Term Two: Using PhotoShop to Doctor Photos

Lessons on how to use PhotoShop to doctor photos:

Lesson One: Some Tips From the Hoax Photo Archive Website

Techniques of Photo Fakery

There are six basic techniques of faking a photo:

1: Inserting details. This includes placing an element from one photo into another to create a composite image, reproducing a detail of the photo by cloning it, superimposing an image onto another, or drawing-in details.

2: Deleting details. This is usually done by extending background elements over the unwanted detail. Or one can crop out the unwanted detail.

3: Manipulating elements within the photo. For instance, adjusting the color, resizing details, or rotating or moving details.

4: falsifying the caption.

5: Staging the scene. This is considered fakery particularly in photojournalism. Varieties of staging a scene include using models and cutouts and inserting a prop into the scene.

6: Taking a photo at a trick angle. The most common example of this is the use of forced perspective.

Lesson Two: Using Some of the Tools in PhotoShop



Lesson Three: The Power of Layers and Adding More Images

Choose Lesson 7 from the Tutorials Listed

5. Adding more images to your picture

6. Adding TEXT to your Picture

RESOURCES:

Atomic Learning has video tutorials. (username: ppsb and password: atomic)

Also YouTube and TeacherTube have video tutorials as well.

Adobe instructional website is also useful.