Lab 10 Editing tools Reflection Journal

In this lab I used editing tools in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 to edit images from its original form to a new form. First off, I opened up Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Secondly I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on File. Thirdly I clicked on Open. A window appeared that showed me my files and pictures. I first decided to click on PicE and click on OK to place the image into Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I duplicate the layer to have a total of two images of the exact same layer. I clicked on the Magic Wand tool to select it. I clicked, held down the mouse button, and dragged to create a selection on the non-sky parts. I clicked on the Quick Selection Tool to select it from the Photoshop Toolbar. I clicked, held down the mouse button, and dragged the mouse button to create and fill in the remaining selections on the non-sky part of the image. Next I clicked on Select from the Photoshop bar. Clicking Select showed me a tab where I clicked on the Inverse to invert the selection. Then I clicked on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 color picker to select orange for the foreground and red for the background. I clicked on the Gradient tool from the Photoshop Toolbox. After that, I clicked on the image of the inverted selections so that the sky looks like it is having a sunset. I clicked on the Eraser Tool from the Photoshop Toolbox. I clicked and dragged my mouse on selected points to erase some of the gradient too. I saved my Photoshop document and closed it to make the next adjustments for my images. I reopened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on File. I clicked on New to make a new Photoshop document. Afterwards, a window appeared allowing me to adjust the settings of the document. I named my Photoshop document "LB10 WeiJianZhen VD.Pic.jpg" and had the default settings. I clicked OK to confirm it. I clicked File again and Place Embedded. A window appeared that showed my files and images. I clicked on PicA which was a Family Guy picture and pressed OK to put the image into the Photoshop document. I clicked on the Magic Eraser Tool and clicked on the white background to erase it. I clicked on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 color picker to select red as the foreground. I clicked on the Paint Bucket tool and clicked on Lois' shirt to turn it into red. I clicked on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 document to place light blue as the foreground. I clicked back to the Paint Bucket tool to click on Chris' shirt to light blue. I clicked on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 color picker to select the foreground color to yellow. I clicked on the Paint Bucket tool and clicked on the Family Guy logo to turn the logo from blue to yellow. I saved the document and exited out of the Photoshop document. Therefore, I reopened the Photoshop document and clicked on File again. I clicked on Open which showed me a list of files and images. I selected PicB this time and clicked OK to select it. The image of soldiers showed up. I dragged the layer to the duplicate layer icon to duplicate the layer. I labeled one layer "Back" and one layer "Front". I clicked on the eye of the layer "Back" to hide the layer so that I can use the Blur tool. I clicked on the Blur tool. I selected the soldiers in front and the gun by the Magic Wand tool and Quick Selection tool. I clicked on Select to Inverse to invert the selection. I clicked and dragged the mouse to blur the layer "Front" and blur the soldiers behind the two front soldiers and the gun. After that, I clicked on the eye of the layer "Front" and clicked on the eye of the layer "Back" to hide the "Front" layer and reveal the "Back" layer. I used the Magic Wand tool and Quick selection tool to create a selection for the soldiers on the back. I clicked on Select and Inverse to create an inverted selection. I clicked on the Blur tool to select it. I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse button across the "Back" layer to blur the soldiers and gun up front. I saved this Photoshop document as well. I clicked on the Photoshop bar on File. I clicked on New to make a new Photoshop document with the default settings. I clicked on Place Embedded from the File tab. A window popped up showing the files and images again. I clicked on PicD this time and clicked OK to place the baseball image onto the new Photoshop document. I clicked on the Sponge tool. I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse around the boys so that their surrounding area is greyed out.  I made a selection around the boys to make it easier for me to grey the surrounding area easily. I did this by clicking on the Magic Wand tool and clicking on the boys. I next clicked on the Quick Selection tool. I clicked and dragged my mouse on the boys to make the selection whole. Lastly I clicked on Select and Inverse to create the selection. I saved the Photoshop document. I closed Photoshop and returned on another day to work on the last one. I opened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on File. I clicked on New from the File tab. A window appeared allowing me to adjust the Photoshop document. I named my Photoshop document PicC and set my settings to default. I clicked on the File tab and clicked on Open. A window popped up showing my files and images. I clicked PicC and clicked OK to confirm it. The image of a family plopped onto the Photoshop document. First, I clicked on the Burn tool to select it. I clicked, held my mouse button, and dragged my mouse onto the girl's jacket to darken the shadows of her jacket. Second off, I clicked on the Dodge tool to lighten the Christmas tree and balls. I clicked back on the Burn tool to select it. I clicked, held my mouse button, and dragged my mouse onto the mom's shirt and dad's jacket to darken them. I clicked back to the Dodge tool. I had clicked, held my mouse button, and dragged my mouse onto the tie of the dad to lighten the tie. I clicked back to the Burn tool to darken the dad's hair, both the mom's and dad's eyes noses and mouths. I did this by clicking, holding my mouse button, and dragging my mouse over the selected objects. Finally I clicked back to the Dodge tool. I clicked, held my mouse button, and dragged my mouse onto the background like the trees and walls to lighten them. I saved the Photoshop document. These skills are useful to a web designer when creating art, backgrounds, or ads for a website.
In conclusion, the task was to use tools like the Magic Eraser tool from Photoshop to make adjustments to the images. The Magic Eraser tool deletes the shape or object entirely by just one click. The blur tool blurs out your selected parts of your selected areas you want to blur making it fuzzy and hard to see. The Dodge tool lightens up the image or selected part of your image creating a brighter contrast. The Burn tool is the opposite of the Dodge tool which darkens the selected parts of your image creating a darker contrast. The Sponge tool desaturates your selected parts of your images creating a black and white effect. The Paint Bucket tool changes and fills in a color for a part of your image while the Gradient tool changes the color of your selected area with varying colors the farther you go.
The Blending Mode blends two colors into one color that is a combination of the two colors. These tools could've helped me on Lab 7, Lab 8, and Lab 9. This is because for Lab 7, I could've used the Dodge tool to lighten up the background instead of using the filters on the Photoshop tab. For Lab 8, I could've used the Blur tool to blur the background instead of making a mask for the turkey and applying a blur to it from the Photoshop bar. For Lab 9, I could've used the Burn tool to darken the shadows of the word instead of going into multiple settings just to make the word darker. The Magic Eraser tool best fits for myself because the tool is easy and efficient at doing its job.

