Negative Space: Me

We were asked to create a second negative space project that reflected our personalities.  I chose a picture of me doing a cartwheel and replaced the original image with a swimming pool pattern.  I replaced the original background with some sand.  I added a word poem from wordle.net that reflected my personality.  I added the drop shadow and bevel-emboss effect.  Finally I added a floral border.

Negative Space: Hawk

For this project, we were asked to use an image to create negative space as opposed to a detailed object, as well as incorporate text into the final product.  I chose to use a hawk.  First, I replaced the original hawk with a sky during sunset and added a brush stroke to make it stand out more.  I also placed a gradient overlay on the hawk to increase the dramatic effect.  Then, I added a daytime sky as the background.  I found a haiku online about  a hawk and added it to the background.  Finally, I created a word collage using wordle.net and placed it within the hawk.  

Crazy Combo

For this project, we were asked to create a crazy hybrid creature using parts of many different images to create a finished product.  I used a zebra body to start out with.  Then I added elephant legs, a cheetah tail, swan wings, a giraffe head, cat eyes, and donkey ears.  I used the eraser tool a lot, often accompanied by the new refine edges feature in Photoshop CS5.  I used the puppet warp feature to bend the elephant legs, the cheetah tail, and the giraffe head.  Finally, I added the background and the text and adjusted the size of my creature, the "Africanimal".  

Renaissance Woman

To create this image, I used a Renaissance portrait that I found on google and replaced the original face with my own.  First, I had to carefully cut out my face.  Then, I had to texturize the picture of my face to make it match the texture of the painting.  Finally, I had to adjust my skin tone to match the skin tone of the woman in the painting.  This was the most difficult part.  Overall, I am satisfied with the way the portrait turned out.  

15 Green Things

For this project, we were given fifteen green objects and had to arrange and manipulate them in a way that we found interesting.  The primary tool I used in this project was the color replacement tool.  I also used scaling, skewing, and rotating to arrange the images.  I adjusted the opacity on many of the images. When working on this project, I took a more realistic approach, as opposed to abstract.

Background Replacement

We took a short trip to China in Digital Imaging today!  Just kidding.  I created this image in Photoshop CS5 by replacing the original background with a picture of the Great Wall of China.  I used the magnetic lasso tool to erase the first background and then used the eraser to touch up some bumpy edges.  Then I added the Great Wall as a layer behind the people.  Finally, I lightened the people so that they would look more natural in the lighting of the background.  

Music Project

We were given a set of images and manipulated them by using various tools in Adobe Photoshop CS5.  I  rotated the music notes and rearranged the object layout to make the image balanced.  I changed the appearance of the colored stripes by using the eraser tool.  I applied a filter to the musicians and the music notes to give them an interesting, different texture.  I posterized the image to increase the contrast and brightness of the image. Overall, I am satisfied with the way the image turned out.  

History Brush: Bird

I created this edited image by using the history brush in Adobe Photoshop CS5.  First,  I desaturated the image and then I used the history brush tool to add the color back to only the bird to make it stand out.  The bright colors of the bird make it a perfect image to experiment on with the history brush tool.