Flying Donut Sprinkles

Donut Floating

Camera Settings:

• Low F/stop and a Fast shutter speed for this photo
  • Set Camera to Manual Mode
    • Set your Aperture to F/1.8 – F/5.6
      • Set your ISO according to your light or keep on auto
        • Change your shutter speed for a fast shutter and proper exposure

Photography Section:

**************You will need 2 other people to help you take this photo***********************

• 1 person holds the donut on the string close to your camera
  • 1 person is farther away with their hand out as if they are throwing the donut

• The photographer will zoom in on the donut but make sure you can still see the person behind
  • Focus on the donut
  • Person blurred in background

• Person holding the donut will start to drop the sprinkles
  • Do not drop the sprinkles all at once
    • Take photograph as sprinkles fall

Photoshop Section:

We will be editing out the string and adding more sprinkles in steps 2-7

Step 1

• Edit the photo in Camera Raw to fix colors/exposure/etc

Step 2

• Open back into Photoshop when done fixing colors/exposure
  • Zoom in on the donut area with the string showing

Step 3

• Select the Lasso Tool
  • Draw around the string as close as you can

Step 4

• Click Backspace
  • Contents:  Content-Aware
    • Blending
      • Mode: Normal
        • Opacity: 100%
          • Click OK
• Most of the string will now be gone

Step 5

• Any thing left that looks off remove with the Cloan Stamp Tool
  • Click and hold the ALT Key and Mouse
    • to select the area to copy
      • Click over the area you would like to remove
        • Repeat to remove all the string

Step 6

• If you would like to have more sprinkles around the donut
  • Quick Select around a sprinkle

Step 7

• Click Control  J
  • This will make a copy of the selected area in a new layer

Step 8

• Select the move tool
  • Move the sprinkles to another part of the photo
    • Lower the opacity if it looks fake
      • Repeat steps 6-8 for more sprinkles