Hand Colouring

For this Photoshop task we were asked to hand paint a photo. For this we went out and took some portrait pictures then when we got back we used photoshop to change the image to black and white by going image- adjustments then black and white then we printed it out.  When we printed it out we then just painted over the picture to colour it in.

Photoshop Workshop- Radial Blur

To start with my picture was to dark because of the weather so i used the dodge tool on the left tool bar to lighten up my picture. To make the  zoom or spin the picture you have to click and hold on the marquee tool on the left toolbar then select the circular shape tool. Then you have to make the circle on the picture that you want to be the center of the zoom that does not change. You then have to inverse the picture by going on select then inverse. As well as inverting the picture you have to feather it so that it makes a little bit on the outside of the circle blur so that it blends in to the picture. To feather you have to go on select, modify then feather, when the box comes up you have to change the feather pixels to 150. To make the zoom or spin you have to go to filter, blur then radial blur then when the box comes up you have to click on either spin or zoom then you can change the settings depending on how you want the picture to look.

Part 2 Image Management

INTRODUCTION

We have  six weeks  to complete the second part of the digital assignment. This will involve  research into digital artists work, workshops and reproducing a famous photograph or image of our choice. The aim is to increase our Photoshop skills.

Photoshop Workshop- 3D 

To make a 3d image you have to select an image, then when it is open in photoshop you have to duplicate the layer by dragging the picture in the layer bar on the right to the button at the bottom.

 

Then select the top layer then go to image, adjustments, levels. On levels you have to change the channel to red and the out put to 0. then you do the same with the bottom layer but change the channel to green and then 0 out put then the same with blue. The two different layers should be different colours (bottom layer red and the top layer blue and green).

Then you go onto the layer box on the right and select the top layer and then at the top change normal to screen. Then to finish off the 3d image you have to select the grab tool on the tool bar on the left and drag the top layer down a little bit and across to line it up to make it look 3d.

Evaluation

For my fantasy landscape i have taken a picture of the roundabout outside of the college with a car going around it and i have also taken a picture of Charlie on a teletubbies kids ride in the shopping center and had one taken on each seat. Though out the project my idea changed because i had the original idea but it was going to have a kids roundabout in the middle but then thought that it would not be very good and a bit boring so i changed it to be more interesting. When taking the pictures i used a canon camera and took the pictures as if the kids ride was moving around. The problems i had was that once i had put the picture onto the background the top layer looked like it was tipping forward so i had to change it by warping it to look like it was flat on the floor and not tilting forward. Overall i like my picture because i think that it is different and its colourful also its quite funny because the women in the car looks like she is looking at the kids ride. If i could redo my picture i might have added something else to make it more interesting to look at. Also if i had more time i would have made a couple of landscapes and see which one i liked the most to do as my final. 

Photoshop Workshop- Final Image

John Goto

John Goto is a British artist best known for his photo-digital artwork. He come to attention with his "high summer" section of his Ukadia series. Throughout his career he has worked with historical, social and political subjects. In the latte 1960s he studied fine arts at St. Martins school of art, London where he became interested in narrative forms of european cinema and literature and led him to the medium of photography. In the 1980s he then worked on work that combined paintings and drawings in his photography which he later did on the computer. He first did "Terezin" which told the story of Bauhaus trained artist interned in the Nazi transit camp of Theresienstadt. Also "The Scar" which was made in response to the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989. He started to use computers in his work in the early 1990s with a series called "The Commissar of Space" which was made in Russia which was about the final years of the artist Kasimir Malevich’s life during the early Stalinist era. His exhibition "The Framer’s Collection" was also made of a series of short stories attached to digitally manipulated pictures, paintings, and documentary photographs. His account of the contemporary world continued with "John Goto’s New World Circus" which was on the occupation of Iraq set within a traveling circus. His attention then turned to the issue of climate change with "Floodscapes" and cultural history in "Dance to the Muzik of Time". Which he did because of the invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces (27 December 2008 - 21 January 2009), He has also made "Mosaic", a series of apparently abstract images.

Photoshop Workshop- Vignetting

When using vignetting it creates a soft boarder where as the other way of creating a boarder makes it bold. Also this way of making a boarder means that it doesn't have to be a straight line you can add curves and other effects. To do vignetting you have to select the brush tool on the tool bar then select a colour you want your boarder to be making sure that the size of the brush is the size you want and the opacity is set at 100%. 

Then select a new layer then go around the edge of the picture holding the shift key to make the line straight. 

Final Image