Photoshop: Weeks 3 & 4 Lab (T. Blum)

IWA-HWG Photoshop Course. Weeks 3 & 4 Lab

Preliminaries

I practiced on Layer Masks with

(Click here for large jpeg files of the the sharp version and the blurred version.)

I had a bit of fun with Layer Masks and Adjustments (Hue/Saturation and Invert) using Henri Rousseau's Sleeping Gypsy.

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Project

I decided to work on an image that might be used as the lead in to a particular section/chapter of a physics textbook. The image could also appear in the lab manual as well as the website associated with the book.

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I used the following images

A Ripple Tank from http://fys.kuleuven.be/pradem/demoproeven/prf100a.html
A pipe organ from http://mkaz.com/photo/trips/france2004/index.php?p=18
A violin from http://www.littlehandsmusic.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LHM&Product_Code=1000
Pendlum clock (my own image)
Tuning fork (my own image)
A spring (my own image)

Some of the techniques used follow:

Most of the images layers have an associated clipping layer where the second layer is an Adjustment/Hue and Saturation layer that allowed me to control the color scheme for each individual portion.
The ripple-tank and pipe-organ images have layer masks so that I could hide the portion I did not want to show but also move the images around within the selections.
The sine wave was made using the Shape tool which had an option ("waves") that had three sine waves. The shape was transformed (scaled), and two of the sine waves were erased.
The sine wave was saved as a channel and the steps from Weeks 1&2 for the chrome effect (Filter/Render/LightEffects, etc.) were applied. (I tried the chrome effect on the border but switched to a Bevel and Emboss Layer effect.)
I saved the violin selection as a channel, so that I could tweak it later. The spring selection was very cumbersome and would have been a good candidate to save as a channel, but I made it last year.
I applied texture filters to the sine wave as well as the border.