Assignment 3: Using the Selection Tools

The Instructions:

In this assignment, you will use Photoshop to select areas from one or more images and paste them into another.

If you have a scanner and know how to use it, or if you use copyright-free photography from CD-ROMs, or are familiar with and use Photo CDs for your photography, please feel free to use those images in this assignment.

If all that was Greek to you, please download any or all of the .KPT images from the "Images for Course CO 220" folder in the Image Library.

These are professional photographs, sampled from the superb stock photography collections of Kai's Power Photos, and brought to you courtesy of our friends at MetaTools.

Whatever you do, please don't use images you don't have a right to.

Work back and forth between images, to created exciting new hybrids of the images.

Make your selections as carefully as you can, using as many of the selection techniques as you can.

Try applying a feather of 1 or 2 pixels to your selections, to see how they soften the effect.

Resize and duplicate selections as you please.

If you have trouble understanding the Save As... procedure, then try to keep a "safe" duplicate of the original downloaded images saved, so that if you get stuck, or ruin an image, you can reopen it without having to download it again.

Even if you understand using filters and channel operations, try to stay within the cut-and-paste spirit of this assignment. Some amazing things can be done with just the selection tools and modest manipulation.

Intermediate Photoshop students may also apply image correction and color adjustment as it moves you to do so.

--KPT Saint

The Results:

Assignment 3 -- Don Morehouse Adobe Photoshop (20KB jpeg) Montage created using selection tools in Adobe Photoshop.

Week 3 Assignment -- Jason - UntoldLtd Performa 6115CD, QuickCam Using my QuickCam and the Photoshop select tools, I combined a number of images that infect my mind.

Time Flies -- JaneM17941 Quadra 630, Photoshop 3.0, scanned images & KPT images Time flies!

Cut and Paste -- VJacobsen Color Mac (76KB jpeg) Serious case of "writer's block" this week. This is all I could come up with.

Hummingbird -- Stephen667 Color Mac (43KB jpeg) Now this was really a difficult shot. I had watched her for days; she always came back to the same flower. I set up with a 200mm on a tripod, 1/500th, f4. I stood dead still. I only got one exposure - I think the noise of the shutter scared her off. But what a beauty!

	A Cut-and-Paste Funeral -- AFH Alex Adobe Photoshop 3.0 and Photo CD My mother's funeral was a sparse affair. My brother and I were the only relatives present. Beverly and Eric were on the west coast and couldn't attend. There was only one small arrangement of flowers. I took a few desultory grab shots and left in grief.
	This assignment is a chance to pretend things could have been better. Borrow Beverly and Eric from a beach shot, gather the family minister and two closest family friends, and add the flowers I wish had been there...