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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:

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.

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Resizing groups of photos is very easy if you are using Photoshop. I am using Photoshop CS3 on a Mac in this example. Though I am not sure if this works in Elements, I do know that it works in CS2 on both a PC & a Mac.

Here’s the concept: you have a folder full of JPG files and they are all very large. You want to resize all of the photos at once, or you want to create small copies of all of the photos at once, but save it to another location. No problem.

Just click the File menu, and hover over Scripts, then select Image Processor:

Be sure to check out my Photoshop site
with High Resolution Video Tutorials

PhotoshopSamurai.com

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http://www.scottkelbybooks.com/elements5

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brockangelo

And photos from PS Course:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brockangelo/tags/pscourse

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From Class 1:

Badlands

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From Class 2:

Baby Violet

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From Class 3:

Cropping: the pink flower – Chapter 3, pages 76-78 & 90-91

Cropping: the red sports car – Chapter 3, pages 92-93

Be sure to read pages 95-97 on how to easily straighten a photo if you have Elements 5. CS doesn’t have it this good.

Color Correcting: Lady in sunglasses – Chapter 4, pages 122-129

Drag & Drop with Layers: Adjustment Layers – Photo 1 – Chapter 4, pages 134-136

Drag & Drop with Layers: Adjustment Layers – Photo 2 – continued

Drag & Drop with Layers: Adjustment Layers – Photo 3 – continued

Better Black & White Conversion – Chapter 4, pages 145-149

Faking a Layer Mask

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From Class 4:

Toolbox Practice:

– Girls at the playground

– Violet: Close-up

Desert: Blue Sky – as seen on page 142

Applying Filters – as seen on page 140

Digital Dodging: Venice – as seen on page 162

Concert Flash Correction – as seen on page 172

Softening Edges – as seen on page 202

Cloning Away Unwanted Objects – as seen on page 268

Burned-In Edge Effect – see page 291 HOMEWORK!!!

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View the Screencast of how to merge photos by clicking here.

View the latest Keyboard Shortcuts

View the Photoshop Toolbox Checklist

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From Class 5:

Toolbox: Edith, Christmas Twins

Blending Photos: Edith, Emma, Violet

Laptop Image and Nemo Fish Image – as seen on page 308-309

A destructive Depth of Field method – as seen on page 310-311 (layer masks would be better)

Colorizing Black & White Photos – as seen on page 334-337

Repairing Spots – as seen on page 341-343

Several detailed descriptions of Blend Modes:

1. Samples of each mode using real photos – scroll to the bottom for pictures
2. Adobe’s official descriptions – with algorithms used – a pdf file
3. Unofficial, maybe a bit confusing – a pdf file

Orton Effect using Blend Modes – explained here with video tutorial here.

HDR using blend modes – a wiki article

Soft Focus Effect – as seen on page 296-297

Soft Spotlight – as seen on page 288-290

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From Class 6:

Zip File of Yellowstone photos

Brock’s family photo with his in-laws.

Another capture, try applying layers from previous edit.

Here is the PSD file from our Yellowstone collage project in class.

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Funny

see more crazy cat pics

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