Getting started with photoshop

Good morning, good afternoon and good morrow, eager and most skilled year 10 students. Photoshop skills are a must for anyone hoping for an A or an A* at Media Studies, and it's an awful lot of fun too. Now, some of you already have some super Photoshop skills, whilst some of you are just getting started. Rule number 1 if you know how to do clever stuff on Photoshop: Share your knowledge!

The aim for this exercise is to produce a single cover for a made up music artist (or a made up single for an actual music artist).

The dimensions you need are basically a square (how it would appear on digital only distribution sites such as iTunes and GooglePlay_ - 1400 pixel x 1400 pixel, 300 pixels per inch (PPI).

Try to include at least 3 of the following:

1. How to touch up a photo; how to make people look better
2. Layers and adjustment layers; what are they and how to use them
3. Working with layer masks
4. How to crop a photo
5. Adjusting the exposure and using the Adobe Camera Raw filter
6. Removing something from an image
7. Move or copy objects in a photo
8. How to put a person from one photo onto a new background (or putting two photos together)
9. How to add text
10. Saving photos and saving formats that are shareable

Here's mine ( I know you can do so much better!):

And here's a tutorial link:

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL - CLICK HERE!