Tennis Anyone?
Hi everyone.
I forgot to mention to your yesterday that I wouldn’t be here this morning… I have to attend a workshop for one of the other business classes I teach, so I won’t be in all day.
I’ve left a note for your substitute teacher, asking you to check this blog post (oh, and here you are! The system works!) Read on, I have a few suggestions for you to work on this lesson.
Basically I’d like you to continue to explore Photoshop and develop a feel for how to approach different image editing tasks. By now you’ve doctored up a few photos, and in that process learnt to work with layers, selected and cut images, resized using the transform tool, and you’ve worked with some of the other basic editing tools like eraser, magic wand and the move tool. Yesterday you looked at creating text, applying layer effects, rasterizing type into a graphic, applying filters and so on.
For today, take a look at this tutorial on making a tennis ball. You can try to make a ball like this yourself - it might seems a bit mundane, but it contains lots of useful Photoshop techniques! Don’t forget you can pause and rewind the video if you need to. Give it a go!
If you have any spare time, I recommend you take a look at the actual website for more free tutorials… http://www.good-tutorials.com/author/WatchAndLearnPhotoshop.com
It has a bunch of very interesting video lessons which show you step-by-step some of the “hidden secrets” of good Photoshop work. Worth watching, you’ll pick up lots of ideas, even if
some of them look a bit complicated just now.
Good luck. Have fun. Be good. 
