Photoshop Day 4: Brushes, design, advanced projects

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Objective:

File URl: tiny.cc/PsDay4

General:
  • Use non-photo elements in Photoshop designs
  • Combine non-photo and photo elements
  • Knows Photoshop alternatives

Specific:

  • Use text tool
  • Use brushes
  • Create shapes
  • Apply colors and gradients
  • Apply Layer Effects
  • Combine elements in pleasing ways

Outline

Hook: an example poster, invitation, or album cover, like the fiesta invitation.

Intro: Photoshop can be used for other types of design projects besides photos.

  • Make a new document of the correct size for your project
  • Type tool
  • Changing attributes with the paragraph and character panels
  • Paragraph styles

Creating shapes

  • Changing brush properties
  • Downloading new brushes

Adding layer effects

Alternatives to Photoshop
  • Gimp (Open Source)
  • Affinity Photo
  • Photoshop Elements
  • Snapseed (mobile)
  • there are tons of Photo editing apps, but not many on Photoshop’s level

Liquify Filter

  • This can be taught if you have extra time and people seem bored with posters
  • Face-aware Liquify
  • Liquify tools
    • Bloat, pucker, forward warp, freeze, thaw, twirl, push left, etc
Conclusion
  • Recap
  • Tell about any advanced days that are scheduled. Encourage students to practice on their own photos and come by the office if they need any help.
  • Office/Facebook

Example Hook

       

Example Questions

What kinds of designs would you like to make in Photoshop?
What design elements would you like to add to a composition?
When would you use a brush?
How would you download a brush?
Why would you install new fonts?
How would you install a font?

Example Activities and Files

Show students how to use the tools, then have them choose a few of the tools and create an invitation, a poster, album art, etc.