Personalized Card

The first thing I did was find a cartoon picture of the internet of a llama cause I llamas are awesome! Then I used the background eraser tool to get rid of the background in the picture, the grass and the eyes of the llama. Then I right clicked on the layer picture and selected the pixels. Then I went to Image, Define Brush Preset and made it a stamp. Then I made a 4 x 6 card and put a green llama in. Then I added another one but made it blue and used the bracket buttons to shrink it. I made a text box with green text, script MT Bold font and 135 point size. I used free transform to angle it and added some fx to it (bevel and emboss). Then I changed the opacity to 53%. I made another text (this one was for the picture in the text) and made it blue. I picked perpetua tiling MT for the font, made it bold and 170 for the size. I also added a few effects to this one which were drop shadow, bevel and embossa and stroke. I decided to go back on google and find a cartoon baseball. I had some trouble trying to use it cause the picture was 'index' or something so I couldn't edit it. But I used the marquee tool and selected around it then I was able to  make it a stamp with Image, Define Brush Tool and added it to the card as blue. I added another stamp to the card by googling coca cola logo and did the same thing to it-define brush preset and all. But I had to shrink it with the brackets a lot.  Then I went to Google and found a picture of a cross clipart and copied it to my card. I went to layer, create clipping mask and hid it behind the Ricardo. I wasn't sure what else to put behind them so I did the same thing (layer, create clipping mask) with two pictures I also found on google which were a clipart of a snickers bar and a curtain. I arranged them so that the cross was on top, then the curtain and then the snickers bar. The last thing I did was make a new layer and go to select, modify, border and set it to 5 pixels. Then I went to edit, fill and used a green.

The llamas represents me because I love llamas and they're awesome and last year I made a llama statue in art!! The baseball represents me cause I've played baseball for 3 years now and I love baseball. The Coca-Cola represents me because coke is my favorite drink. The cross represents me because I got baptized a few years ago and have committed my soul to Jesus. The curtain represents me because its a stage curtain and I want to work in theater when I gradgitate. And the Snickers represents me because my dog's name is Snickers and I love him a lot! I just used the actual Snickers bar though cause I didn't have any pictures of him and he's named after the candy bar :) I used so much blue and green because I those are my two favorite colors. I like the way some of it turned out but I don't really like the letters with the pictures...maybe it's just the pictures I used or something. Hmm...ALSO I used the name Ricardo cause it's my Spanish name and I like it more than Scott.

Inkspot Flyer!

(If you don't know, Ink Spot is my aunt's store and it's got a bunch of old 60's kind of stuff there. I don't know why but yeah so it's an old fashioned shop like that and they sell antiques / paint stuff / and that kind of stuff)

-Before I could make a flyer I had to get the pics so on Saturday, November 27th I went to my aunt's store and took pictures of a lot of stuff there like the pink panther stuffed animal, the jukebox and lots of cardboard cutouts. But only so many pics would fit on and I wasn't exactly sure which ones to use yet so I just started by color correcting them:

-The first thing I did was take the picture of the pink panther and edited it with curves and saturartion, then I set the color balance to -37, 10 and 38.

-I changed the jukebox picture next and brought the saturation up to 30. After that I messed around with the curves. But I wanted the lights on it to be more colorful so I made a selection around them and brought the saturation up even more on them.

-I started editing the clown picture (which is not clipart, Barbara!!) by changing the curves and brought the saturation up to 31 and lightness to -5. I made a selection around his origionally blue suit and changed the hue to 54 on Hue / Saturation. It gave him a purple and yellowish suit! :D Then I started on making the actual flyer.

-I wasn't sure how I was gonna arrange the pictures so I started making a flyer (8.5 x 11) and would figure out where to put everything later. I went on google and found the background pic, I used free transform and edited the curves and saturation to make it the way it is.

-I made a selection around the pink panther and copied it onto the background. I refined the edge by setting it to: radius- 2.5, contrast- 5, smooth- 50, feather- .8, and expand- -26.

-I went on google and found a pic of the inspector from the Pink Panther. There was some trouble trying to get this pic to work, idk why but it for some reason wouldn't let me do anything in Photoshop, but in the end it worked. I used free transform to make him bigger.

-Then, I made a selection around the jukebox and the clown and dragged it onto the background.

