Photoshop Practice

As most of the class are unfamiliar with Photoshop, we starting to practice certain skills on the software.

To begin with we took a photo of a celebrity from Google using a specific search and opened this in Photoshop. This was followed by cutting out the celebrity from the image and placing it into a new A4 size image. I used the Magnetic Lasso tool; being beginner of Photoshop I felt that this would be the most effective way of cutting the image out without any noticeable errors. In addition to this, once the image was placed on the new A4 image, we used the text tool and inserted text over the image and then created a text box - adding a shadow effect to it and also adding effect to the celebrity by changing his opacity.

Practice 1...



In another lesson, we were given cameras and took photos of each other and imported one of the photos into Photoshop to do a similar task and to strengthen our skills on Photoshop. Similarly to the celebrity image, I used text over the image but added a shadow to the text and also added a shadow to the photograph, but the shadow was created by duplicating the image and changing the brightness/contrast levels.

Practice 2...