Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 - LESSONS FOR EDUCATORS (ST. PATRICK S DAY PROJECT) Manual
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- Page 1 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ® ® Lessons for Educators St. Patrick’s Day Project Adobe Education...
- Page 2 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT St. Patrick’s Day This project will teach Adobe® Photoshop® Elements painting techniques using shapes and styles to create the look of 3D. For this project, you will create a landscape to be printed as a greeting card. All areas of the landscape will be created directly in Photoshop Elements.
- Page 3 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT Preparation File management. Create a new work folder on your desktop. Name this folder with a unique name that you will recognize. Always keep all image files for a single project in their own unique work folder.
- Page 4 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT Create a new Photoshop Elements master file: (Figure 3) From the menu bar, choose File > New. In the new file window set the new file size to Width 8 inches, Height 10 inches, 150 pixels/inch (this is a good pixel range for printing on a digital printer), and RGB mode (Figure 1).
- Page 5 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT In the palette well, click on the Swatches tab. Select a sky blue color (Figure 5). From the toolbox, select the paint bucket tool. Click inside the rectangular selection and it will fill with the blue color. The reason...
- Page 6 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT In the palette well, click on the Swatches tab and select white or whatever color you want to make the clouds. On the image area click and drag two or three clouds onto the sky.
- Page 7 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT 12. To automatically paint hills, click the left bottom of the image area and drag horizontally across the screen to the right, ending up outside the image area. You will see a rolling green hill appear (Figure 9).
- Page 8 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT 17. Note that as you create each hill, a new layer is added to your Layers palette. These layers will be titled shape 1, shape 2, shape 3, etc. It is important to remember which layer is associated with which hill as you will be working on individual layers to create a 3D effect.
- Page 9 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT 21. Making new towers. To build the castle quickly, you will copy this tower. To do this: In the Layers palette, drag the layer title of your first gray rectangle to the small middle icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.
- Page 10 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT 24. Putting roof tops on the castle towers. With the custom shape tool selected, go to the Shortcuts Bar and select the polygon tool. This is the tool between the Line and the ellipse. In the Sides box enter 3 to make a triangle.
- Page 11 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PROJECT 27. Blending the castle into the scene. In the Layers palette, select the center hill layer on which your castle stands and drag it to the top of the Layers list. This will reposition the hill in front of the castle, which will make it seem that the castle is rising from behind the hill (Figure 19).
- Page 12 Print out and fold the card in half Lengthwise. Figure 22 Adobe, the Adobe logo, and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.