Photo Shop Tutorials

During these tutorials I got extremely close to photoshop. I learned tens of new shortcut keys and tools. I learned that there is so many ways to improve and in hanse a photograph. 

Three key tools that I learned how to use were the spot healing brush, the lasso tool, and the rectangular marquee Tool. The spot healing brush was extremely helpful whenever there was a spot that was different then everything else around it, say a branch sticking out of someones head. In this case you option click the sky and simply brush away the branch. Another tool I used was the lasso tool. Simply pressing the short cut key of L now you can free handily select areas to move,copy or even delete them. The next tool the rectangular marquee tool allows us to select things as a simple shape, rectangle unlike the free hand lasso tool.

My favorite skill is selecting areas using the lasso tool say off a wall or mud on a child's face and removing them. It feels like your are cleaning the picture. This will be valuable in graphic design because if there is little spots of clothing or on a logo that you want to remove this is an easy way of doing it.

My strengths were listening and following intently to the tutorials  step by step. If I didn't understand a step I would back up the video. My weaknesses were definitely the time crunch because I felt I was rushing at the end. Another weakness was keeping track of which layer I'm working on I would frequently do a step to the wrong layer.

If I were to do this again I would have gone threw them all faster so that in the end I could either re do some or touch them up. I would keep my focus the same because I did a really good job working hard I wish I watched the video through first then did it if I had more time.

In all I learned a lot and loved doing all of the tutorials.

Before I used illustrator to alter this picture the backdrop was not all white.

The logo was originally set lower so I moved it up and fixed the line in the middle to be strait.

Before I used illustrator to alter this picture there was no logo on the surfboard.

In this picture the backdrop had little things on it that I removed to make it look cleaner.

In the original picture there was multiple tags in the pocket and on the side.

In the original photo this man had a big ugly logo on his shirt that I then removed and added wrinkles to make it look natural.

Before I used illustrator to fix picture the little boy had mud all over his face that I smoothed out.

Before I altered this picture there was a huge tower sticking out of the mans head.

Before,  there was nothing on the ocean background, I added the bottle added the logo and used tools to brighten and place the bottle behind the ocean. 

Originally this was a blank billboard I added the photo and made the edges round to fit the billboard.

This was the longest tutorial but turned out the best. This was originally separate photos that i turned into one. I also altered her shoulders, hair, hat, and color of everything.