Photoshop experiments

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PHOTOSHOP EXPERIMENTS

Original Photo of my friend Bella around Christmas time.


 We were asked to take a picture of our family and photoshop it using filters and manipulating the photo. This one I took the original cropped it, and made it black and white toned, then sepia toned (by making duplicate layers). Then I used the quick selection tool to create clean lines for my hand coloring. Because I have used photoshop before, I used the overlay mode for the brush to paint in the colors. I turned the opacity down to about 15% and used a big brush to quickly fill in the areas.




 With these two photos I played around with the posterize tool. These are some screenshots from messing around with the amount of levels.




This photo was using the pointalize filter. Zooming in on it, while the original photo was black and white that I was working with there were small points of color. It looked like an old TV screen static.

This one was using the filter color halftones. It was interesting seeing the difference between the pointalizing and the halftones. I know that halftones are used in both comics and manga to illustrate lighting and different shades. When you zoom in it looks like little circles of white, cyan, magenta, and yellow. Again this was working from the black and white photo. 




This final one was utilizing the gradient maps. The first photo was the default when I added a gradient map over the black and white photo (which uses the dark and light tones of the image and replaces them with color based on the gradient that you choose. The second screenshot is showing what my custom gradient map looked like. And then my very 80's colored final.

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