Photoshop Reflection

When I found out that we going to be doing an assignment on Photoshop I wasn’t too worried because I knew I had played with Photoshop before. The first few things we did like cutting out an image and pasting it into another image, playing with selective color along with trying to make a regular image look like a fisheye was nothing, I’ve been able to do that with no problem for years. Then we moved on to experimenting with adding different textures and gradient maps the photos. I got lost a couple of times here, but still had no real issues. But when we moved on to the changing the threshold of part of an image was difficult for me. I had no problems taking the object out from the rest of the image, then adding ten layers, and adjusting all of their threshold amounts. Yet, after that I was completely lost. I was able to complete the image in class, but the process never really stuck with me. I think that became apparent on our Photoshop quiz, where I was able the create all ten layers and alter their threshold, yet was lost after that step. Overall I felt competent in doing any of the real life adjustments that I would actually use on any of my photos. I feel completely capable in changing the location of an object in a frame, selective color, copying and pasting into another image, fisheye, along with changing color, white balance, contrast, and doing minor things like adding a slight vignette in the corners or dodging and burning any unwanted spots in the frame.