Category Archives: skills
Knowing Your Work Area
This was lesson one in Photoshop, it was all about trying to get comfortable and understanding the program. Opening data files and learning the tools in the program was the big thing with this chapter as some of us in … Continue reading
Working with Selections
In this lesson our class learned how to work with different kinds of selections. We learned how to different kinds of selecting objects and deselecting them as well. As a class to follow the lesson we made a Shadowbox Collage … Continue reading
Basics on Layers
The week in class we learned how to organize artwork on layers, and the basics on layers. During the lesson we learned a lot of the skills needed to create an image with several layers over top. We made a … Continue reading
The Movie Poster
This week in class we learned about Advanced Compositing in Photoshop. Overview of the lessons taught/What I learned how to do this week: Apply and edit smart filters. Use the Liquify filter to distort an image Apply color effects to … Continue reading
Typographic Design
This week in Photoshop we learned more about photo editing for a magazine. These are the skills we learned: Make a clipping mask from type Use guides to position text in a composition Merge type with other layers. Preview fonts … Continue reading
Masks & Channels
This week in Photoshop we learned about photo editing for a magazine. These are the skills we learned Creating a mask to remove an image from a background Manipulate an image using puppet warp Create a quick mask Edit Mask … Continue reading
Quick Fixes
We have been in class for seven weeks now and this what we have done in class: Learned how to: Remove red eye Brighten an image Adjust facial features Combine images into a panorama Crop and straighten an image and … Continue reading
Birthday Invitation
We have been in class for three weeks now and this what we have done in class: Got our URLs, set up WordPress and began to use Photoshop. This is the image that we worked on together: