Photoshop Skills Profile

Over the past few months i have managed to self teach myself the basics in Photoshop.  I spend hours looking at tutorials on TutVid and YouTube, looking at layers, hue saturation and brushes.  I have produced different posters and leaflets for a local Rounders Club and now hope to apply my new skills into the iMedia course.

I have recently stumbled across how to put an image inside a shape, for exmaple i have put together a collection of screenshots and explained how i did it.

Step One:

I put a simple image onto photoshop, i choose the chichester college front enterence.

Step Two:

I put a image of a pentagon, this appeared onto of the image.  It looks unsightly at this stage but with two clicks we can put the image inside the pentagon.

Step Three:
I placed the pentagon underneath the chichester college image, i then hovered the mouse between the two layers pressed the (ALT) key, you will then see the cursor change.  Left click the mouse and the image will appear inside the shape.

Step Four:
I then applied an inner glow using the blendingh options, i had the colour as the same as the background.  So to have the effect as the image blending into the background.

Time Taken = 2 Minutes

I know that you need to have a 300dpi for printing posters and leaflets.

I would love to find out about how to apply my own brushes and different blending effects.

Here are some examples of my work on photoshop recently.

These leaflets were for Sussex only Rounders club to help advertise and use the reverse as a signing on form.