unit 30 digital graphics: January 2014

In this blog post you will be learning how to create this image using Photoshop elements 5 all the images that you will need you can access with the hyperlink that says "images" and the tutorial you will find as a hyperlink under the image along with the type of hardware and software you will need to create this image.

Photoshop tutorial with HW+SW limitations

images

What you will need to do this tutorial:

Hardware	Why you want it	limitations
Mouse	This will allow you to be able to select and move the images making the final picture much easier to create	The limitations of a mouse compared to something like a graphics pad is that the graphics pad can give you more accurate drawing however the graphics pad requires a different kind of hand eye co-ordination than a mouse
HDD	This is a component that stores data on a disc that is located inside the PC which is able to be accessed though going though the computer menus

Software	Why you want it	limitations
Photoshop	Photoshop is a photo manipulation software where you can take photos saved on your hard drive and change and make your pictures this software is used by many people who are wanting to get in to digital graphics	The limitations of Photoshop compared to paint.exe is that Photoshop has more tools and can give a better result than paint.exe however paint.exe is easier to understand than Photoshop
Photo galleries	This is a piece of software that lets you view the images on your hard drive and show you them in a slide show like a power point presentation	---------

Output medium	Why you want it
Monitor	This will allow you to view what you are doing on the screen making it easier to navigate the menus and see what you are doing with the pictures it presents things to you using pixels.
Plotter	A plotter is like a an early printer but it uses a robotic arm to plot the image and a piece of paper and took longer to produce the image than a printer does now

Tutorial

1. make sure you have loaded all of your images into Photoshop as different projects (to do this go to file in the top corner and click open and find the images so that they load into Photoshop)

2. Go to your bird image and use the magic wand tool and click on the background to highlight it, and press delete to remove the back ground until it is transparent.

3. Now go to the egg picture via the image at the bottom. Use the magic selection brush tool and highlight the egg at the from once you have most of it selected use ctrl J to put it onto another layer and use the eraser tool to remove the excess. (for a more precise removal you can zoom in with the magnify tool)

4. now make sure you are using the select tool and drag the egg image onto the power plant image on the bottom tab and do the same with the bird image.

5. once the you have all of you images on the original picture positioned as you want and press ctrl L on each of the layers to edit the light levels of each layer to how you think it should look (to move/ rotate thing easier you can use the free transform tool which is ctrl T to allow you to do this on each object/layer)

6. like with the bird use the magic wand tool to remove the back ground and drag it to the base picture and adjusts the light levels with ctrl L (once they are in the picture you can use the eraser tool and a soft brush to remove some of the straight edges)