Exercise 4

This week's exercise was about color correction. I edited the three above pictures mainly using the "Adjustments" tools. More specifically, levels, exposure, and channels were used to make the lighting in each picture more ideal.

Exercise 3

Exercise 3 involved us making two composites, with one demonstrating the rule of thirds. Understanding the magnetic lasso tool made the selections in my first composition much easier. The second image involved a simple crop to make the rule of thirds more evident in the London Eye.

Exercise 2

Exercise 2 involved us making three different composites: one of our choice, one using our abstract pictures from Exercise 1, and one realistic. Making selections was a crucial part of these exercises, which proved to be time consuming. I utilized layers, the lasso tool, and the blur tool to create the three above composites.

Exercise 1

 

Our first exercise involved using Photoshop to create a landscape, self portrait, and something of our choice. We were to spend 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and one hour on each of the aforementioned images. The biggest challenge I ran into was using the mouse as a drawing tool. I intend on utilizing a tablet for future projects. This was my first experience with Photoshop; I am feeling more comfortable with the program since completing this exercise but do not feel up to par with the majority of class at this point.

We were also responsible for taking three abstract pictures. I found this very easy to do because just about anything can be abstract, depending on how you view it. Photography is not a field I have experience in, however, images are clearly an integral part of this class.