The document describes a student's project to take and edit photos of Salford City College for use in a magazine cover and articles. The student took photos of various locations around campus, then edited 5 photos in Photoshop using tools like filters, cropping, and adjusting brightness/contrast. The edited photos were saved in JPEG format and organized into folders to meet the needs of designing a magazine promoting Salford City College.

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Level 1 BTEC Diploma for IT Users (ITQ)
Tutor Jo Lowes
Unit 121 – Imaging Software
Name – Declan Brophy

2. + Different uses of photo imaging
and photography
 Create a mind map of the different uses of photography and
photo imaging – save it as a jpeg and paste it here – then
delete this text

3. + Different uses of photo imaging
and photography

4. 1.1 & 1.5 Aim Of Project
Write a brief introduction on what your task is
what images are needed
how the finished image will be used.
The task is that I am a graphics designer & and I have been hired to
create a cover for a magazine called “City Life” which includes taking
pictures of various areas/points of interests around Salford City College. I
could take pictures of the Canteen, Sports ground and possibly the IT
Classrooms. These images will be edited using Photoshop and used as
front cover pictures which will include other small pictures throughout the
magazine; these will be edited so then they will look more appealing to
whoever is viewing the magazine. The front of the college could be used
as a front cover image as it is very noticeable, well-known and popular.

5. 1.1 & 1.5 Aim Of Project
Salford City College is split into five different colleges, these are Walkden,
Future Skills, Pendleton, Eccles and City Skills. There are thousands of
students within Salford City College and they have courses ranging in
Animal care, Games design, performing arts and IT software/Hardware.

6. 1.1 & 1.5 Aim Of Project

7. 1.2 Contact Sheet- Images of Salford City
College
Thumbnails of my pictures

8. 1.2 Images of Salford City College
 Choose your favourite 5
images and paste them here
– say what the image is of
Animal pens
Sports Centre
Car Park
Horticulture Centre IT Room

9. 1.2 Images of Salford City College
 Choose your favourite 5 images and
paste them here – say what the image
is of
Pig Pen Front of College
Sign of College
IT Room
Astro Turf Area (Football)

10. 1.2 Images of Salford City College
 Choose your favourite 5 images and
paste them here – say what the image
is of
Animal Centre Animal Pens
Wallabies sign
Shop
College open day

11. 1.2 Images of Salford City College
 Choose your favourite 5 images and paste
them here – say what the image is of
Reception
Sign
Reception
Plant Wall Art
Drama
wall
hanging
Wall Art

12. 1.4, 2.1 & 2.2 Edit Your Images
Poster Edges
Brightness –
76%
Cropped
I did these changes because I wanted
to make it more modernised so it fits
within my magazine with the Poster
edges filter. Firstly I added the filter
“poster edges” then, I added the
brightness up so then it’s more
visible. Finally, I cropped the picture
as I didn’t want all of the picture
included.

13. 2.3 Final Images Before & After
Before After

14. 1.4, 2.1 & 2.2 Edit Your Images
Brightness -43
Contrast 30
Cutout
Cropped
I thought I would make these changes to
this particular image because of the
filters and brightness options I chose, as
It gives the effect of it being painted.
I decreased the brightness and increased
the contrast of the picture to make it look
more appealing with how clear it is.
Finally, I cropped the picture as most of
the picture was quite redundant to have.

15. 2.3 Final Images Before & After
Before After

16. 1.4, 2.1 & 2.2 Edit Your Images
Fresco
Gradient
Map
Channel
Mixer
Reasons why I edited this
picture; the filter gives it more
of a digitalised look, then I
added the gradient map which
makes it monotone. Then I
wanted to add a bit of colour
to it so I added the channel
mixer so then it has a bit of
colour to it.

17. 2.3 Final Images Before & After
Before After

18. 1.4, 2.1 & 2.2 Edit Your Images
Vibrance
Brightness
Filter – Conte Crayon
Reasons why edited the image like
this is because I would like to put
this as my front cover of the
magazine. This would fit perfectly
as a front cover image as it is about
Salford City College. I decreased
the vibrance of the picture then I
included the filter “Conte Crayon”
which made it slightly blurry. Then I
finished off with an increased
brightness

19. 2.3 Final Images Before & After
Before After

20. 1.4, 2.1 & 2.2 Edit Your Images
Filter – Dry
Brush
Filter – Dry Brush
Cropped
Brightness/Contrast
I cropped the Picture so then
it wouldn’t be as big and I also
added the filter “Dry Brush”
which fitted just right because,
it makes it look vibrant and
stand out a bit more to the
other images I have edited. I
cropped it because the rest of
the image was unnecessary.
Then I turned the brightness
up more so then It looks a bit
more visible.

