Day 4

Photomerge, Healing Images, Touch-ups

Objectives

File URL: files.learnsoftware.org/photoshop

General:

  • Merge Photos
  • Heal photos

Specific:

  • Use Photomerge
  • Fill selections with content aware fill
  • Use healing tools correctly

Outline

Hook

  • A set of pictures and then them combined into a Panorama
Intro:
  • Any questions since last time?
  • We will be learning about merging photos and healing them. You might need to merge photos if the area you wanted to capture was too large, such as when taking a panorama.
  • When pictures are merged things often don’t go 100% right and then we need to heal them. We also often have to heal single photos when something unwanted appears in the picture.
  • Merge multiple photos together
  • Fill empty areas with content aware fill (Edit > Fill > Content Aware Fill)
  • Explain what content-aware fill is
    • When it is a good idea to use content-aware fill, and when it’s not
Healing photos

Note: Today’s lesson might be a little shorter depending on how fast you get through the material with your class. If you have extra time, it’d be a good idea to review past concepts (especially masks, they can be hard to understand)

Conclusion

  • Recap
    • We learned how to have Photoshop merge photos for us.
    • We learned how to heal problems with our photos with Photoshop’s healing tools.
  • Next time
    • Filters, Sharpening
    • Camera RAW, how to work with RAW files

Example Hook2-Panorama

Example Questions

  • What is a panorama? Using what you know right now how would you make one in Photoshop?
  • What is the difference between the healing brush and the spot healing brush?
  • When would you want to remove something from a photo?

Example Activities and Files

Photomerge activity: students are unlikely to have their own files to create a panorama with so have them use the class files.
  • In Photoshop go to File>Automate>Photomerge
  • Have them use Auto layout
  • Under use choose files, then browse to the files you want to merge
  • Merge the layers to do any more editing to the panorama (right click on a layer>merge visible)
Healing activities:
  • Patch.jpg, patch tool, show how to remove the child from the photo
  • CloneStamp1, clone stamp tool, remove the shadow and close the window
  • Restore.jpg, as a challenge use the healing tools to restore this old photo by removing the crease.
  • There are a bunch more images in the Extra Images folder that can be used for practice.