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Assignment 1-1: Strike A Pose

Purpose:

To assess your ability to use the tools found within the Photoshop Elements

Instructions:

  1. Using a photo of yourself, manipulate the photo using Photoshop Elements. Use at least three different tools and/or effects and utilize at least one manipulations of a vector graphic.
  2. Resize the image to make it no more than 100K in size.
  3. Use a separate layer to organize each effect.
  4. In paragraph form, describe what tools were used to manipulate the photograph. Be sure to describe your manipulations and how you incorporated a vector graphic into the original photograph.
  5. Post the original and manipulated images to the course bulletin board.
  6. Make sure to cite the source of the original image.

Original Photograph:

Edited Photograph:

Steps Taken to Manipulate the Photo:

  1. I imported the image into the Organizer, and placed the image file into the Project Bin.

  2. I saved a duplicate copy of the photograph, and placed it into the Editor's Work Space.

  3. I selected Smart Brush tool from the Tool Menu, went to the Preset drop down menu, and chose the
    Black & White option.

  4. From there, I selected the High Contrast Red Filter option. This tool was used to fill in the background
    area around my image. I kept the cooler, coolie cup,and myself with original colors.

  5. Next, I imported three image files from my documents into the editor. Since the moon image had a black
    background, I simply dragged it into the upper-left corner of the photograpgh.

  6. For the Teddy Bear and Smiley Cup images, I removed the background colors by tracing their images,
    choosing the Inverse option from Select menu, copying their images into new image file with a transparent
    background. I then dragged each one into the photograpgh, and used the Move tool to adjust their size and
    positions accordingly (NOTE: a layer is automatically created for each image placed into the photograpgh)

  7. Next, I used the Text tool to type in the message on the photograph.

  8. Last, I resized the original and final photos to a 72ppi resolution with a 6" X 4" in size, and used
    the Save For The Web option from the File menu.