Exploring Photoshop

At first when I started using Photoshop I wasn’t sure what each tool was for and it took longer to finish the workshops. As I spent more time working on it I got more used to the different functions and could finish the workshops faster. I think Photoshop is a very helpful program which has many great things you can do to pictures that you can’t do with other programs. If someone were to fix something in an image I would recommend they use Photoshop.

In general, I did well in the tasks we had to do using Photoshop. The potato man was easiest and helped me with getting used to the simplest tools. The women with the patch was more complicated to fix but by using the smudge tool and changing the colors it wasn’t very obvious that the picture had been fixed on Photoshop. The bald man was a funny one where we needed to take the hair of one guy and put it on a man who didn’t have a lot of hair. This workshop taught me how to move part of an image into another image. The other workshops helped me learn how to change colors in specific parts of an image and how to cover up unwanted things (e.g. I covered a boat in the sea by using the stamp tool).

Photoshop can help me when creating my website because I could adjust pictures before putting them on the web. For example I could crop parts of an image which I don’t want or I could change the brightness if the picture is to dark. I could also change the color of objects in the picture so they are easier to see and don’t blend in with the background. Another great way Photoshop could help me when creating my website is by making a good picture which I can use as a background for all the pages. There are many other things I could do to the pictures before I put them on my website.

I can relate Photoshop to my Digital Portfolio because I could use it to make cool titles or pictures (clip art, logos) then put them on the web pages. For instance, I can make a title and add a background to it then put it on the top of each page on my web site. My navigation bar could also be created using Photoshop. Photoshop allows me to be more creative and make normal things like tittles look more interesting.

Exploring Images/ Pictures

The resolution of an image is how many pixels there are in it. Resolution is identified by the total number of pixels. If an image has a lower resolution when it is stretched and made bigger on a computer screen it becomes pixilated. If it has a higher resolution the picture is better quality and can be stretched more without becoming pixilated.

The resolution needed for an image to be put on a website is 72 pixels per inch. If it is larger than this, the web page will take longer to load.

The size of a picture/image is its actual width and height when printed. The image size you see on the screen will not be the same when the image is printed. Based on the resolution of the image and the screens resolution the picture will look bigger or smaller.

 Vector images are images made of individual objects. They are not considered using pixels and are higher quality. These objects can be points connected by either a straight line or a curve. Each object in a vector image can be changed or resized without any quality loss. Vector images are very important because they are used for maps and company logos since these graphics need to be resized frequently. The outline, color and fill of each object can be changed yet the basic shape will not be changed. Also, vector images don’t have a white pixel background so you can put an object on top of another and the one beneath will not be blocked. These types of images are important because they are very small files. The file only contains the mathematical equation that determines the shape of the lines in the image. It does not contain the image itself. Since the file is smaller it won’t take up much space on a computer.