Exercise 1

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:

Lasso- and Polygonal Lasso Selection Tools, Copy, Paste Into, Move Tool, Zoom Tool,
Transform

   
Use the Lasso- or Polygonal Lasso Tool to Select and
copy the dog. Paste the dog into the doghouse..
 
1. Save the pictures dog.jpg and doghouse.jpg to your folder.
2. Open the pictures in PhotoShop.
3. Use the Lasso- or Polygonal Lasso Selection Tools to select the dog. Be careful around the
edges. You will probably have to use the Zoom Tool. Read more about how to effectively use
these selection tools in the Tools chapter in the compendium.
4. When you've Selected the dog, copy it.
5. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create a selection in the opening of the doghouse. Use
Paste Into to put the dog in there. Move the dog around with the Move Tool. Use Transform
Scale to shrink the dog a bit. Read more about how to do this in the chapter Transform in the
compendium.

Exercise 2
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
Selection Tools, Copy, Paste, Paste Into, Move Tool, Transform, Opacity

   
Copy the ghost and paste at least ten copies of it into
the castle picture. Use the Transform function on each
ghost, and give the layer of each ghost a different
Opacity.
 
1. Save the pictures ghost.jpg and ghostcastle.jpg to your folder.
2. Open the pictures in Photoshop.
3. Use a Selection Tool to Select the ghost. Copy it. Paste at least ten copies of the ghost into
the ghostcastle picture. Feel free to use Paste Into if you like. Use the Move Tool to place each
ghost where you want it.
4. Use the Transform functions to change the way each ghost looks.
5. Give each ghost's layer an Opacity that's less than 100%.

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Exercise 3

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:

Quick Select Tool (or Magic Wand Tool), Invert Selection, Copy, Paste

   
Use the Selection Tool Quick Select to select the black area
around the guitar. When you've selected all of it, Invert the
selection. Now you can copy the guitar! Paste it onto the
flowery background.
 
1. Save the pictures guitar.jpg and flowerback.jpg to your folder.
2. Open the pictures in Photoshop.
3. We're going to select the guitar. The fastest way to do that is here is to select the black area
around the guitar and then invert the selection -- to turn it inside out, so that the guitar ends
up being selected while the black area becomes deselected.
If you're using Photoshop CS3, try using the Quick Select tool to Select the black area around
the guitar. Read about how the Quick Select Tool works in the Tools chapter in the
compendium.
If you're using Photoshop 7, use the Magic Wand Tool to Select the black area around the
guitar. We weren't supposed to have to use Photoshop 7 when I started writing this course so I
never mentioned Magic Wand Tool in the compendium, but it's fairly easy to use: click on the
Magic Wand Tool in the Tool Box (it's in the same button as the Quick Select Tool, look it up in
the chapter Tools in the compendium for a picture that shows you where it is). Once you've
clicked on the Magic Wand Tool, make sure the value for Tolerance is more than 0 up in the
Alternatives Bar -- somewhere around 20-30 would be good. Now click once on the black area
around the guitar and you'll see that everything but the guitar becomes Selected (look at the
edges of the picture and you'll see the selection bordering them; everything black has been
selected, but not the guitar.)
4. Regardless of how you Selected the black area, now it's time to Invert the selection. Do that.
Read about how in the Selection Tools Basics and Fancy Tricks section in the Tools chapter in
the compendium.
5. Once you've inverted the selection everything that wasn't selected before (the guitar)
should be selected, and everything that was (the black) should be deselected. Now you see
how Invert works, it can be very handy! Now copy the guitar.
6. Paste the guitar into the flowerback picture.

