Intro to Photoshop Assignment #3

Our third assignment was to create a collage.  I picked pictures that I took in Sicily (all except the Sicily symbol which I got off the internet.   I think I got a bit carried away.

Intro to Photoshop Assignment #2

Our second assignment was to repair an old photo or to "beautify" a picture. We were encouraged to use one of our own photos instead of one that he supplied.   He kept talking about his definition of beautify - which was not to take all the pounds off, eliminate the wrinkles or make someone look like a "Barbie Doll", but to do small cosmetic clean-ups.

In todays New York Times there was the following article:

Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell 


I was amazed as some of the examples they had.  They talked about trying to establish a standard as to how much retouching was done.  In my example I would say it was kept to a 1 or 2.  I decided to use a picture I had taken of my dad.  I just cleaned up is face a little.  The biggest change I made was to eliminate the sling he had on since that was not a permanent feature but a temporary one. 

Original

Digitally Altered

Intro to Photoshop Assignment #1

Our last class is on Thursday.  Our first assignment was to do a color correction.  I never realized such a thing was possible.  Can't see a big difference but the snow is less blue so it should be truer to real life.

Color Corrected

Origional

Falling Trees versus Falling Leaves

Supposed to be the season for falling leaves - instead we had falling tree. 

Sunday evening we heard an explosion and looked out side to see a close up of the tree that fell due to the high winds onto our house and garage.  We were lucky - house is still livable - no hole in the roof.  Our awning and frame is ruined and there is damage to the gutters and shingles.  The garage roof and siding,  were also hit.   

SpiderMan Bandaids

OK - what does spiderman bandaids have to do with anything?

I attended the workshop sponsored by the Michigan Weavers Guild that was given by Diane Totten titled "Crimp and Create".  One of the items on the supply list was bandaids.  Of course I had to throw the spiderman bandaids into the bag.  The bandaids - which I ended up sharing with others, was for the blisters one developed from crimping on the pull threads to create the permanent pleats that was part of the technique we learned.

I read the instructions incorrectly so I was not able to experiment as much as others with various "patterns" of crimping.  So I was left with color experimentation.

But I loved the technique.  So crimped scarfs are now on my list for future weaving projects.

Some of Diane's Samples

Examples of Diane Tottens Weaving

Some of my samples

86 Years Old

Today is my dad's 86th birthday.  Had him and some family and friends over yesterday for a big pot of chili and two wonderful desserts.

You can see pictures at this link:  http://gallery.me.com/susanlolli#100270

The Red Chair

In my Photoshop class last week, we were playing with "masks" to change part of a picture.  So this week I decided to take one of my old pictures (as you can see by the snow) and really change it to be sure I understood the concept.  Of course, in the exercise he had us do little tweaks.  I decided to take it farther to be somewhat unnatural but still look like the original.

Origional

Unnatural