yes!

yes please let's do the tutorial that amanda suggests. if only we had apples and pumpkins from daniel we could bake a pie... oh well, i guess the kids don't get a halloween this year... hopefully they'll get christmas.... everyone please do the next tutorial, we will meet next week, please bring some prints of what you've done... v

Do this for the assignment next week!

http://psdtuts.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/create-a-wicked-worn-vintage-pop-art-design/

Jessica's World :) lol

so the flower in the middle I just used a brush and used the color burn option and I thought it was pretty cool :) This was easier than I thought...just time consuming... :)

happy halloween...

hi guys- i have to cancel today's meeting. can any of you met tomorrow, thursday at noon? please call and let me know. 573.220.5968. dawn the pumpkin looks good. can you make the type arch and fit the pumpkin better?

Happy Halloween ***** EDIT****

Dawn Weatherford -

Sorry for the delay, I have been having some Adobe program issues with my new laptop so things got lost a couple of times. Here are my two submissions (planets to come soon).

I have an actual picture of a pumpkin that I doctored and the one that I created from scratch.










































Upon suggestion from Vaughn, here is the fixed version with the arched text.

Ok, apple thing, pumpkin thing, and some planets.

Round Planet thing

Okay well I tried it.. i know it looks like crap. The picture wasn't a good one. I am going to do another one. A tip for you guys when you try and find a picture: Get one that is pretty squarish.. or at least that has a decent height above like 700. That will make it way way easier.. but here is my second attempt. I am gonna try another one later. ;)

vaughn

Oh and Vaughn, thanks for the links. One of those is the one I was already using. Thanks. 

And a Pumpkin!

Stem Could Use a little work..  but its a pumpkin!

TAH-DAH!! Heres an apple for the teacher... :) a pumkin on the way...

yeah jessica!

okay, that's one! let's see some more kids... in fact i won't be meeting you tomorrow- i have to meet the grads in cooper for lunch. you invited too if you want, it's just lunch... so, please everyone post your pumpkins here soon! like today... and let's do another tutorial from psdtuts. let's all try this one > http://psdtuts.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/create-a-glowing-surreal-planet-design/ <. extra points if you use your own original photography. and i'll buy a pizza for the first person to get an image in the blog... and another for the best... let's get started... i'll see you all next week in the computer lab.

amanda, check out this> http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html <. and this > http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/09/13/give-your-photos-a-retro-comic-book-effect/ <.

Jessica- Jack-O-Apple

Wow... That was way more intense than I was thinking it was going to be... I must say though I did learn a lot more just going through and figuring out locations and shortcuts to things. This was an great learning experience for me... kudos! It's not a great little jack-o lantern but I think that the main objective was to learn something new you can do in photoshop and I did that :) yay me! Well hope ya'll are having a great week and good luck "carving" your "pumpkin" :)

Happy Halloween!

websites for pumpkin

http://www.tutorialwiz.com/halloween_pumpkin/

http://psdtuts.com/drawing/how-to-create-a-delicious-green-apple-illustration

"If you are really cool, you will make a pretty nice background or some digital straw, graveyard, candy, etc." - Vaughn

Awesome Site for Photoshop Brushes

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com

This Wednesday I will be teaching the right way to do an HDR, time permitting.

HDR what is it and how do I do it.

HDR stands for high dynamic range.   "the HDR technique allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques." So to do this you need to shoot the same image in three different exposures and merge them in PS.  In PS File: Automate: Merge to HDR.  the more extreme the exposures. the wider range you will get.  have fun, low light shots work best.

OH... and the time is off on this blog.. i think the date it too cuz its saying its like 11: 30 and its like 2 am... just thought id mention that. 

MY BAD TO WHOEVER ALREADY POSTED THE RULER THING> didn't see it til after. 

SPIFFY LITTLE TRICK TIM TAUGHT ME THAT I LIKE> High Pass filter

We found this helped improve contrast and detail after using HDR. After I did this I then used lab color. Okay so do HDR. Then your going to flatten your image you have from that. Go to Image>Mode> 16 bits Then duplicate your layer (Apple>J) On the new layer your going to go to Filter>Other> High pass. Change the radius to where you can just see the outline because a little goes a long way (so Tim says). On this my radius was 3.9. Click okay when you have it where you want. Now go over to the little box where your layers are and right under the tabs there is a drop down that says normal.. click that and select the one that says overlay. After that you will notice that there is a little more contrast and a little sharpening that can really help after HDR. Toggle between the before and after with eye and you can really see it. But just look at my example and im sure you can tell. :) And then you can flatten the image... and go on to do lab color or whatever! Happy photoshopping! :O Bed time (that was a yawny smily) 

RULERS

I found this to be helpful because I only knew how to do it in lightroom but since this is a photoshop class im glad Vaughn showed me how. :) This is for if you shoot like a drunken sailor and all your images are slightly crooked. I purposely took a really crooked one to make a point. So here it goes. Open a image (duh) Decided what part of the image is straight in reality. In the case of the picture above I knew that the room line was most likely straight.. or at least pretty close. So I just realized I left all my files on a third floor computer so the example I was going to show you is there.. or this one isnt nearly as crooked but its still off. So anyways the roofline would still be the straight part. On you tool bar the rulers button is two above the magnifying glass icon. The shortcut is I, but you have to shift-I until you get the ruler. Anyways once you have the ruler, hold your clicker down and drag it across the part you know is straight, in this case the roof line. It will stay when you let go. Then go to Image>Rotate Cavas> Arbitrary. It will tell you how many degrees your off, click okay. It will then adjust the image for you. You will have some white spaces around the image so then just use your crop tool to crop in a little bit and get rid of the white parts. See the three images. :)

