Photoshop Tutorials

      For the first half quarter of sophomore year, I followed many Photoshop tutorials, learning how to use specific tools within the program. This helped me extend my knowledge on the basics of Photoshop, and helped me create the challenge collage for my last Photoshop project. Below you will see each finished result of the projects I made using the tutorials. It was pretty fun to do these, and I was able to learn a lot about Photoshop.

Challenge

       The last tutorial I followed wasn't really a tutorial. It was a challenge to use my imagination to make something that looked pretty cool. I was given a few images of nature, and a guy's portrait. Using all the tutorials I had followed before, I combined all the images to create this collage. I think it looks pretty cool, and I got to use a lot of the things I learned from other tutorials to create this.

Content Aware Fill

       This is one of the three finished products for the tutorials I followed for content aware fill. Before, the picture had lots of marks on the wall and darker spots on it. Now, you can't even tell that they were there. To do this, I selected the spots I wanted to get rid of using either the marquee tool and lasso tool. In order to select multiple spots at once, I held the shift key while selecting them to add to the selection.

The rectangular marquee tool and the lasso tool.

Patch Tool

       This is the result of the tutorial on the patch tool. The father had a big graphic on his shirt that we wanted to get rid of, so I used the patch tool to make it appear like nothing was there. After selected the area I wanted to get rid of, I used the patch tool to get a selection from another part of his shirt to replace the original. Then there was some clean up of the wrinkles using the patch tool again.

The Patch Tool

Clone Stamp Tool

       Using the clone stamp tool, I got rid of a light house in the background that just didn't seem to fit with the original picture. To do that, I selected an area of the picture to sample from, by holding the option key and clicking. Then, I painted over the light house and it took the area I sampled and replaced the original part.

The Clone Stamp Tool

Healing Brush

       In this picture, the jacket still had a tag on it. To get rid of it, I used the healing brush. Holding the option key, I selected an area of the jacket that just had the texture on it, with nothing extra. Then, without holding a key, I painted over the area with the tag. When I was finished with that, I added noise to the image, making it bring back some of the texture that was lost while using the healing brush.

The Healing Brush

Spot Healing Brush

      In the original image, there was lots of dirt on this kid's face. The spot healing brush allowed me to get rid of all the dirt on his face. All I had to do was select the brush, and paint over each spot. This was one of the easiest tools to use.

The Spot Healing Brush

Portrait Collage

       This is the finished collage I made, after following a tutorial on how to do it. There were originally three pictures, the left one, where she leans right, the right image, where she is leaning left, and the middle one, which was a close up shots. I put all the images together, and blended the background together where the left and right images didn't reach each other. The middle image was harder to fix, because the close up didn't include all of her arms, so I had use another images to sample the arm sleeves from. In the end, I added an effect that made the background a little darker, and less saturated, and I used a layer mask to make the middle portrait a little more saturated.

Lotion Bottle Branding

       For this tutorial, I aded a logo to a pre-made bottle graphic, curved the logo, made the bottle, but not the logo, partially transparent. I also masked it out so the ocean was in front of the bottom half of the battle. The shadow was made by putting a mask in front and, using a curves effect, made the ocean in front of the bottle darker. The last thing I did was put a glow behind the bottle, as if the light was being the bottle.

Billboard Branding

       The original image was just a billboard with nothing on it. Then I inserted the advertisement on top of the photo, and transformed it to fit the edges of the billboard. Using the magic wand tool, I selected the part of the billboard where the ad would go, without selecting the lights on the bottom, and then jumped a layer to delete it and then I put the ad on it, to look like the advertisement was originally on the billboard.

ONW Procedures Video

        In this video, we demonstrated what you would do if you had a pass to leave the school. It is made to show the six-shot system, and the 180 degree rule. You can find the video below.

We were also supposed to show a clear beginning, middle, and end. You can see the images of the shots below.

Beginning

       This was the first shot in the video. It is meant to establish that there is a student sitting at their computer working. And, if you notice it, the pass to leave class is sitting right in front of him. I used the cross-dissolve effect in Premiere to make the video fade in from black so that it just does't appear. I also did something I do in every video. I put a second of black before the video started, to make sure the viewer saw the first establishing shot. I also used the constant gain audio effect to fade in the music at the beginning of the video. If you have a video without music, or music without video, it makes it feel like the music doesn't go with the video.

Middle

       This shot is just about halfway into the video. It shows the teacher approving the student's pass. It is mostly to show that the student has to get their pass approved by their teacher before leaving. The shot goes on to show the student walking away to leave school. It starts the main movement of the video, the walking from the classroom to the attendance office.

End

       This was the final shot in the video. It shows the student leaving the office and the school. I use another cross dissolve effect to make the video fade to black at the end. I also edited the music so it would end when the video started fading out, to make a clear ending to the video. I did change some of the saturation of this shot in post, because it looked different from the rest of the shots. This is supposed to be an extra wide shot, to show the student walking towards the doors, and then out of them.