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Monday, December 20, 2010

Personalized Card

First I went to file and new; I changed the width to 6 & height to 4.
Then my background image was kind of dull so i enhanced it. I changed the brightness to 4 & contrast to 33. Vibrance 11 & saturation 3. I also enhaned the background image for the text; Vibrance 0 & saturation 24. For the text I went to blending options; drop shadow - opacity 79 -Distance 10 - Spread 10 - Size 8.  Outer Glow: Opacity 69 - Noise 0 - Spread 10 - Size 6 - Range 61 - Jitter 3. Then I shrunk the butterfly using free transform ( Ctrl T) & Alt Ctrl G to make it a stamp and I  did the same for the skull. I like this because it kind of brings out y personality a bit and it has some of my favorite colors together .
=)))

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Postcard =))

            This is my postcard; it’s based on the school. I first took a photo of the lockers and rotated it using free transform. Then using the clone stamp tool for the string on the bottom right. Then using curves, I set the input to 197 and the output 230. I used brightness and set it to -6 and contrast to 51.  And I also used vibrance I set that to 4 and saturation 3. I used the burn tool and the blur tool on the lockers, door, and the floor. For the Globe I used curves: input 151 & output: 180 and vibrance: 55 & sat -9. Books; I used brightness: -9 & Contrast: 75, vibrance 64 & saturation: 0. For the book fair poster, brightness 18 & contrast 56, vibrance 21 & saturation 21. For the globe, blending options, radius: 5.1/ contrast 42/ smooth: 14. Feather: 2.3/ Contract & Expand 10, For the books, I went to blending Options and set the radius 48.3/Contrast: 48/ Smooth: 40, the feather: 2.7/ contrast: 14. For Mrs. Goodwin, I used brightness: 31 & contrast: 22. I also used vibrance: - 6  & Saturation: - 2. I used free transform to make her smaller and I pressed shift for the fx. Current Science Poster, I set the vbrance 45 & saturation: 17, for curves I set the output to134 & Input: 136. I set the brightness: 3 & Contrast 49. I used free transform for just about everything on it.  I used brightness and contrast for everything because it kind of edits the light dark parts of the photo. I used the move tool to put everything together because it was easier for me instead of copying and pasting. I like it because it’s representing the school and I though it would’ve been an easy subject since I’m at school all of the time.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Choice # 1

  

This is a picture of my kitten, her name is Lucky.  This photo was taken in my bedroom November 8th at 1:56 pm. The mode was on pet.


I first i cropped my finger out of the right side of the photo. Then blurred the background a little bit more using the blur tool, then I enhanced the photo with curves. The input set to 193 and the output to 224. I used the vibrance tool and changed the vibrance to 11 & the saturation to -6. Using brightness and contrast, I changed the brightness to -16 and contrast to 14. Then I color corrected it; Cyan -9, Magenta -6 , Blue 6.I like this picture because it a cute picture of her and I really don't get a picture when she's calmed and relaxed.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Architecture

This photo was taken October 30th in Bena at 3:55 pm.
The mode was set on scenery with the flash off.

This photo didn't need much editing, so first I cropped it a bit. Then I took the red sign out of the back near the cafe sign. and fixed the wall on the bottom right hand corner. I used the clone stamp tool for both. Then I used cuves to enhance it, the input was 170 and the output was 151. I also used brightness and contrast and vibrance. Brightness was 12 and contrast was 23 & on the vibrance I changed the vibrance too 27 and the saturation to 13. I like this picture because of the angle of it.
=))

Scale

This photo was take November 4th in my house -at 7:49 pm.
The mode was set on auto with the flash off.

Ok, so first of all the picture was way to dark so I used curves to brighten it up. The out put was 208 and the input was 153. Then using the vibrance tool, I set the vibrance to 10 and the saturation to 10. And finally using brightness and contrast; Ikept the brightness at 0 and changed the contrast to 70. I kind of like this picture but not a whole lot, because this is the closest I could get to scale.
=))

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Diagonal Rule

This photo was taken October 30th in Bena at 4:07 pm. It was taken on the scenery mode with the flash on.

