Scrapbooking / Cards

Brandy Scrapbook

The great thing about manipulating photos is getting a personal touch with your photos and you can create cards to posters you are only limited by the size of the printer and your imagination.   

Some things mentioned in this post may not be on your photoshop mainly the 3D effects, the cookie cutter, and some of the brushes used to create the patterns.  

Video for In class photoshop

Elements Scrapbook

Elements Cookie Cutter 

Type Mask/create new brush

Free scrapbook items 

Layer styles / 3D effects 

see exercise below

Panoramas

The Digital Puzzle

Fitting the pieces together 

There are programs out there that do automatically build panoramas for you but these methods are refining your skills that you already learned and finding your own way of manipulating photos. The tools used are essentially the same as our first exercises STICKMAN we are just lining up pictures instead of overlapping them. 

I have also found a helpful link if you want to print a frame a large masterpiece 

How to Take, Print and Frame Your Own Gigantic Panoramic Photo for Just $150

Layers and Masks

This week is a hard one but once you get the hang of Layers it will be easier in the long run. Masks can be substituted with just erasing unwanted parts of pictures and placing items where they are needed like in the first Stickman exercise. The reason I focused on Masks most of the class is that they are used in color correction hopefully it will be clearer with that application.

The best way to think of layers is comparing them to cel animation with layers of cellophane over a background.

From internet

To Start we have some Reading and helpful information

Layers and Masks
  Basics Concept  Applications    Video

LAYERS EXERCISE

The most useful example of layers is getting that perfect group shot. Some people look great in one picture but not another by layering two pictures on top of one another and using masks you can edit in and out the best pose. Video example

One thing that was not mentioned in the exercise was layer opacity to create the Ghost effect

When you are all done with creating layers you can organize them  by Grouping layers  into folders to save space  you can also Merge layers to cut down on layers even more