Personal Card

For the backround I found a picture off the internet. I used the horizontal type tool the put my name in. Using the rectangular marquee tool, I selected a sun set picture in my other tab. I copyed (Ctrl+C) and went back to my original tab; and pasted it there using (Ctrl+V). Next I right clicked on my text layer-select pixels. Then I moved that layer above my text layer; and went to layer-create clipping mass. For the flower I selected it using quick selection. Next I used free transform to shrink it than draged it to my original tab. While I was on the flower layer and it was still selected I went to edit-define brush preset; and renamed it flower. For the boarders on the flowers I went to fx-stroke and put the size on 2. On the text I put the boarder on size 3. I went to select-modify and put pixels at 14; Then I went to edit-fill. Finally I went to levels To make the picture look much better. I really like this picture because of how my name looks and the flowers.I chose the blur lights for my background because i love lights like that. I picked the sun set to go behind because i like looking at sun sets. I put the flowers in there because they remind me of my moms garden.

Post Card

I used levels on both of the garden pictures so it would be clearer. Next I used the rectangular marquee tool to select them; I went to edit-free transform to rotate it. Then when it was still selected I clicked refine edge and put radius, smooth on 3 and feather on 6. For the sign I used quick selection tool to select it; and went to hue/saturation to make the color come out. I put hue on 4 and saturation on 15. After that i refined the edge and put smooth on 45; and feather on 16. I made the garden pictures and the sign smaller using free transform; I dragged them over to a 6 by 4 blank tab on photo shop. Once I moved them I put them where I wanted then on the sign layer I used fx to add a drop shadow. For both of the flowers I went to levels; and using the quick selection tool I selected the flowers. Then I went to select-inverse and pressed the delete button on the key board so only my flowers were left. I used refine edge of both. When I was done with that I used free transform then dragged them over.

I made a new layer (Ctrl+J) then went to filter-render-clouds to make the background have clouds. For the sign I put opacity at 90%; and changed the blending mode to luminosity so you could see through the picture. Next I used fx to add a drop shadow to the red flower; I put opacity at 65% For the purple flowers I put opacity at 80%. I added the words in using T-horizontal type tool; I put the font at 18pt on latin-smooth. I used the gradient tool to change the color of the words. On the smaller garden picture I went to fx-drop shadow. On the red flower I went to fx-drop shadow-blending options-bevel and emboss-contour to put on a darker edge. To put the boarder on I made a new layer; and went to select-all then select modify-width 8 pixels.

I went to edit-fill-foreground color to change the color of the boarder. I used the gradient tool on the boarder to make the color half & half. For the words I went to fx-stoke to put in a out line; I put it at 3 pixels. On the bigger garden picture I went to fx and added a drop shadow and put opacity at 69. I think I did a really good job on this picture.

Choice 1

                    This picture is of my friend tyra. I took this at 6:05pm on September 9,  2009.This was taken at my neighbors house with their puppy. I took this picture on Portrait mode.

I used the quick selection tool-image-adjustments-replace color to change the tank top from pink to purple.

I also used it to get rid of the dots on the house. I went to levels to make the picture more clear. I think the corrected one looks better because of the puppy.

Scale

 This was taken on November 3, 2010 at 8:41pm. I took this picture on party/indoor mode.

First I used the quick selection tool to select the rug. I changed the color to orange using image-adjustments-replace color. I did the same thing with the carpet I changed it to a grayish purple. Next I used the clone stamp tool to remove the blow outs on the marbles. Finally I went to adjustments-brightness/contrast and changed brightness to -21 & contrast to 43. I like the color corrected one best because of what I did with the marbles.

Cityscape

I took this picture on October 21, 2010 at 1:45pm. This was taken on landscape mode.

First I used the clone stamp tool & the healing brush tool to remove the white sign, red cone, and the picture on the side of the store's wall. Next on adjustments-vibrance I moved vibrance up to +60. Then I used curves to make the picture more clear.On hue/saturation I changed saturation to +10. Finally I used the quick selection tool to make the truck darker. I think the corrected one looks best because it its not grey and has more color to it.

Archtecture

                This picture is of a old chicken coop. I took this picture on October 3, 2010 at 3:47pm.

On adjustment-vibrance I moved saturation & Vibrance to 12 and -19. Then on color balance I changed green & blue to 22.  Next I used levels to make the sky light blue. I used the dodge tool-midtones to make the right side of the coop brighter. Finally I croped the green house out of the chicken coop. I like the corrected one because the picture looks better without the house in it.

