Photoshop Usage

Before I created this blog, I hadn't used Adobe Photoshop for anything. I was totally new to the program however after watching a few Photoshop tutorial videos on YouTube and getting some help from peers who had used it in the past, I was able to do some of the following tasks;

• While creating the presentation of my magazine deconstruction scans, I used photo shop as a way of transforming the scanned document from being a PNG to a JPEG. This meant that I could save the document as an image therefore I was able to easily transfer the document onto my Powerpoint Presentation.
• This is a practice magazine front cover that I created a practice magazine front cover on Photoshop. 
  
• The original feedback that I received from peers and my lecturer was very positive. They said that the document had a nice simplistic feel, that it looked realistic and professional and that the dominant image was edited well.
• However they felt that there was aspects of the front cover that could be improved and that I should make alterations, such as; filling in the white space in the background, including more photos and including more information. I will take this constructive criticism into account when I create my real magazine in order to ensure it is up to a high standard.
• I also filled out the 'G321 Introduction to Photoshop' booklet. This helped me as I had to write inside the booklet how to perform certain tasks such as; creating new documents, adding layers, using the tool bar and using adjustment tools. This helped me to gain a better understanding and once the booklet was completed, I felt that I was a lot more familiar with Photoshop.