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Museum Class Trip Blog Reflection Journal

Today, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States of America. I saw glorious paintings, beautiful sculptures, great murals, and exhibits that made my mind think. I observed art in many different cultures and backgrounds that created man differences between the murals, sculptures, exhibits, and paintings.  I learnt about the techniques that the artists used which made the art stand out and illustrated the emotions through us. I learnt that art can be expressed in many different ways. Another thing I had learned from visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art was how different placements of colors, shapes, and lines can change our perspective on how we view the art and what the artist is trying to send a message across. Furthermore, I learned about the different objects used the make the art. For example, an artist used a sponge for one painting to create a resounding effect. Another artist weaved together a bunch of materials like aluminum and fabric by using copper wire which created a great effect that reflected the lighting making the art seem vibrant. I learned that you can control your strokes and lines when painting abstract art using a paintbrush hovering over the air with paint. Also, I learned about how the artist used materials ranging from objects found in the trash to objects online to create and design their art. Now since I gone to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn about artistic techniques and design, I think I would use and remix some elements of the artists that had their art displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in my website with my own originality. I would design my website to mirror my passion for games and technology. I would have colorful and vibrant backgrounds. I would have clear and direct User Interface so that users would have easy access to my website. I would have games and videos on tabs and pages. I would have a FAQ or a DBQ so that people can talk about website related topics. I would also have a rating system so that people can rate my or others games and videos. I would design it to my target audience, (mostly gamers) by placing gaming themes. Another way would be placing internet culture because most of my audience would get most of the elements I put into my website. Furthermore I would place games for my target audience to play that they might enjoy.  Also, I would place texts like "Action Games" or "Puzzle Fun Fare" so my target audience will know what my website is about. So when the gamers come to my site, they would most likely feel welcome and at home.

