That Blue Square Thing
Year 9 Computing - Cd Cover and Photoshop Skills
This lesson explores how to use colour on a CD cover.
This is deliberately very vague. You need to know how to do some things first.
Because you're making a CD cover, make sure you square crop each of the images.
Make sure you practice adding text to at least one of the images you work on today.
Changing Colours - Using Hue and Saturation
Saturation lets you make colours stronger - more saturated. Hue lets you change colours.
Colour sliders - Hue and Saturation
Choose one of these images to use. All of them work well.
Colour Filters
Adding a colour filter to a black and white image can create an interesting look. This is used by Belle and Sebastian on lots of their album covers. You should be able to create a similar effect really quickly.
This image works really well for this effect.
Two different coloured areas
This lets you change the colour of, for example, the sky differently to the colour of the land. It can make for some pretty nice effects.
Either of these images should work fine for this.
Selective colour
Selective colour is used to make part of an image coloured - but to leave part black and white. Or it can be used to change the colours in only park of an image.
This is a little tricky as it uses a layer mask. You might need to ask for help.
Selective colours - 3 duck colours
This image works really well for this skill.
You can go back to lesson 1 if you need to.
There are some other skills at More Photoshop Skills page if you get through everthing.