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For a limited time, you can join a special Creative Cloud plan designed exclusively for Photoshop customers focused on photography. It includes access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5, plus feature updates and upgrades as they are available, 20GB of cloud storage for file sharing and collaboration, and a Behance ProSite. And it's just US $9.99/month when you sign up for a one-year plan. This is not an introductory price, but you need to join by December 31, 2013. To qualify, you must own Photoshop CS3 or later (Standard or Extended version). Questions? See our FAQ and terms.

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Enjoy!!!

Photoshop Projects turned 3 today!

#tumblr birthday

Photoshop Week 4 review and Where to from here...

Lesson 4 Review

Photoshopped: Non-Destructive Editing and Presentation

Here are links to what we covered in class

Home

Lesson 4

Intro to Painting with Brushes

Making a simple Fancy Background for presentation or display

Here's some subjects we didn't cover, but you might find useful

How to Align Images in different layers in Photohop

Healing Tool

More Healing Tool

Tip of the Day…

Tip: To Make a flattened copy of visible layers Keyboard shortcut Control + Alt + Shift + E (PC) Command + Option + Shift + E (Mac)

So, Now what...

I'm often asked… now that the classes are over, what do we do now?

Here are some suggestions...

Take another class, At some point Clark will have CS 6 (I'll let you know)

The Clark web site currently only lists active summer programs

http://cce.clark.edu/community-education

Go to the library…

Visit Websites,

… This is a Collection of Photoshop Websites, it's a bunch of Links to most visited/popular blogs

http://photoshop.alltop.com/

A Collection of LightRoom Websites

http://lightroom.alltop.com/

Photoshop Tutorials from Layers Magazine

http://layersmagazine.com/category/photoshop/page/8

National Association of Photoshop Users

http://www.photoshopuser.com/

The best Photoshop Magazine in my opinion is PhotoShop Creative

http://www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/

Garry's Favorite web sites (they are photography oriented)

The Luminous Landscape

http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/

http://www.dpreview.com/

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news

http://www.photographyblog.com/

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer

Join a Photoshop forum and lurk!

http://www.photoshopforums.com/

http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop

At some point someone will post a question… And you'll be able to provide them the answer!

There are lots of videos on the Adobe TV web site

http://tv.adobe.com/

My main area of interest is photography

LUMINOUS LANDSCAPE has a bunch of video tutorials that they sell. Get them and their monthly video Journal…

http://luminous-landscape.com/videos/download-videos.shtml

George Jardine has a terrrific web site a a series of videos

http://mulita.com/blog/

One more thing Don't be shy, Stay in touch and share your photographs and works of Art!

and

Photograph, Photograph, Photograph!

Then in Lightroom & Photoshop

Practice! Practice! Practice!

Got a question, send me an e-mail

Best Wishes

Garry Stasiuk

CS6 seminar

More cs6 opportunities... a one day seminar in Portland 8/6

https://www.fisheyeconnect.com/workshop/1161/details.aspx

Some Tips... and things for you to try

Howdy

Don't EVER be afraid to try, experiment, play with Photoshop... You just might come up with a masterpiece!

This what I did

1. Made just a selection of the bridge using the Polygon lasso tool.

2. Made a new layer from the selection

Command J Mac or Control J PC

3. Used the selection by color tool

but, first, sample some green from the i-5 bridge, because the color selection tool will key on the selected foreground color in the tool bar.

Then Menu:

Select > Color Range...

4. Made the selection

and for detailed instructions on using selection by color go here

http://uofgts.com/PS-P2Site/selectionbycolor.html

5. Then, choose the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and

Clip it to the selected bridge layer

6. In the HSL dialogue, Check colorize… and adjust the color to what you want

7.Then use a black brush on the H&S mask to tweak the mask…

and that's it...

Laying out images on a page for a flyer or a scrapbook page...

This is one area that Photoshop Elements has the advantage... It has a bunch of built in Layout Templates...

Photshop has a few in the OUTPUT Module

Lightroom has more...

But, in layout PSE Rules!

In Photoshop you get to make them on your own...

Here's how to do it the Hard Way

http://uofgts.com/PS/select-move.html

Here's how to do it quick and easy...

Up to Photshop CS3 there was a menu item in Photoshop called Contact Sheet.

Adobe took it out of CS4 and CS5, but put it back into CS6.

