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COMPUTER CLASS FINAL TEST M2 ONLY (UPDATED)

Computer Class Final Test (Updated)

You can sit down with other student and work together in the test, you can use this blog to get information.

• Go in the class and find a computer with photoshop and internet working, it is your responsibility to find one fast I will only give you 5-10 MINUTES.
• I will give the steps that you can follow to pass this test. If you do the extra work I will point out, you will get extra points
• SAVE YOUR WORK (DRIVE D:/M2/<yourFolder>) AS YOU GO, its your responsibility to save and make sure that a computer crash will not stop you from finishing your test.

STEPS (DO THIS TO PASS THE TEST):

Setup

• Open Photoshop
• Create a new file by going to File->New
• Setup the size to 1200 pixels high and 1600 pixels width
• Copy the following image (right click -> copy image)
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• Go to your photoshop newly created file
• Press Ctrl+V to paste the image into it
• Do the same with this image of a plane with a pig
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• And also with this image of a pig with wings
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Setup background

• Select the layer of the image with the sky and the floating island
• Press "V" then click hold and drag the image to the centre of the screen
• Press Ctrl+T to transform it so it fits the screen   

Clean Up Plane with Pig

• Select the layer of the image with the plane and a pig
• Select "Magic Wand", make sure its magic wand
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• In the top area of the screen there is an option for tolerance, set it to 5.
• Click around the white area of the plane with pig
• This should select some area that we want to delete
• press Ctrl+X to delete the area
• If there are more areas to be removed repeat the process.
• When done press Ctrl+T to scale/rotate/position the image (press Enter when you are done) to where you want it to be.

            Clean Up Pig with Wings

• Select the layer with the pig with wings
• Select Magnetic Lasso
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• Click around the contour of the pig and then away, make a round area and double click
• This should select an area that we need to remove
• Press Ctrl+X to remove the area
• Repeat this process until you only have the pig with the wings left and none of its background.
• Press Ctrl+T to scale/rotate/position the image (press Enter when you are done) 
• You can also use the Eraser tool to delete areas you dont want (shortcut "E")
• To move the image you can also use the move tool (shortcut "V")

     Extra points (Do this to get 100%)

• Add some text
• Adjust the colour of the pig with Image->Adjustments->Colour balance so it looks yellow
• Add some blur to the flying pig

When you are done let me know and I will grade you.

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Post 3

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-In this exercise we will try to blend an image to a background by softening the contours and changing colors
- Start by downloading the material, save it in the D drive in M2, open it with photoshop:



- First thing we have to fix is the contour of Lara, it needs to be blended to the background.
- Select Lara's layer
- Choose the Magic wand and select the empty space around Lara
- Go to Select->Modify->Expand and set it to 2 pixels click ok.
- This way we select the contour of Lara.
- We apply a Blur filter to it.
- Go to Fiter->Blur->Gaussian Blur and set it to 1.2, click ok.

- We need to now change the color of Lara to be more orange so it looks like the light around here is affecting her color.

- Go to Image->Adjustments->Color Balance and adjust the sliders by adding some red and yellow.

- We need to give her a little more contrast
- Go to Image->Adjustments->Curve then pull the curve from the middle a little upwards you will see Lara brighter click ok

-We are going to add some back light to her as well to do that we will use a quick mask


- Press Q
- Go to the fill tool that looks like a small bucket
- Select black color and click on the screen, it will make the screen red
- Select white color and using the Brush (shortcut "B")  paint parts of Lara that we want to light up, don't forget you can resize the brush.


- I painted the contour of her arm, which looks like an erased area
- Once you are done press Q
- Go back to Image->Adjustments->Curves and move the middle of the curve up until you can see brightness coming from Lara's back arm.
-Press Ctrl+D to deselect.
- Do this all around until you think it looks good for you.


Here is the result

Post 2

Result





Needed images

Post 1 Create a magazine cover

First project will be to create a magazine cover, can be any kind here is an example.

 

To do this we need:
- Create a new document (File->New) and make it 1200 pix wide and 1600 pix high.
- Create a new layer

- Delete the "Background" layer, by selecting it and then clicking the trash icon next to the new layer icon.

-Two main objects which are one punch man and godzilla, and I used Genos on the side as a joke.
- First we find pictures of them in the internet

- To correctly add the image to our new document you need to copy the image from the website by right click and "copy image", then go to photoshop and press Ctrl+V (paste). If you try to drag and drop an image that you already downloaded you will open a new document in photoshop instead of adding the image to the document we created.

- Now we crop the image using the magnetic lasso tool

-We crop around it until we get one punch man by himself

- We do the same with any image we want to use without its background, like Godzilla and Genos.

- We find a suitable background

- Once we have all these images in layers in photoshop we arrange them the way we want it.

- Here is my layout

- Then we add some text and anything we want to make it look better.

Here is the link for the PSD file