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September 29 : Edit your first photo! (Part 2)

PLEASE KEEP CELL PHONES AWAY!

Either in your backpack or the lock box!

Expectations:

C: Voice Level 2 (only the people next to you can hear you and no shouting across the room)

H: Ask your team, elbow partner or raise hand

A: Work on the assignment

M: Stay in your assigned seat

P: Work till assignment is completed

S: Finishing your work

Get to know Photoshop!

What you NEED to know!!!!

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: Adobe Photoshop: Editing your first photo!

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: Students are learning to crop and straighten an image, improve lighting and color with adjustment layers, and use layer masks to control where adjustments appear. Mastery of Photoshop can enhance creative control and preserve image quality.

Students: "I will be able to edit and improve a photograph in Adobe Photoshop by cropping and straightening the image, adjusting brightness, contrast, and color, and using layer masks to make targeted, non-destructive edits."

HOW WILL MY TEACHER KNOW WHAT I LEARNED: You will practice different tools and techniques and gradually show your success!

Edit your first photo!

Continued!

Open Photoshop

Click YOUR FILES (on the left)

Double click Photography Folder

This is mirroring your folder on your desktop!

Click the file we began Tuesday:

First Initial Last Initial Norway.psdc

psdc=Photoshop document Cloud

Now lets fit our image on screen

Press Ctrl + 0

Remove unwanted content

Easily eliminate distracting elements with the Spot Healing Brush tool and the Patch tool.

Let's zoom in a little by pressing Ctrl + (Plus) on our keyboards about 3 times

To reposition the image, simply hold down the space bar on your keyboard and dragging with your mouse to position the image where you want it.

Notice, this actually activates the HAND (panning) tool

Let's create a new layer

Layer Tab>New>Layer

Or Shift + Ctrl + N

Or click the + on the bottom of the Layers Panel

Click the LAYER tab at the top and select

New>Layer

Or click the + on the bottom of the Layers Panel

Layer Tab>New>Layer

or double click the layer's name in the layers panel and type the new name and click ENTER.

Name the Layer:

Spot Healing

To change the name of a layer, double click the layer's name in the layers panel and type the new name and click ENTER.

In the Tools Bar, select the SPOT HEALING BRUSH

This tool is easiest to use and is great for removing small objects like the cows and the poles that might be distracting.

In the options bar at the top, make sure CONTENT-AWARE is highlighted next to Type

Also, select SAMPLE ALL LAYERS

This allows photoshop to look through the currently active yet empty layer to layers underneath where the pixels actually live (on Layer 0)

To reset the color boxes, click the small black and white boxes to the left. To switch foreground and back ground, click the curved arrow.

The foreground color (the one on top) at the bottom of the Tools Panel determines what color the brush will use.

To add to a spot healing layer we are technically making a masked layer...

Make sure BLACK is the foreground color (on top)

Make the brush slightly larger than the item you want to remove by tapping the right ot left bracket (next to P on the keyboard) to increase or decrease the size.

Brush setting should still be set from previous adjustment.

Before:

When you click you will see a feathered circle of black:

After:

Now put your cursor at the item you want to remove and click!

Note: It might take a second or two...BE PATIENT!

Remove both cows!

REMEMBER:

When you use the Spot Healing brush (content-aware) Photoshop uses pixels immediately outside the brush cursor to remove the item.

Before:

When you click you will see a feathered enlongated line of black:

After:

You can also click and drag your mouse to remove some of the distracing poles.

Note: you may want to DECREASE the brush size (click the left bracket)

Try it now!

Reposition the photo (space bar) and remove more of the distracting poles!

Reposition the photo (space bar to pan) and remove more of the distracting poles!

Before:

After:

Change the brush size

Remove the red boat

in the front.

Other ways to correct an image...

Pan over (space bar to pan) to this section (near the top left)

To remove larger items (like this roof in the trees)

its better to tell photoshop WHERE to copy the pixels from...

Let's create a new layer

Or click the + on the bottom of the Layers Panel

Click the + on the bottom of the Layers Panel to create a New Layer

Double click the Layer name in the layers panel and type the new name and click ENTER

Change the name of the layer by double clicking the layer's name and type

PATCH

and click ENTER

In the Tools Panel, click and hold your mouse on the Spot Healing Brush (or Right Click) to select the PATCH Tool.

In the Options Bar (at the top) set the Patch Menu to CONTENT-AWARE

And then turn on SAMPLE ALL LAYERS

Now click and drag to draw a rough selection around the item you want to remove.

be sure to make the selection slighlty larger than the item itself.

To tell Photoshop where to get the pixels from, click INSIDE the selection and drag it to the area in the image you want Photoshop to use for the patch.