Research and Planning : Introduction to Indesign

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• The first time on indesign i found quite straight foward and easy to use as the format is basically the same as Photoshop but you are restricted from some of the tools.
• To create this review of Alice in wonderland 2010 i firstly opened up indesign and opened up an A4 word document. To do this it was very similar to photoshop meaning you could pick the size of the paper.
• Then by selecting the tool which had a picture of a box, I went from corner of the page to the other and this aloud me to change the page colour. So to do so I went to the tool box and doubled clicked on the colour box. I then found my colour and pressed ok.
• Then using the box tool again i made a box at the top of the page and then by going to the T tool i was able to write my title into the box. I then highlighted my writing and changed the font, size and colour.
• Then before I could apply my text I changed the page into 3 collumns.
• I then applied my text onto the page and to do this I dragged the text into the boxes as far as they could fit and cut the bit of text that would not. To this you started at the top of one collumn and dragged the text down the bottom of the collumn. Then when u relised the text a plus sign was next the text. By pressing this the following text was moved onto the next collumn.
• Then to add the picture I opened it up from my folder and dragged and dropped it on to the page. I then cropped the picture to the size it is so it would fit between the boarder and text.
• Then I added in a page number. To this is created a box using the box tool. I then selected the T tool so I could input my page number in the box. I then highlighted the page number I had created and changed the size by going to the tool bar acroos the top of the screen.
• Then lastly I created a border for the film review page. To this I selected the tool that is a picture of line. When this tool is pressed another tool box appears and this enables you to change the thickness of the line and the form of line. I as seen choose to use the spotted line because hving seen Alice in wonderland I think it goes well with the picture.

Research and Planning : Introduction to Photoshop (skin correction tutorial)

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• The skin tutorial I found really easy and fun once I had got used to where all the tools that could be used were.
• First I started by getting rid of spots and pimples on the face. To do this I selected the tool that looks like a plaster and pressed down onto it untill it had options. When the options came up i selected the rubber. This basically just rubbed out the pimples and spots when you pressed on them.
• After doing this I decided to apply an eye liner effect to the eye. To this I used the paint brush and changed the thickness of the brush so it was finer. I then turned the opacity down by doing this I feel the eye liner looks more realistic.
• Then I changed the eye colour, to this i used the paint brush also but changed the colour from black to a light blue. Then I made the brush thicker and steadily moved the brush around the pupil of the eye.
• I then moved onto the mouth, using the paint brush I picked a peachy pink colour and coloured in the lips.
• To remove the background of the picture, using the magic wand I selected the girl and then inverted the selection so it was the background and deleted and then change the colour to the pink colour seen.
• finally I was going to put a glass effect on the lips to make them look glossy but I had ran out of time. But to do this I would of used the cut tool and drawn around the lips so they were selected from everything else on the face. Then by going to effects and picking glass this would have changed the lip texture.
• This tutorial I found it the easiest and really fun and interesting to do.

Research and Planning : Introduction to Photoshop (creating a document))

• On the second time using photoshop we had to get an A4 word document up. I did this by going to new and opening up a custom document this meant that the size of the paper would be A4. 
• Then i selected the page with the magic wand tool and using the paint pot i changed the page blue.
• Then I went to the T tool to create text and wrote AS Media Studies. Then to change the colour i highlighted the font by using the magic wand tool and double clicked on the black square and changed the colour to red. 
• Then whilst the text was still highlighted I went to the FX tool and went down to drop shadow and changed the thickness. This gave the shadowed effect on the writing.
• Then by opening up the tutorial and saving it into my document I dragged and dopped the photo onto the word document.
• The second time on photoshop was alot easier then the first but still was quite hard to get used to using.

Research and Planning: Introduction to Photoshop (CD cover)

First i opened up photoshop and opened up the background, trumpet and CD. 

Then i transferred the CD on to the musical note back ground by selecting the CD by using the wand tool, then dragging and dropping it on to the page.

Then i used the rotate tool to slant the CD to make it look more effective. I then selected the trumpet and moved to the same place and also rotated that.

Then i changed the opacity of the CD by going to the opacity dial and changing the percentage. 

I then using the paint brush changed the colour of the CD, as seen i did not having a steady hand doing this so did not work out as good as I hoped. 

I then using like a spray can effect on paint brush tried to turn the trumpet a brass colour, this in my opinion could have been lighter and maybe more opaque so that it was more realistic.

I also got up the musical notes and placed them above the trumpet to give the effect that the trumpet is making noise. 

To write on the background I went to the T tool meaning text and created a box and wrote hannah. I then changed the colour and font of the writing by double clicking on a black box on the bottom left hand tool box. This then gave you font options and colours.