First Assignment: Redesign the Fronts of Buildings with

Pictures of Personal Choice.

1. Find an image of a city online. Save in a folder (PC: My Pictures. MAC: Save
in Art Student, Open a New Folder, Label). Open in Photoshop and check
resolution (pixilation) by clicking on Image-Image Size. It needs to have +300
pixels; otherwise find a new image.
2. Search the internet or bring in your own for a variety of pictures. These will go
on the buildings. Save in folder.
3. Open them up in Photoshop.
4. Click on Move Tool by selecting V on the keyboard. Click and move over to
image with city.
5. A new layer has been created. Lower opacity of layer to 40%.
6. To resize image, click on Edit-Transform-Scale (control T: PC, Command T:
mac) A box will outline the new layer with six squares in the corners and middle
points. Click on these squares to make it bigger or smaller. If you hold down the
shift key, the box will stay proportional.
7. Click Edit-Transform-Skew. The corner squares will only work. This twists the
image. Adjust image. Hit return or double click image to apply. Until you do that,
you wont be able to click on anything else.
8. Look for the word Normal to the left of opacity, and click the drop down menu
with the double arrows. Select one of the Blending Modes. Keep selecting until
you found one you think makes the image look like its on the building.
9. Repeat 4-5 more times until building looks fully covered.

Second Assignment: Playing with Color

Directions: Take one image and discover how to change the color, saturation, and
lightness/darkness.

1. First step: open up new canvas by clicking File-New. Make sure the resolution is
300 dpi by checking in Image-Image-Size.
2. Open up another image of choice. Drag this image onto the new canvas by using
the move tool. Right click on this layer and duplicate. Duplicate six times total.
Move images around until they appear stacked.
3. If images go beyond the 8x10 canvas size, select all the layers holding down the
command key and selecting all of them. Then change the size of all layers by
holding down Ctrl Tor Command T. Then hold down shift on keyboard. Click
and drag to fit the dimensions.
4. Click on each layer and select Image-Adjust-Hue-Saturation or Command U.
5. A new box appears with three bars: Hue, Saturation, & Lightness. Play around
with all of these.
6. Your new canvas needs six images with different colors, saturation, and lightness
and darkness. Size them in a way that they are flush next to each other.

Photo Tint Project.

1. Find an image of a person. High Resolution with minimal background. Save to
folder.
2. Open in Photoshop.
3. Hit Shift+Command+U to change entire image to Black & White. Then
Command J to duplicate.
4. Click on top box on the left hand side of tool barit should be a color. Choose a
color you want to use.
5. Zoom in real close to the eyes, seeing only the iris and pupil.
6. Pick a blending mode.
7. Choose the paintbrush on the menu bar. Check the diameter of the brush to fit
inside the iris.
8. Lower opacity on the brush menu at the top down to 50%.
9. Begin painting. Repeat on the second eye.
10. Choose a different color. Paint againpossibly lowering the opacity a bit more.
11. Repeat steps 9 & 10 until satisfied. Save.