To start off my course work, I went out and took photo's of things to do with nature for a task of creating the front cover of a nature magazine. After I had taken a few photo's, I then up loaded them onto a computer so I could play around with the images on photo shop and find out how to use photo shop.
As you can see, I used a large tree and some blackberries which were two separate images which I combined together to make one by using the 'magnetic lasso tool'. I then adjusted the colour and light contrast of the images to give it more detail and to see how it works. After that, I added some text at the top in green to make it stand out from the dark tree. 'Beautiful Growth' is the name of the magazine. I then placed a slogan in yellow to help grape people's attention.
Overall, I am quiet pleased with what I achieved and I look forward to playing around with photo shop more often.