RED

This is a video/slide show that i created for class. My theme for the video Is red since renaissance. I originally wanted to do a seasonal thing using landscapes from different paintings and scan in some leaves and flowers and what not, but as i started collecting images, i thought to my self " i don't even like landscape painting" so what was i doing? Any ways i gave up on that and turned to something i enjoy more- colour. I went with the colour red because red can mean so much and has so many different symbols to them but all of them have to do with some sort of passion whether it is love or anger. I ended up scanning in some roses, a fish ( fake) and some beads and tacks, all of which are red. I used the song "velvet revolution" by Tori Amos as it seemed a very fitting song for the colour red. This video was made on windows movie maker.
Enjoy!

My painted portrait

So here is the first of he final assignments. I chose a portrait done by Lindsay Brown whom i happened to randomly find on Google images while searching for portraits. I enjoy her style and the composition of her painting. I love the vibrant red amongst all the neutrals and the amazing colours she uses in the skin tones. I went back home and photographed myself in the same position as her model...well as close as I could get. As you can see my hands are slightly different as is my hair and the positioning of the material in the clothing...but those are minor details. I wanted to create a replica of her piece but with me in it. I realize we had the choice of changing the structure and other aspects, but i wanted to create as similar a piece as i could. This is something that i cannot do with paint...that's why I love Photoshop, it gives people like me who have a hard time replicating the ability to do so thanks to the UNDO button. There are a lot of layers in this image, so many that i started to get confused. I organized some of them but a lot of them were left unlabeled and mixed...bad idea. there are of course some differences such as the colour of the shadow under the subject which is darker in the original and the back wall looks more painterly. another difference is that I am looking up rather than down, but again, minor differences. I thought this piece turned out rather well.

words cant describe...

This is my piece for the text based assignment. I enjoyed doing this but it was also a lot of tedious work having to write the same word a million times. I began with an image that i found on the internet and started to replace things like the background image with the word background, the lady's hair with the word hair and so on. Once i had all the words in place i began adding filters, and some shadows using the burn tool and the drop shadow tool. I used some blending tool for more effects, as well as the liquefy tool. Here is my final masterpiece. Everything in this image is text...neat.

photo restoration 3: the blend

After restoring both images I blended them together. I placed the boy into the photo of his parents at the beach and added a bit of a grain filter to bend them together. I had to do this because I could not get it to blend together perfectly with lighting options. I added a satin overlay on the boy to create a shadow of his dad on him. I then added some light colours to the photograph to help blend it all together.

photo restpration 2

This is the second photo that I restored. The original one on the left had several cracks and creases and some spotting. I used the cloning tool to get rid of those. The edges had also turned an orangy brown so i cleaned those up. I also lightened the photo to make it a little brighter and "fresher" looking.

photo restoration 1

This was the first image that I restored for this assignment. The original is on the left. It has a lot of scratches and water splotches on it. To get rid of the scratches, I did a lot of cloning. I also used cloning to get rid of the edges of the water marks and then I colourized it using the hue saturation to make the colours more even. The original also had some odd colour stains on it.

safari adventure

This assignment required us to do some layer styles and text work. So i made a poster for a hypothetical safari adventure on no given date. I used the liquefy fibers to create the sky and used some filters on other parts of the image. I put some shadows on the mountain and then using the history brush i got rid of some filter layers to create a photo to poster effect. I added in a camera with the original image in its monitor because who goes on a safari adventure without a camera?