Welcome to the Student Astronaut Project! This project is broken into three parts:

Part I: Your Face (Steps 02-08)
Part II: The Space Scene (Steps 09-17)
Part III: The Animation (Steps 18-20)

OK, let's get started! For Part I of our Photoshop work, we will be taking a photograph of you and using Photoshop to turn it into a full-color cartoon image. Along the way we will learn how to use a wide variety of Photoshop's tools.

That is, if you actually read and follow all of the directions!
Seriously, do not try to skip the text and just look at the pictures - a great deal of information is included in the text that is
not reflected in the pictures. This was done on purpose. To complete this project you must read and follow the directions.

We will use this cartoon version of our face in Part III of the project when we create the animation and make ourselves fly through space (I know, cool, huh?).

We need to begin by getting your picture saved into your student folder.

1. Your headshot picture should still be open from Step01 - if it is not open it now
2. Click File than click Save As...
   
3. In the File name box, name the file Face...
   
4. In the Format box click the drop-down arrow and change the setting to Photoshop (*.PSD, *.PDD) (this is the first option in the list)...
   
5. Go to your student folder on the server
6. Click Save

You may notice that your picture is rather large - this is a good thing. It is good practice to work with an image that is larger than you need. The tiny errors that inevitably occur will be easier to correct in the higher resolution, and those small ones that slip by you are less visible when you shrink the image down.

Notice that when we saved our image we used the .PSD format - this is important. This is the PhotoShop Document format and ensures that all layers and enhancements that we have applied are saved. A .PSD file has a height and width limit of 300,000 pixels and a size limit of 2 Gigabytes...so, yeah, you can make a pretty darn big image in Photoshop (and get this, there is a .PSB file type that allows you to create an image up to 4 Exabytes in size!). .PSD files can not only be edited by Photoshop, but can also be opened and edited using other Adobe software such as After Effects, Premiere, and Illustrator.