Photoshop review

Question One: What are the three types edits that we have learned and in what order did we complete these edits for the Frame within a Frame project?  Why do we edit photographs in this order?

1. Exposure (that was you get the brightness correct before anything, and you do this by accessing levels and curves)

2. Color (use photo filter and color balance) (that was you can worry about getting the color right without worrying about the color being affecting by the levels of light)

3. Vignetting (this changes the brightness of the outside and in a way crops it, and should always be a final step)

Question Two: What are the “quick keys” for:  Move Tool, Crop Tool, Brush Tool, Text Tool, and Mask Mode.  We did not go over the “quick keys” for Mask Mode in class, find the answer through your own research.

Move: V

Brush: B

Text: T

Mask: Q

Question Three: What are the “short-cuts” for Select-All, Inverse-Selection and Deselect-Selection.  (Ctrl + ?, if you work on a PC, or Command + ?, if you work on a Mac.)

Select-all: Command+A

Inverse-Selection: Shift-Command-I

Deselect-Selection: Command+D

Question Four: Write all the steps necessary to create vignetting.  Do not forget to write what Brush Mode we use, and what percentage of opacity, hardness and flow we use to paint the mask.

1. Select the Brush Tool (B). Make sure that your hardness is at 0% and you percentage of opacity and flow are both at 100%. 

2. Make sure the your circle fills the image without going off the edge, and do this by adjusting your master diameter.

3. Click the masking icon at the bottom of the tools palette so that it flashes red

4. Begin to mask the image with your circle so that it forms a nice potato shape

5. Click the mask icon again so that your potato's edge forms a line that looks like marching ants

6. Go to Window and click on "layers"

7. Click on the icon at the bottom of the layers window that looks like a half black, half white circle, and select "curves"

8. Adjust the curves to properly vignette your image.

Question Five: When you open a JPEG in Photoshop, how many layers do you start with, and what are they / is it called?

When  you open a JPEG, you start with one layer, and it is called "background"

Question Six: Which of these buttons on your Layers palette do you press to make a new edit layer (curves, levels, color balance, etc.)?  Which of these buttons do you use to delete a layer?

To make a new layer, you click on the half black, half white circle at the bottom of the window.

To edit an existing layer you double-click on the half black-half white circle next to the layer that you want to edit.

To delete a layer, you drag the layer to the trash can icon.