Lab 3 Reflection

     Hello internet. Today I completed my third lab for my Visual Design course. The name of the lab was Image Adjustments Part 2. So we were still exploring how to do image adjustments. Our task was to open an image of a red car in photoshop, resize it to the requested dimensions, copy it 4 times, and alter some property of 4 of the copies.

     We first opened a new file in photoshop. Then we opened up the image and used free transform to change the size of the image. After that we made 4 copies of the car's layer. When then moved each car in an arrangement such that 4 cars slightly overlapping each other are in a diagonal going from the top left to bottom right and one image of the car is at the top right. The car at the top right went unaltered. The cars in the diagonal were altered. The layers of each car were rasterized. Then we went to Image in the menu bar and selected Adjustments. From there we altered various things. The first image I altered to be black and white. The second image was altered so that the saturation was slightly different. The third image was altered so the color of the car would be different. I made it into a blue car. The last image was altered so the hue was different. By altering the hue I made it look like a purple car. The layers were renamed to reflect the alteration made on them. Then using the text tool I types the alteration done under their image. Finally I handed in my work.
     These skills are important for web designers because, just like in the second lab, web designers must know how to alter their work. Some aspects of images don't always look good but knowing the different types of adjustments can let a web designer experiment with the different adjustments and find what's right for their piece of work. In this lab I learned a bit more about image adjustments. I learned about rasterizing layers and how I can make adjustments to an image a lot easier, by going to Image in the menu bar and selecting adjustments. Other than that I pretty much practiced many of the things I learned in the previous lab.