Location of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Metropolitan+Museum+of+Art/@40.7794366,-73.9654327,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x89c25896e10b5523:0x6c1168e355509b8b!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25896f660c26f:0x3b2fa4f4b6c6a1fa!8m2!3d40.7794366!4d-73.963244?hl=en
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Website:https://www.metmuseum.org/

Pictures and Videos recorded from the Metropolitan Museum of Art from my iPhone:

 

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Project 2 Collage Lettering

In this lab, I created two masks with different styles in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. First I opened up Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Secondly, I gone to the Photoshop bar on the top hand corner of the the program. Thirdly I clicked on File to open its tab. Next I clicked on New on the File tab to create a new Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 document. After I clicked on New, a window popped up showing me the settings for the Photoshop document. I named my Photoshop document Project 2 and kept the default settings. I clicked OK to confirm my options. Then, I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on File again. I clicked on Place Embedded this time. A window popped up showing me all my files. I clicked and selected a saved picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I pressed OK to confirm. The image appeared on the Photoshop document. I held down shift, clicked on the right hand side of the image, held down the mouse, dragged the image to the right, let go of the mouse, moved the cursor to the left side of the image, held down the mouse, dragged the image to the left, let go of the mouse, let go of the shift key, and clicked on the Move tool to confirm the image adjustments. I clicked on the Magic Wand tool to select it. I clicked and dragged my mouse onto the image until most of the selection was covered over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Therefore, I clicked on the Quick Selection tool to fill in the rest of my selection until all of the selection was covered on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I clicked on the Magnetic Lasso tool to select it. I clicked on the subtraction option button on the top hand corner of Photoshop. I clicked and moved the mouse around the selections I want to remove so I can only have the selection on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I clicked on the combine option button to add missing selections. Using the same method as subtract selection to remove them, I added the missing selections to have only the selection on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Once the selection has been done, I gone to the Photoshop bar to click on Select and clicked on Inverse. I clicked on the mask button on the lower right hand corner of Photoshop to create a mask (meaning cutout in this case) of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I clicked on the paths tab to create a path. I clicked on the layer with the original Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and clicked on the eye icon to hide the image so that the mask only shows up on the Photoshop document. After that, I clicked on the text tool. I clicked just outside the mask to type in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. multiple times, "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." This made a outline of the mask. I clicked on the New Layer button to create a new layer from the lower right hand corner of Photoshop. Afterwards I clicked on the color and contrast button on the lower left hand corner of Photoshop. I clicked on New Color Fill LAyer to fill in the new layer blue. I moved the blue layer above the mask but below the text layers to create a blue background with the words outlining to create a silhouette of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Finally I saved the Photoshop document and went on to do the other half of this project.

Project 2 part 1 images:

Now first off on part 2 of Project 2 Collage Lettering, I exited out of part 1 of Project 2 and opened a new Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 document. I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on File. I clicked on Place Embedded on the File tab to place the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. image. I held shift, clicked on the lower left hand corner, held my mouse button, and dragged diagonally downwards towards the edges of the Photoshop document. I clicked on the Move tool to move the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. image to my selected area. I clicked on the Magic Wand tool. I clicked and dragged my mouse over the selected areas that I wanted to place. I clicked and selected the Quick Selection tool. I clicked and dragged the mouse over the image so that the selection mostly is on only Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I clicked on the Magnetic Lasso tool to click on the subtraction icon on the top hand corner of Photoshop. I encircled the parts that I didn't want for the selection. I did this by clicking on one point, moving my mouse around the selection I didn't want, and clicking back to the original point to select or remove the certain selections.  I zoomed in and out using Command Plus and Command Minus on the Macintosh keyboard. I clicked on the addition icon on the top hand corner of Photoshop. I encircled the parts I wanted to add for the selection by clicking on one point, moving my mouse around for the selection I wanted, and clicking back to the original point to add the certain selections. I zoomed in and out again by using Command Plus and Command Minus on the Macintosh keyboard. Once the selection is only on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I gone to the Photoshop bar. I clicked on Select to show a tab and clicked on Inverse to make the selection inverted. I gone to the lower right hand corner of Photoshop to click on the mask button. Once I clicked on the mask button, a masked appeared showing the silhouette of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Also, the silhouette image was linked to the original image. Now, I searched up images online that in my mind symbolize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I saved all of the selected images into the computer files. After that, I gone back to Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 to go to the Photoshop bar. I clicked on File on the Photoshop bar which opened a tab so that I could click on Place Embedded to place the images symbolizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A window appeared showing me all the images symbolizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the computer files. I clicked on the first image which was a peace sign and pressed OK. The image was placed on the Photoshop document. I held down shift, went to the lower right hand corner of the image, clicked and held down the mouse button, dragged diagonally upwards, and released when the size was desirable. I had hit enter to confirm the size. I clicked on the Move tool to move the image on the mask inside the area of the silhouette. I did this for all of the rest of the images until the silhouette was filled up. Finally I moved the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. layer to the top so that the mask could envelop the images and rearranged my image layers to its selected place in the layers panel. I saved my Photoshop document. Knowing how to use a path and mask is useful for web designers when creating artwork of their own or for others. Knowing how to use a path can help you make decorative ads to advertise a product too.

