Photoshop edits - Adding colour

To add colour to a image, upload your chosen photo and add a new layer. Pick your chosen colour in the colour pallet and select the brush tool and choose your brush size. It makes it easier to edit if you zoom in to the picture so you can see every detail clearer. Colour over the chosen parts of the image and once your done, select layer and click on overlay. You can change the opacity by pulling the opacity button left or right for more or less.

Photoshop edits - Vignetting

-Vignetting-

Once you open a picture into photoshop, create a new layer. Click on the new layer and then select the brush tool on the left hand side bar. Select a colour you want and holding down the alt key, drag the curser across the screen to produce a straight line boarder. Once this is done select filter at the top options and select blur and then Gaussian blur.

         

       

Experimenting - Portraits

Comparing my images

Compared to the artists photo's mine are different because they're in black and white and mine are in color. They're images are both as part of a series where-as mine are individual photo's. I like the series photo's but i'm happy with how my images look and how they've turned out. The artists images are small to get all of the images together in a series, but mine are large because they are individual therefore they are bigger. None of mine or the artists images are manipulated so that is a similarity. I dont think any of the images are made to send a message to people. Another difference between my own images and the artists images is that they are not to do with the same subject, mine is about nature and the textures and theirs are of horses and people. The only other similarity between our work is that the images are composed outside.

This is my image.

Photographer comparisons.

Duane Michals is an American photographer. Michals' work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. The image below is an example of his work.

Eadweard J. Muybridge was an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion. The image below is an example of his work.

Comparison...

The similarities between the two photographers work are obvious, in both pictures each photograph shows something happening gradually in sequence. They are both produced in black and white as they are old photo's. I prefer Michal's picture as i think its more effective. 

Final Images from the presenting task

Organizing and presenting our images

 This is how we will have to present and organize our final images. I used Photoshop and uploaded my two chosen images, then i opened a new page. Selected 'International Page' and the size was A4, I made sure the resolution was 300. Once you click 'Ok' a new page comes up, i rotated it 90 degree's so that my page was landscape and would be able to fit my images easier.

 Once id got my page set up i dragged my first chosen image onto the page, then using the transformation tool and making sure the 'auto-select' button was on, I made my picture the appropriate size i wanted then double clicked it to place the image. Then i dragged my second image onto the page, to save myself resizing the image again i went to 'Edit' option, went to 'Transform' then 'Again'. This resized my image to match the one id just done.

 Once id sized my images i showed the grid so i could make sure my images were in the same position and the same distance from the sides etc.

Once id finished my pictures I clicked the Background layer and then the 'Gradient Tool' and changed it to the 'Paint Bucket Tool'.  I chose the black color and then using the 'paint bucket' I clicked on the background and colored the background black. Once i'd finished I saved the file as a JPEG.

Resolution

Resolution is usually set at 72DPI (dots per image) but when we produce our final images the resolution needs to be set at 300DPI. This makes the photo the highest quality when printed and all the information will be kept. If you kept the images as 72DPI the information would be lost and if you changed the height and width of a picture the quality will be lost. When we change the image to 300DPI we need to change the size of the image because otherwise i would come out as a massive file and could crash your computer.

Saving Images in Photoshop

When saving images in Photoshop there is an option of 3 formats which are best to save your photo's to. 

 

 JPEG is the most common format, this allows you to open the photo on any computer/laptop, but it flattens the layers of the pictures and is an average quality.

Photoshop format is a better quality of photo but can only be opened on a computer/laptop with exactly the same software and only if the software is from the same year... so its not the best one if you are working on more than a mac.

The last format you could use and the one thats the best is TIFF, it works on every type of computer/laptop and software and it doesn't flatten the layers of photo's and creates a good quality picture.

Changing the file name

These screen grabs show me changing the file names of my chosen images.

Adobe Bridge

These screen grabs are of making a contact sheet through Adobe Bridge.

 I selected all the photo's i had taken today and made them into a contact sheet.

This is my contact sheet.