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.