-I used different transform tools to change the jukebox, inspector and panther to not only different sizes but flip them because I thought they would look better that way. But the panther clock was messed up so I used for transform tools to flip it.

-I used the magic wand and paint tools to fix the clowns hair (because the edges were messed up and stuff and stuff)

-Then I went back to google and found more clipart of the Inkspot logo and selected and dragged it onto the background. I refined the edge by setting it to: radius- 6.7, contrast- 17, smooth- 90, feather- 1.2 and contrast/expand- 30.

-I used the eraser tool on the inkspot logo edges because it was kind of torn looking even though I refined the edge.

-I tried a blending mode on the clown which was called screen.

-I used the burn tool on the juke box and set its opacity to 88%.

-Then I added a bevel and emboss fx to the jukebox and the clown

-I added a drop shadow and satin fx to the ink spot logo and the panther

-I made a text box for a slogan and did the gradient thing where the color fades across the letters. Later I tried to move it but because I made a new layer to make the gradient letters it wouldn't let me move it.

-Finally I made a new layer and made a border that was set to 38 and filled it in with white.

At first I didn't really like the way my flyer was turning out but now that it's finished I really like it! I edited all the pictures and added the fx and things like that because I just thought it would look better and maybe cooler that way?

Choice #1

I took this picture on November 14, 2010 at 2:45ish. My camera was on auto. I was wondering around trying to find something to take a picture of.

(Just so I dont forget, it seems to look kind of blurry cause I cropped it later on.) The first thing I did was change the curves around. Then I brought the saturation up a lot. And then I used the clone stamp tool to get rid of the electric thing, some branches in the top left corner and a little bit of the grass in the bottom right corner. Then I used the quick selection tool to make a selection around the sky and brought the saturation up a lot. And then finally I cropped it...but I wish I didn't cause it looks blurry, to me anyways.

I like the 2nd pic a lot more cause the 1st one was really greyish and the 2nd ones all colorful and stuff! Except I still think its blurry, I dont know if it is though...maybe its just me.















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Scale

I took this picture on 11.5.10 at about 5:30 and my camera was on auto. It's a picture of an old lantern in front of my neighbor's house. Ms. Minkel told me I needed to say why it's a scale pic so I will ha ha: this is a scale picture because it's making the lantern look big and the house look small even though the lantern is a lot smaller than the house.

The first thing I did was use the clone stamp tool and the patch tool to remove the crack in the lantern, the paint and the piece of straw. Then I brought up the saturation and changed the Green curves. Then I made a new layer and used the quick select tool to select just the house and brought up the saturation in that area more. And finally, I got rid of the little turtle statue.

I like the edited picture more because the colors are better and the turtle statue was kinda distracting. Then only thing I couldn't change (I tried but it didn't work) was to make the house less blury. I couldn't figure out how to change that.

Cityscape

I took this picture on 11.3.10 at around 6:00 and my camera was on auto. Me and Kara were looking for cityscape pics cause we both needed them so we walked downtown and then SOMEBODY *cough cough* Kara decided to lay in the road and try to take a pic ha ha! :D

At first, I didn't know what to do, so I started by changing the brightness and contrast to make it a bit brighter. Then I changed the curves slightly. Then I brought the saturation up. And finally, I used the burn tool on the sky and the trees.

I like the edited one better cause the first one was kinda colorless and the 2nd one has more color.

Diagonal Rule

I took this picture on 11.3.10 at about 5:30 and my camera was on auto. I was walking around trying to find something for scale and diagonal rule and took a picture of the wheelbarrow just cause.

The first thing I did was use the clone stamp tool to get rid of the letters and stuff that was on the wheelbarrow. Then I used the crop tool a little. Then I changed the curves a little and set the color balance to -15, 0 and +13. Then I hid the background layer and merged all the others together. Then I made a copy of that layer and changed the curves more to make the grass greener and merged the new stuff into one layer. Then I used the eraser tool to get rid of the wheelbarrow in the 2nd layer (it looked wierd and greenish by now) so it was the wheelbarrow from the 1st edited layer. Then finally I used the burn tool on the background trees and the wheel of the wheelbarrow. I hope that made sense...haha.

I like the edited one a lot more cause the colors are better and stuff. Also the writing on the wheelbarrow seemed kinda distracting.

