So this week was the last photoshop lesson.
I'm really getting worried because the stuff we've been taught hasnt helped me enough. I still dont feel like I know enough about photoshop to complete any sort of decent looking poster. Let me just go over what I've been taught so far: I know how to edit hue and colour saturation, I know how to make different objects on different layers (sort of), I can select different things on a page with the same colours, and I can make things blurry.
But these things are not enough to create, what I feel, is the expected quality of the poster. I feel that We should also be taught about things. Things like what all of the buttons on the sides and top of the window do, or how to create certain elements that can be used in our posters. While I understand that class time is limmited, having access to written tutorials that explain what the buttons do, or explain various common elements and techniques on the university website would be useful. We were given links to a site full of tutorials for making posters. But all of those tutorials require a functioning knowledge of photoshop techniques and terminology.
So its really worrying me that I dont know how to make my vision for my poster come alive. what I want to do is a poster for the book Neon Court. One of the key things in the book is messages left in graffiti.
A key message left is "It's waiting for you at the end of the alley". And I want to take a picture of a dark alleyway. With graffiti saying that photoshopped in. also adding a filter to give the poster an ominous creepy effect. And I havent been given the knowledge I need to do that.
Another option is an album cover but I cant think of a photoshop job complex enough to deserve a good mark in the project.
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