In today's lesson Rebecca introduced us to Adobe Photoshop Elements on the Mac. The majority of the class had no clue how to use, however I've had past experience with Photoshop CS3 but this version on the Mac seems to work in a slightly different way although it wasn't completely alien to me.
The tutorial covered the basics such as, importing pictures, layering, adding text, and also adding effects. In class we had to learn these technical skills and then apply them and make a practice Digipak with images Rebecca had provided us.
The pictures we had to work with where pretty dire to say the least, they where uninspiring, as in the position and picture quality weren't great. I first began with adding a light bulb lawyer on top of the original image of the supposed artist, the light bulb would also go along with the name i had chosen for my artist 'Bright Spark'.
I then added text to the back cover with the names of the song that will appear on this album. Adding text is very simple and is almost second nature now when using Photoshop Elements.
I then played with the brightness and contract effects along with colour correction settings to add a different and more professional tone to the originally dull pictures. Below is how the finished practice Digipak looked.
I then added text to the back cover with the names of the song that will appear on this album. Adding text is very simple and is almost second nature now when using Photoshop Elements.
I then played with the brightness and contract effects along with colour correction settings to add a different and more professional tone to the originally dull pictures. Below is how the finished practice Digipak looked.
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