Background Filter #2

This is a photo of my friend Jack at the Milwaukee Public Market. I originally took this photo because of the outside lighting but I ended up using a different one I'm pretty sure. I caught him looking down at the right moment and got this picture. Apparently guys don't like getting their picture taken in public. But anyway, I filtered out the background using cross hatch strokes to make Jack the focus of the photo. I think it turned out pretty well.

Soft Blur #2

I love love love this photo! It turned out so well! I randomly took this photo of my friend Abby Johnson's eye. She looks so beautiful. I originally wanted to do the Garrison blur for this photo to make the colors look more intense but her skin ended up looking really sicking. I'm not sure what went wrong so I played around with the soft blur and made her skin look really soft. But I wanted her eye to still be sharp so I used the art history tool to un-blur the area around her eye and her eye and than color burned it to make it more intense.

Neon Glow #2

I wanted to try doing two overlay layers with different color neon. The first was a gold orange color around the sun and the sun beams. The second was a dark blue around the ocean and the left corner of the sky. It turned out really sweet so I decided to put it up. This was a good picture to choose because I could use a lot of different neon colors and sizes and brightnesses to make different looks.

Garrisun Blur #2

At first I thought this would be a bad photo to do becuase of all the detail. The subject is my mom on the beach. I think if she was turned around so the viewer could only see her back it would have been better, but i played around with it anyway. When I first did the blur overlay the photo ended up with really intense colors but they were really dark so I lightened up the whole photo and than lgihtened up the sky to make it look "happier". The photo ended up looking pretty good.

Neon Glow #1

I chose this photo because the sky looked so bright and I thought that adding the neon glow would give it an even more intense look. The original photo has a purple splotch in the sky that happened when I took the photo. I'm not sure how it happened but to hopefully downplay it I used a neon glow color that was a blusih-green rather than a true blue that would pull the purple color. I than put the original over it at 50% opacity. The purple still ended up being visable but it looked alot better than in the original.

Garrisun Blur #1

In this photo I used the garrisun blur and 50% overlay technique. It turned out really well and the colors look so intense. I love how the slight blur to it makes the photo look like sunlight is streaming down in the photo. I chose to do this photo because the colors were already very vivid. Also because of the amount of detail in the photo. I figured that you would really be able to see the difference between the photos if I choose an original with detail.

Background Filter #1

This photo started out as a simple white flower. To make the flower pop more from the background I lassoed the flower from the background and made a copy so I could change just the background. I first filtered the background with sumi-e and set the contrast really low. Than I used the filter sprayed strokes. The flower looked too different from the background so I used the filter spatter on the flower just to give it a smilier look as the background but still have it stand out. I choose to do this picture of a flower because the focus of the photo is already the flower and the background is already set up where it can easily be filtered.