Planning Sketch: Friday 2/1
Images Shot by: Friday 2/8
Completed composite due: Wednesday 2/13 (odd), Thursday  2/14 (even)
No school Friday & Monday
Presentations starting Tuesday, 2/19

For your presentation:
These questions must be answered in your presentation and posted on your Blog with your image. (you can add 'before' & 'after' images so we can see how the image was made.

1. What have you decided to title your final piece? Select a title that adds to the meaning of your image.
2. What does this title signify to you?
3. Specifically, what is it about your photographic image that makes it “Surrealist?” (André Breton said that Surrealism “reunites the conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy are joined to the everyday rational world”)
4. Specifically, what is it about your photographic image that makes it an aesthetically pleasing piece of “Fine Art?” (Use Art Concept terms here, such as some of the Elements of Arts, Principles of Organization, and/or specific photographic composition techniques that apply to your image!)
5. Did your image change from your initial sketch and plan? If so, why and how did your concept change to improve your final image?
6. How did you digitally manipulate your image(s)? Describe in detail what you did in Photoshop (list the Photoshop steps that you performed)?

Due end of class Tuesday 1/29

1. 4 'Experimental' Photoshop images (See: PART 1 post)
2. Levels Adjustment Layer
3. Curves Adjustment Layer
​4. Retouching (Healing Brush & Patch Tool)
5. Retouching (Clone Stamp)
6. Layer Masks - Intro (Cutting out a person)
7. Layer Masks advanced, Transform & Blending Modes (Billiards Balls)
8. Layers Masks advanced, Transform & Retouching tools (Baseball)
9. Double Exposure - Using your images, you choose the type of double exposure tutorial you want to complete
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Total: 12 edited images

For tutorials (unless otherwise noted) you will complete the edit using one of your own images.

Exposure Correction
2. Levels Adjustment Layer:
In Lightroom, select a photo of yours that the exposure is off. Check the image’s Histogram to see if the values are too dark or too light. 
-Open the photo in Photoshop (right click > edit in Photoshop CC > Edit with Lightroom adjustments)
–Add a Levels adjustment layer from the adjustment panel.
-Use Levels adjustment layer sliders to “fix” the exposure issues. 
–Save your fixed file and add to "Photoshop Techniques" collection.

3. CURVES ADJUSTMENT LAYER: Select a second image that needs exposure correction, edit this time using the curves adjustment layer, not levels. Save your fixed file and add to "Photoshop Techniques" collection.

RETOUCHING:
4. Retouching (Healing Brush & Patch Tool)
Select a picture where there are blemishes you would like to retouch.
1. Right click on you image to open, select 'Edit In' > 'Photoshop CC' > 'Edit copy with Lightroom adjustments' 
2. Use Levels and/or Curves to “fix” the exposure issues or do later in Lightroom.
3. Right-click on background in layers panel and Duplicate the background, name it 'Retouch'
4. Use the Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, and/or Patch tool to REALISTICALLY fix wrinkles and blemishes (on the top/duplicate layer).
5. See if there are any blemishes the Patch Tool would fix.
6. As you work hide your duplicate/retouched layer to see a before and after by clicking on the 'eye'.
7. Use “Save” to save your 'fixed' file and add to the "Photoshop Techniques" collection in Lightroom.
8. NEXT, finish editing in Lightroom. You can use the adjustment brush to enhance eyes, whiten teeth, remove redness of skin etc.

5. Retouching (Clone Stamp):
​1. Right click on an image to open, select 'Edit In' > 'Photoshop CC' > 'Edit copy with Lightroom adjustments' 
2. Use Levels and Curves to “fix” the exposure issues or do later in Lightroom.
3. Right-click on background in layers panel and Duplicate the background, name it 'Retouch'
4. Use the Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, and/or Patch tool to REALISTICALLY fix wrinkles and blemishes (on the top/duplicate layer).
5. YOU MUST USE the Clone Stamp Tool to REALISTICALLY CLONE an object in this image. An earring, an object, etc....
6. See if there are any blemishes the Patch Tool would fix.
7. As you work hide your duplicate/retouched layer to see a before and after by clicking on the 'eye'.
8. Use “Save” to save your 'fixed' file. 
9. NEXT, finish editing in Lightroom. You can use the adjustment brush to enhance eyes, whiten teeth, remove redness of skin etc.

