Text Practice

To do this project I started by opening a new layer in Ps. Next I added a gradient background. I chose to do a black and silvery one under metals. After this I used the text tool and used BOOM as my otamotopia word. I used Krungtherp font and 140pt font size to write the word. I decieded to make the word a bright pink color to contrast and pop against the dark background. With Text Warp I chose squeeze and kept it on horizontal. I made it bend +60 and moved it to the center of the page. Under the fx layer panel I chose inner shadow, outer glow, bevel and emboss, stroke and patter overlay. With pattern overlay I clicked on the word to get more options. I chose the second pattern and set the blend mode to normal, the opacity to 23%, and scale at 269%. I finished by saving the document back to Lr. 

Frozen Motion

To edit this photo I upped the clarity to 50 and made it slightly darker. Other than those edits I didn't do anything else to this photo. I took this photo with a 1/100 shutter speed and the ISO at 100. I decided to leave it in color because all the colors made it stand out and the background was simple enough to not distract from the seagulls to much.

 To edit this photo I changed it to black and white in Lightroom and upped the clarity to 100. I made the blacks slightly blacker and upped the contrast to 23. I made the exposure 25 and decided to leave it alone. I used a shutter speed of 1/100 and an ISO of 100. I thought it looked best in black and white beacuse it gave it a more classic feel and made the background less distracting.

To edit this picture I made the temp a little bit yellower. I made the clarity 50 and used a 1/100 shutter speed to capture the water dripping on the flower. I chose to leave it in color because the colors gave it a happy spring feel and made the water drops pop out. 

To edit this photo besides making the brightness a little bit brighter I left it the same. I left it in color because I thought it showed the character of the city. The ISO was set at 100 and the shutter speed was 1/100. 

Text Blend

To create this image I started by editing one of my outdoor portrait photo's in Lightroom.  I upped the clarity and brightened it a little. To edit the texture photo of leaves, I made the clarity 41 and kept the rest the same. I then exported both photos to Photoshop and made sure they were the same size. After adjusting them to be the same I selected the texture photo and copied and pasted it on top of the portrait photo of my brother. Next under the layer tab at the bottom I messed around with the different blending options. I ended up choosing soft light because it made both photos equally blend. To refine the texture even more, I used the layer mask tool. I took out the texture part on his face, but kept it on his hair and clothes. I finished by saving it back in Lightroom.

Waterdrop Grid

       To create this grid I started out by editing my favorite 4 photos in Lr. I made the temp yellower on all of them to give them a kind of glow and blackened the blacks slightly. After this I cropped them all down to 4x6. Next I moved all four to Ps and made a new 11x14 document with a resolution of 300. For the guidelines I changed it to vertical: 0.5in and 11.5in and horizontal: 0.5 and 4.5in. Next I had to make all the images smaller to fit on the document. I went to image, image size, and changed them to 4x6 and 300 resolution. After doing this four times I went though and selected command A then command C, and lastly command V to copy and paste each photo to the new document. With the guidelines in place I set the different photographs up against the guidelines and made a 1in gap in between them. Lastly I saved the new document back in Lr.

Chrysanthemum

Before photoshop edits...

After photoshop edits...

To edit this photo I used a few tools in photoshop.  I started by making the blacks blacker and cropping slightly to center the flower in Lr. Next, I exported the photo to Ps and started by useing color range to select the flower and adjusting fuzziness to get the best detail. After this, I made a new layer and selected color balance. With this I played around with shadows, midtones, and highlights and changed around the colors. Eventually I got this result by making the shadows pinker and the highlights pinker as well. Next I made the image 8fit and used the tools to add effects. I used diffuse glow and kept the detail and add a cool effect to it.