Initial Skills Assessment

AS Media Production

Technical Skills Audit Print Production

Name: Kate Dow       Tutor group: 1.33        Date: 1^st Sept 2010

Photographic Skills

Which of the following photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Have you aver used Photoshop ever before?	X		In art at Hummersknott
Text control	X		In art at Hummersknott
Filters		X
Brushes		X
Layers	X		In art at Hummersknott
Opacity control		X
Shape creation		X
Brightness and contrast control	X		In art at Hummersknott
Gradients		X
Load selection features		X
Feathering		X
Colour curves adjustment		X
Resolution setting control		X
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	X		In art at Hummersknott
Cropping tool	X		In art at Hummersknott and at home on normal computers
Clone tool		X
Retouch tool		X

Photoshop Skills

Which of the following features of Photoshop have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	X		Taking pictures on my own camera
Shutter Speed	X		Creative and Media taster session at QE, was taught basic skills with changing shutter speeds so we could use it in the dark room to pick up different amounts of light...
Aperture control		X
ISO Control		X
A tripod		X
External flash		X
Self timer facility	X		On my own camera
Light meter		X
Composition grids		X