B4+TEXTURE+WISNIEWSKI



Original # 1 Original #2 Original #3 TEN CHANGES: 1) I used the burn tool to darken the gravestone. I also changed its brightness to be darker. 2) I used the dodge tool to lighten certain words that I though were the most meaningful to the piece. 3) I used the dodge tool to lighten the floers that reflected off the gravestone because i wanted them to appear almost perfect so that the stone seemed very smooth and glossy almost to the point where it was miror-like. 4) I added the plain clouds to give my picture a much brighter and peaceful background by adding a layer and then erasing the old sky from the places that i no longer wanted it. 5) I brightened the sky to 82% to make it almost appear too pretty to be true or unrealistic, 6) I added the picture of the angel into the top of the clouds by cropping it and then putting it on top of my picture in a new layer. 7) I changed the opacity of the angel to be higher so that it blended into the lightness of the clouds. 8) I used the blur tool to blur the pixels where the angel met the sky to make it appear like it was there all along and never just added in. 9) I darkened the eyes of the angel to draw the eye to something amongst the clouds. I also darkened the wing creases using the burn tool to make the angel stand out while still blending in. 10) I used the eraser to cut out the sharp corners of the stone and made it look softer to give the stone an overall appearance that it is floating in the sky.

In my final photograph i used the rule of thirds and leading lines for my two compositional techniques. It follows the rule of thirds because if you divide the image into thirds there is something unique and different in each of the thirds. The leading lines of the grave stone lead the eye directly up to the angel, which fives my photo more meaning and gives the angel more importance. I emphasized the smoothness and shiny textures of the gravestone in my picture. While editing, i focused on bringing out the glossiness of the gravestone. I also brightned the words on the dtone to make it look like it was so glossy that the sun was reflecting light off of it. Overall, I think that my first oficial project went very well. I think that learning Photoshop was a huge task and challenge, and I feel that I was able to use my knowledge of the program to produce a work of art. If i could change something about my photo, i would have chosen to not lighten the sky as much as i did and maybe keep it a little more realistic, but overall I am proud of the work of art that I produced.