Photoshop Exercises
Vignettes & Photomontages
An exercise for blending images, backgrounds, and text together to create montages without any hard outlines.
Skills used: Lasso Tool, Select/Modify/Feather
Banner Advertisement
Practice creating an eye-catching advertisement using shapes, and object & text effects.
Skills used: Custom Shape Tool, Marquee Tool, Subtracting Shapes, Styles & Effects, Superscript
Adding Pop to your Photos
Practice adding special effects such as "pop" to photos and de-emphasizing the background.
Skills used: Marquee Tool, Transform a selection, Layer Styles (stroke & drop shadow), Levels, Filters (radial blur)
Selective Coloring
Technique to grayscale an image while leaving some parts colored, in order to spotlight certain parts of the image.
Skills used: Image Adjustments, Layer Mask, Filters (Gausian blur), Blending layers (overlay)
