Pumpkin Glow Photo

This is my glowing pumpkin project from the Napp website. I put the picture of the joker on here by using the layer style and color range tools. I think it turned out really well and looks cool. The url for the tutorial was : http://members.photoshopuser.com/article/halloween-photos/

Watery Sports Picture

For this picture I used two images. The wood background, and a picture of a golfer. I selected just the golfer's body from that picture and placed it on the wood. Then I filled in the golfer with white paint and then I used the bevel and emboss tool to edit the golfer to make it look more like a watery kind of image. I think it turned out cool and looked different. I used the Napp website for this project.

Polygonal Lasso Tool

This is my project that shows how the polygonal lasso tool works. I chose a picture of the NFL player Maurice Jones Drew. I wanted to take out the background, so I used the polygonal lasso tool to outline him, then I used Select > Inverse to select the area of the image besides him, and then I deleted the background.

Burn Tool: Before and After

BEFORE

AFTER

I used the burn tool in this project to demonstrate the effect this tool can have on an image. I decided to make the person in the image stand out by using the burn tool on the background behind him. The tool darkens the pixels of the part of the image you use it on. I think the tool had a good effect here and it made the part of the image that I wanted stand out.

Jerry Uelsmann

This is my Uelsmann picture where I redid his picture of the interior of a house with a sand floor. For this I got a picture of a house and a beach and then edited out the floor, placed the sand under the furniture, then smoothed out the transition between the furniture and sand by adding shadows with the paintbrush tool. Finally, I made the image grayscale to look more like the original image that was black and white by Uelsmann. I think the image turned out well and was a more modern representation of Uelsmann's original image.

Andy Warhol Pictures

This is my Andy Warhol threshold project. The main tool used on this project was the threshold tool to make the image black and white, then I added color using the paint bucket tool. I like the way the different colors turned out and I think it makes the image pop and look colorful. Overall, I like the result, but if I did it again I think I would choose a simpler image to use.

Photo Series

This is my Rwanda photo series project. For the project I centered around a theme of social injustice, but in the last image I centered it around hope for Rwanda and the future generations of people that live there. I think the photos show the damage that the genocide caused to the people of Rwanda and also gets the message across that governments of other nations should not stand by and let acts like this happen at all. I think the project turned out well, and if I did another project like this in the future I might center it around a more positive theme because some of these images can be sombering.