For this I used the dodge and burn tools. I burned the background a little bit to take emphasis off the background. I found that you have to be careful not to burn too much or it makes it too unrealistic. I used the dodge tool to brighten my father's face and also to whiten the teeth of the kids. I also used the select, copy, and blur tools to take out the little tuft of hair sticking up on my father's head. I did crop in on the photo right at the beginning.
To create this blurred dotted effect I used the oilfy filter and played around with the adjustments to find a setting that created the small dots rather than blending them too much.
For this photo I used the old fashioned filter. I did end up playing with the brightness and contrast after the filter was applied just to help the eye see the image a little bit better.
I love love love your second photo. I like the outcome of your edit.. the oily filter seems to have made it look like an oil painting to me. Great job!!!
ReplyDeleteExcellent work on these!I like that you pointed out that going too far with these tools will make your images look fake. You will find that most of the tools in Photoshop only need to be used very subtly to make effective changes to your photographs. Then again, if you want to make awesomely abstract crazy photos the tools will take you there.
ReplyDeleteI really like the filtered pictures you did. Even though it no longer looks like a real flower it still looks very neat. Also the last picture looks like an old photograph now.
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
I love the flower of the dandelion. It looks like a cool oil pastel painting. Nice work
ReplyDeleteI really like the dandelion photo, it looks like a painting and would look really nice framed and used as a dining room piece
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