Project 4 ~ Suki

Hahaha! This was a fun project! According to the instructions, we could create a new background, so I created a background and stuck myself on it. I played around with the drop shadows, but I could have worked on that part a little more. I used the extract tool for that one. Actually, it didn't give me the result I wanted, but it's pretty good nonetheless.
Haha! The space picture cracks me up, and it was fun to put together. If you ask me, it's a little creepy having the light from the star come from the cow's eyeball, but it's still fun! (Yes, that's a cow faintly hovering in the middle of nowhere) I have a big collection of space pictures from the Nasa Picture of the Day Archive, and it's fun playing with them. For the word I used a red planety picture for the background, but I didn't like the default blending option so I used hard light. It makes it a bit darker, and with the curves darkening the photo behind it, the letters became invisible. A stroke effect fixed that. I had fun playing with the colors on the main background image, too. The original was purple and blue. I didn't like it with the red, so I changed it. It looks better this way in my opinion. Hahaha! I'm still cracking up about the cow.

Andy Gooch Project 4

This was the hardest project so far for me. I spent hours trying to get the color range to work for me unsuccessfully and used the mask tool instead. For each section I used the magnetic lasso to isolate the image and create a mask except for the mountain which I used the extract filter. The extract filter is a powerful and easy-to-use tool which I will use in the future.

Project4 --Sampa

Part1
I have used Color range to select one picture from the original background to place in a new background. Which tool you are choosing that depends on your Image. I have used “color range” because it helped me adjust the range of colors I wanted to select until I arrived it is acceptable and it does it so dynamically, so there ‘s no need to start a selection over again. Then used gradient overlay and blending option to match both pictures, so the image looks like it belongs to the new background. Used clipping mask to create picture title and a shape for the picture.

Part 2
I had fun and learned a new way to extract an image from the original background to place in a new background. I have installed extract filter plug in to my machine to use “extract tool” for this project. I have used edged highlighter tool to make a out liner for the picture, then used eraser tool to erase the unwanted selected part and fill tool to make the whole picture selection and move tool to move the selected picture to a new background.
Used match color, inner shadow, inner glow and outer glow to match both pictures. So the image looks like it belongs to the new background.
Used clipping mask to create picture title and a shape for the picture. I had fun using clipping mask to crate beautiful looking shape and a title for the picture.

Project 4 : Sangeeta

This project was quite a challenge for me. It took me a very long time to do the first exercise – Color Range and Masks. When I was using Color Range all was well till I had to move the image. I was able to select the image but when I tried to move the image instead of moving the selected portion it moved the whole image. It was very frustrating because I tried it over and over, but nothing worked. Then I searched youtube for tutorial and it was quite helpful . Instructions in the book were not very clear and the tutorial showed in simple steps how to use the Color Range tool and it finally worked. The same thing happened when I was using the Mask tool. Youtube tutorial was simpler and quite effective.

To use Color-Range command first I opened the image that pressing the shift key deselected the area around the pumpkin. I had to change the Fuzziness value. Once the pumpkin was selected I clicked OK. The original image had running ants around the pupkin. Then using the move command dragged the pumpkin to the new picture. For the second image I used quick Mask tool. To select the image magic wand tool was used and then clicked on quick mask button that turned the selected picture to red.Then moved the image to the new background.

Installing Extract Filter was quite complicated. The problem was that while extracting files from zip folder were put in a different folder and not in the one that has all the other adobe Photoshop files. Once Extract filter successfully installed rest of the process was easy. I used the highlighted tool to select the image and eraser helped to select the right area. Once it was selected I moved it to the new background. Clipping Mask was also straight forward. There was background layer on the current image. I created a text layer and then a new layer was created and then selected the image that would be displayed in the text. From the Channel selected clipping mask with new layer selected. Then chose merge down and deselected the other layers but the text layer. Text layer had tulips as the background.

In conclusion Youtube is quite helpful. If you are stuck at something don’t be hesitant to use it.

kelven's project 4

alright so here we go with the fun part!!! telling all about the wonderful journey to making our works of art. i realized that i really like some things in Ps and really dont like others. with that said im going to answer the questions for the assignment.
so with the whole masks thing, as far as removing a background they are good for things with a clear contrast difference but besides that for me i never got the selection i was tryin to get with the quick selection tool on my pic. after enough toying with it i just went back to my handy dandy pen tool which took me a minute or 2 to get the exact selection i wanted. i used the color match for blending along with a plug in i have called contrast master. its not maybe the most convincing pic but it works for me. now the extract filter is pretty dope i like that alot and with a little bit on refining on my part it may end up being a favorite of mine for pics with details like hair and such that are important in a picture. so for that part of the project i used gradient maps that i changed the opacity and set to hard light to blend it a bit. I like the colors in the skate park pic that i used this on. the clipping mask for the shape and the text use is cool but to me its always been kinda cheesy, i don't know why i just don't like the font with stuff inside it. thats just me though. anyways that's about it for this one hope you guys enjoy!

Project3 Luna

For the Line drawing image I used the paint brush, and filled the shapes with the paint bucket. I used random colors with the lines and filled areas to make it look different.

My favorite editing tool is Spot Healing Brush. I use this tool with my own pictures to remove blemishes and scars. One of the issues I was having with the image I was correcting was that the original had some areas of the face that were very pixilated. And when I was applying the Healing brush the stars on the face were covered but there was a bit of dark pixels left from areas around the stars.
Other tools I used were the Patch, Dodge tool, and I also tried the Healing Brush.
I have done better with other pictures, but this one was a challenge so I think it’s okay. My preference depends on the picture but I usually always use the Spot Healing Brush.

Mid-Term

http://sws.pcc.edu/student/CAS208_pdeangel_27344/robertlounsbury68/Mid%20Term/Lounsbury%20Root/Main%20Page.html

This ended up taking more time than I expected it would. Not my area of expertise by any means. I'm glad to now have somewhat of a basic understanding of web development.