Sunday, August 14, 2011

Assignment 1 - Part 5

Cloned horse

1. Tweak settings in Camera Raw to have a nice feel for the image
2. Clone out wire, use different sample spots so not to get repeat patterns.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Gregory Crewdson



















Assignment 1 - Part 4

Green Car Couple

1. Clone out all people, poles and signs
2. Make multiple different source selections to eliminate repetition
3. use soft brushes to blend
4. look for different sources to clone from

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Assignment 1 - Part 3

Girl in Studio

1. Add levels adjustment layer
2. adjust white levels to remove tone from top half
3. Add levels adjustment layer
4. adjust white levels to remove tone from bottom half
5. Use layer mask to paint back any detail lost from levels
6. Select background and rub out left over bits
7. crop to larger square
8. B&W filter under image>adjustments
9. remove spots with patch tool

Assignment 1 - Part 2

Spiderguys

1. create a new adjustment layer from the layer panel, select Hue/Saturation
2. drag saturation slider to desaturate image, invert the layer mask (command+i)
3. paint out the faces on the layer mask
4. add a new layer (new layer button)
5. change layer type to Overlay
6. paint over faces with new colour
7. drag layer mask holding alt/option onto new layer

Assignment 1 - Part 1

Falling Guy

1. Trace around guy with lasso tool
2. Use the move tool to drag onto other image
3. Add layer Mask (button on layer window)
4. Using B&W paint around guy to remove background (make sure you have selected the layer mask)
5. Transform the size and rotation to suit
6. drag layer to new layer button to copy entire layer
7. turn shadow layer black under Image>adjustments>levels, drag the black slider to the right
8. Blur layer, Filter>blur>Gussian Blur
9. Adjust size of shadow
10. Change opacity of shadow in layer window.