B2TextureMitchell



While I was doing this project, I chose one picture for the background of my photo and then three other pictures to edit and put on top of my picture. The first thing I did on each photo was crop it using the crop button so that I could take out the edges of the picture that I didn't want to include. The next thing I did was use the quick selection tool to select the yellow dog as best as I could before adding it as a layer over my background (the black dog walking). After that I used the dodge tool to brighten up the yellow dog's back and face so that it would appear like it was in sunnier spot. I then used the lasso tool and cropped more closely arouund the yellow dog's paws before moving on to my next layer. the next layer I worked on was the birch tree on the left. The first thing I did was to use the quick selection tool to gather the whole tree so I could move it onto the background. Then I changed the opacity so it wouldn't be quite so overwhelming because it's in the front of the photo. I used the burn tool and the dodge tool to both lighten and create shadows on the tree and around the grass in the background beside the tree. I also slightly blurred the edge of the tree so it wouldn't be too overpowering. The last layer I worked on was the skinny tree in the left-hand side. I used the eraser and the quick selection too to outline the tree, moved it to the background, and used the burn and dodge tool like I did with the other tree. I especially lightened the branches sticking out from it to the right because they are in sunlight and I tried to make a shadow on the ground behind the tree but it's very subtle. The last few edits I made included changing the exposure of my picture so it was up 0.6 and sharpening my background to make the other items more in harmony with it.

In my photograph I found texture in several different places that enhance the overall feel of it. Their is soft, wispy texture in both dog's tails and a bit more coarse, but still soft texture throughout the rest of the dog. The birch tree's bark is rough and knotty, which reiterates the topic of nature. Also, the leaves are layered and thick, which makes the forest eye-appealing but not the center of attention. In this photo I used framing by placing trees on both the left and ride side of the picture, leading lines in the black dog's curvy tail and in the leaves, and the rule of thirds by having the tree on the left, the dogs, and the tree on the right divide up the paper.