Lesson 8

Welcome to PHOTOSHOP

This lesson was an e-learning tutorial. I was introduced to Photoshop, which is somewhat similar to Illustrator. I watched many videos on the different functions of Photoshop and was introduced to a few new tools. These tools included the Marquee tool, Lasso and Magic Wand tool, Quick Selection tool and Pen Tool. Other than these tools, we also learnt other functions such as the Content Aware Scaling. It was a different experience for me as Photoshop deals with real life pictures and images, of people or objects, unlike Illustrator which deals with cartoon like images such as the dog sketch I did. 

Here are all the exercises to be done:

1. Layers: I changed the blending option of the godzilla and background to make it look cooler, as if the godzilla is firing up and wrecking destruction on the whole place. I also enlarged the godzilla to fit the whole image.

2. Marquee Tool: I dragged the rim out and made it as big as the whole tire itself.

3. Lasso & Magic Wand Tool: I used the Magic Wand Tool to select the white area, added the area between the men's legs, used the lass tool to add areas that have been left out, inverse selected and gave each man a colour. Now they are no longer just men. They are the Green Man and Red Man.

4. Quick Selection Tool: Quick Selected the woman and dragged her to the bottom. 

5. Pen Tool Selection: I used the Pen Tool to select out the pail and removed it from its number guidelines.

6. Content Aware Scaling: I followed the video given and lengthened the beach to the left side and also slightly to the right to give it a slight one-third rule kind of look.

These skills will be put more to use in the 10th lesson and will be covered more on then. 

Thank you.