Introduction to Photoshop

The initial Photoshop tasks are essential in building a foundation of knowledge for what will become one of your most useful tools whilst completing your Media Studies GCSE.

Every single task that you complete in today's lesson should be uploaded to your Blog under the heading 'Introduction to Photoshop'

Colour Tasks:

1. Firstly, you need to select a colour palette that you wish to replicate throughout your task. Some recommended options include:

    - Urban            - Fashionable            - Expensive            - Skin-tone            - Pastel            - Vibrant

    - Fresh             - Youthful                  - Earth                    - Autumn               - Winter          - Fruity

Example: Urban

2. Secondly, you need to create a blank A4 page on Photoshop where you will copy your chosen image on to. Once you have done this, use the blank space below your image to create a colour palette based on your image. To do this, you will use the 'eyedropper' tool to grab a colour from your image, and the 'brush' tool to spread it across your page.

Example Palette:

3. Once you have created your palette, you should then create another A4 photoshop page and copy the blank parrot image onto it. You will then once again use the 'eyedropper' tool to select colours from your palette, followed by the 'paint bucket' tool to drop those colours into your parrot image. You should place a smaller version of your original image in the corner of your parrot image so that we can see the reference for your colour selections.

Example Finished Parrot:

Layer Tasks:

1. Firstly, open up the Photoshop file 'Layer Test' that has been posted onto GC and save a copy of it into your own MediaShare folder.

2. Secondly, look across at the layers that exist in the document. These all contain rectangles of increasing size. Your task is to reorder the layers so that I can see part of all of the rectangles in the document. You should not need to move any shapes out of the way, this is simply about reordering the layers to allow visibility.

Layer Section: 

Transform Tasks:

1. Firstly, open up the Photoshop file 'Transform Test' that has been posted onto GC and save a copy of it into your own MediaShare folder.

2. Find an image on Google Images that you want to use for this task. Use Ctrl+T to enter 'Transform' mode which will allow you to both move and resize the image that you have selected.

3. Once happy with the size of your original image, right click the layer that your image is in and click the 'duplicate layer' option to create a copy. Once you have done this twice, use Ctrl+T to change the size of your two copies to make them different from the original.

Example:

Text Tasks:

1. Firstly, open up the Photoshop file 'Text Test' that has been posted onto GC and save a copy of it into your own MediaShare folder.

2. Click the 'T' icon on the left hand sidebar to access the text tool. To create a text box, you should click and drag to make a box the size that you wish for it to be.

3. You are then going to create 3 text boxes all containing the phrase 'Media Studies' with the following requirements

    a. Birch Std Regular - Yellow - Size 32

    b. Snap ITC Regular - Purple - Size 48

    c. Forte Regular - Red - Size 72

Again, every single task that you complete in today's lesson should be uploaded to your Blog under the heading 'Introduction to Photoshop' - If you're unsure of how to do this, then please ask!