Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

Brightness and Contrast: In this image I lowered the images brightness and increase the contrast.

 

 

 

 

 

Levels: I adjusted the levels of the shadows, Mid-tones and the highlights

curves: Using the curve toll I adjusted the points on the graph that was given for a higher quality of color in the animals body.

Exposure: Using the exposure tool I adjusted the sliders and offset and gamma.

Vibrance: I used this tool to modify the level of saturation of all the colors in the image.

Hue/Saturation: I used the tool to adjust the hue/saturation and the lightness of the lady bug.

Color Balance: The color balance tool changes the brightness of the image and also brings out the colors in the object better

Black and white: This tool allowed me too create a gray scale version of the image.

Photo filter: This tool added different color filters on top of the image.

Channel mixer: This tool let me modify the colors and tints and add a gray scale.

Color Lookup: With the color lookup there are three options (3DLUT file, abstract and Device).

Invert: The tool created a negative affect.

Posturize: Creates a poster like appearance

Threshold: This turned my image to black and white.

Gradient Map: Let me add a gradient fill it also allows the creator to add a custom fill.

Selective color: The amount of primary color is in your image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surreal Photoshop Composition

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The techniques that was used were the lasso tool, the curves tool, the quick selection tool, the photo and color fill, and the hue and saturation tool. The techniques that I found most difficult during this project was the curves tool and making sure that when you used it that all the  things that it needed to be applied on were selected if not then it would apply it to your whole project. Another thing that I found hard was creating the rain brush and the rain its self because you didn’t want it to look just like long lines it need to be similar to actual rain.

Cropping tool

 

For the beach boy I used the rule of thirds to decrease the size of the image and for the Mississippi sign I used the straighten tool by dragging it over a straight line to straighten the image.,

 

 

 

 

 

Vintage poster

Color Enhancement – Additional Tools

 

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The following pictures above are all the unedited pictures and the slideshow is the finished product.

• Alaskan Tourist Shops: During the following tutorial the techniques that I achieved doing so where going to the adjustment layer panel below ( looks like a circle half black half white) then I continued by changing the blend to Multiply. once doing so I changed the opacity to 50% and that’s how I got the final product.
• Change color of the women shirts: In the tutorial of changing the green lady shirt to purple I did the following techniques. First I added her and the original lady in the green shirt and the purple shirt on two different work pages. Then I was too use one of the following tools either the lasso tool, pen tool, etc. I choose to go the simpler route and use the Quick selection tool on both of the ladies to select their shirts. Then I proceeded to open the image tab under the menu and selected adjustments and clicked on match color(* I am currently on the green shirt lady ); I changed the original source on the green lady’s shirt to purple. Once the color is finally changed to purple I open the levels panel and fix the input level to 187, and change the blend mode to luminosity and finally then unselecting everything by CTRL+D.
• Waterfall: To complete the following effect I first open the levels panel and then changed the blend mode to screen. Then I noticed that my picture was still not bright as there’s so then I followed to add (Duplicate Level 1) and then changing the opacity to 70% and that is the final product.

Photoshop Refine Edge Tool

 During this project some techniques that I used were the Selection tool in which here I selected his head then saving it by clicking select in the options menu on the very top of the screen and following the same procedure with his body. I also learned how to create a complete Alpha channel of his full body. Also I was able to show bring out the finer bits of the boys hair by using the refine brush. Some difficulties that I faced was making the selection be cause his hair is not straight so It was a little challenging working with his curls also making sure that my mask didn’t cut out his finger and decal on his shirt.

Inner You unedited photos

Inner You

 My shadow that I used in the “Inner me” project was a duck. I used a duck because they are funny animals but also get agitated just like me. How I created this was using crtl+shift+u to create the black and white, quick selection to cut my self out and also I used the brush to create the shadow.

shadow dancing girl

In this lesson I used the quick selection tool to select the other woman to put behind the jumping woman. I also used the brush tool and the blur tool to make the picture appear better as a shadow

Flower Crane

In this assignment I learned how to  find the flower tool and how to draw them I also practiced using the selection tool. I also learned how to apply the mass and mess with the layers