Story

Once upon a time there was a girl and a boy who fell madly in love. Everything was so perfect for the first 5 years. Then….

 

The love of her life was taken away. Love, joy, friends, family, and her future seemed lost to her forever. Then…

 Years passed and pieces fell into place. She had a beautiful son to carry on his father’s name. Her family, friends and loved ones stayed with her and never let her give up. Now back at school and once again in love the future looks hopeful.

For the first picture I took a picture of a Ken and Barbie doll. I took the yellow flower from a photo I had taken on a cruise. The ocean, beach, and sky were also taken from a photo I had taken on a cruise. I masked the Sky and Ocean to get them to look right and I used a lens flare. The yellow flower was then scaled, skewed and liquefied. I laid a copy of the ocean on top of the same picture to get the look I was actually looking for. Ken and Barbie were skewed, scaled, and I changed the image brightness for them.  

For the second picture I took a picture of a Ken and Barbie doll. The ocean, the  sky and the rocks (Hell, Cayman) were taken from photos I had taken on a cruise. The lightening I had borrowed from Google. I masked the Sky and Lightening to get them to look right. Ken was cropped and I changed the opacity. Barbie was skewed and scaled. I liquefied the lightening and the rock pictures.

For the third picture I scanned several old pictures and took a few new pictures. I know this is not a scrap booking class but did not know how else to show the family, friends, and loved ones that got Barbie through her tragedy. For the photos I mostly scaled and skewed them to fit up against each other. I added the words Joy, Life, Friends, Love, Family and Faith. I messed with the font type, size, and color. Some of them I rastersized so that I could do a few filters. I mainly used grain, stained glass and mosaic tiles.

Chance

On the first picture I used a dart board that happens to be in my boss’ office as the background.  I scaled it to fit the 11 x 8.5 size page. I then added an eight ball which I used a lens flare and liquefied the edges to give a spin look.  The fortune hand is something I scanned at work which I added an inner shadow and used Rosewood STD, plus I skewed it to fit into its location.  The cards are something I just laid out on my kitchen counter and took a photo. I added glowing edges and texture to the cards. Football is something my son has at the house and again I set it on the counter and took a photo. I used the drop shadow and Frisco. I had to skew it some to get it to fit into its location. The text “sport” is in a Ravie and rotated, “cards” is in Curlz MT and rotated, “game” is in Kristen ITC. I honestly forgot what I decided to go with on “chance”.

For my second picture I used a lot of the same photos. On the cards I skewed, scaled and rotated them. Eight ball is liquefied. Fortune cookie I adjusted the image levels. I scanned the money here in class. I changed the opacity and added an inner shadow. I added the text “chance” skewed and rotated it to fit it on the fortune cookie label.  This sounds so easy when you blog it but it took over four hours to do if you can believe that one.

Landscape

My first landscape is of downtown Louisville facing the Kentucky Center for the Arts from the corporate building of Humana. I took the downtown picture and used the twirl feature in hopes that it would look like it was being sucked in by a black hole. I also used the Image photo filter to change the color of the photo some.  I then added an orange cone like you see for road construction to the interstate. This one happened to be in someone’s cube from turning 50. I used the layer style stroke, change the opacity, and used the filter fresco. I used the filter distort wave to get that black hole effect. I used the picture I took of my VPs conference table and added it to the top of one of the buildings. I changed the image style using vibrance and I twirled it to also help with the black hole effect. To get the right size and all I changed the scale and skew of the picture. I have a photo of an open cabinet from my house of dishes, this started out as the entrance (covering the doors) to the Kentucky Center for the Arts. I used glowing edges, but just a very little. I used the palette knife and liquefied around the edges of the photo for the black hole effect. I used the cruise ship photo I had taken from my cruise in June. I originally parked it on the river, but after twirling the photo I realized I had to also distort this photo, so I liquefied it to pull it down and into the twirl of the downtown photo. I also changed the opacity of this photo. Finally I created the black hole by using the ellipse tool, twirled it some and changed the opacity.

