Upcoming Art Due Dates and the Sunlight and Spotlight Instrucions

Hey everyone! some quick art reminders: sunlight and spotlight is due on Friday 11/30/07, the day after the 6th anniversary of George Harrison's death date :-( RIP
The kaleidoscope picture is due 12/7/07, the 66th anniversary of pearl harbor. pearl harbor was also sad. many ppl died. RIP :-(

Here are the instructions for the Sunlight and Spotlight (remember, it is just 1 picture)

Focusing A Spotlight

Preparation

Adding a spotlight effect to an interior is accomplished by selecting what will be affected in the scene and then choosing a soft, roughly circular area for brightening.

1. Open spotlight_start.jpg, check for size and resolution and save as a different name.

Creating the spotlight

An approximately circular selection is drawn over the center of the cross; this will be the area the describes the spotlighting effect. The selection is softened appropriately depending on how focused the spotlight will be.

1. Duplicate the background layer and work on the copy.

2. Get a feathered lasso (this example uses a feather of 175 px) and draw a rough circle around the area that you want to spotlight. Save the selection.

3. Use Image>Adjustments>Brightness & Contrast to raise the brightness of the selected area high enough to create the desired effect.

4. For a more intense impression of spotlighting, the surroundings are darkened by reversing the selection and reducing the contrast and brightness.


Hope that helps. I'm not putting the images on here cause i forgot how to take screen shots so i can't put the images from the document onto this post. Hope you dig it. Don't forget to turn it in and also she's grading everything up to 10/26/07 tomorrow so CORRECT YOUR PICTURES! Don't forget: 10 by 7.5 in 300 resolution!

Peace and love,
Ellie