Project 2 part 2 images:





Links to the image locations:
https://s2.jupiterfiles.com/d24795/s5027226/603645329/Project_2.jpg
https://s2.jupiterfiles.com/d24795/s5027226/1555196346/Project_2_part_1.png
https://s2.jupiterfiles.com/d24795/s5027226/2125270789/Project_2_Part_3.jpg
https://s2.jupiterfiles.com/d24795/s5027226/919903615/PNG_Project_2_Part_3.png

A side note from the author:
Rest In Peace Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and condolences for his family. May your dream, struggles, and achievements carve a path and continue carving a path for the rest of us. 👏🙏🙏🙏☮

Lab 6 Vector Shapes Drawing Reflection Journal

In this lab, I used vector shapes to create a reimagining of my jack-o-lantern drawing on Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. First, I opened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Secondly, I gone on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 bar and clicked on File. Thirdly, I clicked on New on the File tab which created a window to pop-up. This window allowed my to adjust the settings of the Photoshop document. I named my Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 document "LB6_WeiJianZhen_VD" and used the default settings. I clicked on File again and clicked on Open this time to select my jack-o-lantern drawing. A window popped up showing me a list of files in the Macintosh computer. I clicked on the jack-o-lantern drawing file and clicked OK to have the image onto the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 document. I duplicated the jack-o-lantern drawing by right clicking on its layer and clicking on duplicate layer. I clicked on one eye next to the jack-o-lantern layer copy to hide that layer for future reference. Next I changed the color on the color panel of Photoshop to brown and clicked on the Vector Shapes tool on the left side of the Photoshop program to select it. Then I clicked on the Ellipse tool to select it and create a circle on the Photoshop document by dragging top left to bottom right. I clicked on the Move tool to click on the circle and drag it to the top of the stem. I clicked on the Vector Shapes tool again to click on Rounded Rectangular Triangle. After that, I clicked and dragged the mouse from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner to create a rounded rectangular shape. I clicked on the Move tool again and moved the rounded rectangular shape onto the stem of my jack-o-lantern drawing. I changed the color to orange after that. Afterwards, I clicked on Vector Shapes tool to select the Ellipse tool. I clicked and dragged my mouse from top left to bottom right to create five ellipses. I used the Move tool to drag and place the ellipses onto the selected spots as the body of the jack-o-lantern. I changed the color to yellow thereafter. I clicked on the Vector Shapes tool and clicked on Custom Shapes to select it. Once the Custom Shapes were selected, I clicked on the panel on the top hand of Photoshop that says "Shape" to make a panel showing some of the custom shapes. I clicked on the gear button to show a tab to click on "All" to show all of the custom shapes. I clicked on the triangle shape which had a base that was pointing to the bottom. I clicked and dragged the mouse diagonally downwards to create a orange triangle. I right clicked on the orange triangle layer. I clicked duplicate layer to duplicate the orange triangle layer and have another triangle that is identical to the first one. I clicked on the Move tool to place the triangles on the selected areas. Afterwards, I clicked and selected a triangle with its base pointing upwards from the Shape panel. I created one of the base pointed upwards triangle shape by clicking and dragging the mouse diagonally down from top left to bottom right. I selected the move tool again and placed the different triangle to its selected spot. I created, used, and moved to their selected spots using the Move tool a combination of upward and downward based triangles for the mouth of the jack-o-lantern.  I changed the color to dark purple. Furthermore, I clicked on the ellipse shapes tool to place create two big ellipses that were bigger than the body of the jack-o-lantern giving it a outline, by clicking and dragging the mouse from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner diagonally. I thereafter clicked on the rounded rectangular shape tool. I clicked and dragged my mouse from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner diagonally to create the rounded rectangular shape. I did this multiple times to get multiple rounded rectangular shapes. I selected the Move tool and dragged the shapes to their selected placements. I changed the color to black.  I then clicked on the Rectangular Shapes tool in the Vector Shapes tool. I clicked and dragged my mouse from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner diagonally to create a rectangle. I repeated this process again to make another rectangle. The rectangles are used as the night sky. I changed the color to grey. Finally I clicked on the Text tool. I clicked and dragged the mouse from top left to bottom right to create a textbox. I typed in the textbox "Wei Jian Zhen Visual Design 11/13/2017". I saved my document because I was finished with the project. Knowing how to use vector shapes is important to web designers because it allows them to create better art and designs in their websites.

