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- 1. Tools / Techniques used - Skills Photoshop: Tool / feature / technique What it does / Description Where you used it / Reason Value / usefulness / advantage Magic wand selection tool It selects areas of similar colour. The value in the Options Bar sets the range of colours that then you can select. When selected I could change the hue and saturation. This an automatic and fast selection tool, which is more accurate than trying to select it manually. Quick Selection tool It selects an object by painting over it with a brush. Enable Auto-Enhance in the Options Bar for better quality selections. In the options bar. Used the Quick Selection tool to quickly paint a section using an adjustable round brush. When used the selection expanded and it defined the edges of the image. Adjust selections Can add or subtract pixels to selections. Can also save and reload a selection to use later. Add To Selection option in the options bar. Saves you from having to restart making a new selection. Adjust hue and saturation Enables you to adjust the colors in your image based on their hue, saturation, and lightness. Hue is the colour in your image. Saturation is the intensity or richness of that colour. Found in image adjustments. Gives a more intense effect when producing an overly smooth, overly saturated synthetic appearance if used aggressively. Replace colour tool Samples the original colours and replacing them with your selected foreground colour. Right-click Control-click, on the Brush Tool to select the Color Replacement Tool. Colour Replacement tool is that it maintains the midtones, shadows, and highlights of the original image so you get a realistic-looking
- 2. colour adjustment. Spot healing / healing brush tool It paints with sampled pixels from an image or pattern and matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels being healed. In the Vertical ToolBar. Quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections in your photos. Clone stamp tool Selects and samples an area of your picture and then uses these pixels to paint over any marks. Click and hold the rubber stamp in the toolbox, and then select Clone Stamp Tool. Acts like a brush so you can change the size, allowing cloning from just one pixel wide to hundreds. Crop tool It deletes parts and edges of an image manually to a specific size. Choose the crop tool from the toolbar, or press the C key. I can delete the parts of an image that I do not want and it comes with a rule of thirds grid which helps a lot. Rectangular and elliptical marquee tool Allows us to draw oval or circular selections. From the Marquee flyout menu in the Tools panel. It is designed for circular selections. You can easily select objects such as clocks, balls, and full moons by using this tool. Eyedropper It is used to sample a colour from an image to use this colour further. Select the foreground or the background in the Tools panel or the Color panel. It facilitates colour selection. Dodge and burn tool Technique used in the darkroom. Film developing in the darkroom is a negative to positive process. In the Vertical ToolBar with the Sponge Tool. To increase the contrast on parts of the image by increasing or reducing the amount of light exposure on the print. Layer opacity / To have a Opacity drop-down It can make every
- 3. transparency foundation layer, then a retouching layer, then a layer for any other added objects and a layer for colour toning. arrow at the top of the Layers panel. edit easy to reverse. Zoom tool Allows you to zoom in on the image to get a better idea of the actual pixel makeup of a section you are working on. Click and hold in the image to zoom in. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) to zoom out. Zooms in to fill the image window at the highest magnification that includes the selected area. Lasso tool It allows you to soften the edges of your selection or add a feathering effect. Keyboard shortcut L to access the Lasso Tool. You can also access the Lasso Tool from your Toolbar. Then, use your right mouse button on the Lasso Tool while selecting and use the drop down menu to select the three tools. Helpful for drawing a free-form border around a selected object within an image. Premiere Pro: Tool / feature technique What it does / Description Where you used it / Reason Value / usefulness / advantage Source monitor The Source Monitor playback individual clips. In the Source Monitor, you can prepare clips that you want to add to a sequence. Right click the image in the Source Monitor. The Panel Menu icon in the Source Monitor. Lets you view video clips and edit video sequences.You can customize controls and display modes in the monitors. Program monitor Plays back the sequence of clips that you are assembling. It's your view of the active sequence in a Timeline panel. Right click the image in the Program Monitor. The Panel Menu icon in the Program Monitor. You can set sequence markers and specify sequence In points and Out points.
- 4. Timeline Where your video takes shape. By dragging items from the project panel or source monitor and placing them. From the project panel or source monitor Can be created in a desired order, you create a sequence of clips and events which play in the timeline from left to right. Audio mixer Controls each track as a whole that the video layers are placed onto while the audio clip mixer controls individual Clips within each of those tracks. In the Sound panel. It is an easy tool. Audio gain Gain is the input level of the clips and volume is the output. This adds or subtracts the value you enter here to the current audio gain setting of the clip. In the Sound panel. The easiest way to set gain is to drag the audio. Ultra-key Can be used to set any color in an image to become transparent and offers additional controls to refine the result. Go to Effects > Video Effects That it is fast and looks amazing. Lumetri colour panel Lets you export your settings as a look file, which can be used in another Premiere Pro project. You can also export your settings as a . cube file, which can be used in any colour grading software. Select Colour in the workspace toolbar to open the Lumetri Color panel. For more powerful grading platforms. Video / audio transitions To fade out a clip's audio, drag an audio transition from the Effects panel to a Go to the Effects tab and click Audio Transitions > Crossfade. Video transitions are mostly used for showing a change in time and location.
- 5. Timeline panel so that it snaps to the Out point of the audio clip. Audio transitions are a useful way to avoid abrupt editing that jar the listening person. DeNoiser This noise takes the form of a slight hiss. The denoiser effect can be found in the effects window. Provides an easy way to remove background tape noise commonly found in older analog tape formats. Illustrator: Tool / feature technique What it does / Description Where you used it / Reason Value / usefulness / advantage Basic shapes To choose from these other shapes, right click on the Rectangle Tool and select the one you want to make. To make a shape in Illustrator, you'll need to choose from the Shape Tools. The default shape is a Rectangle, but you can also choose from a Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star, or Flare. Modifier keys To change the behavior of something you are using. Are only acting only while they are being held down. ALT (PC) / OPTION (Mac) Once they are released the behavior returns to its original state. Grid Creates rectangular grids of a specified size and number of horizontal and vertical dividers. Where the tool panel is under the line tool. Creates concentric circles of a specified size and specific number of concentric and radial dividers. Snap to grid To snap shapes or other objects to grid lines that go through the vertical and horizontal edges of other shapes or Choose View > Snap To Point. Allows us to snap each object to the Grid, making our process a lot more straightforward.
- 6. objects. Gradient tool Is a graduated blend of two or more colours or tints of the same colour. You can use gradients to create colour blends, add volume to vector objects, and add a light and shadow effect to your artwork. Hold the Shift key. Allows for very flexible and detailed application of colour to objects. A Gradient Mesh creates a grid inside the object that follows the contour. Shape builder It combines edits, and fills shapes on your artboard. The selected shapes are combined into one shape. The Shape Builder tool also enables merging objects, breaking overlapping shapes, and subtracting areas. Lets you merge and exclude portions of shapes to create compound paths, with very little effort. Direct selection tool Allows you to isolate any single object or path, even if it's already part of a group. Direct Selection tool from the Tools panel, click inside the desired object, or click and drag around part of the object's path. Selects entire objects or groups. This tool activates all anchor points in an object or group at the same time, allowing you to move an object without changing its shape. Text tool and text on a path To create horizontal text along a path, select the Type tool or the Type On A Path tool. To create vertical text along a path, select the Vertical type tool. Set text-formatting options in the Control panel, Character panel, or Paragraph panel. To show the credits of a movie. Has different fonts and positions. Zoom tool Using the Zoom tool, you can click the Document window to zoom in Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac). It is handy when you want to make a precise shape.
- 7. and to zoom out. Double-click with the Zoom tool to quickly resize the Document window to 100 percent.