LabTask6:Photoshop

By:ZeeshanBhatti

BS(IT)PartIII&IVSecond

BS(IT)PartIIIandIV
LearningPhotoshopworkarea
LabTask6
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Multimedia Technology
Lab Task :6
By: Zeeshan bhatti

Object: To learn about Photoshop work area.

a) To make wood effect on text.
b) Take an image and make advance wooden frame around it.
c) Combine two pictures using Feather option

Tool:
Adobe Photoshop

Introduction:
Adobe Photoshop is an Image Processing software package that enables you to create & edit images on
IBM personal Computers. Adobe Photoshop is acknowledged in professional fields as the cutting-edge
Program,
the
final
word
in
Textile
Designing.
Adobe Photoshop is world leading image manipulating program for graphics art and is used extensively
in
printing,
publishing,
www,
photographic
and
graphic
design
industries.
About the work area
The work area consists of the following components:
Menu bar
The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The menus are organized by topic. For example, the
Layers menu contains commands for working with layers.
Options bar
The options bar provides options for using a tool.
To display the tool options bar: Do one of the following:

Choose Window > Options.

Click a tool in the toolbox.

Lasso options bar

Toolbox
The toolbox holds tools for creating and editing images. To show or hide the toolbox:

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Choose Window > Tools. A check mark indicates the item is showing.
Palette well (Photoshop)
The palette well helps you organize the palettes in your work area.
Palettes
Palettes help you monitor and modify images
To display one palette:
Choose the palette name in the Window menu.
To show or hide multiple palettes:
Do one of the following:

To show or hide all open palettes, the options bar, and the toolbox, press Tab.
To show or hide all palettes, press Shift+Tab.

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Theory:
Layers allow you to work on one element of an image without disturbing the others. Where there is no
image on a layer, you can see through to the layers below. You can change the composition of an image
by changing the order and attributes of layers. In addition, special features such as adjustment layers, fill
layers, and layer styles let you create sophisticated effects.
Layer styles let you quickly apply effects to a layer's content. The effects that you apply to a layer
become part of the layer's custom style. When a layer has a style, an "f" icon appears to the right of
the layer's name in the Layers palette.
The lasso and polygonal lasso tools let you draw both straight-edged and freehand segments of a
selection border.
Feathering Blurs edges by building a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding
pixels. This blurring can cause some loss of detail at the edge of the selection.

Procedure:
a) Wood Text
1. Open Photoshop 7.0. Type the text using type tool.

2. Layer > Layer Style > Bevel and Emboss

3. Select inner bevel Depth 400
4. Select Drop Shadow
5.
Select
Pattern
( forth in the first row )

Overlay.

From

the

pattern,

select

Wood

Texture

6. Add background color using paint bucket tool to decorate the text.

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b) Advance Wooden Frame

1. Try to complete Wood text exercise before starting this exercise.
2. Using Polygon Lasso Tool, make left side of the frame.
3. Make a new layer and fill the selection with pattern of Wood using paint bucket tool.

4. Make a copy of layer.

5. Flip the copy using.
Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal
Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical
6. Adjust all the parts properly to create the frame structure.
7. Off the visibility icon i.e. EYE of the background layer select any of the frame layer and click 'Merge
Visible' from layers menu to get frame with single layer.
8. To make the frame more realistic use bevel effect on the frame.
Layer > Layer Style > Bevel & Emboss > Inner Bevel
9. Apply inner shadow with default values.
Layer > Layer Style > Bevel & Emboss > Inner Shadow
10. Drag the image on the frame. Drag the image layer below the frame layer.
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c)

Combine two pictures using Feather option

1. Select a picture that smoothly fades into the background.

2. Open Photoshop. Open main image which will be used as a base.

3. Open another image to apply simple fading effect.

4. Drag this image on the main image using Move Tool. Keep this Layer selected.

5. Select Lasso Tool. Make an irregular selection.

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6. Select > Feather (9)

7. Select > Inverse
8. Press Delete and you get a Vignette. Press Ctrl + D to deselect.

9. Change the Layer mode to Overlay to mix it with background.

Result:
We have become familiar how To make wood effect on text, how to make wooden frame around an
image and how to combine two pictures using Feather option.
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