Editing Photos and Photoshop Tools

Purpose:

To become familiar with Adobe Photoshop workspace and basic photo manipulating and editing tools;

To look at and think about your photographs differently, using a variety of Photoshop tools

• Learning these tools could help me enhance my photos and put my own twist on my photographs. For example, one of the photos I used in this assignment was one I wanted to edit with an emphasis on color. After learning how to emphasize color I got to use that in the photo to see what it looked like, and in my opinion It made the photo much better. On top of that photoshop is also a very useful tool to have not only with photography but also computers in general.

1. I thought it was interesting how many tools there are in photoshop and all of the cool things you can do. I liked how you can quick select things and then use the brush to make the edges more clean and flush. There are unlimited things you can do with the program to improve your photos.

2. I thought the method used to emphasize colors was interesting and how you can erase pieces of layers. Color emphasis photographs look really cool in my opinion and it's something I’ll probably try on my photos again.

3. I thought the different layers and how they interact with each other was interesting. I liked how simple they are to use and how you can decide which one is on top and if they are visible or not. I also thought the “hotkeys” were interesting as well as how you can control the different tools with your keyboard.