Erin's Blog

I learned a lot while making these projects in Photoshop. I learned how to use tools such as the Patch Tool, Clone Stamp, and Spot Healing Brush. These tools were very helpful to learn as I followed along in the tutorials given to me. Before, I was very confused with photoshop. I was surprised by just how easily and quickly you can mend and enhance pictures using Photoshop.  The first image I edited. The first tool I learned how to use was the Content Aware Fill tool. This tool made it possible to easily remove any unwanted objects in a photo. I found this tool to be very helpful. Another helpful tool I learned how to use was the Patch Tool. This tool also made it easy to remove any unwanted aspects of a photo, by basically copying the appearance of the photo around the unwanted object. Another tool I learned was the Healing Brush. The healing brush was used in many of the photos I fixed, and it's job was to blend fabrics and unwanted parts of a photo into the rest...

Onw Procedures Video               The aim of this project was to incorporate one of the ONW Procedures into a sort of "how-to" video, including the 6-shot system and the tools we had available with our new cameras. My partner and I decided to use the ID Procedure for our video. Our original idea was for a girl to be in the library wanting to check out a book, but was unable to because she did not have her ID on her. The video would then show the 'correct' way to follow the procedure, with the girl taking out her ID to check out her book.  We filmed in the library. It was a struggle trying to incorporate all six shots (over the shoulder, extreme wide, etc.), into our video, and in hindsight I wish we would have taken more shots than what we ended up with. As we started to edit, it soon became clear to my partner and I that our thirty-second time limit was too short to create our original idea. Instead, I had to settle for only showin...