Final

The idea for the magazine cover was motivated by my kids. Kids are chefs here. The recipes are visual and some text is also added.

Assignment 14

I did the pop dot tutorial for this homework. I had taken a picture of a pumpkin candle holder. The background was too plain. The use of pop dot makes the background interesting.

Assignment 13

Under Photoshop Design Center, I chose "Typographic design with Photoshop" for the homework tutorial. I learned more about type and text in this tutorial.

Assignment 12

I used the mask for the sky. Then I applied the clipping mask with the gradient layer. I then added the moon and applied luminance blending to blend it with the sky. Knockout shallow effect was used for the text. The picture of the dam was taken in India at the time of heavy monsoon rains. The dam's capacity was completely full. The water was muddy and turbulent. I had taken a picture of my husband at the lake and it fit very well in this background.

Depth of field- I had taken this picture of a Tibetan temple. I used the techniques described in the video.

Assignment 11

There are only 2 images here. The waterfall in the background. and the tree with fall colors. I used color range command on the tree then further refined it with the quick mask to create the mask. Then I moved the tree on the waterfall background. I did match color to the background. I left the evergreen trees on the side as it is.

Assignment 10

It was an interesting assignment about surrealism. I created two shapes with the pen tool. The texture shape is the road. The ladder is created with one shape copied and rotated. I then copied them and arranged them in a ladder. Then I merged the layers. I extracted the umbrella with the pen tool. I used blur on the bird. A bird perched on an upside down umbrella on a road in space.

Assignment 9

I used Image-Adjustments-Curves to lighten the image and then used the healing and patching techniques. The top image is the original and the bottom image is the retouched image.

I used Image-Adjustment-Curve first and then I used the clone source-show overlay to remove the wrinkles on the forehead and patches below eyes. The top image is the original and the bottom image is the retouched one.

Assignment 8

The picture in the background is that of a tunnel I had taken while driving to Yosemite. I used the filter 'Accented Edges' to get that effect. I made up the text and tried to align the text inside the curve of the tunnel by doing 'warp text-arc-edit-transform-skew'. I used different shades of color. I also used vector shapes from the shape library. I used layer styles to give the effect to the shapes.

Midterm

I used several images to work on this photo montage. I have tried to do Shivaji Maharaj's coronation in this montage. The background is Raigad Fort which was the capital of his empire. The Fort, Chattri (on the right side), coin, and Shivaji Maharaj, all these images are from the web. The rest like the shield and sword, horse,text in marathi, and musicians are my photographs. For the text I cropped each word and desaturated the image and then applied hue and saturation to get the color. I took the photo of the drawing of each musician using the auction option in the camera. I used several techniques here. Levels Adjustment, match color, hue and saturation, cropping, layer blending, opacity, and duotone.

Assignment 5

After lot of experimentation and several photos I finally managed to create the mask. Again my daughter is in the composition. The background image is that of a sunset in San Jose. It was easy to do the mask when the background was plain. To create the mask for my daughter's image I used the Red Channel only. I used the Layer blending options as well. Then I corrected it further with Level Adjustments. Then I used the Dodge tool and painted it white as much as possible. Lastly I filled the background black and the selected image white. I selected it with polygonal Lasso tool. After I moved her image into the sunset background I used match color.

Assignment 4

I used 2 images for the color scheme. I decided to do a white color scheme. The image with the swan is the background image. I took this picture in India at a Zoo. The flower image is from my backyard. I used Level Adjustment, Layer blending (luminosity) to achieve the brightness in the swan and the water. Then I selected the flower picture and dragged it into the background. I made at least 7 copies of the flower. I rotated some to achieve the composition.

Assignment 3

I used 2 images. The background is the picture taken at Yosemite from the Glacier point of the half-dome. The 2nd image is that of my daughter doing a dance (Bharatnatyam) pose. I had to change the size so she could fit on the half-dome. Then I did the duotone. She was thrilled, seeing herself on half-dome.