Computer face

So what we had to do in a quick excercise was to create a face, using computer parts, so this is what I came up with.

How I created this is simple, I gathered a few pictures from the google's library of images.

I used the magnetic lasso (L) to cut around the images, and select them out. So I individually selected these few items out of their original image, and just pasted them around. Finally, I took the pen tool, and drew its crazy wacky red hair.

Assignment 2- Greeting Card

GREETINGS FROM JAPAN

Here are the original pictures used. I have changed all their properties some way or another. All these pictures, I have borrowed from google's search engine.

Greetings from Japan

To create this greeting card, it wasvery simple. I gathered a few pictures from the internet.

Firstly, i found some pictures of japanese ladies dressed in Kimonos. I masked the picture and adjusted its edges to create a soft cut out, and than adjusted their hue and saturation to give it a

a soft colour. I did the same steps for all the pictures but applied a different finishing technique, for example, for the people celebrating the Sakura celebration, I added a layer, and retouched the flowers with a light pink brush, to give it a lively look, I applied overlay in the layer properties.

The flowers looks much more brighter.

Than I added in the summer festival, the traditional fan, the Tokyo tower. For the fan, I used the filter technique.

I masked out the Tokyo tower and increased its colour intensity by adjusting the hue and saturation. I smoothly masked the edges and adjusted their feather and contrast.

I choose a polka dot image from the internet, and applied filter technique, and gave it a smudged look and reduced its transparency.

I also added a cropped sky, just behind the Tokyo tower. But I had to change the text, "Greetings from Japan" into another colour. And here is the final outcome.

Here is the final outcome, I spelt the word "greetings" wrongly, only realized after posting this blog.

the filter efect

This is a very simple technique to apply,

Take a picture, add in a layer. Go to the filter option, And choose any of the options available, there are many affects to choose from. For this picture, I used poster edges. Each filter effect can be further adjusted. And here as a poster look from an original photograph.

Assignment 1- E-wallpaper

For my first assignment, I had to create an e-wallpaper.

I used different pictures from different sources. Here are the original pictures I used.

The Making

Firstly, what I did was select the sky of the first picture using the magnetic lasso tool, and adjusted its hue/saturation, to get an orangish sky.

After that, I created a rectangle and colored the inside of the rectangle. After coloring it, I readjusted its blend properties to get a blueish transparent screen.

After that I used the second picture, and applied masking technique to it. I used the magnetic lasso tool to select around the people, and clicked on the layer mask, and used refine edge to smooth out the edges. After that, I dragged this picture onto my main picture. This is how it looks.

After this, I took the 3rd picture, and retouched them, (Add a new layer>Choose a shade of blue>Color over the gown>Layer properties>Color Overlay) I colored their graduation gown blue, and masked them and refined there edges to make it look smooth and soft.

I transformed it into the main picture and this is how I got it. I added in the 3rd picture of a group of students by using masking technique as well, and applying soft edges by setting the refine edge settings. I repeated the similar steps.

I added the MMU logo, but before adding I edited a bit of the logo by erasing of its outer cirlce (see the original logo above). I decided to retouch the picture of graduates on the right hand side by adding a new layer and coloring inside it, and than Color Overlay in Properties, and decided to color their graduation gown into blue as well. And than i finally added the Text, "FOM Open Day!"

And this is my final outcome, my e-wallpaper. These are just basic photo shop editing techniques.

Tutorial 5- Re-touching

What I had to do was to retouch an old, ragged photo and turn into something different. So this is how I went about it, first of all, I changed the picture into grey scale. I used the clone stamp to fix the rugged surface of the picture

After that I selected different areas of the picture,such as the hat,her face, scarf , and her shoulders once at a time, using the lasso tool.

As you can see in this picture, I have selected the lady's scarf. After selecting a certain portion of the lady, I used the hue and saturation settings to change the color around the picture.

I repeated this several times for her hat, face, scarf and her shoulders. But for her hair, I tried another technique. I added another layer, and brushed on the new layer around her hair. After brushing around her hair, I logged into my layer properties (right click on the new layer>properties) I reduced the opacity and over layed it.

After this, i just added another layer and painted the background green and the frames into red just for fun. And here is the final outcome.

Tutorial 4. Hawai

hi, this is tutorial 4,

My task was too clear off the man and the text and add in my own text. So how i did this is simple, I used the clone stamp tool (S), clicked Alt key (Alt) and cloned away the ball, the man and the text away.

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Next I used the sharpen tool to sharpen out the edges of the waves, so that the waves are clearly defined. After brushing around the waves, I added an another layer, and added the text "Hawai the land of aloha"