Lets Begin ! week 1

finally my thirst of learning photoshop came to an  end when i realised i had to take it as part of my degree program.

the first week just blew my mind away  when we learnt a few things ! 

so very briefly ill share what i understood .

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 

a few tips that one should know before using photoshop.: 

*always reset ur workspace by going on the windows button choosing workspace and reset. 

*secondly there are 2 ways of opening a file :

a) press open and pick a file 

b)  drag the photo to the photoshop icon 

* [ ] bracket key is for enlargement 

*  command + z (for mac users)   is undo

so i learnt to use a few tools  such as  the selection tool and the move selection tool . 

this tool actually helps to select and move them to another position or also to another photo. 

 so how to paste one photo on another ? 

open the image that u need to use for the background 

paste the second image  after pasting it scale the image accordingly . 

simply click on edit and pick free transform which will be useful  for the resizing . 

 since you want to be very precise about your placement of the second picture.   we can also use the opacity  tool which shows transparency hence enables one to do good placement.

after the image is place we can delete the unwanted part by using 2 tools 

which is eraser and  the lasso tool .

finally we have a finished image that we want to place, but to add '' REALISM " effect there are a few things which we could add. 

such as the REFLECTION  - make a new layer by drag and drop .  click on edit and select free transform and get the reflection effect .  crop the unwanted part if needed.  

we can also make the water  rippled by clicking on filter choosing distort and selecting ripple .

this is what i did for my first photoshop class.


                                                            original photo

                                 

                                                  editted photo 

whats  yours?