Lab 6 JPEG:

Happy Halloween! 😁 👻 🎃 🍬

Lab 9 blending options for layer styles reflection journal

In this lab, I used blending options for layer styles and for texts. First up on how I did it, I opened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Second off, I clicked on File on the Photoshop bar and clicked on New to open a window that shows the settings for the Photoshop document. Thirdly, I set the settings to default and clicked OK. Next I clicked on the Text tool. I then clicked and dragged my mouse on the Photoshop document to create a textbox from top left to bottom right. I typed in my name in the textbox which was Wei Jian Zhen. After that I right clicked on the text layer to select blending options. A window popped up which showed me the settings for blending options for layers styles which appeared every time I clicked on blending options. Afterwards, I selected Bevel and Emboss for the text layer to place that layer style on the text which made lighter and darker tones or colors to the texts. Furthermore, I created another textbox just like the first one and typed in my name again. I right clicked on the second layer to click on blending options.  I selected Bevel and Emboss and Stroke to make the text have an outline. Therefore, I created another identical textbox and typed in my name in it. I duplicated the layer 3 times to get a total of 6 textbox layers. I moved all the textboxes to its selected areas so that the texts are readable. For the third textbox, I right clicked on its layer and clicked on blending options. I selected Bevel and Emboss, Stroke, Inner Shadow, and Inner Glow. For the fourth box, I right clicked on its layer to click on blending options. I selected Satin to the text layer to make the text blend with another color. I right clicked on the fifth layer to click on blending options again. I selected Color Overlay to place a color different from the text color. I right clicked on the last layer to click on blending options. I selected Pattern Overlay, Outer Glow, and Drop Shadow to place a entirely different color onto the text with a shadow with the text. Finally, I saved my project. Knowing how to use blending options can be useful for web designers because you can be able to create logos for yourself or for others. Another way that knowing how to use blending options can be useful is when you have to create ads which creating colors and patterns for texts can attract viewers to see those ads. Furthermore, you can write books that use blending options to create stylized effects or wacky ways to emphasize your texts and sentences. It could especially be useful in children's books because of the emphasized theme of children's books. Words like KAPPO or WAZOOM could be decorated in blending options to further emphasize their meaning. Also, web designers could make art out of blending options because of the different styles to texts. For example, web designers could make a zebra pattern of their words with a rainbow coloration along with whatever else they had created for their art. They could use the text with blending options as the art itself too!

Link to a picture of the finished assignment:https://s2.jupiterfiles.com/d24795/s5027226/1306288612/Lab_9_Blending_Options_for_Layer_Style.jpg

