First Photoshop Practice

Newspaper:

Yearbook:

Web:

Photoshop Introduction

What is Photoshop?

1. 3 parts of Adobe Photoshop are the title bar, menu bar, and option bar.
2. What types of professionals use Photoshop? - Photographer, Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Advertiser
3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop? - cropping, lighting, and contrasting
4. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop? - cropping, lighting, and contrasting
5. Lasso - trace the image outline
6. Text - enter blocks of text
7. How do you "undo" a mistake?- Command+Z or CTRL-Z
8. What can you do to undo more than one mistake? How do you open it? - Pull up the History Pallet by going to 'Window' --> 'History Menu'
9. How do you rotate an image? - Go to the image menu and select Image Rotation
10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop? - You can use the cancel icon
11. Under the heading "Realizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling photoshop to do as you crop your image? - you are telling Photoshop which dimensions the image should result in after your crop
12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers? - 150 to 200 pip
13. What is the correct resolution for magazines? - 250 ppi or more

Magazine cover

Blog #1:

Masthead: this is a logo for advertisment
Selling line: a short description of the main marketing point
Dateline: Month and year of publication
Cover lines: just random cover lines running around the magazine to promote small things.
Model credit: is right beside the model but doesn't attract too much attention, only to credit the model
Bar code: used for retailers
Main cover line: it promotes something big
Left third: just to not fill up the page to much (leave some space)

Blog #2

Favorite:

This cover of National Geographic magazine is entitled, "Conversations With a Gorilla," with Koko the gorilla snapping a photograph of her reflection in the mirror. The photo was of such high quality and significance that it was chosen to be the cover photo for the October 1978 National Geographic article featuring Koko. Developmental psychologist Francine Patterson spent six years with Koko teaching her sign language and this led Patterson and other researchers to believe Koko displayed evidence of linguistic capabilities.

I like this photo of the Gorilla because i find animals very fascinating. I think they are very intelligent animals and this magazine cover, expresses the intelligence in animals. They communicate this thought of animals being extraordinary by showing a gorilla holding a camera in a position that makes it look like he's about to take a picture. 

Single Portrait Cover

Year in Review: 2013

Part 1: Best Photos of 2013

This is one of my favorite photos because I've always wanted to travel to see amazing beautiful things such as this.
In this photo i think a rule that might apply would be viewpoint. The exposure quality in this photo is partly cloudy because of the weather at the time, but it's mostly light.

This is one of my favorite photos because this caught my interest, it kind of tripped me out. I love the illusion in the picture.  A rule that might apply to this photo would be background. The exposure quality is light.

This is one of my favorite photos because it represents the power that women also have in this world. A rule that is in the photo is balancing elements, repetition, and maybe mergers. The exposure quality is dark.

Part 2: Your Favorites

1. What was the best song of 2013?

I chose this not necessarily because i liked it more than any other only because this song reminds me of memories i hope to never forget. And a person i love more than anything. But it was better than most other songs because it has a pure meaning.

2. What was the best movie of 2013?

I chose this movie because it so freaking hilarious. Everything about the movie was funny, i just know i would buy it and watch over and over and never regret buying it. But their were really good movies besides this one, i just couldn't make a choice.

3. What was the most important news story of the year?

Boston Marathon terror attack

i thought this was an important news story of the year 2013 because a terrorist attack is scary. This story seemed very powerful and random. Knowing that a terrorist attack could happen at any time is scary.

4. Who was the most important person of 2013

 I chose her because she is a very inspiring person, she proves that you don't have to shape yourself into what people want you to be in order to fit in. She's the best of 2013 because she is a role model to many people. 

5. What was the biggest sports OR entertainment story/person of 2013?

I chose this tv show out of the other ten because this is a great story with great actors who play their parts well.  i was attracted to this story because it's my favorite tv show :) in my opinion it was best of 2013

Part 3: Your Holiday and Hopes for 2014 

1. Tell me what is the one thing that happened on your holiday that you will remember? It can be a trip, a family visit, a present, something fun.

• My break was amazing because my friends came down from Arizona and stay with me all two weeks. i enjoyed my time with them and i had the best time of my life.

2. What are your resolutions for 2014? If you need inspiration check this out: http://mashable.com/2014/01/04/new-years-resolution-photos/

• I've never really been the type to be into the "new years resolution", but i guess it would be to be more involved with things like, going out more and doing stuff instead of just stain at home all the time.

3. What are you looking forward to in 2014?

• Well in my opinion, in 2013 i just felt that was an unhappy year a lot of sad things happened to many people, a lot of deaths. i guess 2014 is to start fresh, i feel like its a chance to make things better in general and for anyone or anything.

Fixed Portrait Shoot

ISO: 100

f5.6, 1/25

ISO:400

f6.3, 1/25

 ISO:800

f6.3, 1/60

ISO:1600

f8.0, 1/125

ISO:3200

f16, 1/800

What was the best ISO setting to use for your portraits?

I liked 800

What was your next best photo?

Iso 400 

Were you able to create equivalent exposures to your best photo by changing the aperture and shutter speed?

yes

What did you learn from this activity that you will apply to your real portrait shoot?

what settings to use to take a good photo