Friday, 1 October 2010

Photoshopping

We were taught last week by our Media teacher Matt how to use basic Photoshop, how to cut out and change elements of photos, increase or decrease colour/brightness/darkness and add effects to pictures. This week me Spooner and Hector went around the school taking photos and then had a go experimenting with Photoshop and editing the images in the editing suite. Here are some examples of the images I edited and how I edited them.

For the photos of me as superman I used the lasso tool to cut myself out of the photograph of me lying on a bench and I transferred myself into an image of a sky I took for photography. I added a wind contour filter to the photo to give the impression that I am flying fast, and a lens-flare filter behind my head to show that I have powers. Also I used the dodge and burn tools to create shadows and highlights on my flying body.
















For the second photo, of Spooner and Hector as zombies I decreased the lighting of the photograph dramatically to show that it is a horror thriller themed picture of zombies. I then used a white low transparency paintbrush to give the 'zombies' a pale glow on their skin. The use of dodge and burn tool created the effects of bruises and a black eye on the zombies and the paintbrush again to draw on blood.





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