Photoshop Introduction

Common Tools
1) Crop Tool; Is used to cut a part off your photo.

2) Lasso Tool; Is used to select an specific part of your photo.

3) Text Tool: it allows you to add a text in your photo.

4) What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made? Command-Z(Mac) or CTRL-Z (PC)

5) What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it? You have to pullup the History Palette you can do this by going to the Window---> History menu.

6) How do you rotate an image? you go to image menu and select image rotation.

7). If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop? yes

8) Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image? Fill in the width and height fields in the option bar while the crop tool is selected.

 

9) What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers? the range of 150 to 200 ppi

10). What is the correct resolution for magazines? magazines are likely to prefer high resolution images of 250 ppi or more. 

 

Best magazine covers of 2013 and the last 40 Years

Magazine Essential Parts

Masthead

Dateline 

Cover Lines

Main Image

Model Credit 

Coverline

Bar Code

Main Cover Line 

Left Third 

selling lines 

The Masthead is the title, the Dateline tells the year and month of the publication and the price of the magazine, Cover lines it tells you what is going to be in the magazine, Main Image the front cover, Model Credit a credit that appears on the magazine front cover, Coverlines they are distributed around the main image without detracting from it to much, Bar Code Standard bar code used by retailers, Main Cover Line it takes almost a quarter of the front cover, Selling Lines it tells you the titles main marketing point.

Best Portrait

Fixed Portrait Shoot Submission

ISO 100

 ISO 400

 ISO 800

 ISO 1600

 ISO 3200

 Go back and look at your data sheet. Under each photo, post the settings that you used to take each of your photos. 

What was the best ISO setting to use for your portraits? the best ISO setting i used for my portraits is the 400

What was your next best photo? my next best picture is ISO 1600

Were you able to create equivalent exposures to your best photo by changing the aperture and shutter speed? not really

What did you learn from this activity that you will apply to your real portrait shoot? that is really hard to get the ISO , aperture, and shutter speed to beet equal to get the picture look good.

Your Favorites

         The best song of 2013? 

• I think the best song of 2013 is Thrift Shop, I chose this one as my main choice because its a really good song,, the things that attracted me to this choice were that it was the first best song of 2013 on one of the web sites, it was the best of 2013 because i think that every where you go you still going to hear it and alot of people where making vines with that song.
   
  
  
  
  
   The best movie of 2013?
  • I think the best movie of 2013 was iron man 3, I chose this one as my main choice because its a really good movie, the things that attracted me to this choice where that ive seen all the iron man movies an that one is really good too, it was the best of 2013 because i think it was the most watched movie of the year.
    
    The most important news story of 2013? 
    •  I think the best news story of 2013 was jodi arias trial because she killed her boyfriend in a jealous rage or an abused woman with a tenuous hold on reality. I choice this one as my main choice because its really interesting of how she killed her boyfriend just because she was jealous, the things that attracted me to this choice where that why did she killed him when she could of just brake up with him, it was the best of 2013 because everyone was talking about it and it was in all the news.
      

    
    

    The most influential people of 2013?

    • I think the most influential person of 2013 was Jennifer Lawrence, I choice this one as my main choice because

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

Best Photos of 2013

 This is my number one favorite picture of 2013 , because its just really cool how the fish is looking at the man its just really cool. This picture has some emotion on it , that maybe the guy hasn't seen a fish like this before and maybe his scared, and this picture is really light and sharp.

 This is my second best favorite picture of 2013, because i like how they took the photo and im wondering how they took that bit its really cool how you can see the shadow. This photo has interest on it, its not too dark or bright and is kinda sharp.

This be my third best favorite picture of 2013, because i like how its like reflected to the water and how the rainbow is going like in a circle. This picture has some interest on it of how this did to take this picture and how to get the right angle, and it has alot of light and its sharp.