Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Mid-term exam Shadow producer

In this image I selected the guys from a different picture and copy and pasted them into this one. In order for this picture to look realistic, I had to put the guys into scale with the picture. I scaled them, then selected them again, copy, pasted, then I painted the new layer black. I painted the new layer back because it's going to become the shadow. To make the black layer look more shadow like I applied the Gauissan blur and changed the opacity. After changing the opacity I "free-transformed" the layer to fit the picture and the shadow's owner. I repeated this with every guy.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Texture, Line, and Pattern

These pictures were an assignment. We were assigned to shoot pictures of texture, line, and patterns. I mainly took pictures of leading lines and patterns.













Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Grunge with Altered Edge







Scary, Spooky, And Seasonal

These shots were for the assignment named; Scary, spooky, and Seasonal. I took a picture of the treetops because the leaves were changing color and the sky contrast against the leaves was marvelously pretty. The picture with my dog is seasonal because it shows my dog sitting with the leaves that have previously fallen on the ground. The next picture was also seasonal because the leaves have fallen and the trees were almost bare. The Ferbie picture is both spooky and scary, because Ferbies are creepy in general. They are battery operated creepers. The last picture uploaded was my Grandma's maple tree in her front yard, it is one of the prettiest trees I've seen.












Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Kaleidoscope

In order to create a kaleidoscope effect on the following pictures, I had to find pictures with leading lines connecting either two or all four of the lines. With the lines connecting the sides, the next step is to make your picture into a triangle and copy, then manipulate triangles to have the lines that are the same touch on the same side. In order to make the kaleidoscope picture below, with the hands I used many brushes.





Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Carter's Mountain

Our digital photography class took a field trip to Carter's Mountain. The class' assignments were to take pictures to bring back to class so we could edit, change, and create new pictures. We were to change two from color to black and white, two to "color correct", and one to experiment on. The first five that are posted from the bottom up, are the originals, the favorites out of the many that I took. Starting at the second "Granny Smith" sign is where the edits start. Along with changing the color, we also had to include some sort of text layer. To do this, we had to make it flow with the picture, which is rather difficult. The "granny smith" sign, I changed the hue and made the greens more pronounced and increased the contrast between the shadows and the sunlight. The picture containing the apples and the lone pumpkin, I color corrected and enhanced the orange hues. I dulled the the reds to help the pumpkin stand out more. The next picture, with the framing of the skyline, was taken from an old abandoned house on the mountain. To make it black and white, I desaturated the complete picture and increased the contrast levels. The next picture, of the "Exit" sign was desaturated also then added a text layer. The next picture, was to show the contrast between the sky and the leaves. I enhanced the leaf color and "color replaced" one of the focal point group of leaves.































Pop Art

In order to create this "pop art" picture, I "burned" and "dodged" this picture to outline the darker areas and lighten some areas. To get the different colors and patterns I had to create a new layer for every color. To get the pattern I entered the "ben day" dots. I followed Roy Lichtenstine's work.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Crazy Combos

The class' second project was to create a "Crazy Combo". I chose my favorite animated character from "Horton Hears a Who" and put it in a scenic photo. The mountain and the sunset created diversity, the moon was an example of the night coming early.

Post Card

My first Project was a post card, we were supposed to create a background layer, then use three cutouts. I chose Camp Grier, located in North Carolina. I chose this camp because I met my best friend there, and had the best summer week of my life.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Change My Look

This is the "Change My Look" of myself. The shirt I was wearing had a moose on it, so I made that the theme. I also changed my hair and eye color, also I added a moose necklace.

This is my "Change My Look" of Riley Crowell. I turned her hair color to maroon, her eye color to green, and copied and pasted sunglasses off her shirt to put it on her head. Then I entered a back ground and completed my second "Change My Look".


This is my first "change my look" tutorial of Taylor Swift. I changed her hair color to purple and made her eyes green. She looks awesome.

introduction

This is my first post, this picture is of my laptop, it used to be my sister's. However, she moved away and wasn't allowed to take it with her. It then became mine.