 I started off looking at the picture for something that I can take out. And it's not really neccesary to do all of that so I just took out a few of the post on the left using the patch tool. Then I wanted to enhance the picture; I used curves and the output was 204 and the input was 191. Then using brightness and contrast;  I kept the brightness the same and changed the contrast to 36, and finally using the vibrance, I changed it to 14 and kept the saturation the same. I like this mainly because how the way the posts are lined up to make it look diagonal and the tree just makes it look even better. 
=)

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Lines

This was taken October 30th at 3:50pm. It was taken in the park in Bena on the scenery mode.

First I used the clone stamp tool to take out some of the sticks on the ground, I thought they were a bit distracting. Then I brighten it up a little bit using curves; output 156 & input 176. And using brightness and contrast; brightness 2 and contrast 39. I also used the vibrance tool, set the vibrance to 68 which made the colors pop a little bit more. I like this picture because I thought in was very suitable for lines.
:))

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Landscape =)


This is my land emphasis landscape. It was taken October 30th in Bena at 3:59 pm on the scenery mode
with the flash on.
 
 
First I used the clone stamp tool to get rid of some of the stuff on the ground and I also edited the trees on the upper right hand corner. Then using curves I enhanced it a bit ; output 185 and input 196. And I also used brightness/contrast; brightness - 8 and contrast to 66.This is a land emphasis because there's more land than sky and the main focus is on the train tracks. I like this it because I it makes me think about history and I thought it was something different compared to what I usually take pictures of.
^_^

This is my sky emphasis landscape. It was taken on October 20th at 4:45pm on the scenery mode with the flash on.
 The first thing I did is took the power lines out using the clone stamp tool.
Then I went to curves and brought it up a little bit. Afterwords I used the vibrance tool and put the vibrance to 8 and kept the saturation the same. The picture really didn't need a whole lot of editing so that why I only edited it a little bit. I I love this picture because it's like a perfect sunset. And this was the view from my bedroom window so thats even better.
=))

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Black & White w/ Color

This picture was takes October 21st at 1:40 pm. I took it on the flower mode.

This is the black and white picture. To make it black and white I went to hue/saturation and pulled the saturation all the way down. And I went to curves and made it a little brighter because the flower looked really dark.

   After I changed it to black and white I selected the flower using the marquee tool. Then with the flower selected I used the eraser tool and made the flower and stem have color. I color corrected it afterwords using curves and used brightness and contrast to make the picture look more vibrant. I changed the brightness to 8 and the contrast to 31. I like this picture because it's very peaceful in a way. In my opinion the grass and flower make the picture very relaxing and pretty .
^_^

Friday, October 15, 2010

Photo Cleanup

This is a picture of my neighbor's house.It was taken October 13th at 4:39pm. I took it on the scenery mode with the flash on. I chose this picture because it looks nice and I couldn't find anything else
around my area that i can change. =))

Ok, so first I got rid of the water stains using the clone stamp tool because they were very distracting. Then using color balance I changed the red to +26, green to +24, and the blue to +20.Then I went on the vibrance tool and changed the vibrance to +8 and the saturation to +6. After all of that I went on exposure and changed the offset to -0.0393.The clone stamp tool worked the best for me because the other tools just kept copying things from the windows and i didnt like it. I like the color corrected photo better because the water stains are out and its has brighter colors. I tried making the windows a little darker but obviously that didn't work out for me. ^_^

Friday, October 8, 2010

Color Replacement


This picture is kind of an old picture, it was taken in 2007. I'm pretty sure the mode was on auto.I used this one because I didn't want use color replacement on any other of my newer photos.

So, for this picture I changed color of his eyes to green, if you look closely you'll see. I changed the color of his head band too. Then using the adjustments mask I increased the vibrance to 33 and the saturation to +16. Which made him look kinda tanner instead of him looking pale like in the first picture. I like this picture because the the colors are a brighter and in my opinion, it makes the picture look better. =)

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Straight Vs Angle

 This picture was taken on Septemeber 20th, 2010 at 5:01 pm. The mode was set on auto with the flash on.



This picture was also taken September 20th, 2010 at 5:01 PM. This one was taken with a flash on the scenery mode. I went on photshop and made it a little bit brighter using the curves adjustment, then I went on color balance, highlights and made the green stand out a little more. Compared to the photo on top of this one, it's much more clearer and the colors are brighter.