WEEK 5
WEEK 4
B & W HDR AND NIGHTMARE USED FROM SHUTTERSTOCK FREE QUICK ACTIONS
CLASSMATE’S ACTIONS PIC IT DOWNSIZED AND PLACED ME ON A TRANSPARENT LEVEL ONE OF MY OWN WITH MY OWN MADE UP ATN FILE
PARODY OF EXISTING LOGO
WEEK 3 – More font creations, Working with 50% Gray
50% Gray, Background manipulation so that I could appy all kinds of effects to the object not the edges of scrren and text with a few effects. feather Matthew Venn Neon imade..Paul White 2.0
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Metal for type – Text manipulation to metal Brushed metal image used: “OTF_Brushed_Metal_08” by Outside the Fray is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Set white/blackpoint for photos..original raw photoshoot starring Jasmine…vs, my guess with level adjustments, vs true threshold 50 gray point VS in 3rd where colors and whites pop
Week 2 – Custom Brushes
“Watercolor Splash” by DQmountaingirl is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Starring: My beloved stepson Quinton.
Used the brush to make “Brothers- Sailing into Life”
Wanted us to play with text brush did then Added the word brothers…
“File:Artistic Director of the high fashion show “Gogh”.jpg” by Artks is marked with CC0 1.0.
Text brush custom
“High Resolution Stone and Rock Texture” by skyje.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Made background…experimented with overlays and prior paint brush then pattern overlay text embossed.
I downloaded a ton of different NASA images. I can see lots of use for all of the different shapes of galaxies, spirals and Nebulas..
WEEK 1 “Down and Dirty Tricks Book” followed in class at Peninsula college
PROJECTS – week 1
Extract subject. Starring my son and neighborhood doggo Nikki. Scene generated by Co-pilot. Thought it was funnier to leave them huge like dog was wrecking a miniture set rather than size them to scale.
Extract FIRE from pic…
“Fire” by jasonbolonski is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Best method attempted was to Cntrl Click in RGB channel, and then Cntrl J duplicate may times and merge.
Original image Copilot -Prompt: Imagine yourself as a photorealistic human but decided to use image of my child instead for project above… Piratess prompt in background as robotic in PS: set background as robotic steampunk with Firefly unveiled some robot versions instead of changing the background behind him, extracted robot image, added fire extraction from real photo “Fire” by jasonbolonski is licensed under CC BY 2.0. I just made in front and behind.
Water image below public domain by Solaris Moon on Openverse
winter
THESE WERE FROM A different class using CLASSROOM in a BOOK ADOBE
Me winking on my boat
A complilation of horror fim public domain used for my movie poster starring me behind that mask! This is my new pretend horror movie..OH NO! Not today! Emboss applied to Backspacer text IMAGE Before liquifying Rocky Horror then AFTER
GIF Drowning
Make a GIF #3
Table is from Goa in India. It is a coffee table and a nest of side tables made from walnut tree root. Flickr.com Anne and David public domain.
Reflections
“Water Bottle Filling Station in Two Medicine” by GlacierNPS is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
My magazine recreation attempts
Type on a Path
“TONIGHTS MOON.” by ddsferry is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
“broken-clouds-night” by Anatol C. is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
Quickplay with Puppet Warp
Color POP (Black and white, paint, then hue/saturation
OUT OF BOUNDS
Playing with Paint
Photo restore to remove red eye – Neural filter worked but unhappy with final
2 Blends of 2 pics I took …
Tree – blend of supplied images…
One of my photos using path motion blur
Took one of my old photos and used spin blur to add motion to the wheels:)
My mushroom pic…learning content aware move
Local beach trip pic from trip I took…Original vs contentaware fill vs content aware move extend
Postcard assignmentmade with photgraphs I took from a work trip to Oregon
LOADING A STACK, AUTO-ALIGN TOOL, AND SUBTRACTING AND ADDING TO MASK PRACTICE
Stamp Creation Experimental Assignment – NOT REAL US POSTAL STAMPS!!
“BEEP BEEP 1 & 2” – Collages using:
Bee collecting pollen at the Del Mar fairgrounds, Jon Sullivan as my base image and the rest are public domain photos of many types of collected bees (Sam Droege and Sheila Dumesh were credited on a few)
Age picture that is not old…
Model: Jasmine Peninsula College, Photographer: myself. Added scroll layer and color dodged using “* Burnt Scroll *” by pareeerica is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
PHOTO RESTORE
My dad’s flag, WWII, healing tools, histogram balance, removal tools, AI generated ear, then Nuerofiltered…
Straightened, White balanced and color corrected through histograms, removed a subject.
B&W
Adjusted various color levels and channels
IMPROVING COLOR CHANNELS:
CREATE A GREETING CARD
PLAYING WITH FILTERS
A Story behind the photo.
