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This small Photoshop project will test your knowledge of the selection tools and the rest of the tool bar.
New selection button -- quick selection tool. This is the fourth button in the tool bar from the top, right above the crop tool.
It looks like this:
What it does. The quick selection tool is different from the marquee tool because it lets you create exact selections of an object, because it finds pixels of the same color and groups them together.
Today, you'll make an eggplant page with a colored background.
What to do.
1. First, go to google, open a new tab and copy and paste this address in the address bar:
http://1840farm.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/eggplant1.jpg
It will give you an image of a giant eggplant, with the pixels at 1808 x 2706, (its the bigger version of the photo at the top of the page.)
-- Put this image into your clipboard. Remember these steps: In Finder, go to File in your menu bar and choose "select all" from the dropdown. Then go to file again and choose "copy."
2. Now, open Photoshop. All the computers but three should now have Photoshop on them. In the menu bar for Photoshop, choose File, then "new" from the drop-down menu. Click "OK" in the box that appears and then paste your photo into the white frame. Edit > paste
3. Once the eggplant photo is in Photoshop, click on the quick selection button. Again, it is the fourth from the top in your tool-bar on the left.
When you move your cursor into the space of the purple eggplant, you should see a small broken circle. Click your mouse down inside the eggplant and slowly drag your mouse around. You'll see a broken circle that will expand as you move the cursor inside the eggplant. Keep the mouse clicked and drag across and down until the entire shape of the eggplant is highlighted. It should outline the dark part of the eggplant perfectly. If you make a mistake go to edit and undo the move and start over.
If you're careful, you can outline all the purple eggplant and the green stem too.
When you have outlined an object, or a person, the selection will look something like this:
New selection button -- quick selection tool. This is the fourth button in the tool bar from the top, right above the crop tool.
It looks like this:
What it does. The quick selection tool is different from the marquee tool because it lets you create exact selections of an object, because it finds pixels of the same color and groups them together.
Today, you'll make an eggplant page with a colored background.
What to do.
1. First, go to google, open a new tab and copy and paste this address in the address bar:
http://1840farm.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/eggplant1.jpg
It will give you an image of a giant eggplant, with the pixels at 1808 x 2706, (its the bigger version of the photo at the top of the page.)
-- Put this image into your clipboard. Remember these steps: In Finder, go to File in your menu bar and choose "select all" from the dropdown. Then go to file again and choose "copy."
2. Now, open Photoshop. All the computers but three should now have Photoshop on them. In the menu bar for Photoshop, choose File, then "new" from the drop-down menu. Click "OK" in the box that appears and then paste your photo into the white frame. Edit > paste
3. Once the eggplant photo is in Photoshop, click on the quick selection button. Again, it is the fourth from the top in your tool-bar on the left.
When you move your cursor into the space of the purple eggplant, you should see a small broken circle. Click your mouse down inside the eggplant and slowly drag your mouse around. You'll see a broken circle that will expand as you move the cursor inside the eggplant. Keep the mouse clicked and drag across and down until the entire shape of the eggplant is highlighted. It should outline the dark part of the eggplant perfectly. If you make a mistake go to edit and undo the move and start over.
If you're careful, you can outline all the purple eggplant and the green stem too.
When you have outlined an object, or a person, the selection will look something like this:
4. Once you have outlined the eggplant, click on your move tool, the top tool in your tool bar and move the eggplant around. You'll notice that the entire plant will be moved around the frame. Slide the eggplant back to its original place, with the broken outline still visible.
5. Once the eggplant is back in place, to to the menu bar and click on "select." Choose "inverse" from the dropdown menu. This will select all the space outside of the eggplant instead of the space inside of it. You've just reversed your selection.
6. This is the last step. You can color the area outside of the eggplant using the brush tool. Click on the brush tool, the 8th button from the top, just above the clone stamp tool. In your options bar, set the size of your brush (make it big if you want to paint the background a solid color or smaller if you want to use multiple colors) and in the color button (the one right below the zoom tool) change the color of the brush to one you want.
7. When you've set the color and the size of your brush, you can click and color in the frame and only the pixels outside of the eggplant will be colored, since you have reversed the selection by using the "inverse" from the Select dropdown menu in step 5.
Once you are done, save your project as a jpeg. Don't send it to me yet, just save it. I'll check it when I come back on Thursay.
Work on your own computer. Have a friend and/or the substitute help you if you're confused, but try to do your own project.
If you get the color to work and you want to experiment with multiple colors or background designs, go ahead.
Have fun.
5. Once the eggplant is back in place, to to the menu bar and click on "select." Choose "inverse" from the dropdown menu. This will select all the space outside of the eggplant instead of the space inside of it. You've just reversed your selection.
6. This is the last step. You can color the area outside of the eggplant using the brush tool. Click on the brush tool, the 8th button from the top, just above the clone stamp tool. In your options bar, set the size of your brush (make it big if you want to paint the background a solid color or smaller if you want to use multiple colors) and in the color button (the one right below the zoom tool) change the color of the brush to one you want.
7. When you've set the color and the size of your brush, you can click and color in the frame and only the pixels outside of the eggplant will be colored, since you have reversed the selection by using the "inverse" from the Select dropdown menu in step 5.
Once you are done, save your project as a jpeg. Don't send it to me yet, just save it. I'll check it when I come back on Thursay.
Work on your own computer. Have a friend and/or the substitute help you if you're confused, but try to do your own project.
If you get the color to work and you want to experiment with multiple colors or background designs, go ahead.
Have fun.