PHOTOSHOP

EXPERIMENTS
TO TRY
U SE T H I S LI ST I F YO U N E ED H E LP
G E T T I N G S TA R T E D W I T H I N D E P E N D E N T
E X P E R I M E N T S O N P H O T O S H O P.
 A-LEVEL

FOR THE HIGHEST MARKS IN AO2

ENSURE THAT ALL EXPERIMENTS
ARE PURPOSEFUL, LINK TO
YOUR IDEAS AND ARTISTS, AND
SHOW PROGRESS FROM ONE
EXPERIMENT TO THE NEXT.
AO2 CRITERIA: For 20-24 Marks:
EXPLORE AND SELECT
A P P R O P R I AT E An exceptional ability to
RESOURCES, MEDIA, explore and select
M AT E R I A L S , appropriate resources,
TECHNIQUES AND
P R O C E SS E S ,
media, material,
REVIEWING AND techniques and processes.
REFINING IDEAS AS Reviews and refines ideas
WORK DEVELOPS
in a confident and
purposeful manner as
work develops.
 GCSE

FOR THE HIGHEST MARKS IN AO2

ENSURE THAT ALL EXPERIMENTS
ARE PURPOSEFUL, LINK TO
YOUR IDEAS AND ARTISTS, AND
SHOW PROGRESS FROM ONE
EXPERIMENT TO THE NEXT.
AO2 CRITERIA: For 20-24 Marks:
R E F I N E W O R K BY
An exceptional ability to
EXPLORING IDEAS,
SELECTING AND thoughtfully refine ideas
EXPERIMENTING with discrimination. An
W I T H A P P R O P R I AT E exceptional ability to
M E D I A , M AT E R I A L S , effectively select and
TECHNIQUES AND purposefully experiment
P RO C ESS ES .
with appropriate media,
materials, techniques and
processes.
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH
PHOTOSHOP This is not a definitive
list!

Change the colours

Change brightness and
contrast
Use filters Layer multiple images
Change opacity
Liquify to distort (in filters)
Select sections to edit on a different layer
Transform size/warp/ Clone sections to copy something into another area
skew/distort/ rotate Dodge tool lightens
Burn tool darkens
Blur foreground/background
Sponge tool saturates or desaturates
try Gaussian blur Auto blend multiple layers in edit
Add lighting effects by going
to filter/ render/ lighting
Add text