Photo Shop Lab

1. Creating a Visiting Card

Step1: Create New Document :select “File” ➝ “New” This will bring up a New File window where
you’ll select the properties of your new document as shown below.
Ht:3.5 inch, width: 2inch Resolution:300 pixel Colormode:CMYK , Click OK button.
Step 2: Set Your Margins:Go to the “View” menu and select “Rulers.” Click on the ruler on each edge, and
drag the blue lines to the appropriate measurements
Step 3: Create A New Layer:Go to the “Windows” menu and select “Layers.” Click the “Create a New
Layer button” at the bottom of the window.
Step 4: Background Color:If you want a background color, select the “Paint Bucket” tool(G). Be sure you
have “Layer 2” highlighted
Step 5. Select Color:To choose the background color for the “Paint Bucket” tool, double click on the
“Foreground” Color, which will pull up the “Color Picker” menu. Click anywhere on the slide of colors to
choose the shade you want, then click “OK” when you are ready.
Step 6. Create a Footer:To create a footer background color, simply repeat the steps of creating a new
layer. With this new Layer 3 highlighted, use the “Rectangular Marquee” Tool, click and drag to select the
area of your footer.Again, use the “Color Picker” and the “Paint Bucket” tool; click the “Paint Bucket”
inside the marquee you created to fill in the footer with your selected color.
Step 7: Insert Text:To insert new text in your document, repeat the steps to create a new layer. Then
select the “Horizontal Type” Tool and click on the area of your document you would like to insert the text
and start typing.
Step 8. Change Text Color:To change the text color, select the “Text” tool and highlight the text. Go to the
“Text Color” box at the top of the screen and double click to pull up the “Color Picker.” The top of the
screen will also now display the drop down menus for Font, Font Style, Font Size, and Paragraph
Orientation.
Step 9: Insert an Image:To insert an image, such as a logo, go to the “File” menu and select “Place.” This
will bring up a browsing window where you can locate the image file you would like to place, select the file,
and click “Place.”
Step 10: Re-size Image:Depending on the size of your image, you may need to re-size it to fit on the card.
Hover over one corner until you see the double sided arrow. To re-size proportionally, hold the shift key as
you click the double arrow and drag to the desired size. To move the image, simply click and drag.
Step 11: Place Image:Now that your image is sized and moved, you are ready to place it. Go to the “Move”
Tool (the first tool on the left tool bar) and select it. That will prompt a window asking if you are ready to
place the file, click “Place.”
Tip: Once you have placed the file, it automatically creates a new layer. To re-size any layer, you can select
that layer and go to “Edit” and “Free Transform.”

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2. Create Cover page for any text book
Step1: Create New Document
select “File” ➝ “New” This will bring up a New File window where you’ll select the properties of your new
document as shown. Hieght : 11inch, Widsth: 17inch
Step2: Calculate the width of the book spine
Before designing your cover, you must know your spine width. To calculate this you'll need your page
count and the pages per inch (PPI) based on the weight of the paper you would like to use. Before
designing your cover, you must know your spine width. To calculate this you'll need your page count and
the pages per inch (PPI) based on the weight of the paper you would like to use.
For purposes of this example we will assume a book with a spine width of 0.3976”
Step3: Setting up the guides
Click on View -> snap to -> Guides.
We know that the front cover and back covers are both 8” wide by 10” high, and that the spine
(determined in step one) is 0.3976” wide by 10” high, and we know that we want to center the spine
exactly in the iddle of the 11x17 page that will be converted into a PDF..
Vertical Guides
Since the midpoint of the 11x17 page is 8.5, we can calculate the following:
0.3976 / 2 = 0.1988 (so that we can easily calculate where to place the guides)
8.5 + 0.1988 = 8.6988 (left-hand edge of the front cover which is also the right-hand edge of the spine)
8.5 – 0.1988 = 8.3012 (right-hand edge of the back cover, which is also the left-hand edge of the spine)
In PhotoShop, select the “New Guide” feature. In the dialog box enter in the values above and click on the
“OK” button.
The calculations for the outside guides are:
8.6988 + 8 = 16.6988 8.3102 – 8 = 0.3012
Enter these via the same “New Guide” feature.
Horizontal Guides:The math here is much simpler. The vertical size of the cover is 10”. Subtract 10” from
the sheet size (11”) and divide by two: (11 – 10 = 1)/2 = .5”
Which results in these horizontal guides: 0.5” 10.5”
Enter these via the “New Guide” feature, ensuring that you click on the “Horizontal” button in the popup.
Step4: Create a new layer on top of the background layer. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, pull-down
a box from the upper left hand corner of the front cover to the lower right hand corner (because we have
“snap to guides” turned on, the marquee will automatically align to the guides). Ensuring that foreground
color is set to white, fill the new layer with the foreground color (shift+F5 on a PC). Change the layer name
to “Front cover.” Follow the same steps to create a back cover and the spine (remembering to rename each
layer appropriately). You should now have four layers.
Step5: Place an image on the front cover.: Open an Image from file menu, and crop it using crop tool,
and copy it then paste into the new layer inserted in front cover.

