Week 5 --The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword

Subjects

1. The Shape Tool
2. The Pen Tool
3. Making a selection with the Pen Tool
4. Refining the Mask
5. Merging the Mask with other Photographs

• Home
• Pen Tool Outline
• Pen Tool Details
• Selections and Masks

Printing question...

How do you set up color management so that Photoshop controls the color information, not the the printer

Detailed instructions can be found on the class web page #3, #2, #1 Printing in Photoshop CS 5

Skin Tone question:

Simple Rule:

90% of all you need to know is that you can never let the yellow % fall below magenta % on anyone's skin unless you're trying to show sunburn.

Turns out Smugmug's website has a really good tutorial on how to set skin tones in Photoshop.

You'll find the link an material at this link "Skin Tones"

In Camera Raw we also used the "Targeted Selection Tool" to tweak hue, saturation, and luminance directly on the skin of our subject.  Much easier than trying to "guess" what colors to tweak.

Objectives

Differentiate between bitmap and vector graphics. Draw straight and curved paths using the Pen tool. Stroke a path. Convert a path to a selection. Convert a selection to a path. Save paths.

Make a Mask and refine the edges to allow detail in the background

Place the masked object on a new background.

Homework

Post Pics at Zang  Zing

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