Photoshop Tutorials

 

This video is cool when creating professional posters or wanting to go more into graphic design. I think creating the background and cleaning up the images is quite simple but the touch up on the images used takes practice to understand lighting and shading. The colour grading of the shapes and images is quite hard to understand when new to Photoshop. The positioning of everything and the choice of typography can be tricky too when matching a poster subject to the aesthetic needed. The tools itself are not hard to use as it was mostly transforming the images and a lot of it is similar to what we did in Illustrator.

I think this video is fun to use when creating art from already existing images, as photo manipulation is a cool concept to understand when learning photoshop. Working on the compositing is quite simple to do as it is just editing already existing images from the internet and just fixing the levels of black and white on the images to create a mood/tone of the piece. Using the clip selection tool to separate the subject you want from the background on the image is simple to do and is very important. I think using the clone stamp tool is hard to use if you have never done it before. Colour grading is hard to do and the tools need to be understood and messed around with to learn before doing it on a piece of work as it takes a while to get used to and you need to understand colour theory decently well.

I think for this video is cool to learn from when wanting to do a dynamic logo or a poster with letters and images. I think the easy part is moving the things around but it is hard to use the inverse and magic wand tools to make the picture as clean as possible. I think it is also hard to remember all the steps to create what you want to make in this video as it is complicated and has a lot of layers and different things to do. Along with that, the effects section of the video takes practice to use and I would find it hard to use if I was new to photoshop. I found the use of drop shadow and brush tool to get the arms to appear outside of the letter very interesting as it is not something that I would have thought of.