PhotoShop

Whilst using Photoshop, I used lots of tools to manipulate the image and create it into something different from what it was previously. Firstly, I started with using the Lasso Tool, to be able to move and add parts of a picture into another picture or onto a back ground, as shown below.

From there, I used the Lasso Tool again, but using a different form of it. I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool, which makes cutting out the picture a lot more precise and easier to cut around a subject within a picture. This is because the cutting is using straight lines, rather than curved freehand lines. Therefore my picture came out much neater than before.

I found that during my first use of the freehand form of the Lasso Tool, was very frustrating and tedious! Especially when you got it wrong! Although after I tried again using the Polygonal form, I found it much easier as it was far more precise and faster.

The image below, was the third step of learning how to use photoshop. By altering the hue and saturation of the image to make it fit into a picture or to manipulate a photgraph. For example, in the photo below, we could use this technique to make it look as if there is a ghost, by highlighting the inner image. I did this by going to image-adjustments- brightness contrast or hue/saturation.

Overall after using many of the photoshop tools, such as font, to give a name to my picture, hue/saturation, brightness/ contrast, I was able to make an overall image such as the one below. I found photoshop very hard to use at the start. But after taking my time, and having some patience with it I was able to use it efficiently and it was able to help me create an overall image using basic tools which I will be able to master over a long period of time. Photoshop has a great purpose, as we are able to manipulate ordinary images to create an atmosphere or an image of something which is completely unreal. This helps the media, as we are able to portray and use these images to gain attention towards a subject or to interest memebers of the public from a basic picture.