Poster Test

Test

1. You are going to make a poster of YOURSELF

2. Take at least 6 pictures of yourself. (you may use more)
-2 must be full body shots either sitting or standing
-2 must be head and shoulder shots
-2 your choice.  You may pose with friends

3. Create a New project in Photo Shop
4. Make it 8 x10 inches
5. Create a neat background to place all of you picture and title layers on.
6. Cut out all of your pics,save as tiff files, fix blemished, whiten teeth, fix any other "flaws", correct red eye
7. You must create a title with drop-shadow of your name.  This must be prominent
8. You must create at least 4 other titles that describe you.
- at least two titles must have a box with a border around it.
9. The entire project must be organized and contain all requirements, and have one color scheme
10. Save your project as a jpg.  Print it out on the color printer

Article 2

Article 2

Goal:

Brainstorm topics for their next article

Students will plan their articles via “Organization Sheet” (See top right corner of blog

Students will begin writing interview questions

Students will complete interviews

Students will begin to organize research and interview information

Students will begin rough draft

NEWS ARTICLE #2

Tuesday, 11/27- Students will brainstorm ideas for their next articles and begin planning sheets

Tuesday, 11/27 - Students will create interview questions and turn in their planning sheets

Monday, 12/4- Students will continue to interview and organize interview answers

Tuesday, 12/5 -completed interviews due by 2:40- If they are not turned in, points will be deducted

ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WILL BE TURNED IN TO http://www.turnitin.com/

(Please submit your questions to the entry entitled: QUESTIONS/ ANSWERS)

**Remember, once you have your interviews, you may start writing your rough drafts

***Even if you don't have all of your interviews completed on any of the days, work on background info and rough draft

Closure Activity:

**PLEASE REMEMBER, YOU CAN BEGIN WRITING YOUR ARTICLE AT ANY TIME. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL YOUR INTERVIEWS ARE CONDUCTED.

**All leads and second paragraphs must be checked by Mrs. Christian

Due on Wednesday, 12/6 (50 points)

Goal: Students will write a practice news article

Turn to pages 91-92 in the workbook
Read exercises 14 and 15
Select 1 exercise and write the entire article
A. Outline the details to organize them
B. Use the Inverted Pyramid style
C. Be sure to have at least one quote in each article.
D. Please turn in the work you have completed.

E. Must be typed and turned in to www.turnitin.com

Due date: 3:00PM- Wednesday, 11/4
If time allows, continue to review articles in other HS newspapers across America. Look for creative story ideas.....Remember, we will be assigning new articles in the near future

1.5.11.B- Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic

1.5.11.C- Write with controlled and/ or subtle organization

1.9.11.A: Use media and technology resources for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning. Identify complexities and inconsistencies in the information and the different perspectives found in each medium.

1.9.11.B: Evaluate how the techniques used in media modify traditional society.

1.2.11B - use and understand a variety of media and evaluate the quality of material 

Making a TIF File

Today, we are going to practice removing background using the

A.
eraser tool- this is a very precise way of cutting out the background
1. Copy your picture
2. Delete the original photo
3. Work with the copy

When you are finished, SAVE as a tif file/ transparency.

There are photos in your J1 folder for you to work with.

B.

Next, Let's work with new computer settings:

and the following video
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/selection-masking-space.html

Blending in Photoshop

Watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NopGgsBaDSw

Next:

Try Auto-Blend Layers Command:

The Auto-Blend Layers command

Use the Auto-Blend Layers command to stitch or combine images with smooth transitions in the final composite image. Auto-Blend Layers applies layer masks as needed to each layer to mask out over or underexposed areas or content differences. Auto-Blend layers is available only for RGB or Grayscale images. It does not work with Smart Objects, video layers, 3D layers, or background layers.

