Your Mom at Prom? This is 2009!

Colbie and I looked so good on prom night, I thought I would stick us back into the 1960s, when our parents pictures looked worn out, not really black and white, but not colored nicely either. So I removed the color with Enhance/ Adjust Color. Then I used Enhance/ Color Variations to remove blue and add red to the picture to give it a sepia tone. Then I added noise using Filter/ Distort. Next I applied the elliptical marquee tool to get the circle around our faces. Then I used the eyedropper tool to sample the color of our skin and used the bucket tool to paint around our background while using inverse/selection to keep the color off of us.

Create Your Own Coke

First you copy and paste the picture with the pop tops into the picture with the blank can. Then use the move tool to position the pull tabs as accurately as possible to the can. Reduce the opacity to 60%, and erase the excess pull tab around the outside of the can. Make a new file for the label about 5 by 2.5 in and 72ppi. Then use the type tool and put TaBs in tomhama font 200 point size. Reduce the B and s by making them 170 point size. Now use layer, simplify layer. Tighten up the letter spacing by making a rectangle selection around the a, then switch to the move tool, use the left arrow key to move it closer to the T, repeat for the B and s. Extend the top of the T by make a rectangular selection of the crossbar and use the move tool while holding down shift/alt and drag it (the crossbar) to the right. After that make a rectangular selection on the upper curve of the a and paint the area black. Use the white paint brush to get rid of the excess black. Repeat for the s. Then use the erase tool to eliminate the black connecting the a and the b(see the finished label). Curve the logo around the can by copy and pasting it into the can picture. Flip the background image 90 degrees left and then click on the label layer and go to filter, distort, shear, adjust the can by clicking on the center of the curve and dragging it right. Then you can flip your can upright. Change the background of the can using the magic wand tool to select the can and then inverse, and use the gradient tool on the background.

Deliverance? Liquify Tool

Instead of simply blackmailing your friends for cheating on their significant other, you can simply play around with the liquify tool and turn your friends into barn-raised inbreeds.

First go to Filter-Distort-Liquify. A separate screen will open and then you get to play around with the tools.




With Colin I started with the bulge tool and I applied it to Colin's teeth to give him buck teeth.



Then I switched to the pucker tool for his eyes, so he could be squinty-eyed.



Then I applied different tools to the other two boys to inbreed them. Ta-da!

Become 2-Dimesional

I wanted to make fun of Felicity so I made her a character drawing with photoshop so that the makers of Family Guy could stick her in the show. First, I created a new layer and used the bucket tool to paint the background white.



Then I switched to the brush tool and used black, soft round 5 pxls, and reduced the opacity of the layer to 75%.




Next I started to trace her outline and add her features in.




Then I used the eyedropper tool to sample her skin color and used the bucket tool to paint her face. I then repeated the latter to fill in color for the whole cartoon.





Now Felicity is ready for Cartoon Network!

Toto, I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore

California Dreamin' in the middle of the winter is a nice way to curb cabin fever, but I know a way to make it happen. Simply find a picture of yourself and the location you want to be in. I chose myself on the horse and my friend Allison and decided to put us into a creepy old barn image.





First you open photoshop and the picture and copy and paste yourself into the location you prefer to be in. Then you employ the erase tool and zooming in veeery close to get rid of your current background.




Viola! After erasing use the move tool to position yourself, then use the Adjust Hue/Saturation to match your skin tone with the light of the location.

See the World in Technicolor

Penelope, Alexis, and Myself are positioned on top of our school's sign. Penelope's bathing suit is a gorgeous hot pink, my straw hat is quite cute, and Alexis's tie-dye shirt is colorful. I wanted each of these items to be the attention grabbers of the picture so I used the Layer menu, new adjustment layer, hue/saturation.


Then you adjust saturation to negative 100.




I zoomed into Penelope and used the brush tool, with black as the top color and white as the bottom, and painted the bathing suit. Her suit turned its natural hot pink color, and when I accidentally painted her skin, I switched to white on top/black on bottom and painted on the skin, which turned it to gray scale again.


And the final result:

Do You Feel Like You're Being Watched?

I took this picture at Massanutten and I thought giants should be staring at the people through the window. So I found four pictures to go in the windows.


I selected all of the picture with the birds. And went to edit, copy.



Then went back to my main picture and used the polygon lasso tool, which is with the magnetic lasso tool, and framed a window.




Then I used edit, paste into selection. And the birds appeared in the window! Then I used the move tool to adjust them.


Then you repeat those steps starting with the polygon lasso tool in each window, with a different picture to achieve this look:

How to Walk On Sunshine

Find an image that you don't like the person standing next to you or you're jumping over a hurdle and you want it to look like you're jumping into air.



Then you use the clone tool, make sure its a good size, 70 or 100 pixels, then move the circle to a blank spot in the image that you want to replace your 'friend' or hurdle with. Press the Alt key when you find a clear spot. Then move your mouse over to your 'friend' or hurdle, click with the mouse.



Your 'friend' now has a spot covering them. Continue covering your 'friend' up with clicks and remember to sample different backgrounds by moving the circle to new blank areas and using the Alt key to get new backgrounds.

Can You Teach Me How to Do That?

My friend Carl can do the Matrix moves. She's not dancing the limbo, but she can slowly go down and back as well as back up again. Kelly on the other hand, isn't that flexible and I want her to have the moves so I magnetic lassoed Kelly’s head and then copied it as a layer. Then I dragged and dropped Kelly’s head into Carl’s body picture. I adjusted the sized and rotation using 50% opacity. Next I used erase tool at varying opacities to get rid of Kelly’s excess hair. Finally I used brush tool to match Caryle’s and Kelly's skin and hair tones.

Are You 21? How to Make Photo Indentification

First of all, someone got this idea in their head to make a fake id; I'm guessing that was back in the '70s. One of my friends did not have a driver's license and was going to a government military base for a culinary field trip. I borrowed the staff badge from RCHS and proceeded to make a copy of it. First I measured the badge and got a new blank on Photoshop the same size as the badge. Then I used the marquee tool to select an area large enough for the yellow background, and used the bucket paint tool to fill in the border navy. With that done, I took the Panther logo from our school and copied and pasted it onto the background as a separate layer. Zooming in and using the erase tool, I got the panther clear of any excess white background. I then carefully adjusted its size with the move tool. After the Panther was in place, I used the Arial typing tool to select a font and navy color similar to the staff badge, and filled in the year, student, DOB, etc. Then I flipped the typing tool to vertical and put RCHS by the panther head. After the text was completed. I copied and pasted a new layer with my friend's mugshot onto the badge. I used the move tool to adjust the size and placement. Viola! A RCHS staff badge.