28/09/2007

Today I have learnt how to use more of the Photoshop tools and I have learnt some of the shortcuts that can be used in Photoshop.

We started the lesson by taking an image of a woman's face, this woman had grey hair, wrinkles, dis-coloured teeth and some skin defects, I have used a variety of the tools in Photoshop to remove the wrinkles, put some colour back into her hair, make her teeth appear more white and remove any skin defects.

I have used a variety of tools including:
Brush
Eyedropper
Healing Brush
Clone Tool
Polygon Tool
Layers
Guides
elyptacol marquee.

I learned a few shortcuts too:
Apple + R = Guides (Rulers)
Apple + 0 = Zoom out
Hold Space Bar = Hand tool while working
Apple + D = de-select

I felt that I did a good job on Photoshopping the image although I may have went a little too far with her hair, I feel that I could have spent more time using the airbrush tool on her hair in detail and the results could have been better. Altogether I feel that I have done a good job on this image.

21/09/2007 - Digital Graphics

Today I have been using digital cameras and I have taken a photo of somebody, loaded the photo into photoshop and began editting the image by cropping it. I have learnt a lot of essential Photoshop skills and shortcuts taht I didn't know before. I have learnt how to use the 'magic wand' tool and the 'lasso' tool to crop images.

I have also learnt that you can use the + and - keys on the keyboard to zoom in or out of an image while modifying it.

14/09/2007 - Digital Graphics

This week we covered the following:

• Unit Abstract - What is going to be covered in this unit
• Course Outcomes - What you are going to achieve at the end of this unit
• Grading Criteria - What is required to achieve a pass, meit and distinction
• Basic Mac Skills

1. Logging in anc changing password
2. Use on button mouse
3. Make and navigate new folders
4. Change desktop background
5. Locate applications and add to dock
6. Screen grab

• Research - images for posters