Week 2: Photoshop & Dreamweaver

Week 2: Photoshop and Dreamweaver

So the assignment this week is on photoshop, but in our last class we bought our domain name and began learning about dreamweaver a program I have never used.  The basics of the program seem simple enough.  I'm excited to learn more and start using dreamweaver more in depth, but anyways back to photoshop the focus of this weeks post.

Fortunately for me I have some experience with photoshop.  It is very minimal, but I have used the program before, years ago in high school yearbook.  I'm hoping that I will be able to recall what I learned, but I doubt it will be like riding a bike.

I started looking at some photoshop tutuorial websites using google and a lot of what I found was stuff that I don't think I would ever use, but one website I found has a lot of simple techniques to better photographs that seemed useful to me.

This site has tutorials on:
-Selective coloring effects on photos
-Fold and creases effects on photos
-Blending textures on photos
-Darkening overexposed photos
-Brightening underexposed photos

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/

"Adobe Photoshop Tutorials and Training." Photoshop Tutorials. Web. 09 Apr. 2012. <http://www.photoshopessentials.com/>.


The second site I looked at was also very helpful and once again for beginners.  There was a little bit of overlap between the two sites, but both very informative.

http://mashable.com/2010/08/12/12-beginner-tutorials-for-getting-started-with-photoshop/

"Featured in Social Media." Mashable. Web. 09 Apr. 2012. <http://mashable.com/2010/08/12/12-beginner-tutorials-for-getting-started-with-photoshop/>.





Youtube Photoshop Tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-u-OYz2qaU
This first tutorial is pretty long, but informative.  It covers the basics, which is definitely what I need.  Photoshop is a step by step process and I discovered that missing a few steps can get you lost very quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4EooYoYYTQ
This second tutorial is on layers, which I understand at the beginning.  As I continued to work on my photo I got a little more confused all of a sudden I had a ton of layers and I didn't know which layer was what.  This video helps to give you a basic run through of layers and how to use them.