12.1,2,4 - The Album, The Remix

Create your own album cover. Or remix an album cover to No Limit style. Add diamond & gold text, images of rich stuff and add some lens flares to get your new album out in Texas in 1993.

Warm up - 15min

QOTD:What things symbolize wealth? List at least three.
What things symbolize power? List at least three.
What is your dream pet? List one.
Using google image search download high quality images of these symbols you just named. Save them in a folder on your desktop.

POTD

Vocabulary:

1. transform
2. warp
3. bevel
4. emboss
5. gradient
6. contour
7. rotate
8. horizontal
9. vertical
10. distort
11. perspective

Lesson - Create your own No Limit Records Pen n Pixel style album cover
(advanced photoshop techniques - building up skills for portfolio project)

Examples:
http://images.google.com/images?q=no%20limit%20records%20album%20covers&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

This photoshop lesson is made up of three basic parts

1. Creating iced out text.
2. Removing backgrounds from images.
3. Transforming smaller images to fit your overall image.

Part 1 - creating some iced out text (45min)
(advanced photoshop techniques)
Go to the following link to find the tutorial for creating diamonds and gold text (or diamond n gold anything!).
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/diamonds/diamonds.htm

SAVE!

Part 2 - Removing Backgrounds and Colaging (30min)
(review of intermediate technique)

Open in Photoshop the six images of wealth and power you downloaded yesterday. We are going to remove the backgrounds of these for your pen n pixel album cover using the MAGIC WAND.

Last time we removed backgrounds, we used the QUICK SELECTION TOOL. The MAGIC WAND is located on that same toolbox spot (quickkey = w).

Using the magic wand has some options. The first option we’ll look at is the TOLERANCE.

TOLERANCE can be set from 0 - 255. The lower your tolerance the fewer different color variations will be selected; the higher the tolerance, the more colors will be selected.

So, if you are trying to get part of a blue sky background removed and there are slightly lighter and darker portions of the sky that are NOT being selected, you should INCREASE the tolerance. Conversely, if you are trying to select a dark background and your hair keeps on getting selected as well, REDUCE the tolerance.

Actually, we did this before the break on our postcards. Here is the link:
http://lddma0910.blogspot.com/2009/11/1120-background-replacement.html

SAVE!

Part 3 - Transforming images to fit. (15min)
(review of beginner technique)
We did some of this also last week. However we can also warp, distort and change perspective by entering the free transform mode THEN right clicking on the image.

SAVE!

EXPORT FOR WEB AND DEVICES AND POST ON YOUR BLOG WHEN DONE! SAVE THE PSD DOC TO YOUR SERVER!