Researching Photoshop Skills.





We have been looking at how to use the skills in which are needed to use Adobe Photoshop, we need these skills to be able to create movie poster and also magazine pages. For our first try at Photoshop we produced a film poster for a film of our choice. I decided to do a movie poster for 'Peaky Blinders'

The tools I used within making this movie poster were the Polygonal Lasso Tool to cut out the background of the two main characters in the posters then I played around the the effects on the images and added a inner glow to give the characters better edges as my edges around them were not perfect. 
The other tool I used a lot was the tool that allowed me to move everything around which was the button which said 'Show Transformation Controls' it allows me to move all the images and text anywhere on the page where I would like. This allowed me to layer things such as put the text over the images. 


As I had no previous experience with Photoshop I found a tutorial on YouTube which helped me out majorly and explained the tools and why I would be using them. I have linked it down below. 




I believe that this task  has helped me improve my skills on this software, this will help me with the future tasks that I will need to do for the rest of my A2 coursework.




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