Lo3 KTA1 and Lo4 KTA2 Selecting Final Images

Taking and Editing Photos

This is a picture of me taken by Griff. It was a low angle portrait shot with Griff taking the picture from below, on the floor, and me stood on the stairs. I put my sunglasses on to add novelty to the picture. We were near a large window and we had auto flash on so I really like the way the lighting turned out in this picture. I also like the thinking room in the picture, as it still shows my face clearly, but there's also more room in the shot. However I think it would have been better if there was just more wall in the background, instead of the stuff above my head.

I used the the spot-healing tool to make my face clearer, getting rid of spots and areas of facial hail. I also used it to remove curls of hair that were standing out. I then used the magnet lasso tool to select and carefully cut out my tie, and then clicked layer, and then new adjustment layer, and changed the hue and saturation so that the rest of the picture was black and white but the type remained blue. I like the effect, but I think I would have preferred it if I'd left the sunglasses in colour instead the type, but it was too hard to cut it out with the magnet lasso tool.

This is a group photo I took using the self-timer.

Again, I used the spot-healing tool to make the faces cleaner and clearer, as well the clone stamp tool to make the background look tidier. I then used the magnet select tool and changed the hue and saturation to make us black and white to make the picture more visually interesting, with us in black and white against a blurred coloured background.

Below is a picture I took outside Hallam University with a Canon camera. I felt it represented creativity as the University carries courses that help people to express themselves creatively and next to it I captured a large piece of street art, as street art often represents creativity.

Using photoshop, I changed my original picture above to the picture you can see below.

The way I changed the picture on photoshop was by by selecting the university by outlining it with the magnetic lasso tool.

I then cut out the university by pressing ctrl+x, which copies the picture and then removes it. I brought the image back with ctrl+v, pasting the image, but allowing me to move it.

I moved the image into position, next to the painting, and used the crop tool to crop out the rest of the picture that I didn't want. I felt that apart from Hallam and the street art, most of the items in the image were unnecessary for the picture as they were neither eye catching or creative and digital.

I then zoomed in and used the clone stamp and spot-healing tool to spread out the grass around the university to make it blend in more and to cover items in the picture behind it.

I then selected the grass in front of the painted building with the magnetic lasso tool and changed the hue and saturation to make the grass darker, to match the grass outside the university. I then used the clone stamp tool to remove many of the leaves in the grass and darken any light bits of grass that I missed.

I also used the clone stamp tool to remove unwanted marks on both buildings.

I used the lasso tool again to select the background of the painting and used the hue and saturation to change its colour. The reason I changed the colour from green to purple is because I felt that green was being used too much in the picture, like within the grass. I noticed that the windows of the university went in rainbow order, but didn't include indigo or violet, so I felt changing the background to purple would go with the rainbow them they had and matched the University logo, as the word university is written in purple.

I also used the hue and saturation to improve the colour Harry Brearley's badges, cutting them out with the circular select tool. I lost the colour in the heart whilst improving the brightness and saturation on it's badge, but I was able to bring it back using the filter gallery and photo filter optian.

I then used the magic wand tool to select and remove the sky from the picture.

The reason that I removed the sky is because I planned on using the sky from another photo I took. I opened up that photo in another photoshop tab and cut out the main part that I wanted and dragged it to the the original picture I was working on.

I moved the new layer behind the old layer and moved it around until it was in the place where I wanted. I flattened the layers, checked it over one more time and cleaned up certain spots to create the image I wanted.

Below are the 10 photos I took and chose to represent creative and digital Sheffield.

 I chose this picture of John Burkhill, better known as the Macmillian Man. He has become a modern Sheffield icon and has taken part in different creative occasions to raise money for charity. He also carried the olympic torch through parts of Sheffield, which involved lots of creative and digital aspects to create.

 I chose this picture of a man spray painting as it shows a piece of street art being created.

 I chose this picture as the fountain has a creative design and it almost creates leading lines to the University, the cheese grater and other buildings which all have creative and digital qualities to them.

I chose this picture as it featured a large piece of street art and and the creatively designed Charles Street Car Park.

I chose this as it showed three buildings where creative pieces are shown; The Crucible theatre, the Lyceum theatre and the Odeon cinema.

I chose this picture as it shows lots of people outside the Crucible, showing how popular the theatre is. It also shows large photo art being displayed, also expressing creativity.

I chose this picture as it shows more large photos being displayed. It also features the Winter Gardens and the St Paul's Tower, which both have creative designs and hold creative activities. I followed the rule of thirds.

I chose this picture because it contains a large piece of street art and almost creates a leading line with the pattern in the wall and floor tiles, also due to the way the wall's angle directs to the two pedestrians.

I chose this picture because I like the way it showed some of the buildings in city centre and the main focus of the creative design of the fountain outside Hallam University.

I cleared the floor, wall and clothes with the spot healing tool and made the colours stand out more by changing the hue and saturation.

I turned this picture on it's side so that the Macmillian Man was upright and then cropped out the side, getting rid of unwanted items in the background, including the date. I also changed the wig and shorts to a darker green to make them go with the shirt and stand out more.

I used the spot-healing tool to remove leaves from the floor, changed the hue and saturation of the sky and removed original framed pictures with different lasso tools and replaced them with photos I took around City Centre.

I combined three photos I took of three different paintings by the same street artists, similar to the style of a collage. One of the paintings was done in black and white, so I made the other 2 pictures black and white to match, however I made sure that the wall behind them and theirs buttons and badges were still in colour to create a contrast.

For this one I simply changed the colour of the sky to make it look more like a sunset to make the picture eye-catching. I also felt that making the sky pink made it go with the pink that can be seen in the Hallam University logo.

For this I changed the sky again to make it a brighter blue to make it look nicer as the weather wasn't that nice when I took this photo. I removed the pictures that were originally being displayed and put in two pictures that I took, as they show creativity in Sheffield's city centre.

I changed the background (everything around the wall) by removing the saturation to make the red wall stand out against it and to create a colour contrast as the street art has been done in black and white.

Changes and reasons for changes have already been stated.