LET'S MEET THE PHOTOSHOP TOOLBAR (part two)

In this lesson we will learn more of the Adobe Photoshop Toolbar.
You will be using a picture to work on that I have picked for you.

Open up Photoshop (Remember how?) Click on the

OK, now let’s get the picture we are going to use.

** CLICK TO USE THIS PICTURE FOR LESSON TWO! **

Hold down the CONTROL key and click on the image of the girl.

Choose COPY IMAGE.

Go back to Photoshop and on the top menu, choose FILE>NEW.
Click OK. Then choose EDIT>PASTE.

OK, Awesome! You can try all these next tools on this picture.

There are two ways to UNDO mistakes if you should make one.
The first way is the hit COMMAND + Z.
That will undo the last thing you did.

The second (and I think best) way is to use the HISTORY PANEL.

Here’s how to find it. Choose WINDOW>HISTORY.

Then you will see the HISTORY PANEL appear!

If you click the layer above the one that is selected,
you will back up a step! (See image below).

You can back up as many steps as you need if you made a bunch of mistakes!

Let’s Try Some Tools!

Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool

These tools are very important if you are doing a lot of facial retouching.
The Spot Healing Brush Tool is the easiest to use.
You simply find the skin imperfection you want to remove (like a zit!) and click on it.

You can see in the image below a before and after.
I clicked the marked spots with the Spot Healing Brush Tool and Photoshop
created some good skin based on the clicked spot and the surrounding area.

A useful keyboard shortcut for any brush tool
are the bracket keys ( [ and ] ).
Clicking the left bracket key decreases the size of the brush (smaller)
while the right bracket key increases (larger) the size.

This works for ANY BRUSH TOOL!

Brush Tool

The Brush tool is probably the most used tool in the Toolbar panel.
There will be a lesson just on the brush tool later.

You can use it to paint with color over your image.
The Round Brush Tool is the one selected by default when you first open Photoshop.

This brush has two important settings you will want to play with: size and hardness.

Hardness represents how defined the edges of the brush are (or how blurry).
Set the hardness setting to maximum (100%) and you will paint with hard-edged strokes.

Set it to minimum and you will have some nice blurry strokes that blend well with the background.

A useful keyboard shortcut for the brush tool are the bracket keys ( [ and ] ).

Clicking the left bracket key decreases the size of the brush while the right bracket key increases the size.

Clone Stamp Tool

The Clone Stamp Tool is probably my favorite tool.
It has a lot of uses and it is not complicated at all.

To use it first Option + CLICK somewhere to set what you want to clone.
Then click somewhere else.
You will notice what you selected will appear!

That’s all this tool does.

Give it a try on your picture! Have fun!
Remember how to undo things that you have done!

History Brush Tool

You don't need to try this, but he History Brush Tool is an interesting little tool that holds a lot of power.
It allows you to paint on a new layer from a previous version of your image.
(Go backwards in a certain spot!)

We will talk more about how this works later!

EraserTool

The Eraser Tool allows you to delete (erase).

You can resize it like any other tool using the [ or ] key.
It is as simple as that.

You don’t like the way your new painted layer looks,
you select the Eraser Tool and send pixels into oblivion.

ASSIGNMENT TWO:

1. Use the BRUSH TOOL and the CLONE STAMP TOOL to make changes to your picture.

2. Save your picture to the Desktop. Choose FILE>SAVE AS and choose DESKTOP.
   Just leave the name as it is and click OK.

That’s the end of part two of the toolbar!

From your program, go to FILE>SAVE AS and choose DESKTOP,
then drag from the DESKTOP to GOOGLE DRIVE and the Correct Class Folder.

Save your final file in Google Classroom.
Just add the file from Google Drive.