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.