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Step6: Place a title on the spine
Using the Horizontal Type Tool, enter the title (you can also use the Vertical Type Tool, if you prefer the
title to be stacked). Use the Transform Tool (holding the shift key) to rotate 90 degrees. Place
approximately in the center of the spine. To align the type in the center of the spine, first click on the text
layer just created, then (holding down the CTRL button on a PC) click on the spine layer so that both are
selected. Selecting the Move Tool, click on the “Align horizontal Centers” button.
This will automatically align the text box with the spine.
Improve the look of the text by adding a “Bevel and Emboss” layer style (Layer->Layer style->Bevel and
Emboss)
Step7: To finish this cover, another image has been added to the back cover (and aligned as described
above) and a title has been placed on the front cover.
3. Create a Paper add for advertising of any commercial agency
Step1:Open any background image directly from
clicking on file menu and click on open.
Select the image you want to open and click open button.
Step2: Click on Filter Menu- Blur- Gaussian Blur
Apply Gaussian Blur- Radius 20 pixels press ok
Step3:Click on Image menu – Adjustments- Hue & Staturation(ctrl+u)
Apply the values of Hue & Saturation
Select colorize
Hue: 40, Saturation: 43; Lightness: +17 and press ok
Step4:Open any white Background image model men
photo or download from google . In this example
I taken a image from google
Step5:Open the Background lock in layer palate by double clicking.
Select magic wand tool(w) click on white color on image and press delete in keyboard. and press ctrl+d for
deselect the selection on the image.
Step6:Select move tool(V)
Drag and drop into your background file and adjust the image size by using transform tool press (ctrl+t)
Step7:
Open any white Background image watch photo or
download from google .
In this example I taken a image from google
Step8:
Open the Background lock in layer palate by double clicking.
Select magic wand tool(w) click on white color on image and press delete in keyboard. and press ctrl+d for
deselect the selection on the image.

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Step9:Select move tool(V)
Drag and drop into your background file and put in
below of the model photo increase the image size
by using transform tool press (ctrl+t) and decrease
the opacity and fill in layer palate. Opacity: 20%
and Fill: 60%
Step10:Again same watch image drag and put in right side adjust the size by pressing (ctrl+t)Transform
Press (ctrl+j) for duplicate layer of watch layer. Press (ctrl+t)Transfrom right click select flip vertical.press
down arrow in keyboard and adjust it like this

 Press D in keyboard you will get default color foreground black and background white
 Press Q and Click on add layer mask on layer palate. Select gradient tool press shit key and drag the
on duplicate watch layer part and decrease the opacity 35% on layer palate.
Step11: Select Text tool type company brand name like this. And type caption of the brand as you like any
thing and decrease opacity 70% and decrease the font size also.
Finally, save your file in psd and save as jpg Final output is like this
4. Design a Passport photo
Step1: Open the Photoshop Program and click on File menu, Click on Open option. Select the Photo you
want to design a passport photo
Step2: Using Crop tool in tool box, crop the image to set the proper hieght and width, resolution for the
photo. ( Hieght 2inch, width 1.5in,, resolution 200).
Step3: Adjust the image brightness/Contrast by clicking on Image menu and click on adjustments, and
then click on brigtness/contrast option. Drag the button to increase/decrease the brightness and contrast
to improve the appearance.
Step4: To add aborder to the image, click on edit menu, then click on stroke option. In the Stroke dialog
box, enter pixels as 6 select the color and click ok button.
Step5: Unlock the layer, by clicking on layer pallete and then click ok button.
Step6: Select the image by pressing ctrl+A, click on move tool, to move the image to have some space
around the image. Cilck on Edit menu, and click on free transform option to adjust the image to the center
in the layer.
Step7: Click on Edit meni, click on define pattern option, Give a name to the image to save as a custom
pattern and click ok button.

