Sunday, 18 September 2011

Photoshop Skills session 1: Earth & Eye Exercise


Within this exercise I was asked to complete a series of tasks that had a positive end result. First of all I had to go to "Flickr" and download and image of the eye and the earth. As I came to discover the earth was not the correct size to fit the eye. So I opened up Photoshop and re sized the image of the earth while the image of the eye was in a different layer so they didn't collide into one another while I was re scaling them. I was not happy with the image of the earth as it was not acceptable for an eye as it had such a busy background. So I used the magnetic lasso tool to select the outside of the earth, I then inverted it so I was able to delete everything except the image of the earth which I wanted. This tool enabled me to helpfully select exactly what I wanted in a quick and easy process. After I had completed this I then went on to the transparency of the eye and the earth. I had to try and match both of them up as they had two different levels of transparency within them. I played with the levels to try and make them look exact, as I came to realise this was easier said than done and at the end result my eye was a lot brighter than the earth. 

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