Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Photoshop lab 3& 4 RETOUCHING AND ENHANCING digital photographs
below is how i practiced my skills for retouching and enhancing photos


i used adjustment tools to enhance the colors, the curves tool under adjustment adjust color.i also reduced the opacity to 90% to enhance the green colour of the grass and the blue skies.under the exposure settings i did gamma correcting to 1.23 level,and then use the brush tool to wipe the visible traces in the green grass leaving it uniform
and finally:

Sunday, July 3, 2011

ASSIGNMENT 2 LAYERING

LAYERING
STEP 1


Step 2



i decided to put a the following background




i used adjustment tools to edit the background picture to make it less bright,also used the curves tool under adjustment adjust color and tonality ,and balanced the colors the color balance.

STEP 3

when i found this picture online i decided to be a little more creative by merging the rising moon in clouds to the road picture above to signify a road to a brighter future.using my photoshop skills i cropped this picture using the crop tool to remove unwanted parts of the picture as shown below:


step 4

then i merged the photos,combining with the mmu logo nd tagline
to obtain this final e-wallpaper .i used the function fx tool at the bottom in photoshop to edit the text by clicking on fx then on the drop down menu i chose outer glow,red color,reduced the opacity to 86 percent and checked the pattern overlay,inner glow and drop shadow boxes to end with this text.


finally my E-wallpaper for assignment 1: