Saturday 20th September - Photoshop

Photoshop is an essential piece of software for virtually everybody interested in working creatively with digital media, so I had been looking forward to getting to grips with it during this lesson. We were set several tasks oriented around using different elements and tools effectively, such as the pen tool, trasparency, layering and layer masks. We produced a couple of pieces of work designed primarily as teaching tools, rather than art of any great purpose, and then began working on our pieces due for the crit the following week. 

Though initially I had chosen to do a book cover, I ended up deciding to make a poster for a story concept I've been working on in my own time. I felt I would get too caught up in the writing of a blurb (as writing is something I spend a lot of my time doing) and not devote the required attention to the visual aspect of the piece. Thus, I decided to challenge myself and create a piece that was almost purely visual in nature.

Though I had had a very brief introduction to Photoshop in the past, I found this lesson extremely helpful in learning how to use the essential tools for image manipulation. As I am primarily interested in digital drawing I would have appreciated some input on that front, but I respect that hardware access limitations for students would impede that. Nevertheless I enjoyed this lesson and felt that it successfully taught me a great deal about how Photoshop is used in the industry.

Pictures to follow.

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