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Exercises

The document provides instructions for three photo editing exercises in Photoshop. Exercise 1 involves using selection tools to select and copy a dog and paste it into a doghouse. Exercise 2 involves copying and pasting a ghost multiple times into a castle picture and transforming each ghost. Exercise 3 involves using selection tools to select a guitar from its black background, inverting the selection, and copying and pasting the guitar onto a flower background.

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Exercises

The document provides instructions for three photo editing exercises in Photoshop. Exercise 1 involves using selection tools to select and copy a dog and paste it into a doghouse. Exercise 2 involves copying and pasting a ghost multiple times into a castle picture and transforming each ghost. Exercise 3 involves using selection tools to select a guitar from its black background, inverting the selection, and copying and pasting the guitar onto a flower background.

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Exercise 1

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:


Lasso- and Polygonal Lasso Selection Tools, Copy, Paste Into, Move Tool, Zoom
Tool, Transform

   

Use the Lasso- or Polygonal Lasso Tool to Select and copy the
dog. Paste the dog into the doghouse..
 

1. Save the pictures dog.jpg and doghouse.jpg to your folder.

2. Open the pictures in PhotoShop.

3. Use the Lasso- or Polygonal Lasso Selection Tools to select the dog. Be careful around the
edges. You will probably have to use the Zoom Tool. Read more about how to effectively
use these selection tools in the Tools chapter in the compendium.

4. When you've Selected the dog, copy it.

5. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create a selection in the opening of the doghouse. Use
Paste Into to put the dog in there. Move the dog around with the Move Tool. Use Transform
Scale to shrink the dog a bit. Read more about how to do this in the chapter Transform in
the compendium.

Exercise 2

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:


Selection Tools, Copy, Paste, Paste Into, Move Tool, Transform, Opacity

   

Copy the ghost and paste at least ten copies of it into the castle
picture. Use the Transform function on each ghost, and give the
layer of each ghost a different Opacity.
 

1. Save the pictures ghost.jpg and ghostcastle.jpg to your folder.

2. Open the pictures in Photoshop.

3. Use a Selection Tool to Select the ghost. Copy it. Paste at least ten copies of the ghost
into the ghostcastle picture. Feel free to use Paste Into if you like. Use the Move Tool to
place each ghost where you want it.

4. Use the Transform functions to change the way each ghost looks.
5. Give each ghost's layer an Opacity that's less than 100%.

Exercise 3

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:


Quick Select Tool (or Magic Wand Tool), Invert Selection, Copy, Paste

   

Use the Selection Tool Quick Select to select the black area around the
guitar. When you've selected all of it, Invert the selection. Now you can
copy the guitar! Paste it onto the flowery background.
 

1. Save the picures guitar.jpg and flowerback.jpg to your folder.

2. Open the pictures in Photoshop.

3. We're going to select the guitar. The fastest way to do that is here is to select the black
area around the guitar and then invert the selection -- to turn it inside out, so that the
guitar ends up being selected while the black area becomes deselected.

If you're using Photoshop CS3, try using the Quick Select tool to Select the black area
around the guitar. Read about how the Quick Select Tool works in the Tools chapter in the
compendium.

If you're using Photoshop 7, use the Magic Wand Tool to Select the black area around the
guitar. We weren't supposed to have to use Photoshop 7 when I started writing this course
so I never mentioned Magic Wand Tool in the compendium, but it's fairly easy to use: click
on the Magic Wand Tool in the Tool Box (it's in the same button as the Quick Select Tool,
look it up in the chapter Tools in the compendium for a picture that shows you where it is).
Once you've clicked on the Magic Wand Tool, make sure the value for Tolerance is more
than 0 up in the Alternatives Bar -- somewhere around 20-30 would be good. Now click
once on the black area around the guitar and you'll see that everything but the guitar
becomes Selected (look at the edges of the picture and you'll see the selection bordering
them; everything black has been selected, but not the guitar.)

4. Regardless of how you Selected the black area, now it's time to Invert the selection. Do
that. Read about how in the Selection Tools Basics and Fancy Tricks section in the Tools
chapter in the compendium.

5. Once you've inverted the selection everything that wasn't selected before (the guitar)
should be selected, and everything that was (the black) should be deselected. Now you see
how Invert works, it can be very handy! Now copy the guitar.

6. Paste the guitar into the flowerback picture.

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