Jazmine Jazzy's Lesson #3
Teacher: Daisie

April, 2005


In this lesson you will need the font:
Ernest
In this lesson you will need the girl, and 4 backgrounds, save them all.

Bg 1 Bg 2
Bg 3 Bg 4

1. Open your files and increase their colors to 16 mill. (Colors > Increase 16mill).
2. Take The Female, Go To Effects Then To
Enhance Photo / Automatic Contrast Enhancement Your Settings Are :
Bias Darker. | Strength : Mild | Appearance :Bold. | Hit Ok .

3. Now We Will Use Bg#1 Copy And Paste it On top Of Her As a New Layer. Go To your Layer Pallete and click on Layer 1 and change from the drop down box from Normal to Screen you will see most of her showing through the background.

Go to your Eraser Tool, your settings are:
round size 23 | hardness 0 | opacity 25 | step 50 | density 100
Remove most of bkg off her hair, face and neck.

4. Now select bg2, copy and paste it onto your image As a new Layer, and repeat the same steps we did on step 3, which are:
Change the Blend mode from Normal to Screen, then Erase most of the bkg from her face, hair and most of her body .

5. Now select bg3, copy and paste it onto your image As a new Layer, go to your Layer pallet and this time change the blend mode from Normal to Color and then Erase the color from her hair and face .

6. With bg4 do the same paste on to image go to layer pallete and use screen once again Erase all the white off her face, hair and body, then merge your layers ( Layers > Merge > Merge All )

7. Go to your layer pallete, right click on your Background layer and duplicate
Go to effects./enhance photo and automatic saturation enhancement your settings are:
bias: more colorful | strength: normal | hit ok

Go to your layer pallete, and change the blend mode from Normal to Softlight, then merge your layers.

8. Duplicate your layer once again, this time to give her a little more soft effect go to effects / blur / gaussian blur Settings are
radius 3.00 | hit ok

Go to layer pallete and change your Normal to Screen once again .

Erase and bring out her eyes , hair, lips and some of the bkg drop the eraser size to about 5 for the lips and eyes Merge layers.

9. Now for last step add text Add a new layer
Font ernest | size 9 | color is #a16b47 | kerning 900 | leading 0 | stroke off
Place text under the girl
Add your own designs and viola your done

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