Thursday, 14 June 2012

Photoshop Terms/Tools

Remember in 1a, you have to talk about how you have 'improved' between AS and A2. Here are two lists. Firstly, a list of  less advanced things which you MAY have used in AS. Then a list of MORE ADVANCED things which you MAY have used in A2.

Less adavanced:

Free-hand selection - Selects objects by following the movement of mouse cursor. (scruffy, not professional looking)

Magic wand selection - Selects chunks of an image based on tone/colour (not very advanced)

Lack of feathering - Cuts out edges very sharply. Does not blend well

Adjust Brightness - Can be used to lighten dark areas of a picture...but can then make other areas too light or grainy

Adjust colour balance - Yes you can change someone's hair colour to blue, but it doesn't look very professional to change the whole picture balance.

Fill in background with 'block colour fill' - Makes it look like you have used MS paint.


More advanced:

Magnetic Lasso Selection - Follows your mouse cursor and clings to nearest definite edge. Much more control over selection.

Adjust tollerance and feather - Tollerance lets you decide how sensitive the tool is. Feather makes the selected edges softer so they blend better with new background.

Dodge tool - Brightens small areas of picture so you don't have to brighten entire image.

Burn tool - darkens small areas. Both of these tools are adjustable for size and definition.

Select colour range - Select a single group of colur so you can change one colour, but allow the rest of the image to remain constant.

Fill background with 'gradient fill' - looks far more professional.

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