Prep for Midterm, Assignment 6, Make sure you are up to date on Homework, Shoot for Project 2

Spotting review

Resize via transform, blur, grain, sharpening

Introduction to THE PEN TOOL and why you should suck it up and stop being such a wussie.

MIDTERM

Working with Raw Files:

Process Raw Files

You’ll get a few raw files, and you’ll need to make some adjustments in Camera Raw.

Stuff like fixing the white balance, adjusting recovery, exposure, etc.

Then you’ll need to save the image from Camera Raw/ Lightroom as photoshop document with a specific colorspace

(eg AdobeRGB(1998)), size, and bit depth (eg 8bit). You can do this via LR or via camera raw in PS.

DO this:

• Take the file Midterm-01 and fix the white balance, exposure, and make it look snappy, export it as AdobeRGB1998 full size, 16 bit, psd

save this as lastname_firstname_01

• Take the file Midterm-02 and fix the white balance, exposure, and make it look snappy, export it as srgb, 3000 pixels on the longest side, 8 bit, jpg

save this as lastname_firstname_02

• Take the file Midterm-03 and fix the white balance, exposure, and make it look snappy, export it as AdobeRGB1998 2000 pixels longest side, 16 bit, tiff

save this as lastname_firstname_03

Working in Photoshop:

Open the file you just worked on and make the image black and white with an adjustment layer. Mask out part of the image so one object is in color.

DO this:

• Take the file Midterm-08 and make the lion the only thing in color.
• save this as lastname_firstname_04

Compositing

Open a new image (I will give you) as the background, add a second file (I'll give you this too) as a new layer in one photoshop document.

Make sure you name you layers

This means your adjustment layers have names describing what they're doing and to which part of the image This means your pixel layers have descriptive names.

Mask Pixel Layers

You’ll need to use a layer mask to hide part of a layer or layers. You'll need to figure out if using a brush, or some other selection method will work most effectively.

Do this:

• Take Midterm_05 and use it as your background
• Copy and paste Midterm_06 into 05
• Mask out the white background
• Open Midterm_07 mask out the background and make the mug a strange size, upside down and floating over her head
• save this as lastname_firstname_05

Make Adjustment Layers

You’ll need to make a curves layers to do some stuff. Things like exposure and color adjustment. You’ll have to use a layer mask (like we did when you made one part of the image black and white and when we did dodging and burning with curves).

DO this:

• Take the file Midterm-04 and make 2 curves layers to dodge and burn with.
• Fix the white balance, open it etc
• Make the painting lighter
• make the base that the green sculpture is sitting on darker
• save this as lastname_firstname_06

Assignment 07 - Two Composites for project 2 done for next class saved as PSD and dropped into the Assignment 7 folder

Next class you will have some self directed time to work on Project 2 so make sure you bring in some photographs to work on for class for the project. Aka all the pieces for your composites.

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