PHOTO EDITING EXERCISE USING PHOTOSHOP

1. Right click on the following picture and "save as" mainanut.jpg to your drive.  (A:  for my TAFE students)
   
2. Start Photoshop.
3. File - Open - A:\mainanut.jpg
4. F7 to open LAYERS palette.
5. Create a new layer, either from the Layer menu at top or the arrowhead in the Layers palette.
6. Working in the background layer, use selection tool to select my head.
7. Paste head into new layer
8. From the drop down menu go to LAYER > TRANSFORM > ROTATE the head 180 degrees and position it over the coconut in my hand.
9. On the background layer, use Lasso tool to select coconut by multiple clicking around the coconut.
10. Cut coconut and paste to another layer (Ctrl+X) then Ctrl+V)
11. Resize (larger) coconut.
12. Move coconut where head was.
13. Smooth connection with smudge tool.
14. In background layer change sail shadow by going to FILTERSS > RENDER > LIGHTING EFFECTS. Alter light direction by moving points in the dialogue box.
15. Highlight beach with COLOUR WAND tool.
16. Chang colour to red with PAINT BUCKET.
17. Use rubber stamp tool to replace sky with water.
18. File > Save for the Web
19. Choose jpg low quality and set compression to 12
20. Browse to folder where you save your images.
21. Type name of file, in lower case, with a jpg extension .  eg: coconuthead.jpg

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