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.
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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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