Finally finished my preliminary task of making my own school prospectus. I have learnt new skills that are shown in my prospectus and these can be used for my final and important piece of my work that is 50% of my grade. My overall photshop looks rather good although there could be some improvements however I have mastered the skills necessary to use photoshop and these will help majorly in my real task. My prospectus is looking quite good and I am happy with my overall work and progress made in photoshop and am looking confidently towards making my real piece of work. Done.

Have mastered a few more skills now and beginning to get the hang of what to do. I need to place the images and content of my prospectus in a shape to look good. I have also now just recently added a background colour, which also applies to the colour scheme of the text that I have now included giving some information to want people to continue reading. The colours I have used are maroon red and yellow/gold and have stuck to these with the text included. All I now need to do is too set out my images and text appropriatley to fit everything in and make it look good for a school prospectus.

Been using photoshop for a few days but im not very good at using and making it look professional at all. I have mastered some of the skills but still need work to master all of these. My prospectus is looking okay although I need to add a background to fit the prospectus and include the rest of my aims. The plan I orignally had has had some changes to it however the overall plan is the same just changing some picture places. My prospectus is getting along okay however the deadline is coming up and need to master these to finish it.

The last couple of days, I have been using photoshop to try and get the hang of what to do and how to make it look good. So far I have used the magnetic lasso tool to get the pictures to what I want, have used the copy and paste to put them onto my background copy and have tried to stick to my plan that I had drawn up. Although I have only been using photoshop for a couple of days, I can see that my plan is staying the same but some changes are being made to make it look good in my opinion. Photoshop is hard at the moment for me but I am gradually getting used to it and my task is becoming better and better.

This is my first practical lesson using photoshop and its really hard. Although ive had the tuorial on how to use the main skills, it is taking loads of time for me to get used to using these for my work. Its becoming really hard to find out more skills like background for example and I have no clue how to do these kind of things yet. I have made a useful start to my prospectus however need to get the main skills into my head to continue progressing in the task.

Just gone out and taken my pictures for my prospectus. I have taken pictures and I am going to include the best of the pictures for the prospectus. I am going to include at least 5 for my prospectus so that it shows a good understanding of the school and makes it look professional. I have taken around 15 photos that I can choose from, and used establishing, over the shoulder and close up shots in my photos. I want the logo, the school, pupils, contact details and courses available for the front page and this is the aim for my prospectus to have by the end of the task. I have took the photos from around the school to fit in with my plans for my prospectus. These will help in making it look like a real school prospectus and with them all being my own photos I can edit them to my needs for the task. The weather and the picture quality wasnt the best as the light was reflected on some photos. This means I will have to edit these and the brightness if I use them, in my prospectus.

In todays lesson I have come up with a plan for my school prospcetus. This is to be used and looked at when making my prospectus to complete my task. I have spent the last hour making a detailed plan of what I want to include and this I hope to stick too. This could be changed for the possible success of the task if I think there may be a better possibility of the prospectus becoming better looking and more successful overall.

In the second lesson today, I had a photoshop tutorial to help me use photoshop to make my prospectus. We learned how to: open,
 save,
 copy and paste,
 lasso,
 blur,
 include text,
 colour
 and eraser.
 These things I will use in my photoshop prospectus for my design of my school prospetus. Mastering the skills will be hard as I havent done any of these before which is why the tutorial will help me in my task. In class we followed the steps to do this ourselves and continued to try and work to gain the skills necessary for completion of the task. This is hard at the moment for me as I havent used this software before and it needs getting used to for me to achieve the task successfully.

Introduced to the course today in my double lesson and have to for the preliminary task make a school prospectus before our final piece which will make up 50% of my overall mark. Im going to do my prospectus on the school and going to take my own photos to use for the prospectus in the coming days.