Photoshop Tutorial

h 2nd lesson, on music magazine.


1st Half of the lesson- Photoshop tutorial today, on cropping, blending, ....etc


The AS Media lesson started with a Photoshop tutorial for everyone. Some people had better abilities than others, but we all learnt something new. The first task was to work our ways around the Mac's as not everyone had used one before. For me it was not too bad, as i have used a Mac before. The only thing that was weird, was probably not being able to right click.


Once we all got to Adobe Photoshop we started by filling the blank file. It was straight forward double clicking to get the right colour, and clicking to fill the page. After, we practiced inserting text boxes, choosing fonts, overlaying fonts and moving it around.


Later, we imported images and dragged a image into a another. We also used gradients, practiced dragging images into others (layering), cropping images.

Second half of the lesson

We went onto the Macs' to start our magazines.

It was difficult in the beginning as navigating around minimising the screen began to stress me out. After much trying Louisa (our teacher) came in and saved me much frustration. My partner was Pebbles. Once we minimised the screen, we dragged the pictures into Photoshop and tried to get to work.

Now that the pictures were in Photoshop, Pebbles and I decided on which picture to use as our main cover image. After much deliberating we came to one picture.

Feeling happy with ourselves we tried dragging the image to our canvas but it was not working. it would either come up white, not appear at all or appear smaller than expected.

Again, we found difficulties with the Photoshop software resizing tools. We tried everything from resizing the image to trying a new canvas. But it just was not working.

Louisa then came over to try and help us out, but she too was having difficulties.

We then felt we should work on the background for a while, whilst leaving the picture for later. Pebbles and I decided on a gradient (red and Black) for the background. It looked good for a moment, but it just was not working. It didn't look right, so we went back to the main cover image.

We tried again with the resizing but had just about no luck. Then we got some help from Lousia, but she too couldn't get the image perfect.

I spoke to one of the girls in the other group on our problem, and she explained a little something to me about Photoshop. I then with her words, did as she said. And Voila! It worked, then we began cropping out pieces of the image. Then using the cut out tool, we cut out the main image from the background to our A4 canvas.

The lesson ended with my group barely starting any work. It began to stress me how much work we had not completed, in the space of time. It just went to show, you think you know it all when you actually don't.

My aim for next lesson is to try and get a whole lot more done, our group needs to catch up. Fast!