Photoshop Skills

Tools

• Content Aware Fill- This tool is used to get rid of distractions in an image by using the surrounding color to fill the space where the object you want gone once was.
• Patch Tool- You can grab a part of the picture and fill that area with a different part of the picture.
• Clone Stamp- With this tool you can select an area to pull from and you pretty much just paint where you want it to look like what you've selected.
• Healing Brush Tool- This tool is like the clone stamp tool but can be used to blend parts together to look more uniform.
• Spot Healing Brush- This tool can be used to remove slight blemishes and smooth things out.

Tutorials

Before the tutorials I had already gotten used to editing pictures and other things in photoshop but it had been a fat minute since I needed to remove anything large or truly distracting to the image as a whole so brushing up on the different tools used for doing so was pretty fun. Remembering how to remove and fix a photo in bigger ways is going to be very helpful in the future when I'm working on different concepts through photography. 

The last tutorial was the photo collage which seemed a bit overwhelming at first since it was such along tutorial and I didn't fully wrap my head around what the final product was going to look like. As I followed along the videos editing the images into one became a lot easier to do since I was already with the tools I was using and the instructions where thorough.

Future Projects

The different techniques and skills I used throughout these tutorials are going to be very useful in the future for me. Mostly because I know that I want to use photography and for my IEP goals and I'll definitely need to be able to use photoshop and the different uses of the tools to complete that project.  I also would like to start doing more with using photography as a way of storytelling and that of course means lots of editing and possibly some different forms of graphic design.