Section 4-Smart Filters

Smart Filters allow you to do Non-destructive editing to your images. 

Requirements for your PowerPoint slides: 

1. Use two different original pictures which will show the "before and after" of the Smart Filters you apply.
2. Use a combination and blend at least two filters together for each original picture.
3. Label the filter combination you used in your PowerPoint slide.  

 

For even more help with Smart Filters, click the link HERE.

 

How Do I Apply Smart Filters?

It’s easy to apply a Smart Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS6!

1.   Create a duplicate layer of the image you want to apply a Smart Filter to.
Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + J

2.   Go to the Filter Menu

3.   Select "Convert for Smart Filters"

o    You will see the Smart Object icon appear on your layer in the layers panel.

4.   Now go back to the Filter Menu. You can select any combination of filters that you'd like.

o    Once applied, you rearrange, reorganize, turn on/off, and format/edit the filters you have already applied.

If you want to apply a mask to your Smart Filter:

1.   Select the Filter Effects Mask Thumbnail (white box in your layers panel).

2.   Use a selection tool to select the object you want to mask

3.   With the marching ants selecting your object, go to the Edit Menu, and select the Fill command.

4.   You want to fill your mask with the color black (often defaults as the Foreground color).

5.   You will see the object you selected now outlined in black in the Filter Effects Mask Thumbnail

6.   If your selection was not perfect, edit it:

o    You can use your brush tool and the color black/white to add/subtract from your mask. 

And you're done!

 

In the example above, you will see I applied a Smart Filter. I added the filters wind and motion blur. I also created a mask which you can see in my Filter Effects Mask Thumbnail and masked the giraffe so that it appears in its original form.

Variety Project

For the next few weeks we will be learning how to use various tools and techniques in Adobe Photoshop.  The tools and techniques you will be learning will allow you to enhance the graphics in the projects you will be working on.

Section 1--Filters

Go to the following link for information on filters:  Help-Adobe Photoshop Filters

Requirements:

Original Picture
Original picture changed 5 times using filters and Edit-- >Fade Filter Gallery
One of your filters must be Graphic Pen

In your PowerPoint, make sure you list the filter and mode you used!  HINT: Save each picture with the name of the Filter you used and the Mode.

HINT:  To make each picture the same size in PowerPoint:

Section 2--Liquify

Help with Liquify

Requirements:

3 Pictures (Be sure to show the original and the changed picture)
     1-Person
     1-What ever else you want to use
      1-Using the Push Left Tool

In your PowerPoint, make sure you list the tools you used in Liquify.

Section 3-Lighting Effects

Requirements for your PowerPoint slides:

      1.  Use two different original pictures which will show the
          "before and after" lighting effects.

• One must be a house with lighting effects which make it look spooky and haunted
• One must be a singer/band with lighting effects which make it look like they are in the middle of a concert.
  • Filter --> Render --> Lighting Effects
  • Edit --> Fade Lighting Effects

      2.  Label the lighting effects used in your PowerPoint slides.

3. To add clouds to your picture:

• First create a new layer: 
• From the menu choose Layer-->New Layer
• Set your colors for your clouds in your toolbar
• Goto Filter-->Render-->Clouds
• Change the opacity and/or the blending options of the layer.

For even more help with the lighting effects, click the link HERE

Please take the beginning of the block today to complete your NYC scenes. Make sure to go back and reference the "NEW YORK CITY THEME PROJECT" blog post that lists the requirements and what I am expecting from this project. If you are done, save it as a JPEG in my finished assignments folder for this project. Can't remember how to do this? Check the post below named "Saving a final copy". Shortly, we will explore some Photoshop filters and begin to build our "Variety Project". REMEMBER THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PROJECT ARE THE MINIMUM! IF YOU HAVE TIME THEN YOU SHOULD GO ABOVE AND BEYOND :)! Be sure to add a New York City saying to your project!

Finalizing your NYC Scene

Please take the beginning of the block today to complete your NYC scenes. Make sure to go back and reference the "NEW YORK CITY THEME PROJECT" blog post that lists the requirements and what I am expecting from this project.

If you are done, save it as a JPEG in my finished assignments folder for this project. Can't remember how to do this? Check the post below named "Saving a final copy".

Shortly, we will explore some Photoshop filters and begin to build our "Variety Project".

 

REMEMBER THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PROJECT ARE THE MINIMUM!  IF YOU HAVE TIME THEN YOU SHOULD GO ABOVE AND BEYOND :)!

 

Be sure to add a New York City saying to your project!

New York City Sayings

"If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere"

"Only in New York!"

"Anything Can Happen in a New York Minute!"

 “New York, New York”

 "The City that Never Sleeps"

 “The Big Apple”

RUBRIC:
30-Points--10 paste into objects (use of free transform, perception and/or warp, and opacity), 3 objects cut out from their background. Be sure to make clean selections.  Include a New York saying with text styles.

15-Points--Creativity. Be sure to choose a theme and design Times Square as the place to be!

5-Points--Work ethic and being the best you can be! Remember, it is ok to ask questions!

SAVING A FINAL COPY:

Forget how to save into my finished assignment folder?
No worries!
Read the steps and you'll be on your way!
1. Make sure you have met (and hopefully exceeded) all of my required criteria.
2. Select "Save" so that you have a final copy in your X drive.
2. Then to save a copy for me in Photoshop, select File --> Save for Web
3. The Save for Web dialog box, will open and it should look like this

4. Make sure to save your final version of your project as a JPEG!!! The Lakeland computers may give you an error message, but you can just select "OK"
6. Navigate to the M: drive--> mkohmuench --> Your Class folder--> Finished Assignments --> And the folder for the assignment your are submitting.
7. Name the file your last name_name of the project.
Now your project is ready to be graded!

Finished Early?

If you are finished with all your assignments, then use one of the links below to try a tutorial in Adobe Photoshop:

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/40-tutorials-to-master-new-features-of-photoshop-cs6/

http://www.webdesign.org/tutorials/photoshop/photoshop-cs6-tutorials/page-1.html

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop/photo-effects

http://www.in-visions.net/creating_an_avata.htm 

How Do I--EDIT A LAYER MASK

Edit a layer mask
In the Layers panel, select the layer containing the mask you want to edit.

Do one of the following:

• (CS6) Click the Mask thumbnail in the Layers panel
Select any of the editing or painting tools.


Do one of the following:


• To subtract from the mask and reveal the layer, paint the mask with white.


• To make the layer partially visible, paint the mask with gray. Darker grays make the level more transparent, lighter grays make it more opaque.


• To add to the mask and hide the layer or group, paint the mask with black. The layers below become visible.

To edit the layer instead of the layer mask, select it by clicking its thumbnail in the Layers panel. A border appears around the layer thumbnail.

New York City--Your Way!

Today we are going to learn how to use some special commands in Photoshop that will allow us to edit and transform the perception of images within Photoshop.

 

Last time we met, we practiced together using a school bus and now today we will work individually to create our own New York City theme! Your theme must be school appropriate and can include a sports team, holiday (example would be Halloween), music, and many more too numerous to include here!

The commands we will be working with include:

• The Polygonal Lasso tool which allows us to select on angles.
• The Paste Special --> Paste Into command in Photoshop. This command allows us to replace the selected area with another picture and re size it using the Free Transform tool.
• The Edit-->Transform-Perception command. This command allows us to place pictures on an angle (the side of a building for example).

You will create a new Photoshop file, 10 by 8 inches, called Your last name-New York City.

Not sure how to do it? Select File--> New --> And fill in the following dimensions:

 

Please save your file in the following folder: M: drive --> mkohmuench --> Your Class --> 4-City Theme. Save the file as "your last name-NYC"

Your project must include the following elements:

1. Replace a minimum of 10 items with a paste into picture.
1. One of the 10 items has to be the background sky!
2. You are also to include 3 objects (cars, people, cartoon characters, animals) cut out from their background. You may have to use the perception and or warp tool to adjust them.
3. Remember to use free transform (CTRL + T) and the perception or warp tools (edit menu--> transform) as well as changing the opacity to make your scene as realistic as possible.
4. Pick one of the following scenes and copy and paste it into Photoshop. Remember you should keep the 10 x 8 dimensions.

 

 

 

 

 

The Creative School Bus

Please DO NOW:

Open up a new blank Photoshop workspace:

Last-Name--School Bus
Dimensions 10 by 8 inches

Save in Folder 7-Creative School Bus under your name

Copy and paste this picture of the school bus into your workspace. Use free transform (ctrl + t) to adjust the size of your bus.

When you have finished, please wait for further instructions.

 

How Do I Paste Into?

 

1. Use a selection tool to select the area you want to paste into (ex. polygonal tool to select on angles)
2. Switch to the Move Tool
3. Copy a picture
4. From the menu choose Edit -->Paste Special --> Paste Into
5. Control-T, resize picture
6. Edit-->Transform-->Perspective to angle the picture so it looks like it is on the side of a building.
7. Change the opacity so it looks real (ex. person behind a window)

How do I Transform a Selection?

To select the wheel rim of the bus, hold down the Alt Key and use the Elliptical-Marquee-Tool. 

To transform or adjust the selection go to
Select from the menu-->Transform Selection.
You can right click and choose perception or any of the other transforming tools.  Hit enter when done!

Today

1.  Complete your Teacher Era Photoshop Project

     Please click on the following link for instructions: 

Teacher-Era-Project-Requirements

Directions for Printing:

 

2.  Ideal Room Design

Create a new Photoshop document that measures 10 by 8 inches
Save the file in your 6-Ideal Room as
Last Name-Ideal Room.

You are to design your ideal room (college dorm, bedroom, game room, living room, kitchen, etc.)

Your project must include:

At least 10 layers

Use of styles

Objects cut out from their backgrounds

A title for your room

When completed, save for web and devices in the finished assignments folder called 5-My Ideal Room

DO NOW

1-Open Photoshop and create a new image 10 by 8 inches.
    Name the file Last name-Text Styles

2-Find a picture on line as a background

3-Find your favorite quote

4-Change the text style for 5 of the words in your quote

5-Save your file in your G drive

6-When finished:
          Choose File-->Save for Web as a jpeg and save your file in the   
0-Finished Assignments folder number 4-Text Styles