Magazine Cover

For this photography project I chose to do a pet magazine because I have many animals at my house to choose from.  Taking the pictures of my pets was a real challenge though.  One of my dogs kept jumping up trying to bite my camera.  But the hardest part was the cats; being used to being petted they kept getting right up by the camera lens making it very hard to take the pictures of them.  Once I downloaded all of my pictures to the computer I went through and figured out which pictures I wanted to use for my magazine cover.  Once I was done with that I went onto google and looked for the perfect christmas tree for my background.  There were many to choose from but as you can see the one that I used is my favorite.  I copy and pasted the tree to be the background the magic lassoed my dog because I wanted her to be beside the tree.  Finally I placed the dog beside the tree and adjusted her so it looked like she was actually sitting there.  Then I copy and pasted a few other pictures to make it look like a real magazine cover.  The article by the picture of the cat says, "ONE CAT'S TAIL", which is a pretty good pun if I don't say so myself.  One of the requirements we had was to put a barcode and a price on the cover.  Going onto google I looked for a barcode with a price.  A couple minutes later I finally found the perfect barcode.  One with the barcode and a price.  I copy and pasted it onto the magazine cover.  After all of the pictures and articles where put on the magazine cover I decided it needed a little bit more.  So I selected the picture I wanted to put a border around and then used the paintbrush to color it.  Finally I was done, so I went to layer, flatten image, then saved it as a JPEG, and as you can see that is it.

Black and White Photoshop

For this project I turned all of the pictures to black and white then magic lassoed around the different things I wanted colored.  Then I changed the color to what I wanted and used the paint brush to color over it.  Some of the pictures have more than one color so I used the magic lasso multiple times.  My first picture was markers of the same color I then changed the color of each of the markers to make it different.  My second picture was of some sponge brushes.  I made the colors different shades of blue.  The next picture is of some pokey things that I found laying around Mrs. Nelson's room.  I highlighted just a few of the pokey things to make them stand out.  For my next picture I found some brushes and made the metal part of them stand out.  My least favorite picture of of a cord that I found.  I made each part of the cord a different color. My favorite picture is of some metal left over from the stained glass people.  I colored the metal blue to look like water.  The next picture of of some glass and I colored many different pieces of it.  For my next photo I took pictures of many sponges then highlighted just one sponge to make it stand out.  My second favorite picture is of some jars of leftover paint.  I colored all of the lids then changed the inside color of two jars.  My last picture if of some pokers.  I changed the colors of the handles to make them stand out.

Straight Photography

For this assignment I took pictures of random objects.  I put different background colors on different pictures.  Each color had a very important job; to bring out the random object.  I selected the picture then chose a color, and finally painted the border onto the picture.  My first picture is of some tasty candies in Mr. Charley's office.  I used a yellow border to accent the one and only yellow candy in the  photo.  My next picture is of a door hinge type thing.  I really could not find a good color so I just used black.  My third and favorite picture is of a pin stuck into a corkboard.  I thought the color of the pin was brought out with the bright blue border.  There was really nothing I could add to this picture.  So I decided to just put a white border to help bring out the knob on top of the pipe.  My fifth and final picture is of a door and some stairs.  I thought a white border brought out the goldness of the door handle.

Tutorial

For this Photoshop project I took a picture of a backpack and after a while I got a background under it.  I read through an online tutorial and then started my background.  First I found a picture of a backpack and then pasted it onto Photoshop.  I then went through the tutorial and got a really simple but neat background.  I placed the backpack onto my background and deleted the area around the bag.  And here is the finished product:

Photo Name

For my first letter I used three pieces of metal to make the letter M.
My second letter was an A and I used the back of a chair.
My third letter was a R which was a top of a bottle.
For my fourth letter I used an easel, not standing up, to make the letter T.
For my fifth letter I used a leftover piece of stained glass to make the letter I.
For my sixth and final letter I used three jump ropes to form the letter N.

After uploading my pictures; I used Photoshop to crop all of my photos.  Once I was done with that I opened a blank document and used the ruler tool to make sure all of my pictures would be the same size on the document.  I had to place the pictures in the right order to form my last name, Martin.  I made the pictures smaller and bigger to fit on the document.  Finally I published the name photo onto this blog. :D