Selection pratice

Photoshop is a fantastic program for those who like to challenge with pictures and effects on picture. Using photoshop is not much difficult, it is all about the time, it is my experience. You can lean very quickly but it will take you a long time to adapt with it, especially in selecting objects. To practice using selection tool which I have just learn from class, I created this image. “ Fishy” is about the fish.
This is my two original images:

In the 1st image, I tried to use Lasso tool to select my fish. I hold my mouse and drag it around the fish but it is very hard to draw with mouse. As a result, I could not select my fish completely. Next, I try to use other tool, the “magic wand tool”. I saw that the water is easy to select than the fish so I click on the water. Unbelievable, after some clicks, I selected my fish completely. I think “ magic wand tool” is very effect to select the object in the clear environment, like this water environment.


In the 2nd image, I used a higher selection tool. It is “pen tool”. This tool requires us a little bit knowledge about vector so it is really cool.

About the effects, I make a shadow for my fish by using “free transform” and fill black background then I resize it.

The word “ fishy” is done with the “ripple and wave” in “distort effect”. I don’t think the pink color is effective here, but I like this color. I use Gradient tool for the background and I choose the blue sea color.

And this is my product :