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The
first challenge of our homework was to find the Easter Eggs hidden in
our version of Photoshop. Since I have Photoshop CS, my Easter Eggs are
different than those in PS 7 and earlier. I did a Google and used the
info on the web sites to find my Easter Eggs. They are shown below.
Easter Egg #1 -
Photoshop CS
Easter Egg #2 -
Photoshop CS
The
next part of the assignment dealt with restoring an old photo provided
by the instructor. The before and after pictures are shown below. I
used a lot of PS tools to clean up the dust, scratches, and marks in
the photo. This picture took me many hours of work to restore. I used a
lot of the Patch tool and the Clone Stamp tool. And I learned more
about masking. The Zoom tool - I almost wore out my keyboard Z between
using the Zoom tool and undoing mistakes. To make the mountains in the
background I pulled in some rocks from the Garden of the Gods in
Colorado Springs, CO. I did not have any Irish mountains handy. They
were worn down by the time I got to them.
Irish Family - Before Restoration
Irish Family - After Restoration
The
next object of the lesson was to turn the finished restoration of the
Irish Family into a sepia picture. This is my version of a sepia photo.
It took me a while to figure out that the reason my sepia was not
turning orange was that I had not converted the photo back into RPG
mode after I had taken out all the color by going into the Grayscale
mode. It was an interesting way to learn a lesson.
Sepia
Version of Irish Family
The
next photo was based on a picture I took this year in Colorado Springs.
I masked the picture and returned the original color to the flags and
their poles. Then I turned the rest of picture into greyscale by
removing the color. I isolated the sky and added a Layer Style with an
Orange tone from the Photographics Effects options. Then I isolated the
foreground and added a filter effect to create snow. I took the
integrated picture and added a texturizer filter over the entire photo
to give it a canvas look.
Pikes Peak - Viewed
From Garden of the Gods
My
final picture for this lesson is a montage of roses, taken from a
series of pictures I took this spring. The roses were a gift to my wife
for Valentines Day. Guess how many pictures of roses I used for the
montage? (That's a trick question. Do I mean actual number of roses or
the number of pictures of roses?)
I
used a technique offered by Scott Kelby, which included the application
of the gradient tool to the individual layers of the roses. I varied
the gradients between linear and radial to get this effect. I used the
Free Transform to resize the roses for the montage. To remove the
"lines" at the edges of the individual pictures of the roses, I .....
Well, you will just have to guess how I did that. I think I will keep
that a trade secret for now. I would not want to "erase" your
impression that I know what I am doing.
Valentines Day with Roses
That's all for this course. See you next session in
Photoshop - Part II.
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