Using Photoshop -Creating a Film Poster and Website Homepage

Although I am an art student myself –Graphic Design to be precise- I am not hugely comfortable with Adobe Photoshop and tend to do my best to stay away from it. When it came to being re-introduced recently, as preparation for my A2 Coursework, I found that it was still a struggle to get to grips with the programme. We were given three images to work with; a landscape of a desert, a cartoon character and a car, and asked to edit the latter of the two onto the desert background, editing and adjusting the images as we progressed. We were also asked to add text, a title and subtitle or tagline; the foundations for a movie poster.
The following lesson we were asked to put together a webpage on Photoshop and then adjust it to make it interactive, so that when the mouse was moved over one of the elements, such as a character on the webpage, it would disappear. These are the instructions we followed: [Photoshop] File; Save for web; Save. By doing this it would mean that the screen shown would be saved separately. Using Photoshop was only half of the task however, for the second part we were asked to use Macromedia Dream Weaver, a programme that I had never used before. This was the programme that would allow us to broadcast our webpage’s live on the internet. The programme was quite complicated and we had to follow all the steps accurately to get it right. Instructions as follows: [Macromedia Dream Weaver] Create new HTML page; Untitled 1 – design; Manage sites (in Files; New; Site definition; [name site]; Next; No to server technology; Edit local copies; [store files]; None; Summery; Done.