(However, you can download and install the Contact Sheet plug-in from Adobe's web site for CS 4 and CS 5)

IN CS6

1. Start in Bridge.

2. Select Your photos (Control Click) How many You select will determine how large they are on the page (Experiment)

3. Select the Bridge Menu: Tools > Photoshop > Contact Sheet II

The above is for 6 images... Play around with more or less images...

Each image will be placed on a layer, and they will be masked, ready for you to add a background and add

"fx" (Border, etc... ) to each image... or text

Experiment!

Email your questions, or bring them to class...

Have a fun weekend playing with Photoshop!

Fixed Link on Class Home web page

Howdy

apparently the link to the digital painting page was broken

Here it is

http://uofgts.com/PS/digitalpainting.html

Remember, in the next class were are focusing on photography in Photoshop's plug-in Camera Raw

#Digital Painting and Photography

Adjustment Layers and Masks

Photoshop has the following different kinds of layers

Normal

Text

Fill

Shapes

Adjustments

Video

Smart Objects.

One of the most versitile is the Adjustment Layer and there are 15 of them

Each adjustment layer is associated with a "Gadget-icon" and a Mask

Clicking on the "Gadget-icon" pops up a dialogue box that allows you to make adjustments to the layer(s) below...

In the example I have selected the Black & White Adjustment Layer using Photoshop CS 6

What I want to do is to "paint" some color back into the image of just the vending machine. That way your attention will be really drawn towards the color in an otherwise black and white image.

Here's how to do that.

Step 1:

Click once inside the White Mask to "activate" it... You'll see the double lines around the mask.

Step 2:

Press the "x" key on the keyboard, to cycle the foreground color with the background color at the bottom of the Tool Bar... We want the forground coplor to be BLACK

Step 3:

Press the"B" key to select a brush. You can make the brush bigger or smaller by pressing the Left or Right Square breket key.

Left square bracket makes the brush smaller, Right square bracket key makes the brush larger...

Step 4.

Paint over the Pepsi Machine on the Canvas, untill all the colors are Visible...

Painting Black on the Mask, blocks the black and white effect of the B & W adjustment panel, showing the colors from the layer below...

Here's the result

#Adjustment layers and masks #The B & W Adjustment Layer

Free Photoshop CS6 Shortcut Guide

Howdy

I got this from Sitepoint.com, they are promoting a book on using Photoshop CS6 for web design and are giving away a shortcut guide...

Hey there

To help you work faster and smarter, download our FREE "Photoshop CS6 Shortcuts Sheet" (PDF)

http://www.sitepoint.com/free-photoshop-cs6-shortcuts-sheet

It contains a set of handy Photoshop shortcuts and batch commands to boost your web design productivity.

Then invest $17 and take your design skills to the next level, with a digital copy of our new book "Photoshop CS6 Unlocked." http://www.sitepoint.com/launch/b68017

Remember the book comes with a Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee, and you'll receive EPUB, MOBI and PDF versions to download straightaway (for your ereader of choice).

Nice looking guide!

Saving files in Photoshop

Saving files in Photoshop and file formats.

The file format you use to save your work in Photoshop will depend on how the image will be used.

Preserving Layers

If you want to perserve layer information so you can re-edit the image or apply the same techiques to another image, then save the image as a .psd file a PhotoShop Document.

The Menu item is

File > Save As

Keyboard short cut

Shift + Control + S (PC)

Shift + Command + S (Mac)

In the Save As Dialogue box

Give the file a unique name (Photoshop will add the extension, in this case .psd)

You can also check

Save: √ As A Copy and photoshop will add the word copy to the file name in this case it would be "Beach copy.psd"

TIP: In Photoshop, if there is a button or icon that you don't know what it does, put your "pointer" over the item and don't move it... in a few seconds a yellow box will popup and tell you what it does!

If you want to perserve layers in the PSD document Make sure the Layers box is checked and always perserve your color profile..

Saving for the Internet

The .jpg file format is "lossey" the more the file is compressed, the more data is thrown away. Too much compression and the image/photo looses detail...

The menu is

File > Save for Web...

What's important here is to choose how much compression, and the file size you want to actually display on the web or in and e-mail

If the file is going to be displayed on a web page Check Convert to sRGB

When you make all your choices click the Save... button at the bottom of the page...

Steps to upload your work of art!

Don't forget to check the √ I accept the terms of submission check box!

