For our first project of the first marking period, it can honestly be considered as a fun and interesting work. For this project, we used Adobe Photoshop CS6. The objective of this project was to learn which tool was necessary for a certain job and then learn how each one is used professionally. The very first thing we had to do, was as a class to download the file Mrs. Ramirez had posted in Jupiter Grades. We downloaded it, saved and placed it under the name of LB2 Base in the photoshop application. Mrs. Ramirez had left for homework a day before we actually started the project, to read the instructions on how to properly use each tool for that exact lab. So, I was personally more informed then others who didn't read it when Mrs. Ramirez went over how to cut out each fruit. I understood most and all of the steps needed to have a perfect fruit or vegetable cut out. Mrs. Ramirez also taught us some tips on how to deselect a selection or how to escape from the polygonal lasso tool or how to add or subtract more with each tool using the Shift Key or the Command Key. So once we started independently working on our projects, we made sure to open LB2 Base and then duplicate the layer of the background and called it "base work." This "base work" layer was the one we were going to do all of our cuts and selections on. There were many subjects that had to be cut out from the white background in the base work layer. They were the melon, blueberry, macaroni, radish, zucchini, orange, kiwi, carrot and the mushroom. All and most of these had circular edges which made it somewhat difficult to cut out all of the white space; especially with a short amount of time for the project. The Elliptical Marquee Tool came in handy when I had very round large objects like the melon as the head. The Lasso, Polygonal Lasso and Magnetic Lasso Tools came in handy for small round objects like the blueberry, carrot and the macaroni, which had zig-zags instead of curves. The Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools came in handy for objects that were fat or couldn't exactly be cut out by the other tools mentioned before; the mushroom and the kiwi. Using the best selection for each fruit or vegetable either saved you time or made it look better without the white spaces on them. The project was very creative and I really enjoyed working with the tools and the application itself. I believe I put in all my effort so my artwork must look great!
Personally for this project, due to the lack of time, some of the tools were hard to work with since it was my first time experiencing with them. Since I did read the instruction manual on this project, some things were clear to me and after every step I ALWAYS saved my work. I was pretty lucky the application never crashed on me. But no matter how frustrated I got because of me not properly cutting out the subject, I kept trying and trying. So I guess my determination helped me overcome the obstacle of having difficulty with the tools. As previously stated, I enjoyed working with the tools and communicating with classmates to better improve their or my work. I may use these skills later in the future if I want to take out a subject and paste it onto another bigger one, which is photoshop. I might also use these skills for business related jobs.
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