Lab 11 Reflection Journal

In this lab, I used a multitude of tools from Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 to create image adjustments on the assigned picture. First off, I opened up Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I gone to the Photoshop bar on the top hand corner of the program. I clicked on File which showed a tab and clicked on New. When that happened, a window popped up showing the settings and options for the Photoshop document. I named my document "LB11_WeiJianZhen_VD" and kept the default settings. I clicked on File again and clicked on Open to show a window that has my files and images on it. I clicked on Anew.jpg from the window to start my project. The image opened up on the Photoshop document. Second off, I clicked on the zoom tool and clicked many times on the girl's hat until the desired zoom was created. Thirdly, I clicked on the Quick Selection tool to click and drag on the hat to make a selection. I clicked on the Magnetic Lasso tool. I encircled the areas of the hat that were not selected be the Quick Selection tool by clicking and dragging the mouse. Next I set the color to green from the Color Picker and I clicked on the Color Replacement tool. I clicked on the options bar in the top hand corner of Photoshop. I clicked on the Brush pop-up panel. I set the hardness to 40%, size to 15 pixels, spacing 25%, and off for size and tolerance menus. I clicked out of the Brush pop-up panel to exit out of it. In the Brush pop-up panel, I set Hue from the Mode menu, Continuos from Sampling, tolerance to 32% from the Find Edges from the Limits menu, and Anti-Alias selected. Next, I clicked, held, and dragged the mouse onto the selection and throughout the hat. Once done, I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on Select which showed a tab so I can click on Deselect to remove the selection. Then I clicked on the Clone Stamp tool to select it. I gone to the options bar again and opened the pop-up menu. I set the size to 21% and the hardness to 0%. I made sure that the Aligned option is selected and opacity set to 100%. After that, I placed my mouse over the bricks of the image. I held down Alt/Options and clicked on the bricks to select the texture of the bricks. Therefore, I clicked and dragged my mouse across the rectangular graffiti right next to the girl's now freshly green colored hat. Afterwards, I clicked on the Spot Healing Brush tool to select the tool. At the options bar, I opened the Brush pop-up menu and used a 100% hard brush that was 40 pixels in diameter. I clicked, held, and dragged the mouse over the dark spots on the brick wall at the top left hand corner until all the dark spot were covered. I had let go of the mouse to rid the wall of the dark spots and turn them into regular bricks. I clicked on the Quick Selection tool to select it. I popped-up the options bar and selected the Brush pop-up menu. I set the brush size to 3 pixels. I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse over the crack on the wall thereafter. I clicked on Edit on the Photoshop bar which showed a tab that allowed me to click on Fill. When the Fill dialog box opened, I chose Content-Aware from the Use menu. I clicked OK to confirm. Now the crack disappeared and became bricks that matched up the wall's other bricks. I gone to the Photoshop bar again to click on Select. I clicked on Deselect from the Select tab to deselect the selection. After that, I clicked on the Quick Selection tool again to select the darker areas of the left edge of the wall. I clicked on Edit from the Photoshop bar. Now by pressing Edit, it showed a tab that allowed me to click on Fill. When the Fill dialog box appeared, I chose Content-Aware from the Use menu. I clicked OK to confirm. I clicked on Select to Deselect to make the selection disappear. I saved the first part of my lab. I gone to the Photoshop bar and pressed on File. I clicked on New from the File tab to create a new Photoshop document. A window appeared showing me the settings off the new Photoshop document. I named it Bnew and kept the default settings. Next I gone to File again and clicked on Open this time. A window popped up showing my files and pictures. I clicked on the picture called Bnew and clicked OK to place the image onto Photoshop. I clicked on the Clone tool from the Photoshop toolbox. I moved my mouse over to a patch of grass, held down Alt/Options, and clicked once to select that texture. Then I held down the mouse button and dragged the mouse over the grey area on the bottom left hand corner of the image to make it have grass. After that, I clicked on the Spot Healing Brush tool to select it. I clicked on the sprinklers of the image to make the sprinklers turn into patches of grass. I saved the second part of the lab and closed Photoshop thereafter. I reopened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I clicked on Open from the Photoshop bar which showed my images and files. I clicked on the Cnew image and clicked OK to confirm the image onto Photoshop. I clicked on the Healing Brush tool and moved the mouse pointer over the letters DJ on the rock. I held my mouse button and dragged it on the letters DJ to get rid of the letters DJ. I clicked on the Patch tool now to select it.  I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse pointer around the holes and cracks of the rocks. Once I had all of the desired holes and cracks of the rocks selected, I moved the selections over to a patch of rock that doesn't have holes or cracks by dragging the selection towards a desired spot. I saved the third part off the lab and closed Photoshop. I reopened Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I gone to the Photoshop bar and clicked on File. I clicked Open when the File tab arrived. I clicked on Dnew fro the window that appeared from clicking Open and clicked OK. I right clicked on the background layer showing the image of Dnew. I left clicked on Duplicate to duplicate the background layer. I named the new layer Retouch. Soon after, I clicked on the Healing Brush tool and set the pixel brush size to 12. I clicked and dragged my mouse over the wrinkles on his forehead and furrow lines to erase them. I clicked on the Patch tool to select it. I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse around the wrinkles under the man's eyes and on his glasses under his eyes. I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse from the selection to a part of the man's face that has no or fewer wrinkles. The man became less wrinkly! I set the opacity to 65% from the right side of Photoshop. I saved the final part of lab 11. Knowing how to use the Patch tool, Healing Brush tool, Clone tool, and Content aware is useful to web designer when creating art or backgrounds for their websites or for their company.

Pictures of Lab 11: