Slide Show

 

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Week 12

Photo Story

 

 

I have had such a fun time in this and have learned, thank you all for making it a great summer semester!  Below are the pictures from my photo story (Sorry I couldn't post the slide show I will keep working on it!)

 

 



 

week 11

Portraits

For this weeks portraits I decided to take pictures of Conor (the little boy I nanny for) and my niece Bella.  For Conors picture I cropped the image and used the dodge and burn tools and also the clone tool to get rid of a few marks on the floor.  the biggest difficulty I had with Conor's portrait was the lighting on his shirt.  I had the shot set up in front of a big picture window to allow enough natural light but it I couldn't get his white shirt to not be over exposed.  I tried to darken it some through Gimp but it is still a little bright.

With the picture of Bella the hardest thing I faced was getting her to look at me!  She loves to dance so I wanted to take pictures of her at a concert in a park that we went to.  she has the most beautiful smile which lights up her face.  Unfortunately every time she smiled she turned her head!  So for the photo of her I decided to use a photo that captures her crazy side.  The only thing I did to this photo was crop a little off the top and blur the background.

For this picture I used the same photo but played around with gray scale and color.  I think I like this one the best.

 



week 10

Photo Story Preview

 

Below are 16 photos (all unedited) that I am going to use for my photo story.  I have a few pictures that I am going to be morphing into one photo that is why I have more than 10. Also I realize the clock seems a little out of place but once I edit it and combine it with a few pictures it will make more sense.  Also they are not in the right order, I couldn't get them to go where I wanted them too Sorry

week 10

Clone and Paint

 

For this first picture I used the clone tool to get rid of a ripple in the water that took the focus away from Conor.  Then just for fun I cloned Conor, this would be an easy way to add a reflection of shadow.  It doesn't really work with this picture because I couldn't get the cloned Conor to be as dark as the original but it was a good way to experiment.

These next two photos are from my photo story.  For the first one I made a duplicate copy and turned one of them black and white, next I added a layer mask to the black and white copy.  On the color copy I used the color select tool to select all the gold then on the layer mask I used the paint brush tool to paint over the letters and the gold showed through.

For this last one I did it a little differently, I did the same thing to turn the photo black and white then I added a transparent layer.  On that layer I selected the pant brush and painted over the eyes, while the layer was still selected I went to the Mode drop bar and selected "color"  then erased any where I got blue that I didn't want it.