Final photo story

Make a free picture slideshow

What was done to each photo:
1) First, I used the selection/move tool to copy and paste various parts of the white rocks to cover a wall that was to the right of the rock path. I also decreased saturation to make it black and white and adjusted the light to make it a bit darker.
2) I added a filter, “polar coordinates” to swirl the photo to represent the cycle of the seasons in Vermont.
3) In this photo, I adjusted the color balance, adding higher levels of blue and lower levels of cyan.
4) First I used the blur tool on some of the darker rock, making them lighter to blend with the water. Then I added the oilfy filter because I really like the soft touch it gives the water.
5) Here I lowered lightness and increased saturation a little bit. Then I selected and painted the boy’s sweatshirt and shoes, dying them green to really pop out.
6) In this photo I again increased saturation, and decreased the hue slightly to enhance the colors, making them clear and precise.
7) Again here, I increased saturation, this time by much more. Then I decreased the lightness and finally added text: “Lyndon State” hovering over the rainbow.
8) Here I first cropped out some extra open water to focus on the lighthouse. Then I sharpened the whole photo (It was originally taken from my camera in black and white).
9) This photo was already very purple and florescent but I did adjust the midtones of magenta to enhance the color even more. I also used the blur tool in the background on the mountains.
10) In this photo I added the filter “lens flare” from the top left of the photo where the sun hits the spaces between the two bridges.
11) Here I increased the saturation, contrast, and lightness slightly and decreased the brightness just a little bit.
12) In this photo I adjusted the hue to enhance the green colors of the trees. Then I increased the saturation significantly and added the text, “802” to wrap up my slideshow!

Rusty and Hayden- Portraits

This is my oldest nephew, Rusty. My camera automatically picked up his face with face detection which seems to really help put the attention and focus on his face. I cropped it a bit because the stuff in the background is a bit distracting. I wanted the head on view so the focus would be on his emotions through his facial, I'm glad I finally got him laughing. I love his little dimples :)  I found that rule of thirds seems to fall into place its self  when photographing portraits because the human face and body creates these sections.

This is my second oldest nephew, Hayden. We were walking through Burlington and he wanted to go up the stairs. He posed like this all on his own :) I intended it to be more natural and tried to get a few shots of his back as he walked up the stairs. But then he stopped and stood like this, and it made for a much better photo for this assignment. He looks like a model, trouble trouble. So other than the unnatural setting, I like the scene and the overall photo.  I do wish he smile though!

week 10 manipulations

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In this photo I used the clone tool, holding shift to make a box around the red text "focus". Then I moved the mouse over in the areas where I wanted that piece to go, as you can see multiple times to produce my final product. I found this tool to be a bit tidious, it took me a few tries to get what I wanted, I still don't think I have the hang of this tool as much as I'd like to but, practice practice practice!

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I added text in this photo using the text tool. I selected the tool and put the box at the bottom of the picture. Then by playing around with the colors, fonts and sizes, I finally found what I wanted and what fit to the picture. I chose white font to help it pop out because the background of that area (our pants) is pretty dark. Are they're effects that can be added to the text tool other than the watermark? I could'nt seem to figure this out yet. I think it could make for better quality and overall effect if effects were added. (As you can see, I also adjusted the color temperature by turning it all the way up and the saturation slightly up.)

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This is photo from a lighting/contrast shoot that I took in one of my courses in high school. To start I used the bucket fill tool on the gray table. Using black I clicked on various spots on the table and the bucket filled that area. I liked the patchy effect that this caused, so instead of trying to fill it all as a whole I kept it like this. There is a little patch on the bottom of the flower pot that got covered up by this that I noticed afterwards, oops. Once I had the table done and blended into the black background I played with the brush tool and discovered the "sparks" option. I turned the brush scale up to almost 10.0 and moved my mouse around the flowers and pot. Kind of a out-there result, but I think it's eye catching and interesting.

In the first set of photos, the first is the original and to make the second photo I applied the cartoon filter found under artistic filters. Then I added the neon filter on top of this turning the radius up significantly and keeping the amount low.

The second set of photos again the first is the original and to make the second I first turned lightness down and adjusted the hue to make the color really pop. Then I added the oilfy filter chaning the mark size to 20, turning the intensity algerithm on and chaning the exponent to 10%. All of this helped to sharpen the edges of the words on the can and make them bolder, catching more attention.

The third set of photos are of the Fairfax Falls. The first photo I appliedthe cartoon filter again, this time turning the mask radius up and the percent of black down a tad. The second photo is the original and the third I applied the oilfy filter as is. I like the softness that this filter shows in this photo, very smooth and calm where as the one where I applied cartoon there seems to be more noise and texture. Filters are my favorite part of photoshop!

Burn/dodge

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To make this photo I used a few layers to give the whole photo the effect of burn as well as overlay. I made the layer mode burn at 46.5% opacity and a new layer in overlay mode at 100%. In this layer I used the brush tool with a larger brush to darken the sky and I tried to fix that little blotch of sunlight that looks kind of funny. (I kept the range set at midtones.) I'm not sure I was very successful in fixing that part of the photo, but I like the overall effects, it almost looks like I turned up the saturation. I think this photo could be more interesting if cropped or maybe with a filter on top..

Lighting photos

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In this first photo I did a series of modifications. First I enhanced the lightness of shadows and brought the color curve down. Then I enhanced the yellow shadows and mixed the hue a bit to blend with this effect. The last thing I did was pump up the saturation which really finished the photo. I spend a lot of time fooling around with this one, it's hard to make pictures of sun like this look good without overdoing the light. Overall I like how it enhances the sun and the reflecting light and it almost creates a fading boarder around the entire photo.

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This is a picture of a painting that my sister did. I think my nephew stole my camera and accidently took this, but I figured it would be pretty cool to edit because of all of the colors and patterns. I kind of just opened it in GIMP and played around with things until I found something that looked decent. To start, I decreased the lightness significantly to pull the colors more and fix the lighting. I jacked up the saturation to 80% and pulled down the color curve a tad then finally pulled up the contrast as well. The contrast helped to make the colors pop from the photo. I really like how this one turned out. I actually glows under a blacklight and the after photo here kind of resembles what it looks like when it's glowing.