Using Photoshop Elements

Today at college in my first half of my AS Media Studies lesson we had a Photoshop tutorial, we learnt the basic things such as opening a new document, photo manipulation, transposing, cropping, cutting etc...
I have experience with using iMacs so I was able to play around with the software while the others listened to instructions.

The first thing we did was open the software using a blank A4 size page. Then we were told how to add colour, text and shapes to the page.
Secondly we were told to open up two pictures and transpose them together.
Our third task was to use cut out the background of a member staffs picture and add it to an image of Tower Bridge, this was useful as most people would want the background different for their magazines. I myself and a few other people in my class knew how to do this, so I helped my group partner add text as she was having trouble with the layers.

Because we had finished the tutorial early than expected we were told how to log on to this website, we were told that we had to write a blog for everything we did during lessons.

For the second half of the lesson we got into our pairs and logged onto the Macs to begin to start creating our magazine front covers. Me and my group found it difficult to work with, it was almost impossible to work with considering we had so little images to work with. Me and my partner managed to work around the problem but we were still unhappy with our work. We know we are capable off creating a high standard of work but we feel like failures. When we were told we only had one more lesson to complete our work we thought it was all over. I remembered that I had some more pictures on my phone and tried to bluetooth them onto the Mac but failed to find them on the system due to restricted password access.

We were even undeceive on picking a title/genre for our magazine, we thought that maybe if we picked a title we could create everything according to the title/genre, but it looked like we would just have to compromise.

The lesson ended and my group had completed the least amount of work. Me and Nicole got as far as applying the main image to a graffiti background. I'm not quite sure how far the other half of the group got.