Eddie Stone: Task 2

Image Manipulation in Photoshop

These are the images I took, before I did image manipulation. I took these photos, because I thought I could use these images to make a new image. For example I was going to have a giant person peeking over a building, or a person riding bird.

Before I did this animation I went outside with the rest of my classmates, and we took photos of different thing, and then we picked a photo that had a background, and foreground. Then I chose that image to edit in photoshop.

What I did was open up an image in photoshop by dragging and dropping it into photoshop

Then I edited the levels of the image by going on Image > Adjustments > Levels

I just played around with the settings until I like the way the image looked

When I like the levels of the image I pressed ok and then I clicked on the Quick Selection Tool and selected the lion

After selecting the lion I clicked on the Refine Selection Edge which is located at the top. Then every thing accept, what I selected was on the screen, and I messed with the settings until i liked the way the lion looked, because it edits the cropping

Then I clicked on the Edit in Quick Mask Mode button, that turned what was not selected red

Once I did that I pressed F on the keyboard, it got rid of the windows bar at the bottom and the top only leaving photoshop visible on the screen. Then I pressed F again and it turned every thing apart from the image black on the screen. This is good for focusing on the image, and concentrating. Then I pressed F again which turned the screen back to normal.

Then I used these tools to refine the selection, of the lion. To make it easier I pressed Ctrl and X on the keyboard, which switches the brush to the Eraser and Pen tool.

After I have selected the areas I wanted on the image, I saved the selection so I could use that selection again if i needed to for that image. I did this by clicking on Select > Save Selection. I then named the selection lion and pressed OK.

If I needed that selection again I would go onto Select > Load selection. Once this window opens up I would either click on the arrow next to Channel, and choose from the selections but because I only made one it already had it selected so I just had to press OK.

I then went on Edit > Copy > Edit > Paste

Once I have done that, the selected lion will be copied onto another layer.

Then I click on the Clone Stamp Tool, so I can edit the image, because I want to get rid of the lion, on the original image, and make it look like the lion was never there. I had to also clone parts of the trees so, that the image looks more natural. To do that I pressed Alt on the keyboard and clicked on the area I wanted to copy and then click on the area wanted to put that copied area, using it like the brush tool. The plus on the image below is what is being copied.