Session 11

You can follow the previous courses resources and other learners input in ths Photoshop Elements Course blog archive below....

On today’s session we were using Photoshop Elements Organiser to link photos from the computer’s hard drive and then created a simple card, calendar and a slideshow which we could export a Media Player movie and send via email. As this was the last session of the course I suggested the following websites so you can practice and develop your skills in photoshop:

Photoshop tutorials web resources:

http://www.pegaweb.com/index.html  web design tutorials

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/adobe_photoshop_elements/

http://www.webworksite.com/photoshop_elements_tutorials.shtml

http://www.betterphotoshoptechniques.com/index.php  video tutorials PSE 6&7

http://digitalphotographyformoms.net

http://photoshopium.com/

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/

http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tutorials.shtml

http://abduzeedo.com/tutorials

http://www.dafont.com/  free fonts to download

I hope you enjoyed the course and I wish you all the very best in the future.

Regards

Dariusz

Session 11 - Learning about organiser (End of the course)

On today’s session we were using Photoshop Elements Organiser to link photos from the computer’s hard drive and then created a simple card, calendar and a slideshow which we could export a Media Player movie and send via email. As this was the last session of the course I suggested the following websites so you can practice and develop your skills in photoshop:

Photoshop tutorials web resources:

http://www.pegaweb.com/index.html web design tutorials

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/adobe_photoshop_elements/

http://www.webworksite.com/photoshop_elements_tutorials.shtml

http://www.betterphotoshoptechniques.com/index.php video tutorials PSE 6&7

http://digitalphotographyformoms.net

http://photoshopium.com/

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/

http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tutorials.shtml

http://abduzeedo.com/tutorials

http://www.dafont.com/ free fonts to download

I hope you enjoyed the course and I wish you all the very best in the future.

Regards

Dariusz

Photoshop Session 9

Here is the list of portrait photos you can use to practice with wrinkles removal

Session 8 - Red eye reduction & Gradient Rainbow

Please find below files we were using for the tutorials and the homework:

Castle.jpg
Rainbow-landscape.jpg

Red eye reduction sample pictures - you can use your own as well:


red-eyes.jpg
red-eyes2.jpg

red-eyed girl.jpg
red-eyed girl2.jpg

Session 7 - Image Resolution & Panoramas

Today we learned about Photoshop image resize options, and how important resolution figures are when it comes to printing images. We also discovered how to process multiple pictures, if you want to rename then, resize or make simple changes (I send a separate handout about this).

In the second part of the session, we were practicing stitching panoramas together using File>New>Photomerge Panorama option, which you found quite useful and exciting.

What is important here is the size of the original photo - if you have rather slow computer processor don't try to photomerge big pictures. Use some of the resizing techniques we were discussing at the beginning of the session instead, otherwise it takes Photoshop long time trying to process and calculate all those big pictures for you. Besides as we said earlier normally you don't need a huge picture resolution to print a decent size photo. Hope this helps.

Below you can find some pictures to create panoramas as a practice.

TASK1

PAN1
PAN2
PAN3
CLOUDY_SKY

HOMEWORK1

IMG1
IMG2
IMG3
IMG4
IMG5

HOMEWORK2

ShadowTree01
ShadowTree02
ShadowTree03

HOMEWORK3

pict1
pict2
pict3

HOMEWORK4 - Perspective

pict01
pict02
pict03
pict04


I hope you will find those exercises easy and fun to do - of course there is no single solution to perform all the megres but as always - be creative and try various PSE settings to make most of it. Have fun.

Dariusz

And there is your attempt to do the homework:

Jim Task1
Jim Garden Panorama

Mike Task1

Kevin Panorama1
Kevin Panorama2

Below you can see the video tutorial of the whole task; be careful though as it is quite large file and can take time to download, sorry.

Panoramas task

Session 6 - Creating Collages

We have been combining variety of techniques to create a sample collage. We also looked at the gradient tool options and how we can apply it to a text, so it has different colours.

As a homework I gave you a couple of tutorials which both use the same technique to blend two pictures together - adjustment layers and previous layer grouping.

Let me know if you had any problems with completing the homework - you can also use your own photos to create collages and blendings. Have fun!

