Tool review

     This project was to review all of the tools we have used previously.  I chose five photos that I'd taken that I wanted to put on the background (fence) and used different methods to cut them out and make them look good.  I used the quick selection tool to cut out both people by starting in the middle of them and going outward.  I then refined the edge to make it look a little smoother.  I have to do this after cutting everything else out too.  I used the elliptical marquee tool to cut out the flower.  I made a circle and moved it over the flower by holding the space bar.  I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut out the sign on the fence.  I started in a corner and drew straight lines to all of the edges until I was back where I started.  The magic wand tool was used to cut out the tree branch in the corner.  I just clicked on the branch and it selected the whole thing.  The layer mask tool is used to cover up part of pictures I didn't want showing.  I just used the paint brush and the black color to do this.  I had to make sure to resize the image as well.

Pop Art 2x2

     For this image all I did was made a new file and copied the picture I already had four times.  Then I clicked on hue and saturation and changed the colors in each section.  I had to make sure all of the images were lined up and then cropped the image so it looked like it does above.

Pop Art

     For this project, we were making images that looked like pop art.  First I chose the picture I wanted to use and then I made it black and white by changing the settings in the channel mixer.  Then I clicked threshold to make the entire image black and white and have a different effect.  It looked exactly like the image above just without colors.  Next I added the colors I wanted by using the paintbrush tool and remembering to click the multiply button so that the paint went behind the black in the photo.  After that the final step was clicking sketch and then adding Ben Day dots to change the effect a little bit.

Change My Look

     For this project, I was doing the same thing and using the same tools as I used in the last project.  I chose a picture I liked and changed the hair color by using a layer mask and the paint brush, and changed the eye color by selecting the eye with the elliptical marquee tool.  I then added three extra items (a ring, a pumpkin, and a bail of hay).

     For this image I did the exact same thing as the image above.  I added earrings, a dolphin, and the sunset.

Change Your Look

     For this project, I was practicing changing the hair and eye colors of somebody.  To change the color of the eyes, I selected the iris of the eye by using the elliptical marquee tool.  Then I had to deselect the eyelid using the polygonal lasso tool.  I then chose the eye color I wanted by sliding the bars back and forth.  To change the hair color in this picture, I used a layer mask and painted the color onto the original hair color.

Montage

     For this project, I first had to choose the theme I wanted my pictures to be.  I chose beach.  Then I found and saved some pictures on the internet that I wanted to use as a background and on top of it.  I used tools that I have previously used to put it all together.  I dragged all of the images over to the background and had to cut some of them out using the quick selection tool.  I used the drop shadow effect to add a shadow behind most of the images.  i also used the layer mask to hide parts of the images.  The last tool I used was the photo filter tool to change the tone of the images.

Montage

     For this project, we were practicing using a few different tools we have learned to use in the past.  We started with a postcard background.  Then I cut out the coin using the elliptical marquee tool and copied it onto the postcard.  I dragged the rest of the images onto the same page and used the photo filter to make one of the photos sepia toned.  I also used the layer mask tool to cover up leaves from the roses.  I also used the drop shadow tool to add a little bit of a shadow to most of the images.  The last tool I used was the outer glow tool to add a white glow outside of the words on the image.