1. Using Photoshop to edit Images
Photographs
Using Photoshop to edit Images

2. Overview Photograph Guidelines Opening Images for Editing
Making Selections in Photoshop
Magic Wand, Quick Selection, Marquee, and Lasso Tools
Coloring in Selections

3. Photograph Guidelines
When working with photographs – there are several concepts to remember if you are taking your own pictures.
Just because you can google an image and save it, doesn’t mean it is ok to use it!
Phone quality is catching up with what the high-end DSLRs (Digital Single Lens Reflex) are capable of.

4. Photograph Guidelines
Rule of Thirds:
Assists with making the design/layout of a space more interesting
Note our Goat– 1/3 of the left, 1/3 down
We call this location a Power Point

5. Photograph Guidelines
Leading Lines:
Creates visual guides our eyes will follow
We normally like to follow from the left to the right

6. Photograph Guidelines
Try to obtain an odd number of objects (3, 5, etc.)
Keeps the design more interesting
Make sure the layout of the frame makes it clear what the subject is.
Example – What is the ‘subject’ of the image to the left?

7. Photograph Guidelines
Do NOT Crop on a Joint!
It can ruin a good shot/photograph
Also confuses our eyes and throws the viewer off when looking at your subject.

8. Opening Images for Editing
Working with Photographs in Photoshop

9. Opening Images for Editing
Download the ThreePix.psd document, if necessary
Two methods for opening files:
Double-Click the file (Photoshop will open and then open your document), or
Navigate to the start menu and open Photoshop, then choose File > Open from the main menu
Browse to and select ThreePix.psd to open it.
ThreePix.PSD

10. Opening Images for Editing
Show the rulers and check the size of the Image:
Show the rulers by either hitting Ctrl + R or by going to View > Rulers
To change the rulers’ measurement values, hover your cursor over the ruler and right-click to see the measurement options (units)
If your ruler is not set to Pixels, highlight and click Pixels (Do this for both rulers)

11. Opening Images for Editing
Notice the size of the image (3400 pixels by pixels (3400x1600))
Select Image > Image Size to see the actual size
View the pixels
Close the Image Size Window
Now Rotate the image by 90 degrees clockwise:
Choose Image > Image Rotation > 90 Degrees Clockwise

12. Opening Images for Editing
Background Layers in Photoshop have limited capabilities
NOTE: Every file you open or create in Photoshop, by default, will have a locked background layer
We can release the background layer and turn it into a standard layer when/if necessary
Open the Layers panel (Window > Layers or F7) if it is not already open.
To make a Background layer into a general layer there are two methods:
Double-Click the background Layer, or
Right-Click the background Layer and choose Layer from Background
Rename the Layer to England

13. Opening Images for Editing
The Right Click method from Previous Slide
to convert a background layer to a standard
layer.

14. Making Selections in Photoshop
The Marquees, Lassos & Magic Wand Tools

15. Making Selections
The first group of 9 tools are used to make selections.
In Photoshop, selections are based upon pixels, not objects (i.e. Illustrator)
Making Selections in Photoshop requires a selection tool to be used, then the selection is adjusted by adding additional selects or deleting selections
These tools can also create safe areas to be colored in as well
When you have a small arrow in the lower right corner of a tool, this means it is a collapsed icon. Click and hold over the tool to expand the tool
All Adobe Products work like this. They try and group the similar tools together.

16. Making Selections (Magic Wand Tool)
Zoom in or locate your Bath Photograph.
Select the Magic Wand Tool (Collapsed under the Quick Selection Tool)
Click in the Bath sky area, up and to the right.
Notice the Marching Ants

17. Making Selections (Magic Wand Tool)
The Magic Wand Tool relies on Tolerance, or the range of pixel contrasts to select.
By clicking on a spot (pixel), Photoshop looks for pixels darker and lighter than the one selected.
Larger the Tolerance number, the more pixels are selected.
To add to a an existing selection
Shift-Click the sky to the left of the statue to add to the existing selection

18. Making Selections (Magic Wand Tool)
Notice the selection has “hard” edges, to soften the edges (aka Feather) choose Select > Modify > Feather
Change to about 50 pixels and notice what happens to the selected area
Hit Cancel –Notice the marching ants are still on your image
To get rid of the selection – Use Select > Deselect (CTRL+D) to clear the selection and work with the image as a whole again.

