Warhol

4-Square
This is a picture that i took of my sister. Took make this shot I had to individually adjust each image. I worked out the threshold of each and I wanted the colors to flow well together. After I took each image onto a new blank document and alligned them with one another.

This is a close up view of my sister and in the reflection of her glasses you can see me taking the photo. For this image I first adjusted the threshold of the image to magnify the shadows of the shot. Next I adjusted the hue and saturation to get the purple in those dark spaces. Then I had to select the white in the image individualy and select the background color to it to come up with this image.

This image is of a pair of my shoes. With this image I first adjusted the threshold of the image and then changed the hue and saturation of the image to make the dark parts red. After this i seleted each of the squares and adjusted the background of the shot.

5 Photoshop pictures

This image was focused on color emphasis. I had to make several layers for this image and isolate the airplane from the rest of the image so that it would stand out. Once i cut it from the image I intensified the colors so that against the black and white backdrop it would stand out. I then selectedd the rest of the image so that the backdrop would appear and i saved it as a jpeg so the image would compress together.



In this picture I edited the colors of the birds by adjusting the thresholds. To make this image took longer then most in adjusting the colors because there were three different types therefore I had to create many individual layers for each bird in the shot. I feel that the green bird shows the best effects of this type of editing in showing the light and dark parrts of the image. Getting the whole image with the magnetic lasoo ws the hardest part for me in this and I always had to do it several times before it worked correctly. This was one of my favorite types of editing.

This picture shows the effects of mirroring the image. With this i had to adjust the bottom image so it would flow nicely with the image. This was one of the harder editing jobs we had to do and I found it difficult to get the alignment correctly in place for the image.



For this image I cut and pasted the tree onto the background with the to columbs to combine two completely different images. For this i had to outline the tree and delete the rest of the image and paste it to the other image. Aligning it was the most challenging part.

For this image I blended the window with the enhanced image of the resevior. I had to make dublicate layers so that i wouldn't loose my original image. I chose the type of layer blend and then I adjusted the intensirty of it so that you could still see the original background. 

Photoshop

The process of Photoshop I found to be very precise and challenging, however it was entertaining to develop and apply the many different aspects of it to my image. We learned various techniques to enhance light and texture within out images. This could help them to stand out even more amongst there backdrops. The image I used for this assignment was of my “Little Toy” project. The picture is of a gnome, which was the center of my project, placed on a conveyer belt at an airport where the luggage comes out. The original image is far different from my edited shot which was the main purpose of this assignment, to use an image and create something totally different from it.

The first step I took in making this image was adjusting the threshold of the gnome individually. I made the gnome a light blue color to do this I had to cut the gnome from the background so that the finishing product would be separate from the background. Next I had to create at least ten different layers and with each one I had to change the threshold making the first as light as possible and the last as dark as possible. With that I took each individual layer and made the one with the lightest threshold the darkest shade of blue and the last layer of threshold that was the darkest the lightest shade of blue. This creates nice shading within the image of the portions that are supposed to be lighter then the rest to grasp and identify what it is. The result of this made the object entirely blue, which was what I was going for in editing this image.

After this part of the process was finished I changed the background using the poster edges filter, which gave it its gritty paintbrush feel. Then cut the image and spherized the image, which gave it the fisheye affect. This makes the picture bulge out as if your viewing it through a looking glass. The process all though difficult gave the results that I was looking for in my image. I never realized how much you can truly manipulate an image. This however does not take away from the truth that I have learned about taking photography in that your best image is the one you see through your own eyes and that is without manipulations.