Dear Old Grandfather Touch-Up

Step #1 - Like step #1 in the Family portrait assignment, increase the canvas size, and duplicate the picture to the right side.

Step #2 - Using the clone stamp tool, remove the crease from the center of the image, and blend the roof, jacket, horse, ground and border to the other side of the crease. Also, fix the old man's left eye with the stamp tool.

Step #3 - Take the same actions with the image involving the Dust and Scratches option and history brush as with the Family portrait, to fix the new copy.

Step #4 - Using the quick mask tool and a brush, select the various parts of the picture that you want to apply a color to, and save these selections. To make these selections, load previous selections and subtract from the current selection to make sure that no parts overlap.

Step #5 - Load selections one by one, and using the Hue and Saturation window, give the pieces of the picture a color.

Family Portrait Re-Touch Project

Step #1 - Create a duplicate of the picture at the right, and increase the canvas size in order to put the picture on the other side.

Step #2 - Using Photoshop and the Stamp clone tool, remove the tape from the top and the bottom, taking care to preserve the photographer's signature.

Step #3 - Then, under Filter, Noise, use the scratches and dust option. Under this, put the 1st setting on the lowest so that you can't see the dust, and then the threshold at a level that will make the picture clearer, but not pixelated.

Step #4 - Take a snapshot of the original without the tape, and then another with the dust and scratches option done. Name this snap shot blur, and setting it as the source, use the history brush to select the dust and scratches and get rid of them using the blurred image.

Step #5 - Take the nose from one of the other men, and copy it onto the seated man's face (make sure to put it in a Heal layer). Using the transforming box, shape the nose and size it, then go into the heal layer and erase the excess skin (set the opacity down to check the positioning).

Girl Edit

Step #1 - Open the top picture in Photoshop and then increase the canvas size and copy the picture as a new layer to the bottom

Step #2 - Using the wand tool, select the background and then save the selection as BG.

Step #3 - Using the healing brush, cover up the blemishes in a Heal layer and, using the same tool, get rid of the glare off of her forehead, cheeks and her nose.

Step 4 - After flattening the layers, put a Gaussian blur over her face, and erase the blur off of the details you want to stay vivid. Load the BG selection, and then hit the delete key to make her head crisper. Lower the opacity of the blur over her face in to give her flawless skin.

Step #5 - Using the quick mask tool on the eyes, and changing the hue/saturation in a new adjustment layer will change the color of her eyes.

Step #6 - For Eye-Shadow Make-up, make a new adjutsment layer, check colorize, choose a color in hue/saturation, then fill box in layer with black. Then paint the desired areas over the eyes with a whte brush.

Step #7 - For the lips, use a quik mask and select the lips. Save this selection, an then jump to new layer. In the new layer, change the layer mode to screen and do hue/saturation again.

Travel Ad Design

Step #1 - Using Photoshop, apply a background in a bottom layer and expand the canvas size, as with the NextCo Assignment.

Step #2 - Find images online that work with your background, and organize them in a way that expresses the message you want translated by your travel ad.

Step #3 - Use the gradient quick masking tool to blend the images together with your background.

Step #4 - Using the type tool and the Fx tool, create the headline and text you want on the cover of your page.

NextCo Ad

Step #1 - Using Photoshop, increase the canvas size to above the original image. Apply a gradient behind the original and, using the gradient quick masking tool, blend the back gradient into the image's original sky.

Step #2- Crop the cell phone picture, and drag it onto the city landscape picture, and using the same gradient quick masking tool and the delete button, blend the picture into the rest sky. Repeat this process with the picture of the airplane.

Step #3 - To do the Text in the lower left corner, Right "NextCo" in a fat font, and then using the Fx button, try different effects (Bevel and Emboss, Drop Shadow, etc.)

Step #4 - Use the same tool for "For the way you live", but different effects.

Monster Project

Step #1 - Using InDesign, demonstrate use of columns, super script, drop shadow, line tools, starburst shape tool, fonts and coloring, frame tool, and leading.

You're Invited! - Invitation Card

Step #1 - Find a birthday image online, and, using PhotoShop, position the image on a birthday invitation card to be opened any desired way.

Step #2 - Put the Type on the card with eye-catching type, and put the desired message on the front of the card, and then put "Designed by: Name" on the back of the card.