ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

LECTURE AND PERFORMANCE TASK REQUIREMENT

I. Creating New File.

1. Open Adobe Photoshop CC
2. Choose File→New→Blank File in any workspace or press Ctrl+N
Either way, the New dialog box opens.

Figure 1. New File

3. Select the attributes for the new file.

You have several options from which to choose:

Name: Type a name for your file.

Preset: From the drop-down list, you can select from a number of different sizes.

Size: You can select a preset size from a long drop-down list. This is optional because you can
change the file attributes in the other text boxes and drop-down menus.

Dimensions (Width/Height): Values in the Width and Height text boxes can be edited without
affecting the other. Adjacent to the values in the Width and Height text boxes, you find drop-
down menus that offer many different options for units of measure.
 Resolution: The resolution is an independent value and isn’t linked to the dimensions.

Color Mode: Your choices are Bitmap, Grayscale, and RGB Color.

Background Contents: You have three choices: White, Background Color, and Transparent. The
selection you make results in the color of the blank image.

Image Size: This value (displayed in the lower-right corner of the dialog box) dynamically
changes when you change the Width, Height, and Resolution values. The reported value is how
much file space is required to save the uncompressed file.

(For now, FOLLOW the following attributes for the new file. See Figure 1. New File)

4. Click OK after setting the file attributes to create the new document.

II. Adding Image.

1. Drag and drop the new image into the Photoshop window. You can also click the “File” menu,
click “Open,” select the image file and click the “Open” button.
 2. Press the “Enter” key to confirm and add the image as a new layer. If you added the wrong
image to the project, press the “Escape” key to revert.

3. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for each image you want to add as a new layer.

Tip: If you drag and drop another Photoshop project into the window, the image is flattened and
then added to the current project.

III. Adjusting Image Size.

1. The move tool allows you to move a selection or entire layer by dragging it with your mouse or
using your keyboard arrows keys. The move tool is located at the top right of the Photoshop
Toolbox. Or Simply Press “V”.

2. When the move tool is selected, click and drag anywhere in the image. By default, if an area is
selected the selection will be moved, otherwise the whole layer will be moved. See the options
bar for more options.

Tip: Check Auto-Select, and Show Transform Controls for selecting images easily.
Alternatively, use your arrow keys to move the selection or layer in small increments.
Hold down the Shift key to move in larger increments.

Note: You can activate the move tool when another tool is selected by holding down the Ctrl
key (Windows)
3. Put your mouse pointer to the transform controls or the “tiny boxes/squares” on the edges of
the image, and drag your mouse outward to enlarge and inward to reduce image size.

Tip: hold Shift key to lock image while dragging to prevent stretching of your image.

4. Press “Enter” to confirm image size.

IV. Erasing Background
1. Make sure that your layer is a “Rasterize” before editing your image.

This Layer is not Rasterized.

2. Right click on the image layer and Click “Rasterize Layer”.

This Layer is Rasterized.

3. Now you can edit your image. Choose the “Magic Wand Tool” or “Quick Selection Tool”.

4. At the top of your screen, you’ll see the options for adjusting how the Magic Wand Tool works.

Single Selection: This is the option you want selected when you first use the Magic Wand Tool

Add to Selection: This you will access automatically when you hold down SHIFT while using the
Magic Wand Tool

Subtract from Selection: This allows you to remove pixels from your selection when clicking on an
area of your selection

Intersect with Selection: This creates a new selection that only includes pixels from a previous
selection

Sample Size: In newer versions of Photoshop, you have the option to adjust your sample size. By
default, the Magic Wand Tool is set to select only one pixel’s color at a time. Increasing the sample
size means the Magic Wand Tool is averaging the colors of the pixels around the sample into its
selection criteria. In our example, the Sample Size has been left at Point Sample.

Tolerance: You can adjust the Magic Wand Tool’s Tolerance to select a larger area at a time.
Generally, you’ll want to set your tolerance somewhere between 15 and 30. In this example, the
Tolerance is set to 20.
5. Select the area that you want to erase using the Magic Wand Tool. In this case the background
of the image. Press the “Shift” key while dragging your mouse when selecting areas, you want to
fully select.

Press the “Delete” key to remove the selected area.

Press “Ctrl D” to deselect your selection.

6. Use the “Eraser Tool” to fully erase background or unwanted areas.

7. Right click to your wok space to show eraser settings and adjustments.
Or simply adjust the eraser size by clicking the “{“ for increase and “}” for deacrease eraser size.
8. Now erase unwanted areas or elements.
V. Adding Shadows
1. There are different methods or ways to add shadows in photoshop. First you need to find the
light source of your object or subject. (In this case, the light source is in the upper left of the
working space, as you can see in the shadow of the subject.). Then follow the direction of the
shadow of the object.

2. Add shadow by duplicating the object and fill in color black. Right Click on the layer of the
object. And click “Duplicate Layer”. Or select the object on the work space and hold “Alt” and
drag the image outward and press “Enter”.
3. Change the color of the duplicated image to black. Select the image, go to Edit -> Adjustments
- > Levels.
In the Levels Window; put “0” under the “Output Levels:” under the lighter scale.
 Now it looks like this.

4. Adjust the position of the shadow.

Align the foot of the shadow to the foot of the object.
Then rotate the shadow, and adjust it to its correct position and must follow to the direction
of the light source.
To Rotate: Align your mouse pointer to the corner of the image and when the mouse pointer
changes to a “Curve Line with arrow heads”, then you can rotate the image, press “Enter” to
confirm images changes.
5. Adjust the “Opacity” of the shadow to make it lighter.
Select the image or layer.
Then adjust the opacity in the Layers Window.
Note: every shadow has its own characteristics, the closer area of the shadow to the subject is
darker compare to the area that is farther to the subject.
6. Erase unnecessary areas by using the “Eraser Tool”
7. Adjust the lightness of the shadow in the areas farther to subject by using the “Eraser Tool”

Make sure that your Eraser Settings has “0%” Hardness and make your eraser size BIG.
Click the areas that is away from the shadow to have a “fade” effect in the shadow.
8. To have a realistic feel to the shadow. Add darker shadows closer to the subject by using the
“Brush Tool”. But first, create a new layer “Ctrl+Shift+N”, rename the layer with “Inner
Shadow” and press enter or click OK.

Make sure that the new layer is in font of the shadow Image.
By clicking the Inner shadow layer and dragging it above the first shadow you created
(encircled with red mark).
Select the Inner Shadow Layer and click the “Brush Tool” or press “B”

Apply black paint closer to the subject. (Make sure that the “Inner Shadow” Layer is Selected)
Adjust the HARDNESS AND SIZE of the brush.
Adjust OPACITY of the layer (Inner Shadow).
Adjust soft edges of the Layer by using the “Eraser Tool” (See Step #7).
VI. Adding Reflection
1. Find a “Glossy “Image in the internet, and use it in the background.
For example, use Glossy Floors. (make sure that your background and subject has the same
lightings)

2. Duplicate the subject layer. “Hold Alt + drag mouse outward” and Press “Enter”.
3. Select the duplicated layer. And press “CTRL+T”. Now you are on “Free Transform” Mode.
Right click on the image and click “Flip Vertical” and press “Enter”.
4. Align the duplicate image under the real image.

5. Adjust the “Opacity” of the duplicate image.

6. Adjust necessary details like position and alignment of the reflection.
 Go to Free Transform Mode (Click the duplicate image layer and CTRL+T) and Click Wrap
Mode

7. Wrap the reflection image and adjust alignment and press “Enter” to confirm.
8. Erase unwanted parts using the “Eraser Tool”