introduction to photoshop

photoshop is a graphic and picture editing tool. It enables the user to alter, manipulate and create images either from existing photos or found images. the tools we used was the marquee tool which cuts box shapes around images or part of the image, the clone stamp tool which makes a perfect copy of a highlighted part of the image, the lassoo tool which enables you to cut around an image and paste it into another one. this is very effective as it allows you to move images into other pictures to creat the desired effect, like when we had to create a relfection in another picture we pasted one in and scaled it down to the right size with free transform and then could edit the colour by using the hue and saturation. photoshop is relativly easy to use is its self explanitory, the only complicated bit is cutting around images to get them perfect and even the magic wand tool cant do this accuratly. its useful for media because you cant take a simple image and turn it into something compelty different for something like a film poster or an album cover.