Photoshop Tutorial

Back in January when we first begun this task, we were given a tutorial lesson on how to use Photoshop effectively. For some students in the class this was the first time they had ever used Photoshop, however as I took Media Studies as a GCSE, I had some understaning of how the software worked.

In this lesson Mark, the schools ICT technicion went talked us through the basics of Photoshop. We were given a sample photo of chocolate and was then directed through the many aspects of Photoshop in developing this photograph. We were firstly told about layers and the reasoning for them. We then went on to the editing. Mark explained the different kinds of things we could do with Photoshop Elements and then taught us how to put this method into practice.

Some of the things we learnt about included; feathering, layering, resizing, spot healing brush, lasso tool, cookie cutter tool, filtering, modifying and enhancing. We were given an hour to use as many of these different elements as possible on our chocolate image.