Among the many uses of the Auto-Blend Layers command, you can blend multiple images of a scene with different areas in focus to achieve a composite image with an extended depth of field. Similarly, you can create a composite by blending multiple images of a scene with different illuminations. In addition to combining images of a scene, you can stitch together images into a panorama. (Although, it might be better to use the Photomerge command to produce panoramas from multiple images.)

Auto-Blend Layers applies layer masks as needed to each layer to mask out over or underexposed areas or content differences and create a seamless composite.

Depth of field blending

Copy or place the images you want to combine into the same document.
Each image will be in a separate layer. See Duplicate layers.
Select the layers you want to blend.
(Optional) Align the layers.
You can align layers manually or by using the Auto-Align Layers command. See Automatically align image layers.
With the layers still selected, choose Edit > Auto-Blend Layers.
Select the Auto-Blend Objective:
Panorama
Blends overlapping layers into a panorama image.
Stack Images
Blends the best details in each corresponding area. This options works best with aligned layers.
Note:
Stack Images lets you blend multiple images of a scene with different areas in focus or different illuminations, to achieve the best results of all the images (you must auto-align the images first).  
Select Seamless Tones And Colors to adjust the color and tonality for blending.
Click OK.


Assignment:
1. Blend 2 sets of pictures together to make one interesting photo for each pair.
2. save your work in your Journalism 1 folder
3. Save your pictures as Blend 1 and Blend 2

Changing Eye Color

Changing Eye Color

Changing Eye Color

Changing Eye Color In An Image With Photoshop

Did you ever want to know what it would be like to change your eye color?  Today is your lucky day!

1. Get a camera
2. Take a close-up pic of a classmate or have someone take a close-up of you.
3. Use your selected pic to complete the following tutorial......
4. You must change the color of your pic three times....tow normal and one bizarre color!
Save as eye1, eye2, and eye3.


Changing Eye Color In An Image With Photoshop

In this Photo Retouching tutorial, we'll learn a very simple technique for changing someone's eye color in a photo using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer! Of course, there's no shortage of ways to change colors in an image with Photoshop, but whether you know which color you want to use or just want to play around and experiment, a Hue/Saturation image adjustment makes changing eye color easy, fast and fun!

Download our tutorials as printable PDFs! Learning Photoshop has never been easier!

Here's the image I'll be using:

The original image.

Let's get started!

Step 1: Zoom In On The Eyes

Before we begin, let's make it easier to see what we're doing by zooming in on the eyes in the photo. Select the Zoom Tool from the Tools palette, or press the letter Z on your keyboard to select it with the shortcut:

Select the Zoom Tool.

With the Zoom Tool selected, click and drag out a selection box around the eyes. This is the area we'll be zooming in to:

Drag out a selection box around the eyes.

Release your mouse button, and Photoshop fills the document window with the area you selected:

Photoshop zooms in on the selected area.

Step 2: Select The Lasso Tool

Next, we need to select the eyes so we're not affecting any other areas of the image. For that, we'll use the Lasso Tool. Select the Lasso Tool from the Tools palette, or press the letter L on your keyboard to quickly select it with the shortcut:

Select the Lasso Tool.

Step 3: Draw Selections Around The Eyes

With the Lasso Tool selected, drag a selection around one of the eyes. Don't worry if your selection outline isn't perfect since we'll clean things up later. Once you have the first eye selected, hold down your Shift key and draw a selection around the other eye. Holding down the Shift key will add the new selection to the previous one, allowing us to select both eyes at once:

Select the first eye, then hold down Shift and select the other.

We don't need the pupils in the center of the eyes selected, so let's remove them from the selection. Hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key and drag around each pupil with the Lasso Tool. This will remove them from the selection, leaving us with only the colored area selected. Again, don't worry about being overly precise for now:

Hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) and drag around the pupils to deselect them.

Step 4: Add A Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer

With the eyes now selected, we're ready to change their color! For that, we'll use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Click on the New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette (it's the circle split diagonally between black and white), then select Hue/Saturation from the list of adjustment layers that appears:

Click on the New Adjustment Layer icon and choose Hue/Saturation from the list.

