Photoshop

Photoshop is an image editing software that is used to crop colour correct, manipulate and resize on digital photos. The task that was set was to make a picture of your current state and manipulate it to make the person look as old as they could do in 2069. This means of two editing techniques are possible to make this happen; using the dodge and burn tool or using an old photo and taking away the feature and putting yours on there. Depending on the photo one will be easier than the other but this time it was easier to use the external photo of an old man and cutting out his features. The image used was off Google placing it over the face and lowering the opacity and making the faces both the same shape by using the transform tool, this was a massive help as it got everything in right place, and that was just the start. On Photoshop you always need to make a new layer for everything even for every part of the face, as it is easy to accidently move stuff with out knowing. Cutting out the eyes and hair was a tricky task because getting so accurate was the main thing to make it look professional. In this type of image creation there is a lot of cutting and manipulation needed which came from the lasso tool and the transform tool. The lasso tool is to cut things out for example cutting out the old mans eyes so make the young photo show through; whereas the transform tool allows to move certain parts of the image without moving anything else. The ‘Private Eye’ banner and the barcode are also form the internet but the writing of the price and date did need changing so getting the write font took a little bit of time so it looked the same and accurate. In this task not many problems occurred as there was experience using Photoshop in the past. Even though there was experience it wasn’t easy to remember everything and put it in to the piece of work to start with. The main struggles within doing this picture were getting the old face image to show the same features as the young face and getting the whole image look as believable as possible so both images looked like they could be the same person. Overcoming getting the same features was tough but manageable by using the lasso tool and using the transform tool as these were all what was usable to what was thought could do it. 

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