"PHOTOSHOP YOUR LIFE. TOUCH UP THE EDGES, ADJUST THE TONES, BLUR OUT THE BACKGROUND, FOCUS ON YOURSELF, AND CROP PEOPLE OUT!"
Photoshop has to be my favorite program to use. The reason why I say that is because there is so much to this program and what you can do. Photoshop is a pixel/raster based program. Therefore, this is why it is important to know the size dimension you need and the DPI of the document before you start creating. Having this program be pixel based, it has taught me that you can’t just place an image into Photoshop because some images can become very pixelated when you try to enlarge it. For example, if you place an image that has 300 DPI, you have to divide it by two. Some work I have done in Photoshop was creating three Christmas buttons to sell.
More Photoshop edits
School-Holiday-Test Button Designs
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I am most proud of this piece of work which I created in Photoshop. I worked on this creation for a few hours just playing around with the different elements and tools, like the Burn and Dodge tool, Quick Selection brush, Elliptical Marquee (just a circle outline), and the Enhancing color option. I began first by cropping an image of my eye out into an 8.5 by 11 document and then cleaned up my eye. I use a heal tool to soften my skin around the eye; I also used the burn and clone tool to add a more dramatic look to my eye brow and eyeliner. Once I was satisfied with the way it looked, I searched for a galaxy picture to use inside my eye. I also wanted to do something a little more unique to it so I used the burn and smudge tool to drag the line down my eye and make it in the shape of a dragon/cat eye. The last thing I did was enhance the picture so the colors would pop out more and darken around my eye (used the vintage effect).
In Photoshop I have mostly worked with designing buttons for my school and holidays. Learning how to create a button was the first thing I was taught to do when I joined this class in late October-early November. Here I learned how to mask images, use the heal/clone tool, and move them over to a new templet and begin designing. I was taught that you can’t go outside the text/image layer otherwise the actual design will runoff the button. That is why we have a bigger layer under called the bleed layer.
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