Answers to the Video

1. A digital artist needs to know how to work the computer. he needs to have some information about photoshop. computer skills are very important because they have to work with computers almost all the time.


2. The three possible photoshop tools that were used un the video were:

• selection tool
• clone tool
• masking tool

3.the ten occupations are:

• Creative Director- A creative director is a position usually found within the Fashion, advertising, media or entertainment industries, but may be useful in other creative organizations such as web development and software development firms as well. The job entails overseeing all aspects of product design.
• design- A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made.
• edit- To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
• sound design- Sound design is the process of specifying, acquiring, manipulating or generating audio elements. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including film, theatre, sound recording and reproduction, live color performance, sound art and computer game software development. Sound design most commonly involves the manipulation of previously composed or recorded audio, such as music and sound effects. In some instances it may also involve the composition or manipulation of audio to create a desired effect or mood. A sound designer is one who practices the art of sound design.
• marketing coordinator- Under general direction, plans, develops and implements marketing campaigns for a program or entity; designs and implements promotional strategies for specific markets/audiences; monitors and evaluates the results; and performs related duties as required.
•  compositing- In video terminology, compositing is the merging of two video tracks in order to produce a new single image frame from the combined tracks. The term may also be used to describe the overlaying of text and titles on video clips.
  In graphics, compositing is the process of superimposing one image over top of another image, combined they create one new single image.
• finishing- The final part; the conclusion. Bring (a task or activity) to an end; complete.

MISHAL IPOD SKIN

i pod skin.

4. merge the shadow and reflection layers by right clicking .
5. cntl T (transform)and flip it vertically-reflection.
6. now put a mask on your reflection using the gradient tool or use your paint brush ... fade and make it look ligfhter than the other to make the reflection believable. the grafient tool is next to the eraser. it is sqaured.
7. shadow layer now take your shadow layer and cntrl click on the i pod layer it will give u a selction of ur i pod.
now edit >fill >black. now deselect that by cntrl d now cntrl T and make it really small now the last thing is filter >blur> gaussian blur. and if ur shadow is sdtill too dark then reduce the opacity of the layer. the reflection should be under ur ipod.

LAYOUT COMPOSITION.

the seven tools of composition

1. hierarchy-organizing things from most important to least important.
2. focul point/focus point-the strongest, most compelling element in a design.
3. eye path-a strong composition can giude the viewer's eye through the design. its all abouit giuding the viewers eye along the path.
4. proportion-size of elements relative to one another.
5. visual weight-the lightness or darkness of a color.
6. type as a visual element-
7. alignment-in the context of layout, you use alignment to align things up.

design with intention, dont place things without thought.
all these tools areuse these tools to help giude your viewers eye.

my car assignment

notes

• you can copy or get the image that is the porche on the beach by copy or pasting it or making a selection and using the move tool to drag it or use the layer and drag it to the beach.
• cntl+t transforms the image.
• zoom ouit if u cvant c ur handles. hold down shift when u use transform to increasee or ruce the size.
• when ur done transforming it pres enter and u can transform by right clicking it.
• MASKING OUT
• THE SHORT CUT to make ur brush smaller the left bracket makes it smaller and the right square brackets make it bigger or u cud use the right clcik and dont 4get to chasnge the hardness.
• use the hard brush to go around objects and use shift to clcik on it and shift to click on another point to make it come thru that point where u clicked after.and use a bigger brush .
• and use a soft brush and low opacity to blend

-how to navigate or move around-spcebar or grab ur tool or just clck on the hand tool.
-what are the default colors in photo shop and how do u make dem default...balck and white and clck on the smaller boxes and u will hav ur default colrs back
-why selections are important?---for u to isolate something.
-how do u add to a selection-shift
how do u subtract a selection-alt
how do u deselect-cntrl d
shortcut to fill-alt+delt
how to inverse-
-how do u make a selection if u have not saved it-well one way is to save ur selection and the other way is cntrl+click the thumb nail on the layer on the right side.
-please name ur layers.



duplicate ur background layer all the time....