Photoshop run

This is my image that i created through Photoshop CS4. I used two separate images  - a sunflower and an orange. Once you copy and paste one image onto another, different labels are created. This means you can individually work on the images separately, rather than only being able to adjust the picture as a whole. With the orange, i added a blurring effect and smoothed the edges to make the white parts appear smaller. With the sunflower, i added an artistic water paint effect to blur the edges but keep the effect different to the orange.

To cut around the orange to make a smooth edge, i used the freehand lasso tool, but it would have been easier and neater to use the circular marquee tool. To ensure the sunflower and orange fitted together, i had to then use the circular marquee tool to cut a shape in the centre of the sunflower to accommodate the orange's shape. Once the hole was cut out in the sunflower, i copied and pasted the orange shape onto the sunflower. As there were only two images, i only used two labels for my picture. The main tool i used was a blurring tool, this way any messy edges were neatened up, and the two images came together as one. I chose a sunflower and and orange as they had no relation to one another and i wanted to pull them together into one image.

We participated in this photoshop workshop to improve our skills in media in preparation for our ancillary task. Our ancillary task involves designing a poster/magazine cover/ CD cover. Figuring out photoshop was useful for myself and my group, in order to ensure our creations were more interesting and creative.