PHOTOSHOP FUN!

This semester, I'm taking Adobe Photoshop. Here's some of what I've done so far!

Some of the first things I learned were to add patterns and replace colors in photos. Here's some examples...

(This guy's tie used to be a different color and didn't used to have a pattern)

(That blue rose used to be red)

For my first simple assignment, I had to add effects and a quote to a macro shot (close up) of a picture of something.

Here's the final product...

(I added that quote, put a circualr highlight around the beads of water, and then made the bead in the foreground a little bit brighter than the rest)

Next, I had to find a macro shot of a flower...

...and then add effects to it. I decided to zoom in and replace the color of the clouds and edges of the flower. I wasn't sure which color to use, so I just played around with the colors until I had something somewhat natural, yet cool looking. Here's how it turned out...

For my next assignment, I had to find pictures online of buildings/architecture that were shaped like letters in the alphabet to spell out my name. Here it is...

The last two projects were the funnest. Our teacher took our pictures...

(I was pretty tired that morning...)

...and told us to manipulate them however we wanted. I wasn't sure what to do at first, but here's what I ended up doing...

(I darkened my coat, turned my face and lips blue, my eyes red and my hair green)

Then, I cut myself out and put myself on this background. I decided since I chose the colors I chose, it would work best underwater somewhere.

Here's the final product...

For the last project so far, we had to create a holiday ad/poster. We each drew out a number on a piece of paper out of a hat to choose which holiday we would get. The person who got #1 would choose first from a list our teacher had and the #2 and so on. I had the perfect fortune of drawing about #37, which happened to be the last number in the class. By the time I got up there, all of the good holiday's were taken. (Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc...) I was a little worried I'd get stuck with something wierd like "Ramadan", or "Chinese New Year" or something, but luckily "Grandparents Day" was available. It's not a BIG holiday, but I made it work.

The requirements were that we had to use a picture of ourselves, two other pictures of anything, a holiday title/date and a short description.

I decided that I'd use this one of myself and since I had Grandparents Day as my holiday, that I'd turn myself old.

Here's how it turned out...

(I would've gone a bit farther and made myself look older, but I only had time to change my hair white and make my face and lips paler.

For my other two pictures, I used my grandparents! (What an idea!)

I didn't use this last picture of Grandma however. I used this one.

(What do you think?)

Here's the final result!

Hope you liked my stuff! When I do more stuff, I'll do a future post with them! Until then...