Over the past few days we have been learning about the basic functions of Photoshop. For the A2 year, we will be using photoshop to create our digipack which will count for a substantial part of our grade. It is mainly used for manipulating, creating and layer pictures to create the final image that we want, in our case a album cover digipack. The way we have been taught how to use Photoshop is skill rather than a program. In my opinion, the reason why we are taught that is because we are going to be using it as a creative tool therefore it is a skill. Also like every other skill it is going it grow and develop over time.
The basic things that we learnt about were the different tools, layers, transforming
<----- The tool bar on the side of the program enables the user to change between the different tools when editing a picture. For example the move tool means you can drag pictures around. The lasso tool helps you to select things from images which is helpful when moving parts of an image on to another image. There is also the clone stamp tool which I found very useful, it means that you can take parts of the picture that you drag your cursor over and clone it somewhere else on to the image. It is useful when colouring in bits and filling up gaps.
The layers function is another thing that we learnt about, it helps us to separate the different images, text and anything that the user puts on to the program. ---->
Before making something on photoshop, you should plan it out on paper first, this gives you a draft of the idea that you want and then you can create it electronically and also develop your idea as you go along.
Tip: remember to always check layering when you are stuck as it is mostly likely the problem.
Tip 2: check that you're not in scale mode when trying to edit other things
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