Lines




This picture was taken on October 5th at approximately 8:00 in the evening. My camera was set to macro.

 



In photoshop I edited the picture first by using the auto color function. After that I enhanced the highlights on the levels menu, added cyan, magenta, and yellow on the color balance menu, and then using the dodge tool on the corners and some of the albums to get rid of the shadows. I really like the edited picture; the color cast is more pleasing to look at than the original, and the brightened albums really make it look better. I love the rough edges and lines in this picture, and I think the depth of field is really interesting. Part of it is blurred and part of it is focused.

 

Landscapes (2)




This is my land emphasis landscape, and it was taken on October 9th at approximately 4:00 in the afternoon. My camera was set to landscape. It's a land emphasis landscape because the horizon line is in the top third of the picture.

 


To edit the picture I first lowered the input on the curves menu, increased the shadows slightly on the levels menu, and added cyan, a little magenta, and some yellow on the color balance menu. Next, I used the dodge tool on the left bank of the river to make it a little brighter. I thought the dark patch there was kind of distracting, but now I think I could have made it look a little more realistic. I think I do like the edited picture a little better, but the left bank of the river bothers me.




This is my sky emphasis landscape, and it was taken on October 9th at approximately 4:00 in the afternoon. My camera was set to landscape. It's a sky emphasis landscape because the horizon line is in the bottom third of the picture.




I edited this picture by lowering the input on the curves menu slightly, increasing the shadows on the levels menu just a little, and adding cyan, magenta, and yellow on the color balance menu. I also used the dodge tool on this image to brighten the bottom right corner a little bit. As an afterthought I got rid of the little white house towards the bottom left using the clone stamp tool. I definitely like the edited image a lot better because it's brighter and it doesn't look quite so dull. I wish there wasn't so much brown, but it's just that time of year! I do like the color of the sky.



Black & White With Color



This picture was taken on October 17th at approximately 6:00 in the evening. My camera was set to no flash.




To turn the picture black and white, I went to the hue/saturation menu in adjustments and lowered the saturation all the way down.




Besides turning it black and white, I enhanced the input on the curves menu, I enhanced the shadows on the level menu, and I cropped out some of the empty space on the right and bottom edges. After this, I used the quick selection tool to select only the eyes and the apple in her hand, then used the eraser to take out the black and white in those areas. I really like the edited picture a lot! Her eyes are so blue, and they really stand out when everything else is black and white. The apple adds a little more color and balances the picture a little, I think.



Photo Cleanup



This picture was taken on September 14th, 2010, at about 8:15 in the morning. My camera was set to auto.

 


To edit this picture I used the spot healing brush tool to clear up the skin a little bit, and I used the dodge tool on the eyes to make them a little brighter. I lowered the input on the curves menu, enhanced the shadows a little bit on the levels menu, and added cyan and a tiny bit of magenta and yellow on the color balance menu. After that, I used the quick selection tool to select only the background, then I used the clone stamp to get rid of the person sitting behind the subject. I used a gaussian blur on the background to cover up where the clone stamp didn't match exactly, then used the blur tool on the edges of the face so the contrast wasn't so sharp. I think I do like the edited picture a little better, because the background looks much cleaner and the person isn't there to distract from the subject of the image. I'm not completely pleased with how the edges of the face look. I think it's still obvious that the background was edited, and you can tell from the sharpness of the edge. Overall I think it looks pretty believable, though! I put a lot of work into it, and I hope it looks alright.

 

Color Replacement



This photo was taken on September 25th at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon, and my camera was set to no flash.



I cropped the image and replaced the light blue of the petals with pink. I also enhanced the shadows on the levels menu, adjusted the input on the curves menu, added cyan, magenta, and blue on the color balance menu, and boosted the vibrance on the vibrance/saturation menu. I like the edited image a lot better because the subject is more apparent, the colors stand out more, and the yellow cast is gone.