Friday's Lesson [5th, 6th, 8th]

Class, again I'm super sorry I'm not here today! What you will be doing today is brushing up on your PhotoShop skills. For those of you who have never used PhotoShop or haven't used it for a while, this will be a good change to refresh your memories. For those of you who have been working with PhotoShop at the beginning of the year, you can go on and learn different techinques and tools.

[1st]  I want you all to redo the vintage PS tutorial that you did on the first day. I want you to do the same process to both photos [one of tomatoes, and one of a balloon] It's good to repeat tutorials so you can remember the steps and can repeat them without help on your own pictures. Once you edit both photos, save them in your student drive. I want you to create a PHOTOGRAPHY file in your student drive, and then in your PHOTOGRAPHY  file creat a new file called PS TUTORIALS. Save your pictures here. This will keep your organized.

DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE TO FIND THESE TUTORIALS AT? LET ME REMIND YOU...

Go to the COMPUTER incon on the desktop.
Scroll down to NETWORKS and click on 704 ETC > shaum photography > photo 1 >  PS Tutorial > Retro Tutorial.

[2nd] After you have edited both of the retro photos look down on the post below called BEGINNING PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS. Read through this post. There will be a link to a website that you need to click on. [it says "this website" in green] This will bring you to a webpage that has names of videos you can watch. YOU NEED TO WATCH THESE IN ORDER! You don't have to watch the very first one. Start on the video called.........

 "Getting started. What is CS5."
Then continue down the list. keep going. Don't stop. If you have time watch until GS-08.

HERE'S THE CATCH...... You are not just watching these videos. You need to open up pictures that I saved in the 704 ETC file and edit your image along with theirs. [computer > 704 ETC > Shaum photography > photo 1 > ps tutorials > getting started images] This should take you a while for each video! You need to make sure you understand these concepts because I will ask you how to do them when I get back. What you will do is have your video up and playing. You will listen, pause the video, go to your photoshop, do exactly what what they did on their photo to the one you have pulled up. Each video should take anywhere from 5-15 minutes.

Please be very respectful and kind to your substitute! Thanks so much!

Beginning Photoshop Tutorials

We are starting to get into photoshop a little more now. First you need to learn about Photoshop tools and how to use them correctly. To get started go to this website and watch some tutorials. Once you get to the website you will see at the top of the page the words "Getting Started." Under Getting Started you will see the words, Setup, Overview, and Tutorials. Under "Tutorials" there will be a link to click on. Click on it.

This will take you to a new page where there will be links to lots of tutorials. You DO NOT have to watch the first 2 tutorials. Start where it says GS-01. After you watch the first tutorial click on the next tutorial and keep watching.

*** While you are watching you should be working with you image in Photoshop! When the tutorial does a step pause the video and complete the exact same step you just saw. Even though the tutorials may only be 1 minute long, you should be watching it and learning with it for at least 5 minutes until you have mastered the skill. If you are watching these at home and you do not have Photoshop take notes instead. That way when you come to class and you need to work on your photo you have step by step intstructions to help you if you forget. Beleive me, it's hard to remember every step. You will need to take notes!

Good luck and have fun!