Monday, 3 December 2012

Photoshop Functions




In the class, we were asked to follow a tutorial to be able to create the image that is shown beneath. The tutorial thought about new skills and functions that most of us had never used before. What I found useful in this tutorial was the fact that the method was very easy to follow. Whilst I was going through the tutorial I thought that it wasn't as hard to achieve the desired settings. However, when I had to do adjustments to the curves and the way I placed the images, it was very hard to achieve the exact same result as in the video, so it was very frustrating at times. I believe that I was able to do pretty much everything without any problem.

Some areas that I could bring into my personal project may be the use of the blending effect to merge two photos together with ease, as well as using the curves function to apply different tones into the image and so therefore making it seem calm and peaceful. Other functions that I learnt to use in this tutorial that I found very useful were the ones of altering the Brightness and Contrast as well as Hue and Saturation which I had already seen before. All of the functions mentioned will help me in my project to make it surrealist but not really insane or out of my mind. 

Sunday, 18 November 2012

Masks and Channels

1. What is the benefit of using a quick mask?

2. What happens to a quick mask when you deselect it?

3. When you save a selection as a mask, where is the mask stored?

4. How can you edit a mask in a channel once you've saved it?

5. How do channels differ from layers?



1. The benefit of using a quick mask is that you can paint the image black or white, so you can view specific parts by hiding masks and deleting unwanted parts.

2.When the quick mask is deselected, it disappears.

3. When you save a selection as a mask, the mask is stored in a channel.

4.You can edit a mask in a channel once you have saved it by changing its colour to black white or grey.

5. Channels differ from layers because layers are used to separate parts of an image, whilst channels are used to store saved selections.