1. Spring 2007

2. Who is this person ??

3. Do you Recognize him now ?

4. Liquifying Images
After the image has been saved and opened in Photoshop, many changes can be made.
Under Filter -> Liquify, changes can be made to someone’s face.

5. Forward Warp Tool, smudges the drawing.
Pucker Tool, shrinks selection.
Bloat Tool, blows up selection.

6. Transformation

7. Drawing a Background and selecting layers
Make sure you open a new layer each time you want to make a change (Photoshop 1).
Start with the background
For a background of clouds, choose your color and go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds

8. Filter Gallery and Blending
Once the clouds have been done, using the lasso tools , certain selections can be made.
Once the ground is selected and painted using a desired color, the filter gallery can be used to blend the grass with the clouds, under Filter -> Filter Gallery

9. Transformation
Once the image has been copied and pasted on to the new image on a new layer, certain transformations can be made to that new layer.
Under Edit -> Transform
-> Perspective

10. Adding an Image
Once the background is done, the next step is adding the image.
Find the image you want and open it in Photoshop.
Once it’s opened, using the Magic Wand Tool
and the Inverse selection under Selection, only the part you want of the image can be selected, copied and pasted into your new image.

11. Roger Rabbit in the Matrix

12. Pattern Stamp Tool
In order to create an image on top of an existing background, the following must be done:
First the background must be saved and opened up in Photoshop.
By going to Edit -> Define Pattern, while selecting the Pattern Stamp Tool, the background pattern can be now selected as a painting tool.
Once that has been done, the desired image must be cut and pasted onto the background on a NEW LAYER.

13. Creating an Image on a patterned background
Select the layer, on to which the image is pasted.
Make sure only the image is selected and not the background, that can be done by using inverse selection again.

14. Creating an Image on a patterned background
On the right hand – bottom corner of Photoshop, different layers can be selected and edited.
Under Layers, the blending mode can be changed to Luminosity, which will cause the image to blend in the background.

15. Painting and Drawing
Painting is as easy as choosing a color, selecting a digital paint brush, and dragging the brush over the “canvas”
First, choose a foreground color

16. Painting and Drawing Next, you need to choose the type of brush to use
Note that toolbar buttons with arrows lead to more options. Just click and hold the button to see more options

17. Painting and Drawing
Then, choose the brush options and specify opacity
Opacity specifies how much the background shows through

18. Painting and Drawing
You can also draw specific shapes in Photoshop, including rectangles, ellipses, polygons and custom shapes
Simply select the shape you want to draw and then draw on the canvas
Examples of
Custom Shapes

19. Questions?

20. Attention !!!
Duplex Printing is now available in our labs.

21. Additional Information
The Microcomputer Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis offers day and evening computer courses as part of the Chancellor's Certificate series.
Microsoft E-Learning Library has tutorials on many MS Office products available to all UMSL students and staff
The Online Student Technology Guide has answers to many computing questions.