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Step8. Create a new window by clicking on file manu and new option. Enter the size as 6 inches width, 4
inches hieght and 200 as resolution and click ok button.
Step9. Cilck on edit menu, Click Fill option and select custom and click the image that you created recently
and click ok button.
You will see the new window with passport photos filled.
5. Enhance and reduce the given Image size
(Resample is turned off)
Step1:Choose File > New to create a new file. The New dialog box appears.
Set the following attributes, as shown below, and then click OK
1. Width = 8 inches, 2. Height = 10 inches, 3. Resolution = 150, 4. Color Mode = RGB Color, 8-bit
Step2: Choose Image > Image Size (Alt+Command+I/ Alt+Ctrl+I). The Image Size dialog box appears.
Notice that the starting dimensions are the same as what you specied with the New File command.
Step3: Deselect the Resample Image option. Notice that the Pixel Dimensions area at the top of the Image
Size window goes gray when Resample Image is turned off. That means that the number of pixels being
used in your image is fixed at 1200 × 1500 pixels.
Step4: Change the resolution setting to 300. Leave the measurement at pixels/inch. Notice that the size of
the image goes from 8" × 10" to 4" × 5". That’s because you’re only changing the distance between pixels as
you modify the resolution of the file. You have fxed overall pixel dimensions of 1200 ×1500. When you set
your resolution to 300 ppi, the math dictates that the image is 4" × 5" (4" × 300 ppi = 1200 pixels, and 5" ×
300 ppi = 1500 pixels). When the resolution is set to 150 ppi, the image must be 8" × 10" in size (8" × 150
ppi = 1200 pixels, and 10" × 150 ppi = 1500 pixels).
Resampling the Image Size:Resample is turned on:
1. Begin with the file you created in the previous set of steps, and return to its original state using the
History panel. If you closed it, then go back and complete Steps 1 and 2.
2. Choose Image > Image Size (Alt+Command+I/ Alt+Ctrl+I). The Image Size dialog box appears.
3. Leave the Resample Image option selected or select it if it isn’t already checked.
4. Change the Resolution to 300. Leave the dimensions at pixels/inch. Notice that the Image Size remains at
8" × 10". What changed was the Pixel Dimensions at the top of the window. They went from 1200 × 1500
to 2400 × 3000.
5. Change the Resolution to 600. Now the Pixel Dimensions changes to 4800 × 6000, but the Document Size
remains fixed.
if you only want to change the resolution of the file, uncheck Resample. If you need to make
the image smaller or larger, then Resample must be checked.
Changing Size and Resolution Together
Sometimes it’s necessary to change the document size and resolution at the same time. For
example,suppose you have a file that’s sized to 8" × 10" at 250 ppi, and you need to change it to a 4" × 5" at
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Making this change with the Image Size command requires two steps. You can carry out both in one use of
the Image Size command:
1. Choose File > New to open the New dialog box; make the file measure 8" × 10" at 250 ppi.
2. Choose Image > Image Size (Alt+Ctrl+I). The Image Size dialog box appears.
3. Deselect the Resample Image option, and change the resolution to 300. Notice that the Document Size
changes to 6.67" × 8.33" because you’re moving the pixels closer together.
4. Select Resample with the Bicubic Sharper option from the Resample Image menu, and change the
Document Size Width to 4 inches.
5. Click OK. Now you have a file that is 4" 4 × 5" at 300 ppi.
6. Custom shapes creation
Step1: Open an image in photoshop to convert it as a custom shape.
Step2: Pick either the Quick Selection tool or the Magic Wand tool. Make selection. Start to form the
selection from the inside out. When using the Magic Wand, hold Shift to continually add to the selected
area. Press Alt/Opt to remove any errors.
Step3 – Make Path
To turn a selection from a bundle of marching ants to a Path, Ctrl/rightclick inside its area and choose the
option Make Work Path. Press OK in the popup box.
Step 4 – Define Shape
Now the Path has been set, go to Edit and down to Define Custom Shape. The Shape Name box will open.
Enter a straightforward name such as Tree.
Step 5 – Use the Shape!
Open up a blank document, or keep the current image open, and select your Custom Shape tool (U). In the
Options bar lies all the presets and custommade shapes. New shapes appear at base of this window. Apply
the shape holding Shift to maintain proportions.
7. Create a paper advertisement for a company/institution
1. Open a new window with hieght 2inch and 3inch width, resolution 200 pix/inch.
2. Select the top half inch of the image window with rectangular marque tool and draw a rectangular
shape from left top corner to right corner(0.5inch)
3. Fill the selected area with a background color (editfill backgroundok after picking a color
from color picker by clicking on set background color in the tool box.
4. Select Text tool and draw a rectangular box, type the title of the company with big font and aligned
center. Select a good font that appears better and click on [tick] button in the options bar to make the text
permanent.
5. Cilck on free tranform tool in edit menu and adjust the size of the text as to fit in the selected
window and then press [enter] key.
6. Repeat the steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 to do the same for entering the address details of the company,
contact person information etc. and enter [tick] button in the option bar.

