Digital Multimedia 09-10

Thursday, May 20, 2010

1. Taylor is currently working on the Painting Away Tutorial but is having trouble. When she copies an image from the internet and pastes it in Photoshop, it comes out gray. How should Taylor fix this problem?

a: Image Menu + Mode + RGB color

2. Duane is working on a project in Photoshop. He realized he has made a few mistakes. He pressed Apple + Z to undo a few times but it only allowed him to undo once. What key should Duane press to undo multiple times?

a: Apple + Option + Z

3. When Khadirah opened Photoshop she noticed that her layers palette was missing. How should Khadirah get her layer palette back?

a: Windows Menu + Layers

4. TRUE or FALSE

I am currently working on the Gradient tool but i want to use the paint bucket tool, if I press shift+ G it will switch to the paint Bucket tool

a: TRUE

5. Julian is working on the Painting Away Color Tutorial but is noticing that when he paints his background it's not turning to gray quickly. What is one place he should check that is located in the Options Bar

a: Flow (which should be at 100%) or Opacity (which should be at 100%)

6. TRUE or FALSE

The tool located inside of the Rectangular Marquee Tool is called the Circle Marquee tool.

a: FALSE

7. What is the shortcut command for the move tool?

a: V

8. What is the shortcut command to duplicate a layer?

a: Apple + J

9. Mykia is working on the Painting Away Color Tutorial. She is trying to turn the background gray but it's turning red. Why is it turning red and how should she make it gray?

a: Because her foreground color swatch is red, she makes it gray by turning her foreground color swatch to black

10. What is the shortcut command to deselect(make the marching ants go away)?

a: Apple + D

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Painting Away Color Tutorial

Step 1: Open a color RGB image

Step 2: Click on the brush tool, and up in the options bar, switch the Blend Mode from Normal to color.

Step 3: From the Brushes Palette, choose a soft-edged, medium-sized brush.

Step 4: Start painting. As you paint, the color will disappear, leaving just a grayscale in its wake.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Liquid Metal Tutorial

Step 1: Type your text using a large bold type.

Step 2: Put a selection around your type layer by holding down the apple key and clicking once on the type layer.

Step 3: Go under the select menu and choose save selection. When the dialog box appears, click OK to save your selection.

Step 4: Deselect ((Apple + D)

Step 5: Drag your type layer into the trash can to delete it.

Step 6: Go to the channels palette and click on Alpha
1. Duplicate this layer.

Step 7: Go under the Filter menu, under Blur, and choose Gaussian blur. For Radius enter 3 and click OK.

Step 8: Put a selection around Alpha 1 copy.

Step 9: Go under the filter menu, under Blur and chose Gaussian Blur. For the radius, enter 6 and click OK.

Step 10: Go to the layers palette and click once on the background layer. Don't deselect yet!

Step 11: Go under the Filter menu, under render and choose Lighting effects. In the pop up menu, choose directional. Under Properties, set the Gloss to 100, set the Material to 100, then skip down the texture Channel and choose Alpha 1 copy from the pop up menu Click OK.

Step 12: Dont Deselect yet!
Go under the filter menu, under stylize, and choose Find Edges.

Step 13: Deselect

Step 14: Go under the select menu and choose load selection. When the dialog box appears, choose Alpha 1 from the pop up menu. Click Ok

Step 15: Press Shift+ Apple+ I to inverse your selection.

Step 16: Press delete to delete the background area.

Step 17:Inverse your selection again to reselect your type.

Step 18: Press Shift + Apple + J.

Step 19: Go under the filter menu under sharpen, and choose Unsharp Mask. For amount choose 200% for radius choose 1, for threshold choose 15. Click OK.

Step 20: Add a drop shadow. Leave the setting at the default.

Step 21: Go under the image menu, under adjustments and choose hue/saturation. Click the colorize button, then drag the hue slider over to 214 and lower the saturation to 20 to complete the effect.