Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.
Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.
What have I learned in my first Photoshop lessons last week?
I understood how to open Photoshop, it's easier than you think!
Besides that, I was taught how to put an image into another picture and adjust it, so it looks as real as possible, trying to give the impression the picture is meant to be like this. (I cut the 50feet woman from the movie's poster and pasted it into the destroyed bit of New York City in the poster of Cloverfield).
This adjusting involves, the cutting with the lasso keeping Alt pressed, then pasting it into the other picture. Next, I can fit the cutout in by changing size, colors etc.:
→Edit - Transform... →Image - Adjustments... - Hue\Saturations
I can create shadows\reflections through changing the opacity percentage on the right editing window.
I enjoyed working with it and hope I'll be able to do some good work with Photoshop some time.
Following an example what Photoshop is capable of:
Following an example what Photoshop is capable of:
