Photoshop Basics
Description: Student will produce a web gallery of exercises that demonstrate basic techniques of image manipulation in photoshop.
Technical Outcomes: Student is able to edit images in photoshop to correct color, texture, cropping or other defects, student can clone and repair damaged images and perform several “special effects” in photoshop.
Formal Outcomes: None
Conceptual Outcomes: None
This project covers basic photo-manipulation techniques. Before we can begin, we should learn a little about what it is we are manipulating.
First, we'll spend some time looking at pixels. First open any image from the web in photoshop, and zooooooooooooom in on it.
Here's an image you could use. It's a beagle puppy. Or you could use any other picture from the web. Take a good look at the pixels by zooming in. Take a screenshot of the zoomed in area, then take a screenshot of the "regular" view. Then combine them to make a comparison file. You will have to increase the canvas size, move one file into the other, arrange and crop. Here's what mine looks like.
Make your own with a picture you like from the web. Name this file:
pixels_astudent.jpg
Now, drop the file in my drop box.
Photoshop Basics
We'll be using photoshop to correct some of our own files, but since we don't have our files scanned yet, you should start by using these files in class for practice. Here's the link for the files. These files also have links to them with handy tutorials. We will go over the steps in class, and you will learn the basics of fixing images.
Here are the steps we will take:
In the first file, fix the red eye. Name this file: redeye_astudent.jpg.
In the second file, fix the tone. Name this file: tone_astudent.jpg.
In the third file, clone out one of the camels. Name this file: clone_astudent.jpg.
In the fourth file, fix the color, and clone out the rope that is attached to the horse. Name this file: color_astudent.jpg.
In the fifth file, repair the photo. Name this file: repair_astudent.jpg.
Now take five more files of your own, and adjust/alter them using any of the tools that are listed above. Make sure you include at least the following:
One picture in which you have improved the color and tone. Example
One picture in which you have taken out blotches, or entire items.
Three other pictures-either from the web or of photos that you've taken.
Make "before and after" files for each image that you altered. Remember that the "after" pictures must be better than the "before" pictures.Put all these files in a folder and make another automated web gallery. Name the folder (the one that has the web site in it) PhotoshopBasics_astudent and drop it in my dropbox.