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02 Dressing David Photo 60A Beginning Photoshop

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WEEK 3 WORKING WITH LAYERS

Concepts covered this week include:
1. Creating layers
2. Changing a background layer
3. Viewing layers
4. Ordering layers
5. Duplicating layers
6. Deleting layers
7. Layer opacity
8. Locking layers
9. Linking layer objects
10. Moving layers
11. Layer options
12. Merging layers
13. Flattening layers
14. Text layers
15. Preserving transparency
16. Naming layers
17. Layer sets or Groups

This weeks lesson will be EX.02: Dressing David.

Follow the steps below to create your David image and submit in Canvas and to Shutterfly.

1. Open David.psd
2. Convert Image to RGB mode: Image > Mode > RGB
Since David is a Grayscale image it must be coverted in order to
receive color. There are no color pixels in Grayscale.

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3. Open Shirt.psd
4. Select Shirt by using the Magic Wand Tool clicking on the white area to make the selection and then
Inverse the selection (Select > Inverse).

5. With the Move Tool click and drag the Shirt from the Shirt document to the David image.
Notice a new layer is formed. Double click on the layer and name it “Shirt”.
Rotate the shirt to fit David better.

NOTE: You can have multiple files in one window with tabs
at the top. To move the shirt to the David image, click on the
shirt and drag it to the David tab, WAIT until you see the David
image and then drop the shirt on David image(drop it means let
go of the mouse).
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6. Open “Shorts” and repeat steps 4 and 5 selecting the shorts and moving them to the David document.
Name the layer “Shorts”. Move the shirt layer above the shorts layer to make the shirt looked tucked in.

7. Open “Boots” and repeat steps 4 and 5 selecting the boots. Since the boots
are reversed for which foot they belong, select one boot at a time using the
Rectangular Marquee Tool. Move it to another area with the Move tool, notice
as you move it the selection hugs the boot.

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Rotate the boot and put it on David. You can move the boot while it is still in the rotate state to put it on David.

Repeat with the other boot and name the layer “Boots”.

9. Put all the clothes into a Layer Group (folder). A Layer Group is simply a folder to make your layers more
tidy. Click the folder icon at the bottom of the Layers palette to create the group. Then click and drag your
layers into it. You can shift click to select more than one layer at a time. Click on the arrow to close the
folder. Notice when layers are in a folder their thumbnial moves further from the eye. Name the folder
“Clothes”. You can also create the Layer Group from the Fly-out menu.

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10. Add another element to David of your own creation, ie. hat, gloves, golf clubs, flower, mask, glasses, etc
Here I am adding a bandaid and bandaid box.

Let’s see how I do it. First I select the bandaid. Since there are two object, I will first select the bandaid
with the Rectangular Marquee tool, then get the magic wand tool and SUBTRACT from the selection by
holding the Option/Alt key and clicking the magic wand on the white inside the rectangular marquee area.
Viola, you now have the bandaid selected. Then I click and drag it to the David document and place it on
his leg. I used the same method to select the box. You will use your own objects.

To put the box in his hand, I used an illusionary trick. First I put the box on top of his hand and rotated
it like he was holding it and named the layer “Box”. Hide the box layer by clicking on the eye nex to
it.Then I selected the hand from the background layer with the Lasso
tool. Here’s the trick, I went to the Layer menu and copied the hand to
another layer, Layer > New > Layer Via Copy. Just the selected area,
the hand will appear on a new layer. Name this layer hand and move
the layer up above the box layer. Now it will appear that the box is in
the hand. Now add your own elements to David.

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11. Now we will give David a background. Go to the Background layer (you must be on the Background layer
or you will be selecting something else). Turn off the eyes from the other layers so they are not visible.
Select the white background with the Magic Wand tool. Don’t forget to also select the areas between his
legs and arm. Do this by adding to the selection. At this point you could fill the selection like we did with
Piggy, but a better method is to create a Layer Mask. Go to Select
> Inverse to change the selection to David. Then click on the New
Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. You will see
the layer change so that it is David with a thumbnail next to David
which is the mask. Name the layer David. Now you can give David
a background easily. Create a new layer below the David layer. Put
into the layer a gradient, fill it with rendered clouds, or even put in
another picture.

Layer Mask icon

To fill the area with a gradation use the Gradient tool. The colors
that will be present in the gradation are chosen from the foreground and background color. To change the
gradation choose another one by clicking on the arrow next to the gradation bar in the Options Bar.

Click on the arrow to get more gradation choices.

Gradient Tool

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I have choosen the orange, yellow, orange gradation. Then in the Options Bar, I chose the Radial Gradient to get
a sun like look. Experiment with the different types of gradients.

To use the Gradient tool, click and drag out a line on your image. I dragged diagonally on the image. The longer
line you drag the further the gradation will extend. The first one is a shorter diagonal than the second example.
The arrows in the examples indicates the direction and length the Gradient tool was dragged.

The last example shows another image used in the background instead of a gradation. Open up the image you
want behind David, Click and drag it into the David file. This will make a new layer. Move this layer below
David. If your image does not fit properly, you can transform it to fit. Have fun creating a background you like
and you’re done!

Submit the final image of David to EX02 in Canvas and Shutterfly.

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