Assignment #6-digital retouching

For this assignment, an image was given, and it was up to us to use the program called Photoshop to remove all the distracting subject matter within the photo. First, a part of the woman in the black shirt had to be removed. In order to do this, a tool called a clone stamp was used. It would copy an area that was selected and then use that same pattern to fill in what was erased as it moved along. Once that body had been taken out f the photograph, the next step was to rebuild the play structure. By using the same cloning tool as before it was easy to blend the colours into something that looked exactly like the missing corner of the play structure. Also by changing the brush size it was easier to get into smaller spots, or closer to other objects without changing them. Once that was complete, the photo was cropped, by using a rectangular marquee tool. This allowed me to simply cut the photo down enough that I could include what was needed in the frame. Finally, all that needed to be taken out were the pair of jeans near the purple hat. Once again the same tools were used and the grass and tarp were retouched so that they blended well.

Again I used Photoshop to combine these two images together. They were both taken at the same park, however there is some difference in the lighting. Once in Photoshop I decided that I like the two rows of trees going off towards the lake, and kept it as my background. First, the lasso tool was used in order for me to outline roughly the man and the bench in the other photo. Next, I deleted the background in photo 1 and created a layer that only contained the man and the bench. Once, this layer was place over photo 2, I used the movement tool so I could place the bench where I needed it and proceeded to use the clone tool to blend the edges so that it would match the background in photo 2. Finally I used the clone tool to get rid of the people where the trees come to a point as well as getting rid of the garbage can on the right side of the image. The only difficulties that I ran into was that I figured there should be a slight shadow cast by the bench in the finished photo. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could never get it to look right. In the end I just left it without the added shadow.

We had to once again use one of our own images and combine it with others to make something believable, yet our finished product had to look bizarre. This image was really fun to create. Yet again it was done using Photoshop. The first image is one that I had previously taken on a trip to Italy. The rest have all been grabbed from the internet. I began by saving my 1st image as my background layer. Then I chose a second image, a terradactyl, and added it to Photoshop. By using the lasso tool, I selected only the animal from the photo, creating another layer and placed that over photo 1. From there I used the eraser tool to take off some of the edge that was left by the lasso tool. Again I used the clone tool to blend the two layers together, varying the size of the brush to do so. Next I added a picture of a girl sitting in a chair, and used the same tools as the bird to make it fit the picture, although I did have to add her shadow. Though none of these things have anything in common I had the most fun creating this picture.