I have already made a post discussing the practical uses of Photoshop, but that was a while ago. When I say practical uses, I mean ways in which Photoshop can be used in everyday life to solve problems. As of now, I have used it twice for such reasons and I found it was quite useful in both. (Sorry, I would like to include a picture, but, since these weren’t art pieces, I didn’t use royalty free images.)
About a month ago, my family was talking about getting a new kitchen floor or painting the one we already have. I was opposed to this idea, but agreed to held visualize it. I took a picture of the kitchen and it’s floor and opened it on Photoshop. I selected the floor and moved it to a new layer. I then hid it and put different materials we were considering adding in its place in the place where the floor was. After that, I used blend modes to change the colour of the floor. Photoshop really helped visualize what different floor choices would look like and how hey would compliment the kitchen. A few weeks ago, I was doodling in a notebook and began drawing guitar designs. I drew to outrageous ones (a bat-bass and an electric banjo) and one slightly less outrageous one. It featured an original body shape and a pickup configuration I can’t say I’ve ever seen before. The drawing looked good, but I wondered what it would look like if it was actually made. Naturally, I turned to Photoshop, and began dragging in pictures of guitars. First I took a hollow body semi-electric guitar with a similar body to the one I designed. I used various tools to cut it up and shape it into the body I had designed. I then took a neck I liked and replaced the original neck of the guitar. I then dragged in guitars with pickup sounds I liked and extracted them. I ended up with a single coil Telecaster pickup and the two pickup’s from George Harrison’s “Lucy” Les Paul. I have yet to finish this project, but I plan to make the guitar a little thinner and add tone controls. Unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out exactly as I envisioned it, so I might redo it later on.
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