Architecture

I took this picture on 10.16.10 at about 6 o' clock. It was in my aunt and uncle's barn and my camera was set to auto. I think the pic looked better on my camera, it seems a lot darker now.

The first thing I did was use the clone stamp tool to get rid of the hole in the roof. There were a bunch of birds that kept flying in and out of it and I thought I was gonna get pooped on. The next thing I did was to change the curves a little bit to make it brighter. Then I changed the color balance to +9, +13 and +24.

I like the edited one a lot better cause its not as dark and the hole isn't there. But I still like the way it looked on my camera most of all.

Lines

I took this pic on 9.26.10 at 4:30 and my camera was on auto. It's a pic of my camera string cause I was bored and looking for something to take a picture of. I put it on the computer and tried to edit it, but I didn't know how, so I asked Ms. Minkle what I should do and she said I should upload it as is, cause it didn't need editing. I really like this picture cause of the way the light hits it.

Landscapes

I took this picture on 10.19.10 at around 6:30 and my camera was on auto. I took this pic for the sky emphasis because the majority of the pic is taken up by sky. 

I didn't do much to this picture, first I used the patch tool to get rid of whatever was down in the bottom left corner. I don't know what it was but I got rid of it. The next thing I did was mess with the color balance, and I set it to -16, 0 and +13.

I actually like the first picture better, I'm not sure why but I like the colors more, I think in the second pic the colors are too blueish.

I took this picture on 10.19.10 at about 6:15 and my camera was on auto. I took it from the loft of my aunt's barn for land emphasis because the majority of the pic is land.

The first thing I did was use the clone stamp tool to erase the tractor and telephone poles in the background. Then I messed with the RGB and the green curves. I tried to make the sky bluer but I couldn't get it to work.

I like the edited pic more because the telephone poles are gone and the colors look better.

Black and White w/ Color

I took this picture on Sunday at around three thirty using auto. At first I wasn't planning on taking the dirt out or doing anything to it, so I just went ahead with the black and white.

The first thing I did was make a new layer and take the saturation out of it to make it black and white. Then I messed with the curves a little but that was it.

Then I took the eraser tool and erased all the black and white. But then I decided to get rid of the dirt on the pumpkin cause it looked bad. So I used the clone stamp tool to get rid of most of the dirt on the pumpkins.

I took this picture cause I was looking for something to take a picture of and I had carved the pumpkin the night before, so I just took a pic of it. I like the third one best cause the pumpkins don't have a bunch of dirt stuff on them.

Photo Cleanup

I took this picture on Tuesday, 10.12.10 at around six o' clock using auto. I was just walking around my aunt's farm looking for something to take a picture of and then found this. It's some old rocking chair by the cow's fence and stuff so yeah...

I did a lot to the edited picture, first I used the clone stamp and patch tools to get rid of the fence and the water spout. Then I cropped the pic a little and turned it and all to straighten the horizon line. Then I tried a little color replacement on the trees across the lake but that turned out bad so I just left it. After that I messed with the curves and the color balance a little, setting it to 0, 0, -16. Then I used the quick selection tool and made a selection around the lake and did a little color replacement and edited the curves to make it more blue. Then finally I used the clone stamp tool to get rid of a piece of the tree branch.

I like the edited picture a lot better because the fence was kinda in the way and the colors are better in the second one.

Color Replacement

I took this photo using auto on 10/9/10. It was in the woods out by our house. I took this picture because I like fourwheeling and had been having trouble finding ideas for stuff to take pics of.

The first thing I did in Photoshop was using the quick selection tool on the red parts of the fourwheeler. After that I used the color replacement tool to change the color to blue. But the blue was kinda green cause of the mud that was on the fourwheeler so I used the RGB and blue curves tool. That made the colors better but it still looked pretty natural. The last thing I did was edit the pic with color balance. I set that to +3, +10 and +24. I used that pic because I like fourwheelers and stuff and I changed the color to blue cause I like blue.

Straight vs. Angled

I took these pictures cause I didn't know what to take a picture of and I messed up with the whole string thing. So yeah...they're both taken with auto and the edited one (the bottom one) was edited first with color balance. Then I messed around with the curves. Then finally I used the color replacement tool to change the background color and get rid of the table leg. I used this picture because my dog is awesome and I liked the way the picture turned out.