Lesson 12

Photoshop level up!

So in a blink of the eye, a whole term has gone by and I find myself at the end of week 6. Throughout these 6 weeks, I have learnt many valuable skills in Graphic Design. In this lesson, we learnt and practiced more on photoshop. 

Here I have a man scratching his butt. I did this using Puppet Warp which allowed me to twist and turn the image to whatever position I want.

Here is another example of the Puppet Warp, the fabulous Statue of Liberty leaning to one side as if drunk. 

Here is my product on one of the exercises we had to do. I took 3 images from Google, one of Spider Man, one of Iron Man, and one of the Avengers' symbol. I then removed the superheroes from their background using the Magic Wand tool and Lasso tool and placed them in this picture. I then re-scaled their size using free transform. After that, I changed the opacity and brightness/contrast of each superhero to make them fit in nicely with the background. This poster shows Spider Man, who isn't part of the Avengers movie getting chased away by Iron Man. Poor Spidie, excluded from the group of superhero friends in the Avengers.

The last exercise we had to do is to make a replica of any of the posters we were given. I chose the hamster one as I found it quite cool. This was the hardest exercise on Photoshop I have ever done and I stumbled a few times in the process, not knowing how to carry out some instructions. I had to install a font, make the text into an arc and changed the gradient of the colour. That's the part where I had the most difficulty. However, after some time, I managed to work it out and got the end product, feeling quite accomplished after a long lesson at work on Photoshop.

This is it for this entry, signing off for the last time this term. Thank you.