Step 5: Select The "Colorize" Option

If you're using Photoshop CS4 as I am here, the options and controls for the Hue/Saturation dialog box will appear inside the Adjustments Panel which is new to CS4. In Photoshop CS3 and earlier, a Hue/Saturation dialog box will appear on your screen. Select the Colorize option by clicking inside its checkbox:

Select "Colorize".

As soon as you select Colorize, you'll see the eyes change color in the document window:

The eyes instantly change color.

Step 6: Adjust The Hue, Saturation And Lightness

To change the color, simply adjust the Hue, Saturation and Lightnessoptions by dragging their sliders left or right. Hue will change the basic color, Saturation changes the saturation of the color, and Lightness affects the overall brightness. Be careful not to drag the Saturation or Lightness sliders too far to the right, though, since things can quickly become unnatural looking. The image in the document window will continually update as you move the sliders so you can see a live preview of the changes:

Dial in the color you want with the Hue, Saturation and Lightness sliders.

When you're happy with the new color of the eyes, click OK to exit out of the Hue/Saturation dialog box (Photoshop CS4 users can leave the Adjustments Panel open since there's no need to close it). Here's my image after changing the woman's eyes from blue to green:

The Hue/Saturation adjustment makes it easy to select any color you want for the eyes.

Step 7: Select The Brush Tool

If your initial selection of the eyes with the Lasso Tool wasn't perfect, cleaning things up is as easy as painting with a brush! Select Photoshop's Brush Toolfrom the Tools palette, or press the letter B to select it with the keyboard shortcut:

Select the Brush Tool.

Step 8: Select The Hue/Saturation Layer Mask

If we look in our Layers palette, we see our Hue/Saturation adjustment layer sitting above the image on the Background layer. One of the great things about adjustment layers is that they include a built-in layer mask, which makes it easy to control exactly which areas of the image are affected by the adjustment layer and which are not. All we need to do is paint on the layer mask with our brush, but first, we need to make sure the layer mask is selected. You should see a white highlight border around the layer mask's thumbnail, which means the mask is selected. If you don't see the highlight border, simply click directly on the thumbnail to select the mask:

Make sure the layer mask for the adjustment layer is selected.

Step 9: Paint On The Mask To Clean Up The Selection

To clean up the eyes, simply paint over any problem areas with your brush. Paint with white to add to the area that the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer is affecting, or with black to hide the effects of the adjustment layer. Photoshop paints using your current Foreground color, which you can see by looking at the Foreground color swatch near the bottom of the Tools palette:

The Foreground color swatch shows the color you're painting with.

With the layer mask selected, press the letter D on your keyboard to reset your Foreground color to white. To quickly switch to black, press the letter X, which swaps the Foreground and Background colors. Press X again to switch back to white.
To change the size of your brush, use the left and right bracket keys on your keyboard. Press the left bracket key ( [ ) repeatedly to make the brush smaller or the right bracket key ( ] ) to make it larger. Press Shift+left bracket to make the brush edges softer if needed, or Shift+right bracket to make them harder.
Here, I'm painting around the outer edge of one of the eyes with a small brush, with black as my Foreground color, to hide any areas where the new green color extended out into the white part of the eye:

Painting with black on the layer mask to remove any unwanted green areas.

Here, after cleaning up the effect by painting on the layer mask, is my final result:

Her blue eyes are now green. No special contact lenses required.

ASSIGNMENT: Change your eye color 8 times.

1. Have head and shoulder  photos taken of yourself.  Make sure your eyes are visible and the picture focuses on your eyes.  You should have at least 4 close-ups

2. Import the pics to your Pub File :  Create a folder called EYE COLOR

3. Change the eye color of each pic

4. Call up your BLANK InDesign Page

5. Scroll to a blank page and place all eight photos on the page.  Save it in the EYE COLOR folder

Fixing Blemishes

Fixing Blemishes

Fixing Blemishes
1. Complete the tutorial below. 
2. Fix the pictures in your "blemish" folder in tvstudio
3. Save your changes so I can grade them
4. Once you are finished, look at your six head shots taken yesterday......whiten the teeth, fix red eye and clean up blemishes or any marks.
5. We will be working with your head shots tomorrow.