Make Vaughn Happy

Dear fellow classmates.. and Vaughn. I would like everyone to know I am shooting my first compostie image this Thursday.. so Vaughn don't be pissed. Be happy :).. but to make Vaughn happier I am going to fufill this weeks post with a lesson on lab color since I learned how to do it recently (thanks Vaughn), rulers (thanks Vaughn) and a little filter trick (thanks Tim. )So there are the two weeks I was behind on and one for this week just to catch up. And then I promise (fingers crossed) an composite image for next week. :) Happy days. P.s. If anyone knows how to format this stupid blog thing so that all the pics don't go on the top.. please clue me in.. its really annoying. Also Vaughn it says who posted the post right under the post. ... but for your sake.. im Amanda.  Now for lesson on : LAB COLOR

First you open an image in photoshop.

If this was an HDR image your going to first need to change the image from 32 bits to 16 or 8 bits which you need to go Image>Mode> 16/8 bits (whichever you want). I did 16. 

Next you will need to make a duplicate of you image so go Image>duplicate> then name it whatever you want. 

On the copy go to Image>Mode>lab color.  After you do that go over to the right hand part of the photoshop screen to the little windows that have you layers and click on the "Channels" tab. There should be 4 layers under this tab, Lab, Lightness, A and B. Select the A layer. Then press Apple>M on your keyboard. It should bring up a Curves box. Now pay attention carefully here cuz this might be hard to explain. Mouse to the very upper right hand corner of the curves box and drag that corner over to the left (staying at the top) to the first line where it exactly lines up. Then take the bottom left hand corner and move it over to the right to the first line so that it exactly lines up. Then click ok. Select the B layer and do the same thing. After you have done this make sure the eye is visible on all the layers and go to Image>mode> RGB. Then click "V" on the keyboard . Then hold down the shift key while you drag the lab colored image over on top of the original. It should snap into place. To see the difference lab color made click the eye on or off on the lab color layer. You should notice a huge difference. See my example below. (or above) whereever the silly thing goes. (The lab colored on is the more vibrant one) 

Jessica - Fake using a Tilt Shift lens

My intern showed me this as well, I thought it was pretty need and it looks real good on certain images. This one just gets the point across...

after opening your image, if there is no editing to do then go to filters. blur, lens blur. You can play with the adjustments but I left mine at Blur Focus = 0 Radius = 21  Blade and Rotation at 0 Brightness will vary on the image and Threshold =255.

When you are selected the amount of blur you want keep in mind that the main focal point will be in focus you are deciding the amount of blur you want on the background. I kept the blur fairly low because its easier to add more than take it back.

When you are done with that popup hit ok. It takes a little while then it will come up blurring your whole image dont freak out! on your history menu highlight the last thing you did before the blur...see image. on mine I selected open. click in the box next to lens blur, it will put a brush and arrow in that box. like in image below... Now select the history brush from your toolbar it looks just like the image in the box...make your brush size fairly large. with your brush you will start "blurring" your image. With a tilt and shift lens you can only blur in vertical or horizonal, one or the other or both. Not in circular motions.  you can do it, it just wont look like tilt shift.... 

I applied lens blur a couple of times and slowly blurred. With a true tilt shift lens it will be sharp in the area you select, a little blurry just beyond that then blur dramatically 

Hopefully I explained that well enough, if not comment and I will try to clarify...

Final Project

So as I'm really not very versed on photography, I am posting my general ideas for a final project in hopes that you guys can provide me with some feedback and thoughts.

Generally, I would just really like to learn as many tips and tricks in Photoshop as I can that would aid me in altering images in the cleanest and quickest ways. I mainly work with picture manipulation where one picture is side by side with another and so details matter. Things like the liquify trick that you guys showed me were helpful. I have some specific project ideas that pertain to the psych lab, but nothing that really is outside the scope of what I have already produced and shown you guys a couple of Wednesday's ago.

While the book I have right now is great for learning new ways to do things and different shortcuts, I think it might be best for me to investigate and purchase a new book that is more suited for the alterations that I need to make. I'll try to have some ideas for next Wednesday's meeting so that we can discuss.

Copycat post - techniques from the blog

So I decided to use three/four of the techniques from this blog on one picture (image). Since I'm not in photography, this is one of the only things I create that I would consider "printworthy."

I altered the opacity of the clone tool for the faces and shirts in the picture.
I used paths to put the text around the leaf button.
I laid a light opacity pattern over the bottom paper image as well as a color layer from the tree.


Note: Many of these images were free downloads from websites and I didn't generate them on my own.

Edit picture from start to finish. (this is one way not the only way)

Photo is in need of a little tweaking (I can never take a straight picture)

1.  First thing I did was correct the dust spots on my CCD chip.  I used the patch tool (tip) it works well on large texture like in the boards on the side of the church.

2.  Next I straighten the building using the ruler tool.  Under the eye dropper tools draw a line on something you want to be straight.  Next go to Rotate Canvas under image.  Select Arbitrary.. .  the adjustment should be shown, click it and your photo should be straight. 

3.  Crop your image the way you like, so the white edges are not shown

4.  adjust curves (tip) command M, to pump up the contrast.  

5.  These tips may help to enhance you photo.

 

Final Project Daniel Mendenhall (need help)

I need some help, I don't use a lot of photoshop in my photography but I could do some HDR photographs any other ideas?

Layer Masking tool (not Vector Too?)

not so great?!?

did i speak too soon? another week goes by, no posts. we're meeting on wednesday. prepare for me to be pissed.