My second photo I used a beach scene from Cozumel, Mexico. Under the layer style I used the inner glow color yellow, under the filters I used the dry brush, and under the image I used the curves. I added the lens flare up in the top left corner of the sky and one in the ocean. There was this limestone cliff like in my ocean picture so I used a photo I shot at Wal-Mart of oranges and messed with the scale and skew to get it to fit right over the rock formation. Then I used the smudge tool to smooth out the edges where my photo ends. I added a photo of broccoli on top of the fountain and used the filter grain, skew and size. I added a picture of a fish which I used plastic wrap on and changed the opacity. I then changed the size and skew of the picture. For the Fountain I changed the size and skewed the picture, which I then copied and rotated to get the flip slide. On the copy fountain I changed the opacity, size, and skew. Then on the original fountain I added the filter grain. I then added a picture of a red pepper, which I changed the size, skew and chose diffuse glow and mosaic tile.

Antonym & Synonym

I chose the word soft and the synonym delicate and the antonym harsh. Then I thought what has both elements and a rose was the answer. The flowering part (petals) is so delicate and the thorns are so harsh. So that is how I came up with my two pictures.

I took a rose picture off of Google, a picture of my Australian Shepherd’s fur, and a picture of a pink sponge I have in my house. I then liquefied the edges of the rose, and I changed the Opacity, but I really didn’t do much else to that picture.  On the picture of the sponge I messed with several things trying to get the right look, but finally came up with the lens flair under the render in filter. On the dog fur I just faded it so it would give me a brush stroke look.  I add the word delicate via text tool. I changed the color, font size and style, I did a copy of it and flipped it and changed the color so it was two tones. I also added a butterfly. This seems like I didn’t do much but we are talking a lot of trial and error before I actually decided on which filter or image adjustment tool I wanted to use.

I took a spider plant picture I took at work, added a black and white thorn and then a color thorn picture from Google. I changed the opacity on all layers. I then added a neon glow to the spider plant. I changed the image levels on the spider plant. I got a blood drop from Google which I selected and added to the black and white thorn that I found out on Google. I then used the opacity just a little as I wanted the red to be a bold contrast, I used the smudge tool around the edges of the blood drop. I used the brightness and contrast tool as well.  I added the word harsh. I bent the word a little changed the color of the text and I used a filter to get the black thorn look on the word and a neon glow. I used the rasterizing layer so that I could do the filtering and scale features on the word. I made sure my image size was set at 300 dpi and 8 x 8 to save in photo shop. However, for this blog I flattened and saved at 72 dpi and a jpeg.

Week 2 the 5 layer photo

For my first photo I started out trying to use a picture of my street, however, I could not get it to work the way I wanted it to so I ended up going out to Google and finding a simple one of a dirt road. I then layered a thunderstorm picture and another one of sunny rolling hills, again found out on Google. After fading those out by using the Opacity so you may see the dirt road I put the silhouette of my boyfriend on top and scaled him back some so he would not take up the entire picture. I did some liquefying of the edges on both the thunderstorm and the rolling hills. The second picture I did was simply taking the drop down arrow in the layer tool bar and moving it so that I got the thunderstorm picture to be color burn and the rolling hills as color dodge giving me a different color and look to the photo. My fortune cookie was about friendship. Friends are always with you through the good the bad and all the way down life’s path.

 

First layer photo shop picture

I pulled in a glass jar photo that I actually took at work earlier today. I then went to the recommended website of Lost&Taken.com and grab a red color ink blob looking thing. It seems like it took forever for me to figure out how to resize one picture on the other, but I finally did and that is accomplished by clicking on Edt, Transform, and then Scale. You then click and drag the one picture to match the other. I then started to use the Opacity and Fill located in the right hand corner of the Layers pilot. I started to use the filters and finally found one called Accented Edges that I liked. I also used the drop down arrow in the Layer pilot to change from Normal to Vivid Light. Of course this sounds so much easier now that I'm typing but it was a lot of trial and error. I chose this simply for the contrast. I liked the way it looks.

The pictures I took for this weeks class was a lot of texture from dog fur to a wood board. I also had an entrance of a room, an open cabinet door, and a draw.

I hope you enjoy the pic.

First Night of Class

It's been a very busy week, but what week isn't right? I really do not know what to wright and I have to write something to get this posted so that I can do the other work I'm suppose to be doing so here it is. Thanks.