Online Quiz exercises

The final piece of assessment for ACM202 is an online quiz that includes multiple selection questions about:

• how to interpret histograms,
• the impact of various curves adjustments,

and practical exercises in:

• the adjustment of pixel dimensions,
• assigning colourspace,
• use of layer masks
• and selecting pixels/hair.

Useful readings:

Evening, M 2010,  Adobe Photoshop CS5 for photographers

See Chapter 5: Image Editing Essentials for revision on Histograms and curves adjustments and Chapter 9: Layers, Selections & Masking

With regards to selecting a figure/hair from a background, you may also want to review the video tutorials by Martin Evening:

• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Hair Masking on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJRkbkHAa4
• Colour Range Masking in Photoshop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P01jzkcGuMA

(If the links play up, you can google for these on youtube. They are published by http://www.youtube.com/user/FocalOnline)

These are my exercises:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am not very happy with the first one but I think the second one looks a bit better as in more natural: