paintinginphotoshop

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Where you can paint like an artist and create special effects on Photoshop!
Do you know what is Photoshop? For more than 21 years it has been reowned for the photo editing features and one of the most fun features is to use painting tool to change or paint a photo with special effects. Transform something ordinary into this:

In this workshop you'll learn:
1) The basic brush tools 2) Importance of layers 3) Blending modes (2 ways with more focus on the layering) 4) Extra: selection techniques You'll have a change to edit your own photo :)

Basics of painting: Here are the basic painting tools
Hint: Hold down Shift to draw a straight line Click the arrow next to the brush setting to change brush and its size You need a high contrast boundary to fill an area of an image with a color using bucket tool In the "Custom Shape" section, you can change the setting from "Shape" into "Pixels" so you don't pile up too many layers

Activity 1:
You've just learnt the brush tools e.g. buckets and brushes, now it's your turn to create a little artwork:

Create a blank file Choose your colors Using basic brush, bucket and shape tools, draw/paint your favorite stuff e.g. ice cream Then UPLOAD IT on the wiki!!

Mixer Brush activity:
the Mixer brush is a special brush where you can mix an image in different way creating a water paint like appearance like this:

Mixer brush consists of these features and you can also change the brush settings just as the ordinary brush The variables change the behavior how the colors are going to blend

Let's download this sample image and give it a try!

Importance of layers
Layers are important especially when you will be constantly changing the paint setting or are afraid the image is damaged from heavy editing To create a layer in your sample image or files with shapes, press Shift+control+n When you save multi-layer files, the extension will be a psd

IMPORTANT: If you want to fix a painted area, layering will help as the eraser tool works in layers better. You won't affect the original layer


 * About the blending modes**

There are 2 ways to blend a photo using colors and this will create special light effects: The first one is within one layer

The other method requires a new layer (Don't change blend mode from method 1) but change blend mode of the layer as shown

How blending using method 2 is better?
Let's open any image and create a new layer (Keep color settings same)

First, let's try painting using only single layer

Then you open the same clean file, but this time create new layer and change blend mode of the new layer

What did you find out?

Extra (if we got time): Selection tool
Selection tools comes in handy if you want to restrict an area where you can paint for example a person's shirt Here are the selection tools:

Let's choose the sample image with books again

What did you see in different selection tools?