Layer Masks: 
6. Layer Masks - Intro (Cutting out a person or Object)​
1. Select an image in Lightroom (cmd + click). Right click and select 'Edit In' > 'Open as layers in Photoshop'  to open both images in the same Photoshop file.
2. Using the selections tools, select the subject of the image. How to use Quick Selection to create layer mask.
Alternatively- you can select the red area and then goto Select > Inverse Selection to selects the billiard balls. (Layer Masks & Quick Selections)
3. If edges are not perfect you can Refine Edge paint on the Layer Mask using the Paint Brush tool using black & white. Black masks or hides your image, white brings your information back. (Painting to Reveal/Hide)
4. Re-size (FREE TRANSFORM: Ctrl + T, then hold shift as you drag a corner to maintain aspect ratio) the billiard balls and rotate the to make them look as though they are attacking the city. Apply transformation by hitting enter, or double clicking the image.
6. Save image & Add to 'Photoshop Techniques' collection in Lightroom.

7. Layer Masks advanced, Transform & Blending Modes (Billiards Balls)​
Use- Image 5, Image 6
1. Select both images in Lightroom (cmd + click). Right click and select 'Edit In' > 'Open as layers in Photoshop'  to open both images in the same Photoshop file.
2. Using the selections tools, select the billiards balls. How to use Quick Selection to create layer mask.
Alternatively- you can select the red area and then goto Select > Inverse Selection to selects the billiard balls. (Layer Masks & Quick Selections)
3. If edges are not perfect you can paint on the Layer Mask using the Paint Brush tool using black & white. Black masks or hides your image, white brings your information back. (Painting to Reveal/Hide)
4. Re-size (FREE TRANSFORM: Ctrl + T, then hold shift as you drag a corner to maintain aspect ratio) the billiard balls and rotate the to make them look as though they are attacking the city. Apply transformation by hitting enter, or double clicking the image.
5. Experiment with blending modes and see if you can make the billiard balls blend into the image better. (Blending Modes)
6. Save image.

8. Layers Masks advanced, Transform & Retouching tools (Baseball)
​Use Baseball images: Image 7 & Image 8
Using techniques above, combine images to make a realistic composite using layers mask, clone tools and free transform. Save and add to Photoshop Technique collection in Lightroom.

Part 1:

Part 2:

9. Double Exposure - Using your images, you choose the type of double exposure tutorial you want to complete

Create a portrait or self portrait 'double exposure' in Photoshop using YOUR OWN photographs. We will learn to light a portrait on a white background in the studio, and then use another image or even several images you have taken. Think about the significance of the images you select. What might they tell us about the person? How do the images match in mood or emotion?
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Double Color Exposure Effect (easy)
Double exposure - Black & white (easy)
Double exposure - Portrait & Landscape (easy/medium)
Double Exposure in Photoshop (difficult)
Double exposure Cinemagraph ('next level' combining photo with time-lapse video)

How do you......
Re-size & Rotate Layers in Photoshop (free transform)
Use the Quick Selection tool
Use the Magic Wand tool
Refine the edge of a selection
Add Layer Masks to 'cut out' an image
Replace a sky
Add Adjustment Layers
Use Blending Modes
Remove something from a picture (Content-Aware)
Use Puppet Warp

Welcome back! Hope you had a great break. We are going to dive into Photoshop this semester - where your wildest dreams will come true.

What is Photoshop?
What are File Extensions?
Create folders in G: Drive

On your own watch:
Workspace
Changing the Photoshop view
Zoom tool
Adobe Bridge101
Layers 101
Layer vs Background

PART 1:
Today, USING YOUR OWN PHOTOGRAPHS, you will be experimenting in Adobe Photoshop to create 4 edited images using tools and techniques you discovered while exploring the program.

​Feel free to experiment and discover tools in the program you have not used... this is your chance to 'get cray' in Photoshop.

Here are some sites to check out that have information on what certain tools & filters in Photoshop do and where they can be found:
Photoshop Tool Bar | Photoshop Filters | Photoshop Adjustments | Photoshop Blending Modes | Using Layer Masks | Corrections using layer masks | 

TO SAVE YOUR WORK: 
Select- File > Save
Your image should be saves as a TIFF file and you should be able to open from Adobe Lightroom.