Below I attach pictures we have been using:

Baby.jpg
Blocks.jpg
sm-bear.jpg

Because some of you were uncertain about few steps of the Baby tutorial we have been doing in the classroom, I attach a link to a video tutorial, which hopefully will be easier to follow.
Because of the length and size of the movie I divided it into two parts:


Baby_Collage_Tutorial
Baby_Collage_Part_2


Blending tutorial 1

Couple-sunset.jpg
Happy Couple.jpg

Blending tutorial 2

Girl-Dandelion.jpg
Woman with Flower.jpg

Your Homework

Kevin Cinema poster

Hay Fewer Tablets Advert

Session 5 - Correcting Colour Casts, Adjustment Layers

Today we discovered how easy and useful can be to repair underexposed photos with Adjustment Layers - we tried Levels and Brightness option in comparison to Quick Fix pane. We applied the Correct Colour Cast tool, where you can indicate to photoshop which pixels on your photograph should be either white,black or grey, so the program is able to correct the tonal exposure.

Below I embed some video tutorials so you find the content easier to follow:

P.S. Remember you can always enlarge the video to fit into your screen by clicking on the small screen icon on the bottom right corner of this video, and use Esc button to close the Full Screen mode

Quick Fix:



HSL Colour Repair



Colour Cast Removal



Using Adjustment Layers




Please find the following files as a working copies you can use for practice:

General Change (Quick Fix, Colour Auto Ajustments via Levels or Brightness)

Elephant
Otter
Palms

Dessert
Church
House
Mountains
View

Correcting Colour Cast

People on Boat
Building
Docks
Colour Cast
Boats

Homework

Madiera

Session 3 - Combinig & Transforming Images

Today we were copying images into a new canvas. We created a new white canvas (File>New>Blank File or Ctrl+N) and opened 2 jpg pictures stored in our course folder. Then we selected one of the pictures (Select>All), copied the selection (Edit>Copy) and pasted into a blank canvas (Edit>Paste). We repeated the same process for the second picture, so we had two smaller pictures displayed on the white canvas (it created 2 separate layers we could transform independently).
Then we resized those pictures using Move tool, so they fit onto canvas (dragging the corners of selected layer) . At the end we added some text using Text tool and printed the final document.

And this is the final result of combined photos:

Below are links to the images you created as a homework.
This is excellent piece of artwork - well done to everyone!

Serena's pictures:

Combined 2 pictures
Cube

Jim's homework:

Combined 2 pictures
Cube

Kevin's homework:

Combined 2 pictures
Pet's Cube

Mike's homework:

Combined 2 pictures (Misery&Joy)
Cube

Your work with Layers

I would like to congratulate to Kevin for very original idea with the 'Ghost ship'.

Original image

Ghost ship.jpg

This is his receipe:

I used Google Images to find a picture of the sailing ship - it is the Matthew - a replica of John Cabot's famous ship. I pasted it into a new layer and used the eraser tool to rub out most of the background around the ship. The edges were still a bit ragged so I inserted a new dark blue layer under the ship to get good contrast to see the edges of the ship, the blue background is turned off in the PSD file. I thought that a black and white version of the ship might look more spooky so I duplicated the ship layer and found the option Enhance > Convert to Black and White. It looked good but I found the best effect was with both the colour and B&W layers at about 33% opacity. Finally I thought that the scale was a bit wrong - the Matthew needed to be bigger - but it was on two layers.... but I could link the layers together and scale them both at the same time so it wasn't a problem.

Fantastic job, well done Kevin!

Session 2 - Hand Tinting + Layers

Just a reminder that on today's session we did some more practice with hand tinting, using different brush options and creating a new layer as a non-destructive way of editing your original picture. As a guide I am sending a link to a video tutorial I created. Hope you will find it handy.

Hand Tint 4 - More Practice Video Tutorial



You will be able to put some comments underneath the video if you like.
If you use the blog to comment instead, you need to choose the Name/ID option in the Comment as box. I set it up so that you can comment as anonymous, but sometimes it does not work properly asking you for login name. Therefore choose Name/ID option and insert your name only leaving the ID blank.


Hope you will all engage in this new form of interaction :)


Regards

Dariusz

Session 1 - Hand Tinting

On the first session we were talking about some Photoshop palettes, how to open a picture and save it in photoshop format (.psd) . We also discovered how to use a brush tool and its settings to paint over a picture, selecting variety of brush settings like size, hardness, opacity and shape.

As a homework you were given some B/W pictures to hand tint.

Thank you for the excellent work you submitted.

Below you can find pictures created by Serena.

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

And there are some photos created by Kevin (click on each link to see the pict.):


Pict1

Pict2

Pict3

Pict4

Really good work! Well done!