What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In this slide is what i`ve learnt about the technologies used in the process of constructing this product.
This slide is focusing on the use of photo shop and editing photos. Also the comparison of how i`ve made progress and used more of a variety of tools to construct the product.
Before we started this task i had only used photo shop once or twice but for nothing in depth like this so i had no real idea of what i was doing. Doing this task helped me to gain a better understanding on how to use photo shop and how to edit pictures, as i gained more knowledge of what i was doing i became a bit more confident and chose to experiment a bit more with how i edited the pictures before when i didn't have much understanding i just adjusted the lighting and contrast of the picture and cropped out anything as much as i could that i didn't want in the picture. As i experimented more i was able to cut around the part of the image that i wanted and remove the unwanted background or anything that was included that i didnt want and chose to put it onto a plain background, i learnt to do this by using the magnetic lasso tool. Also i learnt how to change the colours of only parts of the picture, how to smooth and feather out the edges of the images to make them look more appealing and not show that they had been cut away from the orginal backgrounds, how to add borders and a background using the gradiant tool that you can slightly see on the main task. Comparing the two covers you can see how the use of gaining the better understanding has made more of a difference to my final piece.