Photoshop Test - 12/09/14

I created this image using Photoshop. It was the first time I had used this software, and I learnt how to use tools to manipulate an image on to a background.

We had to use the Layers palate to keep the images in layers to that we could work with them more easily, but also so that mistakes could be corrected more easily too.

 I used the polygon lasso tool to remove the background of the bear, the astronaut and the Eiffel Tower. I did this by slowly and carefully clicking around the image, selecting the inverse (background) of the image and pressing the delete key. For the bear, I had to use the feather tool to make the fur look more realistic when removing the background.

I had to use the scale tool to re-size the images (Edit - Transform - Scale). To scale an image without distorting it, I held down the shift key when scaling. I adjusted the brightness and saturation levels also (Image - Adjustments). This meant that I could make the manipulated images look more like they belonged in the background.