ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 2024 – SELECTING PORTIONS OF AN IMAGE

One of the keys to mastering Photoshop is efficiently and effectively using the selection tools to select portions of an image that you wish to manipulate. Let’s get started with some basic tools and techniques to select portions of an image.

Objective: 

Students will be able to select the right tool for any selection task by practicing with a range of different tools and selection tasks within a composite image so that they can produce more efficient and effective Photoshop edits.

Video Links:

Selecting Part of an Image:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/select-part-photo.html

Topics Discussed:

  • Arrange Windows (2UP vertical, 2UP horizontal)
  • Magic Wand Tool
  • Quick Select Tool
  • Move Tool
  • Select -> Similar
  • Select -> Inverse

Assignment:

Watch the linked video for an overview of the Selection tools we will be using today.

Using the tools and techniques demonstrated in the video and discussed in class, create a composite image using the Moon image (below) as a background and the Astronaut, Alien, the Moon Buggy and the Cheese in the foreground.

For an additional challenge, apply Layer Effects to change the color of the cheese to green (everyone knows the moon is made of green cheese!) and add a drop shadow to the cheese to make it a little more “realistic” (at least as realistic as a giant piece of green cheese on the moon can look!). For the maximum challenge, use the Puppet Warp technique to add a shadow to the aliens you placed on the moon’s surface!

Make sure each of the images has no traces of a white or black background. Name your layers appropriately. Save your file as “YOURNAME Moon Party.psd” and attach a copy to today’s assignment post in our Google Classroom.

Images:

Note: Click on the image thumbnail first to reveal the full-size image, then right-click the full-size image and choose “Save image as…” to save the file to your Desktop.

moon
moon.jpg
alien
alien.png
cheese
cheese.jpg
spaceman
spaceman.jpg
moonbuggy.jpg

Assigned: October 15th, 2024
Teacher Pacing Due Date: October 17th, 2024

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP PRE-TEST 2024

Welcome to our Adobe Photoshop unit! Photoshop is an incredibly powerful image creation and manipulation tool.

Let’s get started with a quick test to see what you already know about Photoshop, and a little bit about what you have to discover about this quintessential digital image editing software.

Then we’ll begin our journey by exploring the Photoshop workspace, and learning about some of the new tools, palettes and control panels that are unique to Photoshop.

Objective:

I can show what I already know about Adobe Photoshop by taking the Photoshop pre-test.

Video Links:

The Photoshop Workspace: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/introduction-work-area.html?set=photoshop–fundamentals–photoshop-workspace

Topics Discussed:

  • Adobe Photoshop

Assignment:

  • Visit our Google Classroom and take the Photoshop pre-test.
  • Remember, this is a pre-test, so do your best to answer all the questions, but don’t worry if you don’t have all the answers. That’s what you’re here to learn.
  • Submit your test answers before the end of the class period today.
  • Make sure you mark the assignment as “Done” when you finish to confirm that you took the test.

Assigned: October 14th, 2024
Teacher Pacing Due Date: October 14th, 2024

It’s super effective!