The document discusses various skills the author has learned in Photoshop, including adding layers, dissolving an image, color replacement, using bevel and emboss effects on text, and feathering selections. The author provides step-by-step instructions for performing each technique and explains how they have applied the new skills, such as using dissolved images and bevel/emboss effects in magazine designs.

1. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Matthew breacker

2. ADDING LAYERS

3. I went onto the Layer tab
And clicked
Layer>New Layer> Layer

4. DISSOLVING AN IMAGE

5. First opened a blank photoshop
document and pasted my image
onto a new layer.
Next I clicked
layer>layer mask>hide layer.
So my image was a hidden layer.
But still useable

6. Then using a custom brush I
gradually brushed over the
hidden image brushing it
back into visibility leaving
some bits creating a
dissolved, scratched away
effect

7. Here is the final outcome, I
used it in my magazine on the
contents page, however
instead of dissolving using a
brush I used a gradient that
gradually fades, I thought this
was a fun new skill to use and
had many variations to it
varying on the style of photo
and brush you use.

8. COLOUR REPLACE

9. First I selected a specific are
of the flower using the quick
mask tool on a brush and
selected the area I wanted

10. Next I clicked on to
Image >adjustments>replace
colour

11. Next I clicked onto the colour
I wanted to replace on the
image and altered the colour
using the Hue and Saturation
toggles. And clicked okay, I
repeated this to each
area/colour I wanted to
replace.

12. I chose to learn this skill as I
thought it would be a fun
useful skill to learn, if for
example in my magazine a
colour in an image clashed or
I wanted to alter a colour to
go with the overall house style
I thought this would be really
handy.

13. EFFECTS- BEVEL AND EMBOSS

14. First I typed what I wanted in
the colour and font I wanted
them to be in

15. Next I went to the right hand
sidebar on the layers menu
and double clicked the layer
with my text, a menu came
up an I clicked on Bevel and
Emboss, here I played around
with the toggles with size,
fuzziness and depth to get the
desired effect I wanted.

16. I thought this was good to use
as it made the font more
visually appealing and was a
good use of photoshop skills, I
used this in my masthead
design.

17. FEATHERING

18. First I got my desired image
onto a new layer and use the
Elliptical marquee tool to
select my area

19. I change the box where it
says feather to 30px meaning
my image will be gradually
fading away in a feather
effect

20. Then I inverted the selection
so the outside of my selected
area was selected and the
area I wanted to keep wasn’t
by click
Select>Inverted

21. Then I simply clicked delete
and was left with a gradual
fading into the lower layer of
the plain whit background