Powers-texture

For my main photo I used fill the frame and also framing because the trees frame the wood chip path and the figure. I tried to emphasize the texture of the path that the girl (myself) is walking on. I also tried emphasizing the texture of the leaves and branches so the framing would be a tad more noticeable. Some of the principles of design I had used were emphasis and contrast. emphasis because of the color change i did with the wood chip path and contrast for the differences with the lightness and darkness throughout the photograph. Texture would be one of the elements I had used because of the details on the path and trees. Also for the fact that the texture is brought out through some of the transparency in the figure.

1)I used the forest path as my background. 2) In photoshop I used the burn tool to darken the end of the path and an area around it. 3) In the photo with the picture of me, I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut myself out and pasted it onto my background. 4) There were leaves on my jacket and pants so I had to use the cloning stamp to get rid of them. 5) Once all the leaves were gone I went to the layer of my picture and changed my opacity so it would look ghost like. 6) Then I realized the ‘ghost me’ was a little bit large so I ended up shrinking it a bit. 7) I wanted to make the darkness more prominent so i went back and used the dodge tool to lighten up around the corners of the background image. 8) The drain image had the edges selected with the lasso tool and deleted. 9) Then the drain was coped and pasted onto the background, then shrunk to make it fit. 10) There was some spotting and rough edges around the drain so I used the smudge tool to blend it in more. 11) I went back and used the burn tool again to darken up the drain to match the Forest path background. 12) The blur tool was used to blend the trees into each other more but not blend the drain in too much. 13) I then used the polygonal to select the wood-chip path in the background layer. 14) After the path was selected I went to images then to adjustments and the to the hue and saturation bar and change the colors of the path.

After all these steps I liked how it had turned out and saved it as my final project.