photoshop workshop- lassoing

To lasso a part an image,select the lasso tool
you can use either free form lasso, lassoing with straight lines, or magnetic lasso.

free form lasso tool allows you to freely make any shape you want to cut out. just click and drag the tool around the area you wish to select,making sure you end at exactly where you started.it is good to have a steady hand if selecting a specific details using the free form lasso tool.

polygonal lasso,to select hold and drag across on the lasso tool to bring it up
this allows you to lasso useing straight lines

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 Magnetic lasso tool, select like how you did for the polygonal lasso tool.
more accurate selection by sticking like a magnet to edges of the area you wish to select.



You can then copy and paste this area onto another selection of the image or another image. A great way to make sure you have eveything that you want selected. use quick mass mode. there you can erase parts this you don't want in the selected area, or unerase parts that you didn't select when using the lasso tool.

photoshop workshop-fantasy landscape final image

here are the two original images that i used to create my final fantasy landscape image :) .

photoshop workshop- black and white with colour

to create a black and white image. with aspects of colour. first copy the background layer.
then with the copied background. turn it black and white . (using image, adjustments and black and white)

next select the erase tool, and change the size. now erase parts of the picture that you wish to be in colour. this will allow the bottom layer to be seem so it seems that the image has colour.

photoshop workshop- transforming

to transform a image. go to edit, transform. and warp. from here you can select different settings i.e. twist.

photoshop workshop - adding text

to add text to the image. text the text tool. next change the colour size and fount of the text. you can also change the shape of the text by using warp. 

 

photoshop workshop-adding colour

 to add colour to an image. select the "brush" tool and then select the size of the brush. now pick the colour/colours. add a new layer. and paint in what you want coloured.

after filling in all you wanted to colour in, change "normal" in the layer box to your chosen program. i.e. overlay  

photoshop workshop - vignetting

 vignetting is a way to create a soft boarder. to start. click the "brush" tool. select the boarder colour. change the brush size and set the opacity to 100%.  

now add a new layer. to draw the boarder press shift and press the mouse then drag the mouse down the image.

 to blur the boarder into the image. go to filter, blur and press gaussian blur. now a box will appear and from here you can change the boarder. by changing the radius