Photoshop Objectives

• Artistic Rendition - kind of a blend of real photo and montage
• Photo to Art - turn an appropriate image into a realistic looking painting
• 3d Text -
• Post Processing - Taking a photo, tweaking the
• Photo Retouching - Taking a picture that is flawed...like with electric/telephone lines, and light poles and other distracting objects in the picture to a finished picture. This includes pictures of portraits and airbrushing (retouching).
• Photo Restoration - Restore an old picture of your families
• 3d Art Graphic -
• Illustration - Generating an image from scratch

Photoshop Lessons

• Photoshop Intro - Three basic editing steps
• Photoshop Text - Type Masking, specifically, placing an image INSIDE text
• Photoshop Shadow - Adding a person realistically to a background…i.e. adding a cast shadow.
• Photoshop TV - Video Training for Photoshop techniques, tips, news, etc.
• Photoshop Masking - How to replace the background with a frazzled border, like flyaway hair.
• Photoshop Montage - Including samples of what is a Montage, or Digitally Constructed Image
• Photoshop Vignette - Placing a soft edged vignette over a picture, like a portrait

Photoshop Introduction - Basic Editing Steps including:

Clone - To copy a portion of an image to another portion of an image

Crop - It is important to CROP an image, at least to define the 8x10 area to be printed.

Levels -  adjust the the Low, Mid and High tones to an acceptable level using a histogram.

    http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-levels-1-2-3.html

    http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/histogram.html

        - Good explanation of a Histogram: to graphically show the distribution of values within a set of data points

Unsharp Mask -  adjust for moderate softness from focus error

    http://www.bythom.com/sharpening.htm

    http://www.scantips.com/simple6.html

 

Photoshop Text - use Layer Styles to control Text Effects.

Photoshop Layer Shadow - create a duplicate layer to simulate a shadow.

Photoshop TV Episodes - Look in Public/Video, Training. Click on the video you would like to watch.

Misc Photoshop Tutorial Links

http://www.adobe.com/?ogn=EN_US-gn_home - Pretty good source of tutorials direct from Adobe

http://www.olejarz.com/arted/imaging03/index.html

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=lang_en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-16%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=photoshop+elements+student+lessons

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/ss/cs2warp.htm

http://tutorialoutpost.com/view/10941/animation-text-effect-with-shiny-stars/

3D Text - http://www.tutorialwiz.com/3D_text/

http://www.russellbrown.com/ - Excellent source of tutorials and scripts

http://www.clickinks.com/a-guide-to-using-photoshop.html

Scanning and Sharpening Tips

Sharpening 101

 

Extract - If your subject has frizzy hair, and you want to try this...go http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/cutout/cutout.htm

 

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