February+25th

=Week of February 25th=

Wednesday and Thursday:
~Today you will begin your first bigger solo project. This project uses PS to create a composite image from several photographs by using layers. You will start with a photo of a recently constructed house, and create a composite image by inserting layers of flowers, bushes, trees, a statuary, and sod.

Step 1: Create a new folder in your H Drive (in your Graphics Folder) called Landscape Step 2: Download the required files (remember if you right click on the link you can go to Save Link/Image as) and save them to your Graphic 1 folder in a new folder named HOUSE in your H:drive. ,, , , , ,



Step 3: Open the House.psd file and save this as HouseLandscape_Lastname in your folder. Step 4: Make a copy of the background layer and name it COPY. Turn off the background layer. Step 5: Open the image flowers. Your image will open in front of the house. Use the magnetic lasso to make a selection of the red and pink flowers. Look at the final image for exactly what it should look like. Once you have the selection - use the move tool and click and drag the flowers into the house image. It will create a new layer. Name this layer flowers. Step 6: You will need to resize the flowers and position them correctly. Step 7: Open the bush image. Select only the green bush not the base. Create two identical bushes and place them next to the flowers. Step 8: Open the lion image. Make a good selection around the lion, copy and place in front of the garage. You might need to resize them. Step 9: Move the tree out of the way and place the flowerbed into position. Place tree in flowerbed. Step 10: Open the sod image. You must leave the original image open and clone from there. Clone the grass in all locations. Make this look good. Take your time or ask for help before you make a big mess. Step 11: Save, save, save

Tuesday:
Project: Taking images from your last beach vacation, you are going to create the perfect scene
 * There are a few issues though:
 * There are 2 random people in your BEACH shot so you are going to need to remove them and use the cloning stamp to replace the beach and make it look like they were never there
 * There are also elements that were not in the shot when you took it and need to be place
 * A Beach Ball
 * An Umbrella
 * 2 Sea Gulls
 * A Sand Pail
 * Make sure it looks like it works for your image
 * This is slightly different because they are different files but the concepts are the same. Just open each image (file open), select the element, press CTRL C and then go back to the BEACH image and press CTRL V
 * Here are the files you will need: [[file:beach (1).jpg|Beach]], [[file:Beach Ball.jpg|Beach Ball]], [[file:Beach Pail.jpg|Beach Pail]], [[file:Large Umbrella.tif|Umbrella]], [[file:Gull.jpg|Gull]]

Here is an idea to help you (but you can decide for yourself)



Monday:

 * Cloning practice--I have posted the notes about how to use the cloning and healing tools we went through last week. They are on the Week of February 18th page. Please refer there is you are unsure about something.
 * You have 3 challenges today.
 * First, you are hired by a local golf course. They need two images redone. They want one where the golfball is GONE from the image and it looks like perfect grass. Also they want an image with TWO golfballs in the grass. Here is the image you will need: [[file:Golfball.jpg|Golfball]]
 * Second, you bought the perfect pumpkin BUT your little brother carved it before you were able to take a picture of how perfect it is. Using the tools, get rid of the face and make it a whole, uncarved pumpkin. Here is the file you will need to work on: [[file:carved-pumpkin.jpg|Pumpkin]]
 * Third, choose an image from online and show me your cloning abilities! Impress me!
 * Send all images as a JPEG and explain to me what you did in the third image