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 how to properly edit photos can be a very important skill for future assignments and even some careers. I believe that photo editing is a valuable tool in making your photos pop and really stand out. Through this assignment, I understood that editing your photos isn’t a bad thing. One may think that photoshopping your photos doesn’t make them original anymore, or that it’s not authentic because it was tampered with. To that, I say that when you edit your photos, you’re still creating original art since you’re adding your own style of editing to your photos. Editing your photos simply makes your work more recognizable and memorable to viewers.

I have always been fascinated by photoshop and wondered just how people managed to do it. I thought about trying it out myself but never knew where to start but this assignment provided me with the opportunity to see what it’s all about. I was intrigued to find out that photo editing has a lot more layers in producing a good photo than I thought it would. I realized how photo editing can be crucial and even necessary when it comes to photography. Another interesting part of this assignment was combining two images together. For this part, you had to look at your photos from a new perspective and see how they could be transformed into a whole different and updated photograph. I also liked that the emphasis with color photos has a clear and colorful focal point. What I like about isolating your subject with only color is that it draws your attention to something you might not have noticed if the rest of the background weren’t desaturated.