"before and after" lady

old family portrait

Assignment 5

Assignment 4

For our 4th assignment we were supposed to create a magazine cover using the techniques we learned in class. I photographed my friend Andreina at a park and used her as the model for my magazine. First I cropped her out of the picture I took of her and began working on clearing her skin using Dust and Scratches on the Noise tab with an opacity of 20%. I cleared her face a bit and then went on to Layer Mask > Hide All. I then went to the Eraser tool, Regular Brush > Soft Edges and I began erasing the edges around the picture to make it look cleaner. I then merged the layers and copied two layers. On the middle layer I screened it and on the first layer I chaned the opacity to 20% to clean the picture up. I copied this image and then began making my magazine cover by choosing a background of purple flowers to go with the dress. I was attempting to make a magazine with a Vogue-ish style. You can see that I put the title of the magazine [Art Phot 112] behind Andreina, to give it that style and I began using other text to finish the magazine. I also added a barcode to the bottom left of the magazine. I think I've been improving with my Photoshop skills a bit, and this has been my favorite assignment so far.

For the twin image I used three different photographs. I had my friend sit on both sides of the bench and pose as if he were arm wrestling with his twin. To both images of my friend I used the Clone stamp a bit to clear the face. I then used the Magnetic Lasso to cut him out in both pictures and I used the Eraser tool to outline the edges to get rid of the extra part of the picture that was cut. I then used the bench picture as the main picture at added both cut pictures of my friend on the image. I clicked on the right picture of my friend and then went over the hand on the left image to used the eraser to erase his thumb to make the image more believeable. In the end it is supposed to be twin brothers arm wrestling. I struggled a bit with this photograph and I'm sure I can improve it a lot more with a bit more help.

Assignment 3

For the wine bottle image I used the Free Transform tool to add the label on the bottle with the correct size. I made a wine advertisment with a bottle on a table and as you can see the reflection of the bottle is on the table giving it a more realistic touch to the image. I reflected the bottle to make the reflection and then I changed the opacity of the bottle.

I did the same for a milk bottle but as you can see the final product was not great. I had a problem with this image and I could have added a better background to make it more realistic. I changed the color of the table. I know I can do much better than this!

Assignment 2

This assignment was the most confusing to me I believe because I was still so new to Photoshop. We used a picture of the lead singer of Motion City Soundtrack that my instructor photographed and cut him out using the Quick Selection tool. The project was to make it seem as if he were in a roller coaster. I forgot some tools we used but I used the Color Range in the Select tab to get rid of the extra green that was still around his hair when I cut him out. I cropped him a bit and used the Free Transform tool to make him smaller. I then added two seagulls in the background with the roller coaster. I changed the color tone of the guy and made him a bit darker so he could compliment the color tone of the image.

Assignment 1

This was my first time using Photoshop after about three years. I was pretty lost as to what the tools did and how to use them correctly to make the image look believable. We were supposed to use the first image and add clouds to the image making it seem as if they belonged there. Then we were supposed to make the image black and white using Image > Adjustments. The final image was extra credit and I just found a picture of a roller coaster and used it as a background. I cut him using the Quick Selection Tool and placed him over the roller coaster.