8th+Grade+Video+Intro


 * Making a vignette for 8th Grade Video**

Steps to completing this project include: 1. Bring in a baby picture from home that you would like to use for the 8th grade video 2. I will scan the picture and put in the 8th grade folder. 3. You will need to use Photoshop to get your 8th grade picture and a baby picture that you have scanned in the previous step on a single image and then save it. What you will have is you baby picture on the left and 8th grade picture on the right. 4. Pick on of the Vignette from the list of instruction below and follow the directions. 5. After you have completed the steps save the photo (You will go to File --> save for web and keep the .jpg ending in the folder on the server--> 8th grade folder -->8th grade Completed Vignette). 6. This picture that you created will be on the beginning of the 8th grade that will be shown during the 8th grade dinner and awards ceremony Along with other pictures that we will add to make it the best video yet!!!! 7. Everyone will be on the video at the beginning in alphabetical order so you WILL NEED TO GET THIS FINISHED!!! which is the circle tool under the dotted square! ||
 * **Creating a Photo Vignette:** ||
 * || =Step 1: Open an new 8 X 11 new Photoshop Document= ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:http://www.ogge.noacsc.org/8thweb/8th%20grade%20vignette_files/image004.jpg width="315" height="225" align="center"]] || Open up Each image that you want and move them onto the new document like image to the left. Baby picture on the left and 8th grade picture on the right. You will need to use the selection tool ( [[image:selection.jpg]] ) and select and move( [[image:move_tool.jpg]]) both pictures to a NEW file. ||  ||   ||
 * || **Step 2:** ||  ||   ||
 * || 1.  Open the photo that has both pictures of you as an 8th grader and baby picture. The new file size can be 8 x 10 inches, or 450 x 640 or so pixels. ||   ||   ||
 * || 1b. After you have both pictures the size and location you want them to be in you must go to Layer ---> Merge Visable so that both pictures are on one layer. If you do not do this Vignette will not work. ||  ||
 * || 2.  Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
 * || 3. Click and drag across the image to select the area of the photo you want to keep. ||
 * || 4 . Go to Select > Feather and enter a radius amount. A value between 20-50 works well. The higher the value, the softer the fade will be. ||
 * || 5.  Go to Select > Inverse. ||
 * || 6. If you want a background color other than white, black or gray, choose the color in the toolbox now. ||
 * || 7.  Go to Edit > Fill and select a color or pattern to fill in the background. After you have done this you might want to add a special border to your pictures if so look at 7a-7c. If you are happy skip to step #8. ||
 * [[image:http://www.ogge.noacsc.org/8thweb/8th%20grade%20vignette_files/image005.jpg width="100" height="120" align="center"]]

|| 7a. Filters, Anyone? You can use any filter to affect your mask. Experiment to find ones that will create a cool effect. Here we have a delightful family photo of a child enjoying his first birthday. Who wouldn't want to preserve this memory? (I've followed the steps above to create an oval vignette.) But this time let's try another filter. **Filter: Brush Strokes: Sprayed Strokes...** gives us this dialog:



I adjusted the sliders controlling the **Stroke Length** and **Stroke Radius** until I had the effect you see at left; then clicked **OK**. Now I've got a much more distinctive vignette. || Another There's really a ton of filters to try out. It's worth spending some time experimenting. Here I made another variation of the last image using the **Filter: Distort: Glass...**
 * [[image:http://www.ogge.noacsc.org/8thweb/8th%20grade%20vignette_files/image008.jpg width="180" height="216" align="center"]] || 7b.

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 * [[image:http://www.ogge.noacsc.org/8thweb/8th%20grade%20vignette_files/image010.jpg width="200" height="104" align="center"]] || 7c.  In this image I expanded a selection of my Corvette and applied the **Zig-Zag** filter.

Now you know most of the secrets of filters. There are many more just experiment! ||
 * || 8. Go to Select > Deselect. You also might want to crop you picture so that you get close in to your picture. Go the the dotted square... and select what you want to keep, then go to Image--> Crop and you will crop out all the extra black stuff. Then go to File --> Save for web and save the image as your Full Name in the 8th grade finished vignette folder on the server. Leave what ever extension on the end of the file name probably .jpeg this way it will go into video. ||  ||   ||