Tuesday, November 24, 2009

I transformed anorexic Lindsey Lohan into an obese person. I used the magnetic lasso, liquify tool, and paint bucket tool which made the background grey.
The project I was assigned was to make an older man look younger. I chose Anjelina Jolie's father. I used to burn tool to transform is grey hair into new black hair. I think used the healing brush tool to fix his wrinkles.
In this project I had to transform a fat person into a skinny person. The person I chose was John Travolta from Hairspray. I used the magnetic lasso tool, the liquify tool, and the paint bucket tool which dyed the background a light pink/peach.

Monday, November 9, 2009

During the month of October, I took a trip to Prospect Park. I there photographed things along the way and within the park. For each photo, I cropped out an image that would make great impact. I chose a sunflower, one-way sign, lamp-post, stoplight, etc. For each image, I used a photo filter by going to filter>artistic. I changed the background, the first layer, by using the gradient tool.
The image you see before you is my idea of a great pet. It is part duck, cat, lemur, and chicken. I first took a picture of a cat & cut it out, then pasted it onto a plain white background. I think erased the cat's head and placed on a duck's, while I had cut out from a photograph. Next came the wings, which I cut out and pasted onto the cat's back, but in a new layer. The lemur's tail was last, and was put into it's own layer as well. The smudge tool was used to smooth out rough edges on the wings, head, and lemur tail. To get the cat's body to match the color of the ducks, I went to image>adjustments>variations, and chose a turquoise color. The last step was changing the background to a light orange, which was simply done by using the fill tool.
To create this photograph, I fist selected a picture of a sports car, for this I used a orange Lamborghini. I cut out the orange Lamborghini and then pasted it onto a white first layer. I changed the background of the first layer by using fill and then filling it with a metallic looking texture. The brightness focusing on one part of the car was created by going to filet>render>lighting effects. There you can focus where you want the light, what kind of light, and where you want the light.
  I achieved this photo by first finding a picture of Gerard Way, cutting him out and placing him in a new environment. The new environment I chose was a park. I then changed the park by clicking on the first layer and then using exposure & orange photo filter. Then I clicked on the second layer and used the photo filter on the main subject.