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Exercise 4
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
New Picture, Brush Tool, Layers, Eraser Tool
1. Create a new picture. Make it 300 pixels high and 400 pixels wide. The resolution should be
72 pixels/inch. Read more about it under Create A New Picture in the compendium.
2. Use the Brush Tool and various brushes to paint a picture on it. Read more on how to pick
different brushes under Brush Tool, and how to change paint colors under Color Picker And
Eye Dropper Tool, in the Tools chapter.
Your picture can look any way you want. If you can't come up with a motive, paint a landscape
with some animals and people in it.
The thing here is that each things you paint must be on a layer of its own! So if you paint, say,
a moose, the moose needs to be on a layer of its own, and the tree has to be a layer on its
own, and so on. Do not paint anything on the Background layer.
You will make mistakes. Try using the Eraser Tool on some of them to see how it works.
Feel free to use several layers for every "thing" in the picture if you want. As an example you
might want to paint the moose's horns on one layer, the moose's legs on another, and so on.
The more the merrier!
Rename each layer as you see fit (except for the Background layer, which you can't rename).
Every layer must have a name that describes what it contains. The layer with the moose's
horns could be named "horns", for example. Read more on how to rename layers under Layers
in the compendium.
 
 
Exercise 5
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
Paint Bucket Tool, Brush Tool, Selection Tools, Copy, Paste, Eraser Tool, Opacity, Move Tool
1. Save the pictures earth.jpg, mars.jpg and jupiter.jpg to your folder.
2. Create new picture that is about 500 pixels wide, 400 pixels high, and has a resolution of 72
pixels/inch. We're going to create a fancy space background here. Use the Paint Bucket Tool to
fill the Background layer with the color you want the space to have. Use the Brush Tool to
paint the stars and stuff.
3. Open the pictures you just saved. Use the Elliptical Selection Tool to select a planet (be
careful around the edges). Copy it, and paste it onto your space background. Do this for each
of the three planets.
4. Imagine that the sun (out of picture) shines on the three planets from the right. The goal
here is to create shadows on the planets. You do this by using the Eraser Tool, preferably with
a big, soft brush set on a low Opacity. Read more about the Eraser Tool in the Tools chapter in
the compendium.
Since this exercise can get a little tricky you'd be wise to make a couple of security copies of
the layers you don't want to risk messing up. Read on how to quickly copy an entire layer
under Layers in the compendium. When you're done your picture should look something like
this:

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Exercise 6
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
Transform, Move Tool, Opacity, Eraser Tool

   

Use the function Transform to change sizes, places

and rotations of all the things in this picture.
 
1. Save the picture transform.psd to your folder.
2. Open the picture in Photoshop.
3. The picture consists of eight layers: seven things and one background. Your task here is to
move the things around and use the Transform function to put them where you think they
should be, and make them look the way you want.
4. Put the diver out in the water. Use the Eraser Tool set on a medium Opacity to make him
look like part of him is below the water's surface.
  
 
Exercise 7
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
Selection Tools, Selection Types, Color Balance

   

Use the Selection Tools to Select different

parts of the picture. Colorize the parts using
the Color Balance function.
 
1. Save the picture color.jpg to your folder and open it in Photoshop.
2. Use a Selection Tool to carefully select the iris and pupil of an eye on the girl to the left
(that's the "inside" of the eye, the ring of color and the black dot).
3. Now set the Selection Type to Add To Selection and select the other eye as well. Read more
on Selection Types under Selection Tools: Basics and Fancy Tricks in the Tools chapter.
4. Use the Color Balance function to change the color of the girl's eyes. When you're done,
turn off the selection by Deselecting it.
5. Repeat this procedure with everything in the picture. Use different Selection Types on your
selection where it fits. When you use Color Balance, try switching between Shadows, Midtones
and Highlights. This will give you some very different results.
 

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Exercise 8
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
Canvas Size, Brush Tool, Eraser Tool

   
Increase the picture's Canvas Size -- that's the
area you can use tools on -- and add some
more things to it.
 