Diagonal Rule

I took this on close-up mode at 7:45 pm. This picture was taken on October 8, 2010 in front of my house.

I used the patch tool to remove the leaf. Then I used the the spot healing brush to  remove the rocks. The healing brush was used to get rid of the lighter sand in the right corner. Next on color balance I changed Cyan, green, and blue, to -5, 25, and 10. Finally I used curves to get rid on the red tint. I think the changed one is better because it has no red tint in it.

Lines

         I took this photo on landscape mode at 4:33pm. It was taken on October 10, 2010 by the Popple Bar.

To correct this photo I used the healing brush tool to get rid of the leaves on the trail. Then I levels to fix up the picture. Next I used hue/saturation to make the trail pop out. Hue was on -8 and lightness was on +2. Finally I used color balance on +10 to make the colors of the trees and grass come out. I like the corrected photo best because without the leaves there your not geting disdracted.

Landscapes

 I took this picture on October 10, 2010 at 5:56pm. This was taken on landscape mode in my back yard. The emphasis in this picture is land because there is more land than sky.

First I went to adjustments-vibrance. I changed vibrance and saturation to +14. I used the Spot healing brush to get rid of the brown grass. Next I used levels to make the colors in the picture pop out. Then to make the trees a little darker I used the burn tool on shadows. Finally to make the grass look better the dodge tool was used.  I like the changed picture better because you can see all the colors pop out. The grass looks much better in the changed one.

I took this sun rise on dusk/dawn mode at 7:10am. It was taken on October 13, 2010. The emphasis in this picture is sky because there is 1/4  of land and 3/4 of sky.

I used the healing brush tool to get rid of the brach because it was distracting. Next the patch tool was used to fix anything in the sky that I missed.  I went to adjustments-color balance-midtones. I changed green, blue to +15 and +50. Then I went to curves to make the picture look better. Finally I went to vibrance to change vibrance-saturation to -12 and +23. This picture is much better than the orginal becuase theres no big distracting branch in the way.

Black & White with color

I took this picture at the Baptist Church in Laporte on October 10, 2010. This picture was taken on close-up mode at 5:30.

Then to change the picture from color to black & white I went to Adjustments-Hue/Saturation. I moved the saturation all the way down and thats how I turned black & white.

I used the quick selection tool to select the the flowers. Then I used the eraser tool to make the flowers pop out from the black & white. I picked the flowers that I wanted to change. I went to levels to make the colored flowers pop out. Next I changed the color of the flowers from purple to pink by using Hue/Saturation and moved hue up to +36 to change it to pink. I like the pink flowers best because they pop out from the black & white and its looks natural.

Photo Cleanup

This is a picture of the old jail in Laporte. I took this picture on October 10, 2010 at 5:41. This jail was taken on auto. I picked this photo to clean up because theres graffiti and distractions that could be changed.

To change this jail I used the clone stamp tool to get rid of the graiffi. I also used the clone stamp tool to change the color of the bricks. I tried using the patch tool and the spot healing brush tool; but every time I used the patch tool I couldn't get the bricks even. The spot healing brush tool was not necessary. I changed the color on adjustments-curves-custom and moved them to where I though the jail looked best. I like the jail after the cleanup because its easier to pay attention to the jail and not the graiffi.

Color Replacement

This sunflower taken on October 5, 2010 at 5:30pm; behind my house. I used auto to take this picture.

To get the sunflower to change from yellow to orange I had too use photoshop. First I used the marquee tool to select the flower than I used quick selection tool to select only the flower petals. I went to image-adjustments-replace color and changed the color to orange. I used color balance-midtones; and added cyan +19, mangenta +13, and -3 of yellow. On adjustments-hue/saturation I changed lightness, saturation, hue, and put them at -19, +10, and -7. I think the original sun flower looked better when it was yellow rather than orange.

Straight VS Angle

I took this photo of a bunny named Alice. This was taken on September 9, 2010 at 8:48pm. I used auto to take this picture of Alice.

This was taken on September 9, 2010 at 8:50pm. I used auto to take this picture of Alice. I saw that there was a brown tint on it so I used "color balance" to change the color. On color balance I put cyan at -41 and magenta -17 on midtones to brighten up the picture. I like this picture because of how Alice is looking straight at you, you get a really good picture of the face and ears.