First photoshop lesson

First lesson was teaching us all about Photoshop and how we can use it to make posters next week to promote a thriller or a horror film. I had heard of the program we are using for Photoshop which helped me when we started the lesson as I new what sort of things we would be doing using the program. We started off by looking at the 'A team' poster and doing basic things for example cutting off Mr. T's head and copying it on to someone else's body, we then used that to cut a whole person out of the poster and paste it on to another poster creating something different.

I worked on putting Mr. T's head on to an Iron man poster by using the lasso tool to cut round his head perfectly, it looked really effective after working on color and contrast to make it fit perfectly. After starting that we moved on to learning how to make someone look like they have a black eye or really pale using the dodge tool. This help also with blending bright things into a dark background or the other way round. We also talked about layers and how it can be confusing to know which layer you’re on as when your trying to edit something it may not be on the right layer and mess up another layer making the picture look different.

 Our next lesson working on Photoshop we got given a camera between the three of us in a group and we went off around school taking pictures to make a horror/thriller poster, I was with Bella and Annie and we focused more on what we were wearing and where we were setting the pictures. We set up our pictures outside in the woods but also in the darkness of the theatre with a mirror giving us different angles and lighting angles to show a different side to Bella. My favorite picture was when we were using the bathroom mirrors to catch natural light but also Bella's figure in the mirror giving a creepy and ghostly figure. We then went back and focused on editing the background of the picture and amount of blur that is given off. I was happy with my end product as its brought out Bella’s face, mostly her eyes but kept the background a secret.