PHOTO EDIITNG INSTRUCTIONS
1. TAKE A PHOTO OF YOU (think about expressiveness…silly, serious, worried, intense, joyful, playful…)
2. Open 9 x 12 photoshop Doc (FILE-NEW) Zoom WAY IN!
IF YOU NEED TO RE-SIZE YOUR PAINTING:
-Make sure that your photo shop document is 9 x 12inches or 12 x 9inches
-Go to File-Place and Browse for your image
-Once the image is in Photoshop it will have an X on it. HOLD SHIFT and DRAG from one corner to re-size!
-CLICK OFF OF THE PHOTO BY CLICKING ON TOP ARROW ON TOOL BAR.
GO TO LAYER--FLATTEN IMAGE!!
3. Turn to Black and White (Image-Adjustments-Desaturate)
4. Posterize! (Image-Adjustments-Posterize) Choose from Level 2-Level 5
5. BREAK UP/RE-ARRANGE THE PHOTO IN SOME WAY
—Cut out YOU and create different background!
—Zoom in on part of your face from one photo, part from another.
—CROP
—Add color in a particular part of your painting
6. Go to VIEW-SHOW-GRID (make sure you change grid size to 1/2 inch
(change grid size by going to PHOTOSHOP-PREFERENCES-GUIDES/GRIDS/SLICES)
Change boxes to 1 and 2)
7. TAKE A SCREEN SHOT OF YOUR IMAGE AND SAVE THIS!!!!!!!