WHAT HAVE YO U L EAR NT AB O UT TECHN OL O GIES FRO M THE PR OCESS OF CON STRU CTING THIS PRO DUCT?

Before the Preliminary tasks I had no prior experience with Photoshop. Throughout this topic I have developed a fairly good base understanding of Photoshop. I have learnt too:• Use the magic wand tool• Using layer masks to apply

Gaussian blurs • Applying the red of the image to

create an airbrushed effect.• Selecting the eyes and then

sharpening them to add impact to them and bring out the natural contours.

• Create text• Use dodge and burn tools on

different settings to brighten and darken the chosen parts of my picture.

• Use the warp tool to get the desired shape of the body/facial features.

• Use different brushes to add highlights to the hair/ thicken eyelashes.

• Play around with the Opacity of an image to make the images overlap of be faint on the page.

• Use swatches to keep the colour scheme consistent.

• Crop the image and rotate it to have an image close enough to the face to get the effect I want.

• Select certain parts of the image/texts so that the effect of brush only applies to this area.

• Copy and paste in Photoshop• Free and puppet warp the image• Clone pieces of the images for a

desired effect, e.g. fill in a gap in the hair/ add more hair.

• Use a suface blur to smooth the skin

• Use the smudge tool to smooth the skin

• Use scattering while cloning to make the image look like it is being blown away by the wind.

• Using different lasso tools and refining the edge through this

• Using the Vibrance slider to make the skin paler then using the curves/levels tools to make them brighter.

• Using layers • Saving work in different formats.

• Ect.

I had no prior experience with blogger before this task. Through this task I have learnt how to:• Create a blog• Change the colour scheme• Post on this blog• Use html to post on the blog• Upload images to this blog

Before this task I had no previous experience in using a DSLR camera. I learnt about camera angles shots and model posing to create the effect that I wanted. I learnt how to upload the images using a USB cable and then copying the images in my files.

Before this topic I had never heard of issuu but because of this topic I discovered it. I learnt how to upload a Word document to this website and then publish it to my blogger account.

I have learnt how to upload my PowerPoint presentations onto slideshare and put them onto my blog so that they can be played on the internet. I believe this is a more aesthetically pleasing way of reading text than in one big bulk.

While doing this project I have had to use Flikr for the first time. I learnt how to create an account, upload a picture, add notes and post it to my blog.

Because of this task I have learnt about YouTube tutorials and how they can help you with work.