Week VIII - Playing with Filters

Posterization TIME!!!

(And some hue/saturation changes...)

Week VIII - Liquified....Playing with Filters

( I feel I look slightly possessed... and at least he's smiling now...hehe )

I had alot of fun with the filtering aspects on photoshop. I found I got so wrapped up in one aspect I didn't even realize that there were so many alterations I could do within each individual filter....

Week VIII - Dodged and BURNED!

Before - A recent shot of my boyfriend and I at a family wedding. (He has a tendency not to smile, though he truly can). Anyways, I am bothered how the image has the subject matter in the shadows. The camera took in the light from the background and hence is more washed out.

After - So first I cropped the image slightly, to remove some of the unnecessary background "stuff". I then dodged the subject matter, of the two peoplle, and burned the background. I found that when I was doing this, it started to wash-out whereever I dodged? Is this common? I am not sure how to alter this once it started. I did alter the Saturation and felt that this helped the aspect of 'washing-out" that was occuring. I also found that when burning, it was almost leaving "tracks", as it was obvious to the eye that it was being altered. I had the "hardness" down to 0% and that did make an enormous difference. Another question, I has was the umbrella seems very harsh now. Although this was ultimately my goal, to make the background darker, I found that in doing so, the red seems almost speckled. Is there something else I should do to alter this? Did I burn incorrectly? Overall, I feel the alterations where affective, but I definitely need to practice more.

Week VII - Color and Light Adjustments PART II

I again followed the tutorial. I find myself going to the extremes and pushing the photograph beyond actual boundaries of real light and color. I want to work on what actually makes the image look for realistic, but at the moment I am definitely enjoying the manipulations with hues and light, for the pure purpose of alterating the image. I find by adjusting the hue and light of the original image, I was able to create a more captivating, lively image.


The Original Image

Week VII - Color and Light Adjustments

Although the alterations create a false looking photograph I had a lot of fun isolating the different color/hues by using the layer technique offered in the tutorial.

This is the original

Week 6 - Layering Experimentation

Week 6 - Experimentation with Photoshop

"Lost in the Mist"

I have used adobe photoshop some but it was always trial and error. I definitely am rusty, but really enjoyed this project. I played around with the lasso, background eraser, copying and pasting and multiple layers. You can really lose track of time :)

Week 5 - Rule of Thirds.. again