Sunday, March 22, 2009

Spring weather and photo shop love. Assignment #5

Since the weather has started to change I have found myself surprisingly more alert, wanting to learn more about photoshop, and getting excited about sleeping outside again.
I had a bunch of really cool pictures that I wanted to use for assignment 5 but my SD card from my good camera doesn't work on any of the computers at the university, and I have yet to buy a converter for it. So, I chose to use some pictures I took recently at a bakery, and while cooking in my house.
For the first photo I turned it black and white and then using the eraser I erased all the parts I wanted color. I tried to keep the color towards the front to make it pop. Reds and yellows are some of my favorite colors so that is why I chose to make the bowl, the eggs, and the baking soda standout. I didn't mess with the saturation of the colors.
The second photo I messed with the color saturation a little, color burned the pink cookies, and adjusted the opacity so you can still see the shape of the cookies but still gave them a psychedelic feel that I wanted them to have.
The third is of my sister and I. I turned the photo black and white, then added a dark stroke filter to it. I gave us pink lips because I took the photo in a make up stores in NY and I wanted to keep that girly make up feel with the photo.

I included the before and after of both photos.
Here are the final product.


































































Thursday, March 5, 2009

Photo shop pictures!

So for my latest assignment in Online JCOM we had to use photo shop. After spending a summer with the wicked witch of New York screaming key commands about photo shop in my ear I found this assignment fairly easy to get done. Some of my high school knowledge of photo shop has also come back to me. It is amazing what the brain can do when it's not under pressure.
These photos are not amazing by any means but they work for what I have to do. :) I have to thank my teacher Shane for helping me out and bringing my brain back into the world of photo shop. Love this shiz....