Technical guide for photoshop

Photoshop guide

Photoshop has really helped me whilst creating my magazine, I used many tools to create my 3 pages and these are the tools I used and how they helped me.

I used many tools:

· Clone stamp – this was very helpful when getting rid of photos times and dates which my camera automatically puts on the photo and perfecting models face e.g. getting rid spots and removing.

· Crop tool – if I used a picture on my magazine and it was too bit and I wanted a closer, smaller picture the crop tool was great for removing big parts of photographs

· Blur tool – when cutting out photos the outline of the image wasn’t always the sharpest and straightest, therefore by using this toll it blurred and smudged the outline making it smooth and straight.

· Magnetic lasso – when cutting shapes out of the photos I used this tool as it let me cut it out with a steady, accurate hand.

· Paint bucket tool – this tool made it very accurate when colouring in shapes as it was quick and easy, whereas if I used a paint brush it wouldn’t be as I would need a steady hand and it would take ages due to me wanting it colour in large areas.

· Horizontal type tool – I used this when writing text all over my 3 pages and I used the horizontal one as this is the normal way to type text.

· Rectangle marquee tool – this helped me select parts that were square e.g. the name of my magazine and delete multiple things

· Gradient tool – I used this tool to make my background colour more interesting rather than just the plain block colour as this blended the colour into light and dark, going from the bottom to the top of the page.

· Magic wand tool – this helped me select many different areas therefore if it was a very difficult shape this tool was ideal e.g. deleting backgrounds from photos.

· Eye dropper – this tool let me make sure all the coloured I used were the same shade as this can be difficult to tell when looking on Photoshop.

· Move tool – this tool helped me create everything I wanted to as it places everything I wanted in the right place.

· Shape tool – this created by difficult shapes I could do like my play sign and replay sign in the name of my magazine.