Detail from "A Beautiful Day" - a photo I took with my iPad Mini 3 - Nathan Smith. Adobe Camera Raw postwork.
Experience:
You learned in Lesson 2 how powerful Camera Raw is at adjusting photos. In this lesson we'll begin learning Photoshop. I will acquaint you with the Photoshop interface, and how to customize it to your personal workflow preferences. We will revisit image formats, image resolution, and about resizing or resampling images. Since many of the tools in Photoshop use brushes to apply adjustments, you will learn in detail how to use Photoshop's brushes in this lesson. You'll be introduced to the Quickmask, Quick Selection, and Magic Wand tools. You'll learn how to create a new layer, and change its blending mode to Color. You'll be introduced to a layer mask. By the end, you'll use the selection and brush tools to add color to an old black and white photo. You'll also learn how to use an adjustment layer and mask to add a spot of color to a black and white photo.
On the design side of the fence, we'll discuss the principles of proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast, which were the reading assignments given you in lessons 1 and 2.
You learned in Lesson 2 how powerful Camera Raw is at adjusting photos. In this lesson we'll begin learning Photoshop. I will acquaint you with the Photoshop interface, and how to customize it to your personal workflow preferences. We will revisit image formats, image resolution, and about resizing or resampling images. Since many of the tools in Photoshop use brushes to apply adjustments, you will learn in detail how to use Photoshop's brushes in this lesson. You'll be introduced to the Quickmask, Quick Selection, and Magic Wand tools. You'll learn how to create a new layer, and change its blending mode to Color. You'll be introduced to a layer mask. By the end, you'll use the selection and brush tools to add color to an old black and white photo. You'll also learn how to use an adjustment layer and mask to add a spot of color to a black and white photo.
On the design side of the fence, we'll discuss the principles of proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast, which were the reading assignments given you in lessons 1 and 2.
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USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 3 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 3 Module. See the image at right.
If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson. |
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Objectives (Suggested division of work time through the week)
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Section 03-A (Monday)
Friday-Weekend (Practice!) Finish up the two exercise files and submit them. |
Image: Glory in the Morning - Photo by Nathan Smith. In this image, the greatest area of contrast is between the brightest blossom and the dark background. Contrast draws your eyes in to this blossom first.
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This page last updated September 9, 2018. This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2018 by Nathan Smith. All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.
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