Filters-Week 9

I had a lot of fun with these pictures.  I tried so many different things that I can't list them all.  So the first picture I went into Artistic-Cubism-tile size 10.0, tile saturation 3.0, filter 1.  I just thought it was neat what it did to the photo, and kept the detail, but yet it still looked like the original.

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With this one I had a lot of fun.  So the first thing that I did with this one was to crop it.  And then I played around with the cartoon settings, and changing hue and saturation, which I did a little bit and decided not to do the cartoon, but instread I went to the Light and Shadows-Neon-radius 5.00, amount 030, and I really liked how it made the snow man look like it was going to get the kids.

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Burn and Doge-Week 9

So I like the burn and dodge, except I couldn't get it to do what I had envisioned, but that is okay.  Is what I did was to darken up some of the moutains in the background, and darkened up a lot of the foreground picture.  I went over some of the shadows on the structure to lighten them up a bit, and then I made the farm equipment stand out a little more.

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Week 8: Color and Light

Now that I have worked more with GIMP I am starting to enjoy it a little more.  My big aha moment was to remember that I had to undo something before I went on to something else.  The first time I don't know how many times I had to reload the picture because I had messed it up. I chose a couple of my favorite pics.  In the one below I took away some of the lightness and Hue, and added some contrast.  I lowered the color lever and the color curve.

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The picture below I adjusted the lightness, contrast, and adjusted the color levels.  It made the rocks and flowers stand out a little bit more.  I was going to do more cool stuff with this one, but when I got done with this part of it I was happy with what I had.

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Photoshop/GIMP

So I feel like I am completely iliterate to these programs.  I have been at it since 2pm this afternoon and it is now 10:30pm and am finally going to just post some pictures that I manipulated in different ways, but it was not the cropping and moving like we were suppost to.  I tried and tried and I could select and copy and from there is where I had the trouble and I couldn't load the tutorials, I don't know why.  So I still have yet to over come this and I am sorry these photos aren't what they are supposed to be.

So for this first photo I used enhance sharpen for the color and Rendor ensflare.  It made the spottiness of the photo more clear and brightened it up.

For this picture I did a color enhance and tried doing a Xach-effect for a 3D look, but it didn't really have the effect that I thought it would.  But the colors are much deeper and brighter now.

Landscape photos-week 6

For this first picture I chose a bridge that was downt he street from my house.  I chose this one just because of all of the different things going on in the picture, and especially that you could see the river flowing underneath it.

This picture I took a picture of the river because I love water and included a little framing in the landscape as well.

I love this one because of all of it layers.  You have the road and the snowbanks, and then the trees, and then the mountains, and then the two different shades of sky.

This picture I thought was cool becasue it is kind of deceptive.  It was such a nice day today that our driveway had a lot of water in it, but you almost can't tell that it is a drive way.

This picture I chose because of the brightness.  I like how the closer trees are lighter and get darker as they go.  In all of my pictures I was just trying to show the nature and scenary around my house.