In todays lesson we had another lesson on how to use photoshop elements. Following the skills we already gained from our last session we focussed on editing portraits. I choose a portrait photograph of myself to use with a clear background. I choose this so I would be able to cut out the background quite easily.
To do this; I used the lasso tool and the magic wand tool to cut around just the portrait. I found this easy as the shape of my portrait was easy to cut around. After this i then used the inverse tool which selected just the portrait image. I then copied this image onto a separate blank canvas. I then also used the feather tool to make the edges of the image fade into the canvas.
After my image was feathered, i then found a background image from google to add into my portrait. The image is of a landscape, I then pasted this onto the canvas and changed the layout of my layers so the portrait was over the top of the background image. I then changed the opacity of each image so they feather into each other. I then also added a text layer which included my name. This is my final image below.
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Can you explain what you actually learnt during this session Steph? Make reference to the exact process that you followed - take a look at Sunil's blog entry to see how he has identified some of the techniques used as well as showing the image he produced.
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