Experimenting with Photoshop CS6

Experimenting with Photoshop CS6 had benefited me to confidently use CAD, (computer-aided design), as I would be expected to use this form of design in the creative

industry. 

My task was to crop and add a person within a room. This might sound simple but for someone who struggles to use CAD, it can be difficult.

To start off I had to opened up an image I saved on my picture files.

I then selected an image to use as the background image.

To practise my cropping skills on Photoshop, I had selected the crop tool from the toolbox on the left-hand side. This option had highlighted all the areas of the image with arrows to allow me to crop any corners.
  






























From using each corner I dragged down the arrows around the image to crop the areas I didn't need and to just get the clear viewpoint of the seating area in the image.

Then I pressed Enter on the keyboard for the cropping to complete and then used the move tool to put the image in the centre.

To add the person into the background image, I had opened up another image from the picture files.

This was a multi-image, so I used the crop tool to only crop out the area of the image I didn't need.

After cropping out one part of the image, again I used the arrows to crop bits of the overall image and then clicked on enter to complete the cropping process.

Because I was going to work on a new image I created a new tab for and changed the resolution to 300 for a higher quality image and clicked OK. 

Because I was working with more than one image at the same time, I selected the Windows tab at the top of the page and then from the drop-down menu selected Arrange and then 4-up to show up all my images I was working with and leaving a blank space to work in.

I had already cropped out parts of the image of the person, but to show what I've done I repeated the process by dragging the image into the blank space.

To just work with one image I clicked on the Windows tab then Arrange and then selected Consolidate All to Tabs.

Afterwards I had to make sure that the image was in a layer to allow me to make alterations found on the right-hand side of the window.

To highlight the exact areas I wanted to remove, from the toolbox I selected the magic wand tool.

 From selecting the magic wand tool it had selected areas of the image that I can start to remove. 

Using the magic wand tool to highlight areas whilst pressing the delete button on the keyboard allowed me to remove parts of the image.

Also using the shape tool and selecting areas you want to remove whilst pressing the delete button is also a quicker method.

Now all the little bits of the image is gone from using the quicker method.

From the toolbox, I had used a different method called the Polygonal Lasso Tool which allows you to outline the parts of an image you want to remove.


























I had outlined one area of the image which was between the person and the desk as this would be quite a difficult area to remove carefully, but using this tool allows you to be flexible whilst outlining the areas.

From using the Polygonal Lasso Tool it had carefully removed some bits of the image.

I had continued using the Polygonal Tool to remove the rest of the bits of the image until each part was clear for the overall image to be added into the background image.

I clicked on the Windows, Arrange and then 4-up to bring up all the windows to drag the person in the empty background image.

To allow me to work in a new window I had to create new layers each time to make alterations, but the layer I was working on to drag the person into the background image was Layer 4.

Once I did that I went back to the Windows tab, Arrange then Consolidate All to Tabs to bring up the one window I'm working in.

After dragging the person into the background image it came up small. 

Using the keyboard, I held CTRL+T and shift to change the size.

After I had dragged the person into an area where it looks like a work space in the background image.

From using all the methods it had resulted me in using appropriate skills to complete a task on Photoshop which is to crop and add an image within an image.