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Photoshop In class.

We started by taking two images both the same size and putting them on photoshop. I decided to use two images i had taken in the studio of my friend Alex. 



we then learnt how to overlay them on top of one and other. I liked doing this even though i knew how to do it, some stuff i did not know about, i usually dragged the images on top of each other but this way was much better for previewing it and also for blending. 


I decided to blend mine as one image inverted, i thought it made it look quite interesting. 


We then looked at some editing, curves, filters and contrast, black and white ect. 






We also learnt how to make something CMYK instead of RGB. Which i didn't know how to do so that was really interesting. 

We learnt how to use different tools like lasso, liquidize, Clone and how layers work.







For me this was the most fun i have had in a while, i have been feeling a bit lost with my work lately and loosing interest and confidence in myself and doing this reminded me how much i love working digitally. How much i love photography and editing. I don't know why but i love editing images, i could do it for hours and hours. I used to edit all my friends photos (selfies)  for them when i was younger and i loved it. I loved learning more about Photoshop because i just find it so interesting to know how to do different things. 

We got to then create whatever we wanted using some of the stuff we learnt. I used this image i took last week and decided to use filters and liquidize. 



Comments

  1. Artmatters1 December 2017 at 08:45

    Good to see you got something out of it and hopefully it has refuelled your creativity - looking forward to seeing the new work!

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