Photoshop HW 1

Photoshop Tools for Beginners

This video covers the basics of the tools. The lasso tool is useful to select certain areas of your work to adjust them in various ways. The patch tool can be used to patch specific areas of your work to make them disappear or blend in with your background. The spot healing brush can be used in a similar way but is especially good for blemishes on skin and elements like that. 

The layer mask tool can be used to combine two images. This tool can be used to combine two works into one, making them seamless with each other. This can be used to blend them together and make one work of art. This would be useful in editing two final products together.

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Rasterizing and duplicating layers allows for editing layers, which would be useful in changing hues and saturations as well as trying out different colors for a specific layer. The filter menu option allows for different effects to be played around with to give your piece a different feel and effect. Editing the layer styles does similar things, but only applies that effect to that specific layer so that you can adjust each layer individually. 

Clone Stamp Tool

This tool allows you to take one element of a piece and clone it and stamp it to another place on the artwork. This tool is useful in making a piece of artwork symmetrical, if that is wanted. It would also be useful in moving certain elements around to try different compositions. It is also useful in making patterns.