Melon Face
Name: ______Date: ______
Purpose: To use the marquee, lasso, magic wand, and move tools.
Instructions:
1. Start Photoshop.
2. Choose File, Open. Locate Melon Face Start.psd
3. Save in your folder as melon face.psd
4. Select the zoom tool. Click on the blueberry to zoom to 300%.
5. Select the elliptical marquee tool (hidden under the rectangular marquee tool) to select eyes for the face.
6. Move the pointer over the blueberry, and drag it diagonally across the blueberry to create a selection. DO NOT RELEASE THE MOUSE.
7. Still holding down the mouse, hold down the spacebar, and drag the selection. The border moves as you drag.
8. Release the spacebar, but not the mouse, and drag again. Notice that when you drag without the spacebar, the size and shape of the selection change, but its point of origin does not.
9. When the selection border is positioned and sized correctly around the blueberry, release the mouse.
10. While the blueberry is still selected, select the move tool and position the pointer within the blueberry’s selection. The pointer becomes an arrow with a pair of scissors to indicate that dragging will cut it from its present location and move it to the new location.
11. Drag the blueberry onto the carrot slice.
12. Choose Select, Deselect.
13. Save your work.
14. Choose View, Fit on screen to resize the document to fit on your screen.
15. Select the elliptical marquee tool.
16. Drag a selection around the carrot slice containing the blueberry. To select from a center point, position the elliptical marquee tool at the approximate center of the blueberry that is on top of the carrot.
17. Click and begin dragging. Then without releasing the mouse button, hold down Alt and continue dragging the selection to the outer edge of the carrot slice. Notice that the selection is centered over its starting point.
18. When you have the entire carrot/blueberry eye piece selected, release the mouse button first and then release the Alt button.
19. Select the move tool, hold down Alt, and position the pointer within the selection. The mouse pointer becomes a double-arrow, which means that a duplicate will be made when you move the selection.
20. Continue holding down the Alt key and drag a duplicate of the eye to the left side of the melon face, Release the mouse button and Alt key, but do not deselect it.
21. Hold down Shift+Alt and drag a copy of the eye to the right side of the face.
22. Save your file.
Kiwi Fruit as the melon’s mouth
23. Select the elliptical tool.
24. Drag a selection around the kiwi fruit.
25. With the marquee tool still selected, hold down Ctrl and position the pointer within the selection. A pair of scissors appears with the pointer to indicate that the selection will be cut from its current location.
26. Drag the kiwi mouth onto the face. Do not deselect.
Move with the arrow keys
27. Press the Up Arrow a few times to move the mouth upward one pixel. Hold down Shift and press the Up Arrow and you move up ten pixels.
28. Use the arrow keys to position the mouth on the melon.
29. Save your file.
Selecting the Nose: Pear
30. Select the magic wand tool.
31. On the toolbar, change the tolerance to 50. This option allows you to select tones that are similar in color, darker and lighter.
32. Using the magic wand, click anywhere within the pear tomato. Most of it will be selected.
33. To select the remaining area, hold down the Shift key and click the unselected areas of the pear tomato. Notice that a plus sign appears with the magic wand pointer, indicating that you are adding to the current selection.
34. When the pear tomato is completely selected, hold down Ctrl, position the pointer within the selection and drag the pear to the nose on the melon face.
35. Choose Select, Deselect.
36. Save your file.
Bow Tie
37. Select the zoom tool and click twice on the bowtie pasta to enlarge it to 300%.
38. Select the lasso tool.
39. Starting in the upper left corner of the bow tie pasta, drag to the right to create a free hand outline across the curves at the top of the bow tie. Continue holding down the mouse button.
40. To select the right edge of the bow tie, hold down Alt, release the mouse button, and then begin outlining with short straight lines by clicking along the edge. When you reach the bottom right, do not release the mouse button.
41. Release the Alt key and drag to the left to create a freehand outline across the bottom of the bow tie.
42. Hold down the alt key again and click the mouse button along the left edge of the bow tie to draw straight lines.
43. To complete the selection, make sure the last straight line crosses the start of the selection, release the Alt and then release the mouse button.
44. Hold down Ctrl and drag the bow tie selection to the bottom of the melon face.
45. Save your file.
Mushroom Hat
46. Select the zoom tool and click twice on the mushroom to enlarge its view to 300%.
47. Select the lasso and drag a rough outline around the mushroom (include some of the areas outside the mushroom and some of the stem).
48. Hold down the Shift key (a plus sign appears with the lasso tool pointer).
49. Drag the lasso tool around an area you want to add to the selection. Then release the mouse button. The area is added to the current selection.
50. Hold down Alt. A minus sign appears with the lasso tool pointer.
51. Drag the lasso tool completely around the area you want to remove from the selection. Then repeat the process until you have finished removing all the unwanted parts of the selection.
52. Choose View, Fit on Screen.
53. To move the mushroom hat onto the melon head, hold down the Alt+Ctrl and drag a copy of the mushroom to the top of the melon.
54. Save your work.
Make the Ears
55. Select the zoom tool and click the grapefruit slice to zoom to 200%.
56. Select the magnetic lasso tool hidden under the lasso tool.
57. Now click once in the lower left corner of the red flesh of the grapefruit slice. Release the mouse button, and begin tracing the outline of the flesh by dragging to the right over the curved upper edge.
58. Notice the tool snaps to the edge and automatically puts in fastening points.
59. When you reach the lower right corner of the grapefruit, double click. This signals the magnetic lasso to the starting point and to close the selection.
60. Double-click the hand tool to fit the image on the screen.
61. Select the move tool. Drag the grapefruit ear to the middle of the left side of the melon face. Do not deselect.
62. Save your file.
Moving the Ear
63. Choose Edit, Free Transform.
64. To rotate ear, position the pointer outside a corner handle until you see a curved double-headed arrow and then drag in the direction you want to ear to rotate.
65. To scale the ear, position the pointer directly on one of the corner handles, and drag to reduce the size of the ear. To scale the ear proportionately, hold down Shift as you drag.
66. To reposition the ear, place your pointer within the bounding box, but not on the center point, and drag.
67. When you have the ear positioned correctly, press Enter to apply the transformation.
Make the Other Ear
68. Position the pointer within the ear selection, hold down Shift+Alt and drag a copy of the ear to the right side of the face.
69. With the second ear still selected, choose Edit, Free Transform, Rotate.
70. A bounding box appears.
71. Choose Edit, Transform, Flip Horizontal
72. Choose Edit, Free Transform. Rotate the ear to fit the right side of the face.
Eyebrows
73. Select the rectangular marquee tool.
74. Drag a selection around the radish. At this point you have the white background with the radish. We will subtract the white area leaving on the radish.
75. Select the magic want tool. Hold down Alt—a minus sign appears with the magic wand pointer.
76. Click anywhere in the selected white area surrounding the radish. Now only the radish is selected.
77. To duplicate and move the radish eyebrow, hold down Ctrl+Alt and drag the radish above the left eye on the melon face. Do not deselect.
78. Hold down Shift+Atl+Ctrl and position the pointer within the selection, and drag to duplicate and reposition another eyebrow above the right eye.
79. Choose Edit, Free Transform, and rotate the radish for the right eyebrow.
80. Save your file.
Complete the Image
81. Select the crop tool.
82. Move the pointer into the image window and drag diagonally from the upper left corner to the lower right corner of the completed artwork to create a crop marquee.
83. Press Enter to accept the image cropping.
84. Save your file.
85. Using the Text tool, add your name in the bottom right corner of the image.
86. Save your file.
87. Print your image in color.
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