Fall 2008 - Thursday Class

Notes from the Thursday Photoshop class running through October & November 2008:

From Class 1:

Badlands

From Class 3:

How to Batch Resize Photos in Photoshop CS2 & CS3

From Class 4:
We practiced the Toolbox on several photos. See before and after:

emma watching a skateboarder

campus-edited

PICT2916

hiker-edited

Wearing Bam-Bam's hats

hats-edited

Class Examples 022-original

Class-Examples-022

From Class 5:
We worked on the Toolbox again and practiced on a couple of photos, then practiced a couple of examples from the book.

We started with this photo of a historic cathedral.

Then we used this photo of a canal in Amsterdam.

Then we used this photo to demonstrate how to create a soft spotlight around a part of the photo, as seen on page 202 in the book.

Then we turned the page (page 204) and worked with the Magic Wand Tool to create a selection of an entire color. We used this photo of a sporty car. I turned mine a golden-gray color.

We then covered a new topic: adding borders to your photos. Photoshop calls borders “Strokes” and you find them on the Edit menu. I showed you pictures from Meredith on Flickr and how her borders make any picture look fantastic. I tried it out and got this result.

Lastly, we took two photos and merged them together using the Free Transform Tool (CTRL T) as seen on page 308. We used this photo of a laptop and I used this photo of my daughters in a bugswing and ended up with this photo.

Class 6:
Cutting out something and putting it into another photo.
How to Sharpen a portion of a photo.

October 19, 2008 | Filed Under Photoshop 

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One Response to “Fall 2008 - Thursday Class”

  1. Pearl Brown on November 13th, 2008 8:32 pm

    I took your 6 week course at Parkland and learned something new each class, but you know how everything sort of falls together, if you are lucky, at the end. Just watching your screen, not trying to do it on my computer, showed me so many things. I am sure you covered them before, but too much for my pea brain to remember. Tonight, the turning on and off of layers to see where you were at, the talking about masks and layers the same sort of just different in different programs, the enlarging to see all the pixels that needed trimming., the blacking in the background layer to have a black background. Need I go on and on. Don’t let your head get to big with all these compliments, but you are a good instructor and I feel like I learned a LOT. Thanks again.

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