PS Practices 6 to 8

Practice 6 (1^st part) – Marquee Tools

• Download File #1 and open it directly in Photoshop.



• If the layer is blocked, remove the protection.



• Using the rectangular marquee tool, select the main building of the picture.



• Apply a Deep Emerald Photo Filter with density at 90%.



• Save it as JPEG medium quality.



• Paste it in your PS Portfolio.

Practice 6 (2^nd part) – Polygonal Lasso Tool

• Download File #2 and open it directly in Photoshop.



• If the layer is blocked, remove the protection.



• Crop the image using the crop tool, as shown in the example.



• Using the Polygonal Lasso Tool (feather: 2px), select the background, leaving only the first rock without selection.



• Apply a Gaussian Blur Filter, with radius in 2.0 pixels.



• Save it as JPEG medium quality.



• Paste it in your PS Portfolio.

Practice 6 (3^rd part) – Polygonal Lasso Tool

• Download File #3 and open it directly in Photoshop.



• If the layer is blocked, remove the protection.



• Using the Polygonal Lasso Tool (feather: 2px), select the buildings and copy them. (File-copy)



• Create a New Layer and paste the selection.



• Delete the original layer.



• Create a new layer and using the paint bucket tool, add color to the background. (R:222 – G:235 – B:6) Arrange the layers if necessary, to have the buildings before the background.



• Save it as JPEG medium quality.



• Paste it in your PS Portfolio.

Practice 7 – Vector Mask Layers

• Download File #4 and open it directly in Photoshop.



• If the layer is blocked, remove the protection.



• Add a new Mask Layer.



• Start drawing shapes using the Custom Shape Tools. (it doesn’t have to be exactly as the example)



• Add a new layer, and change the background (R:35 – G:105 – B:40) (Edit-Fill)



• Crop the picture to remove part of the background (look at the example)



• If you have questions, search in pages 59-60 of your PS book.



• Save it as JPEG medium quality.



• Paste it in your PS Portfolio.

Practice 8 – Composite Image

• Download File #5, File #6, File #7, File #8 and File #9.



• Open file #5 directly in Photoshop.



• If the layer is blocked, remove the protection.



• Create a new layer. Convert it to a background layer. (it will turn to white)



• Select the wall layer. Change its opacity to 50% in the layers palette)



• Open file #6 directly in Photoshop.



• Paste it to the original file. (use the move tool and holding down Alt, drag the selection to the composition file. Rename the layer. (ocean)



• For the big picture use these special effects in the layers palette. (drop shadow, opacity 70% - distance 15px – spread 13% - size 13px * stroke, size 4 – color R:74-G:56-B:25)



• For the smaller pictures use these special effects. (drop shadow, opacity 70% - distance 7px – spread 26% - size 13px * stroke, size 3 – color, free to choose)



• For the medium picture use these special effects. (outer glow, opacity 90% - spread 20% - size 30px – color, free to choose)



• If you have questions, search in pages 61-63 of your PS book.



• Save it as JPEG medium quality.



• Paste it in your PS Portfolio.