We watched a slide show in class showing manipulated imagery. Then we were set a task to:-
* Divide 2 images into 6 portions and use different filter effects in each portion.
* Layer 2 images on top of each other and cut out part of an image to place ontop of an image.
* Add text onto an image.
This is image 1 I chose of the 2 images for filter effects:-
I divided image 1 into 6 sections (or boxes) using the crop too and rulers:
First I dragged the image from the desktop and placed it over the photoshop icon in the dock (set of icons at bottom of computer screen). Then by pressing cmd 'r' brings the rulers to the top and left side of the image. By checking the image size from the top icon; image, image size you can get an idea by the width and depth measurements in millimetres where you want to put the ruler lines ie. one horizontal one approx middle of image and 2 vertical ones at approx thirds into the image. To do this you click the mouse in the white area above the ruler markings at the top and drag down, and a horizontal line appears and you drag and place it where desired. Similarly by clicking the mouse in the white area on the left of those ruler markings you can drag a vertical line, or more (2 in this case) inwards and place where desired.
I now had the 6 boxes so then in the left box of tool icons I clicked on the top left crop tool, placed mouse in the top left corner of the image and dragged down to the opposite bottom corner of that top left box. It highlights the box by a dotted line shimmering around it. Then I clicked on the filter at the top and chose a filter to use for that box. A sub menu comes up and I then chose a further option. After this I highlighted the second box in, then filter and chose a different one... and so on until all the boxes were filtered. I then saved the image by closing photoshop, whereupon a box appears asking if you want to save the image as amended.
The filters I used for each box were:-
top left - filter, stylise, solarise
top middle - filter, render, clouds
top right - filter, stylise, tiles
bottom left - filter, distort, diffuse glow
bottom middle - filter, sketch, torn edges
bottom right - filter, pixelate, crystallise (cell size 72)
This is image 2 of my images for filter effects:-
I used the same method as in image 1 with the following different filter effects:
top left - filter, artistic, neon glow
top middle - filter, sketch, bas relief
top right - filter, texture, patchwork
bottom left - filter, artistic, underpainting
bottom middle - filter, render, lighting effects
bottom right - filter, texture, craquelure
Next I put two images on top of each other by dragging 2 of my images from destop into photoshop. Then I moved the top image off and slightly to the right, by clicking on the tab at the top of both images. Once the images were side by side, I clicked on the second image (the one on the right) and dragged the inside part back over the background image and altered the opacity to show one image through the other:-
I used this wilderness scene as a background image:
and placed this image of Minky, my cat, on top:
To produce Wild Minky:
My idea here was that I had taken a wild look of 'Minky" so I thought I would place him in the wild, or onto a wilderness sort of image. I like the effect it produced, so I am now thinking I could get into this Photoshop malarky.
Next was to cut out a piece of image and put it onto another image. I placed 2 images in photoshop by dragging them both off my desktop over the photoshop icon at the bottom. These were the 2 images I used:
I clicked onto the tab of the sheep image to bring that to the front. I clicked on the lasso tool in the tool box then in the box at the top, double clicked on the magnetic lasso tool. I used the tool to cut round the sheep in the foreground, then double clicked to stop the lasso tool. Then I clicked on edit and cut, then on the tab at the top to bring up the background image, and edit and paste. The sheep was in the scene high up in the middle so then I used the move tool to move it where i wanted. I tried to bury his feet in the snow bits to make it look like they were covered by the snow slightly, so as to not make it look as though it had just been placed on top. Then I flattened the image, by clicking on layer at the top, and flatten layer.
This was the result. I had wanted to place some animals in different surroundings to where I had originally taken them, and will do more of this later.
Next was to make an image look like it had a sepia effect:
I took the following image of a moon behind a tree late at night:
I then enhanced the colours and rotated the image:
Following this I added a sepia effect as follows:
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First I opened the history box to show what I was going to do (my actions would appear in that box) by clicking on 'window' and 'history'. Then I had to desaturate the image by clicking on image, adjustments, desaturate. This created a monochrome (black and white) picture. Then I clicked on layer, new adjustment layer, colour balance layer (to bring up the colours box). I increased the cyan/red bar to +38 and decreased the yellow/blue bar to -50 (these are slider bars that move up and down). When I was happy with what I thought resembled a sepia effect, I saved the image as a jpeg file, in maximum so that if it was ever printed out, it would have the best quality applied to it. I took a screen shot of the image with the history box, by holding down command, shift, and figure 4 buttons together, taking the mouse to the top left corner, and dragging down through the image and the history box together (I had placed the history box next to the image first, by dragging it over).
Then we had to type some words on an image... a kind sheep had posed for me when I was out in the field:
Blue sheep
shutter 1/500 aperture f9 iso 200
I took the image from my desktop and placed it into photoshop.
Then from the tools box I clicked on T (for type) and when the icon changed, I amended the text size box to 300 (that is how big you want the text to be). I typed the words 'ba ba' just to the right and slightly above the sheep. After that I pressed the T icon in the top box to warp the text and chose the 'rise' style and this waved the text. I then ticked the little box to save it.
Equipment used for above images:
*Canon Eos 5D mark II camera with battery
*L series Lens 24-105mm
*SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash card 8GB
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