Photoshop

I was always aware of the existance of photoshop and how it transformed not-so-attractive people into super models; dreadfull sandwiches into delicious looking, hard to resist burgers, however I never knew quite how to work it.
In our first week of media we learned a bit about this miracle making program. Using Adobe Photoshop, we practiced first by using several movie adds.
TOOL BOX:
On the tool box we used the rectangular marquee and lasso tools to cut around the wanted parts of the pictures and move them around or on to a different poster using the move tool. To bring out certain colours we use the dodge tool, to darken colours (gives people sharper expressions if applied on cheakbones etc.) we use the burn tool.
LAYERS:
This is probably the most important section on the screen. Whenever we have a problem and we can't seem to work the program properly, it's most probably a "layers problem". Layers tells us which background we're currently working on, so if we want to work on different backgrounds and pictures, we should check that we're on the correct layer.
TRANSFORM:
The transform section which is under edit is very usefull. Scale changes the images size, by this I mean it could blow up someones head, make them skinny, fat, tall and short (yeah it's quite cool:) ). In this section there are also rotations etc that comes very much in handy for making accurate posters.

These were some of the more important things we've done on photoshop, other than these we've also learned other things like colour and saturation changes. Basically one of the expectations of our teachers are; no more amateur facebook photos :) .