Photoshop Workshop *5

Half and Half Color/B&W

I duplicated my layer first

then i converted the bottom layer called background into black and white

 I then selected half of the image

then i pressed backspace or you could use edit>cut








The lasso tool

This is the lasso tool with this you can draw a rough area around your image to select it. it is a very quick way of selecting something from an image

with this i selected the sign from my image and clicked on the move tool which brought up the transform options i then moved it to the floor of my image i could also do further refinements with the eraser tool then change the blending mode to overlay to make this actually look like its part of the floor

The Quick mask tool

This is the quick mask tool think of it like a layer of clingfilm over your image with this you can change your image without effecting the base image itself because you can just remove the mask

 After creating a mask for my image i selected the eraser tool


then using a soft eraser i removed the sharp edge down the center of my image trying to get a smoother transition from color to black and white

if you look at the white image on the right you can see the mask if you alt click on that white box it shows you the mask

as you can see this is my mask it is very rough and in some places it is much sharper this is shown by the darker areas. areas that have very soft erasing are a light grey

Copying and pasting

 for this i simply duplicated my layer

 this box came up at the bottom it says document

 i changed the document to the one i wanted to copy it too and selected ok

i went across to this document and it has been transferred over.