Photoshop and the White House

This week we are working on the Photoshop 2 module. We practiced selecting and masking images that we took today. I kind of meshed a few of my images together into one shot. Like my shoutout to the CDIA Boston campus?

Photoshop I

Photoshop is an amazingly powerful tool to any photographer. After a week with Robert instructing our class, I feel like I can do almost anything with images and yet we've only scratched the surface of what Photoshop can do. Here are a few images that I've put together this week in Photoshop.

This photo of Mikela, James and Alex was taken in my Intro to Light class. The lighting is coming from above using an umbrella.

I lightened up the original image, touched up any major blemishes on the faces and added a background image of the sun rising that I took on my trip to NYC.

Here is another shot of James that I took during my Intro to Lighting class.

I decided to replace James' face with a mannequin's, gave him John's glasses and eyes and put in a background shot of Georgetown.

Photoshop is truly amazing!

Intro to Photoshop

This week we will be working with Adobe Photoshop CS4 with Robert Rathe (www.robertrathe.com) as our instructor. Photoshop is a powerful image editor which allows us to get the best results possible. Today we played with some basic tools and learned about masking. We were given an image of an old man to practice masking. Masking is a way of adjusting a specific area of an image.

This is the original image we were given to play with.

In layers you can see the areas I masked and what type of adjustments were applied.

This is what I came up with for today.