Evaluation

For my fantasy landscape i have taken a picture of the roundabout outside of the college with a car going around it and i have also taken a picture of Charlie on a teletubbies kids ride in the shopping center and had one taken on each seat. Though out the project my idea changed because i had the original idea but it was going to have a kids roundabout in the middle but then thought that it would not be very good and a bit boring so i changed it to be more interesting. When taking the pictures i used a canon camera and took the pictures as if the kids ride was moving around. The problems i had was that once i had put the picture onto the background the top layer looked like it was tipping forward so i had to change it by warping it to look like it was flat on the floor and not tilting forward. Overall i like my picture because i think that it is different and its colourful also its quite funny because the women in the car looks like she is looking at the kids ride. If i could redo my picture i might have added something else to make it more interesting to look at. Also if i had more time i would have made a couple of landscapes and see which one i liked the most to do as my final. 

Photoshop Workshop- Final Image

John Goto

John Goto is a British artist best known for his photo-digital artwork. He come to attention with his "high summer" section of his Ukadia series. Throughout his career he has worked with historical, social and political subjects. In the latte 1960s he studied fine arts at St. Martins school of art, London where he became interested in narrative forms of european cinema and literature and led him to the medium of photography. In the 1980s he then worked on work that combined paintings and drawings in his photography which he later did on the computer. He first did "Terezin" which told the story of Bauhaus trained artist interned in the Nazi transit camp of Theresienstadt. Also "The Scar" which was made in response to the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989. He started to use computers in his work in the early 1990s with a series called "The Commissar of Space" which was made in Russia which was about the final years of the artist Kasimir Malevich’s life during the early Stalinist era. His exhibition "The Framer’s Collection" was also made of a series of short stories attached to digitally manipulated pictures, paintings, and documentary photographs. His account of the contemporary world continued with "John Goto’s New World Circus" which was on the occupation of Iraq set within a traveling circus. His attention then turned to the issue of climate change with "Floodscapes" and cultural history in "Dance to the Muzik of Time". Which he did because of the invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces (27 December 2008 - 21 January 2009), He has also made "Mosaic", a series of apparently abstract images.

Photoshop Workshop- Vignetting

When using vignetting it creates a soft boarder where as the other way of creating a boarder makes it bold. Also this way of making a boarder means that it doesn't have to be a straight line you can add curves and other effects. To do vignetting you have to select the brush tool on the tool bar then select a colour you want your boarder to be making sure that the size of the brush is the size you want and the opacity is set at 100%. 

Then select a new layer then go around the edge of the picture holding the shift key to make the line straight. 

Final Image

Photoshop Workshop 2- Resizing Pictures

When you have added the picture to a sheet you can change the size by holding down shift key and grab the corner of the picture and drag the picture this will resize the picture to the size you want without completely changing how it looks.

Photoshop Workshop- Adding a Boarder

To add a boarder to a picture you have to make a new page then put the picture you want onto the page after you select the picture and go to edit then stroke. When the box comes up you can change the thickness and colour of the boarder the click ok.

Final Image

Photoshop Workshop 3- Layering Pictures

  To layer an image on top of another photo you have to create a new page then drag all of the picture/layers you want onto the page then make sure they are all the same size as well as both landscape and portrait so they fit together easily. When they are all on the same page you line them up then on the layers box on the right side of the screen select the different layers and change the transparentness of the different layers making one the main feature of the picture and the others in the background.

Final Image

photoshop Workshop- Liquify

To liquify a photo you have to open the picture you want to change then go on filter then liquify. Then it changes the screen with all the different tools you can use to change the photo.













Using the tools on the tool bar on the left side of the screen you can change the picture for example if the picture is of a face you can change the features for example you can make the eyes bigger and other features smaller.

Photoshop Workshop- Move Tool

To use the move tool all you have to do is to select the move tool at the top of the tool bar on the left then click on the part of the picture you want to move and drag it to where you want it.

photoshop Workshop- Lassoing Tool

There are three different types of lassoing tools you select them from the tool bar on the left. The lassoing tool is like a cutting tool it cuts out where you draw. The first one on the list can draw any shape that is on you picture and when you have finished you have to finish where you started.





The second one on the list can only draw in straight lines which is good when you have to keep a certain bit straight.








The third one on the list is like a magnet it sticks to the part of the image you are close to which is better if you are not very good at keeping your hand steady and it keeps it neater.

Photoshop Workshop- The Clone Stamp

The clone stamp is useful when using photoshop because you can make doubles of things or people on the same photo or erase things on the photo that shouldn't be on there of example signs or posts. To use the clone stamp you have to select it from the tool bar at the side then select the area around the area that you want to change and hold down the alt key and click then hold and drag where you want to copy the picture.

Photoshop Workshop- Making a Contact Sheet

To make a contact sheet you have to go onto a program called adobe brick then select the pictures that i have taken and need to go on the contact sheet then change the settings on the side to what you want then preview and save the pictures.

Photoshop Workshop 3- Contrast and Brightness

If the picture that you have took is to dark then you have to change the contrast and brightness of a picture you do this by clicking on image at the top then adjustments then either brightness/contrast or level. 

     If you use brightness/contrast then you just have to slide the bar till the brightness and contrast are right on the picture.

To change the brightness and contrast through levels you have to move the pointers at the bottom so that the one on the left is where the black starts and the one on the right is where it finishes and the one in the  middle can be anywhere so that the pictures brightness and contrast are how you want it.

Photoshop Workshop 2- Adding Pictures

To add a picture to the new page you have to open them in photoshop first then all you have to do is click and drag the image onto the new sheet.  

Photoshop Workshop 2- Setting up a new page

To set up a new page you have to go on file new. When the box comes up you then have to make sure its on international paper and change the page size to A4 then click ok.

Photoshop Workshop 1- Saving the Picture

When saving the file you have to go to file save as.

When you have clicked on this a box will come up to change the settings then you have to choose the file type you want to save it as. The three main file types are:

• Jpeg is a good way of saving test prints and experiments as it is quite a small file size as it gets compressed also it can be used on any computer.
• TIFF is good because it doesn't compress your file so it keeps the quality of the file and it can be used on any computer.
• Photoshop is the other good one because it also doesn't compress the file so it keeps the quality but it doesn't work on all computers.

Photoshop Workshop 1- Renaming a File

To rename a file all you have to do is double click on the old file name until the box around the writing changes so you can rename it and when you have changed the name all you have to do is press enter.

Photoshop Workshop 1- Resolution

For your resolution if you are printing a test/experiment picture the should be about 72 but when printing your final picture for your portfolio then it should be about 300 but no more as if it goes higher then 300 the file size will be massive and it will take to long to edit the smallest thing.

Saving the picture

When saving a picture you should save it as one of three different settings

• JPEG- Good for test prints and experiments. compresses the picture and makes the 

Photoshop Workshop 1