Patterson+-+Texture

Morgan P.

Original 1

Original 2

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Original 3



Final



First, I set orig.2 (leaves) as the background and changed the brightness of the photograph and sharpened the leaves. Then, I took orig.3(tree branches) and layered it over orig.2 and lowered the opacity to make it more transparent; also, I changed the contrast. Next, I changed the hue/saturation of orig.3 to make the bark of the trees more red. I then used the lasso tool to take the flower out of the orig.1(flower) photograph. I layered it onto the background and changed the hue/saturation to make it purple and lowered the opacity. The main compositional technique I used was framing in the final by using the flower to create a border along the lower edge of the piece. In this piece, the texture I really wanted to emphasize was the bark on the trees. I emphasized it using color and contrast to show the shadows the bark create. I don't really like my final piece because it's not how I wanted it to look. I didn't really understand what I was doing to the picture since I've never used Photoshop before so I just kind of experimented. Next time, I would have a subject to be the focus of the final and actually plan out what I wanted to do before hand so I specifically know how I want the final to turn out.