Adobe Photoshop

To create both of my ancillary tasks which were a poster and a digipack for my band I used Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop allowed me to have different layers so that I could add different elements to my poster and have them overlap and still be able to freely move them around. Photoshop is an editing programme and some of the things which it allows you to do and what I used in creating my two tasks were text box. I added text boxes for when I was adding text anywhere on the product. It allows me to have a background layer which for my digipack really helped me finish it because I had my background layer as the sizes of the digipack which made it simply for me to know how big to make everything. Photoshop allows you to easily cut out images from other photos which was what I needed to do to get my bands logo for the digipack and the poster. To do this I used the lasso tool which let me draw around the image which I wanted cut out and then copied the image and then it was just the part which I had drew out. With Photoshop it allowed me to make my two ancillary tasks look more professional than using a different software would give. The use of layers on Photoshop was vital in creating it for me. I had used this before because I had used it to create my magazine front cover for last year’s coursework and I have also used it in my IT lessons so I was very familiar with the software and I was able to get on with the work.

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