Part 1: Organizing the photos

Step 1: 

  • Click on the yellow folder at the bottom of the computer screen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2: 

  • Click on Downloads Arrow

Step 3: 

  • Click the yellow folder at the top
    • This will create a New Fold
      • Name the folder ABC

Step 4:

  • Open the sd card with the photos you took for the ABC project
  • You will only want to select the photos you took for this project
    • Highlight all the photos you took for the ABC project
  • When they are all highlighted
    • Right click with your mouse
      • Select Copy

Step 5:

  • Return to the ABC folder you made
    • It’s in Downloads
  • Right click on the ABC folder
    • Paste the photos into the folder

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Part 2: Shrinking the Photos

 

Step 1:

  • Open Photoshop
  • Go to:
    • Files
      • Scrips
        • Image Processer

Step 2:
  • Section 1
    • Click  Select Folder  
      • Search for the ABC Folder
        • It should be in Downloads
    • Select the ABC folder

Step 3:
  • Section 2
    • Pick Save in Same Location

Step 4:
  • Section 3
    • Click
      • Save as JPEG
      • Resize to Fit
        • 400
        • 400
        • Quality  5
  • Ignore all the other sections below
  • Click Run

Step 5:

  • Stop and don’t freak out as Photoshop takes over shrinking all of your images
    • The photos will  pop up on your screen for a second and close again
  • When it is done running there will be nothing left on your screen
  • You will not need to do anything else with this section

Step 6:

  • When it’s time to put all the letters you will need to use the small images
  • You will find the small images in the ABC folder and in another folder named JPEG

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Part 3: Making the Graph

Step 1

  • Go to
    • File- New
  • Make your canvas size 10 Inches in width 10 Inches in height  
  • 200 resolution
  • Background Contents:  Black or white

     

Step 2:

  • Go to
    • View
      • Guides
        • New Guide Layout

Step 3:

  • Color pick Light Blue
  • In Columns
    • Number 5 px
    • Gutter 5 px
  • In Rows
    • Number 6
    • Gutter 5

 

Step 4:

  • Click on the box shape at the bottom left of tool bar
    • Fill can be any color of blue you would like
    • Stroke must have a white box with red line through it

Step 5a:

  • Zoom in closely on the First box in the upper left hand

Step 5b:

  • Draw a blue box so that it fits in the first square area perfectly
    • LEAVE the area of white around the box.
      • You will want to have white space between all the letters as you build the graph

Step 6:

  • Go to the Layers pallet
  • Double click where it says Rectangle 1
  • Rename it A

Step 7a:

  • Stay on Layer A
    • Click Control-J   (You have now made a copy of Layer A Box)
  • Select the Move Tool
    • Click on the first blue square you made
    • Move the duplicated square to the box on the Right

Step 7b:

  • Be sure you are leaving white space between the boxes.  This is why we made a graph with extra lines.

Step 8:

  • Go back to the Layers Pallet
    • Double Click on the Layer that says A copy
      • Rename it B

Step 9:

  • Stay on Layer B
  • Click Control-J
    • You will now have another blue square made
  • Select the Move Tool
    • Move the blue square to the next box on the graph to the right
  • Double Click on the Layer that says B copy
    • Rename it C

Step 10:

You will continue duplicating/adding squares in the remaining graph spots until you have letters  A-Y listed. 

Letter Z is explained below

 

Step 11:

  • When you get to the Letter Z
    • Create your last square in the middle of the last row (as shown below)
      • You will have 2 blank boxes before and after

Step 12:

  • STOP!  You will need to save your graph as a PSD file
    •  Name the file ABC Graph
    • Save the graph as a
      • PSD file

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Part 4: Inserting the A-Z

Step 1:

  • Go to the Layers Pallet
    • Make sure you are on Layer A
  • Go to File
    • Place Embedded

Step 2:

  • Go to
    • Downloads
      • ABC Folder
        • Double Click to open folder

Step 3:

  • You will see a yellow folder called JPEG
    • This is the folder where all the ABC shrunk images are
    • Pick the letter A
  • The Photo will appear in the middle of the page

Step 4:

  • Move the photo (Letter A) ontop of the first box

Step 5:

  • Right click on this layer
    • Create Clipping Mask
      • We will fix the photo to fit perfectly in the next step

Step 6:

  • Click
    • Control T
      • Hold Shift Key
        • Make the letter smaller to fit into the box
  • Click Enter when you are done

Step 7:

  • On the Layers Pallet, make sure you are on layer B

Step 8:

  • Go to
    • File
      • Place Embedded
  • From the Jpeg folder (the shrunk letters) pick the letter B
  • The Photo will appear in the middle of the page.

Step 9:

  • Move the photo (Letter B) ontop of the second box

Step 10:

  • Right click this layer
  • Pick Create Clipping Mask
  • Your photo will now be clipped inside of the box
  • (We will fix the photo to fit perfectly in the next step)

Step 11:

  • Click Control T
  • Hold the Shift Key and move/drag your letter smaller to get it to fit into the box
  • Click Enter when you are done

****Continue steps 1-6 with every letter until you have all letters listed A-Z****

Step 12:

  • When you have finished A-Z
  • Flatten Image
    • No Logo
  • Must do final step 13

Step 13:

YOU MUST DO THIS STEP:  EDIT
  • The final A-Z MUST BE EDITED
    • Open in Camera Raw
    • Do a quick edit to make all the letters look consistand in color/lighting.