Project 5: Focus and Filters

Plastic Awe – This image was fun to do. The first thing I did was adding a lens flare with the movie prime filter. I then added the plastic wrap to the image. This gave the tree a shiny plastic look. Then I used the cutout filter for an added effect.














Moonlight Drawing – for this image I wanted the look of moonlight. I used two filters for this. The first is the lighting effects filter. With this filter I made an omni light and placed it at the top and behind the tree. I then made it the brightness of the omni light glow so that is was just bright enough to show the details of the tree. The next filter that I used was the watercolor filter. With this filter I made the made the shadow intensity a little high to make I look like the moon was out and that the tree was blocking the moons light at its base. I used the watercolor filter to give it more of an artistic look because just the lighting effects filter by itself made the image look fake.

Looking Through Glass – This image is supposed to represent someone looking through frosted glass. For this image I only used the glass filter, I used the frosted option and made the texture of the glass big enough to see the detail of the glass but not to big as to distort the image completely.

Project 4

This project was fun to do and I learned a lot from it.

I followed the steps in the book for the most part. I made the line drawing into a transparent drawing first to that all I had was the lines. I then used a paint brush to paint the lines only using the scatter and color dynamics features. The pattern used for the inside of the lines is the bubble texture that is with photoshop. To make the lines look like they have depth, I used the bevel and drop shadows fx.

Project 3

Selection Outline



For this image I started with a box and the worked on section at a time. For the four small boxes I just made one and then duplicated them and used the grid snap to get them in somewhat the same location. I did the same thing with the triangles as I did with the boxes. For the Circle I just centered it and made it white to begin with.


Dancers

Original Dancers


Original Head Shot


Composite


This one was fun to do. For this the first thing that I did was select only the head in the original head photo and added it to the original dancers image. then I rotated and resized the head until it matched that of the original. Then I made the opacity of the head lower so that I could see through it to erase the unwanted area around the collar of the neck and then put the opacity back to normal. I then adjusted the lighting and made the image black and white until it matched and then I came up with the complete composite image.

Adjustments

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Made:



This is the best that I can do for this picture. One of the first things that I did was to change the picture to black and white. I then played around with the color balance and the hue and saturation.


Color

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Sample:


Made:


This is the closest I could get to the target picture. For this image I used a few things. I changed the color balance and the hue and saturation. This one took a while to do. I also changed to levels for each red blue and green.

Orientation Quiz

A. Something that is going well in my life is my wife, daughter and baby on the way.

B. Some of my specific goals for this class is to learn how to use digital imaging for the work place.

C. My first experience with design, computers and imaging technology was great, I love it, and I do not know how we ever lived without it.

D. I prefer to use a Mac, because it is by far the best for graphic design.

E. My experience level with Photoshop and other image editing programs is ok, I have used Photoshop in the past an love it.

F. Something I like about my day today was that work was closed do to the weather.

G. I would like to start using it for designing product for my job and for the future.

H. I like to do projects that fun and challenging.

I. To make the class go very well for me I will need to stay on task and have fun.

J. I am always on the computer making things, mostly videos.

K. John and Thomas Knoll have made Photoshop what it is today.

L. No I do not own or have access to a color image scanner, that I know of.

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