Using 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.

Throughout the first two weeks of the Media course we learnt how to use many different tools using photoshop. They are:

Marquee Tool - cuts box shapes around a part of an image.
Clone Stamp Tool - makes a perfect copy of a highlighted part of the image.
Lasso Tool - this tool enables you to cut around a specific shape to later transfer it onto another photo.
Clone Stamp Tool - this creates an exact copy of a specific area which you can then copy onto another part of the same photo or onto a different photo.  
Eraser Tool - this enables you to take away any mistakes from your work.
Dodge Tool - this tool lets you lighten a specific area of a photo.
Burn Tool - this tool instead  of lightens an area makes the image darker in desired areas.
Sponge Tool - this saturates the different colours to makes them become richer.

I found that using the different tools on Photoshop proved to be harded than i would have thought however, dispite my hazy start i found my feet and found most of the tools relativly easy to use.
I found that the Marquee tool was quite an easy tool to us as it was simple, however i prefered using the Lasso tool because the cut was much more accurate compared to the Marquee. This tool wasn't as easy to use as the Marquee tool beasue it was harder to guide the line neatly around the desired object. 

This week we applied the different tools we used to create our own movie poster. We, in groups of three, went out to take a selection of pictures which we could then transfer into a action/horror movie poster. We decided to take photos in dark areas like the woods and over grown areas, which were an approprite setting to a horror movie setting.