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Retouch Example

I used Photoshop to remove the blemishes on the girl's face. To do this I opened the photo in Photoshop. I opened the layers tab in the bottom right corner. I added a layer by selecting the icon that looks like a paper with a folded edge in the bottom right corner. Then, I selected the Spot Healing Brush tool. It's icon looks like a band-aid with a handle and it is the eighth one down on the left toolbar. I used the bracket keys of my keyboard to change the size of my cursor so it was slightly bigger than the blemish. Then I left clicked on the zit to remove it from her face. I continued this process to remove all the blemishes on her face until her skin was clear. I made sure that her skin wasn't messed up by any usage of the tool. If it was I clicked Ctrl and Z on my keyboard to undo it and tried again using a different cursor size. Lastly I saved the photo in my H: drive as a JPEG so Blogger would support it.

Reflections

Autumn Afternoon

Long Day

Routine

Memories

Saturation and Masking Example

To saturate this photo I added a layer by clicking the black and white circle in the bottom right corner. I drop down menu appeared and I chose "hue/saturation." Then I moved the slider labeled saturation to 50. To mask the photo I chose the brush tool on the left tool bar. In the bottom left there was a black square and a white square. I used the arrows in a corner to switch the dominant color to black. I made sure I was using 100% opacity in the tool bar and that the mode was normal. I began moving my cursor over the girl because I did not want the saturation to affect her. I was careful to only move over the girl. To do the edges of the girl I lowered my brush size. I used the zoom tool on the left tool bar and clicked where I wanted to start doing the edges. I clicked back into the brush tool and began moving my cursor around the edges of the girl making sure to saturate her fully without undoing the saturation of the background. I used the backslash key so where I had gotten rid of the saturation was highlighted red. I use this to make sure all of the girl wasn't saturated and the background was still completely saturated. If I had taken away the saturation where I didn't want to I used the arrows in a corner in the bottom left corner to switch the brush tool to white. I ran my cursor over where I wanted the saturation back. When done I used the arrows in a corner again to switch back and remove more saturation where I wanted. Using the brush tool and zoom tool I worked around the entirety of the girl until I had gotten the result I wanted. Then I clicked file, save as, and saved it as a JPEG image.

My Toy Story

Crop and Straighten Example

To crop and straighten the photo I used Adobe Photoshop. Once opening Photoshop I clicked open on the left. I found the photo in my files and uploaded it. I hovered over the tools in Photoshop til I found one that said crop. It should be the fifth one down on the toolbar to the left. I clicked the drop down menu that had the size ratio of the picture. I changed it to 1:1 (Square). Then I hovered over the tools once again to find the tool called straighten. It should be the first button after the drop down menus in the the top toolbar. I used my mouse and clicked on the horizon and held down as I dragged my mouse across the horizon line. When I reached the end of the horizon line I let go of my mouse making the picture straighten. To save it as a JPEG image I clicked file in the top left corner. I clicked on the save as button in the drop down menu. It should be the eleventh option going down. I clicked the drop down menu that said Photoshop and chose the first JPEG option listed. Then I named the photo "Crop Example." In the left menu of drives I found my student drive. I double clicked to open it. I double clicked to open Digital Photo, then again to open Demo Pics. I clicked save to save it in that folder.

Flat Lay Self Portrait

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~The sneaker correlates to fashion because one of its purposes are to be fashionable. It can correlate to sports because they are worn when doing many sports.

~The pointe shoe is included because I have been dancing since I was two which is going on twelve years and pointe is my favorite genre.
~The music book represents my love for playing instruments, composing, and writing lyrics.
~The sketchbook shows how I love to create visual art through painting, drawing, sketching, etc.
~The book, Turtles All The Way Down, gives an example for my love to read. It is my favorite book and I strongly relate to the main character, Aza.