Friday, 14 February 2014

Media Arts Lesson 1/2 - Introduction to Photoshop


3/02/14

Today was our second Media Arts lesson and we worked on our Frog and Emu photoshop. I like to call it a Fromu. Our first lesson we started of by cropping our emu's head, copying it and then pasted it over our frog (base). We then aligned the emus eye and frogs eye and also aligned the emus mouth and the frogs mouth, so they are in proportion with each other. To make sure they were, we needed to turn our opacity from 100% to around 65%. This lesson, we started by using the paint brush tool and started to get rid of all the parts of the emu picture we didn't need. I decided to keep the beak of the emu and have the body and the eyes of a frog. We then placed a mask over the top and then selected the paint brush tool. To use the paint brush tool we needed to use a hard brush first and then to touch up the edges of the pixels, we used a soft brush. After I had done this I duplicated my layer just I case if I made a mistake and wanted to start from where I finished.
Some problems that I could of faced are:
-    Instead of pressing my mask to erase bits of my photo, I could of accidentally pressed my layer. What would of happened was, instead of erasing black paint will take its place and it will be harder to undo.
-    If I made a huge mistake and wanted to try again but I forgot to duplicate the layer, then I wouldn't be able to start from where I was before.

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