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



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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!