Rosa Rogerson documented her skills development in Adobe Photoshop. She created a color splash effect by selecting a color range and increasing fuzziness. She also turned an image black and white while keeping color on another layer. Additional techniques included adding outer glows, skewing and warping text, using layer styles like bevel and chisel, and using the color range selection tool and layer masking to create text shaped within an image.

1. Skills Development Journal
Rosa Rogerson

2. Colour splash
Normal image
Select – Colour range – chose the
colour I wanted to show (red) – then
increased the fuzziness to increase the
colour range.

3. Copy and paste the layer on to
itself – then unlock the bottom
(background) layer by double
clicking it.
Image – Adjustments –
Black and white. This
turns the background
layer black and white
but you can still see the
colour of the top layer.

4. I created another layer
College Magazine of the top parts of the
heads, so go on top of
the masthead as I
didn’t want to use the
whole image.
I also created an
outer glow on the
‘CITY COLLEGE
NORWICH’ at the
top of the magazine
so it would be easier
to read.
I did this by right
clicking the layer of
text and then
selecting blending
options.
Then going to outer
glow.

5. Using the text tool I
wrote ‘METAL’ then
rasterized the type to
turn it into an image
layer

6. Using the
select tool I
select the
‘M’
Then Edit-
Transform -
Skew

7. From Skew I then pulled
the top of the ‘M’ down so
it was slightly italic and
longer.
I then do a similar
thing to the ‘L’ but I
pull it the other way.

8. Right click the layer
then go up to ‘Duplicate
Layer’
I could change the name of the layer
but I want to keep it as ‘Metal
Copy’, and then I press ok.

9. On the second layer(metal copy), I click
select – colour range.
Change the colour to grey.

10. On the rubber tool –
select a scratch brush
and make sure its 100%
opacity.
And scratch away until
it looks good.

11. Double click on the image of the second
layer.
This brings you to layer style.
Change the style to Outer
Bevel.
The technique to Chisel
Hard.
Increased the depth and
the size.

12. My finished design.

13. Insert your text or
just type it.

14. Make sure you
have rasterized the
layer, then
edit, transform, war
p. And change it to
how you want it to
look.

16. Insert the
picture that
you want to
be used as a
colour, then
hide all the
layers
except for
the text.

17. Select, colour
range, select
the black and
make sure the
fuzziness is
200.

18. Put the picture
over the
text, then
select, inverse
and then you
press delete.

19. This is
the final
product