Write a five paragraph synopsis here discussing the tools, techniques, and processes used for various assignments throughout the course. Make sure that the correct names are used in describing each tool, technique, and process used. You can pick from your favorite assignment or any assignment or assignments that stand out as the focus of your content for the synopsis. Correct spelling, punctuation, grammar will also be considered in the total accumulation of points.

Examples of tools, techniques, and processes (using Adobe Photoshop, HTML code, and Macromedia Dreamweaver) covered in class this semester:  

Tools: Selection tools (magnetic lasso, lasso, magic wand, color range, filter-extract), healing tools (healing brush, spot tool, spot healing brush, red eye tool, clone stamp tool, pattern stamp tool), color (color picker, gradient tool, paint bucket), text (text tool, bend tool, free transform tool), web links (slice tools), cropping and straightening images (crop tool, trim, rotate arbitrary, measure tool), Special effects (bend tool, free transform, filters, layer styles), etc.

Techniques: Image cropping, creating shapes for logos (shape tools), using Photoshop filters for special effects and image manipulation, sizing portions of images (layers, free transform tool), special effects, calculating file size and bandwidth (bits, bytes, kilobytes,  megabytes, gigabytes etc)

Processes: Image restoration (healing tools), conversion for print (RGB to CMYK), conversion for the web (from .PSD to .JPEG, .GIF, transparent .GIF, .PDF), embed images within an HTML document for  the web (HTML code, Dreamweaver, Photoshop), image interpolation (downrezing - decreasing resolution), changing actual image dimensions (height x width), creating an HTML document (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, HTML), create structured directories and manage files ("H" drive, public_html folder, assignment folders), convert images to HTML links (HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver).