Final Project

I always wanted to be on the cover of a Magazine. I guess this is still not a reality for me, but this is close enough for the time being.

Enjoy! Thanks to This class I a able to create works on photoshop with a lot more ease and confidence than I was able to before.

Depth of Field layer mask

This was actually a lot easier than any of the mask techniques. At least for me :)
ASU opening football game 2006. I wanted the face in the foreground to be the most in focus. I used differing shades of grey on the body up to the guy with his mouth open in the background. The rest is black once I created the Alpha Channel. Came out pretty good. I am definitely going to use this technique more often. I also tweaked the blues to make them more vibrant and adjusted the levels to make the blacks and mid tones a bit darker.

Text as a Clipping Mask

This one was pretty fun. I was actually looking forward to learning how to do this even before I was enrolled in the class. I like this technique. I had to put a drop shadow and an inner glow in order for the word to stand out from the back ground. The dark areas were taking away from my word. I wrote "Smoking kills" as my word because two family members passed away due to smoking. I added the bubble wrap filter because I thought it gave the picture a cool look.

Enjoy!

Layered Composition

I used a picture of myself driving at an autocross last summer. I had to use a mask to cut out the car because my blur was taking over the car, not what I wanted. I then put the car as my top layer, the blurred layer next and my background layer was unchanged other than tweeting the color/levels. On the blurred layer, I unsaturated the colors a little bit to give more of an out of the field of view look. I wanted the attention on the car and the yellow boxter in the background was too bright. Here is my attempt at it. Oh, I also adjusted the levels of the car to take away some of the glare that was caused from the cloud cover.

Masks PT 2

This was so much easier than when I attempted this earlier in the summer.

Obviously this is not my own pictures. I used the tutorial to create this one.

Plug-ins

I found a cool plug in to increase the effect of the HDR photo. I wanted it to look almost fake, and photoshops version just was not enough for me. I used Photomatix's plug in for HDR photos. It was recommended to me by one of my good friends. I took 3 photos, one at regular exposure, one at one stop down, and one is one stop up. I put them together using the photoshop HDR pro and then after I fine tuned the picture on there, I used the Photomatix plug in and came out with the intense look I was going for.

Pen Tool

This one was pretty simple. Create a piece of art using the pen tool and some other images. Create surreal artwork.