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4	Art Concepts: Opaqueness Translucent Blending Fading Composition
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6	Opening When we created digital tattoos on the computer, we learned the art concepts of opaque and translucent. In this exercise, we used the opacity bar to make a tattoo translucent on human skin. The top layer contained an image of a transparent tattoo and the bottom layer contained an image of human skin. Today, we are going to apply our knowledge of transparency and opaqueness in order to design a digital CD cover of the lyric that we downloaded from the internet. Instead of making the entire image translucent, we are going to learn how to select specific areas of an image that we want to be opaque and translucent. By creating a layer mask, I am going to demonstrate how to blend two images. Unlike the opacity bar, this tool allows the designer to control which parts of the image will be opaque and translucent. As graphic designers, we will learn how the overall meaning of our song relates to the composition that was created by a layer mask.
7	Digital Skills An 8-bit channel that has a white or black as its background. The white areas of the channel are to be seen and the black areas are to be hidden. A layer mask can temporarily hide pixels on a layer so that the graphic designer can experiment with different compositions. A layer mask can be applied to the image on that layer so that the composition can not be changed.
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9	Step 1: Download or select two images from Ms. Bermack’s class folders that represented the content or meaning of the song lyrics that you downloaded from the internet.
10	"Open these two images in..." Open these two images in Adobe Photoshop from the Cd cover images folder. Decide which image you would like on top of the other in order to blend them together. Locate the move tool on your tool bar. We are going to use the move tool to copy and paste an image to a different file.
11	"Utilizing the move tool" Utilizing the move tool, you can move one image to another file. If you open up your layers palette, notice that the top layer contains the image that was moved from the other file.
12	Step 4 Close all files, except the one that has two different images in one file. The layer mask icon is the box next to the F icon on the bottom of your layers palette. Locate the layer mask icon on your layers palette.
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