December 12th

Hello and welcome to the first day of photoshop. Thank your for being patient will I teach the other section of the course first.



To start off the class, I'd like you to respond to the following questions on your blog as I teach the first half of the class. Please work on these quiet, and reflectively. If you finish these, make sure that you finished your blog reflections from Thursday that ask about the responses you received to your survey.

1. What are you looking forward to learning how to do in photoshop?


2. What have you heard are the common things photoshop can do, i.e. "oh, that's definitely photoshopped!" "Just photoshop me in the photo!"


3. Do you think there many be any ethical/social concerns when using an editing program like photoshop? What are these issues? Please answer in paragraph form. Consider advertising, marketing, etc. Are there copyright concerns? Self-esteem issues? Etc. 

AFTER THE PRESENTATION 

Getting Started With Photoshop:

Today I will introduce you to a basic workflow that you can use for enhancing the overall balance of your images. This is a basic and handy thing to know how to do. We will start with the most important and work our way to the least important: Tonal Adjustments, Colour Balance, Vibrancy.
After the presentation, please edit 3 photos to improve their overall quality. Take your time with this activity and achieve the best version of the photo as possible. You can use your own photos or some from google images but at least one of your edited photos must be once that you took.