Mehndi Monday: Using Photoshop

As some of you may know, I am a marketing major hoping to minor in graphic design.

In order to be successful in the graphic design world, you need a handful of skills with specific programs, like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Since I have little to no experience using these programs, I've been playing around with them (I have them on my computer, I just need to learn how to use these programs). I figured I can maybe try to improve my pictures on photoshop for Henna by Aanchal.

It's been interesting but annoying. Photoshop is confusing and I'm too lazy to watch videos on how to use it. I rather learn it in class!

I took a recent henna picture and played around with it. I selected big chunks of the photo, and filled it with 'content aware patterns'. I don't understand the fill, or what the point of the selecting tool is, but it looks trippy and I'm liking it.

Although I don't know how to fully use these tools for their actual purpose, this is a really cool picture, and show a lot of the detail in my work. It's obviously abstract, but it brings all of it to a collage/fun looking picture.

I'm interested to see the feedback I'll get from this, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people have to say about my 'skills'. I'm a beginner, and I'm playing around with it! It's not an easy program, so for anyone who may think otherwise (without using it professionally or being taught how to use it), try it out and show me your photoshop skills!