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7. Insert images related to the company for sales like mobile images, computers, laptop images, home
appliances images etc. and align them properly between the header and footer selections.
8. Add some text by clicking on text tool to type some sailent features of the company like discounts,
customer services, free maintanance, EMIs , Interest rates, etc. with stylish fonts and highliting colors.
9. Save the file and close the window.

8. Background changes
1. First, open the image you wish to remove the background from in Adobe Photoshop. Also, have the
image of the new background ready.
2. Grab the Selection Tool and drag the image with your subject over to the new background. Most of
the time, the images won’t be the same size, so you can adjust the size of your image in Free Transform by
pressing Cmd/Ctrl + T, then holding Shift while you drag the Transform box’s handles (Cmd/Ctrl + 0 will
bring the handles into view if they are off screen). Position the subject image where you want, then hit
Enter to lock it in.
3. Next, you’ll need to make a selection. There are a number of tools you can use like Magic Wand or
Lasso, but for beginners, let’s stick with the Quick Selection tool. Select the parts of the image you want to
keep by running the tool over the image to tell Photoshop what you areas you want to grab. If the tool
grabs too much, don’t worry, you can press and hold the alt key on your keyboard to remove anything you
don’t want to keep.
4. After you’ve made the selection, you can finish it by clicking Refine Edge at the top of the screen to
remove the background.
5. you can make adjustments to clean up the final image, like adjusting the radius slider to pick up
stray hairs and removing the background between them.
9.Converting a Black & White photo to color photo
1. Open a B&W photo in the photoshop window(fileopenselect folder/locationclick the file to open.
2. Select pen tool(P), Press Tab+FF to make full screen mode.
3. Draw a path on skin area.
4. Press ctrl+enter for object related selection or Right Click and select make selection.
5. Specify feather radius 1.5 px. Click OK button.
6. Press Ctrl+J to create selected part duplicate copy, press ctrl+B to display color balance window.
Adjust red and yellow color click OK button.
7. Press ctrl++, select lip part of the image using pen tool,
8. Select background layer, press ctrl+j to create a duplicate copy , and change layer position by dragging
it, and brought it to top, press ctrl+B, change red color click ok button. Do it twice.
9. Select eyeball part of the image, right click – make selection – feather radius 2pix, ok-
10. Select background layer ctrl+J, brought it to top, press ctrl+shift+L(auto levels)
11. Select eyebrow part of the image, right click – make slection – 2px – ok –

