Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

Monday, May 2, 2011

Bullying

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Still life photograph Katie Benz

Katie Benz is a Junior at Mercy. She is sixteen, does swimming, loves spaghetti, and loves the color green!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Andy Warhol Photographs

Object: 7up

Portrait: Baby cousin Ava

4squar: Cactus

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Photoshop extra credit

Color Emphasis

In this photograph i singled out the main flower with the magnetic lasso tool. I then boosted the contrast on the flower. For the background i boosted the contrast on the color also and then selected the parts that i wanted desaturated. I would use the magic want to select. And then i would click desaturate. At the end i boosted the contrast over the entire image to give it a stronger effect.

Fish-Eye

For this photograph i selected an image of my dog Henry. I selected the part i wanted to be effected. I then clicked the button with the circle. After i went to the layer colors and selected the bottom one. After i went to the effect "sphereize". Then it gave my dog's face this effect.

Copy & paste

For this image i had to make sure both of my images were the same size. I did that by checking the sizes of each and changing them so they were exactly the same. I then selected my brother with the magnetic lasso and then clicked copy. I then went to the beach image and clicked paste. After i just made sure it was in the spot i wanted it in and then i was done.

Blending

For this image i had to make sure both images were the same size. I formatted each picture size so that they were exactly the same. After i simply copied the top image and pasted it to my other image with the mountain. I then formatted the filter of the top image so that it was transparent.

Color filter

For this photograph i did a color filter. I chose the warming one. Then i went to filter gallery and chose a filter that gave this effect. After i boosted the contrast and brightness a little.

Ripple

For this image i had to make a duplicate the image. We then did this thing where when you dragged the image down it was flipped. After we created our own ripples in a different layer under the filter gallery. Then we used those ripples on the bottom image. After we adjusted the color on the bottom image so that it matched the top image but with a water effect.

Black & white

This image i simply chose my picture. I then went to adjustments and hit desaturate. After doing that i ajusted the curves. Then i boosted the contrast a little. After i changed the brightness a little bit.

Kid Cudi photoshop :]

For a couple weeks we worked a lot with Photoshop and we learned how to do different effects on it. After learning all the different ways to edit pictures we were assigned to use our knowledge of what we learned about Photoshop to create another Photoshop picture that we felt deserved to be in our portfolio. For this photograph I wanted to select a picture that I had not taken because I wanted to choose a picture and then make it my own. I chose to edit a picture of Kid Cudi, a famous artist, because his pictures are really unique and I really love his music. The original picture was all in black and white and the contrast was very low. I got it off of google images and chose this one because for some reason it stood out to me.

The first thing I did in Photoshop was duplicate the layer. I then used the magnetic lasso tool to just select Kid Cudi. I then selected the inverse. After I did this I went to picture gallery and changed the filter. After I changed the filter to the way I wanted it to be I changed the color. I changed the background color by using the color change button. After changing the color to the color I wanted I then changed the contrast. I wanted the background to stand out. After that I changed the contrast of Kid Cudi himself so that he didn’t look dull compared to the background. At the end I boosted the contrast on the overall picture and changed the curves a little bit.

I am really happy with my final picture because it really catches my eye. I wanted people to focus on the background at first, but then proceed to focus on Kid Cudi. I edited this picture multiple times because it took me a while to finally be happy with my final picture. I chose to use this edit of the picture because the color is unique and it’s different.