Postcard

Oregon Swallow Tail, Richardson Ranch, 10 miles or so north of Madras

Error in uploading Postcard

I have tried uploading a postcard and continue to get an error. I have tried tiff and jpeg. File type does not seem to effect result. Respond with "error uploading file".

Welcome to Photoshop Projects

Howdy

Did you get the email newsletter I sent to all class members? If you haven't seen it check your spam or junk folder!

If you didn't get it you can view it here Week1 Review and click on the subscribe button and you'll get the one I'll send out next week.

On the class web site, if you click the tab "Photoshop Versions and Comparisons" you can see how the different versions "stack-up" CS 5 vs CS 6, including the Extended version and the differences between Photoshop Elements (PSE) and Photoshop.

Photoshop Elements 10, came out in October of last year, Photoshop CS 6 was released on May 6th.

You can always download a full free version of either program, and use it for 30 days. If you don't have the latest version, I strongly suggest you download and try them out!

On the blog or in tutorials I will point out the improvements/changes in Photoshop CS6

Homework? Did someone say homework?

1. Calibrate . your monitor… even if it is only to adjust Contrast and Brightness so you can see all the shades of Black and White… here

2. Go through the settings (The settings page has steps even for PSE)

3. Up load your Postcard and share it with your class mates

4. Try making a Greeting Card

But, Most of all have fun playing with Photoshop…

Practice, Practice, Practice..

Are there any Assignments?

Was there an assignment for next week?

Tip: Saving and Stacking Layers

You have a project with many layers, and you want to save a graphic in one of the layers for use in another project... (or, you might you want to save all the layers as seperate files...)

You could turn off all the "eyeballs" except for the layer you want to save... and use Menu item File: Save as... for every layer.

But, that's a lot of work!

However, in Photoshop there is a "Script" that performs this export "save a layer" duty for you. If you are a Photoshop Elements user you don't have this choice, as far as I know.

In Photoshop look for the Script under the menu: File

Scripts > Export Layers To Files...

Set the destination and a prefix name for your files, click "Run" to execute the script... and you are done!

Drag & Drop But, what if I only want to use one layer in another document in Photoshop?

You can Drag and Drop a layer, or many layers as you want. You can even Drag & Drop groups of layers, from one document to another in both PS and PSE.

Arrange your 2 documents 2up, so you can see both of them on the screen and the layers palette for the document that contains your "source" material. You'll find the 2up button on the Arrange Documents drop down menu in the very top row of the Photoshop window.

Your screen might look like this...

To Drag and Drop, Click on layer in the sources layer palette, the layer you want to Drag and Drop onto your new document. Hold down mouse button and drag the layer onto the new document, then, let go of mouse button!

Have fun dragging and dropping!

#Photoshop #PS Elements #Layers #Saving Layers

Animating the frames...

Okay, now we have a bunch of tweens... but, you'll notice that the layers palette looks a bit strange... There is only one layer and maybe layer(s) labeled frame 1 and frame 2...

The Next Step: In the animation palette, select ALL the frames In the Layer Palette Delete Frame 1 and Frame 2 (In the layers palette ONLY) and turn off the eyeball for the background layer (click it) This will decouple the background from the animation...

Your canvas, animation palette and layers palette should look like this

Step 2

Flatten Frames into Layers It's in the Animation Palette Menu: Flatten Frames into Layers

Now your layers palette should have a layer that corresponds to a frame...

Step 3 Now we can make changes in each Frame Layer to make our animated object do something different...

In this example the changes I make to the tennis ball will make the ball rotate and change rotation direction when it bounces

This is what I did...

1. Select Frame one and select Layer 1 2. Menu: Edit > Transform > Rotate 3. In the Option Bar changed the rotation from 0 to 10 degrees

4. Click the Check Mark in the option bar

Step 4 1. Select Frame two and select Layer 2 2. Menu: Edit > Transform > Rotate 3. In the Option Bar changed the rotation from 10 to 20 degrees 4. Click the Check Mark in the option bar

Step 5 Repeat but make the 10 degree change...

" "

Step 30 (depends on how many frames you have) Repeat make the change

This is fun, eh!

Because I decoupled the background, I can now easily change the background to anything I want...

Step 31 Turn on the background and Save your animation

Play it

Now you can animate anything!...

Let's see your results!

#animation #tweens

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