Photoshop Portraits

Selectively Colour

• Open a portrait that you took, or one of you.
• Add a new layer LAYER>NEW LAYER
• Selectively colour an area of your image. Select a color on the FOREGROUND COLOR palette and use the ELIPSE tool on the tool bar to draw in your color, then LAYER> RASTERIZE>SHAPE
• Soften the edges FILTER> GAUSSIAN BLUR so the edges are soft (if you are tinting the eyes).
• Blend the colour into the portrait CHOOSE OVERLAY on the LAYER window on the colour layer.

Add Texture to Your Image

• Find a Texture using Google, save to your file
• Then in Photoshop, FILE>OPEN the textures image that you want to use for your texture.
• SELECT> ALL
• EDIT>COPY
• Go to your portrait file EDIT>PASTE
• Blend the texture into the portrait CHOOSE OVERLAY on the LAYER window on the texture layer.

Saving your image as a JPG

• First FILE>SAVE your image as a PSD file. Then
• LAYER>FLATTEN to combine all layers into one.
• FILE>SAVE  AS select JPG in the "FILE TYPE" selection box.
• Call it something new.
• Upload it to your blog...

2nd Place Composition Photos- Comfort Zone

Now that you have photographed your 2nd Place composition photos:

1. Download the 2nd place images from your camera to your student account. To organize your work, create a new folder for these photos title it 2nd Place or Composition.
2. Then make a contact sheet using "Adobe Bridge" see tutorial on this blog title the 5 different techniques that guided your compositions. Save to the Share folder titled with your name.
3. Post the top 5 best photos one of each technique to your blog.
4. Comment on your 2nd Place, Comfort Zone: Why did you choose this place? Why did you photograph it in the way you did? What did you include, or exclude? Are you in the photos? Why or why not?
5. Post your favourite images to the share folder to share with the class.