Welcome to Photoshop level II

Advanced Compositing

• Short Intro - grab some note paper for core tips, and pitfalls to look out for
• Experience in the following will help
  • Using various selection tools
  • Experience with layers
  • Using brush attributes (opacity, hardness, size etc)
• Jumping straight in: Project one - The Harbor
  • open harbor.jpg and coutryside.jpg
  • use the move tool and drag countryside.jpg into harbor.jpg
  • setup and label layers
  • make sure that the harbor layer is on the top of the stack
  • Background Eraser Tool - erase the harbor.jpg drab background
  • "Sampling Continuous" setting
  • "Sampling Once" setting
  • "Sampling Background swatch" setting
  • color balance the layers using Image>Adjustments>levels
  • make creative experiments (green slime in water, etc)
• Quick Mask Mode
  • Quick mask mode is a selection tool using brushes for the selection instead of "marching ants" type tools
  • the black and white color chips
  • Red color represents the mask
  • double click on the quick mask icon to get to quick mask options.
  • Black is Mask (protected)
  • White is erase (non-protected)
• Layer Masks -
  • a special non-destructive mask associated with a layer.
  • to make a layer mask there are two ways.....
  • Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal selection (or Hide selection)
  • click on the create layer mask icon in the layers palette
  • notice the new "layer Mask Icon" next to the standard layer icon.
  • its now very important to know which one is selected
  • practice session with layer masks (twins.jpg)
• Project two - Boy
  • Open the file boy.jpg

• • Final thoughts
  • Thanks for being here - class evaluations