Week 6 - Multimedia Authoring - Class Review

This week we focused on a number of things, including working with filter gallery, combining applications of filters with selections, create custom textures, use liquify filter, working with text and paragraphs, how to insert an image into the background of a text.

Filters are basically special tool in the Adobe Photoshop that allow the users to add special affects to their images. They can be used in a number of ways. There are lots of options of filter selection in  the filter menu. Filter gallery shows a generic preview of the effects of each filter. Users can add more than one filter effect to  the same image.

The liquify filter allows the users to push the pixels around with the purpose of creating special affects. It is a great tool with impressive features. Users can distort the pixels by using the different types of liquify filter options. Users can also add the freeze mask tool to protect a specific portion of the image while editing. Users can also use the reconstruct tool to fix the picture back to its original version.

We also learned how to use vector shapes, using different types of shapes to create one combined shape.

We also learned some of the basic of using text. We learned how to pass an image into the background of an  text. How to alter the spacing between different letters and how to alter the baseline shifts. Learning how to change the alignment of paragraph was also part of the lecture session, we then practised our newly learnt skills in the tutorial session.