Lab 8 Mask Layer Turkey Card Reflection Journal

In this lab, I created a Thanksgiving turkey card by using Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. First I opened Photoshop CC 2017 on the Macintosh computer. Second I gone to the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 bar and clicked on File and to New. Clicking New opened a window allowing me to set my settings for the new Photoshop document. I typed in "LB8_WeiJianZhen_VD" and used the default settings. I clicked OK to confirm my settings. Secondly, I gone to the Photoshop bar again and clicked File again. I clicked on Open from the File tab. It showed me a window that showed all my files and I selected my turkey picture. I pressed OK to confirm that I want the picture on the Photoshop document. Thirdly I clicked on the Quick Selection tool to select it. I clicked and dragged the mouse on the turkey making a selection for only just the turkey. I pressed on the subtraction icon for the Quick Selection tool to subtract the selections I made that weren't a part of the turkey. I clicked and dragged the selection tool onto the selections that weren't part of the turkey and erased it from the photo. Once only the turkey is selected, I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on Select. I clicked on Inverse on the Select tab to have the selection be inversed. I unlocked the turkey layer which was the background layer and duplicated the layer. After that I created a mask by clicking on the mask button on the lower right hand corner of the photoshop document. This created a link between the turkey layer and the mask. After that I clicked on the turkey image which was not the mask image. Thereafter, I clicked on Filter at the Photoshop bar and clicked on photo gallery to select a filter for the background of the turkey. I selected Dry Brush, selected the settings for the filter by dragging the slides from left to right or right to left, and clicked OK to confirm the Filter. The background of the turkey now had the filter on looking like the background was dry paint. Next I gone to the Photoshop tab and clicked on Filter again to select Blur this time. I blurred the background making the turkey look more pronounced. I clicked on motion blur on the filter tab to place motion blur on the background. This made the turkey look like it was moving fast on the area that it was on. Finally I clicked on the Text Box tool to create a textbox. I typed into the textbox "Happy Thanksgiving :D". I clicked on Image at the Photoshop bar,  gone down from the image tab to Canvas Size, and clicked on it. Photoshop showed me a window where I could adjust the setting of the canvas size or the area where I can do my work on. I selected pixels for the height and selected 100% for it. I clicked on Relative to make the canvas size relative to the rest of the layer. I clicked the down arrow button and clicked OK to confirm. The canvas size had now changed making a blank space on the top of the turkey image so that I can make it into a card later by folding it in half. I clicked File to Save as to save the project. I also took a screenshot of the project to show it to you viewers! Knowing how to use masks and filters can be useful to web designers because it allows web designers to make better ads that market a product. It also allows web designers make better art using filters on Photoshop.


 My screenshot of the lab project:

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! :D

Lab 7 Filters Reflection

In this lab, I used filters and liquefied images to get the selected photos I wanted which were drastically different than from each photo. First I opened up Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Next I clicked on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 tab on the top of the screen to go to File and New. Once I clicked on New, a window opened up to allow me to set my settings on the new Photoshop file. I named my file "LB7_WeiJianZhen_VD" and selected the default settings. I clicked OK. The window closed and now I got to work on my lab project. I gone to the Photoshop tab again and clicked on File again. On the File tab, I clicked on Place Embedded and a window popped up showing me all my files. I clicked on the selfie I used on Project 1 Warhol which I took on the Macintosh computer.
Project Warhol Blog:http://qwfepfp.blogspot.com/2017/10/project-1-warhol-reflection-journal.html
I pressed OK to place the selfie onto the new Photoshop document. After that I held shift, clicked on the lower right hand corner of the selfie image, and dragged diagonally towards the upper left hand corner of the photo until I had the right image adjustments to make the selfie smaller in size. I used the move tool after that to reposition the adjusted image to a selected spot. I clicked on the selfie layer and double clicked on the name of the selfie layer to rename it to Liquify. I hit enter to confirm the name. I clicked on the Liquify layer again to select it. Then I gone to the Photoshop tab and clicked on Filter. I clicked on Liquify on the filter tab to select it. A window showed up allowing me to adjust the selfie image using the Pucker, Bloat, Twist, and Forward Warp edit tools. Once I done all the adjustment towards the selfie image with the edit tools, I clicked OK to confirm my adjustments and made the window close. After that I clicked on the text box tool to select it. I created a textbox by clicking and dragging my mouse at a spot from top left to bottom right. I typed in the word Liquify. Afterwards I clicked on the move tool and dragged the text to my desired spot. Now I Placed Embedded again to place a new photo in the Photoshop document. That photo was a photo that was taken during the nature walk for Lab 1 but had never been uploaded until now. It was a flower photo. I clicked OK to confirm the upload of the picture. I held down shift, clicked and held down the mouse on a corner of the photo, and dragged it diagonally until I got the desired image size. I duplicated that layer 4 times by right clicking on the image and clicking duplicate layer multiple times. I used the Move tool to place the images onto their selected placements. I clicked on the original image layer. After that I gone to the Photoshop tab and clicked Filter again. I clicked on Filter Gallery this time which showed a window where I can select a filter I wanted. Therefore I clicked on the cutout filter design to have the original flower photo to have a cutout filter. I pressed OK to confirm the action. After that I clicked and selected the Text Box tool to create another textbox. I typed in Cutout inside the textbox. I double clicked on the original flower photo layer and renamed the original flower photo layer to Cutout. I did the same thing to the rest of the layers but selected different filters and renamed them by the filter I chose. After that, I unlocked the background layer. Next I double clicked on the layer to rename the layer to Sky Background. Once that is done, I changed the color palette to blue and white. I clicked on Filter on the Photoshop Tab. I clicked on Render on the Filter tab to select the Clouds option. I gone to the Photoshop tab again and clicked on Filter. I clicked on Render on the Filter tab and clicked on Lens Flare. A window popped up for me to select the settings off the sun and where to place the sun. I placed the sun on the top right hand corner and set the brightness to 115. I clicked OK to confirm it. Finally, I used the Text Box tool to create 2 textboxes. I typed in my name in one and in the other, Visual Design and the date. I saved my photoshop document as a finalized work. Knowing how to use filters will benefit web designers because it allows web designers to make better ads for websites and images that catch the reader's attention.

