Beach Edit; October 6, 2009

I edited this picture that i took at Llandudno beach. i used the hexagon lasso tool to select parts of the pebbles in the foreground. i then clicked on select at the top, and then used ‘invert’. the next step was to click on filter, and then the option of blur. i used gaussian blur, and altered the level to make the background out of focus. i then repeated these steps, getting closer and closer to the bottom of the photograph, but using less and less blur. this allows the blur to be blended in, making the effect less harsh. i also altered the curves to make the shadows on the stones more prominent and the sky a little more blue ^__^

Beach Edit; October 5, 2009

I edited a photograph i took a Liverpool Crosby beach. I converted the image to black and white, and then used ‘duo filter’ keeping one filter in black, and choosing a blue filter for the second colour. These are the before and after pictures. im quite pleased with the result, and will continue to use this technique to improve the quality of my images, as i was just used to using the ‘curves’ tool to alter the appearance of the picture.

Photoshop Techniques 2; September 29, 2009

Step 1; the first step was to crop the image to get rid of the black border that surrounded it. This was done easily by using the crop tool, and dragging a box around the image to cut off the unwanted parts.

Step 2; next we zoomed in on the part of the picture that was scratched at the bottom, and removed the scratch by using the clone tool, to select bits of the image and covering the imperfections.

Step 3; we used the magic wand tool, to select the marble that the flowers are on. we set the Tolerance to 50 to ensure no parts of  the selected area were missed. we then changed the levels of hue, saturation and lightness to; +20, -30 and + 15. this lifted the colour of the marble, and drew your eyes to the flowers, which are the main focus of the picture.

Step 4; i then used the Spot healing tool, to get rid of a blemish on the surface of the pear. We set the diameter of the healing brush to 30, and the hardness to 0%. this ensures a soft edge when removing the blemish, and helps it to blend in and look natural.

Step 5;  We then used the stamp tool again, to clone the leaf at the bottom. We targeted the bottom right hand side of the leaf, to make sure no overlapping occurred, and then duplicated it next to the other leaf.

i learnt quite a few new things from this tutorial. I learnt how to clone objects, and heal imperfections on objects. Also, i learnt how to alter the hue and saturation etc, of an image.

 

Photoshop Techniques; September 28, 2009

Step 1; use of the crop tool, to select the image which was originally at an angle. The image was then rotated 90 degrees to be the right way up.

step 2; Use of the brightness and contrast tool. I increased the brightness to +15, and the contrast to +25. This adds definition to the photograph, and improves the colours.

Step 3; next we used the clone stamp, to remove a boat in the picture that was undesirable. we did this by selecting the clone tool, and choosing a patch of water, and holding down the shift key.  By then clicking the area of water we wanted, we were able to copy that section of water. once that was copied, you then click on sections of the boat to cover them up with the water 

Step 4; next we opened up a small new file, and on colour chooser we chose a skyblue col0ur. Then we went to ‘filter’, ‘render’ and then ‘clouds’ then using the magic wand tool and holding down the shift key, we selected the areas of sky in the photograph, making sure the tolerance was at a suitable level- in this case 10. then we clicked on the clouds sample, copied it and pasted it into the photograph with ‘paste into’. when this was applied, we then altered the opacity and fill of the sky on the layers pallet, to make it look more realistic.

Photographic Influences; September 28, 2009

hello, i am a media and photography student at Walford and North Shropshire College.

In Photography my three main influences are ;

Adam Burton, Joe Cornish and Jeremy Turner/

Although these are not the most well known of Photographers, i find their work very inspirational.

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