File size = 9KCompression = 40
File size = 9K
Compression = 40
Note: I had some problems with the erase tool at first because
it was erasing such a wide swath. Then I remembered to check my tool tip settings.
When I took it from 30 down to 7, I suddenly had a much easier tool to use.
I erased the reflection layer on the sails, the boat, and on the two people.
File
size = 14K
Compression = 40
Font = Matisse ITC, size 36
Note: I used the dropper to make the text a yellow color from the lion, as suggested, but when I used overlay mode on the text layer the color changed to orange.
This
is an image I created using layers. First, I took my image of Shannon from week
2, used Magic Wand to to select parts of the background, and deleted them. Because
the background was pretty busy, that was a bit of work. I needed switch the
tolerance back and forth, and zoom the image, to get rid of all of it. That
left an image with a rough edge, so I used the Retouch tool, Soften, size 4,
and just went around her edges to soften them a bit. Then I applied Edge Enhance
to the picture. That gave me my first layer.
Then I created a background layer using paintbrush, color = (51,204,51), texture grass. At first the effect was uneven, but when I went back over the light areas, everything started to fill in and give me a solid green color. I finally figured out that I needed to change the size of the paintbrush, increased it to 255, and one pass did it! I made sure to move the layer with Shannon on top of the grass layer.
For the third layer, I used the Autumn Leaves tube, scaled to size = 40.
Layer four was the white ellipse. I tried adding text inside of the ellipse, and I kept getting curved text around the outside of it. I didn't really want that effect here, but eventually I figured out that I needed to place my text outside of the ellipse to get it to be straight, then move it inside the ellipse using the moving tool.
It seems to me like picture tubes are a convenient way to package clip art, but not anything revolutionary. Layers were much more exciting to me. I can see that what I was trying to do with Image Arithmetic should have been done in layers, where it would have worked much better. I can see now that Image Arithmetic is more like an effect than a way of combining images. I was able to use the Opacity setting as needed, and manipulate the order of layers to place one on top of another. With Blend effects, though, I had trouble getting them to anything useful. In fact, my experiments using different blend effects usually caused the layer to disappear totally whenever a Blend effect was chosen! The Autumn Leaves layer was the only one I could get the Blend effects to work on, and here I didn't like any of them.