2/27/2018 0 Comments Photoshop 6 ~ Open TutorialsThis week, free reins to Photoshop were placed in our hands. Armed with a list of available tutorials and the worldwide web, we were to self-select several projects to complete. My choices were : 1) Dash of Color This project involved only 2 steps. First, I desaturated the full photo with one click of a button; then, I used the history brush to paint over and restore color to an area of my choice. Quick and easy as it was, I can see this being a versatile and applicable technique in the future. 2) Screen Jump My second endeavor was lengthier. After selecting the TV screen and pasting the biking photo into its perimeter, this project dove into a series of adjustment steps involving layer mask disables, layer opacities, and image size/position. I then lassoed the areas of the biking photo that would appear 3D and filled them with white. Finally, backtracking through the previous adjustment steps restored the layer masks and opacities, ultimately lending the "screen jump" illusion. Overall, this assignment was fairly simple -- the hardest aspect was finding an action shot that would lend itself well to being "popped." 3) Mythical Landscape The third time definitely isn't the charm. Everything about this final project infuriated me. It involved a vast variety of techniques ( gradients, pen curves, path strokes, etc. ) and what seemed like endless adjustments made to layer opacities, tool sizes, and blending modes. Perhaps things would have been easier if my tutorial had been a better instructor: the author didn't provide photos of layer stacks, tool bars, or anything else useful -- only images of what final products should look like. Thus, a third of my time was dedicated to hunting and pecking for obscure tools, another spent re-arranging layers through pure trial and error. In the end, the image didn't even look as it was meant to -- my version is more garish and more psychedelic than the example. In short, nothing about this transformation felt magical.
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