Photoshop Induction 1

Task and Aims

To learn the basic principles of scanning an image and manipulating it within photoshop. Aim to produce five photoshop treatments of one image from the last session.

Intentions

To become more aware with artistic skills in manipulating illustration, as opposed to photographs.

Firstly we learned how to use the scanner correctly, adjusting the dots per image to 300 to gain the maximum resolution for the picture, making a selection of the area we want to scan and adjusting the colour to greyscale to make sure that the image is just black and white.

Once the image had successfully scanned into the computer, I then rotated it 180 degrees so it wasn't upside down.

The next step was to open the image in photoshop, and then set the image size to A4 size. I initially struggled with this because I got the proportions wrong but I was able to amend this towards the end of the process.

It is possible to create a set crop scale by going to the ratio drop down bar and creating a custom preset, in which I put the dimensions for an A4 sheet.

Here is the outcome, I didn't take the scale into account properly, hence the white outline has appeared on my image.

For the time being I cropped the image out of the white border and then focused on adjusting the levels, so that the creasing of the paper wouldn't show in the image. To do this I brought the white level in, which increased the level of white and decreased the level of grey in the photograph, leaving me with a cleaner image.

After amending my image to the suitable A4 resolution, I was eventually happy with it.

We then worked on a default image exploring how to transform a poor quality photograph of an image.

The image is dark, out of proportion to a flat image and has a pen in the middle of it. To amend this, I selected an area to work in and then selected the transform tool and pulled the top of the image outwards so that it was equal to the width of the bottom of the image.

So that the image ended up looking like this..

I then pulled the picture upwards to prevent it from looking squashed

And finally cropping the image to the correct size and amended the levels.

Evaluation

It has been useful to learn the importance of image resolution, and refresh my basic skills in Photoshop. I am excited to start experimenting with colour and shape and overall develop my digital skills.