New Background

Description

For this project, you'll combine two photos with Photoshop. You'll cut the person out of one photo to add it on top of the other. This is like using a green screen in a film, but you're doing it manually. You don't have to worry about copyright for this project, but if you want to publicly share your work, you should use legal images.

Requirements

Submit 1 photo that combines two other photos, cutting the person out of one to add it on top of the other photo.
You'll also submit the 2 before photos that you combined

STEP 1: GET PHOTOSHOP

Install Photoshop on your computer if you don't have it already. You get it for free with your student emails while we're schooling at home.

Go to Adobe's Creative Cloud Website HERE
Sign in with your student email and password.
Once in, you can download and install the software shown. You need Photoshop for this project, but you can install any of the available programs to try out.

STEP 2: FIND PHOTOS

You need 2 different photos for this project. One should be the background you want, the other a person. Feel free to use a photo of yourself!

Ideas & Tips:

Try searching for background images on Pixabay.com. You can download the images at very high resolution for free if you sign up for a free account.
Not sure what kind of background to go with? How about searching for a beach, forest, a city or country you want to travel to, or even space! You can make it look realistic or totally crazy!
If you don't want to use yourself in the image, search Pixabay or another site for person, man, woman, teenager, or child.
Some websites, like Pixabay, will have a download image button. If you're using a copyrighted image, you may need to just right-click on the image and go to Save Image As. Regardless of how you download the image, make sure you save it somewhere on your computer that you'll be able to find, such as on your Desktop or in your Documents folder.

STEP 3: OPEN IMAGE

The computer will probably not open your images in Photoshop by default. Here's how to do it:

Find the images on your computer.
Right-click each of the images, go to Open With > Photoshop

Open Photoshop first
Go to File > Open and find your images

STEP 4: FOLLOW TUTORIAL

Now, you just need to follow the tutorial! Click the link below for the full tutorial.

TUTORIAL LINK

Note: if you ever can't find a window or panel you're looking for, go to the top of the screen, click Window, then whichever panel you're looking for, such as Layers.

Also: if you get stuck, you should try googling what you're stuck on. There are soooooo many Photoshop guides - if this one is confusing to you, use Google as your personal guide! You can also contact me, obviously. Google will just be faster.

STEP 5: SAVE

When you're working in Photoshop, the app will want to save the file as a Photoshop file or the same type of file. You'll need to submit your files as PNG files. Here's how to do it:

Go to File > Save As...
Under Format, choose PNG
Make sure you're saving it in the folder you want
Click Save
Choose Large file size
Click OK

STEP 6: SUBMIT

To submit your work:

Open the week's assignment in Google Classroom
Click the Add or create button on the upper right-hand side
Choose File
Find the saved images on your computer. You'll probably have to add them one at a time.
- Note: you need to submit 3 images in total, 2 before images and 1 after image!
Lastly, click Turn in!

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