Photoshop Tutorial: Beams of Light

For this assignment I chose a photo that I took at Dinosaur Hill.

I began by selecting the gradient tool and choosing the Color Harmonies 2 option, then I applied it and selected the desaturation tool to remove the bright color. I made it 50% opaque and then used the perspective tool to finally start working on the beams of light. I added a Gaussian blur effect to the tools and then tinted the light a to a pale yellow. Using the custom shape tool I used a particular type of tile, applied it to the photo, stretched it out and then used blend mode and set the opacity to 25%. I blurred the atmosphere and erased all light streaks that were out of place. I created a light source at the top of the pic by painting the pic with the same color yellow as the light beams.

Tables

Just some place in downtown Martinez that I thought was really cool. I was going to use some of these for my final.

Extra Flower Pics

This one is clearly photoshopped, and most certainly not a flower.

AJA Project: Photo Essay Preview

Stephanie and I worked together to document the trash problem at College Park. 

Here are some examples of what is left right after lunch:

These photos show trash, and then what it looks like with it gone.

Extra Pics...Fun With Posterize!!

I like posterize because of the cool effects it gives a photo, and how easy it is to change that photo into something completely different.

This one was the original:

Flowers

This one is definitely my favorite. :)

I also liked how this one turned out too.

Pop Art: Photoshop Tutorial

For this project, I took an old photo of an apple and cropped it to a square shape. I then used an artistic filter to distort the image of the apple in a way. I used the magic want tool then to select the subject and copied and pasted it into a new level. Then I used the paint bucket tool for coloring the first one and then doubled the size of the canvas. Then I duplicated layers and lined up each layer as best as I could together. Using the hue/saturation tools, I slid the tool until it changed every one of the panels to another color. I like how bright each color is.