Photoshop Skills

Lesson Objectives

LO - Learn and practice appropriate Photo shop skills, in order to apply them to a "Montage"

Starter

Look at the example Montage - what skills will you need to learn?

Follow these steps:

• Find a background image on Google and right click, Save image
• Find at least two other images - eg a celebrity, an object and right click Save Image
• In Photoshop, choose File new and open each image separately.
• Using the Magnetic Lasso tool cut around your person / animal / thing (keep clicking to keep accurate) (backspace key if you go wrong)
• Once your person is selected, copy and paste him / her onto the background image
• Select your other image - right click copy and paste
• Keep repeating the process until all images are collated - name your layers

Main

Red Task:
Put a famous person on /against a famous landmark/ eating something really random - For example - Rihanna up the Eiffel Tower eating a bowl of snails



Orange Task
If you can't locate the appropriate tools in Photoshop then use Google!

Add Text
Drop Shadow
Outer Glow



Green Task
Share your new skills with a partner. Explain your learning to them.

Plenary

What's a Montage?
What have you learnt this lesson?
How could these skills be used in other lessons?What else would you like to learn in Photoshop?