Technical Skills Audit Print Production

Name: Adam Lazenby                           Tutor group:1.22                 Date: 15/4/11

Photographic Skills

Which of the following photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	x		Used this at GCSE to attempt to focus on an object and leave the background.
Shutter Speed	x		In GCSE Graphics i adjusted shutter speed so that I could the headlights line as the car drove.
Aperture control	x		I have used aperture control during a blog post, I took various images of a whisky bottle showing different depths of field.
ISO Control		x
A tripod	x		I used a tripod that the photos I took of the object were from the same location.
External flash	x		I used external flash when I was taking photos for my graphic project.
Self timer facility	x		I helped a friend by setting the timer so that could start a moving object, this made the photo be took when the object was in the right place.
Light meter		x
Composition grids	x		During my photo shoot I played with composition grids to see if I could convey some meaning with my positioned with the more dominant object in the top right box.

Photoshop Skills

Which of the following features of Photoshop have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Have you ever used Photoshop ever before?	x		GCSE Graphics and designing posters for bands.
Text control	x		I manipulated texts for my final GCSE design.
Filters	x		I applied filters to some of my images to make them stand out of the image more for GCSE.
Brushes	x		I used a range of brushes to complete GCSE.
Layers	x		I had to understand layers to complete my GCSE Graphics course.
Opacity control	x		I used this to put images on top of others, increasing the opacity meant that both could be seen.
Shape creation	x		I created shapes in GCSE Graphics to put things into in the exact shape.
Brightness and contrast control	x		I used this to sort out some images I took for GCSE as they were too dark.
Gradients	x		I used this when I wanted a background of two colours.
Load selection features		x
Feathering		x
Colour curves adjustment	x		I did this to manipulate the colours in images to make them vivid and stand out more.
Resolution setting control	x		I did this when an image I scanned in was too high resolution to load on Photoshop.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	x		I originally used this to cut objects out when I first used Photoshop.
Cropping tool	x		I used this when I was doing a piece like a artist I researched where you boxes and used detailed zooms of a standard image.
Clone tool	x		I used this when I made an eyeless person for GCSE Graphics.
Retouch tool	x		I used this tool when I was making my front cover image look like ”perfection” as this is what sells in the media world.