Photoshop Evaluation

To create my Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page spread I used a software called Photoshop, this software allowed me to create exactly what I wanted. I was able to use the cut tool several different ways; the magic eraser would cut out/erase larger errors of the same colour I no longer required (this tended to be background colouring). The general erasing tool was then ease to use when wanting to edit certain sections the magic eraser could not get too without removing parts of the image required. I was able to have a choice of fonts to use on the pages, I could then also import different fonts from the internet as well as other software's. I was also able to re-size, reverse and rotate images so that any image could be used upon a page. To make things easier for my I would also create new layers for each section I added to each page so if something was wrong it could be easily deleted without effecting anything else on the page. Having a shaping tool allowed me to create different shapes on all the pages and a line tool meant I could section off different texts so that I could easily identify different sections. The cropping tool is just like what you would find on other software's Photoshop made it more accurate and simple so you could have it to how you wish (not just boxed crop but curved as well). The filling tool then meant I could colour in the background or blocked shapes quickly with them all being able to have the colours I designed them to be as the is a detailed toning bar where I can choose to exactly tone of I colour. When uploading a new page I was also able to choose grey scale or not which meant it anything appearing on the page would be in black and white, although I didn't end up using this selection It gave me the simple use of colour on the front cover and contents page. On Photoshop you are also able to change the capacity of an image on the page so you can fade it out into the background so that it is more subtle to the eye, with this you could also change how it fades (into pixels, darkness, lightness, etc.). For me to able to get this as accurate as I could whilst creating I was able to zoom into the page I was working on to as close as I wished by using the keys 'ctrl' and '+', this meant that the page selected enlarge and not the rest of the screen like when not using Photoshop. Although Photoshop contained a lot of different tools to help me create my final front cover, contents and double page spread it allowed me to make each page as much of my idea as possible as I didn't not receive help from the software and I could use it to how I wished. Even though I was slow at using Photoshop at the beginning because I was unsure of everything and what it could do I soon become comfortable with it as was able to do a lot more than what I first anticipated.