Assignment 11: Proposal for Photoshop Research

My area of interest for photography is mainly photographing nature & sometimes people. With nature, I enjoy taking close-up shots with a macro setting. These photographs are often of small objects, such as raindrops or flowers. After I graduate, I plan to go to university at either UBCO or Emily Carr in Vancouver, and then from there on I plan to become a psychologist and do other things on the side, such as photography & art. I would really like to learn more about taking portraits and other types of photography, because I think that would be a good job to do on the side. I also want to learn more about Photoshop and how to make images look sharper. I like to give pictures an artistic look by editing them with certain effects, or lowering the saturation to make them look somewhat faded. I also think it would be cool to learn more about animation, and creating fictional characters through Photoshop. My goal is to learn how to create these images using a regular photograph, and also to learn how to apply "ghostly" effects. By the end of the year, I want to be able to use Photoshop to do both of these things.