Photoshop Fundamentals

PROJECT 8:  Brown Eyed Girl

PROJECT GOAL: Students will work with Elliptical Marquee Tool, Clipping Mask, Adjustment Layer, and Layer Mask tools in Photoshop.
Students will change the eye color in the attached photo from brown to blue. You may work at your own pace using the attached instructional video. Step-by-step instructions will also be given in class.
Download File:
eyes.jpg
File Size: 421 kb
File Type: jpg
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The objective of this project is to obtain a better understanding of the Elliptical Marquee Tool, Photoshop Adjustment Layer, and Layer Mask tools by change eye color. Teacher instruction will be provided during class time to guide you through this project. You can also watch the video below should you choose to work on this project independently.

​Elliptical Marquee Tool: this tool allows you to create circular or elliptical selections. To add to a selection, hold down your shift key. To subtract, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac).

Adjustment Layers (Black & White, Color Fill, Curves): By using an Adjustment Layers, you're able to change targeted areas of your photo without damaging the original layer. These can either be applied to the full image, or specific areas using selections or Layer Masks. At any point in the future, you can either make changes to the adjustment, hide it, or delete it completely.

Layer Masks: If there's an area of your layer that you wish to hide (or bring back), Layer Masks will help you do that. Painting using a black brush will hide portions of the layer, and painting with a white brush will reveal them. Good Luck and HAVE FUN!
 DIRECTIONS:
  1. Download the file named eyes and save to your folder in Students on FOL_DC1
  2. Open the file in Photoshop.
  3. Use Elliptical Marquee tool to select the iris of one of the eyes. Hold down your shift key and 
  4. Click on the SELECT TAB and choose MODIFY >FEATHER, set FEATHER RADIUS to 10 to soften the edges.
  5. On the bottom of the Layer Panel
    1. RIGHT-CLICK on  ADJUSTMENT LAYER (the round icon) and select BLACK AND WHITE
    2. Set PRESET to GREEN FILTER
    3. Select LAYER MASK on the Black and White Filter. 
    4. Use a SOFT BLACK BRUSH to remove the color on the lashes or surrounding area
    5. While clicked on the LAYER MASK SELECT LAYER MASK SOLID COLOR
    6. Select your blue color of choice and click OK
    7. Right click and SELECT CREATE CLIPPING MASK
    8. Set BLEND MODE to COLOR (its at the top of the Layer Panel, the default is Normal)
    9. Click on ADJUSTMENT LAYER and SELECT CURVES, adjust the INPUT and OUTPUT to increase the contrast.
    10. Right click and SELECT CREATE CLIPPING MASK.
    11. Add your name,
    12. Save as JPEG
    13. Attach the Photoshop and JPEG documents to the assignment post in Google Classroom and turn in.