Week 11 - Colors

Analogous Colors

First, I bumped up saturation, then I created a new layer and selected orange as the background color. I went back to the original layer and used the eraser tool at 50% and erased all around the leaves to bring the layer color through but keeping it translucent so the original background can still be seen. The last thing I did was clone over the black and bad spots on the leaves.

Leaves

I have also included Dragonfly Analogous using analogous colors. This was part of a process I went through for my final project in my Color Theory for Web and Multimedia class at AIO, which I just finished a week ago. The dragonfly is a photograph I took, and then using the gradient tool created the analogous colors. There is just barely visible another layer, the background original layer where I had created my own 3 layered color stripes before using the gradient tool. I also created the border using different transparencies of the same color.

Dragonfly Analogous

Complementary Colors

I created a new layer, with the Overlay mode. I went over the grapes with burn tool to make them pop a little more. I then went back to the original layer and went to Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and bumped up the saturation.

Grapes

Color Monochromatic

I took the photo I used for the LDR, I selected a purple hue from the color picker and adjusted and then applied the gradient tool.

Dragonfly Monochrome

High Dynamic Range

Not too sure about the HDR either. I think I understood it as having to be multiple or at least 3 photos taken at different f/stops, but I am not really comprehending how the photos are combined to get the effect of greater detail in the final composed photo. So what I did was take this photo and used the burn tool to go over the dragonfly body, wings, and shadow at about 30% to bring the details forward.

Dragonfly HDR

Low Dynamic Range

Again, I am not real sure if I got the LDR right. From what I could gather from the photos on Flickr was this is simply black and white. So I went to Adjustments > Black and White and applied the change.

Dragonfly LDR

Week 10 Photoshop Collage

All photos from Kevin Harvick, Inc. This was created for homework purposes only. Though this would make great wallpaper on my computer. Congratulations to KHI for winning the Camping World Truck Series!!!

"KHI Tribute"

Using Photoshop in this way is not my strong suit.

"A Hunting We Will Go..."

Week 9 Photoshop Photos

Original is posted below as third photo in each series, as well as what I used in Photoshop below each photograph.

Vintage

Cropped tool vertically, then Adjustments - selected Black and White and didn't move sliders. Next created a new Layer, and with the Eye Dropper selected an orange hue and set the opacity to 20%, and used the Rectangle tool over the entire image to get the final image's hue.

Vintage II

Cropped tool horizontally, then Adjustments - selected Black and White and selected Tint- moved the hue slider to violet at 278˚, moved the saturation slider to 46%, and the Blues slider to -167%. Next created a new Layer, and with the Eye Dropper selected an white and set the opacity to 50%, and finally used the Rectangle tool over the entire image to get the final image's hue.

Original

Dragonflies

First I created a new Layer, choose the pattern stamp at 100% opacity with the tie dye pattern and covered the entire image on the new layer. Then used the Brush tool and selected my personally made dragonfly stamp design with Mode set at Color burn on the new layer. The last thing I did on the new layer was use the Eraser at 100% opacity to vignette the cat back into the composition.

Seeing Stars

First I created a new Layer, choose the pattern stamp at 100% opacity with the herring bone pattern and covered the entire image on the new layer except for the cat. I left the cat revealed. Then used the Brush tool and selected the star design with Normal mode on the new layer. There was something I had checked but I forgot to write it down and now I can't find it either, but it allowed me to have the different colored stars while using the brush tool. The last thing I did on the new layer was use the Eraser at 100% opacity to created defined outline of the cat, and remove the stars which accidentally landed on the cat as well as some of the herring bone pattern.

Original

Underwater

Magic wand to select the background, then the Gradient tool to change the selected background, and finally the Type tool to add the lettering.

Candied

Magic wand to select the leaves, then the Gradient tool to change the selected leaves, and finally the Type tool for the lettering

Original