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