Introuduction to Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is a graphic and picture editing tool. It enables the user to alter, manipulate and create images either from existing photos or found images.

1. Rectangular marquee tool- cuts rectangular box shapes around a part of an image.
2. Lasso tool- cuts round edges of images inside an image.
3. Move tool- moves and drags images around the page.
4. Crop tool- reduces the image or part of an image.
5. Magic wand tool- selects sections all in the same color.
6. Eraser tool- rubs out sections of an image, turning the rubbed out section white.
7. Blur tool- blurs out sections making it foggy/cloudy- can be used to create more of an effect.
8. Burn tool- turning the screen dark, darkening images/sections.
9. Dodge tool- smudges the images.
10. Clone stamp- highlights certain area of the background and recreates that background on another section of the image.

11.  White Point Dropper- This lets you make anything a pure white. It's also is used to correct underexposure.

12. Black Dropper- lets you make anything black or hazy smoke.
13. Sharpening- focuses the images pixels into a more dense picture.

How I found Photoshop as a programme:

The tools I found most effective were the lasso tool, as I could cut round an object free hand to make a more precise cut round the object than the marquee tool. Another tool I found effective was the clone stamp, this tool makes a perfect copy of a highlighted part of the image and can be copied numerous amounts of time on the actual image itself.
The tool I found difficult were the lasso tool as you needed a steady hand to do a precise cut round an object which I didn’t have, so it made jaggerd edge round the object which looked messy and rushed.



In my poster of a girl being stalked in the woods i used various tools, firstly i used the burn tool to darken the whole background itself, to make a more terrifying, shocking atmopshere.I emphasized the darkness on the trees in the woods to make them more threatning and stand out in the image. The woods and darkness of the image is iconic to a typical horror film, also the fact its dark makes us think it was set in the night which is also contributing to it relating to a horror film. Adjusting the saturation of the whole image changed the atmosphere too, I enhanced the redness and warm colors to represent blood and horror again. Editing this picture made it more of a threatening, menacing impression, I did add extra objects to the page, for example my body coming out of the ground and a pile of soil on top of me but decided not to use this idea in the end. Adding in objects is part of the mise sen scence of the image. With the title of the image I took into account the rule of thirds, leading the image from the stalkers face, to mine to the text.


Finding Photoshop hard or easy- I personally found Photoshop rather challenging, as there is a lot of tools to use and the way to use them is hard to remember. Once shown how to use the tools and find them it was a matter of fact of remembering the technique and getting on with it. Photoshop needs a lot of time and patience especially when working on producing a precise crop of a picture or when using the lasso tool. I found Photoshop rather complicated and required a lot of time and endurance.

The Purpose i see Photoshop having in creating a Media Product-  Photoshop has the ability to change and alter any image completely to create a false image which we are to interpret through our own imaginations. Photoshop can changes colour, scale, rotation and overall any aspect of the image, transforming the image to something from nothing. photoshop is used widely today in all kinds of markets especially cosmetics and fashion to highlight how good they are.

Basic stills camera work and composition.

Composition:

Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.

Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.

Rules of third is one of the most popular rules in photography and amongst artists. Using this rude of thirds helps produce nicely balanced easy on the eye pictures. And also helps get rid of ‘tiny subject surrounded by empty space’ syndrome. This process works like this-: imaginary lines are drawn diving the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically, where these lines intersect you place the important elements there.

Good places would be- third of the way up, third of the way in from the left.

 Bad places would be- right in the middle, right at the top, right at the bottom, away in the corner.

Introduction and My Doctor Who trailer.

Throughout this year in Media studies, i am going to be starting a journey on learning film language, how to operate cameras and learn editing and various skills. Also we will be learning how to make short sequences taking into consideration continuty editing styles, genre and conventions. I am looking forward to taking on a new challenge and learning various skills within Media and throughout this year.  I'm especially excited to make my peliminary task sequence then my thriller sequence in groups within my class.

Dr Who trailer.