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.