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! :)