Thursday, May 19, 2011

Forced Perspective

my first picture is of Alex hugging a pole, but i turned the camera on its side when taking it so it seems like she is trying to not fall off. i used the clone stamp tool a lot when editing this picture so that it would look more realistic.

this photoi is of Alex laying down while making this "running" action. i had to take several shots of her in this action to make sure that it looked real. i put on a surface blur to make it seem almot as if she was actually in action.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Solarisation





In this picture i changed the curve to darken the lights and brighten the darks.

In this photo i adjusted the lumonosity curve

For this photo i pulled up the curves to bring out the dark colors (negative solarisation)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Tuesday, April 5, 2011



BEFORE AND AFTER
i think that the second photo looks as if i changed the contrast, but the picture does look better after being sharpened!!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

RHYTHM COMPOSITES



For my first photo i took five pictures of my friend moving across the sign that is in front of the high school. I stood in place the whole time to make sure that the pictures could be realistically put into one of the pictures. I used a lot of different techniques to try and get the best quality of "marching ants". I used the quick mask mode to go around the edges and just refine them. Her hands were probably the hardest part to do, just because i wanted to make sure that they didn't look like claws. i had to brighten one of the pictures because she was under a heavy shadow, so i brightened up one of the layers to makes sure that she looked like she "fit in" with the others. I also put a slight shadow under one of the pictures to make her body blend in better with the background photo.

For my second picture i initially tried to do all five of the pictures i had taken of her slowly eating a taco, but it ended up looking cluttered and more like one big blobby shadow. I deleted a few layers and kept three of them. I changed the blending modes on two of the layers to make it look like her hand was fading away, which i personally really liked the effect of.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Assignment 1



For my first image i overlayed a picture of my friend Gracie, and a picture of the dash of my car and the sunny outside (: For the second picture i overlayed a picture of my friend Hannah and a picture of my jeans that i took when i first got my camera. I reduced the opacity to 53% and used the "Lighter Color" mode for the colors. I really like this blending tool because it gives people a new edge for their photos.

Friday, March 11, 2011

COLOR SPLASH



For my first photo i used the Magnetic lasso tool to get the "marching ants" around my main subject (my dog) then select inverse to get the background colors in black and white.

For my second photo i also used the Magnetic lasso tool and then i had to edit in quick mode mask mode to make sure that the edges of my subject were in color instead of black and white. I put on a green filter for my black and white parts because i thought that it had some good contrast against the pop in my main subjects clothes and hair.