Favorite Photographer

I used Windows Movie Maker to make this video. I chose Amy Lynch (Amy Hallenius) as my photographer because she is my cousin :) 

Lights

Portraits

The techniques I used for the first three pictures (in order) are ink sketching, cross processing, and taking a cut out of a picture to make a custom stamp. For the last picture I simply edited in Camera Raw.

Reflection

I made a puddle reflection of the Sydney Opera House.

Collage Replication

The artist I chose to replicate was Ann Baldwin. Her picture was all black and white with a silhouette of a person, a big door in the middle of a field, and a large cloud bank. I tried to do something similar to that while still keeping it original so instead mine is in the forest with fog instead of clouds.

Carter's Mountain

I color-corrected these pictures by changing the levels of the shadows, mid-tones, and highlights. I also made one sepia toned and one selectively black and white.

Typography

Typography is creating a picture completely out of text. I chose to do an eye.

Dafont

Dafont is a website that you can download different fonts from. The words I chose were Haven and Broken Mirrors.

Sharpened Macro Images

The macro function on a camera enables the camera to be within inches of a subject when taking a picture. Sharpening a picture makes the lines finer and .... well... sharper.

Visual Puns

A visual pun is a play on words using pictures. The visual puns I did were Gatorade, Deviled Egg, and Flower Bulb.

Rule Of Thirds

I took these pictures on the campus of the College of William and Mary. It was difficult to use the Rule of Thirds. Using Rule of Thirds, the camera creates a 3x3 grid. The subject of the photograph is supposed to be on the intersecting lines of the grid off to the side.

Jumping Off The Page

To make the popcorn look like it was jumping off the page I used varying sizes of popcorn to create the illusion that the some of the pieces were closer than others. One way to make the image look like it was coming off the page  (which I did not use) was to use the perspective tool to angle the picture. To create the shadow behind the popcorn I put a drop shadow on the layer.

Kaleidoscope

For the Kaleidoscope project I took a picture and flipped it 45 degrees. then I used the rectangular marquee to delete half the picture. Next I duplicated the half I had left and flipped it to the other side. Then I used the rulers to split the picture into fourths. Then I used the rectangular marquee to select the top left corner and copied and pasted it. Then I flipped it and put it in the white space. I continued this for the other corners. Then I took that finished picture and duplicated it then flipped it horizontally and vertically 3 different times to make a kaleidoscope effect.

For the last kaleidoscope I used the same process except I painted the picture using brushes in photoshop.

Tools Review

Pop Art

Pop art could be pictures of anything from people to food. When making a pop art picture bright colors are used and a popular effect is Ben Day Dots.

Change My Look

Change MY Look Coming Soon.

To change my friend's look, I first took a picture of her and changed her hair (layer mask, hue/saturation) and eye color (elliptical/polygonal marquee, blending mode, color balance). Then I selected her out of the original background and placed her into a new one. We had to add 3 other objects into the picture. Carly (my friend) wanted to be in a coffin at the bottom of the ocean in Alaska. To compromise with her I made a sea bear running towards her. The seagull and the rainbow don't really fit with the terror of a blue sea bear running towards you, but I can't make the picture too terrifying. :)

Celebrity

For the Celebrity project we had to change the hair and eye color of a celebrity of our choice. To change eye color I used the elliptical marquee to select the iris. Then, I used the polygonal marquee to deselect the parts of the eyelid that had been included. From there I used the layer adjustment Color Balance to change the color of the selected area. Then I changed the blending mode so that it looked realistic. To change the hair color I used the layer adjustment Hue/Saturation. Then I used a layer mask so that I could just color in the hair. After I had everything I wanted colored I could change the hue of the hair to what I wanted.

Montage

Copy

My Original

For the copy montage, we had to make a replica of a montage we were shown. To do this I used layer masks, layer adjustments (sepia), the elliptical marquee, and the magic wand. For my original we were told to have a theme, so my theme was purple. I used both images from the web, and pictures I took. Along with all the tools I used for the copy montage, I also used different blending modes to make the tree fit in the bubble.

Layer Masks

For the Layer Masks project i took a background of mountains and put in a different sky. To erase the rest of the picture so that the sky fits I used the Layer Mask. I also added a tree, a moon, a cloud, and a bat.

Magic Wand

To make the orange creature I used the Magic Wand tool to select all the orange shapes and copy paste them on the white background. Then I arranged them into a fish..type..thing. For the top picture i took a landscape picture and used the Rectangle Marquee, Elliptical Marquee, Lasso, and Polygonal tools to cut out parts of the landscape and arrange it into this fish pond.

Layer Adjustments

Brightness/ Contrast

Vibrance

Hue/ Saturation

Color Balance

Black and White

Photo Filter

Invert

Choice