Photoshop Tutorial: Wednesday, January 24th Lola Thompson
Photoshop Tutorial: Wednesday, January 24th Lola Thompson
Photoshop Tutorial: Wednesday, January 24th Lola Thompson
Go to the layer tool bar at the right of the screen and click on the
arrow in the upper right hand corner.
The default opacity level is set to 100%. You can always change
this later if you want your layer to allow some of the background
to show through.
Note that the “color” does not affect the color of the content of your
new layer, it just creates a tag of that color on the toolbar to help
you organize your layers or flag layers that still need work.
Overlaying Two Images
What was “bad” about the preceding
image?
You will notice that Homer Simpson still
doesn’t quite fit with the background.
There’s a blurry edge that goes all the
way around Homer that seems to
separate him from the University of
Chicago campus.
Overlaying Two Images
The image on the left looks much more natural than the image on the
right, namely because we used the rubber stamp tool to clone the
background over the white border in the “Homer” layer (layer 1).
Using One Layer As A Template
Ex.
Instructions
1) Create a black background
2) Write text (should automatically open in a new layer)
3) Hide background layer so that you can see the text
4) Make a Duplicate Layer. Change the color of the text
in this layer to white.
5) Select Gaussian Blur for the Duplicate Layer from
the Filter Menu.
6) Move the Duplicate Layer beneath the Text Layer on
the layers list. Now feel free to move the Duplicate
layer in relation to the Text layer in order to get the
drop shadow effect that you want.
Resources for Further
Photoshop Study
Web Resources:
1) Adobe Design Center
This website is run by the makers of Photoshop.
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/
Live Courses:
1) The Apple Store on Michigan Avenue offers two free weekly courses: Adobe Photoshop
Elements and Adobe Photoshop Pro Workshop.
For schedule, see : http://www.apple.com/retail/northmichiganavenue/