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.