The Starting Point

Last year when I selected Creative Media, I didn't know what to expect. So when I turned up to class at the start of the year, it was a big surprise to me what we were doing. In one of the early lessons, Mr Powell showed us some of the pictures that he had photoshoped so that they looked like characters from Harry Potter. When I saw these, I couldn't believe that he actually did that! And thought that i couldn't wait to do something as good as that. So far, I haven't done anything that good, but i have morphed a green tree frog and an emu together! It looks pretty cool. To do do this, we learnt how to
- re size images
- to free transform (when you re size the image into different shapes (e.g. a square picture into a rectangle picture)
- resizing and keeping the same shape (just getting smaller)
- how to use 'Apple T' which transforms the image by resizing it and keeping the same shape (as said above)
- how to flip horizontally
- how to mask (which button to press)
- what layers are (and how to use them!) and
- how to change the colour of the pictures

Last year in term 4, we did a little bit of Photoshop work in Visual Art. In those lessons I learnt how to:
- how to distort pictures (pulling it a certain way, making it look what you want it too look like, changing the picture altogether)
- how to use hue and saturation
- how to use the magnetic lasso tool (when you don't press any buttons, but the tool cuts out your basic shape as you guide it around what you want to select)
- how to use the magic wand (used for selecting areas of the same colour (exactly the same colour) on the one image)
- how to use the blur tool (making the pictures blurry)
- how to use the sharpen tool (to sharpen the image again when you blur it)
- how to use the smudge tool (smudging the picture to perhaps blend two different shades of blue. It is better to use to shades that are very very close together)
- how to zoom in and zoom out (pretty straight forward)
- how to rub stuff out (when you might want to get rid of a certain part of the image) and
- how to use the select tool (does pretty much what the name says)

This is a picture of what i did last year: