Monday, November 14, 2011

Photoshopt tutorial- Carlie M

Rainbow Effect
1. First look for a landscape photo on Google images, or take a good one.
2. Lock the original photo
3. Click new layer
4. Change name “layer” to “rainbow” and press return
5. Select the gradient tool from the tool panel
6. Click gradient picker
7. It opens the gradient editor, and add the rainbow gradient. Click right-pointing arrow
8. Click special effect and when a pop-up comes up click append
9. Click “Russel’s Rainbow”
10. Click options bar then gradient tool
11. Hold shift while dragging from right of photo to left
12. When released a rainbow is drawn
13. Go to blend mode options in left of the layers, set to normal
14. Go to filter, choose blur and then Gaussian blur
15. Drag radius to the right to increase blur, drag until colors look blended and softer. 50 pixels work, click ok
16. Mask the layer, it’s a button on the bottom of layers that’s gray with a white center
17. Control-click in gradient tool, select black to white gradient. Press return
18. Choose linear gradient
19. Hold shift while dragging on mask layer, when released you don’t see actual gradient on the image
20. Duplicate to make, command + j, opacity to 70%
21. Group, shift and click original rainbow at once
22. Go to layer and click group layers
23. Add a blank layer and repeat previous steps
24. Save it

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Photo Shop Tutorial Sarah Dyreng

Sharpening, Blur and Smudge Tool
Sharpen Tool

The Sharpen Tool allows you to sharpen individual parts of your image to bring out different aspects by increasing the contrast between pixels
1.      Select the Sharpen Tool.
2.      Change the brush tip size, hardness, and strength according to what you want.
3.      Click and drag the mouse/your brush on the area you want to sharpen. Don’t overdo!
4.      Different modes will have different effects.
a.       Normal: Sharpens what you drag your mouse over
b.      Darken: Sharpens the pixels darker than your foreground
c.       Lighten: Sharpens the pixels lighter than your foreground
d.      Hue: Causes complementary colors to appear
e.       Color: Same as hue
f.       Saturation: Increases the saturation
g.      Luminosity: Sharpens the light in photos

Blur Tool
The Blur Tool allows you to blur individual parts of your image by decreasing contrast between pixels. This can be used to give a shallow Depth of Field look and smooth out lines, wrinkles, blemishes, etc.
1.      Select the Blur Tool
2.      Change the brush tip size, hardness, and strength according to what you want.
3.      Click and drag the mouse/your brush on the area you want to blur.
4.      Different modes will have different effects.
a.       Normal: Blurs what you drag your mouse over
b.      Darken: Blurs the pixels darker than your foreground
c.       Lighten: Blurs the pixels lighter than your foreground
d.      Hue: Blurs the pixels of complementary colors
e.       Color: Blurs color
f.       Saturation: Blurs and increases saturation
g.      Luminosity: Blurs the light in photos

Smudge Tool
The Smudge Tool carries pixels under the brush.
1.      Select the Smudge Tool. 
2.      Change the brush tip size, hardness, and strength according to what you want.
3.      Click and drag the mouse/your brush over the area you want smudged.
4.      Different modes will have different effects. See the above for the effects and change for smudge.