Handout

Steps to creating the best photoshop ever

1) Import your photo into photoshop by dragging it in from the teacher's handout folder!
2) Once your photo is in press CTRL-K then click Zoom With Scroll Wheel
3) Create a new layer

4)Group by right clicking your new layer and click Group From Layer
5) Make a new Hue/Saturation adjustment

5) This should show up, Click on master and change it to reds

6) Click on the eyedropper tool and click on your hair
7) Set the saturation down all the way (Towards the white)
8) Your hair and face should turn grey if done right!
9) Now click on the layer mesh which is just the black box beside the Hue and Saturation

10) Click on the paintbrush tool Then click X on your keyboard

11) Paint on the face leave a sliver of space between the hair and face (areas where the hair
isnt) to make all your face the normal color except your hair should look grey
12) To really detail your mesh and get a tight fit on the hair set your flow to around 20 and
paint into the hair a bit until you are satisfied

13) Click back on Hue and saturation

14) Repeat steps 5 and 6 then play around with the color mixers to change your hair

NEXT: Removing background

1) Use the selection tool then draw on the areas of your face you would like to cut out
(hair, face, body)
2) Right click on the selection of your face and click on refine edge
3) Click decontaminate layers then set it to around 75%

4) Set the smoothness to around 20%

5) Set shift edge to -27
6) Up the contrast to about 50%
7) After your finished and your hair looks clean find a background image online

8) Import it into photoshop and using the move tool drag it into your background

NEXT: Creating facial hair

1) Create a new layer

2) Use the paintbrush tool as small as you can get it and make a single small hair like
drawing
3) Create another new layer and drag it below the one you just made and use the

selector tool and put a box around the hair you created (on the layer you just
created)

4) Go to the paintbrush tool and make sure white is selected if not click X
5) Change the size of your paintbrush using { -Smaller } - Bigger and fill in the selection
box you made by coloring it in
6) You hair should be in front of the white box you just made
7) With the white box still selected click on edit and click new brush preset

8) Name it hair and click okay

9) Deselect the box CNTRL-D

10) Click on window and go to brush

11) A window should pop up like this
12) Check box shape and dynamics and go into the window
13) Increase the diameter to 100% to add texture
14) Turn Size Jitter to 100% to make hairs bigger and smaller when you draw
15) Turn angle Jitter to 15% to make hairs go in different directions when you draw
16) Checkbox Scattering and go into the window
17) Set Scatter around 175%
18) Go back to Shape And Dynamics
19) Under Angle Jitter find the box control and set it to direction
20) Go back to Brush Tip Shape and set the circle so the arrow points 90 degrees

21) Click okay and then click X to go back to black paintbrush and draw a mustache beard
WHATEVER!

Next: Using Liquify

1) Using the selector tool select around your face

2) Click on filter then liquify

3) A window should pop up with what you have selected

4) Draw on your lips to warp them whatever direction you want
5) Draw down on the edges of your lips to make you seem upset or draw up to make
you seem happy, whatever you feel like doing *Experiment with it a bit on eyes etc.*

Final Step: Putting it on a passport

1) Save your image as a Jpeg (File-Save as-Select Jpeg-Put in H: Drive)

2) Go into the handouts folder and find my folder then open the passport photoshop
3) Drag your image into the passport photo
4) Scale your photo by pressing CNTRL-T to scale it to fit into the picture place
5) FINISHED!