Objectives: Students learn to use advanced layer techniques. Essential questions: 1. What are guides and how to use them? 2. What is Layer mask? 3. What is clipping mask? |
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Open image 1 and image 2:
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With the Move Tool, drag the tulips onto the winter image. Rename the Tulips layer. Your Layers Palette should look like the one on the picture. |
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Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to select the bottom left quadrant. | ![]() |
Now you're going to create a Layer Mask to hide the 3/4 of the tulips without erasing them: Make Tulips layer active. Layer > Layer mask > Reveal Selection Your image should look like the one on the right.
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Compare the Layer palettes: Note that you have two thumbnails on your Tulips layer. |
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Select the Layer Mask thumbnail (in the palette) Make sure you have White as your Foreground color. |
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Paint the tops of the two tulips like shown on the left picture. Don't worry if you get some green around the flowers. |
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Switch the colors in the tool box to have Black as your Foreground color. Choose a smaller brush to paint over the greens.
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Only tulips should stick out. | ![]() |
Select the Move Tool. Move the Tulips layer around. See how it works? Cool.....Undo. Click on it to unlink the image and the mask. Select the Mask thumb. Move the Tulips layer now. See the shape is moving and revealing the tulips?.. Undo. Select the Image thumb.Move the Tulips layer now. See the shape stays and the tulips are moving? Undo. Link the tumbs again. Select the Image thumb.
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Edit > Fill Black Deselect (Command/Ctrl D) |
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Your Layers palette should look like the one on the right. | ![]() |
Shift click on layer 1 and on Circle layer to select them. | ![]() |
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This is how it should look now: The black circle works as a "reveal shape" for the layer above (Sunflower) |
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This is the Layers palette at this point | ![]() |
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The palette should look like this. Click. |
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In the Layers palette click the Tulips layer to make it active. Select Layer thumbnail. |
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To apply changes to only one layer - check the box. | ![]() |
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This is what the Adjustment Layer looks like in the palette. | ![]() |
Select Background layer. Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance |
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Add more Blue, Green, and Cyan colors to the Winter landscape. | ![]() |
This is what the Layers palette looks like | ![]() |
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Select the top layer (Layer 2) | ![]() |
Select Type Tool | ![]() |
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Tou can change text formatting by highlighting the text and using the Options bar.. or Switch to a different tool (any tool, for example the Direct Selection Tool) and return back to Type tool to make Type Options bar available |
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Each season will be on a separate layer. Select the top layer. You are going to apply Layer 3-D effects. |
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You can view all applied effects in the layers palette. | ![]() |
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To apply the same effects to the rest of the Type layers: Right-click on the top layer: |
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Right-click on the rest of the Type layers: Paste layer style |
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This is what the Layers paleete should look like. | ![]() |
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