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A Dozen
Faces |
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By using their first day photo or a
picture of a favorite faculty member or famous person, the
students will begin to study and master working with selection tools,
deleting a background image, cropping, creating layers and applying
filters to each of the layers.
They will end up with a dozen pictures
of themselves! |
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Selecting the
image and removing the background |
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Removing the background from an image
Now you will need to remove all of the background of your image. (You only
want you the person remaining in the image.)
Start by getting
the Magnetic Lasso Tool. You may have to hold down your mouse button on
the Lasso tool until the Magnetic Lasso Tool becomes an option. |
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Click on the picture
and start to trace around you head and shoulders. The line will
automatically mump to the edge. It selects similar pixels. It
will not be perfect, but you will add and subtract from the selection
later. Continue until you select your entire picture. To
aid in selection, you can click your mouse once to create a point. |
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When you
have finished selecting, double click the mouse. You will then see the
selection. |
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| You can add to a selection by
holding down your shift key and using the lasso tool to select spots you
have missed. You can subtract from a selection by holding down the Alt
key and using the lasso tool to deselect extra spots you have selected.
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| Select the inverse by going on
the menu to Select --->Inverse
Then hit the delete key to erase the backgound.
If you need to clean up your picture, then use the eraser tool to erase
anything that is extra. |
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Crop the Image and Resize |
| Select the cropping tool.
Select your picture, without the transparent background. Get as
close to your picture as you can.
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| From the menu, to to Image
----> Image size Change the width of your image to 200 pixels.
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| Create a new image
using the settings to the right.
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Creating New
Layers |
| With your original image on
top, click on the Move tool Then click on your image and drag it on top of
your new work area. You will notice that the image will look smaller.
Repeat this step 11 more times. Each time align the image in 4 rows and 3
columns. |
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Adding Filters |
| We are now ready to add filters
to each of the pictures. To make the task easier, select the
pointer/move tool and make sure that the Auto Select Layer has a check
next to it. You can now click on the image you want to add a filter
too. Notice that the layer is highlighted in the layers pallette. |
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Adding Filters
Select the picture you want to add filters too and then from the menu
choose Filters-----> Filter gallery.
A sample of options will appear along with your image. Click on each
options and you will see a sample of what your image will look like with
that filter. Many of the filters have additional options to customize that
filter. Slide the bars from side to side to see how your image would
change.
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Filters ------>Liquify option and Filters------->(choose a filter that
isn't in the Filter Gallery such as Filter----->Render---->Difference
Clouds. Try that on 2 of your layers. Continue until you
are finished with 11 of your layers. Leave one as an original.
Finally, add a background and some text! Save as a Photoshop file
with layers and as a jpeg image.
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