Pasted Into A Seperate Image

This was something I did for a site I own on a previous blogging website. I started off with the original photo and began to erase the background of the original photo. I found a smiliar nice rainbow lake picture and filtered that. I pasted the girl onto the lake photo and began erasing the minor details around her so that you couldn't see any of the background. I messed up on the head though near the top, I don't think I was taking my time near that, sometimes it can fustrating but I know I need paitence along with it. The text near the bottom of the photo was something I just threw in there of the site name, and played with the color, fonts and styles of which the text looked best it. Overall, I think it turned out okay.

Color & Black And White Copy (2)

This is another Color & Black and White Copy, though with this one, I thought the added mirror effect, being himself colored but his reflection black and white looked amazing on the photos. I started off again merging down a layer and keeping the original copy colored. I opened the same photo and made that one black and white. I copied the black and white photo and pasted it onto the color photo. I use a simple short sized brush to begin erassing considering I was doing face details so I thought it might have leeded a little extra work. I did the edges around the face and on the jacket and shirt and phone I used a bigger sized brush than what I began with because I knew that didn't need much effort. I have to say the face and the hand was the hardest trying not to get into the background or erase the phone. I think it turned out good.

Cropped Flower

This picture is a simple cropped image, one of the first projects I was encountered with. I took a normal size photo; close up picture too, I imagine it was taken with the macro settings, and cropped one of the flowers out of the picture as if it was standing alone. I messed around a little bit with the filters and the lighting, noticing that the picture was a bit fuzzy, I managed to even it out a little bit, and make it more bright as to it was rather dark once cropped, I think the image reformatted once imported. Seeing the picture was taken which each of the two edge flowers off the picture frame and the middle flower was wrapped around the third flower I had to choose the first flower to crop, even though I would have liked to crop the second and thrid flower together wrapped around, notcing this of course after I turned the project in.

Traced House

To start this off, I found a decent sized house with a plain background and such that would be able to trace. I started off tracing the house going through different brush variations for each minor detail, after noticing many different times how much stuff I missed, I went on to just start messing around with the trace. The house itself was a good blue colored, like the one showed in the picture, but it was mixed with a border of white and black which were add-on's to the house which I couldn't very well trace. The original picture made it clear that the lights were on in the house with no curtains down so I proceeded to color the windows yellow to make an appearance of the lights being on in the house. The door way was a light blue color as to the actual door being a black color, which looked a lot better in the original picture. The door way was hard to trace being so small but with a lot of details. In the background on the house was a wooded area, I started to trace the trees and noticed I couldn't I decided to make the background a neon green; yellow color.

Word: Bugs

When first seeing this photo, it isn't much. Though I used the word 'bugs' to create a visual of actually bugs get squashed, using words and a type of word writing. I added a drop shadow to the words, and created multiple words give the sense of many bugs getting squashed. I used the transform and distort tool to angle the bugs at a side to where it looks like many bugs. I played with the image a little and arrowed it out to where it looks the bugs are getting squashed into the ground, I found this project simply amazing, to use one word to describe a whole picture and visual aid.

Word: Forest

This is also another word image describing the word, though this is the word 'forest'. I went the word 'forest' because I thought that I could use a green color font, with a leaf surrounded edge, and I thought it could describe a lot. I used a slanted font yet it was bold and standing still, with the leaf pattern inside. I used deep green leaves, to give off the impression of being 'deep into the forest' with leaves covering the ground. I used a drop shadow to have the word itself stand out.

Word: Windy

This was the final word image I did, it persists of the word windy, I started off with a slanted font, considering the 'wind blowing'. I then, used a filter and used the filter called 'windy'. Next, I used the distort called i Warp and just messed around on the word itself which made the word a lot harder to see, but I thought that brought out the meaning of the word windy as compared to a tornado or something along the lines of that. I really liked messing with this word because it seemed any distort or filter I could find just made it look better, but at the time I wanted to stick to something simple.

Lighting

I personally took this picture, the original photo the lighting was bad, and it was blurry and fuzzy. I used the contrast and brightness and adjusted them limited to the photo. I added multiple layers to the photo and had a different similar filter for each and combined the first and second layer. I merged both layers down, and the picture seemed a lot, and after playing a little more with the contrast, I ended up with the final picture, which I liked a lot.

Color & Black and White Copy

First off this is a picture of my friend; I began with the photo, really not knowing what I was doing till the middle of my process. I took the original photo and merged two layers down, and kept it full color. I opened the same photo, on a different file and made that photo black and white also merging the layers down. I copied the black and white photo and pasted it onto the color copy, I began erasing the cellular phone because it was a square object which seemed reasonable enough easy to erase. I've seen these types of pictures before and absolutely loved them, though I wasn't quite sure what to name this picture. I messed up a few times though doing the outter edges, but I though the turn out was really nice, even the lighting spot coming from the phone.

SkyDiver

For this picture, I started off with an orginal photo of an release sky diving man and woman, and proceeded to work on a picture of just myself. I cropped the photo of myself to where it was just my head, and frame work around it, I pasted the photo on the orginal photo and placed my head level with the orignal photo even though I still needed to do some erassing I needed a sense of how much to erase. I began to erase with a small eraser around my head leading into her head, so that our head was lined up. I knew I wasn't doing as good as I could, because I wasn't taking my time, it was harder to get around her hair, considering we didn't have the same style of hair, although I tried to make it work. I didn't need to use an filters on the photo just a simple cut, paste, and erase technique.