Dream Room Project Instructions

1. Create a NEW FOLDER in your main desktop folder named Dream Room

2. Go to the HUB > Week 7 and save the 3 images posted under Room Pictures

a. NOTE: If you want to use your own images for a wall, ceiling, and floor, you can find your own images.

3. Open Photoshop.

a. Go to File > New

b. Make it 11 x 8.5

c. Name it Lastname_Firstname_Room

4. On your new blank canvas, hit Cmd + r to bring up your rulers.

a. Click inside the top ruler and drag a blue guideline into the middle of the canvas.

b. Click inside the side ruler and drag a blue guideline into the middle of the canvas.

5. Go to File > Open

a. Find your Perspective folder

b. Open all 3 of your saved images (Wall Paper, Ceiling, Floor)

6. Move the Wallpaper Image over to your blank canvas with the MOVE TOOL

7. Hit Cmd + t

a. Hold SHIFT to scale down the wallpaper evenly. Make your wallpaper about half the size of your blank canvas. Look at the example below.

b. Place the center of the wallpaper in the middle of your guidelines.

8. Hit Enter or click the checkmark when done.

a. Rename your layer Back Wall

9. Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer.

a. Rename your new layer Left Wall

10. Hit Cmd + t

a. Move the image over to the LEFT until the edge snaps to the side of the back wall. Look at the top example! The left walls edges should touch the edge of the white document and the edge of the center wall.

b. Right + Click on your transform tool. Go to Perspective. See top example.

c. Drag the top left corner of the transform tool up to the top corner of your canvas! Look at the bottom example to see what is expected!

11. Hit Enter or click the checkmark!

a. Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer

b. Rename your new layer Right Wall

12. Hit Cmd + t

a. Right + click and go to Flip Horizontal

13. With the MOVE TOOL selected, move the right wall over until it snaps to the side of the Back Wall

a. Hit ENTER when done

14. Click on the tab for your Floor.

a. With the MOVE TOOL, click and drag the wood floor up to your room tab and drop on top of the canvas.

b. Rename your new layer Floor

15. Hit Cmd + t

a. Size the floor to touch the edges of the Back Wall and with the bottom of the canvas. See the example below.

16. Right + Click on your transform tool.

a. Go to Perspective

b. Place your points exactly at the corners of your canvas

c. Hit ENTER when done

17. Click on Ceiling tab

a. With the MOVE TOOL selected, drag the image up to the Room tab and drop on top of canvas

b. Name your new layer Ceiling

18. Hit Cmd + t

a. Size the ceiling until the edges of the ceiling touch the top of the Back Wall and the top of the white canvas.

19. Right + Click on your tool.

a. Go to Perspective

b. Place your points exactly at the corners of your canvas

c. Hit ENTER when done

ON YOUR OWN: Create your DREAM ROOM

1. Find 10 household items of your dreams to put in the room on the Internet and save them to your folder. Students who take at least 5 good pictures of their own furniture at home will receive bonus! Look at examples of stock furniture to see what angle you need to take the photos at!

a. E.G. A door, window, carpet, ceiling fan, lamp, bed, dresser, posters, tv’s.

2. Using the tools and techniques you’ve learned so far, cut out and place these items into your scene. There is also a short video available on the HUB for those who need additional assistance!

3. Save a .jpg to your folder named Lastname_Firstname_DreamRoom.

EXAMPLES!