1. Producing a Triptych By Tony Cheshire
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Producing a Triptych By
Tony Cheshire
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2. Last Years winning Braithwaite set
Typical set Numbering A B C D
Triptych D A B C
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3. Typical Triptych layouts
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4. Typical Triptych layouts
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5. Manipulating the digital images
There are many different types of manipulation S/W available, normally one is supplied with the camera.
The “Industry Standard “is PhotoShop closely followed by PaintShop Pro. The cost of the latest version CS6 is approx £725
Many people use PhotoShop Elements which is a cut down version of Photoshop the latest version 12 costs about £62 and version 7 £25 and does 90% of its big brother. There is also PaintShop Pro cost version X6 is £50 and X3 £26.
Picasa 3 is free software supplied by Google but is more limited. However if you only want to do small changes to your photographs it is more than adequate. Another Free software is GIMP which is similar to Photoshop.
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6. Manipulating the digital images
When working with the pictures, changing them and resaving them, care should be taken if they are in JPEG format, as this is a compression type. Each time the picture is saved it is compressed, and after being saved only a few times, 3 or 4, it becomes unusable.
A better alternative is to use TIFF files and covert them to be JPEG at the end when you require a smaller file size. If the camera has only JPEG output, then save them to TIFF in Photoshop etc. first before doing any changes.
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7. Demonstrations, Picasa 3
Picasa 3 can be downloaded by putting “download Picasa 3”
into Google, or going directly to
Basic Features Tuning Effects
Cropping Fill Light Sharpen
Straighten Highlights Sepia
Colour manipulation Shadows B & W
Retouch (Cloning) Colour Temp. Colour saturation
Red eye reduction Colour picker
Text
Fill light
Other features
Upload
Print
Collage
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8. Picasa 3 --Opening page
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9. Picasa 3 – Edit Menu Or double click on chosen picture 22/02/2019
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10. Collages Can be used to produce the Triptych for 3 of a kind
Choose 3 pictures
Press collage button
Pictures show here
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11. Produced Collage
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12. Arrange Collage
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13. Add Text
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14. Collage completed
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15. Collage completed, shown in Explorer
My Documents
My Pictures
Picasa
Collage can be re-titled and moved to the competitions folder.
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16. Saving Files in Picasa 3
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17. Saving Files in Picasa 3
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18. Saving Files in Picasa 3
The size of the picture can be set when saving using the export command.
Set the slider to 1200 for projection.
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19. Producing Triptych using Photoshop Elements
Stages in process
Produce Background layer
Open the 3 pictures required
Size the pictures
Position them
Colour the background
Add Text
Flatten the image
Save the Triptych
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20. Toolbar Move Zoom Hand Eyedropper Rectangular Marquee Lasso Magic Wand
Magic Selection Brush
Type
Crop
Cookie Cutter
Straighten
Red eye Removal
Healing Brush
Clone
Eraser
Brush
Paint Bucket
Gradient
Custom Shape
Blur
Burn
Set Foreground Colour
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21. Producing Triptych using Photoshop Elements
File
New
Set title and file size to 1200 x 800 pixels
Resolution 200
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22. Triptych – Insert 3 files
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23. Triptych – Resize the 3 images 1
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24. Triptych – Resize the 3 images 2
Set the size in %
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25. Triptych – Position images
1 Choose background layer
2 Move pictures, one at a time, using click and drag
3 Move pictures into position as shown on next slide
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26. Triptych – Move tool
Move Tool
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27. Triptych – Magic Wand Magic Wand Identifies area to be coloured
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28. Triptych – Colour background
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29. Triptych – Colour background
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30. Add Text Text font and size Text colour Text button 22/02/2019
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31. Triptych – Flatten Layers
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32. Saving Files, PhotoShop
Choose file type
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