Selection tools in Photoshop

Veggie Head

Today we are going to create a veggie head or melon head using the selection tools in Photoshop or Photopea.

Objective:

To learn the selection tools in Photoshop and Photopea

To learn to navigate layers

To resize objects

To place objects

To find royalty free images online

Requirements:

Files can be found here

Your Veggie Head must have:

Head

2 Eyes

Nose

Mouth

2 Ears

Hair

Body with legs and arms

A virtual vacation background

Step 1 New document

Create a new document in Photoshop or Photopea (File>new)

Name it: Veggiehead

8.5x11 inches

300 DPI

White background

Step 2 The head

Open Veggies or fruits in Photoshop or Photopea (file>open)

Using the selection tools make a selection around the veggie or fruit you will use for the head of your veggie head.

Use the short cut command Ctrl + C to copy

Go to the Veggiehead document on the other tab and use the short cut command Ctrl V to paste your head.

You may need to resize depending on the size of your file.

Step 3 The eyes, nose, mouth and ears

Decide which fruit or veggie you will use for the eyes.

Use a selection tool to make your selection

Use the schort cut command "Ctrl C" to copy

Navigate to your Veggiehead document and use the shortcut command "Ctrl V" to paste it.

Use your move tool (shortcut key is V) to move the eye in place.

Repeat this step with the second eye, nose and ears.

Step 4 Hair

Find an interesting fruit or veggie or a bunch of fruits and veggies to use for the hair.

Step 5 Flatten layers

Once you have everything in place on your veggiehead, you will flatten the layers.

Select all the layer of your veggie head , be careful not to select the background. (Select the top layer, scroll down to the last layer, hold shift and click on the last layer-they should all be selected)

Right click and select "merge layers"

Once you merge your layers you can no longer change anything on your Veggie head. It has flattened this layer! So make sure you are ready to flatten!

Step 6 Put your Veggie Head on vacation!

Find an image of a vacation spot to put your Veggie head on.

Go to file>open and place

This will place you image on your document.

You can delete the white background layer now.

Place your vacation spot on the bottom of your layers panel and adjust your Veggie head to look like it is on vacation.

Save your PSD file in your student drive in a folder titled “Veggiehead”

Save your file as a .jpg file in your folder

Turn in your jpg file.

Tips and shortcuts

To copy and paste:

Ctrl + C=Copy

Ctrp + V=Paste

Move tool=V

Lasso tool=L

Marquee tool=M

Magic Wand tool=W

Ctrl + D= Deselect

To merge all layers together:

***Do not do this until you know you are 100% done!!!!****

Select the first layer you want to merge, hold the shift key and select the last layer you want to merge.

Right click and select “Merge layers”