Photoshop and Illustrator can be used for many different reasons and many different people use them. Some people can would use photo shop many be a photographer, to edit and enhance their images. Animators many use photoshop to create their video or edit photos to create the image they want to animate. Fashion design can also use photoshop, they use this to start to create and design the piece they want to make before making it in reality. Also many different people can use Illustrator as well as photoshop, for example illustrator many use it to design there image. Graphic designers use illustrator to make their image with shape shapes and lines. Animators could also use illustrator to design a character or setting. Illustrator is also used to make logos.
Photoshop and Illustrator work on different formats, photoshop works on pixels and illustrator works on vectors. Photos made with pixels are made up from tiny squares of colours put together to form an image. This means you can move and edit as photo much more easily, you can change the perspective of the image or edit something out of the image. However illustrator is almost like a black piece of paper that you have to use drawing tools or shapes to create a image. This images are all made of vectors which are small lines, this makes it easier to change to scale of the image without losing the quality.
We used Photoshop to create a composite image, an image that is surreal. We has to use photoshop to create the image we wanted, using the pictures we had chosen. The image I chose to make was a had coming out of a computer screen. For this I had to find the images of a computer and a hand and then in photoshop drag the hand picture onto the computer image. This created a new layer where I had to then make the image disappear and use the brush tool how to bring back the parts of the image I wanted. This is called adding a mask layer. I Learnt how to use a mask layer to make a composite image.
We also used Illustrator to create a timeline of the companies logo. For this I created a timeline of the converse logo however my timeline was in the style of a skate park. I used illustrator to create the shapes of the park. To do this I had to use a combination of straight and curved lines. Once I had my shapes outline I had to use a variety of shape to fill the outlines in with block colour. I also had to use the brush tool for some parts because there were no shapes that fitted into the shape I had to fill. I learnt about all of the difference shapes to can make and how to fill those shapes in. Also I found out how to use the anchor tool to change the way a line curved.
During these task I gained some ideas for future projects using these programs. Once idea that I had was using Photoshop making another different composite image. This idea was to have a picture of the world under the see with all the different tourist attractions, for example the London Eye or Big Ben. However for illustrator I up with ideas to redesign logos to make adverts for something.
I enjoyed different elements of using both programs. On Photoshop I enjoyed using the mask layer to create something that could never really happen, I liked the idea for how we could create anything. I also enjoy having to only make certain parts of the image come through onto of a different picture. Although on illustrator I enjoyed be able to change the way a line curved so I could have it exactly how I wanted it to look. However on Illustrator I didn't really enjoy to the fact that you had to use different shapes to fill in the shapes that we created because there were only certain shapes you could use. Also on photoshop it was more challenging to get exactly the right part of the picture come through, because sometime it was hard because of how smaller shape i had to get rid of.
The Advantage of using Photoshop are they you can change perspective of images to fit a certain picture. You can also make a surreal image come to life. As well as this a benefit of photoshop is that if you were uploading an image to a we site you wouldn't need to change the format of the image. Also you can select different parts of an image that you want to keep or copy onto another work space. However some benefits of Illustrator are that no matter what size you make the image you keep the same quality you started with. Also you can create any different shape you want that you can make on photoshop.
Some of the draw back for photoshop are that there are a lot of different tools that can be used to do different things, this can get very confusing when you don't know which tool you need to use. And also you can't make certain shapes as easily as you can on Illustrator. One of the draw backs of Illustrator is the way that you have to filled in things that you have made using different shapes and sometime these shapes don't fit very well into what you have made.
Next time of photoshop I would like to learn how to edit images and change the way they look. For example changing how a person looks or enhance feature of something. However I think I wouldn't someone to help or show me ho to do this because there are a lot of different things you can do. I don't think I would be able to work out how to do this without help from someone else. Also on Illustrator I would like to learn what other things you can do other than designing an image using shapes. Although I find it a little easier to use illustrator I still think that I would need someone to show me about how to do this.
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