Photo Impact Evaluation

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Evaluation

During this unit I have come across many different skills and have had to implement them into my work in different ways to make the best product I possibly could.

While I was creating my adverts in Photo Impact I had to use most of these skills. The first skill I used was the freehand selection tool which was used to cut out a certain area from a picture which enabled it to be inserted into another picture, I used this tool to cut out guitarists and insert them on a waterfall background. To insert the guitarists I also had to use another skill which involved copying and pasting between images, without this skill I wouldn't have been able to copy the freehand selected guitarist and paste it onto the background. As you can imagine, after taking something from one image and adding it to another, the guitarist and the background were out of proportion so I had to use another feature which was used to resize the guitarist, rotate it then finally move him to the correct position. The edges around the guitarist were not the same as the background it was on so I used an extremely useful tool called edge blending which slightly fades the edges of inserted image making it look as if it was meant to be there, not simply copied from another image. Throughout making the adverts I also used the blur and smudge tools, they are used to blur or smudge any part of an image to make something fit into an image easier or to create a sense of speed or heat. I used the blur tool on a family I inserted into a background of a wilderness – I used the tool so they looked like they were already in the image but also so the background looked hot. I also used the warp tool which in general seems a pretty useless tool but can create very interesting effects as it stretches different parts of the background, warping it into different places. I used the warp tool to make the edge of a field on the horizon look slightly more mountainous and lumpy rather than bland and flat. The final tool I used was the clone tool. This clones a certain area over another, for example I used it to clone a certain area of sky over a set of bushes, the outcome of which made it look like there were simply no bushes and the sky didn't look out of place.

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