I think throughout the year I have done a good job on reflecting on my blog and creating however my designing wasn't always up to scratch. To improve next year i need to look at a variety of software for my planning and then after looking at them, I should choose the one i prefer. :)
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Learning about Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
Learning about Adobe
Photoshop CS5.1
1.
Move Tool (V) – use this tool to move things. Usually you use it to
move a Layer around after it has been placed. Hold the [Shift] key to limit the
movements to vertical or horizontal.
2.
Rectangular
Marquee Tool (M) – use this tool
to make selections on your image in a rectangular or square shape. You can
therefore move the shape around in order to place it in the order or your
choice. Holding the [Shift] key while dragging your selection, restricts the
shape to a perfect square. Holding the [Alt] key while dragging sets the center
of the rectangle to where your cursor started.
3.
Lasso Tool (L) – Use this to select images in any shape you like
edit it or crop it. To close the selection, either click on the beginning point
(you’ll see the cursor change when you’re on it), or just double-click. When
holding the [Ctrl] key, you’ll see the cursor change, and the next time you
click, it will close your selection.
4.
Quick Selection
Tool (W) – It is related to pen
tool. You can select any shape or object easily.
5.
Crop Tool (C) - The difference is when you press the [Enter/Return]
key, it crops your image to the size of the box. Any information that was on
the outside of the box is now gone. Not permanently, you can still undo.
6.
Eyedropper Tool
(I) - This tool works by
changing your foreground color to whatever color you click on. Holding the
[Alt] key will change your background color.
7.
Spot Healing
Brush Tool (J) – It is a mildy
advanced tool which is used to repair scratches and specs in order to perfect
the image to make it look even better. You choose your cursor size, then
holding the [Alt] key, you select a nice/clean area of your image. Let go of
the [Alt] key and paint over the bad area. It basically copies the info from
the first area to the second, in the form of the Brush tool. Only, at the end,
it averages the information, so it blends.
8.
Brush Tool (B) – It is the basic tool that Photoshop was once based
on. It is pretty simple. It paints one your image, in whatever color you have
selected, and whatever size you have selected.
9.
Clone Stamp Tool
(S) – This is very similar
to Healing Brush Tool except it doesn’t blend colours at the end of the
process.
10. History Brush Tool (Y) – This tool is just like the Brush Tool except the
information that it paints with it is from the original state of your image.
Investigation
a)
What is a
Collage?
A collage is a
collection of pictures been put together to form another picture, sculpture or
painting.
b)
What are they
used for?
A collage is used to
create sculptures or another picture that sends a message across depending on
the topic at hand to specific audience.
c)
What do they
look like?
They sometimes look
neat when shaping the pictures into another object like the main subjects in
the pictures that is created to make the collage. At times, collages look a
little messy but that’s the point! It expresses ones good side as well as bad.
And when expressing ones good side or a happy topic, it should be fun and look
effortless.
d)
How can you
effectively portray the underlying theme of the environmental element or any
other theme to an audience?
Well when trying to
send a message out through pictures, you should use pictures that are related
to the topic so that people understand it. Then by adding text and shaping the
picture to the main topic or theme, the “social” message is sent more clearly
and the audience understands more.
e)
How is a collage
useful?
A collage is useful
when portraying a theme to a specific audience, it is an organized scrapbook
for a person and is a great way of sharing moments as well as important events
with different audiences.
4) Bibliography – I got
my answers with the help of my parents, family friends as well as the Internet
in order to check for factual information.
5) Evaluation of
Sources – My sources are listed below:
·
Parents
·
Family Friends
I think that my
resources are reliable because for my parents and family friends, I trust them
because they are older and some work in the design and marketing industries
making it easy for them to help. As for the Internet sources, they are updated
and have good information with appropriate vocabulary therefore using them.
Reflection on Divergent Collage
My Collage was a good practice for me to practice using Adobe Photoshop CS5.2
It was challenging yet fun to find different pictures. I loved choosing and editing pictures from my favorite book because are so very true and are very wise.
It was challenging yet fun to find different pictures. I loved choosing and editing pictures from my favorite book because are so very true and are very wise.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Photoshop Collage Reflection
My topic, which is quotes from the best time sellers books, on the area of interaction my topic relates to readers with the love of adventure, reality, love and revolutions. The books i choose give meaning to the readers, they show what reality is and they show how you overcome it. They show struggles and they show bravery in which alot of us lack in. It gives up hope and encouragement for a better world, reminding us how to act towards a situation which we do not approve, and it shows us that with unity and hope we can conquer anything.
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