To learn some additional graphics editing skills in Adobe Photoshop.
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Skills
I will show you in class how to perform the editing tasks you need to complete this assignment.
- resize a photo
- copy a selected area from one photo to another
- selections: resize, inverse, add, subtract, Refine Edge
- Clone tool
- Eraser tool
- Smudge tool
Extreme Makeover
Follow the directions carefully. Every object you work with should end up on its own layer. Each layer should be named according to what is on it.
Have patience. It can take some work and experimentation to make the changes you want to make look natural.
You have all the artistic freedom you want on this, but be sure to do at least the things described below. Have fun with it!
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Obtain a photograph of yourself with the following characteristics:
- portrait shot, like an ID photo, showing your head and face from the shoulders up (it can be cropped, if necessary)
- both eyes open and visible
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Copy the photograph to a new folder on your flash drive. Make a copy of your photograph and rename the copy using your name: John Smith Lab 8 Before Extreme.
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Open the original photo in Photoshop and do a Save As, naming it with your name: John Smith Lab 8 After Extreme.PSD (Be sure to save it with a filetype of PSD so that Photoshop will keep your layers).
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Resize the picture so that it is between 500 and 1000 pixels on each side.
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Select yourself (face, hair, shoulders, clothes, etc.) and copy to a new layer.
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Go to Google Images or another online source, and find an interesting landscape (very different from whatever your original background is), maybe somewhere you'd like to visit. Make sure the photo is at least 500 pixels on each side. Save it in your lab folder.
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Open the landscape picture in Photoshop, resize if necessary, and copy it to your picture, underneath the layer where you copied yourself.
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Find a picture online of someone who has a very different hair style than you. It can be serious or ridiculous. Save it in your lab folder.
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Open that picture in Photoshop, select just the hair and move that to your picture. You will probably need to resize the hair layer. If you have to expand the hair so much that it looks pixelated or fuzzy, you'll need to find a different hair picture.
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If the hair you are inserting is longer than your old hair, you'll need to select part of the front of your face to a new layer to move on top of the hair layer. (If there are bangs, you may need to also copy a bit of hair to a new layer on top of the new face layer).
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If the new hair is shorter, you'll need to delete the parts of the old hair that are still showing on the face layer. Use the Clone tool to remove parts of the old hair that may still be showing on the face or clothing. If appropriate, you can erase parts of the old hair to let the landscape background show through. (Too bad major rearrangements aren't this easy to make in real life!)
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Find a picture online of someone who has an eyeball you can borrow. If you have dark eyes, pick a light-colored eye, and vice-versa. Save that picture in your lab folder.
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Open that picture in Photoshop, select an eyeball, and copy it to your picture. You will likely have to resize the eyeball.
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Copy the eye to get a second eyeball, and move it into place.
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If you have thin, light eyebrows, give yourself thick, dark eyebrows, or vice versa. There are many ways to do this. (For example, you can clone from your own hair or eyebrows a few times and use the Color Adjustment -> Lighten/Darken, or you can borrow someone else's, etc. Be creative.)
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Copy (to a new layer) part or all of your clothes that are visible, and change the color. (You want the same clothes, but with a new color).
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Find a cool prop to add to the picture. It can be an accessory to decorate you or an object to decorate the background.
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Save your image and close it.
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Use the Drop Box to submit both your Before and After files. Both should follow the usual pattern: (eg. John Smith Lab 8 Before Extreme and John Smith Lab 8 After Extreme).
Grading
both Before and After files sent and named correctly Before image is an orginary jpg or gif file After image is a PSD file with layers face photo used is ID style, with both eyes open image resized to between 500 and 1000 pixels per side face with hair and clothing has been copied to its own layer face layer is clean, complete, and old background not visible different background inserted background not pixelated or blurry background image on its own layer, below face copy new hair style selected is very different hair integrated cleanly with face, using multiple layers, and deleting or covering as needed hair not pixelated or blurry and is cleanly selected new eyes are very different from original eyes eyes integrated cleanly with face, old eyes covered eyes not pixelated or blurry and are cleanly selected eyebrows noticeably thickened or thinned eyebrows integrated cleanly clothes changed color clothes selected cleanly for color change prop added prop not pixelated or blurry and is cleanly selected
