Monday, 22 March 2010

Preliminary task

The main purpose of the preliminary task was that we could learn how to use Adeobe photoshop in order to do the four spread page magazine coursework. This preliminary coursework consist on the creation of a school prospectus front cover. We have been told by our teacher to choose our school (St.Edfmund's college) as a topic for the front cover page.

Before starting working with PS, me and my class, we have been taking a lot of pictures of the school both from the inside and the outside. Afterwards we uploaded all the pictures taken on the computers and choose which picture was the most suitable for a A4 page.

Then after we had our pictures our teacher spent two lessons on teaching us how to use the basic functions of Photoshop by showing us clips of it on the smartboard. the lesson after i started to do the prospectus of the school. i choose to do it in a landscape form because the picture of the school was too wide to put it into a Portrait form. This was not hard to do as i was told how to do it from the teacher the past lesson.

However the complications came afterwards when we had to insert a picture of a student into the background picture of the school. I took a picture of my friend and i opened it with Photoshop so that i could crop out the parts that i did not want to be included. It was really hard the first time i did it as i could not find the tools to do it, therefore i asked my teacher help and he showed me carefully how to crop stuff unwanted out of a picture. The tools is called "magic tool" and it is found on the right where you have all the list of tools you can use.

Afterwards i inserted the picture on the background and inserted the title in order to finish the design of the cover. The title is in a white font this because it is in contrast with the background therefore is more eye catching.