Making Fast Even Faster With Keyboard Shortcuts

As we'll see in a moment, the Spot Healing Brush works fast, but a few simple keyboard shortcuts will speed things up even more. To zoom in on the image, hold down Ctrl+spacebar (Win) / Command+spacebar (Mac) to temporarily access the Zoom Tool and click on the spot you need to zoom in on. To zoom out, hold downAlt+spacebar (Win) / Option+spacebar (Mac) and click. To scroll around inside the image when you're zoomed in, hold down the spacebar by itself to temporarily switch to the Hand Tool, then click and drag to move the image around.

Zooming and panning in Photoshop

For best results with the Spot Healing Brush, you'll want to use a brush size that's just slightly larger than the area you're trying to fix, which means you'll usually need to change your brush size quite often as you make your way from one problem spot to the next. The fastest way to change your brush size is with the left and right bracket keys on your keyboard. Press the left bracket key ( [ ) to make the brush smaller or the right bracket key ( ] ) to make it larger. Also, since the Spot Healing Brush chooses the new texture on its own, sometimes it makes a mistake. When it does, simply undo the step by pressing Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac), then try again.

For this tutorial, I'll be using the Spot Healing Brush to quickly remove some distracting pimples from the girl's face in the photo below, but the technique is the same no matter what it is you're trying to remove or repair as long as the area is small enough for the Spot Healing Brush to be effective. I'll be using Photoshop CS5 here, but any version from CS2 onward will work. Here's the photo I'll be working with (acne on face photo from Shutterstock):

A teenager with typical teenage skin problems.

Let's get started!

Step 1: Add A New Blank Layer

With the photo newly opened in Photoshop, we can see in the Layers panel that we currently have one layer, theBackground layer, which holds our image:

The Background layer contains the original image.

Even though our goal is to make the photo look better, we still want to protect the original, so let's add a new blank layer above the Background layer. We'll do all of our spot healing work on this separate layer. Click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel:

Clicking the New Layer icon.

Step 2: Rename The New Layer

Photoshop adds the new blank layer above the Background layer, but by default, it names the layer Layer 1. That doesn't tell us much about what the layer is being used for, so double-click directly on the layer's name in the Layers panel and rename it "spot healing". It's not uncommon when retouching images to end up with lots of layers, and giving each one a descriptive name makes it easier to keep them organized. Press Enter (Win) /Return (Mac) when you're done to accept the new name:

Renaming the new layer.

Step 3: Select The Spot Healing Brush

Select the Spot Healing Brush from the Tools panel. You'll find it grouped in with the other healing tools. If one of the other tools is showing in place of the Spot Healing Brush, click on the tool and hold your mouse button down for a second or two until a small fly-out menu appears, then select the Spot Healing Brush from the menu:

The Spot Healing Brush is grouped in with the other healing tools.

Step 4: Select The "Sample All Layers" Option

By default, the Spot Healing Brush works only with the layer that's currently selected in the Layers panel. That will cause us some problems if we try to use it right now since we have a blank layer selected, which means all we'd be able to do is replace nothing with different nothing. We need to tell Photoshop to look at the image on the Background layer as well. To do that, select the Sample All Layers option in the Options Bar along the top of the screen:

Selecting the Sample All Layers option in the Options Bar.

Step 5: Select "Content-Aware"

If you're using Photoshop CS5 or later, make sure you have Content-Aware selected in the Options Bar. This feature is new in CS5 and allows the Spot Healing Brush to more intelligently choose good replacement texture for the problem area you've clicked on, using texture from the surrounding area. If you're using CS4 or earlier, you won't have Content-Aware available. In that case, you'll want to select Proximity Match which can still give you great results:

Select Content-Aware for best results (or Proximity Match for CS4 and earlier users).

