Lab #9 Reflection

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Yet, another easy lab was put into place. I mean I can say it's easy if it really is. This is my reflection right? Anyways on to the lab! This lab called for the use of blending options. It was time to play around with text. Here is my work and what I have done, then I will explain what was expected of us.



The task was to type your name 8 times using the text tool in photoshop. Then we had to place them in a formation as shown above. 4 going down a column. 2 going down a row. After we did that we just had to play around with the blending options that were in photoshop. I mix and matched effects as they were fun to play with. Here are my screenshots of my layers and show what I used for each
text.



Some examples of effects I used in the blending options were inner shadow, inner glow, satin, stroke, drop shadow, pattern overlay, bevel and emboss, gradient overlay and some others. I feel like photoshop didn't have that many blending options so I ended up using some of the same blending options multiple times. I was expecting much more blending options. :(

Besides that I believe that a web designer would need these skills because of the use of text in a lot of things. Since text is used in aspects in a lot of pictures, it would be handy to know how to apply blending options to text. It will look more professional and add some style into their work. The mastery in these skills would benefit a web designer because they will have a better understanding on how to manipulate their text in ways that captivate others. I still wish there were more options to play with.  :(

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