Three elements of photoshop and how to manipulate an image- media passport

The three elements of photoshop I will talking about are; Layers, The blemish Tool and the lasso tool.

Layers are like sheets of paper in that every time you add a layer, you add a new layer of paper for an image. Layers can be used to perform tasks like adding an image to then crop (making the image smaller) or blur (making the image fade with the back ground) or add text. Once adding a layer and applying an image you can manipulate the image by adding colour effect, changing the saturation or even just making image smaller.   

The Blemish tool, also known as the spot healing tool can be used to blur out imperfections on an image like spots or marks by blending pixels, the blemish tool is simple to use by once selecting to tool, select the section you want to blend and then the blemish should disappear. This tool can be every popular with those in the media industry who want to perfect images of celebrities.  

The lasso tool is useful for drawing freeform or selecting an image quickly in boarders, it is very similar to the quick selection tool, however the lasso tool you have to manually select around a boarder in comparison to quick selection tool which selects around an image quickly. 

Photoshop can be successfully used for photo manipulation such as the examples of tools above, photos can also be manipulated by being cropped, by cropping out a distracting background or irrelevant space the focus goes to the aspect of the image you want, allowing for the image to be manipulated for the viewer to see what only you want them to see. Another way images can be manipulated is through changing colour balance and brightness and contrast, changing colour balance means that an image is manipulated by atmosphere and mood whether the image be full or light or darkness, if the image is full of dark hues it will give a new meaning to the image with suspicious undertones whereas an image with warm bright light creates an image of happiness. Changing colour balance can also be used to manipulate images such as faces that may have a blue tinge to them from standing next to or in water can be sorted by using colour balance and adding skin tones.

Another way an image can be manipulated is through brightness and contrast. For example; images taken on a cloudy day can be tweaked using the contrast tool to brighten up the image replacing the lost light the sun would have given. The contrast can also be lowered is an image has too much light in it.