Click the Move Tool.

Step 4: Click inside the selection and drag

Note: Photoshop fills the original location of the object with the current background color.

Move a selected object in a layer

Step 1: Click a nonbackground layer in the layers palette

Step 2: Make a selection with a selection tool.

Step 3: Click the Move Tool.

Step 4: Click inside the selection and drag. Photoshop moves the selection in the layer. Photoshop fills the original location of the object with transparent pixels.

Tips: How do I move a selection in a straight line?

Press and hold SHIFT while you drag with the Move Tool. Doing this will constrain the movement of your object horizontally, vertically, or diagonally --- depending on the direction you drag.

Copy and Paste a Selection: You can copy a selection and make a duplicate of it somewhere else in the image.

Step 1: Make a selection with a selection tool.

Step 2: Click the Move Tool.

Step 3: Press OPTION while you click and drag the object.

Step 4: Release the mouse button to drop the selection.

Note: Photoshop creates a duplicate of the object, which appears in the new location.

OR

Step 1: Make a selection using a selection tool.

Step 2: Click EDIT.

Step 3: Click COPY.

Step 4: Using a selection tool, select where you want to paste the copied element.

Step 5: Click EDIT

Step 6: Click PASTE

Note: Photoshop pastes the copy into a new layer, which you can now move independently of the original image.

Friday 9/13/13

Mini Lesson #1: Selection Tools

Take Notes!

Key Vocabulary: marquee tool, lasso, magnetic lasso, quick selection tool, magic wand

Objective: Students will be able to use the selection tools efficiently and determine which tool is most appropriate for the task.

Marquee Tools:

Marquee Tools allow you to select a rectangular or elliptical area of your image in order to then move, delete or stylize the selected area.

Step 1: Click the rectangular Marquee tool (curser changes to a cross)

Step 2: Click and drag diagonally inside the images window. You can press and hold SHIFT while you click to create a square selection.

Step 3: You can now perform other commands on the selected portion.

To deselect, click SELECT (on the top menu bar) and click deselect

Step 4: To use the elliptical marquee tool, click and hold the marquee button. From the list, click on ELLIPTICAL marquee tool.

Step 5: Click and drag diagonally inside the image. You can press and hold SHIFT while you click and drag to create a circular selection.

TIPS:

You can customize the Marquee tools:

Feather: typing a feather value softens your selection edge – which means Photoshop partially selects pixels near the edge.

Lasso Tools:

The Lasso tools allow you to select oddly shaped selections which you can then move, delete or stylize.

Step 1: Zoom in on the area you want to select.

Step 2: Click the lasso tool.

Step 3: Click and drag your cursor around the area you want to select.

Step 4: Drag to the beginning point and release the mouse button.

Polygonal Lasso

Step 1: Click and hold the lasso button.

Step 2: From the list click the polygonal lasso tool.

Step 3: Click multiple times along the border of the area you want to select.

Step 4: To complete the selection, click the starting point.

TIPS:

What if my selection is not as precise as I want it to be?

This is difficult, try:

Deselecting and trying again.

Fix your selection by adding to or subtracting from your selection

Switch to Magnetic Lasso tool

Magnetic Lasso Tool:

This tool allows you to quickly and easily select elements of your image that have well-defined edges. (contrasts sharply with the background)

Step 1: Click and hold lasso

Step 2: select magnetic lasso from the list

Step 3: Click the edge of the object you want to select. A beginning anchor point is created.

Step 4: Drag your cursor along the edge of the object

Step 5: To help guide the lasso, you can click anchor points as you go along the path.

Step 6: To finish, click the beginning anchor point or double click anywhere in the image and Photoshop completes the selection for you.

TIPS: More anchor points will improve precision

Practice, Practice, practice!!!

Now what? Once you have a selection you can move it, delete it or copy and paste it.

Use the link below to upload your finished work for the 100 Self-Portraits assignment. Click the + in the upper left corner to upload.
click here to turn in your work

Once you turn in the assignment, take some self-portraits!