Makeup OR Photoshop

If no other manipulation I’ve showcased in this blogs demonstrates the “touch-up” capabilities of Photoshop, this one certainly does. I did several things here: first I used the spot remover and dispeckle tools to smooth the bumps and freckles. I also opened her eye using the warp tools. And finally, I altered the brightness of the image, giving it a lighter, magazine cover vibe. Big difference, right? Digital makeup…

Color Contacts!

Notice anything different about the two images…no? Look a little closer…again…here’s a hint: Look at what you use to look with…Bingo! Today in Photoshop I learned how to perform an eye color change–a rather simple trick really. Using the quick selection tool, I zoomed into the eyes, isolated the pupils, alt selected the black center of the pupil, and applied a pupil. Pretty cool! I went with a turquoise as opposed to the ocean blue, to blend in with the cool color vibe of the background.

 

Clean Shave

Today I mastered a hair removal in Photoshop, using the various blemish correcter tools and blur tools. I simply blew up the radius to encompass the width of the arm and dragged it diagonally down the forearm. I also added a highlight effect to brighten up the arm. It’s the equivalent of a razor–Photoshop style. Photoshop is literally limitless.

 

Kumquats or Easter eggs?

Today was practice with color manipulation in Photoshop. Using the selection limiter (which essentially prohibits you from coloring outside the lines) you can recolor specific areas of an image. We practiced on some lovely kumquats, and I decided to get colorfully creative, as you can see. New tricks!

 

 

Earth Type Treatment

This lesson in Photoshop was a cool type treatment. The background was created using a crumpled bag texture with a green overlay, darkened at the corners using the paint brush tool. Next we used the horizontal type mask tool to type an “Earth” selection out of a picture of grass. We also used the lasso tool to select-in blades of grass in each letter to give it a cool effect. Finally, we added a layers of drop shadows, and to really accentuate the nature aspect, I added a couple lady bugs!

 

A Snow Sloped Welcome to InDesign

Today we completed a pretty neat spread for a snowboarding magazine. We learned all of the basics of InDesign, including: using the master page to create header and footers, inserting automatic page numbers, and adding guidelines. We also learned how to make Photoshop paths of a copied image, so that we can make the snowboarder come out of the background (the left most image). In addition, we reviewed how to add drop shadows to images (as evidenced by the red snowboarder and the upside down guy). And lastly, we learned how to upload rich text into manually created placeholders/text boxes. After altering the corner options of the side barsand giving them a gradient as a finishing touch, and applying 3 character styles: Head, Subhead, and Body text to different portions of the spread, above is the finished product!

 

Creating GIFs in Photoshop

I didn’t know creating GIFs was so simple! I love looking at funny GIFs, and now I know how to make them. I had no idea Photoshop had video capabilities. After all, it’s called PHOTOshop. But today, we learned that Photoshop can turn your image layers into timeline slides, and you can add media, music, and text to those slides, set the time you want each slide to display, add a loop, and save the file for the web as a .gif. Pretty neat! Check out this Spring time/Green mini GIF we created today.

Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made Of

This was a rather simple project in Photoshop. I took two images: a picture above clouds, and a skyscraper shot of New York. I placed the cloud image as an overlay to the New York and added an opacity so that it looked like the city was touching the sky. I was inspired by Alicia Key’s famous lyric “Concrete Jungle where dreams are made of,” and decided to stick to a prevailing airy, dreamy theme throughout. Using the horizontal type mask tool I filled the New York image with the background image, to get it a pop, and positioned it so that the cut out sort of finished the image. And Vwala! New York. The City Where Dreams Are MADE.

Don’t Believe the Tabloids…this is what being president does to you.

Before:

After:

No stress wrinkles, blemishes, or grey hairs: the power of clone and spot healing! I also opened his eyes, and gave him more of a smirk with the liquify filter tool. To rid the grey hairs, I used the color mode with opacity. I officially will not believe people are as beautiful as you see on the Internet!

Before and After

Check out this guy. Looks pretty decent…the image that is. That’s until you see what he looked like before I edited.

You can see a lot less wrinkles, blemishes erased, and a tad bit more hair. All made possible by the clone tool, patch tool, and spot healing tool. It’s all magic really. There’s no explanation. But I’m pretty sure I’ve taken at least 20 years of age off of his face!