Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop Workshop

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Re-sizingLayering

PosterizationColour/contrast/brightness

Lesson Objectives

• To learn about the basics techniques available in photoshop.

• Understand about re-sizing images

• Image layers and the posterization technique

• Have an understanding of other artists work in a similar style

• Relate this technique to the world of work

Shade

Composition

type

Colour

Background

Layer

depth

filter

opacity

contrast

Saturation

brightness

levels

CROP

Andy WarholPop Artist

Step 1:Select 1 image from your selection of portrait images which you are happy with and would like to manipulate within photoshop.Open photoshop, go to FILE then NEW.

You will need you give your image a NAME, change WIDTH to – 210mm x HEIGHT 297mm (A4) and press OK. You should now have a white rectangle on the screen.

Step 2:Next go to FILE and select PLACE, this will now bring up a box where you can select the image from the file that you saved it to.

Click PLACE and the image should appear in the rectangle you created in PS.

Step 3:Next select IMAGE from the top bar, then select GRAYSCALE. You may be asked if you want to RASTERIZE the image - click ok, or FLATTEN image, select DONT FLATTEN for this option.

Step 4: Select IMAGE again from the top bar then ADJUSTMENTS and BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST the more contrast the better.

Next select IMAGE then ADJUSTMENTS and select POSTERIZE from the list, play with the settings until you get a texture you are happy with.

Step 5:Select the MAGIC WAND tool from the left hand side tool bar. You MUST make sure that you only have the back ground layer selected while you select the magic wand tool.

Holding down the SHIFT key right click on the mouse using the magic wand tool the areas that you what to select, these will be the same tone/shade or colour for your final outcome.Right click on the mouse once you have selected the areas you want and choose LAYER VIA COPY.

Step 6:To insert colour select IMAGE then MODE then CMYK colour.Now using the paint bucket change the different tones to different colours.Try complimentary colours, or try different tones of the same colour.

Further task:Repeat the image 6 times, resize so the images so that they are half the size. Repeat this process 6 times to get 6 different colour ways. See the work of Andy Warhol as reference.

IMPORTANT FACTS TO REMEMBERPhotoshop works in layer’s, so if you want to create a new layer always go back and select the background.Once you have selected the area you want with the magic wand tool remember to right click to save the layer.If you are using the colour tonal range for you r image remember to select the paint bucket tool before going on to the next layer.

SAVING YOUR WORK If your work is NOT FINISHED, save as a PSD file if it is finished then save as a JPEG file.

Further task – See worksheet

• Select a different Background Image• Filters• Layers• Text