I first started Photoshop back in school, but with no real objective to what I was doing I got easily distracted with other things, so I didn’t really start to learn until college when I did my national diploma in graphic design, there I learned various skills with the software and now know how to use it to its full potential. From various things such as masking, quick masking, filters, cropping, clone stamping, spot healing, magic wanding, quick selecting, magnetic lasso tool, colour levels such as HUE , CMYK and RGB can also be edited in any image.
Z- thread experiment (picture to be inserted at a later date)
I used Photoshop in this piece to a very minimalist level because I was rather happy with the photograph I had taken and only did slight changes that include:
· Sharpening of the image, this is a very simple thing to do all I did was went to filters at the top of the screen then selected sharpen, you will then be presented with a window and from this you can mess around with different levels of sharpness until you get your desired effect.
· Cropping an image in Photoshop is possibly the most simple thing you can do. It consists of selecting the crop tool then it’s a matter of clicking and dragging until you have the select area you wish to crop, don’t worry if you don’t get it first time you can drag the anchors at the edge of the selected box.
Photoshop is a great piece of software to edit photographs and images in, its not the greatest for typography as in when you start to resize it because it gets stretched, distorted and pixelated really easily, so I find it best when adding type to a image move it over to Indesign and add the type to a permanent placement, but making sure it is saved under a different file name just in case you may want to change it.
Mario photomontage
For this I did a project on a game, and I chose to use the iconic Mario. It is a game that was big hit to the world of gaming. It is now a classic and one of the all time greatest games. So I chose to do the photomontage of all the characters from the games series. First I chose a suitable back drop (clouds in the sky) then I cropped the image to size using the crop tool and then messed with the colour levels to brighten the blue of the sky and that was all for the background.
Magic want tool was a vital aspect of this project as I used it to cut out all the characters from there original background, all you do is select the magic wand tool select the area of solid colour that you don’t want around the character and deleted them. Providing I had rasterised the layer previously ( to raserise a later right click then select raserise.
I would like to improve some more in illustrator making vector graphics with the pen tool and messing with anchor points and then moving it over to Photoshop to tweak with the colour.
