Text in an image

I am very happy with the progress I made with this image in the short amount of time we had to create it, although it is incomplete I think my intentions with this image are clear.
I would love to go back to this image at a later date when I have time and complete it so that I can see the final result and make my judgement on it, once I have done this I will reverse the image and instead of surrounding the object of the image with the words "hello sailor" I will cover the object of the image.

Taylor M edit.

Original Image, Photographed by: Zoe Mcconnell.
Model: Taylor Momsen.

My edit of Zoe Mcconnell's photograph of Taylor Momsen.


I started off by setting the contrast really high so that when I made the image black and white the shadows would stand out well against all of the whites.
I have then used the eyedropper tool to select a shade of green similar to the original greens on her clothes.
I then used this to make the leaves on her clothes a faint shade of green so that it is not very obvious in the image but still stands out as colour, I chose a purple that I liked to make her eye makeup stand out.

Blending modes

To create this image I have put an image of a elvish girl over an image of an elven sword, I have then blended them together using the colour option of burn colours. I have then repeated this technique on a few other images (as seen below) in my opinion as I have experimented with each image gained a better understanding of the techniques we had to use I have improved with each image that I created.

CD cover research and annotations

 I have chosen this CD cover for one of Christina Aguilera's albums because I love the use of robotic cogs over one half of my face, the design of this CD cover is exquisite and I would really enjoy making something like this for my CD cover.

 I have chosen POGO's favourite birthday songs as one of my CD covers to help inspire me for this project because it has a clown on the front and I would love to recreate this design using some of my own pictures of a clown costume I am currently making for another project and think it would fit in perfectly with this, I love the use of dark colours for the cover to then tie in with the dark theme of clowns.

I have used all of these CD covers in my research because they are some of the most famous CD covers that have been created to this day, as you can see most of them are older CD covers as they were more simplistic back then and were much more attention grabbing and pleasing on the eyes, I will be using these for inspiration and taking snippets from each of the CD covers that I wish to use.

Vignette.

To use the vignette tool you first have to select a new layer and then the marquee tool and pick whether you would like the tool to create a rectangular or circular effect.

Click select, then inverse, then select again and modify:feather.
pick the amount of pixels you would like to be feathered then command and backspace to then put the effect in place.

This is the original image that I have used.

This is the final product, I chose for the fade to be black rather than white because the colours in this image are dark.

Clone stamp tool

The clone stamp tool can be used to clone a specific area of the image and then move it to another place in the image.

This is the original image that I have used to display to you how the clone stamp works.

As you can see I have used to clone tool to add more ducks into the image and to move the swans and the tide further away.

Dodge and burn tool

The dodge and burn tool can be used to make certain areas of your image lighter or darker.







For this image I have used the dodge and burn tool to make the image lighter and then darker some of the shadows on the image.