USING PHOTOSHOPON PC (WINDOWS)

SHORT COURSE SECTION II

OFFERED BY

INSTRUCTIONAL COMPUTING UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI – ST.LOUIS

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Liquifying Images After the image has

been saved and opened in Photoshop, many changes can be made.

Under Filter -> Liquefy, changes can be made to someone’s face.

Forward Warp Tool, smudges the drawing. Pucker Tool, shrinks selection.

Bloat Tool, blows up selection.

Transformation

Drawing a Background and selecting layers

Make sure you open a new layer each time you want to make a change (Photoshop 1).

Start with the background For a background of clouds, choose your

color and go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds

Filter Gallery and BlendingOnce the clouds

have been done, using the lasso tools , certain selections can be made.

Once the ground is selected and painted using a desired color, the filter gallery can be used to blend the grass with the clouds, under Filter -> Filter Gallery

Transformation

Once the image has been copied and pasted on to the new image on a new layer, certain transformations can be made to that new layer. Under Edit -> Transform -> Perspective

Adding an Image Once the background is done, the next step is

adding the image. Find the image you want and open it in

Photoshop. Once it’s opened, using the Magic Wand Tool

and the Inverse selection under Selection, only the part you want of the image can be selected, copied and pasted into your new image.

Scanning an Image Into Photoshop (only applies to machines with scanners)

Go to File -> Import -> Cano Scan LiDe 60

The window below should open up, from which then an image can be previewed, scanned and imported automatically into Photoshop for changes.

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Pattern Stamp Tool In order to create an image on top of an existing

background, the following must be done: First the background must be saved and opened

up in Photoshop.By going to Edit -> Define Pattern, while

selecting the Pattern Stamp Tool, the background pattern can be now selected as a painting tool.

Once that has been done, the desired image must be cut and pasted onto the background on a NEW LAYER.

Creating an Image on a patterned background

Select the layer, on to which the image is pasted.

Make sure only the image is selected and not the background, that can be done by using inverse selection again.

Creating an Image on a patterned background

On the right hand – bottom corner of Photoshop, different layers can be selected and edited.

Under Layers, the blending mode can be changed to Luminosity, which will cause the image to blend in the background.

Painting and Drawing

Painting is as easy as choosing a color, selecting a digital paint brush, and dragging the brush over the “canvas”

First, choose a foreground color

Painting and Drawing

Next, you need to choose the type of brush to useNote that toolbar buttons with arrows lead

to more options. Just click and hold the button to see more options

Painting and Drawing

Then, choose the brush options and specify opacity

o Opacity specifies how much the background shows through

Painting and DrawingYou can also draw specific shapes in

Photoshop, including rectangles, ellipses, polygons and custom shapeso Simply select the shape you want to draw

and then draw on the canvas

Examples of Custom Shapes

Questions?

If any further questions arise, please contact a lab consultant in any of the following Instructional

Computing Labs.SSB 103 SSB 452

Math TLC (UC 050) Ward E. Barnes Library

Thomas Jefferson Research Commons

Additional Information

http://www.micros.umsl.eduThe Microcomputer Program at the

University of Missouri-St. Louis offers day and evening computer courses as part of the Chancellor's Certificate series.

http://www.umsl.edu/stg The Online Student Technology Guide has

answers to many computing questions.http://help.umsl.edu

Online self-service solutions for UMSL Technology Issues