I had this idea when I was shooting low-level light and still-life photos. It combines both. I took pictures on my Canon and phone but the phone is a 50 megapixel and shoots raw so it won over the 12 mp Canon. I used raw and raw filters and then let PS sharpen the image. I was trying to tell a story of new beginnings, I re-added my favorite window cling from Halloween because this is the first Halloween in the rental after living on a boat and we are having a blast planning and doing holiday decorations. The cacti are baby Paddle cactus from the New Sequim Museum (which I have brought my family to, as it is so new the attendance is super low and will be my first plant.) I saw an actual student in action at the fiber show (Sam), so I included her origami XMAS tree decoration. because that will go on our first tree, actually I haven’t had one since before marriage over 15 years ago…. I love this window because there is a live spider that lives on it and she just had new babies. I put a Halloween cling of a spider on it as my teen suggested she needed a friend. I also placed a little Halloween bat because we are about to choose a new pet, and to remind us this could be anything We had bats living in our attic that would fly through the living room all the time and interact and they were quite the characters despite everyone claiming they carry disease and it really taught my kiddo to not be afraid and now we are looking at some unusual ones like tarantulas. I love the way the raindrops form with the neon lights ouside when it rains or when the house steams up from laundry. I used this same window to frame the real spider with the sunrises and the telephone lines in just such a way she is “climbing the web of technology” and also considered that as a final submission.
Artist Statement I Love sihouettes and new beginnings these little cacti will have a long life with the Murphys.
7 modifications
Retouch of a photo of my brother without color correction
Color restoration example:
Color restore – I can use this to bring older shots of businesses, employees, or performances to life if I need to spruce up an “About” page or establish a timeline of an established event or business.
1 original, 2 do a B&W. 3 oversaturate
4 increase curves to a noticeable difference, 5 Gradient map 6 Sepia Tone
7 artistic filter of choice – plastic
Urban Landscape B&W
Low Light and ICM Intentional Camera Movement
I was trying to capture the Christmas spirit in some of these and some of these are from a class photoshoot with the model Jasmine from Peninsula College. The plant picture was taken outside of a customer’s house at night. She was having streaming issues bedridden on a freshly broken hip, so my husband and I flew to the rescue as she is not only a good client of our business, Olympic TV & Tech, but also a wonderful friend. She uses a network of volunteers to put up all of the Christmas lights on the businesses and in the parks of Sequim, and I have helped her many times put up these very same lights. I waved the camera vigourously to take some movement photos and I also took a long series of photos holding an LED mushroom lightsource in different positions around my face to see how light direction affects portraits and see if I could create a fortune-telling or enlightenment type of photo for my home/coming soon page.
Texture- Shapes – Abstract – Liquify
Shapes 1-6, 1 Liquify
Shape and liquify 1
Round Shape and liquify 2
From original pic, RAW filter texture 1composition abstract 1-6
abstract and Liquify 3
Textures 2-6
Motion Blur – naturals shots with before and after touch ups then mansually added blur
Hapi Cat Takeover
Quest: Play with layers and hues, take Hapi Cat where he has never gone before Hapi cat image used to insert: provided by unique as you | Renne Emiko Brock and inserted into my Woodland Park Zoo photo taken with my phone
MMmmmm! The Yummy Pizza Lesson!
Photoshop can be a SCARY nightmare for beginners. Sometimes the tools get stuck on your cursor, sometimes you lose internet or your PC dies and it just comes back as 1 layer instead of many, and sometimes you just pick the wrong thing so you CNTRL Z too far and OOPS! You have to redo it all again. Frustrating!
One of the best lessons you can find that spans multiple design programs, will be a tutorial on layers. Adding layers can help save you a lot of “do over” time because each step you lay on top, you can throw away without hurting your original file. I found them confusing at first. There is a game called Fishworld on Facebook that uses 3 very simple ones so that you can create a little “scene” for your fish to swim by. This way, you can place a mountain behind a waterfall and then a tree in front of that for example and the tree won’t disappear if it is on layer one, the waterfall is on layer two, and the Mountain is layer 3 in the back. There are many thousands of objects and backgrounds to play with and it is a lot of fun to see what others create. There are lots of movie and tv themes, something for everyone. See how my fish, lower fog layer, and nymphs are floating in front of a scene I’ve created with layers behind them?
Today in class we began with a pizza, there were toppings to add, and a whole salad bar with toppings to pick from. Adding the layers, painting the sauce (mines pesto), “blur/cooking” the cheese and cutting out a slice were excellent tutorials designed by Professor Brock at Peninsula College. Many of the classes can be taken online from beginner to advanced levels of many design programs and also incorporate website, wordpress, and marketable skills.
A final important nugget for thought is how you choose to export to the web matters. According to Difference Between JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP Image Formats (guidingtech.com) these are the main differences and I have examples at the bottom of this page.
- JPEG is the most common format for photographs and natural scenes, but it loses quality with every save.
- PNG is a lossless format for images with transparency, text, or sharp edges, but it has a large file size.
- GIF is a format for animated images or images with limited colors, but it has a small color palette and does not support transparency.
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