Adobe Photoshop - Day 10 (June Final Post)

WHAT I DID TODAY / WHAT I LEARNED:


For my final project, I thought for a while about what I could do. Then I remembered a while back I saw pictures on social media where they dress up cartoon characters from T.V shows and give them a total transformation. With that in mind, I decided to 'freestyle' my last project without a tutorial, instead with an inspiration in mind. 


I also thought about how I can make this project different from the others since this is my final one. I decided that since this is a freestyle post it's like my own creation. (with inspirations of course) And to add on to that, I got to incorporate many of the other skills I learned in photoshop into this project was really nice. 



Now I will talk about my final project. I decided to use Mulan, and give her a complete transformation.


This is the original photo I used:

This is my final edit:

This might look odd at first, but what I had in mind for the transformation was turning Mulan into a modern-day teenager/adult. I changed her hair color, clothing, and even face makeup. I also added some accessories such as earrings, hair clips, and tattoos using pngs from google.



This was a really good last project because I incorporated many of the things I learned over the past few months, for example in the original photo Mulan was holding a tiny cage, and I removed that using the lesson I learned just a few days ago. I even used tons of masking techniques that I learned over the past few weeks. I also included the digital art skills that I learned for a post or two! I think all the photoshop techniques I learned were all somehow used in this project which I'm very proud of.





- I did not learn anything new today because everything I needed, I already knew and was just planning to use all of my photoshop knowledge into this last project.





WHAT I WILL BE DOING TOMORROW / NEXT TIME:


For Mr. Bilesky: 

So obviously since this was my last project, I won't be posting anything anymore after this. I would like to say thank you for everything and for teaching me all7 years of middle school and high school. You were the teacher that I had the longest and I was able to learn a lot from you and enjoyed your classes very much. I am also very grateful that you let me do this independent course because it helped me out a lot. So for one last time, thank you for everything! :D I will definitely miss your classes in University.

Adobe Photoshop - Day 9 (June)

WHAT I DID TODAY:


Today I took a break from doing useful real-life edits and did a fantasy type of edit this time. So this effect is called the 'Double Exposure' effect and you'll see why in a second.


These are the original images I used:

This is my final edit:

Basically, all I did was crop out only her head, then put it on a new layer, then created a clipping mask. I did not follow the tutorial step by step instead I did some things that I felt were better.

This is a good thing because I'm starting to improvise and choosing what to do on my own and having my own ideas instead of just copying. 



For example, the tutorial told me to make the person's face black and white and the background white. However, it did not look nice at all especially with the image of the girl I chose. So I experimented and decided to keep the original colors of the image. I think it turned out really nice in the end and I am happy with the result.




WHAT I LEARNED:


I honestly did not learn many things today. I think I only learned one new thing today and its 'clipping mask.' After I placed my city landscape photo on top of the woman's head, I right-clicked the city layer and selected 'Create clipping mask.' From there it did everything and just placed the city photo 'inside her head.'


I then went over the image using the brush tool to fix spots here and there and to make it look nicer.

where the option is located

WHAT I WILL BE DOING TOMORROW / NEXT TIME:


Next time, I will be doing my final post of the year. I have an idea of what I want to do for my final project but I am still thinking as of now.


So I will be talking about my final project next post.

Adobe Photoshop - Day 8 (June)

WHAT I DID TODAY:


Today I created another useful real-life edit, which was removing unwanted things in photos. Before watching the tutorial I sort of guessed/had an idea of how to do it but I didn't know how to make it look cleaner/realistic.



This is the original photo:

This is my final edit:

For this specific edit, I decided to remove the people and cars to show different ways of removing things. When I say that, it means I had to use 3 different tools to achieve the final edit..


I will talk about the tools more in 'What I learned' because these were completely new things I haven't used before.




WHAT I LEARNED:


- So I learned that there were actually many ways to remove things in photoshop. One of them was the clone stamp tool. All I had to do was sample a specific part then it will have a patch of the pixel colours and you then just brush over the part where you want the same pixels. This is hard to explain but I hope that explanation kind of makes sense.



- Another way of doing it is patch tool. So it's kind of the same concept as the tool I explained above, but the difference is that you lasso an area then drag to an area where you want to be copied. 



- The final way was going Edit > then fill > content-aware. This basically just analyzed the pixels surrounding the area you selected then automatically fills it in.




These were the 3 ways I learned how to remove unwanted things from photoshop.




WHAT I WILL BE DOING NEXT TIME / TOMORROW:


Next time I will switch it up a bit and do a cool effect. This is called the 'Double Exposure' effect.


This is the tutorial I will be following:

Adobe Photoshop - Day 7 (June)

WHAT I DID TODAY:


Today I made a very simple edit, but very useful. This edit was just changing the colors of shirts. But the thing is, this type of edit isn't limited and I can create so many different edits that would be useful in real life. For example, if I was making edits for ads, I could change the model's hair colors, car colors, etc; (and it would look actually realistic) 



This is my original image from Pexel:

This is my final product:

In my opinion, I think this edit turned out really nice and realistic looking. It was a really fast edit however I learned a very important skill when using Photoshop. 

This was also really fun to make so I could see myself just making more of these on my own time for fun.


For this edit, I just used adjustment layers on top of the original image, added a solid color, then chose the 'multiply' blend option.




WHAT I LEARNED:


I didn't learn anything ground-breaking but I learned about the 'multiply' blending option. Who knew that a simple add-on effect could change outcomes by that much and be super useful to real-life situations.


- After adding a solid color adjustment layer, I clicked on multiply then it added on the new color as well as keeping the stripes on the shirt, so I think you can kind of get how the multiply blending option works.




- Another thing I learned was actually was about this effect. In the beginning, I mentioned how this effect would be useful for ads or when selling cars, but I learned something or came to a realization rather, and that is lots of online shopping malls probably use one color then photoshop the other colors in.

Okay, this may seem like common sense, to be honest, it never crossed my mind before but now it makes complete sense now that I think about it. This is why a lot of the times the colors of the items are never accurate when ordering things online.. And it is something new I learned so I added it in.



I found some real examples from online malls:

I know the photos are very blurry but I think you can still see and get the idea of it. The model is in the same shirt and the same pose. I can't believe I just noticed this, but it's mind-blowing to me because I never realized this.




WHAT I WILL BE DOING TOMORROW / NEXT TIME:


Next time I will be doing another useful real-life effect, and that is removing unwanted objects from photoshop. This also seems really simple, so I will try to find a more complex photo to make the editing process slightly harder.


This is the tutorial I will be following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOTxsRTjkNM

(for some reason I can't post the video right now)