19. Making Selections (Quick Selection Tool)
Compared to its Magic Wand counterpart – uses a brush concept to ‘paint’ in the selection or ‘paint’ off the selection.
Working with the Statue/Bath Picture, use the Quick Selection Tool to make a selection around the house
Make sure the brush is small, try 30 pt
Click on the small top building.

20. Quick…
Deselect
Click and drag ,“paint”, his robe.

21. Making Selections (Quick Selection Tool)
Deselecting part of a Selection:
Use Alt + Click to delete part of a selection
Adding to a Selection:
Use Shift + Click to add to a selection
Example:
If the sky was also selected when clicking the top portion of the building, click in the sky area and deselect it using Alt + Click
Deselect the building
Ctrl-D to deselect entire selection

22. Making Selections (Marquee Tool)
Four Marquee Tools (Rectangular, Elliptical, Single Row, Single Column)
Main ones used: Rectangular & Elliptical
Trying a Marquee Tool
Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool
Select the top of the House
Ctrl + D (Deselect)
If you hold in the Shift key using the Rectangular or Elliptical Tool, it will force the tool to select in either a square or a circle

23. Making Selections (Lasso Tool)
Three Lasso Tool Types (Lasso, Polygonal Lasso & Magnetic Lasso)
All three work in a similar manner:
Click to set a start point
Drag away from the start point and begin to make your selection
Click to add additional anchor points
Close the selection by bringing the lasso back around to the starting point and click the starting point to close the selection.

24. Making Selections (Lasso Tool)
Using the top of the House, try the Lasso Tool
Free-hand selection tool, you control everything
CTRL + D (Deselect)
Now try the Magnetic Lasso Tool
Click to set a starting point – notice how the lasso follows along the edge of the pixels
Uses tolerance and contrast to find the edges
Deselect when done practicing

25. Coloring in Selections
Using the selection tools to create protected areas

26. Brush
Specify brush properties

27. Coloring using Selections
Using the statue/bath house image, select the sky around the statue
Navigate to the Toolbar and click the Set Foreground Color Tool
Select the swatch color from the Swatches color Panel (Window > Swatches)…a light blue…or color picker
There are 3 methods for coloring in a selected Area:
Using the Fill option from the Edit>Fill Dropdown
Painting in the Selection
Using the Paint Bucket Tool

28. Coloring using Selections
Method # 1: Using the Foreground Color value for Contents d
Choose Edit > Fill (Shift + F5)
Select the Options as seen in the Screen Shot:
(Note: Remember the Foreground Color was already set in the last slide)
Hit OK, you should now see your color applied in the selected areas
Do Edit > Undo (CTRL + Z) To try the next method

29. Result
Ctrl Z

30. Coloring using Selections
Method #2 Using the Paint Bucket Tool (collapsed under the gradient tool
Click in the selected areas to apply the foreground color
Do Edit > Undo (CTRL + Z) To try the next method

31. Coloring using Selections
Method # 3: Using the Brush Tool to color in Selections
Select the Brush Tool (fig. 1)
Under the Properties Bar, set a Size and Hardness for the Brush (fig. 2)
Make sure the Mode is set to Normal (Should be by default) (fig. 3)
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3

32. Coloring using Selections
Using the Brush Tool, begin to paint in the selected area
Even try painting over the soldier, notice it only applies the color to the selection area.
An excellent method for ‘protecting’ the rest of an image
OK, painting a car is next .