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PhotoShop Tutorials and Study Guides

Using the Photoshop 5 Bible by Deke McClelland

Photoshop Lesson 1 Photoshop Study Guide 01.

Photoshop Lesson 2 Photoshop Study Guide 02.

Photoshop Lesson 3 Photoshop Study Guide 03.

Photoshop Lesson 4 Photoshop Study Guide 04.

Photoshop Lesson 5 Photoshop Study Guide 05.

Photoshop Lesson 6 Photoshop Study Guide 06. Review of tools and skills.

Photoshop Lesson 7 Photoshop Study Guide 07. Review, Part II.

Photoshop Lesson 8 Photoshop Study Guide 08. Selections and Layers.

Photoshop Lesson 9 Photoshop Study Guide 09. Using Layer Masks.

Photoshop Lesson 10 Photoshop Study Guide 10. Photo Image Alterations.

Photoshop Lesson 11 Photoshop Study Guide 11. To be posted.


Photoshop Projects

Create a Medallion This project builds a background from scratch. Then the Freehand Pen is used to draw a shape. The background is used on both the shape and the medallion.

Classroom Project, Part 1 Enhancing Photo Images. This is a project we worked on in the Intro to PhotoShop course. The project has two parts. In Part One, students build a head for a little girl and give her a bigger garden to play in. The stamp tool and the Smudge tool are used in this project.

Classroom Project, Part 2 Enhancing Photo Images. In the second part of the project, students add a second child to the garden they built in the first part. The Stamp tool is used to clone from one image to another in this project.

Twirly Photo Take a photo and clone it into an artistic background. Many of Photoshop's features are used in this project.

Rowboat This project demonstrates how Photoshop can be used to create a "pencil" sketch. The exercise if from Fine Art Photoshop.

Tropical Castle An actual photo of a medieval castle just off the beach of Hawaii (with the help of Photoshop).

Using the Stamp and Smudge Tools This is a picture I took at the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Your assignment is to get rid of the telephone wires and other ugly elements.

Pink Shoe Project This project teaches compositing images, Quick Masking and Drop Shadows. (still in progress)

Cropping Little Dan This project demonstrates how to straighten a crooked scan and crop an image. You will also be told how to add canvas around an image, using the Crop tool.

My Surgery This is an example of how you can use images to gross people out. If you want to see the pictures of what the doctor took out of me, click on this one.

Water-Damaged Slide This is an example of a valued photograph, badly damaged in a flood. The upper image is the original, the lower shows partial repair with Photoshop.

Ripped Photos This project shows a photo that has been ripped in half, with text added and a background.


CorelDRAW

Aligning Text on a Curve Create this project to test your text-to-path alignment skills.

Ripped Photos This project shows a photo that has been ripped in half, with text added and a background.


Painter Tutorials and Study Guides

Using the Painter 5 F/X book by Sherry London.

Painter Lesson 1 Painter Study Guide 01

Painter Lesson 2 Painter Study Guide 02

Painter Lesson 3 Painter Study Guide 03

Painter Lesson 4 Painter Study Guide 04.

Painter Lesson 5 Painter Study Guide 05.

Painter Lesson 6 Painter Study Guide 06 -- The rest of Chapter 2, Painter 5 f/x.

Painter Lesson 7 Painter Study Guide 07 -- Creating Paper Textures - Chapter 3.

Painter Lesson 8 Painter Study Guide 08 -- Charcoal Crab with Watercolor Wash - Painter 6 WOW Book, Page 46.

Painter Lesson 9 Painter Study Guide 09 -- Create An Interesting Piece of Paper - Suitable for drawing something neat.

Here endeth the Projects for now.

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