Lesson 5

I felt like this lesson was very simple and short. Because I have had previous experience in photoshop, I already knew how to work with things like image size and resolution. The only new thing I learned was part of the cropping exercise. I did not know how to make a border and that was pretty cool. Also fixing the wedge was a very useful tool to learn for future reference! Before this lesson I knew what the ruler tool was, and had seen it before, but I had never actually used it and I could have definitely used it last semester in other classes! Looking ahead in the book, I am really excited for lesson 6!!!

Lesson 4

This lesson had a lot of stuff to do but it was very fun! When I think of photoshop, these are the type of edits I think of. The hardest part of the project was in the giraffe picture, working with the quick tool. I was having problems at first but once I figured it out it was easy to use. I also had trouble using the elliptical tool in the fireworks picture. I could not get a perfect sizing around the building and my picture suffered because of it, but for it being my first time using it I dont really mind. My favorite picture to work on was the pelican just because it was a fun picture in general!

Lesson 3

There were many pictures to adjust and play with and it was a lot of fun! I liked how it showed how to fix the redness of a photo because that is very common when taking indoor pictures. My favorite part of the lesson was learning how to use the heal tool. There are so many times that I have been editing pictures and needed that tool. It was very simple to learn and will come in handy in the future. The most interesting and fun to play with tool was the gradient. It was fun to see how drastically I could change the coloring of the entire photo and what areas would show up in each color. I also thought it was cool that when you adjust colors, it really makes the colors vibrant in the most important areas. For example the butterfly was a dull yellow and changing the saturation of the yellow orange and red really brought out the best in the color of the wings! So far these lessons keep getting better and more fun as we keep going!

Lesson 2

The second lesson worked a lot with colors, highlights and contrast.This is the kind of stuff that I really like to do so I flew through this lesson! Working on changing the tones and contrast was a lot of fun and was very easy. I found it amazing that photoshop could auto correct all of the pictures really well and although they were not perfect corrections, they were done really well. I had the most trouble reading the histograms. I do not really understand how they work but I am working on learning what everything means. Some of the information is a little confusing but I feel like if I keep working with it I will learn it better. I really liked this entire lesson and look forward to doing more of these types of things!

Lesson 1

Lesson one was extremely hard for me to follow! All of the information was brand new and I have never once even heard of Bridge. It was a little too much information for one lesson and I was having trouble understanding from the beginning. After I got through 3/4 of the lesson I was finally somewhat understanding what was going on and finished up.

Tutorial 3

One thing that this tutorial really helped me with was how to get to all of my tools. This may seem like a simple task but in my prior experience with photoshop I didn't know where everything was and therefore could not explore my options. Now that I know where all of these things are I can make new adjustments to my photos and put new and cool effects off different photos! This tutorial was the most difficult of the three because of the resolution. It is very hard to understand how resolution works in photoshop and this tutorial did do a great job of explaining how it works. After adjusting all the the hughes I changed my flower to purple rather than sepia because I liked the color and art is about expressing yourself :D

Tutorial Dos

Tutorial two was very easy to go through and easy to understand. With all of the photo examples and websites it is interesting to see how the simplest of things can be copy-writed. For the purpose of this class it is super important to know what images we can and cannot use and this tutorial will really help in the future for what images we can use.