Another Image I worked on using the same techniques as the last ones. More practice is always a good thing. Here I wanted to try and create a much lighter feeling image than the original while also adding in some color. I'm very happy with the results.

Wallas' Creative Steps

So I wanted to make a quick post on Wallas' creative steps. Essential he breaks down the creative process into four major steps; Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and verification. Although these steps don't have to occur in any particular order, they tend to follow each other.

I wanted to relate the process in making my postcards. During the preparation stage, I gathered information, in this case the class assignment, and began to gather ideas on what I wanted to create and what problem I wanted to address. After taking the photos, I began to get a more clear idea of what my ideas were and how I wanted to address them. This would be the incubation step as well as Illumination step. Remember, these steps do not have to go one after another. It is a circular pattern. I have not yet reached the verification step because my ideas have not come to full completion yet.

The focus of today's class was to understand how to isolate and manipulate colors and filters to give our images a new look. We focused on the color selection tool and the history brush tool to create the effect. In this image, I used the color selection tool to pick out part of the water and brighten it up to create an almost neon looking effect. When I did this however, photoshop grabbed part of the sky as well and changed its color. I was able to use the history brush to bring it back. We then applied filters, and I chose to single out the mountain and give it a very graphical look. I used the history brush again to bring back the trees to provide a contrast.

I chose to keep a cool and similar palette on this piece because I felt it fit the image well and helped keep the general feel of the image while still giving it some pop style artistic effects.

Today, we learned about how to use the pen tool, the content aware move tool, and the patch tool. We also went over how to create image masks. We used these tools to create the image above. First, we used the content aware move tool and patch tool to move cows around the scene. Second, we leaned how to use the pen tool to isolate an apple from another image and add it into the scene. We then used transform properties such as distort to create shadows for the apples in order to blend everything together.

Today in Class, I learned some very basic photo shop skills. First, we used the clone stamp and paint tool to try and first touch up an image of a celebrity, then modify it to give it a Warhol sort of feel. The focus was how to use the tools, and using color to play into one another. We then used the pattern stamp tool and effect to create a pattern of it. Then, in order to show how these skills could play into an image, we selected a surface and tried to apply the pattern to that surface. I could see how this could be a good skill to have when creating an advertisement or mock up.