The task today required us to take a picture of ourselves using a digital camera and then be able to upload it onto the computer so that it could then be manipulated within PhotoShop.
Here is the original photo
Here is the original photo
First on the agenda create a plain background for the image. For this I needed to make a clear selection between the current background and myself. There are several tools which you can use to select, for this I used a combination of the Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool. The magnetic tool enabled me to get a cleaner edge as the tool connects to similar edges.
Once I had my image selected I used the command CTRL+SHIFT+i to invert the selection so that the background was selected and my image remained clear when i used the fill tool to create a plain white background.
After this, I now had an image that i could manipulate using the other tools in Photoshop. These were the levels of the image, affecting how light or dark it was, and the saturation tool affecting the intensity of the image colour.
Levels
Saturation
After playing with the Levels and Saturation, I then had two filter settings to look at. These were High Pass and Find Edges. To use these I located the filter tab and looked into the sub tab Other for High Pass and the sub tab Stylize for Edges.