Lab 4 Reflection

In this lab, I worked with selections to put together objects to make a humanoid face/melon head. I also used the magic wand, marquee, lasso, and move tools to make a humanoid face possible in  Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. First up in this lab, I opened the program Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Next I had reset Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 to its default settings. After that I downloaded the LB2 Base.jpg to get the objects for the melon head. Afterwards I gone to file and placed embedded to place the LB2 Base.jpg onto Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Then I clicked the rectangular marquee tool in the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 toolbox. I dragged my mouse from the top left to the bottom right corner of the melon to create a rectangular selection. I right clicked the melon with the rectangular selection still surrounding it to click layer via copy and make a new layer. Afterwards I moved onto the blueberry and clicked on the zoom tool from the toolbox. I clicked twice on the blueberry to zoom into a 300% view. Therefore I clicked on the rectangular marquee tool and selected the elliptical marquee tool on its tab. I moved my mouse pointer to the blueberry and dragged it from the top left to the bottom right edge of the blueberry diagonally to create a selection. I let go off my mouse button and right clicked on the blueberry to select layer via copy to make a new layer. I zoomed out two times by doing command minus on the Macintosh computer or if you are using a Windows computer, control minus.  Thereafter I did the same thing with the carrot slice and kiwi to make new layers. I next selected the magic wand tool from the toolbox and clicked on the pear tomato. Most of the pear tomato was selected. I held down shift and clicked on the remaining areas of the pear tool that weren't selected. After that I right clicked on the pear tomato to layer via copy and created a new layer. I gone to the next object which is the macaroni bow-tie. I left clicked on the zoom tool on the toolbox and clicked twice on the bow-tie on to enlarge its view to 300%. Afterwards I clicked on the lasso tool from the toolbox. I began at the top left hand corner of the bow-tie pasta, dragged my mouse pointer to the right to create a freehand outline across the curves at the top of the bow-tie. I continued to hold my mouse held down the Option button on the Macintosh computer to select the rest of the macaroni bow-tie. I let go of my mouse button and clicked on selected areas to make the outline. Once I was done with the selection, I released the Option  button and the mouse. I right clicked on the macaroni bow tie to select layer via copy to make a new layer for the macaroni bow tie. After that I selected the lasso tool and dragged a rough outline around the mushroom for most of its entirety. Next I held down shift which showed a plus sign on the lasso tool. I dragged the mouse around the remaining area of the mushroom while holding shift. I let go of shift and the mouse to combine the two selections into one. I held down options which showed a minus sign on the lasso tool. I I clicked and held down the mouse button to remove the unwanted areas of the selection. I then released the option and mouse button. I right clicked on the mushroom to layer via copy and created a new layer. Afterwards I used the magnetic lasso tool to select the red flesh of the grapefruit. I did this by moving and holding the mouse pointer around the red flesh of the grapefruit. Once I did this, I right clicked on the grapefruit red flesh to layer via copy and made a new layer. I gone to the radishes to select the rectangular marquee tool. I held down my mouse and dragged it from the top left to the bottom right of the radish. Once the radish is selected, I selected the magic wand tool. I held down the option button which made the magic wand have a minus sign appear. I clicked on the blank area that was outside the radish which made a selection only for the radish with no empty space. I right clicked on the radish to layer via copy and made a new layer. After that I duplicated the layers of the blueberry, carrot, radish, and red flesh of the grapefruit to have 2 of each object in total. I clicked on layer to have a new blank white layer selected as the background. I deleted the old background LB2 Base.jpg so that the new background is in place. I used the move tool from the toolbox and dragged the blueberries onto the middle of the carrot slices so that it looked like eyes. I right clicked on the layers and merged them down to have to blueberries and carrot slices as on whole layer.  I clicked on the grapefruit flesh layers to change the angle of them by clicking on image adjustments and rotate image. I rotated them 90 degrees to have the grapefruit red flesh layers be in the shape of ears and flipped one grapefruit red flesh vertically to have on on right and left ears. I moved the slices onto the sides of the melon and merged those layers together. I clicked on one radish layer and flipped it vertically like the red flesh of grapefruit. I placed the blueberry carrot eyes on the melon and placed the radishes above the blueberry carrot eyes to make them look like eyebrows. I merged layers with the melon, blueberry carrot eyes, radishes, and the red fleshes of the grapefruit. I placed the mushroom on top of the melon by using the move tool and dragging the mushroom on top of the melon to make the mushroom look like a hat. I merged the mushroom with the soon to become melon face. Next I used the move tool and dragged the pear tomato in the middle of the melon, kiwi under the pear tomato, and the macaroni bow tie under the kiwi. I merged all those layers together to create on whole layer that looks like a fruit face. Lastly I selected the crop tool from the toolbox in the marquee tool tab and dragged the mouse pointer from the top left to the bottom right corner. I then clicked inside the melon face and used the move tool to drag the melon to the middle. I pressed enter to finalize the selections. I clicked File and Save to complete the lab!

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