Letters In Nature

For this project, I didn't exactly use nature, however I used other objects to form the letters of my name. I put a skinny black border around each of the images in Photoshop, and a border with the stroke effect around the entire image.

Wedding Singer

This is a poster that I designed to advertise the school musical. For this project I started off by making a border with the Rectangular Marquee tool. I then filled the border with both a blue and pink color. Then, I took an image of The Wedding Singer logo and placed it inside the border. I then chose a font and arranged all of the details of showtimes and ticket prices onto the document.

Layers

For my layered images, I edited them very little in Camera raw. I only upped the contrast and clarity on most of them. For the the later composite, I used the layer mask and lowered the opacity of the two smaller images. The goal was to combine several of my layering images to make a collage/ composite.

White Balance

White balance allows you to adjust the color of a picture for shooting under different kinds of light. I shot several kinds of white balance. I shot auto, custom, and tungsten. 

Silhouettes- Photographs

When photographing silhouettes,your light source has to be right behind your subject. The light should be strong enough to overpower your subject, so that there isn't as much detail. For my photographed silhouettes, I put my subject right in front of my light source. There was still some detail in my images, but I was pleased with the amount. I edited my images in Camera Raw a little bit. I changed the white balance on some of them to tungsten, so that my wall had a little more color to it. I also upped the contrast, and the blacks a little bit.

Silhouettes

A silhouette is an image of a person, object, or scene that consists of the outline and a basically featureless interior. The silhouetted object is usually black. For my own, digital silhouette, I uploaded an image of myself, and selected it with the quick selection tool. Then, I used the paint bucket tool and filled the photo with black. after that I filled the image with things that I enjoy. I uploaded an image of a piano, and a stage. I also uploaded some stage lights, and changed the hue and saturation so that the colors appeared more different. At the bottom of my picture I uploaded an image of a crowd. I put an outer glow on them.

"Just Stop" Logo

This project was for a bullying campaign at school. The people in charge wanted a simple, once color logo that got their point across.
For this project, I got an image of a stop sign from the internet, and selected it with the lasso tool. I also selected the letters, and copied and pasted all of that on to a new document. To make the outline lines around the stop sign, I used a brush. I changed the andle of each line so that is would properly connect with the others. For the writing on the sign , ("just') , I downloaded a graffiti font. I also downloaded some spray paint brushes to add on the sign.

Song Lyric Project

For this project, I broke apart the lyrics of one of my favorite songs by Adele. I made a collage type image, with pictures of her. I also downloaded some fonts and included the lyrics of the chorus of the song. I put a threshold on one of the images of her. I really like the way it looked. I also included some splatter brushes, to give the image a little color. I lowered the opacity of the two other images of Adele, so that they would blend in a little more.

Aperture-Depth of Field

Aperture means "an opening". Depth of field is the region of a photo that is focused when the image is captured. If the depth of field is short, with an aperture of 3.5 to about 7. The image won't be in entire focus. With a long depth of field, having an aperture of about 11-25, the image is more focused.

Warm Colors

Warms colors are any color within the range of reds, yellows, and oranges. All of these images were edited in Camera Raw. For a few of them, I used the adjustment brush tool to bring out the reds. For the one black and white picture, I opened it in Photoshop and painted back in the warm colors.

Dear Photograph

I really liked this project. I had some old photos, and went to the exact spot that they were taken, and took another photo. Then, I wrote a small letter. I added a drop shadow to both of these images, so that they wouldn't look so flat.

Found Objects

The found objects were supposed to be things that you might not always notice. My found objects were random things in a backyard, such as toy shovels, and I also found a can. For all these images but one, I did a color splash, so that the viewers eye would go straight to the object. Before I did anything in Photoshop, I edited all of the pictures in camera raw. I increased the contrast and clarity in all of them. I used the dodge tool for one of the images.

Five Edited Images

This is one of my favorite images. I made it black and white in Photoshop, and then edited it in Bridge. I increased the fill light so that the image wouldn't appear so dark.

I increased the contrast and clarity in this picture. I also increased the blacks.

To give this picture a more crispy look, I increased the blacks and the brightness.

I didn't do much to this image. I increased the contrast so that the flowers would appear more clear.

For this image, I used the tone curve to increase the dark. I also increased the blacks to make the image more crisp. I increased the contrast and clarity as well, to make the details on the cake more evident.

Panoramic

A panoramic is combining multiple images into one image. You can shoot a 180 or 360 degree panorama. Mine was a 360 degree shot. To combine about 20 images together, I used photomerge, a program in photoshop. Then, I cloned some of the grass to make the whole image look the same, and to make the lines go the same direction. I also had to adjust the exposure, so that the whole panoramic looked the same. I used the dodging tool to make pieces of the image lighter, and blend in with the the rest.

Vinatge Picture

For this image, I added a warming filter, then added a Gaussian blur, and added noise, which gave the picture a grainy effect. I selected around the man with the rectangular marquee tool, and set the feather radius to 40 pixels, clicked inverse , then filled the selection with black. I then lowered the opacity to give it the dodged look.

CD Jacket

I took a picture of myself, and used it as the front cover. On the back cover, I arranged three of my many assignments. My Spring Break Scrapbook assignment, splash of color, and words and brushes assignments. These images are not on the CD, but I wanted them to be seen as well. I also added some text, for a title.

Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus painting, was painted during the Italian Renaissance, by Botticelli. I learned several new techniques during this project. One being the actions. The actions were used to create the meshes. I had never used the action tool in photoshop before. I also learned how to use the variations. They gave the image a cool look by differing the look of parts of the image.

Words and Brushes

For this assignment, I downloaded some city brushes and some paint splatter brushed from, www.myphotoshopbrushes.com/brushes. For the first picture, I flipped one of the brushes, so that it looked like a reflection. I used the words "la f oi", which mean "faith" in French. For the second assignment, I used the word ambition, and put the brushes at different angles.

Doodle 4 Google

My doodle 4 Google theme, was Greece. I used an image that I took myself and placed it under the Google text. I also used the quick selection tool and cut out a blue dome, and a map of Greece. I placed the map of Greece inside the lowercase g.

HDR Photography

HDR means High Dynamic Range. I created my image by bracketing in camera raw. I focused on certain pieces of the image while editing. Then, I combined the edited images. I uploaded them to photoshop, and used a layer mask to remove the edits I did not want for each layer.