Photoshop Induction

On the 28th September I had a Photoshop induction. My knowledge of Photoshop before this induction was very little. I'm very familiar with the layout and what particular tools do but there was still a lot of basic things I didn't know. Sadly, despite me doing a media based diploma before college, I didn't actually use Photoshop much so most of the things we covered during the induction were new to me but I'm always willing to learn. In this Photoshop induction I learned how to mask photographs, about the colour gamuts in relation to printing, panorama, droplets, merging different exposures and how to stack photos.

The part I found most fascinating was the colour gamuts. I was aware there was a wide array of colours but I didn't really know what RGB and CMWK were as well as not being aware that their colour spectrums are different. 

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow

Red, Green, Blue

 The colour gamut shows the differences between RBG and CMYK. Covering this also helped me understand the different file formats especially when it came to my photography induction. The change in colours helped me to understand the difference between RAW and JPEG files. It was easy to get my head around because it's similar to how colour quality is different on screen in relation to printed out.

The colour gamut pictures can be found on: http://www.printernational.org/rgb-versus-cmyk.php

Here are a few of the other things that I learned in the induction~ None of these photographs belong to me and were given to me for i/educational purposes.

The one above is a series of photographs taken of the same landscape and using Photoshop I've stitched them together to create a Panorama. I found this quite amazing because it recognises where all the different parts of the images are and puts them together for you rather than having to manually put them together. I think it's genius~ The more practical way of doing this of course is by snapping lots of picture during a 360 degree turn around using a tripod.

This images is an example of shadow highlights and how you can use masking to create a crisp sky and also brighten up the statue to help define it's details.