21. 2.3 Final Images Before & After
Before After

22. 2.3 Final Images Before & After
Tool(s) I used within Photoshop
Crop tool – This highlights an area you want to crop; anything within the
highlighted area will be kept but anything out of the area will be
“cropped”.
Anything in the highlighted area will be kept as your
image
Anything that is darkened will be “cropped” from the
picture.

23. Filter Tool - This tool will add an effect to your images which will change it
completely. This can range from…
These effects that are shown (left) and can be applied to the images.
Here are two examples of pictures being applied to images

24. Channel Mixer - This uses the RGB format of colors which then allows you to
add a mixture of color to your pictures.
Before
As you can tell, the before picture is just the standard picture with its normal colors. Then the after picture has a slight blue tint to it. This
After (with filter
and channel mixer)
is achieved with using the channel mixer and using different amounts of RGB as shown in the top left picture.

25. Brightness/Contrast – This tool allows you to change the
brightness and contrast of your image. The brightness
changes the visibility of your image ranging from it being very
dark to being bright. The contrast changes the intensity of the
colours in the images.
Brightness There is a big difference between
the two of the pictures as one is darker than the
other and the next being brighter. This is what
the brightness option does to your images.

26. Contrast – As you can tell the colour of the
images are slightly different to one another.
One of them having less contrast then the other
and the next having more contrast. This is what
contrast does to your images.

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1.6 File Formats – Mind Map

28. 1.6 File Formats
Jpeg (Joint Photographic Experts
Group) is a format for
compressing image files and are
also decompressed once you
open the image file. You can only
use this format for saving images
rather than trying to save it as a
Doc Format which wouldn’t work.

29. 1.6 File Formats
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
is a file that doesn’t exactly
require it to be compressed like a
Jpeg needs to and isn’t patented
like a GIF is.

30. 1.6 File Formats
Portable Document Format (PDF) is used to present documents
in a manner of software. This is different to a PSD as there is no
image but only a document.
Photoshop Document (PSD) is a file format that allows you
save an image but with the features used in Photoshop. This is
different to PDF as you cannot present documents in any
manner.

31. 1.6 File Formats
Which file format will you use and why?
I have been using the jpeg file format as I will be certain
and sure of the choices I have chosen on my pictures. I
was certain and pleased with the final image; this is
why I saved it as a JPEG. This saved lots more room
rather than saving it as a PSD (Photoshop Document).

32. 1.7 Organising Your Files
Explain how you have saved all your images in
1 folder with appropriate file names
I have organised all of my pictures I had take into one folder called “Unit 121
Images”, then I could choose between the images that I wanted to edit.
After I had finished editing my images that I wanted, I put the five images
into one folder called “Photoshopped Images” . This was in the same folder
mentioned. Then I Could easily put the images into this PowerPoint; this
made it more efficient accessing my work/images.

33. 1.7 Organising Your Files
Take a screen shot of your fold with you files
saved in and paste it here

34. 1.3 Copyright of Images
 Explain what copyright is
Copyright is a law that protects any of your content that you
have produced such as images, music, logos and album art. If
someone uses your created content without permission, you
can sue them for a reasonable sum of money. You have the
choice over your content and what you do with it whether it be
letting other people using your content but this could be for a
percentage of what you make from using the content.
Explain why you are allowed to use your final images
I am allowed to use my content as a final image or other piece
of content as it is mine and have created it in which I
automatically own the rights to the image.

35. 2.3 How your work meet’s clients needs
 Check that your final images meet the original client brief and
describe why you think it meets your client’s needs.
 Is this image in the correct file format?
 Is it high enough quality?
 Do the images promote Salford City College?
The final images that I have produced meet the clients brief as I was asked to take pictures around Salford City
College which then I would edit the pictures in Photoshop. These images were produced for a magazine called
city life; this why they wee edited so then they were more appealing.
The images are in a correct file format (JPEG).This makes sending the images more efficient as the image sizes
are not exactly big. The biggest images size is 656 Kilobytes.
The images are a high enough quality as they do not appear to be pixelated when I have saved them. It still
appears a good quality even when I preview the pictures. I had saved the image sizes in Photoshop as an 8, this
still appears to take less room in my folders whilst retaining good quality.
The images do promote Salford City College as all the images taken were related to the college such as college
signs and buildings on campus.