1. What have you learnt about the way Photoshop works?
Building up an image in layers – you have to think of your product as a series of layers.
Setting up the right size file in the first place
Size and quality of image is important or manipulation won’t work well.
When you adjust one layer, you have to adjust all the others, just like Final Cut Express.
2. What have you found most difficult about working with Photoshop?
Confusing at first because of all of the different tools.
Some of the tool icons are self-explanatory e.g. pen and paintbrush, others are unfamiliar e.g. magic wand.
Remembering what layer you are on as projects become complicated; remembering to name layers!
Sometimes it just doesn’t seem to do quite what you want.
3. Which of the tools have you found most useful?
Magic wand to extract a section of an image.
Eraser tool to get rid of an unwanted background.
Blur and smudge help picture blending.
Clone stamp helps match bits of the image together.
4. What are the main limitations of working with Photoshop?
Composite images can still look unblended – it is hard to make products that don’t look ‘photoshopped’
Can take a long time when you are just starting.
It doesn’t work well with all file types.
5. Manovitch argues that software such as Photoshop encourages a focus on a new kind of creativity, “creativity through selection”. How creative does working with Photoshop allow you to be?
It is still very creative to make a new image by combining other ones, this still takes an artistic eye.
It is a new form of creativity people aren’t always used to yet.
It lets a different group of people than before be creative, might be intimidating.
“Creativity through selection” is probably the most useful kind of creativity these days when there is so much technology to help you.
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