2. Toadd a new document
on Photoshop, you must
go to File, then New.
You then select
International Paper and
A4.
3. To
add an image on your
document, select File
and then Place. Select
your image from the file
and press ok.
4. Marquee tool – used to select different shapes and Move Tool – click on the tool and then then
areas. layer you wish to move to reposition a layer.
Quick Selection tool - Selects areas so you can
Lasso Tool – Used to select areas freehand
add colour quickly.
or using the magnetic tool that selects
Magic Wand Tool – selects all of the same colour in
around a colour, making the lines neater.
the surrounding area. Crop Tool – used to remove unwanted
Eye dropper tool – takes samples of colours items on the layer
Healing tools – remove blemishes and red
Brush/pencil tool – adds colour or shading to an image eye
Clone Stamp Tool – duplicates an section of the
History Brush Tool – replicates old tools used. image to cover up or hide.
Eraser tool – removes mistakes caused by the
Paint bucket/gradient tool – fills in large selected
brush/text/fill tool.
spaces with colour/ creates a gradients.
Blur/Sharpen/Smudge tool – softens hard lines/
Dodge/Burn/Smudge tool – removes
clears lines up
colour/darkens colour/fades colour
Pen tools – adds lines or free, fine lines
Type tools- adds a text layer.
Selection tool – used to select other icons
Shape tools – creates different sized shape to
add to layers
Hand tool – used to move around the image
Zoom tool – zooms in and out on the image. quickly
5. Here I have a placed my image of a woman.
I want to remove her earrings. I clicked on
Clone Stamp Tool, pressed Alt to select the
part I would like to copy and coloured over
the earrings.
6. You can see a line where I
have used the Clone Stamp
tool so I will use the
Smudge Tool to blend the
skin tones and shading.
7. I want to change the background of my
image but first I need to select around the
woman to put her in the foreground. So I
select the Magnet Lasso Tool traced all
around the woman.
8. Now I have selected all of my background, I
can now use the Fill Tool and Colour
Selector to pick the colour blue and fill the
background.
9. I can see a faint line around
the woman so I have used
the Blur Tool to make the
line not so harsh.
10. I have now
altered the
contrast
and
brightness
of the image
to make the
model fit
better to
the
background
and to make
her stand
out.
