introduction to 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.

we used such tools as:

the marquee Tool which cuts box shapes around a part of the image and then we can edit and place onto another picture.
the clone stamp tool which makes a perfect copy of a highlighted part of the image
the burn tool which i found easy to use, and the dodge tool, the dodge tool makes the selected area lighter and brings out the light. the burn tool however does what the name suggests and darkens the selected area.
the laso tool allows us to select an area more accuretly and to select around more delecate shapes.
the move tool enables us to as the name suggests move a selected area around

we can also use the effects drop down box across the page to find better effects and to make the images that you are trying to look more realistic, i placced a helicopter from the film poster of cloverfield into the helmet of master cheif from halo. then used the drop down bof to select an effect that made it look as if the helicopter was reflected off the lense.

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.





Rule of thirds:
works like this, when you have a picture the eye naturally forms on the four focus points, these focus points can be found by dividing your picture or screen shot into thirds both horizontaly and vertically.

One last thing about the Rule of Thirds:

Once you have got the hang of the Rule of Thirds you will very quickly want to break it! This is fine. As I said earlier these rules are best used as guidelines and if you can create a better image by bending or ignoring rules then go ahead.

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