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Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 Brushes Reflection Journal

In this lab, I used Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 to use the Paint Brush Tool to color in my artwork that I did in class the other day. I got my finished product by first opening Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.  Next I clicked on File on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 tab and clicked on Open to place the picture of the artwork into Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Then I clicked on the two squares icon to change the color for the artwork. I changed my color to black. After that I clicked on the paintbrush tool on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 toolbox at the left side to select it. Once I selected my paintbrush tool, I outlined my artwork by clicking and dragging my mouse around my artwork. I used Command Plus and Minus to zoom in and zoom out from time to time to try to make precise outlines for my artwork. After that, I turned the color to brown and colored in my stem of my jack-o-lantern drawing using the paintbrush tool by moving the mouse back and forth until the stem was colored in. Afterwords I changed the color to orange. I clicked and used the magnetic lasso tool to make a selection for one of the jack-o-lantern's ribs so that I can only color within the selection and not worry about having to go past what I wanted to color in. I selected the paintbrush tool again and colored the rib orange until the entire rib was filled with orange. I realized that the magnetic lasso tool wasn't that effective in my jack-o-lantern artwork because the orange smudged out some of the black outlines I made for the jack-o-lantern. I decided to use the magic wand and quick selection tool to make the rest of my selections because it made less of a space within the ribs allowing me to color in my jack-o-lantern without any smudges passed the selection. I selected the paintbrush tool and colored the rest of the jack-o-lantern's ribs orange. I made selections by the magic wand tool and quick selection tool on the ribs before I colored in the ribs orange so that I don't color past the selections I made. Once all the ribs have been finished coloring with orange, I changed the color to yellow. I used the paintbrush tool to color in the jack-o-lantern's eyes, nose, and wicked mouth yellow so that it shows light coming out of the jack-o-lantern. I first selected the magic wand and quick selection tool to place selections on the jack-o-lantern's eyes, nose, and mouth. Secondly, I used the paintbrush tool again and colored in the jack-o-lantern's eyes, nose, and mouth within the selections. After all coloring of yellow was done, I turned the color to reddish-orange. I selected the smaller ribs by the magic wand tool and quick selection tool. I colored in the smaller ribs reddish-orange using the paintbrush tool. Afterwards, I changed the color to dark purple. I clicked on the paintbrush tool  to select it. I clicked and dragged the mouse around the jack-o-lantern to try to create a lighting effect from the jack-o-lantern. I changed to color to black again. I clicked on the magic wand tool and clicked on the remaining white or blank areas outside the jack-o-lantern to selected it. I clicked on the quick selection tool to click and fill in any areas that weren't selected by the magic wand tool. When I had the background of the jack-o-lantern selected, I clicked on the paintbrush tool to selected it. I clicked and dragged all the way until all the selected areas were colored in with black serving as the night. Finally I saved my finalized project! Knowing how to use the paintbrush tool can benefit web designers because it allows for web designers to produce artwork and painting for their projects. It also allows web designers to try different art styles for artwork, videos, and animations which helps with their jobs.

