| Tool |
Tutorial
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"Your
Turn" Assignment
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Projects
Timeline
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Airbrush
and
Paintbrush |
Make a design (just play around) with the paintbrush
and airbrush tools. Be sure to experiment with these
settings:
- brush size
- brush shape
- pressure
- opacity |
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Clone
Stamp |
1) Download the picture. There's a link at the bottom
of the page.
2) Use the rubberstamp tool to fix the tear. |
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Pattern Stamp |
1) Download the picture alaska_coast.jpg.
2)
Define the pattern stamp as a wave or a rock and use
it to change the picture. |
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History Brush
Part
1.....Part
2 |
Experiment with the history brush on a picture of your
choice.
Be sure to try changing the
- opacity,
- brush size,
- blending mode and the
- impressionist check box. |
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Art History Brush
Part
1.....Part
2 |
Take this picture, or another landscape picture, and
use the art history brush on the sky and one other element
in the picture. Be sure to change the settings for the
different parts of the picture. |
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Eraser Tools
Part
1.......Part 2 |
1) Open up any image in Photoshop that has only one
layer.
2) Make the following 4 eraser marks:
a) Use the block eraser in the top left corner
b) Use the pencil eraser in the top right corner, with 50% opacity.
c) Use the airbrush eraser in the bottom left corner, with 25% pressure.
d) Use the paintbrush eraser in the bottom right corner, with a 10-step fade
and wet edges.
3) Double-click on the background layer and re-name it layer 0.
4) Make all 4 eraser marks a second time. |
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Pencil |
no computer assignment |
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Line |
This is the same tutorial you saw in Part 1 - Getting
Started handout. Watch the tutorial again, but
you do not have to do the "your turn exercise" again. Now that
you know more about painting tools, new parts of the
tutorial will make more sense to you. |
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Blur, Sharpen and Smudge |
Open any image in Photoshop and experiment with the
blur, sharpen and smudge tools. |
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Dodge |
1) Download the image, dark_museum.jpg. There is
a link at the bottom this page.
2) Use the dodge tool
to lighten the shadowy areas
of the picture.
3) Remember that you can use Edit > Undo
or the history palette to undo if any areas get over-lightened.
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Burn
Part
1.......Part 2 |
1) Download this image.
2) Use the burn tool to increase the strength
of the shadows to make this picture look like it was
taken
in direct sunight. |
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Sponge |
No computer assignment |
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Paintbucket
Part
1.............Part
2 |
1) Open a picture (your choice) in Photoshop.
2) Make a new layer.
3) On the new layer, make a rectangular selection, then
use the paintbucket tool with these settings:
Opacity 100% - Tolerance 20 - Use All Layers (checked) - Contiguous (checked)
4) On the same layer, make a different rectangular selection, then use the paintbucket
tool with these settings:
Opacity 20% - Tolerance 80 - Use All Layers (un-checked) - Contiguous (checked) |
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Linear Gradient
PS 5.5 |
1) Download the file grad_practice.psd. (Use
right-click> Save Target As)
2) Go to the ground layer
and use the rectangular marquee to select an area to
be the ground. The top
of the rectangle, which would be the horizon, should
be even with the character's eyes.
3) Make a linear
gradient from brown at the bottom of the page to black
at the horizon.
4) Inverse your selection, go to the sky
layer and make a linear gradient from light blue to
white. |
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Radial Gradient
PS 5.5
Part
1......Part 2 |
Part 1
1) On the practice document from part 1, make a round
selection on the balls layer.
2) Set the foreground color
to white and the background color to black.
3) Make a
radial gradient on the round selection to make a the
illusion of a 3-dimensional ball.
4) If you like, paint
a contact shadow on a layer underneath, using black color
with a low opacity, and
a soft brush.
Part 2
1) Open the file grad_practice.psd
2) Make a sunset gradient.
3) Apply the sunset gradient to your sky layer.
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Angle, Reflective, and Diamond Gradient PS
5.5
Part 1............Part
2 |
Using this method, make 3 cylinders, all
with different 2-color reflective gradients. |
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Eyedropper and
Color Sampler |
No Assignment |
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Finish all 6 projects
for Digital Imaging 1A |
