Wednesday, January 22, 2014

What Is Photoshop


  1. 3 parts of Adobe Photoshop are the title bar, menu bar, and option bar.
  2. What types of professionals use Photoshop?- Photographer, Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Advertiser
  3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop?- cropping, lighting, and contrasting
  4. Crop tool- use to hide or crop certain things out of the image
  5. Lasso- trace the image outline
  6. Text- enter blocks of text
  7. How do you "undo" a mistake?- Command+Z or CTRL-Z
  8. What can you do to undo more than one mistake? How do you open it?- Pull up the History Pallet by going to 'Window' --> 'History Menu'
  9. How do you rotate an image?- Go to the image menu and select Image Rotation.
  10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?- You can use the cancel icon (looks like a no-smoking circle)
  11. Under the heading "Realizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling photoshop to do as you crop your image?you are telling Photoshop which dimensions the image should result in after your crop
  12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?- 150 to 200 pip
  13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?- 250 ppi or more

Friday, January 17, 2014

Favorite Cover


Online DescriptionStephen Colbert was wonderful but the baby had all sorts of diva-like demands—a full trailer with a plasma screen tuned to "Teletubbies," a Dior Homme diaper, and at least one of Pamela Anderson's breasts. It wasn't easy, but it's what we had to work with. Colbert was photographed by Mark Seliger - See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contests/2007-winners-finalists#sthash.32t3SwD9.dpuf

My Critique: Stephen Colbert, one of my favorite late night television hosts, poses here with an infant version of himself, which would give us readers a chuckle and make us wonder why he's holding that! The cover line says "Stephen Colbert for President" which makes me think all sorts of things that maybe Colbert has done or is starting to do. The lighting quality is great, doesn't distract me from the subjects of the photo. The smaller cover lines are red, white, and blue, inspiring the patriotism in Americans.

Magazines!


  1. Masthead- main picture that pulls you in  
  2. Dateline- Month and year of publication with the price
  3. Main Image- the face is big enough to stand out 
  4. Model Credit- gives the photographer and model credit for the photo
  5. Coverlines- smaller titles that don't distract from the main points
  6. Main Coverlines- Biggest cover line on the page, main attraction for the cover photo besides the masthead
  7. Left Third- portion of the cover that doesn't distract from the masthead 
  8. Barcode- Standard bar code 
  9. Selling Line- describes what they're really trying to sell

Monday, January 13, 2014

ISO Questions

1. The best ISO setting we used was ISO 800.
2. Our next best photo was ISO 1600.
3. Yes'm.
4. Different lightings require different settings for the picture, and you need to learn to let the light in or out with aperture, shutter sped, and ISO.

ISO Photos

ISO 100// 5.6 1/60 
 ISO 400// 5.6 1/60
ISO 800// 5.6 1/60
 ISO 1600// 5.6 1/60
 ISO 3200// 5.6 1/60