Resize Assignment

While doing this resized assignment there were some new skills that I learned on Photoshop. Previous to this assignment, I had only briefly used Photoshop for a few things while working on the yearbook while I was in high school. The first thing that I learned how to do was to take a large image and make it smaller, without changing any of the original picture. This is helpful because when using a photograph that belongs to someone else, without permission you cannot alter it by disorienting it from its original dimensions. As long as the dimensions aren’t stretched, it is okay to use. To do this, you go to image size and then insert the length that you want, and then the width will change proportionately. If you are then trying to meet a certain size, using the crop tool, you can crop the image down to that size without taking away too much of the overall picture. Another skill learned was combining different images onto one canvas. To do this you start on one of them and make the canvas to the size that you want after doing the math. Then you copy and paste the other images onto them as well and move them from the center. Each image will be saved as a separate layer, so this makes it easy to add different effects to each of them. A final thing learned in this assignment was how to use the rulers across the top and side of Photoshop to make sure that the images were evenly spaced throughout the canvas.