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Happy Halloween, Belated Hallloween, Early Halloween, and Happy Future Halloweens to come! 😄🎃👻🍬

PR Fruit Art Reflection Journal

In this lab, I used all the tools I learned up so far to create a project of whatever I liked from the melon head picture. (Link: https://s1.jupiterfiles.com/u127981/617575051/LB2_Base.jpg ).  First off I opened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Once I opened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017, I clicked File on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 tab and clicked on New to create a new file. A window opened where I could name and create the setting for my project. I named my project PR Fruit Art, used the default settings, and clicked OK to start the new file. I clicked on File again to select Place Embedded. Once I clicked on Place Embedded, a window popped up showing me the files I could place into Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I clicked on the melon head picture file and pressed OK to place the melon head picture onto Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Second off, I zoomed into the blueberry by holding Command and pressing the Plus key a few times. I then clicked on the rectangular marquee tool to show a tab which I clicked on the elliptical marquee tool to select it. I moved the mouse to the upper left hand corner of the blueberry, clicked and dragged the mouse to the bottom right hand corner of the blueberry, and released my mouse button. I next clicked on the magic wand tool. I moved my mouse back to the blueberry and held options on the Macintosh keyboard to click on the empty space that is selected on the blueberry to delete the empty space on the area. I right clicked on the selected area to press Layer Via Copy to make a new layer with only the blueberry. I did the same thing with the carrot slice. I selected the rectangular marquee tool, clicked and dragged the mouse from the top left hand corner of the kiwi to the bottom right hand corner to make a box around the kiwi. I clicked and selected the magic wand tool. I held down the options key and clicked on the empty space surrounding the kiwi that is inside the box. I right clicked on the kiwi to select Layer Via Copy to make a new layer with only the kiwi. After that I clicked on the lasso tool to select it to make the selection for the macaroni bow tie. I started on the left corner of the macaroni bow tie and outlined the macaroni bow tie until I got to the right corner of the macaroni bow tie. While still holding the mouse button, I held down the Options key on the Macintosh keyboard to outline the rest of the macaroni bow tie. I right clicked on the macaroni and selected Layer Via Copy to create a new layer with only the macaroni bow tie. Afterwards, I clicked on the lasso tool which showed a tab, I selected the magnetic lasso tool, and I moved the mouse to the mushroom. I outlined most of the mushroom by tracing the edges of the mushroom. I selected the magic wand tool from the toolbar. I held down the options key on the Macintosh keyboard and clicked on the area to delete the selected area I wanted to delete on the mushroom. I right clicked on the mushroom to select Layer Via Copy to have only one layer with only the mushroom. After that I selected the Magic Wand tool again and outlined the red flesh of the grapefruit. I right clicked on the red flesh of the grapefruit and selected Layer Via Copy to make a layer of only the red flesh of the grapefruit in it. Next I selected the Rectangular Marquee tool again. I clicked and dragged the mouse from the top left hand corner of the radishes to the bottom right hand corner. I selected the Magic Wand tool again, held down Options on the Macintosh keyboard, and clicked on the empty space surrounding the radishes to subtract it to make a selection only on the radish. I right clicked on the radishes to select Layer Via Copy to make a new layer only showing the radishes. I did the same thing with the melon. I duplicated the melon, radishes, red flesh of grapefruit, macaroni bow tie, blueberry, carrot slices, and mushrooms to have 2 melons, 2 radishes, 2 macaroni bow ties, 2 kiwis, 4 red fleshes of grapefruit, 4 blueberries, 4 carrot slices, and 6 mushrooms in total. I used the paintbrush and paint bucket on the kiwis, macaroni bow tie, and melon to change the color of the fruits as well as the saturation/hues button. I saved after that. Third of all, I clicked on the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 tab to select edit. I rotated, flipped, and enlarged the fruits to fit my desired look on the project. I clicked on the Move tool to move the fruits onto the desired spot. I rasterized all the layers. I merged all the layer by right clicking on a layer and clicking merge down. Lastly, once all the layers have been merged until one final layer has been created I used the move tool to place my creation in the middle. I saved my project. Knowing how to use Photoshop is important because it helps the person understand how their projects artistically shape the observer's mind and can get job opportunities by knowing Photoshop.

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