Introduction to Photoshop

I have never really used Photoshop before, although my secondary school had it i have only ever used the basics of Photoshop briefly.

The first thing i did when opening Photoshop was setting up a file and changing the  picture sizes of our four images (Eiffel Tower, Sand dune, Astronaut and Bear) to 800 x 1000 pixels to dpj 72.

 Firstly, i started with my chosen image of the sand dune for the background. It had to be a good quality image or it would be fuzzy and look unprofessional. Once i did this i had to download the image and save it to my media file. When this is complete, i then opened my file with my chosen picture. I dragged the picture down by clicking and holding the mouse and dragging down to a new layer that needed to be correctly scaled.
I did this by clicking Edit >transform>scale and holding down the shift key then drag the corner points of the image down to the correct size.

Secondly, i wanted to open a new layer for the Eiffel tower, which i found tricky finding the right image as they were all low quality images. Once i found my correct image i used the polygon selection tool to outline the the image and delete the background.

After that, i wanted to upload the picture of my bear scaling the Eiffel tower. To do this was a tricky process because the images of bears on Google were all in awkward positions to cut around. Also, the bear would be harder to cut around because the bear is hairy and i wouldn't be able to cut in great detail around the spiky bits. But after searching how to cut around animals i found that if i changed the feathering pixels to 2 or 3 instead of 0 it would help me cut around the bear and blend the fur into the background without any bits sticking up. I used the polygon selection tool to cut the background out so i could place my bear on the Eiffel tower.

The last image to upload was the picture of the Astronaut.This was the last one because it proved to be the hardest one to cut out and the longest with the polygon selection tool. But once i did this i placed the astronaut in front of the sand dune and the Eiffel tower.

To say it was my first time using Photoshop without a teacher standing by me step by step telling me what to do i was pleased with it but it wasn't my best attempt overall. because the images wasn't very good quality.