Grade 9: Introduction to Photoshop Compositing

Lesson 4: Compositing Multiple Photos to create a Photomontage

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Drill:
Review: 4 Basic colorizing techniques

1&2 Blending Modes

• Color Blending Mode: Creates a result color with the luminance of the base color and the hue and saturation of the blend color. This preserves the gray levels in the image and is useful for coloring monochrome or grayscale images and for tinting color images.
• Multiply: Looks at the color information in each channel and multiplies the base color by the blend color. The result color is always a darker color. Multiplying any color with black produces black. Multiplying any color with white leaves the color unchanged. When you're painting with a color other than black or white, successive strokes with a painting tool produce progressively darker colors. The effect is similar to drawing on the image with multiple magic markers.

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer

The Hue/Saturation command lets you adjust the hue, saturation, and brightness of a specific color component in an image or simultaneously adjust all the colors in an image.

Masking

You can obscure an entire layer or layer set, or just a selected part of it, using a layer mask. You can also edit a layer mask to add or subtract from the masked region. A layer mask is a grayscale image, so what you paint in black will be hidden, what you paint in white will show, and what you paint in gray shades will show in various levels of transparency.

Lesson Objective:
Today we will learn how to work with paths in order to manipulate and composite images in Adobe Photoshop to create a photomontage. We will also explore the many possibilities of working with paths once they have been built.

Video Tutorial: Click on image below to view video.

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