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 12. Select background layer ctrl+J, brought it to top, ctrl+m to display the curves window, change black
color – ok –
13. Select background part of the image, right click – make selection – feather 2px
14. Select background layer, ctrl+j, ctrl+b magenta(change)
15. Select all layers ( select background layer and press shift+last layer)
16. Press ctrl+E(merge all layers) ctrl+L set white point, click on image(white color)
17. Change red amount and click ok button.
10.Design Box package cover (creating a “3D look box” in the 2D)
1. First, create an empty image in Photoshop. Create with 800px wide and 600px long.
2. Now, create the guides. Move the ruler to the first top position for easier viewing. We will create
guides for the back (50x300px) and front side (150x300px). Now, create the horizontal guides on 10px,
20px, 280px and 290px.
3. Use the Rectangle Tool (U) to create the front and back box with the above values. Now, use the
Direct Selection Tool (A) to move the point of the back and front sides like this: 0,0>0,10px, 0,300>0,
290px for the back side and 200,0>200,20px, 200,300>200,380px.
4. Now, import your footage. Select the first rectangle you created (to do this use your mouse, hold
down the CTRL key (or COMMAND key) while clicking on the layer representing the rectangle (Shape1).
5. Now, use Edit > Paste Into (or SHIFT + CONTROL/COMMAND + V) to paste into the rectangle. Use
Transform (CTRL/COMMAND + T) to transform the front and back side footage to move it to the place.
If you might want to move your points to the position manually, first, move the right part to the right
guideline, then click with your mouse on the top right corner (for the front side). While holding your
mouse, use the combination SHIFT+CTRL+ALT and move the right corner slightly down, really slow. If you
did everything as mentioned, the bottom corner will move to the center as well.
6. The last thing is to create some inner shadows for both sides (40% opacity, 0px distance, 20px size).
You can also select both sides and create a white background in back of them. Now, apply the Drop Shadow
to the layer with these values: 10% opacity, 10px distance, and 20px size. Add an outside stroke with the
width of 1px, white, to the same layer.
11.Creating Texture: (Wood Texture using filters)
1. Create the woodgrain:Create a document and fill it with cloud layer. Now apply a maximum
intensity vertical motion blur to this layer.
2. Go into the filter galley dialog and turn on accented edges. Use edge width 2, edge brightness 5 ad
smoothness 1. After applying the settings above, you will see the woodgrain effects begin to take shape.
(you can also apply film grain to go for gritty look in the texture).
3. Colorize the picture
Click on imageadjustmentshue/Saturation and play around with some different color variations for
your texture. Make sure you have colorize option turned on. Apply the values as 42, 41 and -34 for the
sliders). Use the liquify tool, and add some waves

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4. Create Panels
If you want your texture to look a little more man-made, try adding panel effect. To do this, draw a bunch
of vertical black stripes over the top of your texture. (Marquee tool)
Next, turn off the stripes layer and click on it to turn the stripes into an active selection.
Now, click on wooden texture layer and hit ctrl+j to make a new layer from the selection. This layer
contains layer of wooden stripes.
5. Flip the layer vertically and add some slight inner shadow. This gives you a realistic wooden
background texture. Here is the texture looks like.
13.Create a palmphlet / Invitation
1. In Photoshop create a new file. Dimensions and the resolution of the file are: 5×4 inches at 300 dpi
2. Pick the color for, so called, “zero layer” (which will represent the background), use colorcode as
#ddd3b5( The fastest way to color the layer is to select the color with the color picker and
press Alt+Backspace to color the whole layer.
3. Now, hit F5 to get the Photoshop bruses window and select “Replace brushes” from the drop down
menu. We are going to load the brushes we need for our wedding invitation.
4. Select the brushes of your choice, in this example select Circled Hearts PREMIUM Photoshop brushes set
5. Now, we need to load another set for our wedding invitation. So, again, from the
Photoshop brushes menu select “Load Brushes” option.
6. Second set in this example is Hearts (grunge) Photoshop brushes PREMIUM Set.
7. Select Circled Hearts Photoshop brushes and change “Shape Dynamics” .
8. Now adjust the “Scattering” as we did in the image below, or adjust it to your taste.
9. set the “Spacing” pick a color for our brushes. We wanted to make it bit lighter than the background of
our wedding invitation. (#ede7d5)
10. And paint with the brush. Just drag the mouse around the image (make sure you have the brush tool
selected/active, press “B” if you don’t)
11. Time to color our second brush pattern, we picked a color which is a bit darker than the background
this time. (Make sure you have the Photoshop brush tool selected. Press “B” if you don’t.)
12. Add a new layer above the background at this point as it will be easier to manipulate it in case
something goes wrong. So, we used the same brush again, but this time we made it a bit smaller. Drag the
“Size” slider to decrease the size of the brush.
13 Now, paint with the new brush settings across the background.
14. Add a new layer now.
15. Draw a rectangle selection using “Rectangular Marquee Tool”. . Select “Fill” option from the “Edit”
menu item (Shortcut: Shift+F5), select white color.
16. Now change the layer opacity to make the white rectangular transparent and add “Drop shadow” effect
under Layer Style (Double click on the layer name to get the Layer Style window.)
17. pick a color for a new brush shape, select #990000 red.

