Thursday, January 24, 2013

Mr. Potato Head


Class Assignment 2

I cropped the image to make the eyes focus on the chameleon. I used color range to make the scale color variation pop out to make it more interesting to the eyes. I also did the same thing around the head and the eyes. I added a little vibrance so the colors will pop out. I also played with curves to see what it would do with the background. I used auto tone and brought out the greens. I was thinking that I could make the picture look a little different than what it looked like when i downloaded it. I wanted to make it look special and unique.

I cropped this image to make it smaller to have more fish and less anemone. I put on the auto tone to bring out some color. I used curves to make it more neon that what it originally was. I used the color range on the bigger fishes side fin and lower body. I wanted to try and make it more neon like than anything.

I cropped out some of the background of the parrot. I used color range for the entire image instead of relying on the auto color. I used color balance on all the selected pieces that I chose to change color. I wanted to be creative and change up the color to make the parrot stand out and the background a little warmer to match the colors of the parrot.

I decided to make the hawk smaller and I wanted to make the feathers lighter so I used color range and color balance in order to get the colors right. I just wanted to make the color pop out more and the feathers look less dull.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013


Hello my name is Julia and what I plan to learn in this class is a continuation of the photography class that I took at my high school. I learned about this class while I was taking my watercolor class from another student. She said this class was very rewarding and interesting because of the projects that we are going to be doing. I was interested and I wanted to further my knowledge with photoshop and the other programs that are involved with this class.

I want to learn all the short cuts to photoshop that I did not learn in high school. I also want to learn how to use puppet warp. I am excited to start our 1st project and learn what to do.