Blending 101

Sorry it took so long to post my new blog but my internet's been down since Friday, but I back. In this assignment I was asked to use what I learned in class about blending to go from one color to other. This was no easy task as you can see from my work but I think its good for my first time. Using the mouse to do this made this project harder because it's hard for me to go in a straight line with the mouse. I had to use different brush presets to get the look of fading. I got it as close as I could using the mouse and my shaky hand good work if I do say so myself.

Brushes Please

This project was fun turning some of my favorite pictures into brush presets. First off let me say I think these are some bad ass presets. The first set of presets were not that hard to do scorpion took a minute because of the spear. The bottom five took more time cause I had trouble customizing the brushes I made. It took a while to figure it out but after that it was easier. The Scattering one hard at first cause I didn't know that I had to hold the left mouse down and move it to make it scatter. That's why there's two of those pictures in different places.

The Green Bean

I choose two pictures that I took when I was out with my wife. One was of the bean at Millennium Park and the other was also at Millennium park but in a different area. I was looking at the picture of the bean and thought that it could use some color. So I blended both pictures adding grass to the ground making it look like the bean was it a different part of the park. After that I decided that I would change the seasons by adding some red to the trees to make it look like the fall.

Museum of Science and Technology

This picture I have choose is of the day I took my children to the Museum of Science the Industry and no the little white boy is not my son. I think I picked the wrong picture for this because it was very hard to find five thing's. The little boy was the easiest because he's the only person in the picture. In the original photo the boy's was very bright because of the flash. So I added more yellow in to the shirt and took the brightness down a little. I also change the mountains at the top and all that crazy shit in the middle. I changed the floor as well I added more blue to it. The last thing I did was the plane I changed the grey scale of the plane and lighten it up.

Cock fight Champion

With this pic I decided to it was to dark so I adjusted the brightness and the contrast to make everything more visible. After I got the brightness and contrast the way I liked them I adjusted the blacks and grays in the levels tap better see the colors in the wings and the shadows on the ground. Using the curves opinion in this pic was hard I made small changes because I was happy with the changes I had already made to the blacks, white, and grays. All in all I'd say that pic version of the pic is much better.

Monument

This picture has beautiful greens in it but, the picture itself was very dull looking. The first thing i did was to add more contrast to the picture and brighten it up a bit. I also used the level to slightly adjust the grays and the darkness between the trees. I adjusted the whites as well to brighten up the sky. After all my changes I think the picture looks much better then the original.

High Contract Bird

This picture was very high in contrast. Using the Adjustment opinion I lowered the contrast to better set the colors apart. I also added a little more white to the picture. I didn't really change the levels because they looked go to me. The curves I moved very little to get the color just right. At first glance the two pictures look the same but they are very different.