Here are a collection of the lab tutorials we have conducted in class since the beginning of term. The LasVegas postcard assignment was the first. It was a great introduction to a lot of the tools one tends to use a lot in Photoshop. I learned all about layers, colour hues and using the guideline was a simple but really effective tool. We learned that the format you save in is very important. Next, we looked at using the magnetic lasso, text, and polygonal lasso
tool. I chose a picture from Buenos Aires, that had a lot of sunshine in
order to match with the sunlight streaming on the face of this
photograph. I used a picture taken from a day trip in Ontario with a
friend last summer. I used the lettering to cover up the rough edges of
the superimposed subject against the back ground. It was sneaky...but
once I am better with the tools I will feather out the edges more and
probably remove the person from the original background more
efficiently. In the following lab we compared the visual quality of gif. files and JPEG. We used different formats and resolutions to experiment with the end result of this Dhalia. Here it is as a gif. file in the lowest quality. We then used the layering technique to isolate a layer of a full colour image.We picked a point of interest in a stock photograph. In this case, the blue helmet (using the polygon lasso tool followed by selecting, and modifying), we used it as highlight of colour in the second duplicate, layer of the image which was transformed to a faded greyscale photo using desaturate.
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| Postcard Lab: RTA/BDC192 Week 2 |
