Photo Manipulation

Hello again Photographers.
Welcome back from Break.
Today you'll be taking photos that has that "ONE THING" your eye is instantly drawn to in the photo. Once you've found these photos in iPhoto you will be importing them and converting them into a painting.
You will take your 3 images and import them into Photoshop CS3 and follow the steps below.
1. Select the "ONE THING" in your first photo with a Selection Tool and then Choose "Select", "Inverse".
2. Holding down the 'Alt' Key on your keyboard, drag the 'Background Layer' over the 'Create New Layer' button on the lower right hand side of your Layers Palette, just to the left of the 'Trash Can' icon.
3. This will create a new layer that you will name 'Art History'.
4. Go to 'File' and 'Save' your project.
5. Now make sure that your 'Art History' layer is selected.
6. Go to your tool box and select the History Brush and hold down your mouse key over this button. This will prompt a drop down menu that you reveal the Art History Tool Brush. Select this tool.
7. Now at the top of the screen on the Menu Bar select 'Style' and choose 'Loose Medium' from the drop down menu.
8. This will simulate a paint brush that will cause your image to transform as you drag your mouse over the image with the mouse button held down.
9. Choose any of the different Brush size from the Menu Bar to determine how big your brush size is.
10. Click and drag over the whole image and turn it into a painting.
11. Use 'Step Backward' from your 'Edit' menu and try different brush sizes and types.
12. When you find a look that you like Save it your project again.
13. Now go up to 'Filter' and scroll down to 'Texture' and then 'Texturizer' from the drop down menu.
14. This will prompt a window from which you can create a canvas look to your painted image.
15. Play around with the different types of canvas options you can choose from until you find one you like.
16. Click 'Okay'.
18. Save this project as a JPEG with a quality of 10.
19. You will be turning in all 3 converted images by the end of next class period so get as much done today as you can.
20. Name all 3 photos using the following naming convention '5_ballewm_photopainting1', '2', and '3'.
Have fun!