Picture Corrections

For this assignment, I understood the photo editing as enhancing a picture that needed some work. I went through some old photos, and for each picture I tried creating more color, less glare, and better quality. I did not use too many effects, just the paint brush to color over what I saw to be gray and dull. My original three pictures are on top, and their edited format follows beneath in the same order. For the first photo of the "star feet" I feel as if the shot was extremely washed out. I played around with its saturation, and tried to bring its original colors back to life. I did the same for the photo of the three people beneath it as well. The hardest correction to make of that photo was the boys face. For some reason he was also very washed out, so again I played with saturation, and drew on his face to enhance the darks and lights. The photo beneath it with the two girls posing looked faded out as well. I drew on both girls, the car closest to them in the background, and darkened the road with the paint brush. There was a red glare by the tree in the background by the white building, as well as near the branches on the top right corner. I tried my best to do what I could with each piece, and I feel I made each one look better.

Portfolio Peices

 I chose this piece because I feel it is one of my better projects that display a decent job of cutting and pasting. Originally this photo had icicles dripping from a drain, but i wanted to edit the icicles out and put something else seeping out. In the first project of taking pictures of a environment, self portrait, and idea/action, I chose my environment of rain on a window. Since the photo already had drips of water in the picture, I felt it would be beneficial and a good pick to use for my icicle substitute. I then added a light source in the drain to add shadows, manipulated the picture by playing with its colors and actual shape, and added highlights to show the sun shining on what now looks like mysterious goop.

 I chose this piece because I feel it has a clean, illustrative quality to it. This originally was my self portrait piece, and I liked this photo so much that I knew I wanted to play around with it sometime or another. I layered a past photo I took of a tree, manipulated it by using an oil paint option to look as if they were tiles. I then dragged and dropped it over my face, and traced where my eyes, nose and mouth would be from the original picture that was my first layer. I then smudged my hair so add to make it appear soft, and airy, with highlights I used with the paintbrush. My scarf has touches of pink from the paintbrush i also then incorporated into the sky, and I drew pencil marks to add a more gritty feel to play off of the branches from the tree in the background.

I chose this piece because I feel like it has a good balance between, color, movement and content. The original picture is the background photo, which is a stretched image of my bed spread with scarfs on top of the comforter. The three lines that are near the four corners of this piece are head bands that i used the oil paint tool on. I also colored in the headbands with pink because I felt it balanced out the bright pink of the scarfs, which i also drew on to enhance shadows and highlights. The main focus of the piece looks like a demented flower. The center is a bead from a necklace I took a picture of, and then shaded with the paint tool, and its pedals are butterfly magnets I took pictures of and later distorted to give them their curvy shape.

Internal Project

This piece represents the Internal Project we were assigned. The idea of having an internal piece meant that the lines would intersect eachother in different ways, as well as lead to different intersections. I took multiple pictures, manipulated each one, cut and pasted several pictures and colored on top of the overall piece.

External Project

I created this piece to represent the external aspect of design. Following the rule of thirds, I put the main focus of both flowers near the points where the rule of thirds lines intersect. I cut past photos to create the petals and center of both flowers, and then drew on top of them each to add color and an illustrative feel.

Second Project: three photoshop pictures

 

 For this piece I took out the space where my desk originally was, cropped it out, and put in a picture I took of a concert. I then manipulated the picture of the concert to make the colors more playful and active.

 For this piece I cropped out the water streaming from the gutter, and pasted in my original photo of my abstract environment. I then manipulated the window and added color to liquify the image to make it act as if it were water.

For this piece i cropped out my face, and used the tree backround from my original abstract self portrait photo. I pasted it, played around with the settings, and created multi colored splotches where my face should be. I also then sketched in the backround, added some white, and created a purple hint on my scarf.

Project One: Action

My first photo is an abstract action shot of a toilet flushing, and the one beneath it is a photo of a girl whipping her head downward. The image beneath the girl is a drawing of a horse running, first sketched out by hand then colored in with photo shop. My last photograph is an representational shot of ice melting on the lip of a gutter.

Project One: Environments

  

All of my photographs were taken in doors, the first and third being in the art building, which are both abstract. My second photograph was done in my dorm room, being the representational photo, and the fourth image being a sketch drawn and colored in with photo shop. 

Project One: Self Portrait

 

 My first photograph is an abstract shot of myself, while the image beneath it is a drawing done first in pencil then colored in on photo shop. My third photograph is another abstract shot, and my last is a representational picture.