2) Upload your picture(s) to your blog and title it "Mosaic Before Photoshop". To do this:
a) log into your blog
b) create a new post
c) click on the "Add Image" Icon on the toolbar of your post window (it is up with the bold and italicized buttons - it looks like a photograph)
d) click the browse button and locate your picture files on the Q drive "Thawspace"
e) check the "I agree to terms" box
f) once your picture has uploaded, you will see a Done button, click on this
g) repeat these steps if you have multiple pictures
h) click publish
i) view your blog to ensure that the pictures uploaded correctly
3) Open Adobe Photoshop: Click Start> Programs> Adobe Master Suite Collection CS4> Photoshop
4) Once in Photoshop, click File> open and navigate to your picture file(s) on the Q drive "thawspace". IF you're pictures are saved in multiple files, see me.
5) Once you have your picture(s) open in Photoshop: On the right hand side, you will see a panel called layers.
*NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE BLUE BACKGROUND LAYER, CLICK ON THE "LAYERS TAB" AND IT WILL APPEAR.
6) Notice that there is only one layer (the background layer) and that it has a lock on it - this keeps the background from being transparent. We need the background to be transparent, so we have to unlock it - Double Click on the Lock.
A new Layer box opens. Notice that color (background color) is set to none, this is what allows us to remove the background color and make the layer transparent. Just click the OK button. Your one layer is now named "Layer 0" and it has no lock.
7) On the tools menu on the right side of the screen, choose from the following tools to select the part of the picture that you want to move to another layer:
a) Marque
b) Lasso
c) Magic Wand or Quick Select
*Right click on any of these tools to see variations of the tools.
*Which tool you choose is determined by what part of your picture that you want to choose and its proximity to other parts of the picture. The Magic Wand will work easily to choose the pieces of the face in the example here, but it may not work well in all situations.
8) Once you have selected the part of the picture that you want to cut onto a new layer, click Layer, New Layer Via Cut.
9) On the right side in the Layers Panel, you see that you have two layers, but the picture on the canvas still looks the same. Click on the eyeball next to each layer to see the layer with no eyeball disappear. You will also see that Layer 1 (your new layer) has the object that you cut with your Magic Wand and that the object is on a transparent layer.
Repeat steps 7 & 8 with each object in your layer 0. To do this, make sure that the Layer 0 is selected (colored blue) and that the eyeball is only showing on that layer. Repeat the steps of selecting an object with your magic wand, then click Layer>New>layer via cut. Each time you try to select and cut a new object from Layer 0, you will have to ensure that Layer 0 is selected and that the eyeball is on only that layer; otherwise you will get an error message.
10) Once you have each object on a separate transparent layer, ad one new layer from the layers menu. In the Layers Panel, drag this layer to the very bottom of the layers. On the tool bar, click on the square tool (gradient tool). Place your cursor in the top right corner of the canvas, click and drag all the way to the bottom left corner. Make sure that this layer is selected (blue) and is the only layer with an eyeball. On the right side of the screen, click on the Styles panel, which is the tab to the right of the colors panel. Choose a style. After you choose the style, there will be two or three new eyeballs below that layer and that the first one is called "effects". Double click each of these and a dialogue box will open. You should play around with all of the sliders, knobs and other choices that the dialogue box offers. Take note of the different words that you will see in the settings such as Bevel and Opacity.
If you create a style that you don't like, just click cancel and try something different.
.11) Select another of your layers and ensure that this is the only layer with an eyeball on it. Highlight one the shape with your magic wand and choose any filter from the filters menu. Most of the filters open dialogue boxes with sliders, dials and other mechanisms to play with. Again, you can click cancel and start over if you don't like what you did. You can also undo changes with the "step backward" command on the edit menu.
Once you have modified the object on each layer, click to add an eyeball to each layer.
12) To Rotate or flip an image: click Free Transform from the edit menu
NOTE: YOU WILL SAVE YOUR FILE TWO TIMES AS TWO DIFFERENT FILE TYPES, ONE TO UPLAD TO YOUR BLOG AND ONE TO USE FOR YOUR ANIMATION.
13) Now click File> Save as
Give the file a name and in the save as type drop down box, choose JPEG to save the file as a JPEG file type. If you do not have a flash drive to save it to, save it to the Q: drive "thaw space".
A dialogue box will open to ask you some questions. This box is giving you choices about optimization. You can choose the quality of the picture to be high, medium or low. The higher the quality that you choose, the better the picture will look but the file size will also be larger. A large file size is not a problem for viewers of your blog, because they likely have a fast connection.
14) Save the file as a PNG file type. Name the file "Photoshoped Mosaic" This is your layered version of your file that you need for your animation project. If you do not have a flash drive to save it to, save it to the Q: drive "thaw space".
15) Upload the jpeg version of the picture to your blog and call it your "Photoshoped Mosaic". To do this, see the directions back in step 2.
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