Content-Aware Healing in Photoshop

Step 6: Click On The Problem Spots To Heal Them

With the Spot Healing Brush, Sample All Layers and Content-Aware (or Proximity Match) selected, all we need to do now is click on problem areas in the image to fix them! I'll zoom in on an area of the girl's face so I can see the problem spots more clearly, then I'll move my brush cursor over one of the pimples and adjust my brush size with the left and right bracket keys so it's just slightly larger than the pimple itself (I circled the brush cursor in red just so we can see it more clearly in the screenshot):

Use the keyboard shortcut to make the brush cursor a bit larger than the problem spot.

I'll click on the pimple with the Spot Healing Brush, and just like that, it's gone, replaced with good texture from the surrounding area:

One click is all it took to remove the pimple.

As I mentioned earlier, sometimes the Spot Healing Brush can make a mistake, so if that happens, just pressCtrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) to undo it and try again. Each time you try again, you'll get a different result. I'll continue clearing up other pimples in the area by moving my brush over them, adjusting its size with the left and right bracket keys, and clicking:

More pimples have been cleared up with just a few simple clicks of the mouse.

Let's move down to her chin where we see some larger problem areas:

Larger clusters of pimples can be a bit more of a challenge.

To retouch these areas, I'll start by clicking on the smaller, isolated pimples to heal them first and get them out of the way:

Removing the isolated pimples before moving on to the larger areas.

Then, rather than trying to fix a large area with a super wide brush and a single click, I'll approach and retouch it in smaller sections, beginning from the outside and making my way inward. Along with clicking the Spot Healing Brush, you can also click and drag in short strokes. As you drag, your brush stroke will appear black:

Dragging a short brush stroke across the area.

Release your mouse button and Photoshop attempts to heal the area with surrounding texture:

Releasing the brush to heal the area.

I'll continue clicking and dragging over the area one small section at a time, going back over any problem spots as needed with additional clicks, and after just a couple of minutes worth of effort, Photoshop was able to do a pretty good job:

The area on the right is now looking a lot better.

I'll do the same thing for the area on the other side, using a small brush and a series of clicks and short brush strokes to tackle the area a little at a time. Here's the result, again after just a couple of minutes worth of effort:

Her chin is now pimple-free thanks to the Spot Healing Brush.

There's one larger problem area remaining, and it's directly under her nose:

A few more pimples left to retouch.

Once again, I'll start by clicking on the individual, isolated pimples to heal them, keeping my brush just slightly larger than the pimple itself:

Healing the smaller areas first.

Then I'll use a combination of clicking and dragging with a small brush to heal the remaining area:

Clearing up the last of the pimples.

The area is now pimple-free, with healthy skin texture in its place:

Another great job by the Spot Healing Brush.

The Lighten Brush Mode

If you’re using the Spot Healing Brush to remove acne or other skin problems as I am here, you’ll often get even better results by changing the Brush Mode in the Options Bar from Normal (the default setting) to Lighten::

Try the Lighten brush mode when fixing skin problems.

With the brush mode set to Lighten, Photoshop will only replace pixels that are darker than the good texture data. Since pimples and other skin blemishes are usually darker than normal skin tone, only the pimple or blemish itself gets replaced, leaving more of the original image surrounding it intact. If a blemish happens to be lighter than the normal skin tone, use the Darken mode. You can quickly switch between all of the brush modes for the Spot Healing Brush from your keyboard by holding down the Shift key and pressing the + or - keys.

Here, once again, is what the original photo looked like:

The original untouched image.

And here's the final retouched result:

The final result.

And there we have it! That's how to clear up acne and other skin blemishes, leaving healthy looking skin in their place, using the Spot Healing Brush in Photoshop! Check out our Photo Retouching section for more great image retouching and editing tutorials, or see below for tutorials you may be interested in!