Photoshop Lesson

Photoshop Lesson

The lesson today was learning how to use Photoshop. We learned how too change the background to another and crop pictures. We also learned how to highlight a certain thing on the picture for example, making the whole picture black and white leaving just the lips in colour.

Fist off, i had to open photoshop and create a new file. A pop up appears when clicked, the pop up is asking me which format i would like my paper shown on Photoshop.  The default format is called 'Default Photoshop Size'.

however, there was a couple of formats to choose from but today we had chosen 'International Paper' as we are currently making our own magazines.

When we had Photoshop up and running then we had to import our picture in to the 'International Paper', to do this we had to go to file and click 'Place' then we could import our picture.                                                                              

I had to take away the white background and leave green day still in the picture the first thing i had to do is use something called the 'Magic Wand' tool, this allows me to remove the white background nice and easy.





    This is the Magic Wand tool that i had to use to remove the white background.     

On this i had to make the womens face more clearer and fix the 'Bad skin', as you can see on the second picture slighty  the 2/3 spots on her head have now gone an the lighting on her head and nose. The tool brush i used to create the effect of her face looking better is called the  'Spot Healing Brush Tool' and 'Healing Brush Tool'. Most advert companies and modeling agencys will use this tool to make their models and actors to look good.

I thought this would be good in a magazine front cover becsause it higlights certain things to attract the targeted audiences and make them aware that thats the important thing within the magazine!