Scorched Silicon :: IT145 - Long Time No See

Wow long time no see. First class in 2 weeks and will end up being the only one for another 2 weeks since we have assessment day on the 2nd. I will do my best to have video tutorials on everything I went over but right now I'm fighting not having a voice. It holds out for only about 2 hours a day now. I am getting better but my throat is suffering a bit. Tonight I tired to jam pack in several items. I started the class by demonstrating the power of Adobe Bridge. You may not find it useful if you only deal with a few photos, however the more you gather the better it becomes especially since it will bulk modify pics very quickly. We also had a little tutorial on what FTP is. You should download Filezilla from the downloads section and use it up upload your photoshop pics to the web server. Remember the code to get your pictures to show up on my website is

If you added a directory to your ftp your code will look something like:
<img src="http://www.scorchedsilicon.com/users/username/dirname/pic.jpg">

We then took the time to sign up for an account on my website. Remember your user name on the site does not equal your user name for the ftp service. I had to set up the ftp ahead of time and used your first and last names as the user name (no spaces) and your S number for the password. Whatever account you created will only allow you to post the pics to the photoshop contests.

The tools that I used this evening were: the type tools, the horizontal and vertical type mask tools, free transform with warp, clone stamp, spot healing, healing brush, patch tool, and I also showed off using layers and the blending options so you can create drop shadows and such.

The homework is as follows: (1) Text Mask Logo as demonstrated in class (make it a little spiffier then I did) (1) Fix-a-Pic - I don't care what picture you fix but use the tools shown and include the original so I can compare how you did. (1) Free transform a photo and superimpose it onto a jumbotron/tv/anything you want (1) Remove graffiti from a wall (pics included if you can't find any) (3) Photoshop contests listed.