Practice #6 - Adjustment layers

The only features from the Adjustments submenu (under the Image menu) that you can’t apply as an adjustment layer are Match Color, Replace Color, Shadow/Highlight, Exposure, Equalize, and Variations. We use Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, and Photo Filter far more often than the others, but we encourage you to experiment. You can’t do any harm, because your original image stays intact on the Background layer until you flatten it.

Instructions:

Practice with the adjustments. Edit 15 different pictures with each one of them.

Practice #5 - Red-eye tool

The Red Eye tool removes red eye in flash photos of people or animals, and white or green reflections in flash photos of animals.

Select the Red Eye tool . (The Red Eye tool is in the same group as the Spot Healing Brush tool . Click the triangle in the lower right portion of a tool to display additional tools.)

Click in the red eye. If you are not satisfied with the result, undo the correction, set one or more of the following options in the options bar, and click the red eye again:

Pupil Size

Increases or decreases the area affected by the Red Eye tool.

Darken Amount

Sets the darkness of the correction.

 

• Red eye is caused by a reflection of the camera flash in the subject’s retina. You’ll see it more often when taking pictures in a darkened room because the subject’s iris is wide open. To avoid red eye, use the camera’s red eye reduction feature. Or, better yet, use a separate flash unit that you can mount on the camera farther away from the camera’s lens.

Instructions:

Remove red-eyes from 2 different photos. Post them in your blog, both pictures, before & after.

 

Practice #4 - Clone Stamp tool

The Clone Stamp Tool is one of the most important tools in Photoshop. When restoring old photos it is indispensable. It is used for copying (or “cloning”) one part of a picture to another. The clone tool is useful for the following purposes:

• Fixing defects in photographs (dust, scratches, tears, stains, vignetting, etc.)
• Removing unwanted items from a picture (phone wires, trash, mother-in-law)
• Artistic effects

The clone tool is selected from the tool bar with the symbol shown below. To use the clone tool a source and

destination point are selected. The source is defined by typing ALT and clicking with the mouse. Once the

source has been defined, the image is copied by clicking with the mouse.

Instructions:

Modify, fix, or remove minor blemishes from 2 different photos. Post them in your blog, both pictures, before & after.