1. Save the picture house.jpg to your folder and open it in Photoshop.
2. As you can see the picture is of a remarkably pretty house, but I couldn't fit everything I
wanted in it! I wanted a flag pole, a cat, the sun and some clouds, but they just didn't fit.
Use the function Canvas Size to increase the picture's work area and paint the things I couldn't
fit in. Read how in the chapter Change A Picture's Canvas Size. Feel free to add things of your
own as well.

Exercise 9
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
Clone Stamp Tool, Smudge Tool

   
Use the Clone Stamp Tool to fix up scratchy
photos
and pictures with similar blemishes.
 
1. Save the picture scratches.jpg to your folder and open it in Photoshop.
2. As you can see the picture has a lot of scratches on it. That's not good. Try to remove them
by using the Clone Stamp Tool on them. Read more about this odd but useful tool in the Tools
chapter. Try to make the picture look as "undamaged" as possible. A few tips here:
• Use small brushes, not much larger than the scratch you're trying to repair.
• Switch source often (the area you Alt-click on).
• Feel free to use the Smudge Tool to smoothen out whatever sharp edges and lines that
might pop up around your fixes. Remember to use small brushes here too, and keep it fairly
weak, or things may come out looking a bit strange.
 
 
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Exercise 10
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
The Dodge, Burn, Sponge, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge Tools

   

Use the Dodge, Burn, Spinge, Blur, Sharpen and

Smudge Tools
to make the picture look different.
 
1. Save the picture tone.jpg to your folder and open it in Photoshop.
2. Use some, or all, of the tools listed above on the picture. There's nothing that's in need of
fixing, but you can use the tools to make the picture look better -- or just different. Try them
all out to see how they work.
3. Make the background blurry by using the Blur Tool. You might have to create a Selection
around the girl to make sure that she won't be affected by this. And if you create a selection
around the girl you will have to Invert it so that everything but the girl becomes selected....
Desaturate the background using the Sponge Tool.
Sharpen the details on the girl. Remember to take it easy here, the Sharpen tool works quick
and strong and might ruin it for you.
4. Brighten the lights and deepen the shadows on her.

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Exercise 11
This exercise can be solved using the following functions:
Brush Tool, Smudge Tool, Dodge Tool, Burn Tool
Now we're smudging! 
   
 

1.
Now we're smudging some color! I keep in
mind that for every thing I want to add to this
picture I should create a new, empty layer.
But first you should know what you want to
do, of course.
2. 3.
In my case I want to add some healthy color ... by smudging! And if I mess anything up
to the girl to the left and a happy carnival here all I have to do is Erase it or, at worst,
looking makeup on the girl to the right! remove the layer and create a new one. I
I create one layer for the left-hand girl's color smudge all the colors I dotted out.
and use the Brush Tool to dot out the colors I
want her face to have.
Then I create one layer per color for the girl
on the right and paint the colors I want to use
on them, one for each layer.
Now I pick the Smudge Tool, set its brush size
to 9 and its Strength to about 20%.
Right now the girls look like they've got a
couple of exotic diseases, but we're about to
fix that...

 
 
     

4. 5.
When I'm done smudging I add some lights When I'm done with that I want to add some
and shadows. light.
I start by picking the Burn Tool, set its Range I pick the Dodge Tool and set its Range to
to Shadows, and start to paint with it. If Highlights. I pick a soft, fairly small brush and
you've read about it in the compendium you a low strength (around 10%). Then I start to
might remember that this is a good way to paint with it.
deepen shadows that already exist in the I do the same thing I did with Burn Tool
picture and make them look more dramatic. earlier, only here I paint on the light areas
instead of on the shadows. That's a good way
to brighten the light that already exists, and
often makes the picture look glossy and
stylish.
 
Now it's your turn!
1. Save the picture makeup.jpg to your folder and open it in Photoshop.
2. Follow my instructions above and give the girls some cool makeup or masks.
Tip: make sure to create a new layer for every detail you add. That way you can easily remove,
move it, or change it without affecting anything else in the picture.

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