Color Corrections

 The original image.

The color corrected image.  To improve this image I slightly increased the saturation to add more color to it.  I also decreased the brightness and added more red coloring to bring the bricks in the building to life.  I am happy with the way this image came out.

 The original image.

This is the corrected image.  To improve this picture I increased the brightness by tinkering with the contrast of the original.  I then increased the saturation to bring more life to the image which makes it pop.  I also slightly increased the contrast to give the image more definition.  This  is my favorite color correction piece.

The original image.

This is the color corrected image.  I first adjusted the brightness and contrast to make the image less dull and dark.  I then increased the yellow color level slightly in order to make the image more vibrant.  I am happy with the way this image came out, however I was not pleased with the white levels coming in from the windows.

Photoshop Compositions

This is a piece of graffiti by the British artist Banksy.  I divided the image into threes and added diagonal lines to help focus the viewer on the center of the piece.  I feel that by adding the guide lines it is simple to see how this work is well balanced and it effectively draws attention to the center of the image.

 

I drew this picture a few months ago and felt that it would be the perfect template for a composition concept for this assignment.   Once I imported the image into Photoshop I rotated it a bit to center it, then I colored the entire picture using the paint brush tool.  To make the colors flow in an effective way I used the blend tool to combine colors and made the colors opaque enough to see the pencil shading found in the original drawing.  Once I finished coloring the picture I added guidelines with lines going diagonally to show how the image is balanced and centered.  I am really happy with the way this picture came out, it is the best work I have done with Photoshop so far.

Photoshop Composites

Godzilla attacking a lighthouse.  This is my freestyle composite picture.  For this picture I used a photo of the Elk Neck State Park lighthouse down the road from my dad's house in North East Maryland.  In the original photo my girl friend was standing next to the lighthouse, I eliminated her out of the photo using the "clone stamp" tool.  I then found an image of Godzilla off of Google Images, cut it out of the original picture, enlarged, flipped it, and added it into the photo of the lighthouse.  Once I inserted the image of Godzilla into the picture I used the "burn" tool to cast a shadow beneath the beast.  I am pleased with the way this picture came out, for a first attempt at making a composite picture on Photoshop I think it came out pretty realistic looking.

Aquatic Rodeo Hamster.  This is my realistic composite picture.  For this picture I took a photo of my pet hamster and a picture of the pond across the road from the dorms in the TCNJ campus.  I cut out the image of my hamster from the picture of him in his cage and added it to the picture of the pond.  Once I did this I decided the picture needed more to it, so I found an image of a rodeo cowboy on Google Images.  I cut the image of the cowboy out of the picture of him riding a bull and placed it on top of the hamster in the pond, thus creating a giant aquatic rodeo hamster! This picture didn't entirely come out the way I wanted it to.  The green of my hamster's wheel bled through his fur a little and I wasn't able to make the cowboy as big as I wanted since the original picture was so small.  Overall though, I feel that this image is pretty good.

Abstract composite picture.  For this picture I combined two of the abstract photos I had taken the week prior.  I then altered the colors of the branches by taking samples of the colors of the background image and used the "gradient" tool to create a unique blending of the two major colors found in the background.  I'm happy with the artistic and abstract look of this picture.