Photoshop Dodge and Burn

The original is the top photo and the second photo is photoshoped. I played around with the level of color, and may have played too much. It may be too contrasty or something. I created a 50% gray layer, and burned the grass to create more texture. I also burned the tree line in the background.

The first photo is the original and the second is photoshoped. I adjusted the color level, and then burned the ground. By burning the ground it brought out more texture within the grass. I tried to burn around the right eye to darken it up a bit, and burned part of the nose to create contrast between the grass and nose. I used the clone stamp to take out the other two horses in the background. I would have liked the nose to be in focus more, but I did not get another chance to get this shot. Maybe next time.

The first photo is the original and the second is the photoshop version. I started out by adjusting the color level of the photo, and then I made a 50% gray layer. I dodged within both of the horses faces, and burned the trees in the background. I also dodged the brown horses nose to allow it to stand out from the trees.

Photoshop Color and Contrast 2

In this photo I selected each flower and made a separate layer for each. I went back to my original photo and changed it to black and white and increased the intensity of the gray scale for green. I then went back through each layer to erase the left over green from where I selected to leave just the flowers. I chose yellow and purple to saturate more to create this photo.

I used the same method as the flower, but I did not chose any colors to enhance.

Photoshop Color and Contrast 1

This is a photo of my cousin. I first went into levels then tried auto. I decided I liked the way it looked so then I went into hue and saturation clicked on blue and increased the blue then increased the saturation. I also took out the cloud near her shoulder using the clone stamp tool.I thought I liked the photo before until I played with the color and now I like it a lot better.

With the shadow picture I used the clone stamp to get rid of the dark green bush in the right corner. I again went into levels and darkened the shadows because I did not like how auto looked. I then went into hue and saturation to change the green into a magenta and by increasing the saturation and hue the result is the second photo, Which is different.

Photoshop Fun

While driving home from school I noticed a nice clear blue spot in the sky framed by dark clouds, and thought to myself it would be pretty neat to have an eye within that spot. I continued to think about this spot of blue sky all the way home, which is an hour drive. I then thought it would be neat to try to put clouds within the eye like a reflection or another image as if the eye was looking through the sky at something. When I arrived home the spot was no longer framed by dark clouds, so I tried it out anyway and came up with this photo. I took a picture of one of my sister's eyes and the clouds that I saw. As I was playing around in photoshop I couldn't quite get the image inside the eye as a reflection, so I continued adding clouds around the eye until I was happy with the result. I don't quite like the clouds on the left side that are traveling over the eye.

In the second photo I tried to fix the clouds on the left side and made the clouds on the top of the eye have less of an edge. I am still not sure if I'm completely happy with it yet.

Photoshop 1

So this is my first time working with photoshop and have learned it takes a lot of practice. In my first photo I used the picture of the lily that I took and a picture of candles that I took. I used the lasso tool to select the candles then created a new layer to drag into the photo of the lily. I then used the eraser tool to clean up the edges of the candles. I changed the opacity of the candles to try to create a relaxing peaceful scene.

The second photo is my favorite. I used the picture I took for frames, and added a picture of my sister within the frame, which is a bus mirror. I resized the picture of the bus mirror selected it, made a new layer then added the bus mirror directly over the picture of my sister. I used the eraser tool to erase some of the mirror to allow the bottom layer to come threw.

The last photo is of grass with three shadows on it. I used a photo of fall leaves as a bottom layer and used the same method as the second photo. Dragged a direct layer then used the eraser along the shadows to bring out the fall leaves. As I said before photoshop is going to take a lot of practice.

Landscape Pictures

All of these pictures were taken in Vermont looking at mountains that are in New Hampshire. This first picture is one of my favorites I really like the blue in the sky and how the clouds pop. The mountains are not centered and the trees in the foreground give perspective in how far away the mountains really are. I dislike the two trees right in the center of the photo I feel like if those two trees were not there the photo would really open up with a snow covered path that leads the eye back to the mountains.

The second picture is of the mountains again and part of the Connecticut River. In this picture I like how the river leads the eye off to the distance, and I also like the trees and branches on each side of the picture they frame the river and part of the mountains.

The third picture shows the same mountains as the first just a different angle. I love how the snow on the mountains stand out with this angle. I also really like the line of trees on the bottom of the photo because they stop the eyes from leaving the bottom of the photo. The branches from the left stop the eyes as they follow the mountain line.

The fourth picture is a close up of the snow covered mountains not a great picture, but I really like how the tops of the mountains look. The picture does not really have much to lead the eyes around.