The UAL Level 3 Blog


  • Photoshop Lesson 6: Quick Select and Colour Alterations

    This lesson we were taught how to use the quick selection tool to select an area of the image, then use tools under the adjustments menu to change the colour and contrast to make the selected area pop. Then selecting the inverse and using the black and white tool in the image adjustments menu to…

  • Photoshop Lesson 5: Cloning and Spot Healing tools

    Cloning In this lesson we looked at the Clone Stamp tool and how you can use it to clone images and cover up part of an image. First i used the clone tool to copy a mushroom and then I used it to bring over other images from the other images provided. Spot Healing Next…

  • Photoshop Lesson 4: Masking

    In this lesson we looked at masking and how to use it to layer landscape images to change the effect of the image. We were given the sample images of the milky way and a cliff and were told to combine them, then we were told to pick our own images and combine them. I…

  • Blender: My Rubber Duck

    In today’s lesson I used the skills I have learnt so far to create a rubber duck in Blender L3 U1

  • Photoshop Lesson 3: Poster

    In this lesson we continued to look at layers as well as generally practice and demonstrate our existing skills in Photoshop. To do this we were assigned the task of creating a poster for the Arts by the Sea Festival. I first looked at the website and and took a sample of the colours and…

  • Photoshop Lesson 2: Layer Management

    In today’s lesson we looked at layers, specifically the importance of naming and organising them. We were provided with a selection of images that we had to transform and layer into a scene with the theme Explore. It had to include three different images on multiple layers including a duplication of one image on a…

  • Photoshop Lesson 1: First day back for Level 3

    Today we used Photoshop to explore our existing skill in the application. I used images from pixabay to combine to create an image. I used three images, one of a a planet and space, one of and arctic land and one of a humpback whale. L3 U5&6