Texture Layers

For my texture layers project, I took one of my pictures from Disneyland, a shot of a starspeeder with R2-D2 on the top, for my basic picture. Then, I added a second layer, this one consisting of a mess of tangled rope. I turned up the opacity a fair amount here, until you could only see the outlines. Finally, I put an image of part of a monorail track on the bottom, replacing the original base of the starspeeder. I also made sure that R2-D2 was unobstructed by ghost image of the twisting ropes. The photos I used for this project were all taken my me, so there are no other credits to give.

How I Roll

 For the first item of How I Roll, I  took a picture of two of the staples in my diet, bagels and cookies. In Lightroom, I turned up the warmth, clarity, and boosted certain colors. Then I moved the picture over to Photoshop and turned the background to black and white.

 For this picture of my and my brother's bikes, I made the wheels clearer and enhanced the sharpness of the image in Lightroom. In Photoshop, I brightened the blue bicycle in front so that it would better contrast the darker red bike in back.

 A true pun on How I Roll, I use dice often. Thus when I moved this picture into Lightroom, I brightened the different hues of all the dice so that they would pop out. It wasn't finished yet, but Photoshop soon saw to that. A pencil in the top corner was deleted, and two dice were changed to become a different color.

Legos are one of my passions, and they turly show How I Roll. In this shot, I took mostly round bricks, wheels, gears, and bricks with holes to keep up with a theme of rolling. I brightened the background in Lightroom, as well as emphasizing the shadows. Then, in Photoshop, I altered the colors of select bricks to bring them more into the viewer's eye.

Messing With Photoshop I

Here is a picture I created when I took a picture of myself, a terminator, and lightning. Enjoy!
I used layer masking and lots of erasing. I also used a series of clone stamps to repair some hair.

Photoshop Edits

For the shape transformation, I decided to turn a basketball, rather than an apple into a square.

In order to do this, I first just took a picture of a basketball off the internet, and inputted it into Photoshop. Then, I used the liquefy tool to change it into a more squarelike shape. Eventually I got the perfect level of curve to line ratio, and completed the project.



The other project in this Photoshop tutorial series was the process of adding something to a picture. Instead of the typical fangs onto a strawberry, I took the picture of a snake and molded it onto a bunch of bananas.

To do this, I took the picture off the 'net, then used layer masking and unmasking with a significant amount of blur to equally meld the snake head on. I used a preexisting banana brown spot and matched it up with a stripe on the snake, making the picture more believable.

Five Hour Walk

These were the top five shots from my five hour walk.

 This one I call Rainbow Berries, because I used the Quick select tool and the saturation layers to brighten and create multicolored berries on an otherwise normal bush.

The campfire I took for this shot did not actually burn this dark of a red, and due to layer changing, I made it so, giving the cheerful crackling fire a dark ominous hue.

 There wasn't a whole lot to do for this shot, but i Quick selected the rope on either side and formed a new layer. Thus I was able to brighten them but not the rest of the picture.

For this shot I achieved the primary goal of getting sun through the trees, creating a halo effect. As I increased color, a purple butterfly also appeared.

For this final shot, I turned a cheerful blue sky yellow, with only a tiny spot of pink. I also made the trees  look like they were ash-covered.

Selective Adjustment

This was another shot from the USS Iowa, and I used multiple layers of hue and saturation and much masking to make the ship black and white, the sky vibrant, and the flags colorful.

Hue and Staturation Adjustment

For this I used one of the pictures I had taken while I had been at the battleship the USS Iowa.

Through Photoshop tools such as the saturation and color layers, I turned an otherwise normal tank green.