A Picture Worth A Thousand Words by David Cross

Hola! To begin editing I had to choose a picture that was light. I began with opening another new document and picking five different texts. I selected the pixels of all five of them going one at a time and saving them as a brush. To save them as a brush I selected them and and went to Edit, define Brush Preset then and WA-LA! It's in with the brushes. After that, I went back to the photo and Went to the Select menu, Color Range, then shadows. I did the same steps to get midtones: Select menu, Color Range, then midtones. I began to fill the layers in with black and gray by I hid the background layer from view. I made midtones active by clicking on midtones, went to Edit, fill, and used 50% gray. I kind of did the same with shadows: Edit, fill, and clicked on black. This step fills the photo with black and gray. I then made the background layer active again; I clicked on the shadow layer, and presses Control E to merge it with the midtones layer. Then After I was done with all of that I went to my brushes and picked one of my five texts and clicked F5 to get all these fun options to tilt the word, space the text. I did the same with the other four. I also changed the opacity and flow to 100% because I like the darkness of it.



Creation of Choice!

Shortcuts I did were:

Zoom tool - z click and z alt click to zoom out

Marquee tool - m and capital M to switch marquee tools

Clone stamp tool - s

Save layer - control j

To deselect - control d

To undo - control z

        For class I am creating an image of my choice. The image is of me and my friend in an apple orchard, but the picture doesn't have pictures of apples so it's just me and my friend not mattering where we are! So, I'm to create this photo however I want! I am only to use things she taught me using photo shop! So here goes my steps.

        First, I created a border. To do that, I selected the pixels on the layer, I went to select, modify and border. To fill the border with a color I went to image and fill. Then I put the text in where a T is found in the tool bar on the left. Also to make the smaller images stand out more so I used a stroke. Stroke is found in fx. I did the same with the stroke around the text. To get the color of the stroke I went to fx, stroke then color. I changed the main photo a little bit by taking out the purple and gold in my sweatshirt. I also made my hair longer! :) Also I extracted the portrait pictures in the lower corner from different pictures and transferred them in this picture! To do that I selected the object I wanted in two different pictures and put two screens on the computer screen and brought the picture to the creation of choice. I changed the blending mode of the two pictures on the bottom. The blending mode they are set on is screen and it's kind of like opacity, with a fade away look. I made a duplicate and changed the blending mode of the two pictures in the bottom. I changed the duplicates blending mode to hard light and to do that I went to fx, blending mode, then hard light! Hard light makes the picture brighter but keeping it dark at the same time. I changed the color of picture of us walking using levels, making the picture brighter. I also added a filter around the main picture. The setting sprayed stroke setting are like colored pencil drawing. I went to filter, brush strokes and sprayed strokes. I also used the butterfly custom brush to create an innocent appearance :) Not that we're not but you know.

        I liked the photo as it wasn't photo shopped but I like it even better now because using photo shop, the picture looks like many memories in one picture! I didn't like trying to find a filter though. Trying to find a filter was taking up a lot of my time because I'm never sure which one to pick. But! I found one! :)