Making Your Photo Pass

1. Take a picture of yourself that you want to use for your photo pass OR select a picture of yourself that you
already have.
a. It has to be a good quality picture.
b. It should be a closer cropped picture.
2. Open that photo in Photoshop
3. Crop the photo so that its a head and shoulders portrait or closer.
4. Flatten your photo.
5. Create a new Photoshop document with the following settings:
a. Width 3.625 inches
b. Height 2.5 inches
c. Resolution 300 pixels per inch
d. Background contents Transparent
6. Go back to your portrait and reduce the size so that itll fit on your pass.
a. Click on ImageImage size and adjust the size.
b. In this example below my picture is currently 8 inches wide, but Id like it to take up about half of the
pass.
i. 1.8 inches is about half
ii. Ill let the computer figure out the height.
iii. I want to keep the resolution at 300like the new document.

c. You dont have to get it perfect, but its much easier to fit if you shrink it before placing it in the new
background.
d. Click OK
7. Select all (Ctrl A) then copy (Ctrl C)
8. Go back to your new blank document and paste your picture (Ctrl V)
9. Use the Move Tool (V) to move and shrink your picture so that it fits.
a. Make sure it still looks like youhold down Shift and shrink/stretch from a corner.
10. Add the text:
a. Advanced Photography (Or Adv Photo if it fits better) OR AP Studio Art 2D Design OR AP Photography
b. 2013-2016
c. Your name

d. You choose the font and color as long as its readable.

e. On my example I changed the text orientation, because it fit better.
11. Customize your pass.
a. Dont do anything to your picture to make it unrecognizable.
b. You could add a color gradient to the background, add graphics, try out a new brush, etc.
c. Just do something to make your pass unique to you.

12. Save as a JPEG and hand in.