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18. Add some heart shapes from the Hearts (grunge) PREMIUM Photoshop brushes set
27. Finally add our wordings using Pristina font and voila!
14. How to create a night effect in Photoshop using hue and sturation, adjustment layers, filters,
brushes, blending modes and layer styles.
Step 1: Open the image file on which you want to apply night effect. Then duplicate the image by going to
Layer >Duplicate layer.
Step 2: Desaturate the image now. Click on the icon of ‘create new fill or adjustment layer’ present at the
bottom of the layers pallete and select the option of ‘Hue/Saturation’. Use the given settings.(0, -100, 0)
Step 3: Once again click on the icon of ‘create new fill or adjustment layer’ and select ‘solid color’. Select #
1b2230 color to create the night effect. Change the blending mode of this solid color layer to ‘Hard light’
We need to sharpen the image. So, click on the image layer to select it and go to Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp
mask. Use the given values.(50, 5.0, 0)
Step 4: Create a new layer by going to Layer > New layer. Select brush tool and # ffffff color. Choose ‘moon
1 FallnBrushes’, 70 px size and apply it on this new layer.
Step 5:Create another new layer and select ‘sparkles 5 FallnBrushes’ this time. Now apply the settings for
this brush. Now apply the sparkles brush over the sky area on this new layer. You can erase the stars from
the unwanted areas using ‘eraser tool’.
Step 6:Next, we’ll give the effect of light reflecting from windows. Create a new layer and select the
‘rectangular marquee tool’ to make selection around one of the windows. Then fill this selection with
# a29262 color using ‘paint bucket tool’.
Repeat this process to cover 8 front windows. Whereas fill the side 4 windows on 2 separate layers as we
will change their shape a bit. Fill the top most glass with a lighter color. We are using # fffcde color for it.
Step 7:Click on right sided windows layer and go to Edit >Transform > Skew. Arrange these windows with
the help of skew. Arrange left sided windows in the same way and change the blending mode of all the
windows layers to ‘Difference’.
Step 8:Click on front 8 windows layer and go to Layer > Layerstyle > Blending options. Use the given
settings here.
Right click on this 8 windows layer and select the option of ‘Copy layer style’. Then right click on rest of the
windows layer and select ‘Paste layer style’ to get the same effects on them.
Step 9:Select the windows of houses at the sides and fill them with # fffcde color. Now go to Layer > Layer
style > Inner shadow. Use the given settings for it.(opa.75, mode. Multiply, angle.30, 1,0,2)
Step 10:Create a new layer, select the ‘elliptical marquee tool’ and draw an ellipse over one of the front
windows, fill this selection with # fff600 color. This will serve as the light source. Change the blending
mode of this layer to ‘Overlay’. Duplicate this layer and drag bulb’s copy towards another window. You can
add some outer glow if you want.
Create a new layer and select the ‘rectangular marquee tool’ to draw the shape below the door. Fill it with
# fffc9e color and use the same outer glow settings for it as used for the bulb.

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