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! 😄🎃👻🍬