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2 Photoshop Selections

In the previous challenge you used selection tools to draw and color a house as well as use the layers to show what is in front.

This will be a review of:

  • Create a new layer
  • Rename layers
  • Reorder layers
  • Understand the stacking order

and

  • Move
  • Rectangular marquee
  • Elliptical marquee
  • Lasso
  • Polygonal Lasso
  • Magnetic Lasso
  • Eyedropper

Selection Collage

For this part of the assignment, you will use photos you took during your Scavenger Hunt to create a collage using Selection Tools.

Requirements

  1. 10 different photos, minimum
  2. Use the rectangular marquee, elliptical marquee, lasso, polygonal lasso, and magnetic lasso tools - use each tool twice.
  3. Demonstrate neat & creative use of the 5 selection tools, use feathered edges on 5 of the photo selections.
  4. Name your layers
  5. Name & period # in front of a shape at the bottom right of page (Arial, 20 pt, black)

Watch this video to learn how  to use the tools to create a photo collage. Refer to this Important Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts chart for keyboard shortcuts to use.

When you finish, this should be saved in your PAAVTC folder in your One Drive as a Photoshop file that you can edit later, and as a JPG to upload to your Canvas ePortfolio:  #_lastname_selection_tools

Example:

Turning it in...

You'll add this at the top of the Photoshop page of your Canvas ePortfolio. Newest posts go at the top. You can refer to this video if you don't remember how to embed your images.

  1. Title of the challenge
  2. Complete these sentence stems:
    1. When I pasted the selection into the collage ____________________
    2. Keyboard shortcuts I learned are _________________
  3. Insert the JPG image that you created in this challenge