Photoshop Day 3: Photomerge, content, touch up, filters

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Objectives

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General:

  • Merge Photos
  • Heal photos

Specific:

  • Use Photomerge
  • Fill selections with content aware fill
  • Use healing tools correctly
  • Apply Filters to photos

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)
 
  • Smart Objects
    • What are smart objects? Why are they important?
    • Here is a helpful video:  

      • Use smart objects to apply the filters listed below
  •  Sharpen
    • Unsharp Mask
  • Blur
  • Camera Raw Filter
    • This filter is so expansive, it could be its own class. Our goal is to just show students where it is, and some basic functions of it

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
    • The non photo parts of photoshop.
    • These are the tools for making cards, banners, invitations, posters, etc.
    • We might also play around with another fun filter (Liquify) if we have time
  • Office/Facebook

Example Hook2-Panorama

Example Questions

What is a panorama? Using what you know right now how would you make one in Photoshop?
What is a clone? Therefore what do you think a clone stamp would be?
Do you remember the red eye tool and the spot healing brush? What did they do?
When would you want to remove something from a photo?
Have you ever used filters in a different program (i.e. Instagram)? What did you use them for?

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 (Canyonlands Panorama Folder).
  • 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 (Canyonlands1-Canyonlands5).
  • Once you have completed this activity you can have them practice more on the files in Extra Images > photomerge panoramas.
 
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.