Inroduction to photoshop

We were given an introduction to the CS2 photoshop. I really enjoyed this lesson because I have only really used photoshop for art and using the spot healing tool. We learned how to use certain tools that could be useful for our horror posters.

I experimented with different tools to create this photo. I took a picture of Chaz outside the main school. I thought this photo was good to experiment with because you can see his face clearly. I first used the spot healing tool. I zoomed into the photograph and proceeded to make the skin look completely clear with no imperfections. To cover blemishes on photoshop, I used the spot healing tool. A circle appeared and I adjusted the circumference of the circle by decreasing the number on the brush tool. I then clicked on a spot i wanted to cover and it adjusted it to fit in with the skin around it. I then used the healing brush tool and the dodge tool to highlight the areas around his eyes to make his skin seem brighter. I then used the clone stamp tool. This makes objects appear many times on the page. This gave the effect of Chaz's head on the post box. I clicked Alt on the keyboard and clicked on the point I wanted to clone. I then placed the mouse over where i wanted to clone the image to. By holding down and moving the mouse it clones the image where ever the arrow is on the page. I then gave the face a ghostly image by decreasing the opacity to make it only slightly visible. I did this by clicking on the layer of the cloned image and adjusting the opacity to get a correct image with the tool bar at the top of the page. To make his real face look smudged and stretched, I used the liquefy tool. I did this by clicking on filter then liquefy. I then adjusted the circumference of the circle so that I could work on the smaller facial features. To make the features look stretched I clicked on the facial feature and moved the mouse outwards.