Skills development

Matthew breacker

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

ADDING LAYERS

I went onto the Layer tab

And clicked

Layer>New Layer> Layer

DISSOLVING AN IMAGE

First opened a blank photoshop document and pasted my image

onto a new layer.

Next I clicked

layer>layer mask>hide layer.

So my image was a hidden layer. But still useable

Then using a custom brush I gradually brushed over the hidden image brushing it back into visibility leaving

some bits creating a dissolved, scratched away

effect

Here is the final outcome, I used it in my magazine on

the contents page, however instead of dissolving using a brush I used a gradient that gradually fades, I thought this was a fun new skill to

use and had many variations to it varying on the style of photo and brush you use.

COLOUR REPLACE

First I selected a specific are of the flower using the quick

mask tool on a brush and selected the area I wanted

Next I clicked on to

Image >adjustments>replace

colour

Next I clicked onto the colour I wanted to replace on

the image and altered the colour using the Hue and Saturation toggles. And

clicked okay, I repeated this to each area/colour I wanted

to replace.

I chose to learn this skill as I thought it would be a fun useful skill to learn, if for

example in my magazine a colour in an image clashed

or I wanted to alter a colour to go with the overall house style I thought this would be

really handy.

EFFECTS- BEVEL AND EMBOSS

First I typed what I wanted in the colour and font I wanted

them to be in

Next I went to the right hand sidebar on the layers menu and double clicked the layer with my text, a menu came up an I clicked on Bevel and

Emboss, here I played around with the toggles with size, fuzziness and depth to

get the desired effect I wanted.

I thought this was good to use as it made the font more visually appealing and was a good use of photoshop skills, I used this in my masthead

design.

FEATHERING

First I got my desired image onto a new layer and use the

Elliptical marquee tool to select my area

I change the box where it says feather to 30px

meaning my image will be gradually fading away in a

feather effect

Then I inverted the selection so the outside of my

selected area was selected and the area I wanted to

keep wasn’t by click

Select>Inverted

Then I simply clicked delete and was left with a gradual

fading into the lower layer of the plain whit background