Project 2: Paint a Picture
Today's assignment is easy: Paint a picture of a house on a sunny day with two trees.
Your picture will be painted in PHOTOSHOP using the BRUSH tool and the COLOR PICKER. In addition to painting the house you will learn how to create a new document and what the settings on the NEW DOCUMENT screen look like.
Photoshop Instructions
STEP 1: LOG INTO CREATIVE CLOUD
From the START menu, search or locate PHOTOSHOP. You will need to log in. Selecte MORE LOGIN OPTIONS. Select LOG IN WITH MICROSOFT. Select the option that says "PXU Digital Photo". Follow the on-screen instructions.
Click on the icon.
STEP 3: NEW FILE
Click on the FILE menu and click on NEW...
This window will appear:
Fill out the window EXACTLY as you see here. Pay attention to the pull-down menu next to the numbers 8 and 10. Yours will say pixels, but select INCHES.
STEP 4: PAINT
You will have a document that you can start painting. Now, mine already has the beginning of a house.
To make this I needed to use a couple of tools. The first is the brush.
BRUSH
The brush tool is inn the palette on the right side of the screen. The brush tool lets you paint a color selected from the COLOR PICKER.
To change settings for the BRUSH (like SIZE) click on the ARROW next to the number at the top of the TOOLBAR.
COLOR PICKER
To select a different color for your picture, select the black box over the white box on the pallet
Drag the slider to the RIGHT of the large square around to change the HUE and click on the square to PICK another color.
ERASE
If you make a mistake you can ERASE using the ERASER tool on the pallet.
