Evaluation of Fantasy Landscape

My shoot was took outside of college, We was given a task to take a shoot of any landscape, and any other images that we could manipulate and put into the Landscape image. I took a verity of images, when i got back into the classroom I looked at my images and picked out the best one for my background image. When I had my background image i looked at the other images and what objects was in them. I played around with different objects to see what would look the best, i decide to go the the bollard from out side of  college and place it in the background picture. I used a D100 Digital camera for my shoot, I also used Photoshop software to edit and manipulate my images. I used a range of different techniques to manipulate the bollards and the background. 1st I changed the background to black and white. then I pasted my bollards into the image. I did this several times to get as many bollards as i would like. When the images were in place I used a tool called the blur tool, this helps soften the edges and make it look more realistic. The bollards that are looking as if they are behind the railings, i used the same copy and paste technique, then made them 60% opaque to see where the railing was. When it was clear enough, I used the rubber tool to rub away where the railing is. This is the effect of the railing being in front of the bollard. I didn't encounter any problems just took hard work to keep focused on the little parts. My image reminds me of Seung Woo Back, as his work is similar. Im very please with my work, as I kept focused on it and used Photoshop as I'm not that good with it.

Fantasy Landscape Finished Image

Fantasy Landscape

I have chosen this image  before i manipulate, background picture.

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 These pictures (1-6) above, are the pictures i would like to manipulate and put them into my background picture.

With the this tool you can select the part of the image you need. Dont worry about not selecting all of it and its ruff.

 When you have ruffly selected the part of the image u need 

 Select this tool at the bottom of the tool list ( a square the a circle in it). 

When it is red you can edit more carefully, and select the part more easy, You might have to flip backwards and forwards to get it as good as you can. with the colour flipper, you can flip it with the arrow above the colours. Always have a hard brush, and be careful on how big your brush is. click the square with the circle in it to take the red away, go on Edit, Copy. Then go to the picture you are pasting the copied image, and Edit, paste.

You can make it as big as You like or as small as you like. To make the image look realistic blur the image by using the blur tool.

This is My final Image. I have manipulated it by Adding in bollards, look how crazy it is. You can make it as crazy as you like.

Transforming

Find a picture you want to make straight click on Edit, Transform the Warp

This will appear, in each box you can move to make it straight.

This is my final image. 

Half n Half

copy your first layer.

make the copy background black and white

by this you go on image and adjustments then desaturate 

choose the rubber tool and change the size of the brush to fit where u want to rub out.

This is my result

Adding text

Once you have chosen your picture 

click the (t) tool to add text.

click and drag for where you want your text.

you can also change the way it writes for example vertical. 

you can change the font

you can change the size of the text

 with this tool you can blend the text into the picture so it doesn't look to cut and paste.

Adding colour

Pick any colour you would want, for your chosen picture,

Copy your background layer.

Pick the brush tool.

Use any size, once you have finished paining on your picture use overlay or the tools on the layer box to make the picture look not so fake. 

Borders

To create a border You will have to select the image that you like, then click the paint brush tool, choose what size you want and always have it on a soft edge.

Have the opacity always at 100%

Always and only use black and white

For the layers always make a copy of the original layer

once you have painted around the edges with the paint brush tool. go on Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur.

Once you have done that, this box will appear you can change the pixels to make it more transparent by moving the slide bar at the bottom.

For example

This is the finished project.

Before and After Photoshop

 I manipulated this picture in Photoshop, I used the copy tool so i had two of the same pictures, i then took the eye of the background original, then manipulated the picture using liquefy tool. I made her eyes look bigger and i changed her nose size and changed her shape of her face. once i finished manipulating the picture i clicked O.K. I then clicked the eye back on so both layers are showing.

With this picture I dragged both images in to Photoshop then dragged them on top of each other. I then used a tool called overlay i changed the opacity. I really like this picture :)

Before and After in Photoshop

 When I was manipulating this picture i used the brighten and contrast, to make it look better. After I did this manipulation I used a tool called multiply which made this image.

 After I played around with the last manipulation I took a step back in my history and manipulated the picture using screen, its made the picture brighter and cleaner. Not many dark shadows.

Again I went back on my history and manipulated this picture by using a tool called the darker tool.