Research And Planning: Introduction To Photoshop (creating a document)

The second task I got was a 'Photoshop Challenge' which basically was a simple way for me to explore Photoshop in a little more detail and start practicing and recapping the skills we learnt in the previous Media Studies lesson. There were 8 different sections in this task that we needed to complete.

Opening a A4 Document
To do this I treated Photoshop as though it was a word document; therefore it was fairly simple. I just went to "File; New; Preset and changed it to International Paper and then changed the size to A4.

Changing text
This was also simple. I just clicked on the T icon on the left sidebar which allowed me to start typing on my new document. Doing this allowed me to be able to change the font size/font style and colour by highlighting the text and selecting my chosen preference. I also had to centre allign my text; to do this I had to highlight again and just click on the 'centre allign' icon.


Changing the background colour
To do this I went across the tool bar at the top of Photoshop to 'Image; then to fill; then change colour,' and the colour I had to change it to was blue. This was a quite easy task to do as it was quick and simple.

Giving the text a drop shadow
To begin with I was unsure of how to do this task even though we had covered it in the previous lesson but in the end I managed to do it. I highlighted the text that I wanted the effect to appear on; went onto 'Layer; layer style; and then selected a drop shadow.'

Inserting a picture
This task was fairly simple; all I had to do was open the picture I wanted to use, use the select tool and then drag the image onto my blue background document.

Changing the hair colour
I didnt get time to do this section of the challenge but I learnt how to do it in the following lesson; this is where you will find my description of how to change the hair colour.

Creating a border
Photoshop has a easy way of doing this. On the left sidebar there is a square icon which creates a rectangle shape around the picture. I then changed the colour and dragged the rectangle layer underneath the picture layer on the right sidebar.