Color Adjustments

For this assignment I have two sets of color adjustments. For the first two images, I did destructive adjustments where I edited the images themselves. For the first, the original picture was extremely foggy. In order to eliminate that and focus on the thick for on the left I used the color adjust tool. Afther that I used the contract adjust to bring some more life into the photo. Lastly, I added pupils with the paintbrush because his eyes were so overexposed.




This photo was originally incredibly yellow because and looked very unnatural. The only adjustment I needed to do was color adjustments in order to tone down the yellow and give it a much more natural feel.
















These next two photos were adjusted using non-destructive new layers for adjustments. The first shot if the the TCNJ carnival that I took form the Ferris wheel. The photo was originally very dark and shadowy. First I adjusted the levels of the colors. Next, I used the curves adjustment in order to add some more white to the photo. Lastly, I used the vibrance adjustment in order to really bring out the color and brightness of the shot.





This last photo is simply of a piece of cake but it orginally came out very dark (so dark the bag was barely even visible). First, i adjusted the levels of teh back and white using the curves tool. Afterwards, I enhanced the brightness and contrast. Lastly, I lowered the exposure in order to tone down the whiteness of the plates.

Composition #2

For my second composition, I chose a picture of the Capitol Building I took back in 2008. The first thing I did was center the Capitol Building by cropping the photo. Next, I wanted the man in green to be centered so it would be in line with the point of the Capitol Building. To do this, I copied and pasted the man to the right. Then I used the cloning tool fix the grass in the old and new areas. Next, I only wanted spectators to be in the bottom corners to give a better feel to the composition. To accomplish this I used a combination of magic eraser and cloning tools to delete to people and replicate the landscape beneath them. The final step was to increase the size of the trees in front of the building. I wanted them fill in the space between each "third" of the image, so that it would take up the whole middle portion the the center third of the image. Overall, I think the changes to this does a good job directing focus to the main part of the image, the Capitol Building, while removing the distractions that would divert your attention.

Compoition #1

For my first composition I took a shot of an entrance to Lot 6 of TCNJ. The bottom photo is the original photo and the top in the edited. I wanted to create a better sense of symmetry in the image so my first step was to replicate the tree branches from the top left corner into the right corder. I selected the original branches, copied, and mirrored it and placed it accordingly in the top left. From there I had to do a lot of touching up in the sky and bricks. In addition, only the right side originally had signs on each floot of the parking garage. To replicate this on the left I used the clone tool to add one on each floor on the left. Overall I felt this came out well. The focal point of the picture, the shadow of branches on the entrance, in nice and centered. The branches on the top create a nice frame of the image as well.

Composite TCNJ + NYNY Casino

This photo is a composite of two scenery photos I had. The first is an ariel shot of TCNJ that I took for the top of a ferris wheel. The second was a pictuure of New York New York Casino I had taken in Las Vegas. I decided it would be cool to place the NYNY Casino in the background of the school, coming up behind the trees.

To do this I selected all the sky area in the TCNJ photo and pasted in the NYNY Casino and scaled accordingly. I also used the clone tool to make the two towers on the far left go up as high as possible. In the original photo they cut off. The composite was fairly easy, with the main difficulties being the tree line and making the towers taller.

Composite of my dog at the Beach

This is a composite of two photo. The first(background) was a scenery shot of the Jersey Shore. The second was my dog Kodi laying in my back yard. There were a few difficult aspects of this composite. The first was that in the original photo, the dog was laying in grass, so in the feet and body area there was a lot of blades of grass to edit out. In addition, the dogs fur was a bit of an issue. It was tough selecting all the stray hairs of teh dog to give it a natural look when it was placed on the beach. Lastly, the picture of the dog was a much brighter photo with higher resolution, so I did some adjustments with filters and brightness to help it match the background as closely as possible.

Composite of 3 abstract photos

This abstract photo is a combination of 3 other abstract photos. The first was a drawer dull of bottle caps, the second was taken from cabinets in my apartment, and the last was a close of shot of a dish rack. I simply cut and pasted different aspects of the Cabinet/bottle cap photos and placed them on the dish rack in a way where it nicely lines up with the curves of the plate holders.