Photoshop skills

I really enjoyed the photoshop tutorial this week, I've often struggled in the past getting to grips with the 'Mac' way of doing it, as I've previously learnt it on windows and learning it in 'mac' really confuses me. This week we did really simple things which were easy for me to memorise. 

I chose a image I'd made earlier on the week before and scanned it into photoshop, we talked about how you should always try to scan it in 300dpi minimum as it would look pretty bad otherwise. 

We all got shown how to adjust a photo if we'd taken a picture of it rather than scanned it in and I found that useful (although I nearly always scan it in, it's always handy to know). We got told how to change the perspective, lighting and colour of the photo so it almost looked like a scanned in image. Out of all the things I learnt I found the perspective the hardest one to figure out so I will definetly be retrying that one in the future. 

I learnt how to use the healing tool properly and how to get it to match the background, (also learning that the brush tool is better to use to wipe out big mistakes rather than smudge it around with healing tool). 

After some playing around I chose these 2 as my favourite images I made, the above one because it kept the texture of the page but I cleaned up the ink blots.

This one above as it looks almost digitalised and so different to the original drawing (see an earlier post). I also learnt to change the black to pure black and white to pure white which is great as I have never learnt that in the past.