Reflection Journal

In this term in Multimedia, our central area of focus was on using photoshop. we learned about many of the tools and how to apply them to different projects. One of the major projects involved using masks in photoshop.
A mask in Photoshop takes the image, and selects a certain area and makes it its own layer without interrupting the part of the picture that is not selected so you can make edits to the background. for example, with my project 2, i selected the whole baby tiger, and made it a layer mas so i can adjust the background without effecting the tiger itself. The color the selection makes is red, distinguishing it separate from the whole image. the white and black areas represented in the layer mask options is the background/foreground colors.
in mask mode, you get to use many tools in order to edit your photo. One i used was the ying yang tool which has a vast amount of options. Such as contrast, and black and white. Another tool i used was the Text tool to input text in my picture. it helped enhance the image. the adjustment layers i created kept the image from editing things i didn't intend to edit. it also gave me more layers to work with. in the end even though mask mode was a easy way to select, i found that the lasso was easier, but the mask was more precise.